ANSWERS FRANK WARD CA
2024 NAILE STEER JUDGE FRANK WARD ANSWERS TEN OF OUR QUESTIONS!
HOW WILL YOU APPROACH/ PREPARE FOR JUDGING THE STEERS AT THE NAILE? I’m not sure there is a right way to prepare. I live it,
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breathe it, and study cattle every day. People always say you’ll make one, maybe two people happy when you judge a show. I don’t overcomplicate it, I just pick the ones I like, and I appreciate people bringing me great cattle to evaluate. WHO HAS HAD THE BIGGEST INFLUENCE ON YOU AS A PERSON? At the age of 15, I had the privilege of meeting a man named Jackie Davis, who has since been inducted into the Hereford Hall of Fame. I’d recently moved to Napa,
California, from Colorado and knew next to nothing about showing cattle. I just knew I loved it and wanted to learn. He hauled
me to shows, taught me to feed and clip, and after high school, got me a job as the show cattle herdsman for Creekside Polled Herefords,
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