Ozarks Roots-Products Missouri: Black is Green
For many in the Ozarks, charcoal plants are so familiar we don’t give them much thought. But do you know how something as unremarkable as a burning stick of wood has shaped our world?
Raising Champions: Cattle and Kids
The Diehl family knows what can come from a family working, and playing, together
Rural Limousin
It has been purebred Limousin, even with their part-time breeding program, for Stephen and Judith Fugitt
Simmental Business: A Family Affair
Aaron and Jennie Owen have raised a family and made a life in the registered Simmental cattle business
Cutting and Quarter Horses
Joe and Karen Prock have tried many breeds of horses, and they can tell you their reasoning for their choices
Transfers for Breed Improvement
Marty and Cheryl Brown use embryo transfer to make their registered herd expansion a faster process
Expansion Is His Best Way
Freddie Martin has spent a lifetime watching the cycles of agriculture; and he's still growing his dairy herd today
Advancing the Family Cattle Business
Lifelong resident of Webster County, Aaron Day can’t remember ‘not’ having cattle. His dad, Jim Day, gave him his first show heifer when he was nine years old. “It was a deal. I did the work and I only had to pay for half of her. It instilled the facts that I needed to take care of her. I had an investment in her myself, so it meant something to me. That got me started with cattle. I’ve shown cattle since I was nine.”
Ozarks Roots-A Texas Rancher in Missouri
The sun has just crept above the eastern horizon. Sunlight glints off the windows of the house on the hill, but it will be awhile before it strikes the horses and cattle in the low-lying pastures on each side of the house. Bill and Georgia McCloy and their youngest son, Ben, have finished their morning coffee and head to the barn.
Cutting Edge Production
For Mary Beller it was a desire to reach out and grow that led her to the show arena.
“This was an opportunity for me to get out and do something on my own,” said Mary, owner of Rafter B Cutting Horses in Cabool. “But Robert is my support; I couldn’t do this without him!”
“This was an opportunity for me to get out and do something on my own,” said Mary, owner of Rafter B Cutting Horses in Cabool. “But Robert is my support; I couldn’t do this without him!”
