Producer Profiles

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.

With 500 acres of dallisgrass, bermudagrass, fescue and johnsongrass, David Long will take one to four cuttings a year and put up 650 to 700 round bales in Waldron, Arkansas, for his registered Brahman herd.

Chance was a 17-year-old chestnut Arabian, given to my oldest granddaughter Heather by her great-aunt for Christmas in 2000, when Heather was 9.

With 500 acres of dallisgrass, bermudagrass, fescue and johnsongrass, David and Lisa Long will take one to four cuttings a year and put up 650 to 700 round bales in Waldron, Arkansas. If he had a market to sell the hay to, it still wouldn’t provide enough to make a living, but additional land isn’t as available as it once was. Long knew something at Peaceful Valley Farms had to change.

A 4-H project that got out of hand. That’s what Tommy Mead of Mead Cattle Enterprises says about his passion for the Hereford breed.