Dl2—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 11,1981
Angus Assn, names
new vice president
ST. JOSEPH, Mo - Dick
Spader takes over this month as
the ninth executive vice president
of the American Angus
Association, the world’s largest
breed registry headquartered in
St. Joseph, Missouri. Spader
replaces C.K. Alien as chief ad
ministrative officer of the 34,000-
member national Angus
association.
“I intend to improve and expand
the Association’s existing
programs,” Spader says, “and am
totally optimistic about the future
of Angus cattle. As the world’s
most efficient beef breed, Angus
will be in stronger demand in
coming years than ever before. ’ ’
Spader has headed the
POWER
Association’s performance
department for the past five years.
He joined the national Angus staff
in 1969, first as assistant director of
public relations, then assistant
director of performance
programs.
During his management of the
performance department, Spader
helped initiate the use of estimated
breeding values, the Pathfinder
Cow Report, the National Sire
Evaluation program and the tirst
AHIR Field Data Sire Elevation
Report.
He was performance director
when the Association earned the
Beef Improvement Federation’s
Breed Association of the Year
titles in 1976 and 1977.
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Conservation
width ships can be marked off
across the field unless a grade
change would cause the strips to
turn downhill too hard, creating
perhaps a worse erosion hazard
than before. In these cases, the
strip would be brought back to
contour
Once the strips are staked with
alternating rows of colored flags,
A native of Howard, South
Dakota, Spader was raised on a
commercial cattle and farm
operation. He served three years in
the Marine Corp. after high school,
then received his bachelor’s
degree in 1969 from South Dakota
State University with an animal
science major and journalism
minor.
Spader, his wife Sheri and two
sons, Jared and Brett, make their
home at Rosendale, Missouri.
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it’s time to hop aboard the tractor
and start turning the lines in. Then
every other strip can be plowed,
with the end result eventually
being hay fields or small grams
Knowing you’re doing something to help save the soil will
put a smile on your face as you watch those conserving curves
turn a drab field into one of beneficial beauty.
separating strips of row crops, like
com or tomatoes.
Voila the soil is kept from
washing away and run off is slowed
to prevent erosion and allow the
ram to soak into the land. Your
recipe for conservation strip
cropping is complete.