tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9576762127140894492024-03-05T23:17:19.699-08:00Logan River Ranch ~ Irish Blacks Country Natural Beef (CNB) The Parker Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11215922146944480826noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957676212714089449.post-11510032574275606262013-04-11T10:02:00.000-07:002013-04-11T10:02:20.424-07:00MONTHLY CACHE VALLEY HORSE SALES<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><u><strong><em>Attention:</em></strong></u></span> We are holding our 1st monthly horse sale <span style="color: red;">MAY 4th, 2013</span> @ the Smithfield Livestock Auction. Accepting Using and Loose horses. We have a nice working arena to preview the Using horses and we also have cattle available to work as well. Preview will start at 10:00 am, Tack and Horses start selling at 11:00 am. This is the first of several monthly horse sales, held through out the summer. They will consistently be the 1st Saturday of each month (May, June, August, September, October), same time, same place. To reserve your lot, get an entry form, or for more information go to <a href="http://www.smithfieldlivestock.com/">www.smithfieldlivestock.com</a> . You can also contact Lane D. Parker @ 435-563-3259 or 435-752-7701. We will be excepting entries till sale day.<br />
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The Parker Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11215922146944480826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957676212714089449.post-60371727471502031142013-02-11T11:22:00.001-08:002013-02-11T11:22:29.680-08:00" FEEDING "<br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The snow this winter has been great. We have been able to feed most of this winter with the bobsled. Jared and the kids have lots of fun with the teams. Sometimes Jared is unable to feed and the kids have to do it all. The boys are old enough that they can catch, harness and feed all by themselves. If you look close at the pictures you can tell that they also like to have fun while they do it, they each take turns riding in the sled behind the wagon, they get to do a little sledding while feeding, <u> "kill two birds with one stone".</u> Why Not??</span><br />
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The Parker Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11215922146944480826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957676212714089449.post-20796395813426698782012-12-15T16:08:00.000-08:002012-12-15T16:08:21.136-08:00The Newell Moss Horse Sale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span>The Parker Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11215922146944480826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957676212714089449.post-27388073437655964812012-04-17T10:31:00.001-07:002012-04-17T10:37:34.228-07:00SPRING<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange;">Like most places, Spring is hitting the Logan River Ranch head on. The grass is growing, winter clean up has begun, fencing projects are in full force and most importantly of all, BABIES are arriving. First we had baby lambs (which Lane & Jared don't count as part of LRR, just Amy's project), then calves and now baby foals. They are all so cute and the ranch is full of excitement. We are still calving a few heifers and about 8 more horses, but we are pretty close to the end.</span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h3><span style="color: orange;">The mare in the middle is being broke to drive. Hanger is a little filly that Ty is breaking. She rides really well and now after a few days behind her under harness, she is going to be a nice little driving mare as well. Hanger is 3 years old and is 1/2 Draft 1/2 QH filly. She has been a good project for Ty.</span></h3></td></tr>
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</tbody></table>The Parker Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11215922146944480826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957676212714089449.post-72624766496510536582012-02-15T13:05:00.000-08:002012-02-16T09:51:29.587-08:00"Freeze Branding New Herd"<strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We purchased a small herd of first calf heifers, at the first of January. When we got them home we went right to Freeze branding them and getting them turned out on the bird refuge. It has been such a mild winter for us here in Utah, which is good and bad, but we hope spring comes when it is supposed to. As usual the whole family helped out. The kids where still on Christmas brake and they where happy to be able to work the new cattle when they got here. Overall very excited about the new additions to our cow/calf herd.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">~Our youngest girl had to have stitches the last night, she took a header and hit a rock. Good thing Aunt Sarah is a Nurse Practictioner and had the skills to fix her right up. She does this quite often for us, we swap her eggs and things like that. haha Thanks Aunt Sarah. We really appreciate it. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">~Overall the weekend went wonderful and we had a great time and we really learned a lot about our own ranch. Thanks to RMC and the EL Program for bring us together, to learn, become successful and to build friendships.</span></div>
The Parker Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11215922146944480826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957676212714089449.post-43921920553439079792011-07-01T12:24:00.000-07:002011-07-01T12:26:56.746-07:00CHECKING CATTLE<span style="color: red;">We have been so busy around the ranch. We have started calving, turned out the commercial herd and have run full head into the many "Fires" that need to be attended to during the summer months, here at the ranch. Finally summer decided to show up and the grass is growing nicely and our gardens are planted and also are started up well. Animals look good, the auctions is going well and calving season has started off great. Lane and Jared have been traveling a lot lately, promoting the Irish Black Cattle and are excited about the interest that is shown in the breed. On a couple of weekends Jared & Amy's family were able to go and check on the yearlings and the cow/calf herd. The grass looks good and so do the cattle, they are really enjoying the sunshine as are we. Our web page is now up and running, so please check it out. <a href="http://www.loganriverranch.com/">http://www.loganriverranch.com/</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Here is a picture of the cattle coming out of the underpass. You can't tell it with this picture but the cattle had to swim through about 2 feet of water. By using the low stress handling techniques, the cattle just walked right on through it and down into the next pasture. It was quiet, quick and only took just a few miniutes to move the cattle down the road a mile into the new pasture.</span>The Parker Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11215922146944480826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957676212714089449.post-17488172138288295852011-04-25T13:08:00.000-07:002011-04-25T13:12:58.132-07:00THIS IS WHAT LOGAN RIVER RANCH IS DOING!!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">We are very excited, our 1st placement of 1/2 Irish Black, Pasture Raised Yearlings will finish May 1st. We are in a program, Country Natural Beef (CNB) where we retain ownership of our cattle until they are slaughtered. The past few years have been successful and quite a learning experience. We are especially excited because this is the first set if 1/2 Irish Black Cattle that we have had in the feed lot. Our carcass evaluations in the past have been good, but we are anxiously awaiting the carcass results on our <u>1/2 Irish Black, Pasture Raised Cattle.</u> We will post results on the carcass data as soon as we receive them.</span></div><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">More information on them later. </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Contact Lane D. Parker (435)757-4643.</span></div>The Parker Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11215922146944480826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957676212714089449.post-63049008983779957502011-04-21T09:26:00.000-07:002011-04-21T09:26:54.438-07:00Freeze Branding/Preg. Checking<strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #674ea7;">The past few days we have been busy finishing up the freeze branding on the Irish Black Cattle. While we were running them through the chute we decided to go ahead a draw blood for the pregnancy test. Lane is really getting the hang of drawing the blood, and it saves us the expense of having the vet come down and do it for us. Tuesday, is the girls day off of work and the kids also were out of school that day, so everyone got to help. It sure makes it nice when we don't have to pay any outside hands to work the cattle (which is most of the time).</span> </strong><br />
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</div>The Parker Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11215922146944480826noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-957676212714089449.post-51472758482026780182011-02-28T11:19:00.000-08:002011-02-28T12:28:06.659-08:00LITTLE-KNOWN BREED GAINING INDUSTRY ATTENTION<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Written </em></strong></span><strong><em><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #505050; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">by: Dr. Rod Harris</span></span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So he's spent much of his life trying to do something about it. Boney, who ranches near Johnstown, Colo., has been developing a line bred breed of cattle called Irish Blacks and Irish Reds for nearly 40 years. The breed, trademarked by Boney and marketed under an exclusive contractual agreement to a select but growing group of producers in 22 states, is gaining attention from cattle feeders, packers and restaurateurs as an answer to many of the industry's most pressing concerns. Derived primarily from Friesian genetics and a small amount of Black Angus genetics (35 years ago) from the old “Revolution” line, the breed has been close-herd line-bred for built-in genetic predictability to transmit quality genetics for fertility, production attributes and superior beef quality.</span></span><br />
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“The genetic make-up of a large portion of today's beef herds is highly heterozygous,” explains Boney. “Because most cattle in the U.S. cow herd are heterozygous – instead of homozygous — for important production and carcass traits, they've lost their ability to transmit desirable genetics for carcass quality and fertility to their offspring.” The result of all this heterozygosity, explains Boney, is genetic instability, inconsistency and diminishing beef quality. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“The extremely broad and ever-expanding gene pools of today's cow herds will only ensure beef's quality continues to decline,” he says. “That's why we have concentrated on producing a highly concentrated, small genetic pool of cattle for correcting many of the problems the industry faces today. Less than two percent of cattle attain the Prime quality grade. The percentage of Choice-quality carcasses falls every year. Our program is built on correcting those problems by producing cattle with heightened predictability to transmit superior, proven genes to their offspring.” Boney's efforts trace back to 1971 when he began implementing a line breeding program built on the teachings of Dr. Jay Lush, a professor at Iowa State University and world-renowned geneticist. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In doing so, Boney bred a 18 heifers back to their sire. He then bred 16 more of the same heifers to a son of their sire (sister X sib matings). By breeding related animals to each other, he was able to ensure his foundation genetics were pure, free of genetic defects and diseases. During the ensuing four decades, he's stayed with the same bloodlines and the same breeding philosophy. And with each generation — layer upon layer, year after year — he's concentrated the union of genetically identical genes of his genetics for traits like fertility, marbling, muscling, and built in greater genetic predictability for all of these traits by doing so. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Over the past 25 years, 75 percent of the people using our blood have never paid us a visit to see our herd,” Boney says. “The bulk of our new customers during this time frame have been neighbors, relatives, or friends of those that are using our blood. Our cattle are doing exceptionally well in 22 states. The demand for our genetically dominant blood normally exceeds our supply.”<span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">Testing for genetic superiority</span> </strong></span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">To confirm the superior carcass attributes of the Irish Blacks, Boney along with his business associate, Guy Gould, who owns and operates Gould Ranch of Fort Morgan, Colo., began ultra sounding all of their bulls and heifers more than a decade ago. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The ultrasound research has helped confirm many of the superior carcass attributes of the cattle, says Gould. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Recently, a pen of Irish Black bulls averaged 11.5 months of age. They had 0.16 inches of back fat, 13.70-inches of rib eye with an average marbling score of 3.87. One of these bulls had 0.18 inches of back fat, a 12.75-square inch rib eye and an astounding marbling score of 7.27. This same bull had a 65-pound birth weight and an actual 205-day weaning weight of 675 pounds. </span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Typically, Irish Blacks and Irish Reds score two to four scores higher in DNA gene testing for these traits than any of the other breeds have been able to achieve,” says Boney. “Most breeds would be happy with a marbling score of 3.5. Our bulls averaged 3.78.” </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In another example, an Irish Black bull and his dam had the highest possible score for both marbling and tenderness on the Igenity test. Needless to say, it's cows like this one that have made their way into Boney's embryo transfer program. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">A shared vision</span></b> </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Perhaps the key to the Irish Black breeding program is the working relationship between Boney and Gould. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The former is big-picture focused, while the latter is rooted in real-world production. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Boney concentrates on the breeding and genetics decisions, embryo transfer and AI work. Gould develops the bulls and females for sale and manages the cattle at his ranch. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Admittedly, Gould is a commercially focused producer. He grew up a commercial man, and even though he's transitioned to seed stock production in recent years, he adheres to the belief that none of the 350 Irish Black and Irish Red cattle receive special treatment or pampering. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“This is a working cow-calf operation,” Gould says. “To run our cattle this way is the best way to prove them out.” </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Interestingly, the two met in the early 1980s when Gould approached Boney about using Irish Black bulls on his cow herd. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Gould had tried several other breeds, but wasn't achieving the results he was looking for. With some breeds his weaning weights were good, but he gave up ground in fertility and calving ease. When he fixed calving problems and fertility, his weaning weights crashed.Surely, he thought, there's something out there that can balance these traits. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“I remember Maurice said to me: ‘These Irish Blacks will put 100 pounds on your calves at weaning, and all you'll need is two bulls to breed your 140 cows,'” recalls Gould. “It was a little hard to believe. But he didn't just say it, he guaranteed it.'” </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Gould traded a tractor for one bull and bought the other. Boney promised to return his money if the bulls didn't settle all 140 cows and the calves didn't weigh 100 pounds more than the previous year's calf crop. Sure enough, the two bulls bred all the cows – and the resulting calves weaned off their mothers weighing 104 pounds more than the previous year's calf crop. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Needless to say Gould was hooked, so hooked that the two began building a business relationship that continues today. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Reasons to consider Irish Blacks and Reds</span></b> </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Both Guy Gould and Maurice Boney believe there are six fundamental reasons for commercial producers to use Irish Blacks and Irish Reds: First, genetic purity. The breed has four decades of disciplined line-breeding behind it. It has had no other breeds blood introduced into its small gene pool, which has been the case in many “pure” breeds in the United States. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“It's most important to understand that a percentage bull cannot, and will not, reproduce himself,” says Boney. “Simple arithmetic bears this out: calves sired by a half blood bull only possess 25 percent of the blood that one is trying to make improvements with. Then consider one's chances when using a percentage bull whose gene pool is made up of several different breeds. The result of such matings will produce a broader more diverse gene pool with hundreds of different gene trait combinations.” </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Adds Boney: “The big bonus for the commercial producer in using our purebred bulls is the resulting heifer calves. These F1 heifers should be retained and then bred back to our purebred bulls. The 75 percent Irish Black feeder calves have been achieving 90 percent Choice or better quality grades, 1,300 to 1,400 pound finished weights, and dressing at 65 percent to 69 percent. Their feed conversion is 5.1 pounds of grain per pound of gain. The half bloods have been making 80 percent to 90 percent Choice, with feed conversions of 5.3 pounds of feed per pound of gain. It is a proven fact that the higher the percentage of Irish Black blood the higher the performance and carcass cut-out values will be.” </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Second, concentration of desirable genes. Unlike other breeds that have concentrated on expanding their genetic makeup, the Irish Black and Red breed is built on concentrating levels of “homozygosity” of genetic traits rather than the “heterozygosity” of genetic traits. By doing so, the ability of the Irish Blacks and Reds to transmit desirable genetic traits to their offspring is much greater than bulls of other breeds. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Third, fertility. “Our first experience with the cattle – when we used just two bulls to breed 140 cows – holds true today,” he says. “We see the same results in fertility – in both our bulls and females — today that we did then.” </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Fourth, carcass quality. Irish Blacks and Reds consistently score extremely high for desirable carcass genetics, particularly in tenderness and marbling. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Fifth, marketing flexibility. “The advantages of owning these cattle gives you so much versatility. There is nothing we've found that will do as well as these cattle will as productive females. And there is nothing that will do better on feed than these cattle. They possess superior performance and outstanding carcass quality. “I've fed a lot of these cattle,” says Gould. “Their cut-outs, yield grades and quality grades are far superior to industry averages.” </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sixth, environmental flexibility. Today, breeders of Irish Blacks and Irish Reds can be found in every production environment in the United States. The breed is resistant to high-altitude sickness, and won't succumb to “brisket” disease when turned out on high-altitude rangeland. The cattle are also being successfully produced in such faraway regions as Canada, Mississippi, Florida and Texas. “I'm not aware of a climate anywhere where these cattle won't acclimate and do well,” says Gould. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“The cattle have hair enough to withstand winter, yet they slick off to handle the heat.” </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Together, Gould and Bone market about 80 bulls and 80 females to a select group of clientele in 22 states. To ensure the genetic purity of the breeding program for the future, commercial customers must sign an Trade Mark License agreement that requires them to castrate all bull calves sired by Irish Black bulls. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Our customers appreciate the years of investment we've put into this breeding, and understand that it's in every one's best interest to ensure only the genetically purest Irish Blacks and Red – not crossbreds – get perpetuated as breeding stock. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“We have a couple of important goals that we'd like to accomplish with this breeding program, and they understand that it's in every one's best interest to ensure only the genetically purest Irish Blacks and Reds – not crossbreds – get perpetuated as seed stock,” says Gould. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“We want people to understand that there are some genetic options out there that they can use to straighten out some of the problems they've faced in using other breeds or breeding programs. </span></span></div><div align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Most of the people who see these cattle tell us that Irish Blacks and Reds are the best-kept secret in the beef industry,” he says. “That could be. The most difficult challenge that we face is simply getting people to take a look at them. Once they do, and we show them the performance and the cut-out data, they are sold. We very rarely have anyone show up who doesn't end up buying some of these cattle.” </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Adds Boney, who has spent most of his life building Irish Blacks and Irish Reds into pre-eminence: </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“The demand for quality beef that is tender, well marbled and tasty far exceeds our industry's ability to supply it,” he says. “It has been proven that people will pay the added price to get a consistent source of such supply. We look forward to visiting with those who recognize the true value of genetic investment we have made in this breed, and understand what the true value of these cattle is to today's marketplace. That would not only make it more profitable for the people producing registered Irish Blacks and Irish Reds seed stock, but also for the commercial producer who deserves a more clear-cut opportunity to raise high-performing, profit-making, fool-proof cattle that excel in beef quality.” </span></span></div></div>The Parker Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11215922146944480826noreply@blogger.com0