Farm Plan

• Core Objective: Relocating an established family cow-calf operation from Texas to a 200+ acre Northern Arkansas property via NWALT/FSA. Transitioning the herd from 16 head up to 60–80 pairs by retaining high-quality replacement heifers.
• Stewardship & Soil Health: Utilizing 7 years of rotational grazing experience to optimize pastures. Rebuilding thin Ozark ridge soils by broadcasting K32 endophyte-free fescue and Bermudagrass along with self-built bale unrollers.
• Infrastructure & Sweat Equity: Mechanical self-reliance. Leveraging skills like welding, utility, and construction skills to build permanent working facilities, bury water lines below the frost line, and maintain all property structures.
• Legacy Continuity: Family ties to Arkansas to Missouri. Children actively participate daily, ensuring a respectful, multi generational continuation of the landowner's agricultural legacy. Open to flexible transition or lease-to-own agreements.

Detailed Experience

• Herd Health & Management: Handle daily cow-calf husbandry, low-stress sorting, and corral work. Experienced in hands-on doctoring, administering vaccines/medications, treating calves, and ear-tagging.
• Land Reclamation & Forage: Experienced in fixing high-erosion, thin, and rocky ground. Successfully turned poor, rough Texas acreage into productive pastures of Bermuda, Giant Bermuda, and native grasses using management-intensive rotational grazing.
• Fencing & Utilities: Install permanent perimeter and interior cross-fencing across challenging terrain using both wood and welded pipe. Trench and bury frost-free water lines for intensive pasture systems.
• Welding & Building: Structural welder. Build and weld metal pipe corrals, H-brace corner posts, gates, and handling facilities. Construct barns and shops from the ground up using wood and steel beams, including running electrical and water lines.
• Heavy Mechanical Overhauls: Completely self-reliant on vehicle and equipment repairs. Experienced in rebuilding engines, rebuilding transmissions, and splitting tractors for clutch replacements.
• Equipment Fabrication: Design and build custom farm implements from scratch, including building our own functional bale unrollers to feed and seed.
• Machinery Operation: Run tractors with loaders, backhoes, post pounders, post-hole diggers, and ATVs for daily farm maintenance, clearing, and heavy infrastructure builds.

Education & Training

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