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The75thannualRed Bluff Bull Sale is conclud- ing today. One year there was a sale in January and December. Tehama County Memo- ries — 1990: "The Red Bluff Bull Sale was first held in 1942. Sixty-nine horned Here- ford Bulls were sold for an average of $309.00. The first men who were the prime movers of this sale were Roy Owens, Farm Advisor Don Smith, Charles Stover, Sydney Watson, Sam Ayer, Charles Luther and J. T. McKerras. These men were all suc- cessful commercial cattle- men who were concerned about improving the qual- ity of local herds. There was much publicity about this annual sale and Red Bluff became known as Cow Town U.S.A.. The sale was a repeated success, the product being a bull of finest quality, one that the buyer could rely on. That bull became known wher- ever cattle people congre- gated as the Red Bluff type bull, and this sale became the premier bull sale in the West." I don't have a 1942 sale catalog, but the catalog for 1943 mentioned Bob Teale, of Western Livestock Jour- nal. He and Publisher Nel- son Crow helped the local cattlemen start the sale. They got the bull consign- ers, and the local cattle- men guaranteed they were sold. Don Smith, our farm advisor was a promoter, and he was truly the back- bone of the sale. Originally the sale was "Sponsored By Tehama County Branch, California Cattlemen's Assn." Helpfulyoungmen I want to recognize two young men that asked if they could carry our sta- dium seats as we walked from where we parked, to the ranch rodeo. My cousin Jacqueline Leini- nger and I appreciated the gesture of Adam Weigand and Lance Zazueta on a cool evening. They even insisted on placing the seats in the grandstand for us. Thank you Adam and Lance. Jim Owens Memorial Ranch Rodeo The 21st annual Jim Owens Memorial Ranch Rodeo concluded last weekend with a new Top Team from Chiloquin, OR. TNT Cattle Co. with Jimmy Gallagher, Billy Ward and Jason Duby re- ceiving the buckles. The stirrups for 2nd place to Buckhorn Ranch, Williams, with Daxton Jim, Craig Boyd and Dan Holland. Craig Boyd rode an eight year old bay called Mouse to win the Top Horse award in 2016. Mouse or Moose also won the award in 2013. Awards included a silver bit do- nated by Ragan & Bunt Families, a handmade headstall donated by Judd Miller, and new reins do- nated by Cunningham Fences. Third place with spurs to the Rice/Sparrowk Ranches, Clements with Rich Rice, Daniel Rice and Lee Whitney. For the first time in 21 years a son has followed in his father's boot steps and been named Top Hand. Rich Rice in 2003 and Daniel Rice in 2016. Dan- iel received a trophy hand- made saddle made by Judd Miller, and donated by An- imal Health International of Red Bluff, Judd Miller and the JP Ranch Rodeo Committee. Fourth place saddle pads to Double Horseshoe Ranch, Red Bluff with Walt Brown and his sons Danny and Wyatt. Fifth place saddle pads to C Cup Livestock, Modesto with Christian Stremler, Clayton Edsall and Joe Clarot. Sixth place saddle pads to Parker Farms, Williams with Cody King, Cody Parker, and Clayton Ba- con. In the long go, Parker Farms counted 97 head in 42.13 seconds; 2nd to Harman Ranch, Red Bluff with Dean Miller, Justin Niesen, and Robert Staley with 96 head in 42.86 sec. 3rd to Here & There Cat- tle Co.; Etna, with Leland McDonald, Riley York, Joe Nash with 94 head in 43.69 sec. 4th to Buckhorn with 94 head in 45.85 sec. 5th to 7S7 Livestock, Dur- ham with Adam Nelms, Cooper Stumbaugh, Ricky Fimea with 97 head in 46.75 sec. 6th to TNT Cat- tle Co.; with 98 head in 50.19 sec. 7th to Double Horseshoe Ranch with 93 head in 50.86 sec. 8th to Sprague River Ranches, Beatty, OR with Eric Du- arte who has competed in all 21 JP Ranch Ro- deos, Victor Madrigal, Cleve Anseth with 96 head in 51.70 sec. 9th to Kings River Ranch, Orovada, NV with Tim Maher, Ross O'Sullivan, Josh Prom with 96 head in 54.23 sec. 10th to Nuttall Livestock, Vina, with Austin Whittle, Jessie Nuttall, Logan Nut- tall with 95 head in 56.64 seconds. CALF BRANDING long go: 1st to Kings River Ranch branding 3 large calves in 2 min- utes 29 seconds 94 hun- dreths. 2nd to KO Ranch, Red Bluff, with Mert Brad- shaw, Cole Hook, Brian Humphry with 2.58.82. 3rd to Here & There Cat- tle Co.; 3.00.97. 4th to TX Bar Ranch,Red Bluff with Jeremy Pinheiro, JC Nie- sen, Cole Burton with 3.05.22. 5th to C Cup Live- stock with 3.06.02. 6th to Buckhorn Ranch with 3.09.68. 7th to JH Ranch, Standish with Cole Green, Rob Pyle, Brian Darst with 3.09.94. 8th to TNT Cat- tle Co.; with 3.10.09. 9th to Spring Ranch, Shandon, Craig giacomelli, Wyatt Bourdet, Frankie Martinez with 3.17.56. 10th to Parker Farms with 3.23.18. RANCH HORSE long go. 1st was Missy Boo- zenny of Sideline Cattle Co.; Lakeview, OR with 148 pts. 2nd to Jeff Ballew, Bar ML Cattle Co.; Wil- liams with 145. 3rd was a tie at 144 with Darrell Norcutt of ENG Ranches and Billy Ward, TNT. 5th was Lacy Bourdet of Raf- ter Spade, Hollister with 143.5. 6th was Clayton Edsall, C Cup Livestock with 141.5. 7th was a tie at 141 with Luke Lancaster, Grass Valley Ranch, Aus- tin, NV and Cole Hook, KO Ranch. 9th was a tie at 140 with Eric Duarte, Sprague River Ranches and Justin Niesen, Harman Ranch. RANCH SORTING long go was difficult on Friday night, with only 2 teams getting more than one head out of the herd. Sat- urday morning JH Ranch got 7 head of cattle out of the herd in 2.23.70 for 1st. 2nd to Harman Ranch with 2.27.45 on 7 head. 3rd to Bar ML Cattle Co., Williams with C J Cash, Jeff Ballew, Curry Cash with 7 head in 2.29.67. 4th was Buckhorn Ranch with 3 head in 2.49.49. 5th to Here & There Cattle Co; with 2 head in 44.15 sec. 6th to Grass Valley Ranch, Austin, NV with Jim Filippini, Luke Lan- caster, George Bartob with 2 in 44.69 sec. 7th to C Cup Livestock 2 head in 50.37 sec. 8th to Dry Creek Ranch, Snelling, with Ja- mie Silva, Roy Rich- ards, Seth Mielke with 2 in 1.19.87. 9th to Spring Ranch with 2 head in 1.55.44. 10th to Rice/Spar- rowk Ranches with 1 head in 27.77 seconds. RANCH DOCTORING long go, is finding a num- bered heifer in a herd, get- ting her out of herd, past the "gate" and then rop- ing head and heels. Then the third member of team has to get animal down, putting head rope on front legs and both hind legs in rope in heel rope. 1st to Rice/Sparrowk Ranches with 49.27 seconds. 2nd to TNT Cattle Co.; with 53.64 sec. 3rd to Dry Creek Ranch with 57.48 sec. 4th Nonella Livestock, Klam- ath Falls, OR with Mark, Tom and Roger Nonella and 1.15.37. 5th Rafter Spade, Hollister with Will Centoni, Lacy Bourdet, Pat Boyle with 1.18.30. 6th Spring Ranch with 1.21.78. 7th C Cup Livestock with 1.24.52. 8th Nuttall Ranch with 1.25.23. 9th Buckhorn Ranch with 1.25.58. 10th to Sprague River Ranches with 1. 29.81. CALF ROPING long go. 1st to Bert Ferraschi, Te- jon Ranch Arvin with 21.52 sec. 2nd to Daniel Rice, Rice/Sparrowk with 24.47 sec. 3rd to Brian Humphry, KO Ranch with 25.89. 4th to Wyatt Brown, Double Horseshoe with 26.58. 5th Cleve Anseth, Sprague River with 26.97. 6th Cole Burton, TX Bar with 28.22. 7th to Dan Holland, Buckhorn with 28.63. 8th to Seth Mielke, Dry Creek with 31.19. 9th to Pat Boyle, Rafter Spade with 31.42. 10th to Joe Clarot, C Cup with 32.94. BRONC RIDING long go. 1st to Mark Nonella with 93 pts. 2nd to Danny Brown, Double Horseshoe with 87. 3rd to Christian Stremler, C Cup with 86. 4th to Cody King, Parker Farms with 85. 5th Jer- emy Pinheiro, TX Bar with 83. 6th tied at 82 pts. Will Centoni, Rafter Spade and Jimmy Gallagher, TNT Cattle. 8th to Daxton Jim, Buckhorn with 79. 9th to Johnny Fiskilini, ENG, with 78. 10th Garrett Ki- ernan, Sideline Cattle, Lakeview, OR with 76 pts. JeanBartonhasbeen writing her column in the Daily News since the early 1990s. She can be reached by e-mail at jbarton2013@ gmail.com. JEANBARTON A look at the origins of the Bull Sale CONTRIBUTED Proud grandparents, Peggy and John Rice, of Kneeland, cattle ranchers with Daniel Rice, of Rice/Sparrowk Ranches in Clements, the 2016Top Hand, are pictured at the 21st annual JP Ranch Rodeo. YUBA CITY Facing a poten- tial unprecedented down- ward swing in field prices, California's prune farm- ers have taken steps to ad- dress market forces and move the industry towards sustainable profitability for U.S. growers, establishing a new price recommendation for its members and propos- ing new industry proce- dures to address competi- tive pressures. According to the Prune Bargaining Association (PBA), the price recom- mendation provides a modest decrease on large fruit where supply is bal- anced or limited and sharply reduces prices on small prunes where sup- ply and demand are out of balance. "The new price schedule reflects changes in the global market for prunes while recognizing the limited availability of the best quality and sized prunes for pitting," says Greg Thompson, PBA gen- eral manager. California prunes are produced mainly by small to medium size family owned farms in the cen- tral valleys of California. These family farmers have long been leaders in world prune production, however, increasing labor, regula- tory, and input costs, and the rapid rise in demand for tree nuts from Asian mar- kets have seriously eroded the prune acreage base in California. "We believe that Califor- nia Prune farmers need to push back against forces that threaten to further shrink their industry," says Thompson. Members of the Associ- ation met this past week to discuss the many chal- lenges to maintaining prof- itability while meeting the highest quality, food safety, and environmental stan- dards in the world. "California is the leader in the world for agricul- tural excellence and envi- ronmental sustainability," said PBA President Ranvir Singh. "Yet our processors face overseas tariffs that our competitors don't face, and pressure from cheap imported product that doesn't begin to compare to our quality, our standards, or our food safety." In addition to the new price schedule for the 2015 crop, the Association plans to put forward changes for the 2016 crop on how the industry measures size and quality and how the grower price is calculated from those criteria. "The old methods are outdated and overly com- plicated, frustrating grow- ers and encouraging frag- mentation, while putting California at a competitive disadvantage in the global market place," Thompson said. "We don't want our consumers to end up with inferior imported product because we failed to take action to adapt our busi- ness practices to current conditions and bring vital- ity back into our industry." 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