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South Carolina Angus News
October 9, 2005
Windy Bartee
Who was it that said, “Rain, Rain, Go away. Come again another day”? For our rain certainly went away for several days and weeks. Our fields were brown. Some trees were dying. Many of our plants in the yard have died. The pond had practically dried up. We really did not mean that children’s rhyme when it was chanted.
We can be thankful that rain finally fell in October. Now the fall planting of grass can occur. October brings rain, the state fair, fall leaves and Halloween.
November brings us more rain, we hope, the Yon’s Family Farm Sale on November 5, and the North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 12-15th. The annual meeting of the American Angus Association will take place there on Monday afternoon, the 14th. Our South Carolina delegates are Kevin Yon, Walter Shealy and Ted Bartee. Our alternates are Evelyn Edmunds, Ted Bourne, and Stephanie Clark. We will anxiously await the report our delegates and their alternates will bring back to us about the news and advancements in Angus.
Speaking of Halloween, one of the advancements in cattle, as reported in The Charlotte Observer, is the successful cloning of “Elvis” and “Priscilla.” These are calves cloned from the scrapings of cells from sides of high-quality beef hanging in a slaughterhouse. According to the article, ViaGen, Inc. has developed the cattle residing in Round Top, Texas. Usually only 1 prime cow comes along in every 12,000. Maybe with cloning all our beef will become as good as our Angus! We already are using artificial insemination, and embryo transplant as well as our EPDs to improve the genetics of our Angus.
Your South Carolina Angus officers and directors plan to begin meeting on November 6 to plan the next Carolina Angus Futurity. It is scheduled for the third weekend in March 2006. It usually takes place at Clemson. Watch for more on our big event of the year, which also includes our SCAA annual meeting.
This press release from the American Angus Association came out recently:
AMERICAN ANGUS ASSN. ANNOUNCES
THE TEN SOUTH CAROLINA BREEDERS WHO
REGISTERED THE MOST ANGUS
The 10 producers who registered the most Angus beef cattle in the state of South Carolina recorded a total of 705 Angus with the American Angus Association during fiscal year 2005, which ended September 30, according to John Crouch, executive vice president of the American Angus Association.
The 10 top recorders in South Carolina are: Yon Family Farms, Ridge Spring, 221-head; Black Crest Farms, Sumter, 155; Clemson Univ. Edisto, Blackville, 76; Tokeena Angus Farms, Seneca, 55; Clemson University, Clemson, 41-head; Marvin D Cooper, Bennettsville, 39; Teddi Bourne Steadman, Greenwood, 31; Double B Farms, Bamberg, 31; Walter Shealy III, Newberry, 28-head; Paul Boyd Angus Farm, Clover, 28.
Angus breeders across the nation in 2005 registered 324,266 head of Angus cattle compared to 298,770 in fiscal 2004. “The year-end statistics indicate a strong demand for Angus genetics in commercial herds as producers continue to focus on end-product quality and its effect on their bottom line,” Crouch said.
The American Angus Association, headquartered in Saint Joseph, Missouri, is the largest beef registry association in the world in terms of both annual registrations and active members. For more information about the Angus breed go to www.angus.org.
Angus DVD from The Cattle Show available
As part of The Cattle Show’s “Bulls, Bulls, Bulls” series, an episode featuring Angus cattle aired on RFD-TV in July. From genetics to marketability, feeder cattle to replacement females, this episode of The Cattle Show covers all the advantages of Angus genetics. This 30-minute show is now available on DVD free of charge to producers interested in learning more about the Angus breed.
“The Cattle Show offers cattlemen a tremendous opportunity to not only hear about Angus bulls, but to see the results”, says Sara Moyer, American Angus Association Director of Member and Industry Communications. “The cattle and the testimonials of these three producers send a powerful message about the advantages of Angus cattle”.
To request your DVD of The Cattle Show’s Angus episode contact the American Angus Association at 816-383-5100 or email angus@angus.org.
SC Angus Youth in the LEAD
Some of our youngest talent are taking advantage of the lessons to be learned at Angus conferences for the youth. Ann Blumer and Sally Yon traveled to Idaho. The American Angus reported, “Sally Yon, Ridge Spring, and Ann Blumer, Chesnee, represented South Carolina at the 2005 LEAD (Leaders Engaged in Angus Development) Conference, August 4-7 in Boise, Idaho. Nearly 150 youth from 34 states, Australia and Canada attended the conference, "Strikin' It Rich" where they increased their beef industry knowledge and enhanced their leadership skills.
It is encouraging to see our eager youth and successful adults in the Angus business with all the technical advances being made in food production. America has been a leader in this industry. We can be grateful as we enter this Thanksgiving season for living here with this talent and opportunity. We will pray that we can use this talent and our blessing to help solve the problems in the recent disasters of hurricanes, war and earthquakes. With all this tragedy we still have more blessings than the rest of the world. Thank You. You know who that is.
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