Resilience
Date: Jun 26 2020
Big ThinkersHardships are nothing new for producers in the cattle industry. Although markets have been impacted by COVID-19, cattlemen hold strong to past challenges and lessons learned from those times.
Category: Big Thinkers
A pen of Primes
Date: Jun 22 2020
About the brand & Big Thinkers & Breeding & EPDs & Sire SelectionTheir success with quality Angus cattle disguises the fact that the Boyer brothers are first-generation farmers. Originally from Detriot, the brothers moved to a farm in Missouri 46 years ago with no prior knowledge of raising cattle. Today, their best pen of finished steers marked 100% Certified Angus Beef with all but one Prime.
Welcome to the table
Date: Sep 25 2019
Big ThinkersIf the Olson’s could sit everyone at the same table, when guests come to tour the Olson Land & Cattle ranch near Hereford, Texas, they absolutely would. For close to 30 years now the family has hosted ranch tours, earning them the Certified Angus Beef ® Ambassador Award.
The way to do it
Date: Sep 25 2019
Big Thinkers & Heifer DevelopmentIn everything he does, Ryan Noble pushes the limits of success to what some would call overachieving. To everyone else, it’s no surprise Noble Ranch was named the Certified Angus Beef ® 2019 Commercial Commitment to Excellence Award winner.
Own what you do
Date: Sep 25 2019
Big ThinkersTom Jones at Hy-Plains Feedyard sets the bar high. He is a thought-leader in the industry and works hard to learn and educate. His progressive mindset on management is just one reason he earned the CAB Progressive Partner Award.
Built on a breed
Date: Sep 25 2019
Big ThinkersSelf-proclaimed “number nerds” Art and Stacy inherited the craving for information documentation on their herd of 800 cows. It serves a vision the Butlers held long before the market directly justified it, and it earned them the 2019 CAB Seedstock Commitment to Excellence Award.
All-in cattle feeding
Date: Sep 25 2019
Big Thinkers & Cattle Feeding & Post WeaningNorm and Sharon Timmerman encouraged their children to follow their own passions. After college, Jason started with Timmerman Feeding, while CPA Kristin ran her own accounting firm and Ryan pursued a degree in business management.
As good as his word
Date: Sep 04 2019
Big Thinkers & Cattle Feeding & Post WeaningFor Jerry Bohn, longtime manager at Pratt Feeders, earned the 2019 FQF Industry Achievement Award for his leadership and dedication to the industry.
Where they’re going, where they’ve been
Date: Jul 02 2019
Big Thinkers & CanadaSometimes there is no formal succession plan. There are no conversations about what might come to be. Sometimes there are just little clues as to what the future might hold.
Entrepreneurial Genes and Cowboy Dreams – Gerald Timmerman Earns Honors
Date: Apr 19 2019
Big ThinkersEach week, Nebraska cattleman Gerald Timmerman would flip open Sunday’s thick Omaha World Herald. After morning chores, he’d scan the want ads, taking note of which ones might fit his skill set, just in case. “It was amazing back then, there was quite a few jobs I’d fill in, and I haven’t looked lately, but I think it would be pretty narrow what I’d be qualified for today,” says Timmerman with a chuckle.