Ep. 19: American Simmental Association - Wade Shafer, PhD

05/06/20 • 53 min

Wade Shafer grew up in the Detroit Lakes area of Minnesota, on a small beef operation that his father ran. After high school, Wade attended North Dakota State University for his undergraduate studies. Wade said he enjoyed math and science in school but never thought that it applied to the cattle that they were raising on their beef operation. However, during his time at NDSU, he began to think there was, and with that, he headed to Colorado State for graduate school. After school, Wade did go back home to run the beef herd for some time. Wade eventually let the beef herd go and ended up getting, what he thought would be a short term job with the Simmental Association. However, Wade has now been there ever since and is now the Executive Director of the Simmental Association.

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Dr. Bob Sager is a 6th generation cattle producer, who grew up on a ranch near Manhattan, Montana. Growing up on the ranch Bob developed his passion for beef cattle, especially nutrition, and during high school knew that his home ranch was not big enough for him to come home to the ranch. Bob studied animal science at Montana State and received his DVM from Colorado State in 1974 and not too long ago got his Ph.D. from Montana State as well. Bob also spent time in Russia as a Senior Veterinarian supervising over 60 Russian vets take care of over 437,000 beef cattle. Upon completing that Bob now ranches in the White Sulpher Springs area and still practices Vet Medicine. Bob also enjoys fly fishing and throwing the hammer, which he has competed in 30 US National Championships.

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Dr. Trey Patterson grew up in the panhandle of Texas until his high school days when his family moved to Colorado for his father's work as a beef nutritionist. Seeing his dad working with ranchers is where Trey began to develop his passion for beef cattle. For College Trey attended Colorado State and the University of Nebraska. From there Trey moved up to South Dakota State University, where he worked for five years where he worked with many ranchers from across the state through his work with the extension. After that Trey took his current position as President and CEO of the Padlock Ranch Located in Ranchester, Wyoming. Padlock Ranch was formed in 1943 by Homer and Mildred Scott. Padlock began a crossbreeding program the 1950s and have maintained a crossbreeding program since then, with making changes within there program over the years.

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