The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday December 7, 1978 THREE
Charlie Daly
1978 Morrow County
Cattlem an of the Year
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Charlie Daly innoculates one of his Simmental-cross cattle on his ranch up Little Butter Creek.
Daly is Morrow County's 1978 Cattleman of the Year and will be honored at the Farm-City
Banquet this Saturday evening.
Story and Photos By Rick Steelhammer
Butter Creek beef a superior
melting pot of breeds
When Charlie Daly brought
home his first load of Sim
mental cattle 10 years ago, at
least a few of his neighbors
along Little Butter Creek
laughed. And Daly himself
admits that the first time he
heard the Limousin breed
mentioned, he thought a car
was being discussed.
But the novelty of the two
European strains of cattle has
worn off in the ensuing years,
as Daly's foresight at import
ing the beef breeds to Butter
Creek becomes more and
more apparent.
His success at cross breed
ing the Swiss Simmentals and
German Limousins with the
more familiar Hereford and
Angus strains led to his being
selected Morrow County's 1978
Cattleman of the Year. Daly
will be recognized for his
achievement during the Mor
row County Livestock Grow
ers' Farm-City Banquet on
Saturday.
A lifelong resident of the
Little Butter Creek area, Daly
and his wife, Yvonne, recently
moved into a new home a
short distance upstream from
their original homeplace. The
new dryland spread frees
Daly from irrigating and
putting up hay chores that
would take up an excessive
amount of his time, since most
of his six children have now
left the fold.
This year, Daly will winter
roughly 250 head. "I've main
ly got a cow and calf
operation, but I'm going to
raise yearlings this year for
the first time, and keep most
of my replacement heifers,"
he said.
Last weekend, sons Tim and
David, both BMCC students,
and a daughter, Patti, a
secretary for the Pendleton
Roundup Assn., helped Daly
round up his cattle from the
grassy hills behind his home
and drive them to corrals for
vaccinations and treatment
against insects. Watching the
multi-colored, beefy bovines
amble past, it became evident
just what a melting pot of
mixed ancestry Daly has
engineered.
Unlike many other cattle
man, Daly is by no stretch of
the imagination a purist when
it comes to cattle breeding. In
fact, he doesn't personally
care for purebred cattle much
at all. For instance, the
biggest percentage of Sim
mental blood he cares to
maintain is a three-fourths
pure Simmental bull on a
three-eighths purebred heifer.
But that percentage of Sim
mental bloodline, and to a
lesser degree, Limousin blood,
makes a big difference, Daly
maintains.
One of the biggest payoffs
from his cross breeding pro
gram is an increase, in
weaning weight for calves
many of them reaching the
weaning stage at a whopping
600 pounds. Adding the relativ
ely new Simmental and Lim
ousin blood to Herefords and
Angus "makes better mothers
and creates less calving
problems," Daly said. "You
can see a calf up sucking 20
minutes after it's dropped."
Another advantage is a
faster growing rate for Daly's
hybrid cattle. The cross
breeds have demonstrated
outstanding ratios of convert
ing feed into beef.
But the bottom line of Daly's
beef program may well be the
consistently above-average
grade of carcasses that his
steers eventually produce a
factor that buyers cannot
overlook.
C & B Livestock, the
Hermiston-based feedlot oper
ation, has been Daly's exclu
sive buyer for more than a
decade. It was Ron Baker of C
& B who convinced Daly of the
merits of introducing Sim
mental blood, after the Herm-
iston firm made extensive
carcass studies.
"A lot of guys have to find a
new buyer every year," said
Daly, "but I could sell mine
right now with a phone call.
And the buyers will pay a big
dollar difference in carcass
quality."
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