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2008 National Junior Angus Show--Christmas in July

My fearless food committee: Dixie McCormick and Catherine Schulte. I couldn't have done it without you!! Also a big thank you to show chairman Glenda Schroeder for her many hours she helped us before and during the show. Thank you to all of the volunteers who helped serve meals. We provided over 20,000 free meals to exhibitors, their families, and show attendees.

Biscuits and gravy Friday morning!

Iowa Angus breeders helping serve breakfast

Yes, we even got the men and boys to wear Christmas aprons!

Lunch guests in the Varied Industries building during the show.

Friday evening before the awards ceremony, it took 6 serving lines to facilitate the feeding of about 2000 hungry mouths. Here Landi directs traffic while David & Joy keep water, chips, and condiments supplied to the lines.

2008 Union County Fair

Congratulations to Candace Weeda on her Grand Champion Pen of 3 Steers at the 2008 Union County Fair! Candace’s steers purchased from the Hoover Angus Farm program had an average daily gain of 3.40 lbs/day, 14.4” ribeye, 7.43% IMF (two high choice steers, one choice), and an average yield grade of 2.6. The carcass value added per day on feed was $3.516, over $.50 more than the next highest pen of steers. Her pen was the highest average gaining pen and the highest average marbling pen out of 8 exhibitors. Candace used visual appraisal and carcass EPDs to select her steers last fall. Steers sired by: SAV New Design 3105, Woodhill Statesman 54K-90N, and LaGrand Future Direction 3368.

Candace was named the 2008 Union County Fair Queen!

2008 Ringgold County Fair

Congratulations to Sarah Reasoner on a fine job at the
Ringgold County Fair with her CC&7 bucket calf!

Tingley Celebration

Landi's new tailgate!

Hoover Angus Farm participates in the parade celebrating Tingley's 125th Anniversary.

Good, better, best, Never let it rest. . .
Hoover Angus Farm-80 years of quality Angus cattle
Tingley-125 years of quality living

David's General Lee also takes part in the Tingley parade.

The General Lee and $4.00 gas. . . A lot of headaches!
Tingley's 125 years. . . Priceless!

After the parade, some youngsters took rides in the General and had their pictures taken.

Hey, aren't you a little young to be driving?

Spring Time

Spring and green grass are finally here! G3 was the first CC&7 heifer calf born at Hoover Angus.

Still muddy from our wet winter and spring, a 4 year-
old Gridiron daughter raises her "little" CC&7 calf.

A CC&7 calf out of a 10 year-old cow.

In April, Australian ranchers came to see CC&7 and his first set calves.
Here Stephen Handbury pets Gridiron.

Gridiron in his delight breeding cows this spring.

2008 Sale Day Photos

Craig & Brice Conover

Bryan, Preston & Glen Hawley. Hawleys Gen X Angus
purchased the co-top selling, Lot 1 bull at $10,000.

Preston Hawley pets Lot 1, H&K Acceleration F24.

What's up Doc?

Aren't these boys supposed to be working???

Regional Manager Don Laughlin; Glen Hanson buyer of co-top
selling bull, H&K Intensity F250; and auctioneer Craig Conover.

Grant Conover and David.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this day a success!

2008 Pathfinder Report

News article from February 21, 2008 Mount Ayr Record News

Ten of the 2,306 American Angus Association members and 86 of the 9,917 individual cows in the American Angus Association's Pathfinder Report are from Ringgold County. That's the word this week from the American Angus Association as it reports on the top cows registered with the association. Local breeders with cows in the listing include:
Hoover Angus Farm, Ellston, 41 cows
Jim & Ann Werner, Diagonal, 18 cows
Landi K. McFarland, Ellston, 10 cows
Will & Bonnie Larson, Diagonal, 7 cows
Woodland Angus LLC, Mount Ayr, 4 cows
Eric Fell, Mount Ayr, 2 cows
Russell Holmes, Benton, 1 cow
Shay Brothers, Tingley, 1 cow
Clint Werner, Diagonal, 1 cow

The Pathfinder program identifies superior Angus cows based upon recorded performance traits that are economically important to efficient beef production. These traits include early and regular calving and heavy weaning weights. More than 1.6 million eligible dams and more than 5.4 million weaning records were examined to determine Pathfinder status. All registered Angus cows that meet the strict Pathfinder standards are listed, along with their owners, in the report that is published annually by the association.

Congratulations to Eric Fell on his two Pathfinder cows: one cow sired by a Hoover bull, and one cow purchased in our 2005 production sale!

Congratulations to Shiloh Gennaro (Union County) on her Pathfinder cow purchased at Hoover Angus Farm!

Congratulations to Hawleys Gen X Angus of Arcadia, NE on their Pathfinder cow sired by H&K Black Fix S104!

Landi represented Iowa Angus breeders as a voting delegate at the 2007 American
Angus Association Annual Meeting in Louisville, KY in November. Landi (far left) is
pictured with the Iowa gals, along with Mr. and Mrs. Claus at the Auxiliary Breakfast.
The breakfast honored Iowa's own Mary Greiman (third from left) as the 2007
American Auxiliary President. The Christmas theme was to honor the 2008 National
Junior Angus Show to be hosted by Iowa with a theme "Christmas in July".

The Hoover Angus Farm Family was awarded the Heritage Farm Award at the 2007 Iowa State Fair. The Heritage Farm Award is given to families which have owned the same tract of land for 150 or more consecutive years. In 1856, the ancestors of Barbara (Hoover) Kiburz homesteaded the 160 acre farm where David, Joy, and Landi McFarland currently reside. The Hoover family was the first in Union county to receive this award in the two years the award has been given.

Pictured below from left are: Craig Lang, Iowa Farm Bureau President, Landi McFarland, Joy McFarland, Barbara Kiburz, John Kiburz, Judy Harrison, and Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey.

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Delegate

Thank you to those who voted for Landi to be a delegate at the 124th
Annual Meeting of the American Angus Association. She will enjoy the
opportunity to represent Iowa in Louisville this November. To see a
complete list of the delegates, visit http://www.angus.org/delegates.html

Reserve Champion

Candace Weeda with Reserve Champion Pen of Three steers at the 2007 Union County Fair with steers bred, born and raised at Hoover Angus Farm. Congratulations Candace!

Let's Go For A Walk

In August, we walked Gridiron 3/4 of a mile home after spring breeding season
was finished. Gridiron will be heading back to the Genex stud in early September.

Welcome Home!

SydGen CC&7 arrives home after being collected at ORIgen in Montana.

2007 Pathfinder Report

Hoover Angus Farm owns 53 females and 4 bulls listed in the 2007 Pathfinder Report. Pathfinder cows are specially selected by the American Angus Association for their exceptional productivity and fertility. A Pathfinder Sire requires five Pathfinder daughters in one year.
Hoover Angus Farm Pathfinder Sires:

SA Neutron 377 with 33 Pathfinder daughters
H&K Dark Star M163 with 8 Pathfinder daughters
KLB Hi Flyer 76RE with 5 Pathfinder daughters
SA Neutron 2164 with 5 Pathfinder daughters

To read more about the Pathfinder program, visit http://www.angus.org/pubs/pathfind.htm

Semen Available

SydGen CC&7 semen is now available through
ORIgen or your local ABS representative!
http://www.origenbeef.org/

Cake Auction

Joy made her Picture-Perfect Chocolate Cake for the Valentines Day evening Iowa Angus Association Banquet to be auctioned to raise funds for the 2008 National Junior Angus Show. The cake sold for $300, then 3 individual slices were auctioned for another $300, raising a total of $600 for the show!