We are Richard and Sandra Foster. Our farm is between Weaubleau and Wheatland in Hickory County. Our son, Rick and wife Robyn have two sons, Kent and Kyle. He is the basketball coach at St. Charles High School. Son Chad and his wife Traci have a son Ethan. Chad is a Health Inspector and has a beef herd. They have some cows in our herd and help out when we need them. Son Brent and wife Julie are part of the operation and have cows in the herd. Their children, Treyton, Paxton, and Jadyn help with the calves. Treyton, Ethan, and Jadyn show heifers at the County Fairs in the summer.

Our registered herd began about 1970 with the purchase of M-Wheel Sarah Commander at the Milford Wheeler sale, Ozark. I gave $280 for this open heifer, which was a good price at that time. She had 6 heifer calves total, 3 by Paclamar Astronaut. The Curtis Semen salesman lived north of Bolivar, and I started buying Astronaut and Pawnee Farm Arlinda Chief from him. The first three or four years, these were the two bulls I used on our registered animals. On our grade herd I used Midwest Breeders. Without question the Astronauts were the meanest cows we ever tried to put a milker on, but they were pretty to look at. They had style.

 

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Rich-Sand Silver Charm 2E-92
6-03 2 365 38,540 3.3 1284 3.1 1178
Lifetime: 2574 196,440 3.5 6811 3.2 6194
Due to Braxton. Her Affirmed granddaughter due to Atwood.

 

Other herds we bought cows from in the early days were Joe King, Rudolph Entlicher, Paul Sloan, and Lonnie Weatherly. Joki Elevation Penny (EX-90), went Excellent after we bought her, and she left us two daughters and a lot of family members. Daughter Rich-Sand RC Matt Dollar (EX-90) has almost 300,000m lifetime and has an EX-90 Durham daughter.

An Astronaut daughter of Sarah was bred to Strait-Pine Elevation Pete and started the Elvira and Ella family. Several members have 200,000m lifetime. One, Rich-Sand Bell Ella (VG-86 GMD-DOM) made 43,000m. Another member was Rich-Sand Stooki (EX-91) our other 40,000m cow. Rich-Sand Mark Cherry (VG-89 DOM) was flushed to Emory, resulting in two bull calves. One we collected from, Rich-Sand Emory Coleco (EX-91), and used him, resulting in three EX-91 cows. Rich-Sand Coleco Pearl (4E-91), has over 200,000m and is still in the herd. We still use this Emory son.

 

Rich-Sand Mark Cherry VG-89 @ 3-03 DOM
3-10 2 365 30,740 3.3 1022 3.1 956
Class winner at SW District Show mid 90's
Cherry's son Rich-Sand Emory Coleco-ET
is sire of three EX-91 daughters

Another member of this family, Rich-Sand Buckeye Elegance-ET (VG-86) was flushed to Goldwyn resulting in three heifers, Elite, Elita, and Eva. Eva has an Observer heifer calf, and is due to Shamrock on Christmas Day. Another member of this family, Rich-Sand O-Man Ellie Mae (VG-85), is on the Elite Locator List. She had daughters by Baxter and Atwood.

Rich-Sand Conductor Brandy (EX-91 DOM) started the Brandy family. She transmitted good type throughout her family. A great granddaughter, Rich-Sand Emory Paradise (EX-91) is Excellent in every breakdown. She was sold to the Wright family. They had success in flushing her. Our highest scoring cow is Rich-Sand Silver Charm (EX-92), owned by Brent and Julie. She had two daughters and a granddaughter by Affirmed.

I bought some embryos from Ed Weaver, out of his VG Shottle who goes back to Laura Sheik in Canada. We got a Bogart heifer and a Mac heifer from her. The Mac has a Gold Chip pregnancy and both are bred to Gold Chip.

Some of the bulls we have used in the past are Chief Mark, Glendell, Pete, Conductor, Mars Tony, Emory, Chesapeake, Valiant, Encore, Comestar Outside, Stormatic, Durham, and Hi Lite. More current ones are Toystory, September Storm, Blitz, Morty, Baxter, O-Man, Damien, Pronto, Advent, Alexander, Sanchez, Planet, Laurin, Dusk, Emarld, Atwood, Observer, Shamrock, Big Time, Braxton, and Gold Chip.

In the past some of our Excellent cows were out of 85 point dams, and by the great old bulls. Now we breed our Excellent cows to these modern bulls and get 85 point daughters.

We have been milking our own cows for 41 years. And it's beginning to take its toll. In approximately two years our herd will be for sale.

 

Rich-Sand Durham Kristine
4-04 2 365 34,730 3.1 1073 3.1 1065
From Joki Penny family out of Dollar
Kristine has daughters by Wildman and Lou

 

We would love to show you around our herd.
Stop by anytime and we'll talk cows!