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8A Daily News – Saturday, October 5, 2013 Agriculture farm Angus association recognizes local ranches Tehama Angus Ranch in Gerber, ranked as second largest in registering the most Angus beef cattle in California having recorded 408 head of Angus with the American Angus Association during fiscal year 2013, which ended Sept. 30, according to Bryce Schumann, Association chief executive officer. Byrd Cattle Company LLC in Red Bluff, tied for fifth largest in registering the most Angus beef cattle in California having recorded 195 head of Angus. Angus breeders across the nation in 2013 registered 388,822 head of Angus cattle. "Our year-end statistics continue to demonstrate strong demand for Angus genetics and solidify our long-held position as a leader in the beef cattle industry," Schumann says. "These results underscore our members' commitment to providing genetic solutions to the beef cattle industry." The American Angus Association is the nation's largest beef breed organization, serving more than 25,000 members across the United States, Canada and several other countries. The Association provides programs and services to farmers, ranchers and others who rely on Angus to produce quality genetics for the beef industry and quality beef for consumers. For more information about Angus cattle and the Association, visit www.ANGUS.org. & ranch Visiting northwest Arkansas I was in northwest Arkansas during the Tehama District Fair this year. Visiting cattlewoman friend Geneice and her husband Bob McCall, on their beef cattle farm and then attending the National Beef Ambassador Competition (NBA). We had 34 dynamic young people from 23 states competing to be on the 2014 National Team. Emma Morris, Etna, Siskiyou Co. achieved that honor with girls from TN, OH, AZ, and TX. Geneice took Tammie McElroy and me on a tour Courtesy photos of the cattle pasture down The 500- x 43-foot chicken house with 24,000 chicken that are not caged or by the King River in the late afternoon when we arrived confined. The grain feeders were high, and the water lines were still low on Tuesday. We saw the since today was shipping the 7 lb broilers for processing. Angus cows and calves in a exhaust fans were at the far been 3 months with no rain, 250 acre pasture. The year- House. A chicken house was a end of the house. Heaters and it should be monsoons lings were on the hill across from the house, and other metal building 500 ft. by 43 are important in winter now. Lunch was at the Tea cattle were nearby. Every- ft.; holding 24,000 broilers because it can get down to Room in Eureka Springs. that were 52 days old. Cobb zero. thing was so green because The water well is 400 ft Delicious cold strawberry they had rain in July and the 700 was the breed, genetically bred for white meat deep, and fills a 15,000 gal- soup, with a chicken salad previous week. Dogwoods, redbud, cedar, elm, maple with a large breast. They lon water tank that is used sandwich and garden salad. and oak lined the narrow were 7 to 7- 1 / 4 lbs in for backup, if power goes There were pecans, celery, county road. Red cedar is weight, and looked like a off. They have a 150 kilo- red onion, mayonnaise and used for fence posts, and White Leghorn with white watt generator for backup sour cream with the rotisfeathers. The electricity, that burns 7 gal- serie chicken. white cedar is too We enjoyed the scenic comb on the lons of diesel per hour. soft. Wendell said "Makes Eureka Springs, and saw cockerels was Bob's family red, and pullets you worry when it is 110, why it is so popular with came to the Eurewere pink. Was everyone is pumping water tourists. 60 springs, and ka Springs area in told that chicken to keep chickens cool. built in 1884with old homes the 1800s, and feet are more Within a mile, here in this and buildings. There was a cleared the hills of valuable than valley are 42 chicken hous- seven story hotel, and each trees and brush to floor opened on the ground. dark meat in es." have pasture land. If it is too hot or too cold, The hillsides are steep. China. Flying into FayetVisited the Crescent They raise the the birds get sick. The first teville you could chickens for three days the chicks are Hotel, a historic hotel said see where pasto haunted, and St. Mary's Tyson, and are there the heat is 90'F. tures were clearTo prevent disease and Catholic Church nearby. paid for the Jean cut among the Then a drive to Holiday pounds of bird. for bio-security, they don't trees, and the Tyson supplies allow other chicken farmers Island, a huge retirement many chicken the newly on the farm, don't mix community started by the houses on the chainsaw hatched chicks, equipment, and do their McCullough farms. the feed, the advice, and the own litter work. No person- company; beautiful homes A lovely dinner in their new home with a view from day we were there a crew of al chickens, or birds are and golf courses. Beaver Dam on Beaver Lake, and the deck. The original house six to eight men were allowed on the farm. The houses are vacant the flooded area in Butler catching the chickens, placwas two stories, with many add-ons, when it burned a ing them in a module, a from 23 to 30 days before Holler, along a creek, and year and half ago in an elec- forklift placed on a truck, the next load of chicks the debris was higher than and a truckload was 4,700 come. Fresh rice hull and our car. The Beaver Swingtrical fire. I thought I didn't like birds. A module has 21 sawdust will be spread in ing Bridge was under water. Dinner that night was a okra, but it was very small, holes, and each hole holds the house. The litter of rice hulls, luscious chicken spaghetti, 15 birds. tender and tasty when We were fascinated by saw dust, chicken manure garden salad, corn bread Geneice chopped it in tiny the chicken house. It is a and urine is removed and muffins, brownies, and a cubes, breaded and fried in infused olive oil. There was building of 21,500 feet so spread on the cattle pas- white wine made with Niagrapes from bbq pork ribs, baked potato, the chicks can roam from tures. The soil is not very gara one end to the other. The deep, and the chicken litter Wiederkehr Wine Cellars, broccoli salad, and popovers, after an appetizer feed pans were withdrawn helps. Many Arkansas Altus, Arkansas' oldest and of jalapeno peach jam on high overhead, because it women told us cattle and one of the oldest wineries in cream cheese with a deli- was shipping day and no chickens go together. "Litter the US with federal bonded cious homemade white feed last 10 hours. The birds goes on grass, grass feeds permit number 8. Delicious. The Heritage of wine. Dessert was pecan pie were still sipping water until cows." Stacey and Lisa have 70 Wiederkehr, from the label: 30 minutes before shipping. and ice tea. A computer runs every- cows and 40 heifers that "Our Swiss pioneering The next morning we thing; the water, feed, tem- will calve in the spring. founder Johann Andreas visited Geneice's brother Wendell, nephew Stacey perature and fans. When it They have Brangus-cross Wiederkehr discovered the and wife Lisa so Tammie is hot the cool cells (swamp with Hereford, because they magical combination of and I could see a Chicken coolers) open and foggers do better in the temperature sun, soil & water the "termist the chickens. Four and humidity. They have 12 rior" of Arkansas' premier world class wine growing chicken houses. Eureka Springs area had region in 1880. His "OrigiRUNNINGS 20 inches of rain in July, nal" mountain vineyard ROOFING when usually no rain. It land is known as "Swiss Sheet Metal Roofing caused flooding in all the Family Vineyards," and is Residential Commercial low areas. 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