Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame: Inductees and Profiles
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Profiled inductees
- b. c. 1935Bill FoxleyFrom a three-acre family pen near the Omaha Stockyards to 300,000 head on feed, Foxley turned hedging, steam-flaked…Nebraska
- died 2022Bob FooteFrom a stock-rack truck to nine-figure cattle deals, a Kansas dealmaker turned trading instincts into a family feeding…Kansas
- 1926-2002Bob GottschA Depression-era farm boy and military policeman turned a $3,000 service station into one of the Plains' major feeding…Nebraska
- Carl StevensonA UC Davis graduate and Army veteran who helped develop a grain cooking and rolling method and built Red Rock Feeding…Arizona
- livingDan MayA Stratton, Colorado, farm kid who became a commodity trader, May helped his brothers scale a small feedlot into a…Colorado
- livingDave WoodA Cal Poly graduate who started as a Harris Ranch pen rider and became the leader of its feeding and beef businesses.California
- Dr. Jack ReeveA Kansas State veterinary graduate who turned a century-old family homestead into a feedlot and passed it to a sixth…Kansas
- livingDr. Kee JimA rancher's son from British Columbia who became a veterinarian, then built one of North America's big cattle feeding…Canada
- 1906-1985Earl BrookoverA civil engineer turned irrigation farmer who built a feedyard where the grain was, and warned early about the water.Kansas
- d. 2020Ed BarrettA Kansas-rooted feeder who built yards in Emporia and Hereford and handed a 135,000-head family business to his sons…Texas
- 1909-2008J.R. "Jack" SimplotBest known for frozen french fries, Simplot also fed cattle on potato waste at a 110,000-head Grand View yard and…Idaho
- livingJames HerringA Harvard MBA from Amarillo turned a feedyard company around in 1989 and championed tighter links between ranch,…Texas
- livingJeff BiegertA Texas Christian business graduate returned to Nebraska in 1976 and built a liquid feed company with ten plants.Nebraska
- livingJerry AdamsAfter a 1971 land purchase and a punishing 1973 price freeze, Adams stayed on and helped build one of the most…Nebraska
- livingJoe MorganAn Iowa State graduate who moved to Garden City in 1985 and built a customer-cattle feedyard on one rule: keep the…Kansas
- livingJoel JarnaginA Jetmore, Kansas, farm kid rose from feed mill manager to CEO of the fourth-largest cattle feeding company in the…Kansas
- livingJohnny TrotterA Hereford, Texas, feeder who reopened a shuttered yard in 1983 and grew it into one of the largest individually owned…Texas
- 1928-2001Kenneth MonfortBy placing a packing plant near the feedlots and cutting beef before it shipped, Ken Monfort changed how fed cattle…Colorado
- livingKent BamfordFrom 4-H projects to the CattleFax presidency, Bamford spent 47 years feeding cattle in northeast Colorado and as much…Colorado
- 1918-1996Ladd HitchThe third generation of an Oklahoma Panhandle ranching family, he helped turn a cattle empire into a feedlot business.Oklahoma
- livingLee BorckA loan officer turned feedlot owner who organized small Kansas feeders into a cooperative and built a data-driven link…Kansas
- d. 1997Leo TimmermanA banker's loan for six head of cattle launched a Nebraska feeding family that now spans several operations in the…Nebraska
- Loren DollA Kansas feeder who started in 1961 with his father and three Irsik brothers and led the company into seven feedyards.Kansas
- 1902-1984Louis DinklageA farmhand with an eighth-grade education turned a corn-picking champion's work ethic into a feeding operation without…Nebraska
- 1946-2023Norman TimmermanHe hauled cattle to the stockyards before school, then spent more than 50 years building the family business with his…Nebraska
- 1929-2024Paul EnglerFrom a first herd bought as a boy to one of the largest private fed-cattle companies in the country, Engler helped…Texas
- Paul J. BrownA farmer who began running cattle in 1961 as a hedge and turned a small custom yard into one of the largest feeding…Kansas
- 1931-2020Robert JosserandA Kansas-born animal scientist who moved to Hereford in 1971 and rose to lead the Texas and national cattle…Texas
- died 1997Robert Rebholtz Sr.A banker's son who managed a 300,000-acre Nevada ranch, then bought an Idaho feedyard and built it into an integrated…Idaho
- Roy DinsdaleAfter graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1948, he went home to Palmer and spent six decades growing the…Nebraska
- livingSteve GabelA former CattleFax analyst, Gabel turned a tired Weld County yard into a National BQA Feedyard of the Year with an eye…Colorado
- livingThomas (Tom) John BasabeA pen rider who started in high school and became the president of one of the largest cattle feeding and ranching…Idaho
- livingTom JonesA Garden City farm kid who bought a 28,000-head yard in 1999 and spent the next two decades building a research-minded…Kansas
- 1910-2007W.D. FarrFarr put fence-line bunks, daily feed reports and sloped pens into practice in northern Colorado, and spent four…Colorado