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Show : Angus Ranch honored L h I J M K Angus Ranch, Farm-ington, Farm-ington, has been recognized nationally by the American Angus Association for having one registered Angus cow included in i the American Angus Association's 1992 Pathfinder Report. Only 1,228 of the more than 22,000 members of the American Angus Association are represented in this year's report, according to Richard Spader, executive vice ; president of the American Angus Association with headquarters in St Joseph, Mo. The Pathfinder Program identifies iden-tifies superior Angus cows based upon recorded performance traits that are economically important to efficient beef production. These traits include regular calving and heavy weaning weights, reported John Crouch, director of performance perfor-mance programs for the American Angus Association. All registered Angus cows that meet the strict Pathfinder standards are listed, along with their owners, in the Pathfinder Report, which is published annually by the association. associa-tion. The 1992 Pathfinder Report lists 4,799 individual cows. It is published pub-lished in the May issue of the Angus Journal and extra copies are available from the American Angus Association. The largest number of Pathfinder cows from a single herd this year is 112, and several hundred breeders have a single cow that qualifies for the exclusive listing. |