No Ton Cows Here

Now here's Galen Frenzen from Frenzen Angus and Polled, Herefords.    Well, hello Galen. I understand you have a lot of experience in the business. Can you give us a little background on that please, sir?    "I'm 82 years old and my dad bought two horned Hereford heifers for my brother and I for 4-H and FFA projects in 1957. Dad had always had commercial cows, mainly primarily Herefords. Then after I got out of college in 1965, the exotics had hit. I started dabbling a little more on the commercial cows. A lot of the new exotics were coming in and one time somebody asked me, what breeds did you try? And I said, it'd probably be simpler if I told you which ones I didn't. We select for a bigger animal than a lot of commercial people because my bull customers come in and pick the big stout bulls. So I've got a little bigger cow, but I don't have these ton cows that some of them do. The thing that differentiates us is we don't creep feed. It's a survival of the fittest type deal."   "I did a feed bunk analysis of our ration, sent it to ward laboratories and none of our bulls are dry lot developed. They run on corn stocks. All of our yearling bulls run together."   What did you end up selling this year?    "75 Angus bulls, 40 Herefords, one Simmental bulls and they're going to be yearlings, four yearlings and two year olds. And then the females were going to have some yearling heifers and some two year old pairs. And then some groups of black baldy F1 heifers, two F1 heifers."   Galen Frenzen, Fullerton, Nebraska.    Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I'm Brian Hale.