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Tour Schedule
Monday, June 29, 2015
7:45 a.m.
Tour Registration
8:30 a.m.
Depart Office
8:45-9:45 a.m.
Purina Feed Mill-OKC
11:00-12:00 p.m. Xcel Feedyard-Watonga
(Boxed lunch while traveling to Woodward Sponsored by Xcel)
1:45-2:45 p.m.
J&L Oil Field Services-Shattuck
4:15-5:15 p.m.
Cargill Salt-Freedom
6:00-7:30 p.m.
Southern Plains Range Research Station-Woodward
(Dinner Served Sponsored by Wootton New Holland)
7:45 p.m.
Arrive at Hotel
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
8:45 a.m.
Depart Hotel
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Covington Cycle City-Woodward
10:45-12:15 p.m. Jett Ranch-Laverne
Lunch Served Sponsored by Farm Credit of Western Oklahoma)
1:15-2:15 p.m.
Davison and Sons-Arnett
3:00-4:00 p.m.
LT Dock / Groundload Conversion-Seiling
5:45 p.m.
Arrive at Office
Hotel Information
NORTHWEST INN, WOODWARD, OK
Hwy 270 & 1st Street, Woodward, OK 73802
Reservations – (580) 256-7600 – Ask for OCA Summer Tour Room Block
Room Rate – $79.00 + Tax – Monday Night, June 29th
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Please reserve your rooms
ASAP limited space available
CUTOFF DATE IS JUNE 22, 2015
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OCA Tour Registration
Mail to Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association P.O. Box 82395 • Oklahoma City, OK 73148
FAX to 405-235-3608 • Questions? Call the OCA Office at 405-235-4391
Name
Address
Phone
I PLAN ON ATTENDING THE FOLLOWING:
All of the tour
Monday Only
Tuesday Only
Registration including roundtrip bus from OCA building & Meals
Registration including meals without transportation
Each meal without prior registration
$175.00
$50.00
$20.00
TOTAL $ ___________________
25th Annual
OCA Summer Ranch Tour
Through Northwest Oklahoma
I
n 1991 the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association partnered with the Oklahoma Hereford Association to host an educational and fun tour across part of Oklahoma. This year we will be making
a few changes and visiting a few unconventional stops as the 25th Annual OCA Summer Tour
takes us through Red Carpet Country. Northwest Oklahoma has been Cowboy Country since the
days of the Chisholm Trail and also saw the last great buffalo herd in the 1870s. A land that was
once owned by the Cherokee Nation and was part of the largest and last great land run in American history. The Cherokee Strip Land Run on September 16, 1893 had more than 115,000 people
race to claim 42,000 parcels of land that covered approximately six and a half million acres.
Our tour begins the first day with a different educational twist as we look at how feed and
forage makes its way to the cattle on our ranches. We will look at everything from soil farming to
salt harvesting to milling feed. On the second day of our tour we return to our roots and visit a few
ranching operations on our way home after a fun stop that morning. This year promises to be an
interesting tour that has been 25 years in the making and you won’t want to miss out!
Monday, June 29, 2015
ity feed for the horses and mules that
were helping build this country. So he
started producing a feed he called Purina which stood for purity. Purina Feed
Mill is located in the heart of Oklahoma
City. The plant was built in 1924. Today
they manufacture over 200 different
products that account for about 75,000
to 80,000 tons of feed annually. The
Oklahoma City plant is designated as a
horse plant and is ionophore free.
Depart at 9:45 AM
Registration 7:45 AM to 8:30 AM
Depart Office at 8:30 AM
Stop 1 – Purina Feed Mill
(1108 NW 3rd Street, Oklahoma City, OK,
Located at the corner of NW 4th and N
Western Avenue, Park on the North side of
the feed mill.)
Arrive at 8:45 AM
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STOP 2 – Xcel Feedyard
(From Watonga, OK, travel East for 4 miles,
turn North for 1 mile, turn West for ¼ mile
to the headquarters.)
Arrive at 11:00 AM
In 2014, Bill Roser, Jarold Callahan
and Express Ranches entered into an
equal partnership to purchase a feedyard near Watonga, Okla. to form Excel
Feedyard. Bill is the managing partner
with over 17 years of experience. They
have been working to diversify within
the yard to not only finish cattle, but to
develop bulls, warehouse cows over
the winter and breed some heifers.
The feedyard has a capacity of around
27,000 head and additional cattle can
be ran on both owned and lease wheat
pasture around the yard.
Depart at 12:00 PM,
Box Lunched Served While Traveling,
Sponsored by Xcel Feedyard
Stop 3 – J&L Oilfield Services
(From the stop sign on Highway 15 South
of Shattuck, OK, Travel ¾ of a mile south
to the red brick J&L building located on the
East side of the road.)
Arrive at 1:45 PM
Jason Swanson and Lance Shultz
started J&L Oilfield Services in 2002.
Their partnership began before that
with the purchase and eventual sale
of a porta potty business. Today they
are the largest soil farming company
in Oklahoma. They service 51% of the
wells in Oklahoma and from 2-3% of
the wells in the United States. In 2014
they spread drilling mud on over 39,300
acres. J&L also hauls lease water, saltwater and has 5 disposal wells. This
entire operation is headquartered in
the small town of Shattuck, Okla. J&L
utilizes some of the newest technology
such as the ECO1 which is an integrated
waste management solution for land
application.
Depart at 2:45 PM
Stop 4 – Cargill Salt
(From the intersection of Highway 50 and
Highway 64 North of Freedom, OK, Travel
West on Highway 64 for approximately 9
miles, Turn South on County Road 110.
Travel South for 3 miles following the black
top road to the headquarters.)
Arrive at 4:15 PM
Cargill began shipping grain down
the Mississippi River in the late 1940s,
but finding cargo for the return trip
proved to be a challenge. In 1955 Ray
King, vice president of Cargill’s barge
business, made the decision to buy a
barge load of Louisiana rock salt as
backhaul cargo. From there, Cargill’s
salt business was launched. By 1960
Cargill management was convinced
that rock salt was a good fit for the company and began looking for opportunities to become a salt producer. Cargill
acquired a number of salt production
facilities including one in Oklahoma.
Today, Cargill Salt produces, packages and ships salt for the following five
major market segment applications:
agricultural, food, water conditioning, industrial and packaged ice control. Cargill makes over 1,000 different
salt products/package sizes including
Champion’s Choice® branded agricultural salts.
Depart at 5:15 PM
Stop 5 – Southern Plains
Range Research Station
(2000 18th Street, Woodward, OK, From
Highway 270 turn West on Downs Avenue,
Turn North on 13th Street, Turn West on
Cedar Avenue, Turn South on 18th Street.)
Arrive at 6:00 PM, Dinner Served
Sponsored by Wootton New Holland
The Southern Plains Range Research Station sits within the city limits
of Woodward, Okla. on 920 acres of federal, state and county land. Their mission is to increase the efficiency of forage-livestock production and rangeland
resource utilization. Overall objectives
are lowered production costs, increased
efficiency of cropland and grassland utilization, increased agricultural production, and enhancing the economic vitality of rural communities in the Southern
Plains.
Depart at 7:30 PM
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Depart Hotel at 8:45 AM
Stop 6 – Covington’s Cycle City
(2424 Oklahoma Avenue, Woodward, OK,
Located at the corner of Oklahoma Avenue
and 25th Street, Parking is very limited.)
Arrive at 9:00 AM
Jerry & Kathleen Covington established Covington’s Cycle City in 1995
out of necessity because what started
as a hobby turned into a full time job.
Moving back to Oklahoma in 1992 from
California to semi retire after selling
their hot rod shop they started buying
& selling Harleys. Jerry built a custom
bike for himself and a friend bought
it so he built another, as they say the
rest is history. From the garage to 4
buildings taking up almost a complete
city block Covington’s Cycle City has
grown. They have been on numerous
TV shows and have over 150 magazine
features with at least 50 being magazine
covers. Their bikes have been shipped
all over the world to countries such as
Russia and South Africa. Parts manufactured on site are shipped daily all over
the world. They take pride in saying
every part they manufacture is made In
the USA!
Depart at 10:00 AM
Stop 7 – Jett Ranch
Arrive at 10:45 AM, Lunch Served,
Sponsored by Farm Credit of
Western Oklahoma
(From Slapout travel 3 miles West, Then
South ¾ mile.)
Jett Ranches was started in 1907 by
Alan Jett’s great grandfather and has
ran continuously by the family ever
since. In the beginning they ran stocker
steers on grass and in 1917 started feeding cattle on the ranch to be shipped to
Kansas City upon finishing. Alan took
over the operation in the late 1980’s
and began switching the ranch from a
stocker operation to a commercial cowcalf operation. Today the cowherd is
made up of predominantly Angus and
Angus Cross cows. Many of the heifers
are kept as replacements and the ranch
retains ownership of the steers through
the feedlot. For over 13 years, cattle have
been fed at Irsik and Doll Feedyard and
are marketed through U.S. Premium
Beef. Jett Ranches has incorporated conservation efforts for the Lesser Prairie
Chicken and Alan also serves on the
advisory committee for the Range Wide
Plan representing producers and agricultural interest.
Depart at 12:15 PM
STOP 8 – Davison & Sons Cattle Co.
(From the Arnett grain elevator, go seven
miles east, turn south on the blacktop NS
1890 go five miles to a fork in the road. Continue due south on right hand fork for 2.5
miles south, turn back to the West ½ mile.)
Arrive at 1:15 PM
Davison and Sons Cattle Company
has been operating in the sand shinery
and red shale country of Ellis County
in Northwest Oklahoma since the early 1900’s when George Davison came
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obtaining a homestead in what is now
Harper County. After buying and trading cattle in Oklahoma, Southeast Colorado and Southwest Kansas, George
settled on Hackberry Creek in southern
Ellis County close to the old town sites
of Reason and Peek in 1908. George
and his wife had four sons, thus naming
their ranch, “Davison and Sons”. The
ranch currently operates within a partnership of Charles and Sherry Nichols
and Weston and Ruth Ann Givens along
with the help of their children, making the fifth generation of this familyowned cattle company. Davison and
Sons is currently running 1400 cows on
approximately 50,000 acres of mostly
leased land. The TLX brand on feeder
cattle is well recognized as an indication
of top performing cattle.
Depart at 2:15 PM
STOP 9 – LT Dock/Groundload Conversion
(From the intersection of Highway 60 and
Highway 183 travel 3 miles South to E0630
Rd, Travel East ¾ mile to N2280 Rd, Travel
South 1 ½ miles to cattle guard, Continue
traveling 1 ½ miles South on gravel road
to headquarters. Watch for orange flags on
ranch road.)
Arrive at 3:00 PM
LeRoy Stotts, a rancher in Northwest Oklahoma who runs a cow-calf
operation and grazes stockers, became
fed up with the extra work and time that
went along with using his pot trailer to
move cattle between pastures. So he
got to work and designed the LT Dock/
Groundload Conversion. Since it was
patented, Stotts has sold his LT Dock/
Groundload Conversions all across the
Unites States, Canada, and has even
had inquiries from Australia. The conversion easily converts between dock
and groundload in less than 60 seconds
and only adds an additional three feet
of length to a trailer. Stotts makes both
aluminum and steel conversions, but
99.9% of the ones he sells are steel simply because of a cheaper price tag.
Depart at 4:00 PM, For OCA headquarters
and our own ranches!