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TodayistheTehama County Cattlemen's Field Day horse events at Pau- line Davis Pavilion on the Tehama District Fair- grounds, with a Vic Wool- ery Steak Luncheon at noon. Everyone is invited to come. The stock dog compe- tition is 9 a.m., the work- ing cow horse about 10:30 a.m. with lunch at noon. Three man sorting, Three man branding, and Mulie (no horns) roping. Sunday will be golf at Wilcox Oaks Golf Course. Among the Field Day sponsors will be Muse Trucking and Livestock Trucking, Golden State Farm Credit, Shasta Live- stock Auction Yard, Te- hama Angus Ranch, Shasta Farm and Equip- ment. Many thanks to our sponsors. RoneyLandandCattle Tehama County Farm Bureau is celebrating its centennial and the Leg- acy Ranches of Tehama County April 8 at the Te- hama District Fairground. Kari Dodd, TCFB man- ager has been collect- ing names of the farms and ranches. This history of Roney Land and Cat- tle Co.; Inc. is from "Since 1917, A Century of Family Legacies in the California Cattlemen's Association." "Wally Roney's great- great grandfather, Marcus J. Bennett, left his farm in Iowa to head west to Cal- ifornia while his great- great grandfather, John Roney, left Missouri for California in the early 1800s. "Marcus died young, leaving his third of a ranching operation to his widow and 9 year old son, Archie Bennett, born in 1869. He would eventu- ally land in Idaho where he would engage in the livestock business on his own. He traveled between Idaho and California with horses, cattle and mules. He, his wife and daugh- ters Ulrica and Loeta, re- turned to California to stay in 1901 and engaged in growing grain and rais- ing livestock. "By 1912, Archie pur- chased what would be- come the current sum- mer and winter headquar- ters. He purchased land from the Stanford Ranch that was part of the orig- inal Peter Lassen Land Grant. Archie was a ven- erable farmer who mar- keted most of what he grew through his live- stock, though timber from the summer ranch was an important commodity, as well. Archie pioneered the use of first Hereford bulls and then Angus bulls by 1929 in Northern Califor- nia. "John Roney left Mis- souri for California. His son George 'Buck' New- ton Roney and grand- son George "Jock" Wal- lace Roney homesteaded a ranch in Tehama County together with Quinn Lyon. They raised cattle and did business as the Lyon Cat- tle Company. Jock met Ul- rica Bennett when, at age twenty, he was a smoke chaser for the Forest Ser- vice. Shortly thereafter Jock left for the service during WWI but married Ulrica Bennett in 1918 just before deploying. "Jock came home to no homestead and no cattle after his discharge. Lyon Cattle Company had been sold out to the Stover- McKenzie outfit. As deter- emined as ever, Jock went to work for his father-in- law, Archie, knowing that as soon as he had saved enough money, he would purchase an outfit of his own. Jock went into part- nership with Archie in 1924 with sheep and then cattle. "Jock and Ulrica had two sons: Elwin A. and George Roney. Elwin married Emily Uhl, and George married Emily's twin sister Emma. "Elwin and George took over the farming and cat- tle operations after col- lege with grandfathers, Buck and Archie, and fa- ther close at hand. There were many firsts on the ranch since Elwin and George often worked with the University of Califor- nia on many experiments through the years. Elwin and George had formed a partnership, which was dissolved in the 1960s. "George and Emma took the farming op- erations and the farm ground. Elwin and Em- ily took the cattle opera- tion with grazing ground in the valley (Tehama and Butte Counties), the foot- hills (Tehama County), the mountains (Las- sen County) and the For- est Service permits (Las- sen and Plumas Counties). In 1973, Elwin and Em- ily formed Roney Land and Cattle Corporation with their son Wally and daughter Cathy. Cathy subsequently left the cor- poration and retained farm ground which she farms today with her hus- band Ed Oviedo. "Elwin was first to con- duct almond hull trial feeding, first in Northern California to use artificial insemination in commer- cial beef cattle, and par- ticipated in a rest rotation experiment on one of his Forest Service allotments well before the practice was in "vogue." "Elwin was hardly out of college in the forties when he helped form what would become the Butte Co. Cattlemen's Associa- tion. A few years later, he would become the BCCA. He was Cattleman of the Decade in Butte County ('56-'66), Man of the Year for Tehama County Cattle- men's Association (TCCA) and a member of the Cali- fornia Cattlemen's Associ- ation for over 60 years. He became a vice president of CCA in the 1970s but de- cided to put his focus on the ranch rather than be- come president. "Wally is past presi- dent of TCCA, 2012 TCCA Man of the Year, currently a director for TCCA and also on the CCA Execu- tive Committee. Wally be- gan incorporating ge- netic traits of non-Euro- pean cattle, which were often better suited for the Roney's tough land. "In the early '80s Wally, his father and neighbor- ing ranchers incorporated the first major controlled burns to restore the na- tive vegetation to the foot- hill lands that suffered from decades of fire sup- pression. This was the sec- ond ranch to develop a 580 program, which in- cluded habitat manage- ment for wildlife in con- junction with controlled season hunting, in coop- eration with the Califor- nia Department of Fish and Game. This ranch has evolved from a large farm and livestock operation with many employees to a medium-sized ranch run and operated by Wally and his wife, Billie. Wally's two grown children see no fu- ture in raising cattle at this time. "Despite catastrophic droughts, floods, fires, family splits and changes in neighboring land use, the ranch continues to thrive. "Generations of true grit, talent and devotion made this ranch what it is from its humble begin- nings to the flourishing operation it is now. Even though one man keeps it going now, he attests to the irrefutably resilient generations before him who risked it all and gave him the opportunity to continue the tradition of good land stewardship." JeanBartonhasbeen writing her column in the Daily News since the early 1990s. She can be reached by e-mail at jbarton2013@ gmail.com. JEANBARTON Field Day and Roney Land and Cattle The Shasta-Cascade Viti- culture Association will be sponsoring a grape prun- ing demonstration followed by a presentation by a Pest Control Advisor on Satur- day, April 8. The public event demon- stration will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the vine- yard of Greg and Kathy But- ler. The Pest Control Advi- sor will focus on grape vine related pest controls for common vine problems, in- cluding powdery mildew and leaf hopper treatment with questions and answers from attendees. The pruning demonstra- tion will focus on mature vines using bi-lateral cor- dons with spur position- ing. Additionally there will be a demonstration and dis- cussion about raccoon and possum damage to mature vines and pruning mea- sures to correct that dam- age. There will be a fee of $10 for this event to cover re- freshment and lunch costs. Call 226-9021 to reserve at- tendance and for directions. Location is east of Red- ding near intersection of Airport Road/Old Oregon Trail and State Route 44. VITICULTURE Grape pruning, pest control workshop set PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Thankyou! FFA CONTRIBUTED The newly elected Superior Region Officer Team, from le , is Robee Knoch of McArthur, Carlyn Marsh of Arbuckle, Bailey Morrell of Willows, Madison Pierce of Nevada Union, Kaia Harry of Chico, Orrin Jones of Live Oak, Melinda Lowe of Orland, Camille Pryde of Anderson, Sedar Kane of West Valley and Reagan Dahle of Big Valley. FFA members from all across the Superior Re- gion met in Chico March 16 to celebrate their achieve- ments. Early that morning, FFA members converged at Laxson Auditorium, a large crowd of Blue Cordu- roy, coming together to re- cap the events that had oc- curred that year. 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