Neighbors

Ransy Cotter, pictured below with his wife Roxie, recalls the major events of the farming ages

Gene McBride sees the value in a diversified operation so he offers Black Angus, Red Angus and Charolais

Utilizing a variety of breeds to promote the hybrid vigor he desires, Don Grayham develops a goat he's certain of

A multi-generational interest in the pig business may be novel for northwest Arkansas, but for the Belts, it's life

Kenny and Peggy Comer work together with their children to keep the family dairy, poultry and Beefmaster farm viable

Kaleb and his father Joe Smith use teamwork and hard work to achieve their goals in and out of the show ring

A few are red, most are black, but they are all Angus at Wallace Cattle Company, where Ernie and Tammy Wallace may have compromised on color, but never on the quality of their registered herd.
Tammy loves the reds she grew up with in Iowa, where her parents were pioneer breeders and have been in the business more than 40 years. Ernie is partial to the blacks, a love he picked up while working as a young man on a purebred ranch in Texas. Together, the two have been raising registered Angus since they were married 18 years ago.

In the rugged terrain and the demanding brutal conditions of rural Scotland a particular breed of cattle has been able to thrive for centuries, the Scottish Highlander.
Highlanders began being imported into the United States during the mid to late 1800’s when a “herd book” or national registry was established in 1884 making them the oldest registered breed of cattle in the country.

Brad and Joanna Carter’s registered Angus and Boer Goats may be a small-time operation, but that doesn’t stop them from taking specific steps towards improving their breeding programs.
“We AI our cattle, but we’re not brave enough to AI our goats,” Joanna laughed. The Carters have had goats for five years, and cattle for longer than that. When they moved to their current location, in Dadeville, Mo., Brad said their fields were covered with serecia lespedeza. “The cattle wouldn’t eat it, that and all our brush. So we got goats to take care of it,” he recalled.

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?