New Day Genetics
Operations Manager: Jared Wareham
Location: Lowry City, Mo.
History: “A group of us worked together on an informal basis for years and borrowed an idea from...
Elkins Farmers Coop
Location: Elkins, Ark.
Business: Elkins Farmers Coop
Manager: Andi Carlton
History: “This area cooperative, which is now comprised of 17 stores, opened in 1944 in Fort Smith...
Royalty Farrier Service
Location: Fair Grove, Mo.
Owner: Dalton Thompson
History: Dalton Thompson graduated from Oklahoma State Horseshoeing School in April 2016 and quickly began his own farrier service.
The...
OSU Cooperative Extension
Location: Tulsa, Okla.
Business: Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension Service
Interviewee: Clinton Laflin, livestock production specialist
Mission: “Oklahoma State University has had an Extension office for many...
Bulldog Trailers
Location: Nevada, Mo
Owners: Justin and Karri Vickers (pictured)
History: Bulldog Trailers was established in 2015, when Karri Vickers told her husband, Justin, that she didn’t...
Boone County 4-H Center
Location: Harrison, Ark.
County Chair: Nita Cooper
History and Services: With the help of a modern office facility and a land donation, the Boone County Extension...
Zeigenbein Feed & Farm Supply
Owner: Ken Zeigenbein
Location: Waynesville, Mo.
History: “My family was always in the livestock transportation business,” owner Ken Zeigenbein explained of his feed and farm supply...
Owana Hutchens
Location: Porter, Okla.
Business: Market news reporter and AQHA judge
Background: “I started riding when I was 5, so I’ve been around horses my whole life....
Rockin D Leather
Location: Mount Vernon, Mo.
Owners: Dean and Terri Woody
History: “I started repairing boots 26, 27 years ago as a hobby,” Dean said. “I just wanted...
JRS Field Representative
Owners: Jackie Moore and Steve Owens
Arkansas Regional Representative: Billy Ray Mainer (pictured)
Location: Branch, Ark.
History: “Joplin Regional Stockyards started in 1995 at the Carthage, Mo.,...
