Persevering with the deal with increasing Montana’s agricultural contribution to worldwide commerce and highlighting the variety in Montana’s agricultural ecosystem, Christy Clark, director of the Montana Division of Agriculture (MDA) visited Ehlke Herefords in Townsend, Mont., to welcome a delegation of cattle producers from Chile as a part of a MDA cattle genetics commerce mission.
Mark and Della Ehlke are first technology Hereford seedstock producers. Earlier than getting their registered Hereford operation began, that they had a handful of business cattle in Helena, Mont. After serving as a industrial choose on the MHA Winter Honest sale in Bozeman, Mark purchased the households’ first registered Hereford heifer, marking the official inception of Ehlke Herefords.
Ehlke Herefords has been capable of make intensive advances to their genetics and have elevated the scale of their operation a number of occasions by the retention of high quality replacements, infusion of outdoor genetics, a centered use of AI and ET, and the addition of owned and leased grass.
“Livestock producers from around the globe come to Montana looking for our high-quality beef genetics. This particular group of Chilean cattle producers have been touring the state for 5 days to date, getting an in depth look into Montana Hereford and Angus ranches producing a few of the high genetics out there. Ehlke Herefords is a superb instance of the eagerness and dedication for genetic development this state has to supply,” Director Clark mentioned.
