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Load'em up: From pasture to feedyard

Watch as the DeBerrys, their cowboys, mentor and cattle buyer round up cattle to ship to the feedyard.

Shelley E. Huguley, Editor

March 30, 2021

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Shelley E. Huguley

It's that time of year, cows are calving and stockers are en route to either the sale or the feedyard. In Olton, Texas, cousins Tracy and Aaron DeBerry, who partner on stocker calves, are shipping their cattle to Cactus Feeders. 

Farm Press recently documented one of their mornings gathering cattle. Catch a glimpse of their operation while also learning more about their transition from row crops to cattle, the importance of good fencing and their marketing strategy. 

See, 7 priorities for cattle producers this year

See, Bull breeding soundness should be tested after freeze

About the Author

Shelley E. Huguley

Editor, Southwest Farm Press

Shelley Huguley has been involved in agriculture for the last 25 years. She began her career in agricultural communications at the Texas Forest Service West Texas Nursery in Lubbock, where she developed and produced the Windbreak Quarterly, a newspaper about windbreak trees and their benefit to wildlife, production agriculture and livestock operations. While with the Forest Service she also served as an information officer and team leader on fires during the 1998 fire season and later produced the Firebrands newsletter that was distributed quarterly throughout Texas to Volunteer Fire Departments. Her most personal involvement in agriculture also came in 1998, when she married the love of her life and cotton farmer Preston Huguley of Olton, Texas. As a farmwife, she knows first-hand the ups and downs of farming, the endless decisions made each season based on “if” it rains, “if” the drought continues, “if” the market holds. She is the bookkeeper for their family farming operation and cherishes moments on the farm such as taking harvest meals to the field or starting a sprinkler in the summer with the whole family lending a hand. Shelley has also freelanced for agricultural companies such as Olton CO-OP Gin, producing the newsletter Cotton Connections while also designing marketing materials to promote the gin. She has published articles in agricultural publications such as Southwest Farm Press while also volunteering her marketing and writing skills to non-profit organizations such as Refuge Services, an equine-assisted therapy group in Lubbock. She and her husband reside in Olton with their three children Breely, Brennon and HalleeKate.

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