Welcome to Turkey Run Angus Farm!
News ~
2014 Turn Out to Grass Sale
Saturday, April 5th, 7 p.m., Union Stockyards, Hillsboro, OH
Our 2014 Turn Out to Grass Sale Catalog is available to view online. (For best results, right-click on the link and click "save target as." This will download the catalog and you will be able to open and view it with Adobe Reader.)
West Virginia Young Sire Evaluation Program Sale
Saturday, March 29
Turkey Run Angus has six bulls qualifying for the sale at the 2014 West Virginia Young Sire Evaluation Program at Point Pleasant, West Virginia on March 29 at 1 p.m.
At the 2013 West Virginia Young Sire Evaluation Program sale, Turkey Run Angus sold seven bulls for an average of $3981, including the $10,000 top-selling bull. Three Turkey Run consignments ranked in the Top 10 test ratio bulls at the 2012 West Virginia Young Sire Evaluation Program. At the 2012 sale, the five Turkey Run bulls averaged $4,620, with our Lot #380, a Connealy Sullivan son as the second high selling bull at $5,300. Our Lot #379, an HARB Pendleton son, and Lot# 381, a Sullivan son were the third high-selling bulls at $5,100 each.
Congrats!
Congratulations to our daughter, Emily, who has been selected as the 2013 Adams County Beef Queen!
Seedstock Producer of the Year
We were honored by the Ohio Cattlemen's Association with the 2012 Seedstock Producer of the Year Award. It is nice to be recognized among peers in our industry for what we have been doing for years -- producing quality Angus seedstock. Thank you!
About us ~
The
Bauman family has been in the Registered Angus cattle business for over
50 years. Turkey Run is a diversified cattle and crop farm located in
southern Ohio in Adams County. The original farmstead at 9523 State Route 348, Blue Creek, OH was purchased by Frank Bauman in 1956,
and he has been raising Registered Angus cattle and actively involved in the purebred cattle seedstock business ever since that time. Another farm, four miles east of the original farmstead, at
13270 State Route 348, Otway, was purchased in 1991. Since that time, Frank has been farming in partnership with his son, Kent who serves as the farm manager.
Currently there are about 140 head of Registered Angus brood cows with calves, and 40 replacement heifers on the farm. There are also several steers being fed out for freezer beef. In
addition to corn and hay, the Baumans raise 34 acres of burley tobacco,
and also raise tobacco seedling float plants for sale.
Kent
Bauman has been involved with the cattle business since he was a young
boy, and has been the farm manager at Turkey Run Farms since graduating
from The Ohio State University in 1993 with a BS in Agriculture,
majoring in Animal Science and Ag Economics. Kent
is responsible for all cattle and crop production and management,
including herd health management, breeding selection, artificial
insemination, and marketing decisions.
Kent’s
wife, Joy, also graduated from The Ohio State University with a BS in
Agriculture in 1992. She majored in Agriculture Communications and
Animal Science. In addition to helping with
many aspects of cattle and crop production, Joy works at The Ohio State University South Centers, near Piketon, Ohio.
While at Ohio State,
both Kent and Joy were active in the Saddle and Sirloin Club. Kent was a
member of the OSU Livestock Judging Team, and Joy worked in the Animal
Science Department Meat Laboratory. As youth, both Kent and Joy were extremely involved in local and state 4-H and FFA activities. Kent's county 4-H Livestock Judging Team won the State Contest twice, and he was a member of the Ohio 4-H Livestock Judging Team. He also was the State FFA Beef Proficiency Winner. Joy earned her State FFA Degree served as a State FFA Officer. Kent earned both the State and National FFA Degrees.
Together,
Kent and Joy have been recognized with the State Young Farmers
Association Beef Production Award, the Phillip Morris USA Excellence in
Tobacco Production Award, and the 2011 Ohio Cattlemen's Association Seedstock Producer of the Year. Most notably, they were honored as the 2003 Ohio Farm Bureau Outstanding Young Farm Couple, and represented Ohio
in the American Farm Bureau Young Farmer and Rancher Achievement
competition, where they were recognized as one of the top five young
farm couples in the nation.
Kent
and Joy believe it is important to be involved in their community and
agricultural organizations in order to be a part of the process and
policies that govern our industry. They hope to instill these values in
their three daughters, Emily, Molly, and Whitney, as they grow up on
the family farm. All three Bauman girls are members of the Buckeye Barn
Busters 4-H Club, which Joy and Kent advise. They all take beef
breeding and feeder calf projects, plus an assortment of other projects
in 4-H. Emily has been selected to serve as an Ohio 4-H Ambassador for
2012-2014. Besides taking care of their 4-H project animals, the girls
actively work on the farm, doing daily cattle feeding chores, keeping
the barns bedded, doing heat detection, and assisting with working
cattle for breeding and health management purposes. While the girls
wold prefer to work with the cattle, they also help take care of the
tobacco plants in the greenhouses and help setting tobacco as well.
Cattle are sold predominantly through the farm's Turn Out to Grass Production Sale, held annually the first Saturday in April.
Additionally, several bulls are consigned annually to the West Virginia Young Sire Evaluation Program
at Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The Point Pleasant Test utilizes a
forage-based ration and bulls are fed to achieve optimum average daily
gain. The program stresses a total performance approach, not only
measuring gain on-test, but also reporting indicators of reproductive
and carcass performance.
Visitors are always welcome at Turkey Run Angus Farm! Just be sure to call ahead so we’ll be able to show you around.