Hometown: El Dorado Spring, Mo.
Family: Husband Chad, and sons Hunter and Tanner
In Town: Trish Boyles has been an educator for 11 1/2 years. She has been with Stockton School District for five years as an eighth-grade language art teacher.
“I want to be a positive influence for the kids,” she said. “I grew up rough, like the life a lot of our kids live in There are daily challenges, and no day is the same, so it keeps me on my toes. I love the interaction with the kids and their energy.”
In the Country: Trish and her family operate a 440-acre farm between Stockton and El Dorado Springs, Mo. They have about 100 head of mostly black Angus commercial cattle.
“It’s a family farm, and my husband took it over after his grandparents in 1990, then I came along in 2002.”
The herd is primally spring calving, with calving starting in February, but they also have a growing fall calving program.
“We have about 30, 34 mommas that are fall calvers,” Trish said. “We recently rented some ground, and we are starting to increase that fall calving. We have around 70 mommas that calve in the spring.”
The Boyles herd is serviced by a bull battery of five, and they retain their own replacement heifers.
Trish explained that the family farm also produces the hay the herd requires.
As the mother of two, Trish said the farm life has prepared her sons for many things.
“We have some great memories of exploring the creeks and ponds, especially when they were young. As they got older, they got those life lessons; there’s never really any downtime because we are always working. But, seeing the fruit of that labor has been a blessing for my boys. That hard work ethic taught both of my boys the value of a dollar and making it stretch because you don’t know what the cattle market will do. When you work that hard, you think twice about spending that money.”
Trish added that both Hunter and Tanner have their own little herds and talk about having their own cattle operations someday.
“Seeing that legacy go on is important, especially for my husband,” she said.
