“ There’ s probably half a dozen guys that I follow my programs by. Try to model myself by them,” Powell said.
He said he didn’ t know any cattleman that was satisfied with his group of cattle even when someone complimented him. Because they think it still isn’ t good enough, he said.
“ You see holes in your program. You just try to fill in those holes,” he said.
He said he tries to work his programs so that he has a market everywhere he goes.
“ It’ s a lot to keep going on but I enjoy it,” he said.
At Fenco Farms, which is based in Florida, Clay Cooper, the general manager of the location in Colquitt County, spoke to the group.
“ We’ ve been headquartered out of Floral City, Florida, and we have slowly been migrating in y’ all’ s direction. So we appreciate y’ all taking the time to come visit with us today and let us tell you a little bit about our operation and our expansion up this way,” he said.
Cooper said they had predominantly been in the cow / calf business and now have migrated a little bit into the registered brand business, as well.
“ So we’ ve got a bull sale in October and we’ ve got registered female sales and we’ ll also be incorporating some commercial female components to those sales, as well,” he said.
He added that they were trying to diversify in their offerings within the industry. He said Floral City where they managed all of their registered cattle and there were six different locations about 45 minutes from the headquarters.
“ Our cow / calves, we go ahead and strip those calves in September. They go out to a backgrounding yard in Paxico, Kansas, with Michael Hurla, who backgrounds for us, and then, from there, they migrate over to High Plains and finish all of our cattle out and, then, they go to the grid on national,” Cooper said.
When we visited the Baker Cattle Farm, the owners Joe and John Baker, weren’ t able to meet up with us. According to the company’ s website, they raise replacement heifers, cows, bulls and steers. They offer both purebred and commercial.
Clay Cooper, the general manager of the Fenco Farms location in Colquitt County, speaks to the tour as they are taken out onto the property.
Harrison Powell of Powell Cattle Farm drives cattle toward the fence line so that participants of the tour could take a closer look at them.
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