2017 #CuteCalfContest

Entries are now open for our 2017 #CuteCalfContest — Do you prefer to be behind the camera instead of in front of it? Try out your skills and enter our #CuteCalfContest, open to all ages! This contest is great practice for 4-H photography projects, as well as the photo contests at several junior nationals. Basic rules: Scale/crop photos to 8″ …

100th Blog Post — Winners

Congratulations to our winners — Kelly Massey – Cabool, MOAdam Gordon – Danville, KY   Please email Robin Kleine – robin@focusmarketinggroup.net – with your mailing address and we’ll get your #focusswag in the mail!

Fall Cute Calf Contest Winners

It’s time to announce the winners of our Fall Cute Calf Contest! Before we do all that, let’s all give a special round of applause to our judges — Katie Maupin, Director of Marketing & Communications for the National Swine Registry in W. Lafayette, Ind. and Luke Bolin, Communications and Advertising Director for Sullivan Supply in Dunlap, IA. Their winners …

Fall Cute Calf Contest

You asked and you shall receive! Thanks to the overwhelming response from our first cute calf contest, we decided to host a second contest to accommodate our fall calving friends.  Basic rules: Scale/crop photos to 8×10″(Either landscape or portrait layout acceptable) Photo must be taken in 2014 One entry per person Contest is open to all ages Please no cell …

Dr. Tera, DVM: Beef Quality Assurance

–> Dr. Tera with a newborn calf. We’re so happy to have our first Dr. Tera, DVM post on the FMG blog. You may remember Tera Rooney Barnhardt’s guest blog a few months ago. There, Tera shared a little bit about herself and why she wanted to be a vet.  Today, Tera is going to visit a little bit about …

Cute Calf Contest Winners

Thank you all for your entries in last week’s Cute Calf Contest. We got quite a few entries and our judges had a challenging time only choosing three winners! Speaking of our judges, a big thanks to Katie Marston, Kim Herman and Kasey Herman – these ladies are some of our favorite people and we appreciate them coming together to …

Cute Calf Contest

We’ve seen hundreds of pictures of your 2014 calf crop on social media, and there’s some lookers out there. Time to break out your cameras and picture those babies!  It’s contest time folks! Many of you have already began thinking about your upcoming junior nationals and the accompanying contests … one of our favorites is the photography contest of course! …

Where’s Our FOCUS This Week? Vol. 48

Happy Monday Everyone Today, we’re sharing a few sales and celebrating a milestone. This is our 150th blog! So we’re having a little contest to celebrate. We want to give away some #focusswag. Make sure you “like” us on Facebook and share your photo caption in the comments section below! A winner will be chosen on Fri. 1/31! Picture day …

A Facebook Contest

We love the National Western Stock Show. To celebrate, we’re having a contest on our Facebook page! Once we reach 3,000 fans, some lucky fans will win some #focusswag! Have you liked us yet? Click here to view our page. Make sure you visit our page, like it and share this image with all of your Facebook friends for a …

Sing Your Heart Out at the 2014 NCBA Annual Convention

Do you know someone 18 years or younger who has the voice of an angel? The NCBA is holding its first ever National Anthem Singing Contest to choosing an individual to sing the Star Spangled Banner at the 2014 Opening General Session on Tues., Feb. 4 and at the Grand Ole Opry during Cowboy Night at the Opry II. Also, …