Producer Profiles

Ohio producer starts with his cows when making a bull sale

After receiving an engineering degree and being in the restaurant business, Bill Roe never thought he would become a cattleman.

Husband and wife Tracy and Julie Leonard each brought specific skill sets to their cow-calf and stocker program.

Little Washburn Creek runs through the wooded hills of Sebastian County, Arkansas, where Tracy and Julie Leonard created a nontraditional ranch.

Single-trait selection is not a good business plan, according to Larry Echols of Gap Mills, West Virginia. Single-trait selection is like shopping for a baseball where the only selection criterion is that “it’s round.” A grapefruit is round too, and that wouldn’t win very many ballgames.

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.”