Barzona Bulletin Fall 2025

President’s Message

THE 2025-2026 BBAA EXECUTIVE BOARD President: Matthew Heinz Vice President: Nash Stansfield Executive Secretary: Alecia Heinz Eastern Director: Raymond Boykin Central Director: Nolan Carmichael Western Director: Garey Fischer At-Large Director: Clay Fitzgerald

Raising Quality Barzona Cattle for 46 Years. Bulls & Females Available 2-Year-Old Bulls Available Now F & F Cattle Company combine has been switched over to open corn fields for picking in the ear. We are hopeful and optimistic that this year’s crop is going to be better than the last. Here at Golden Hz Farms we use our own feedstuffs as a base to feed all of our livestock, in cluding our feedlot calves. The correlation from the field to the quality product on the plate is of great interest to us as well as other producer BBAA members. By Matthew Heinz, Golden Hz Farms, BBAA President T he Barzona Breeders Association of America (BBAA) 2025 Annual Meeting is in the books. We’d like to thank everyone for their participation in and attendance to the event. We are changing gears here at Golden Hz Farms; bulls are coming out of the pastures and preparations for fall weaning are beginning. I will admit the list is long but we are looking forward to getting to see all of the calves together and getting a good eye on the entire 2025 calf crop! Other preparations for fall are commencing as well. The

Ad Index Bard Cattle Co............................................4 Carmichael Barzonas..................................4 F & F Cattle Company.................................2 Golden Hz Farms........................................3 Hampton Cattle Company..........................2 Raymond Boykin Jr......................................4 Our 2025-2026 BBAA Board is as follows: Matthew Heinz, president; Nash Stansfield, vice president; Alecia Heinz, exec utive secretary; Raymond Boykin, eastern director; Nolan Car michael, central director; Garey Fischer, western director; and Clay Fitzgerald, at-large director. I look forward to working with each one of those leaders to keep growing this association. Please feel free to reach out to anyone on the board if you have comments or concerns. God bless! See you soon. Adaptable – Sustainable – Profitable. BB Over the last several years, BBAA has partnered with Here ford Feedlot in Texas to run feedlot tests on our Barzona stock. We have received valuable data from those feedlot tests, which we have compared to data our farm has already collected. What is of great interest is that our cattle are performing just as well in a commercial feedlot as they do here at home. Several other data points we are seeing that exceed the other breeds include ribeye size, feed conversion and overall yield grade to name a few. This means a higher quality, premi um product for the consumer at the restaurant and at home. The BBAA is continuing its feedlot tests to further collect data. We will have pen space available this year if you would like to contribute Barzona or Barzona-cross cattle to the tests. Our hope is to continue to compile data to prove Barzona cattle are adaptable, sustainable and profitable, which all cattle produc ers want in this current market. If you have any interest in the cattle feedlot tests, please reach out to the BBAA executive secretary for more information. Last, I would like to thank the BBAA Executive Board for their hard work during this last year. We had a few meetings and accomplished a lot in continuing to move the association forward. Thank you to last year’s board.

Mike & Pat Fitzgerald 130 Fitzgerald Lane, Mosquero, NM 87733 (575) 673-2346 ffcattleco@plateautel.net

Hampton Cattle Company Breeding Purebred Barzona since 1973 Fertile Range Cattle Steve Hampton P.O. Box 134 • Kirkland, AZ 86332 (928) 899-4808

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