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Saturday, June 1, 2013 – Daily News 5A Agriculture farm Arlo Stroing Memorial Scholarship Courtesy photo Katie Stroud, center, has been chosen as the first recipient of the Arlo Stroing Memorial Scholarship and Internship. Pictured with her are Faye Stroing and Jackie Montgomery. The first Arlo Stroing Memorial Scholarship and Range Management Internship was awarded to Katie Stroud, a second year student at Chico State University, pursuing a degree in Animal Science. Katie will work through the summer along-side Josh Davy, the Farm Advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension office in Tehama County. She will gain a first-hand experience with livestock and rangeland research. Katie's passion for the cattle industry comes naturally from her families long history of cattle ranching in the Adin California area, producing natural grass fed purebred shorthorn cattle for four generations. Katie plans to pursue the family tradition of range and livestock management. She has been involved in the agricultural community, where she just completed her reign as the California State Beef Ambassador. She is a member of the National Beef Ambassador Team, Young Cattlemen's Association, Fall River-Big Valley Cattlemen's Association, and the California Cattlemen's Association as their publicity chair. Arlo Stroing passed away in December of 2011. The Hemsted and Stroing families came together to honor and carry-on Arlo's deep love of rangeland, ranching lifestyle and his cattle production legacy, by creating this combined Internship and scholarship opportunity for youth studying range management. The $1000 Scholarship along with the summer internship will provide an opportunity for students to see first-hand what is involved in range management and how research shapes the future of the industry. Arlo would have been greatly honored to be a part of the Katie's future goals in her cattle industry. & ranch Historical tour of Central California We were privileged to stop and tour Jim and Linda Grimm's Museum of the Cowboy in Santa Ynez on the California Beef Cattle Improvement Association historical tour of Central California. They had collected antique vaquero gear and made it into a museum at their home. There were over 420 silver bits complete with headstalls and reins by different makers, and more than 60 saddles, from side saddle to silver mounted parade saddles. There was a collection of more than 40 Luis Ortega braided reins, romels, and riatas. In another room were old western books, Courtesy photo which they sell and buy. The double rainbow over the Upper Falls on the Spokane River. Our next stop was the Santa Ynez Historical Society museum, with already. For six weeks other words, promote an atrium effect. The ceiling beams are cast guided tour by docents. every morning it was in what you love. We enjoyed touring plaster with faux wood The history of the valley the 20s this spring. They was told, as the narrow had rains in December, the beautiful home of graining, with burgundy, gauge railroad from San and then no rain. Usual- Karen and Bill Whitney. teal and gold. Large floFrancisco to Los Ange- ly 25" rain, and 8" this Several trophy saddles ral arrangements and were in the family room, fountain in the middle les went through "the year. We visited Peach and I saw Lee Whitney's of the lobby. gap", and this area was Each evening the a boomtown. The real Tree Ranch, and these 2011 Top Hand saddle are parts of the history I from the Jim Owens maid would turn down estate people bought up the land, and it was a noted. 1850, Miller- Memorial Ranch Rodeo. the beds and leave Our final stop was at housemade soft peanut sleepy agricultural area Lux purchased the with dairies, wheat, ranch. Nichols came AGCO Hay Co.; in Tres brittle, turning on the many cattle and grapes. next, and Klamath Cat- Pinos where we enjoyed radio to classical music The museum had tle Co, who shipped to home made pie and ice softly playing in the many old Rancho Oregon in the summer. cream made by San background as you CattleWoman entered the room. 1937, George Benito Visadores wagThe hotel was built in Mee pur- president Carolyn Renz, ons, buggies, chased the while her husband told 1914, closed in 1985, and stage ranch and us about the hay and and after two years and coaches where raised regis- cattle business. They millions of dollars the we enjoyed the was retered and com- have 500 mother cows Davenport dinner sponmercial Here- on the better country opened in the summer of sored by the fords, plus and 500 stockers, plus 2002. The lobby, the Santa Barbara five ballrooms, public alfalfa, sugar growing hay. C a t t l e m e n 's There are subdivi- spaces were restored to beets. Association. It was a sions where he used to their early glory, and the D e b b i e , show place grow hay. He can't find bedrooms were all new. Mindy and Riverfront Park is not grass hay, with beautiful enough Robin made Jean home atop a because the horse mar- to be missed, thanks to beautiful westand Michelle. hill overlook- ket is wanting grass. Bev ern table cening the corrals The export market com- While the Spokane terpieces with Upper Falls are not tall, made of pipe petes with the dairies. horse shoes, We had traveled 700 they are powerful on the from the oil rusty pitch forks, single trees for wells, and a quonset miles visiting the Cen- Spokane River as they mule or donkey, hurri- building for a show tral Coast country in come around Canada cane lanterns, tea lights barn. In the 1950s and three days, on an infor- Island. This was the site '60s there were 30 to 40 mative tour and looking of Expo '74, and the 100 and ivy. acre park has many While on the bus employees with shop, forward to next year. I was home for three paths and walks, with Dr.Jim Oltjen told us feedlot, gardens, brood about the CCA program mares, and cattle on days, getting the clothes bridges across the river. One evening Midge, washed, my story writBeef Quality Assurance, 45,000 acres. Now they have 4,000 ten for Saturday, and Laurel and I enjoyed and how the industry has addressed the prob- to 4,500 stocker cattle packed for a plane trip dinner at Anthony's on lems of food safety and for outside owners, and to Spokane WA. It was the waterfront. If it had450 to 500 mother cows the annual Western n't been raining we eating satisfaction. Two Brazilian gradu- of Angus and Horned Livestock Journal ranch would have dined on ate students, Lucas and Hereford breeding. This study tour with 109 seafood outside on the Victor told us about cat- country figures 30 acres friends from across the patio, but we were rewarded with a double to a cow, with no hay United States. tle ranching in Brazil. Missed the last two rainbow over the water Between Bradley and feeding in winter. Each San Lucas we drove past year they have to vacci- trips when they visited falls before the evening the largest vineyard in nate everything, cows, Virginia and the Central was over. the contiguous United calves, bulls, stockers, Coast of California, but Jean Barton can be good to see familiar States. It stretched for for anthrax. at jbarAug. 15 the first-calf faces from earlier tours. reached miles on rolling hills on We were from CA, ton2013@gmail.com. both sides of the high- heifers start calving and way. The land used to be Sept. 1 for the cows, and CO, CT, IA, ID,KY, dryland farming and they averaged 672 lbs MN, NE, NM, NV, OH, on the steers and 640 lbs OR, TX, UT, WA, WY, cattle. Enroute to the Peach for heifers, the first of with tour leader Jerry Tree Ranch I couldn't May when they shipped. York assisted by Logan Jay Brown, Montery Ipsen and C.D. " Butch" believe the number of ground squirrels I saw County Cattlemen presi- Booker. We missed WLJ in their burrows along dent told us a bit of his- publisher Pete and Rita e-mail: clerk@redthe highway. You would tory about the missions, Crow, but their 23 year bluffdailynews.com the Mexican deeded old son David had been count six to eight heads or in each colony, popping rancheros, and the many killed in an auto acciup just like prairie dogs. hides shipped from dent ten days before. 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