extremely well in Arkansas, they were not making much progress in selling out of the state. 2005 brought a repeat champion steer at the Arkansas State Fair which Jeremy had purchased from Nebraska. In 2006 they bought another set of Maine influence cows. One of these, an Irish Whiskey x Dateline Angus, was given to Chancee, and this cow would eventually raise her first show heifer. Chloee was the last addition to the Clark sisters in 2007, and this was the year that Jeremy clipped his first national champion by himself, she was a limousine female that won Denver. In 2009, five-year-old Chancee took her first show heifer to Maine Jr. Nationals in Murfreesboro, TN. She was the heifer that came from the Irish Whiskey cow we gave her. She won “Reserve bred and owned female”. This gave them the confidence to try to move to the bigger stage. Little did they know, this would be the start of what they are today and would solidify their love for the Maine-Anjou Breed. In 2012 they sold their first national champion owned female; a Purebred Simmental (aka Stella) shown by Kylie Sigmon.They continued to keep the streak alive in Arkansas. With online popularity increasing, in 2014 they decided to switch from a bid- off style to their first online sale. This move naturally allowed them to increase the amount of people they reached in the industry; in a way they could have never dreamed. The first sale averaged around $12,500 on 17 head of cattle. With things moving at a rapid pace on the show cattle side, they began scaling back on the hay business side to focus more on the cattle. This decision sparked the biggest move of their lives to this point. In August of 2015 after Chancee and Carlee showed 3 National Champions in two different breeds at Jr. Nationals, they moved their family to Oklahoma. In 2016 they
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