Sandhills Cattle Association Tour 2014

[Soapweed]

Attendees

Of the 24th annual Sandhills Cattle Association ranch tour

Ethanol plant at Atkinson

My dad and his bride

Lots of complicated gadgets

Long and tall

But not a Texan :wink:

Peach was a participant

The workers ride these around the plant.

Complex workings of the factory

Intricacies

To keep track

The lab

Necessary components

More of the factory

With all this smoke something must be happening.

Some of the product

Next stop

Attentive crowd

Explanation of a ranch/farm/feedlot combination

Fancy old tractors

Very nicely restored

One ranch raised seedstock Charolais and also had a dairy.

It was fun to meet this fine hardworking family.

A very efficient milking operation, with ten cows on each side

Interesting to see how this is done

Bucket calves

In nice shelters

My dad and Ronna Morse, manager of the SCA, are the only two people who have attended all 24 annual ranch tours.

 

[AC Diesel]

I hope you enjoyed your tour Soap! You were in my stomping grounds. I didn't go, nothing new for me to see. We've been working at the Sandy Ridge Ranch off and on for month's building new three phase. Some people have entirely to much money!

 

[BRG]

Nice photos.

I took in the Range Beef Cow Symposium in Rapid City in December. We had a booth set up and across the way was either the Sand Hills Grazing Association's or Sand Hills Cattle Association booth. I can't remember which??? Anyway, I knew one of the men with the booth, Ron Bolze, but their were a couple others I met there, had breakfast every morning with them in the hotel. Real nice guys, but for the life of me can't remember their names.

 

[Soapweed]

I feel bad for not getting any photos of the Eagle Creek Feedlot or the Sandy Ridge Ranch. Both were beautiful new facilities, and as nice as can be built. My problem is that while visiting and eating, I forget to tend to the business of trying to document the trip with photographs. For this, I do apologize. AC Diesel, there is a lot of fine looking fence on both properties, and if you are one of the builders, you are to complimented for doing a magnificent job.

 

[4Diamond]

Dairy barn looks very similar to what my uncle milks in. What was the cost of the DDG's at the plant?