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Market Bulletin Advertiser by Ava Jane Teasley Ing Four Leaf Clovers and Share That Joy with Required Him to Be in a Wheelchair EstablishEd 1917 a CEntury of sErviCE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE • GARY W. BLACK, COMMISSIONER • WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2021 • VOL. 104, NO. 16 • © COPYRIGHT 2021 COVID-19 is the mother of invention Beef producers become processors to overcome challenges of pandemic recovery By Jay Jones others to consider selling beef directly to customers is a labor [email protected] er1s7ary shortage among large processors nationwide. ni v20 The workforce lost last year has been slow to come back, Beef producers like Joseph Egloff are finding new ways to 7n – and that has caused the number of slots – places where ranch- sell their beef in the wake of COVID-19. Demand for beef is h9 A1 ers can schedule a cow to be processed – to shrink. strong, but processors cannot expand production due to labor 100t1 Sandlin said wait times for processing slots are up to nine shortages. months, making it difficult for ranchers. Those factors, along with new interest from consumers to “By the time it takes us to get a cow ready to go to market, buy locally, are reshaping the beef market, according to Egl- we’re looking right at 24 months,” Sandlin said. “Now, (ranch- off. He runs a small ranch in Monroe County and saw an op- ers) are having to build in nine months backward, and that portunity to open a processing operation to package his meat takes a considerable amount of time to make sure that you’re and meat from other ranches nearby. hitting that timing just right.” “When you sell beef instead of cattle, you become a price Sandlin said the cattlemen’s association wants to help the setter instead of a price taker,” he said. “When you take those industry by partnering with technical schools and local school cattle to the stockyard, someone else decides what they’re systems to develop a training program for meat processing. worth that day. When you take your beef to a farmers market, He said the hope is to provide a skilled workforce to the beef you decide what that beef is worth, and if somebody chooses industry that is ready to work sooner. not to buy it, then you can put it back in the freezer.” Meanwhile, Will Godowns, a beef producer with Caldwell The COVID pandemic created upheaval across traditional Farms in Concord, said they had to adjust when it became dif- supply chains for all agricultural commodities when schools, ficult to get cattle to the stockyards to finish and set up for slots restaurants, hotels, and other businesses closed. Egloff ex- at the processors. plained that demand for food remained, but people were find- “We were selling cattle in truckloads to the Midwest try- ing different ways to purchase beef. He said he did well at ing to capture as much money as we could, and the farm, we farmers markets and with online sales and continues to do so figured, was breaking even,” Godowns said. “So, we’re like, today. ‘Well, we got to do something. There is a demand for this “People who had never bought from us before bought beef now,’ so we’ve kind of gone this direction.” from us and fortunately a lot of those people have continued Joseph Egloff stands inside the processing facility, Midsouth Meat In addition to selling to processors, Caldwell had a whole- to buy from us, even as the grocery stores have started to fill Processing, that he opened in September at his Rocking Chair Ranch sale and direct-to-consumer business. Still, they started to back up,” he said. in Monroe County. He started processing his own beef to sell directly depend less on their cow-calf operation with fewer slots and According to Dale Sandlin, executive vice president of the to consumers and restaurants. He also processes meat for other move toward finishing cattle themselves. Georgia Cattlemen’s Association, what has driven Egloff and ranches nearby. (Special Photo) See BEEF PRODUCERS, page 16 READER PROFILE: Four-leaf clovers are good luck for Market Bulletin advertiser By Ava Jane Teasley ing four leaf clovers and share that joy with required him to be in a wheelchair. For a peri- people across the country. od of time, the clovers were not even listed for The luck of finding four-leaf clovers for The Colleys began planting both annual sale in the Market Bulletin. David Colley evolved into a therapeutic mech- and perennial clover to attract deer and as a “I’ve gone from being in a wheelchair to anism that helped overcome setbacks from a cover crop for their garden. The love of find- using a walker, a cane, and now walking on stroke suffered in August of 2020. Colley and ing four-leaf clovers was rooted in their child- my own,” Colley said. “I get a lot of exercise his wife, Chris, of Loganville delight in find- hoods, but over time they noticed that the by looking for clovers. It really helped me.” clovers they were growing were a bit unusual. The excitement of looking for the four-leaf “The two types of clovers had developed clovers pushed Colley to move and work his traits from one another. Annuals usually grow muscles. The walking mixed with bending quicker and larger than the perennials. You over to comb through the clover was good ex- very rarely find a four-leaf clover in annuals. ercise, and calming. The perennials are always a lot smaller, and The Colleys are back in business and sell- you usually find four-leaf clovers in perenni- ing their clover again. To make the clover even als,” Colley said. “Over time the perennials more unique, the couple has added elements started growing up a lot quicker and a lot larg- such as flags, butterflies, and deer stickers to er like the annuals. That’s because they were make each laminated card more personalized. cross pollinating” Colley said the clover range in price from Colley said the more they found four-leaf $3.50 to $12. The price depends on the size, clovers, the more time they spent looking and David Colley uniqueness, and how much work goes into the more time they spent looking, the more making them. They sell around 200 clovers a they found. ways tell us that they’d never seen anything year, and even have a waiting list for the very To save the clovers the couple first would like it.” unique clovers like five-leaf clovers. tape the clover to a piece of paper. But even- In 2018 the couple began listing the clovers “Each clover really has its own personality, tually the clovers began to turn brown. To se- in the Handicrafts and Supplies section of the I know that sounds funny,” Colley said. “Dif- cure the green color and beauty of the clovers Classifieds in theMarket Bulletin. Other than ferent clovers look better displayed on differ- the couple began to laminate the clovers on word of mouth, the ad is the only other means ent colors and with different designs.” acid free cardstock. of advertisement of the clovers. The Colleys Above all the fun and work the clovers are, The Colleys would give the preserved clo- said that once people bought some, they al- the Colleys said that the real reward comes vers as gifts to friends and family. ways came back. People who received them when customers call to say how excited they “Everybody seemed so excited about them as gifts would call and order some to give as are to receive their clover. because they were so unique,” Colley said. gifts, too. To purchase from the Colleys, find their ad “We thought maybe we should try selling But in August of 2020 the clover picking in the Handicrafts and Supplies category of Please deliver this paid subscription to: Agriculture Published by the Ga. Department of Black, Commissioner W. Gary them. Everyone who received one would al- was put on pause. Colley suffered a stroke that the Market Bulletin Classifieds. PAGE 2 FARMERS AND CONSUMERS MARKET BULLETIN – 404-656-3722 – agr.georgia.gov WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2021 6670 AGCO Allis cab tractor, Ford 501 sickle mower, 6ft w/ FARM front-end loader, forks and set new blades. Working con- bucket: $21,500. Kuhn GMD dition: $800. Lynn McNeal MACHINERY 66 select disc mower: $5500. 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