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Applied approach to scientific technology boosts Quarter Circle U Ranch

Cattle ranching, as the old idiom might say, isn’t exactly rocket science. But rocket scientists do make great cattle ranchers.

Of his successful 600-head commercial cow operation, Larry Echols says, “I just want to hit singles and not strike out.”

Clay’s passion was always cattle. He wanted to get back to the home place in Starr, South Carolina, and start a cattle operation in the worst way and with the quickest route possible.

It is once again the time of year cow-calf producers and seedstock producers begin to look forward to, and prepare for, the upcoming seedstock producers’ annual sales.

In the rolling wooded hills of Starr, South Carolina, sits Weems Creek Cattle Company’s 2,400 acres – home to 365 head of mama cows.

It seems to fit Kentucky perfectly to be the No. 1 state with the most head of cattle east of the Mississippi river.