NEBRASKA Hereford Tour

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1 NEBRASKA Hereford Tour Northeast Nebraska August 19-20, 2017

2 NEBRASKA Hereford Tour Tour Schedule: Saturday, August 19, 2017 Van will pick up people from the south and east in Fairbury and Grand Island. Call Sheri Wieden for details and pick up stops along the way. Hotel headquarters are the Rodeway Inn in Norfolk 2206 Market Lane, Norfolk, NE For reservations call: (402) Saturday - Stop #1 Bar M Herefords Rich & Karla Person Austin, Sarah, Autry & Jolie Person 2203 East 26th Road, Hordville, NE Rich: ; Austin: bar.m.herefords@gmail.com From Hordville, go south on W Road 1 mile, then east on 26 Rd 1/2 mile to place on north side of the road. All Stops are on Central Standard Time Saturday, August 19, :30-11:00 AM Breakfast Stop: Bar M Herefords - Hordville Judging Contest Registration Judging Contest Begins 11:45-1:00 PM Lunch Stop: Frenzen Polled Herefords - Fullerton 1:30-2:30 PM Afternoon Stop: JMS Cattle Co. - Cedar Rapids 3:30-4:30 PM Afternoon Stop: Thistle Hill Herefords - Madison 5:00-7:00 PM Evening Meal Stop: Hula Herefords - Creston TKR Herefords - Waverly Vernon Yost & Sons - Columbus Sunday, August 20, 2017 Vans leave hotel in Norfolk at 8:00 AM 8:15-9:30 AM Breakfast Stop: Blueberry Hill Farms - Norfolk JAS Satorie Farms - Herman TWJ Farms - Carroll 10:30-12:30 PM Lunch Stop: Huwaldt s Herefords - Randolph Huwaldt Cattle Co. - Osmond JB Ranch - Wayne Laible Herefords - Bloomfield 1:45-2:45 PM - Afternoon Stop: Melcher Herefords - Page 3:15 PM - End - Evening Meal Stop: Kester Herefords - Clearwater Results of the Judging Contest Announced Tour Sponsored by: The Nebraska Hereford Association Sheri Wieden Executive Director East B-Line Road Blue Springs, NE sheriwieden@gmail.com Bar M Herefords was established in 1991 on an acreage that was part of land that was purchased by Rich s grandparents in This land was originally owned by the UPRR, then deeded to the notable Cyrus McCormick. It was then owned by two separate Johnson families that were Swedish immigrants. The two-story house was built in 1910, replacing the original soddy. The Bar M brand, used on the right ribs was bought by Karla s grandparents at an auction near Newport, Nebraska in The brand was kept in the family through the years even though it was not actively used. It was given to Rich and Karla by her parents. They later acquired the use of the right hip as well. A small herd of Hereford heifers was purchased from Ridder Hereford Ranch at Callaway and the Messersmith Ranch at Alliance. Rich and Karla handled the operation through the years, eventually buying more of the land and raising alfalfa, grass and row crops. Austin and Sarah were married in 2011, and became partners on all the cattle in The cowherd continues to grow and advance through AI and ET use, along with herd sires in use from top breeders around the country. The Person family includes Rich and Karla, Austin and his wife Sarah and their daughters; Autry and Jolie, November and Nick Schonlau and daughter, Britton. Lindsay and Jesse Hengelfelt and their daughters, Avery, Callie, and Maddie. Judging Contest Registration will take place at the Bar M Stop and will include the first class to judge as well. 2 3

3 Saturday - Stop #2 Frenzen Polled Herefords Galen & Gwen Frenzen Family N. Edgewood Road, Fullerton, NE Galen: Eric: e_frenzen@hotmail.com Website: From Bar M Herefords, go west on 26 Rd 1/2 mile, north on W Rd 1 mile, west 6 miles on Hwy 66, north 26 miles on Hwy 14 to place on the left (5 miles north of Fullerton). (There will likely be a detour around Central City due to construction-will be announced at Bar M if needed) Frenzen roots run deep in the Cedar River Valley northwest of Fullerton. Galen s great-grandfather Hans Frenzen, an immigrant from Germany, settled in the valley with his family in Galen s grandfather Frank Frenzen came to where Galen and his family now live on March 1, Other than his four years in college, this is the only place Galen has ever lived. Cattle in general and Herefords in particular have always been an integral part of the Frenzen operation. The first registered females were purchased in 1952 by Clarence and Annita Frenzen as 4-H projects for their two sons, Marlin and Galen. At this time, the operation was known as C.E. Frenzen and Sons. Marlin and his wife Judy had five boys: Craig, Kent, Scott, Rick and Kurt. All showed Polled Herefords and were active in the Nebraska Junior Polled Hereford Association. With Marlin s untimely death in 1992, Judy sold her interest to Galen and Gwen. The operation is now known as Frenzen Polled Herefords. Galen and Gwen have three children: Genna, Tessa and Eric. All three are involved with Eric being the major cog in the operation. Galen is a past president of the Nebraska Polled Hereford Association and was the first president after the merger of the Nebraska Hereford and Polled Hereford Associations. Eric is a current director on the Nebraska Hereford Association board. The herd has always been rigidly culled with emphasis on fertility, calving ease, performance, milk, soundness and positive carcass traits. No creep is fed to any of the calves and all cows are expected to bring in a big calf on their own and breed back with very little supplemental feed-except when the snow gets deep. The first scale for individual weighing was purchased in the early 80 s and AI has been used since Total herd reporting has always been practiced. An annual production sale is held the 4th Tuesday in March, where spring, fall and two year old bulls are sold along with some select yearling heifers. Females are also sold at private treaty. Frenzen Polled Herefords appreciates your attendance at their tour stop. We look forward to visiting with you and hope to see you again. 4 JMS Cattle Co. Josh, Manda & Samantha VanDeWalle th Ave., Cedar Rapids, NE Phone: Samantha s Cell: samvdw14@gmail.com From Frenzen s go north 9 miles on Hwy 14, west 9 miles on Hwy 56, south 1/2 mile on 180th Ave to place on the left (immediately west of bridge). Welcome to JMS Cattle! JMS Cattle started as an SAE in our FFA program for my brother Josh and sister Amanda. From there, JMS Cattle blossomed. We then started appearing at sales and shows as JMS Cattle, which is us three kids. The Cattle Company has now turned into a whole family affair. Our bloodlines go back to the old VanDeWalle Polled Herefords breeding. This breeding includes Trustmark. From there we have added bloodlines to improve our herd which include Thunder, Pure Gold, Hallmark, Manhattan, Kodiak, Reload, About Time, and Built Tuff just to name a few. Our herd is mostly About Time breeding, and we just added an Ideal son to our herd last year and his first calf crop is on the ground. We hope you enjoy your visit. We have cattle for sale on display. With any questions feel free to call Samantha at (402) at any time and company is always welcome. 5 Saturday - Stop #3

4 Saturday - Stop #4 Saturday - Stop #5 Thistle Hill Herefords Doug and Annie Rumsey th Road, Madison, NE Cell: thdrar@yahoo.com From JMS, go north 1/2 mile on 180th Ave, then east 8 miles on Hwy 56, north 9 miles on Hwy 14 to Albion, east 35 miles on Hwy 91 (7 miles east of Hwy 81), north 6 miles on 160th Ave, east 1.4 miles on 826th Rd, then south down the driveway. Hula Herefords Brian, Bri and Timber Hula Ron & Vicky Hula th Ave., Creston, NE Brian: ; Ron: bhula@hotmail.com Website: From Thistle Hill, go west 1.4 miles on 826th Rd, south 6 miles on 160th Ave, west 1 mile on Hwy 91, south 2.5 miles on 175th Ave to place on the left. Thistle Hill was established in 1993 when a couple of teachers moved Our roots run deep in the Hereford breed with 4 generations of cattlemen their family of four children ranging in age from 17 years to 11 years old, still actively producing Hereford Cattle. Our history starts with Tom Stangle onto the present 42.5 acres of weeds. building a herd in Scenic, SD. then moving to Nebraska in Vicky, the oldest of the Stangle clan, met Ron Hula while attending college at UNL in While raising our kids, over 8,000 chickens, 1,200 lambs, English Their marriage in 1979, was the true start to what is today Hula Herefords. setters and Border Collie puppies, 2 horses, quite a few pigs, and as my Growing up showing Hereford cattle both at the state and national level, Brian students called them 3-legged, no tail, one-eyed calves also called Thistle returned to eastern Nebraska in 2004, purchasing his own location to continue Hill home. God has blessed our family. All four kids are through college, growing the herd. Ron and Vicky continue to run the Weston, Nebraska, operation while in 2009, Brian purchased the ranch you are standing on today. The married, and have given us 15 grandkids. next generation is already started, as Brian s daughters, Bri and Timber, both Although still a baling wire and duct tape operation, in 2011 the dream already have cows of their own. of a Hereford cow herd became a reality when seven cows, two with babies and five bred, arrived in late May, fresh from JB Ranch. The present and interchange genetics in order to maximize performance, efficiency, and While we run multiple locations you will see that we do comingle our herds mama cows have influence from JB Ranch and the CWJ Herd. Besides marketing ability between all 3 family groups. Our cow herd is still predominantly horned bloodlines including, Harland, Diamond, and Line One. In 2014 using our own home raised bulls, bulls have been purchased from the Huwaldts, Albert Moeller, and the present herd bull was purchased at the we made concentrated effort to provide more polled options to our customers with the purchase of a heifer from Valley Creek Ranch who has become our top Frenzen spring sale. donor cow and mother to our current go to herd sire HH High Impact 5002 ET. Thistle Hill Hereford s goal is to raise productive Hereford cattle that He and several of his first calf crop are on display today. Other top sires include will produce a few good bulls, some replacement heifers that will add UPS About Time 0138, MH Rambo 0215, LS Northern 316A, and TKR 0132X productivity to any herd, and Hereford calves that will strut their Hereford Advance T505C. heritage in any sale ring. We have our annual production sale the second Saturday in February (Feb. 10, 2018) and this year are adding a female sale on September 22nd. While We are anxious to welcome you to Thistle Hill and show you our we have been very successful in the show ring, having a class winner at Junior Hereford cattle. Come win a door prize and have a snack! Nationals, Champion Futurity heifer this past summer and multiple Division winners at Fort Worth, our focus is still to be seedstock producers for our commercial bull customers. Ninety percent of producers still sell their beef by the pound, and we strive to do that in an efficient fashion. Maximizing growth, efficiency, milking ability and yield grade, while maintaining calving ease is our number one goal. On display with us today are TKR Herefords and Yost & Sons. We are happy to have them as part of our program and welcome you to have a wonderful time. Please feel free to ask us any questions you might have. Again, welcome 6 to Hula Herefords. 7

5 Saturday - Stop #5 TKR Herefords Bruce & Linda Tucker Guildford St., Waverly, NE Phone: or Cell: brulintkr@gmail.com TKR Herefords will be on display at the Hula Herefords stop. Welcome to the 2017 Nebraska Hereford Association Hereford Tour. TKR Herefords have been involved with registered Herefords since the late 1940 s when Floyd Tucker (my Dad), ie: Floyd Tucker and Sons, bought his first registered Horned Hereford bull, and saw the improvement in the calves on our commercial cows. He decided to start buying some registered Hereford cows, and later dispersed the commercial herd and went all registered. He retired in 1982, and I have continued as TKR Herefords, and was later recognized as a Golden Hereford Breeder. TKR Herefords is a guest consigner with Hula Herefords, Brian, at Creston, NE, as he has been managing my small cow herd for a few years. In saying this, I utilized the Hula Hereford herd bull battery, which has some Polled influence, so the calves on display will be half paternal sibs to the Hula calves. I try to maintain a strong emphasis of a Line One cow herd with some Advance, Harland, and 3027 influence. In maintaining our cow numbers and replacing the culled ones, I have utilized replacements from Churchill Cattle Co., Millcreek, Upstream and using some daughters kept from cows purchased from Jameson s. We invite your interest in our program, and welcome your inspection of the Hula/TKR cattle on display. Enjoy the refreshments, and thank you for coming. Saturday - Stop #5 Vernon Yost & Sons Richard & Chad Yost th Street, Columbus, NE Rich: or Chad: yostcattle@gmail.com Vernon Yost and Sons will be on display at the Hula Herefords stop. From Hula Herefords to the hotel headquarters: Go north 2.5 mile on 175th Ave, west 6.5 miles on Hwy 91, north 23 miles on Hwy 81, west 0.8 mile on Hwy 275, right toward Market lane, turn left in Market Lane. Cowherd of 40 females consisting of daughters of LW55W Consensus 85U. Our main herd sire is TNT 10Y Epic 401, a Hometown son out of an outstanding cow that has produced several herd sires and the current NJHA Champion Female in June AI sires include UPS Sensation 2504 ET, KCF Strategy 344 an American Made 310. Cattle for sale in the fall and at consignment sales. 8 9

6 Sunday - Stop #1 Blueberry Hill Farms Doug & Linda Bolte 1103 Grandview Drive, Norfolk, NE Cell: dbolte@telebeep.com Website: wwwblueberryhillcattle.com TWJ Farms Sunday - Stop #1 William J. Claybaugh th Rd, BOX 216, Carroll, NE Office: Home: Cell: billclay@abbnebraska.com or twj@abbnebraska.com From the Hotel Headquarters in Norfolk, go 7 miles east on Hwy 275, south on 561 Rd 1/8 mile to place on right Welcome to Blueberry Hill Farms! We hope you are enjoying the tour along with renewing and making new acquaintances. We, like most purebred herds, started as a family operation. Lots of cherished memories have been made over the years for our families. Over the years both the cow herds and families have grown. Most of the kids have grown, started new careers and are raising families of their own. The farm still serves as the hub for the family holiday celebrations. The cow herd was scaled back in the Fall of 2014 by private treaty sales. The cows were purchased by Delaney Herefords Inc., in Lake Benton, MN. The bred heifers were purchased by Kinsley and Dakota Gillig, now residing at Springhill Herefords at Blue Rapids, KS. The heifer calves were purchased by Atkins Herefords in Tea, SD. Not only did these cattle go to great Hereford families, it s been rewarding watching the success of the BBH females in their programs. We continue to maintain around 30 females. I also work with longtime friends/partners, Satorie Farms and TWJ Farms, in developing and marketing high quality purebred breeding stock. This allows us larger sized contemporary groups for collecting performance and carcass data. This also allows our customers a broader selection of genetics. We are Gold TPR Breeders and have always been firm believers in whole herd reporting. Our breeding stock is sold at State Association sales and by private treaty at the farm. We will have a cross section of our cowherd, replacement heifers and herd bulls on display. This year s calves are by JDH 42X Proof Y459 87C and AI Sires NJW 985 Durango 44U, NJW 135U 10Y Hometown 73C, Bar JZ Hearthstone 426B, and KCF Bennett Encore Z311. There will also be cattle on display from Satorie Farms, Herman, NE and TWJ Farms Carroll, NE. Thanks for stopping and come back and visit anytime. TWJ Farms cattle will be on display at the Blueberry Hill Farms stop. TWJ Farms would like to welcome the NHA tour participants to our 2017 Tour Stop. TWJ Farms was started in 1972 as a family partnership. At that time, there were four family members and the first letter in their names resulted in the name TWJ (Twila, William, Joseph and Julie). TWJ purchased five cows from Hervale Farms in 1976 to start our herd. Over the years we have purchased bulls and females from Jensen Bro., Churchill, BAR JZ, Charlie Boyd, G&R, J B Ranch, Tom Ihry, Blueberry Hill, Valley Creek Ranch and MCM Polled Herefords. The current cow herd consists of 25 cows of Trust, Prince Victor, Rib Eye and OnLine breeding. The current herd bulls are Churchill Red Bull 502 C ET and TWJ BBH Z311 Trust Encore We sell cattle by private treaty. In 1988, with Leland Herman (Bill s uncle), we incorporated the cattle from Hervale Farms into our operation. We no longer keep separate registrations in both, there is still considerable influence of Hervale and Leland in the cow herd. Leland passed away July 2, In the fall of 1986, we split the feed operation away from TWJ Farms and formed TWJ Feeds, Inc. Today, TWJ Feeds produces about 24,000 tons of chicken feed and about 7,000 tons of hog feed. In 1998, we split the operation and formed Nebraska Egg Ltd. That consists of 480,000 layer hens in four houses. They produce 9.5 million dozen eggs per year. In 1999, we formed Carroll Trucking Ltd., to manage all of the feed trucks, semi-trailer, the three egg trailers, the pickups we use and the other equipment that we use. In 2015, we sold the egg operation to Nelson Poultry from Manhattan, KS. Bill and Julie continue to manage the three operations. Twila passed away 9/21/1990, our stepmother Mona passed away 3/6/2008, and Joe passed away 11/22/2012. Bill still lives on the farm south of Carroll. Julie moved to Albuquerque, NM in March of

7 Sunday - Stop #1 Satorie Farms James Shawn Satorie Widener Lane, Herman, NE Cell: satorieriverbend@gmail.com Welcome to Satorie Farms! Our operation began in 2005 after deciding to follow in my late father s legacy of breeding Polled Herefords. Originating back to North Bend, my father James (Jim) A. Satorie and grandfather James E. Satorie raised Registered Polled Herefords under Satorie Farms Inc. My wife Jessica and I reside in Herman, NE along with our 3 children, Amelia (10), Sterling (4), & Blue (6 mo.). We are enjoying our beginning years in 4-H and teaching them the value of hard work. My herd began with the purchase of 3 cows from Frank Kucera from Litchfield, NE. For the past 10 years, we have slowly grown our herd to 26 head calving out this next spring. Throughout this time, we have tried our best to retain only those calves we feel meet the criteria for phenotype and data. This years calves are sired by 429S Accord (Absolute) and 52U Victor. 429S Accord semen is available for purchase through private treaty or through Streamline Genetics. We will have replacement heifers, our herd bull, and select cow calf pairs on display at Blueberry Hill Farms. We appreciate your visit and hope to see you in years to come. Ed & Marsha Huwaldt Family Ave., Randolph, NE Ed & Marsha (402) ; Angie (402) Keith & Virginia (402) huwed@live.com Website: edhuwaldt.com Satorie Farms cattle will be on display at the Blueberry Hill Farms stop. From Blueberry Hill, go west 4 miles on Hwy 275, north 3 miles on Victory Rd, west 2 miles on Eisenhower Rd, north 21 miles on Hwy 81, East 3 miles on Hwy 20, south 2 miles on 558th Ave to place on right. Welcome to Huwaldts Herefords! We are a family operation which started 138 years ago, raising purebred Hereford cattle. The herd is owned & managed by Ed & Marsha Huwaldt & their daughter, Angie. Ed s great-grandfather, August, brought Hereford cattle with him as he made his way to northeast Nebraska from Germany in In 1879, he was the first homestead in Randolph, trading items in order to keep the Indians from stealing his prize herd. His son, Fern, continued raising & selling Hereford breeding stock until his death in In the mid 60 s, the 3rd generation, Keith & wife, Virginia, purchased their first polled bull. In the 80 s, the 4th generation, Ed and Marsha, took over managing the herd and started using AI sires. Ed and Marsha s daughters; Mandy, Tracy, and Angie; are the 5th generation to show & raise Herefords. We are proud to say that Hereford cattle is the only breed raised by Huwaldts Herefords of Randolph since The herd currently consists of 160 pairs. During the last 10 years Angie has implemented embryo transfer into the herd with some excellent donor cows. Current sires include Perks 322 Easy Choice 6038, SHF Caraway 20Z C157, HH Revolver D7, JDH Victor 719T 3Z, NJW 5M Beef 65Y ET, Dakitch MDK Border Patrol 27B & Dakitch MDK Trust 21B. Current AI Sires include R Leader 6964, C Double Your Miles 6077 ET, H/TSR/CHEZ Full Throttle ET, SHF Rib Eye M326 R117, and JLB W26 Legacy Each year about 30 bulls are kept to sell as yearlings at private treaty & 30 heifers kept for replacement. The balance of the heifers are sold to commercial cattlemen & a few steers, heifers & bulls are sold at select breed consignment sales throughout the year. We emphasize good mothering, disposition, efficient, easy keeping abilities. We strive to produce bulls to sell that will add pounds and thickness for the everyday cattleman. We warmly welcome Huwaldt Cattle Co., JB Ranch & Liable Herefords who are displaying a few head at our farm stop today. We hope you enjoy your visit and lunch being served with our own home raised Hereford beef. Thank you for coming and we welcome you back at any time! Sunday - Stop #2 Huwaldts Herefords

8 Sunday - Stop #2 JB Ranch Jack & Bev Beeson th Ave., Wayne, NE Phone: ; Jack: ; Bev: jack.bev.beeson@gmail.com JB Ranch will be on display at the Huwaldts Herefords Stop near Randolph. Sunday - Stop #2 Laible Herefords Ashley Laible Kurt & Hally Ziegler Family Ave., Bloomfield, NE Phone: ; Ashley: Laible Herefords will be on display at the Huwaldts Herefords Stop near Randolph. Welcome Hereford Breeders! First, we want to thank the Huwaldts for inviting us to display our cattle. We have been on a lot of tours and we know they are a lot of work to get ready for. Jack bought his first registered cow in 1944, as a green high school boy with a great teacher. He came to work, still green, as a herdsman for Hervale Farms in Leland Herman was a great employer. Jack married Bev in 1957 and the rest is history. We have one son, Jock, ranching in western Nebraska. We continued to build our cowherd to 90 cows until we helped Jock and his wife, Brenda, out west. Now we have about forty cows and we are proud of every one of them. We artificially inseminate some cows, but our pasture bulls are doing a great job. Our new herd bull, 18W Eldorado 78C, from Saskatchewan is doing a great job. His sire is in New Zealand. Our cow herd is now 40 cows. Outcross breeding bulls are Anchor Braxton and Matrix. Herd sires: Anchor 37B, JB 522 High Tech 876B, JB 587 Braxton 913C. TPR herd started in Straight polled bred with muscle, milk and good feet and legs. Our cattle are known for red eyes and conservative markings. We always have bulls and females for sale. We have really enjoyed the purebred cattle business. Most of all, it s the people we have met and done business with the last 60-plus years. Laible Herefords is owned and operated by Ashley Laible. Laible Herefords is located from Bloomfield, NE, 6 miles west on Highway 84 and 3 ¾ miles north on 538 Ave. The farm is owned by my parents, Kurt and Hally Ziegler. I am a registered nurse at the Creighton Hospital. Laible Herefords originated back in 2002, when I was 13 years old and bought 2 bred heifers off the Upstream Ranch annual production sale in February of that year. Today Laible Herefords has a small herd of 20 cows with some being registered Herefords and a few commercial cows. We are currently using a very intense AI program along with selective clean up bulls. I have been a member of the Nebraska Junior Hereford Association and now the National Hereford Association. I continue to buy futurity heifers for my younger sister and brothers to show. I continue to raise and sell my own production females and bulls through private treaty. My three younger siblings, Madie, Wiley and Auzzy Ziegler, continue to show some of my calf production as well as some of their own. A lot of my heifer calves are retained into my herd and some are sold at the Cornhusker sale or privately by commercial breeders or other productive cattle producers

9 Sunday - Stop #2 Huwaldt Cattle Co. Don, Audra & Kim Huwaldt Hwy 20, Osmond, NE Phone: ; Don: ; Kim: Huwaldt Cattle Co. will be on display at the Huwaldts Herefords Stop near Randolph. Huwaldt Cattle Co. is located 1 ½ miles east of Osmond on Hwy 20. Our cowherd is made of 100 head of registered Herefords, and 150 head of cross-bred cows that are out of Mohican Upland 46U, Reload, Victor 54Y and many more. Our herd sires are AH HH 848 Ribeye J2 ET, HCC MR Frost H403, and UPS Hometown 4238 ET. We have partnered in with Nelson Herefords and TK Cattle Company on new herd sire NH Cactus Jack 509 ET. Our strong donor female, KH Miss loaded Sugar KH02, has been flushed to UPS Sensation 2504 ET, Mohican Upland 46U, Churchill Red Bull 200z, SULL TCC Custom Made 340 ET, NH Cactus Jack 509 ET, and H WCC/WB 668 Wyarno 9500 ET. We offer many steers and heifer for sale privately or at various consignment sales throughout the year, and we also provide livestock hauling through Huwaldt Trucking. Sunday - Stop #3 Melcher Herefords Don & Jean Melcher Kevin & Sherry Melcher Voyager Road, Page, NE Phone: ; Don: ; Kevin: melcherherfs@hotmail.com Website: From Huwaldt s Herefords, go north 2 miles on 558th Ave, west 54 miles on Hwy 20, south 1/4 mile on Voyager Rd to the place on the right. Melcher s Herefords Inc. is a multi-generation family operation consisting of Don and Jean; their son, Kevin and wife Sherry and their children, Jordon, Madison, Ashley, and Dylan; and son Matt and wife Kristen. Daughter Crystal and husband Jason Beissenherz and son Hunter, live in Grand Island. The Melchers have ranched at this location for 106 years and 2017 marks 69 years in the registered Hereford business. Today the fall herd consists of 115 head with another 30 in the spring group. Current herd sires are CL1 Domino 4163B from Coopers, JA Domino 5610C from Jamison, R 4Ever 7485 from Rausch s, and FTF Prime Product 636D, from Falling Timber Farm. We have a bull sale every spring. The dates and details will be available at a later time. Another part of our operation is our heifer development program. We purchase commercial Herefords and red-white faced heifers from reputation ranches each winter. These heifers are then synchronized and AI d to industry leading calving ease bulls and sold after October 1st. Visitors are always welcome to stop by and look at the cattle. For more information please contact Don at (home) or at (cell), Kevin at , Matt at , or visit our website

10 Sunday - Stop #4 Kester Herefords Tyler or Cody Kester 602 Dibble Street, Clearwater, NE Phone: or From Melcher s, go north 1/4 mile on Voyager Rd, east 3.5 miles on Hwy 20, south 5.7 miles on Hwy 45B, east 11 miles on Hwy 275, left on 517 Ave. Our father, Bill Kester started in the Hereford industry by purchasing 12 Hereford heifers from Grabenstien Herefords in 1989, and then began breeding for high maternal traits, carcass efficiency and performance. A few of the foundation sires he began building in our herd nucleus were Feltons 517, Mochican Prime up, HH Advance 9012Y and Online 122L. We are currently building a new facility roughly 1.5 miles east of Clearwater on the north side of HWY 275. Today we run 100 reg Hereford spring cows, 50 spring recips, 25 reg Hereford fall cows, and 25 fall recips. We ve raised females that are currently listed in the top 200 cows in the Hereford industry along with many Dams of Distinction. In 2017, we recently won our class with a Pen of 3 fall bulls at the NWSS and had a heifer win her division in the junior show at the Fort Worth Stock Show. Currently our reference sires include: Xerox 20x, Hometown 10Y, Twenty Twelve, Trust, About Time, Thor 4029, 88X, Durango, Sensation, Red Bull, Kickstart, Victor 719T, Perks Easy Money, Catapult and Go Andy. Every 3rd Monday in March we have our annual production sale. This year we ll be selling 50 bulls and 40 heifers. Please contact us for more information. We enjoy talking Hereford cattle and getting to know the people of this great industry. Judging Contest Rules Nebraska Hereford Association Tour Livestock Judging Rules: 1. Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 individuals in each of the three age divisions. The first place judge in each division will receive a $600 stipend to be used toward a heifer purchase at the 2017 Cornhusker Classic Sale in November, or at the 2018 Nebraska Cattlemen s Classic Hereford or Polled Hereford Sales in February. 2. Must be a minimum of 7 years old as of Jan. 1, 2018 and not older than 18 years old as of Jan. 1, 2018, to be eligible for the heifer certificates. 3. There will be three age divisions to judge that are eligible for the heifer: a years old b years old c years old d. Adult division-just for fun, not eligible for the heifer certificates. 4. The contest will include 7 classes to be judged with 1 tie breaker class. The contest will take place at each stop of the tour except the last stop where prizes will be announced. You must be present to win at the end when the prizes are announced. 5. A total of 5 minutes will be given to judge each class. 6. Each class will be worth 50 points. 7. The official judge will talk each class directly after cards are gathered. 8. The no-talking rule will be STRICTLY enforced. Contestants may not talk to each other during the time of judging each class. If contestants are caught talking or cheating, they will be removed from the contest. 9. Parents or adults may NOT help the youth that are judging. 10. Registration for the contest can be done prior to the tour weekend by calling Angie Huwaldt at or Angie at: ahuwaldt3@hotmail.com. If you pre-register, all you need to do when you show up at Bar M Herefords is check in and get your cards. Registering for the contest prior to the tour weekend is NOT a requirement, but will make things go faster with check-in etc. 11. Check in time for all youth will be 9:00am - 10:00am on Saturday August 19, 2017 at the first tour stop which will be Bar M Herefords, Hordville, NE. They will be providing a full hot breakfast prior to the contest and tour starting

11 NEBRASKA Hereford Tour Tour Sponsors Special Thanks to these NHA Tour Partners: Nebraska Cattlemen s Classic, Kearney Progressive Nutrition - Dan Stark ADM Feeds - Vaughn Sievers Northeast Nebraska August 19-20, 2017