((PKG)) HOME IS WHERE THE HERD IS
((TRT: 05:45))
((Topic Banner: Home Is Where the Herd Is))
((Reporter/Camera: Orlando Pinder))
((Map: Hico, West Virginia))
((Main character: 1 female))
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
My name is Joyce Crawford. I live in Hico, West Virginia, on
a farm, which is kind of been a lifelong dream of mine. I
always had this thought that if you lived on a farm, you were
self-sufficient.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
Herefords are kind of like the Labrador Retriever of cows.
They're very gentle. They're very calm. I feed them grain at
least once a week. Call them all in and look at them. Make
sure, you know, they don't have bad feet or no injuries.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
Come on, girls!
They're all going to come right off that mountain there.
Come on, girls! Come on!
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
I can go out and bang the chain on the gate. And that's their
cue and here they come.
Where’s my pretty girls? Come on, girls. I know! Come on.
Come on, everybody! Here’s all my pretty girls. Come on.
Come on. Come on.
They have different temperaments. Just like people, some of
them are a little more headstrong than others.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
I’m the only one out here that gets to have an attitude. If they
got a bad attitude, they gotta go because I don’t have time
for that.
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
Some of them will let you go right up to them and pet them
and talk to them.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
They do establish a dominance between them as to who is
ruling the roost out there. I have yet to have a bull that ruled
the roost. They just kind of stand back and let those cows go
at it. I guess it's important to me to be, have a relationship
with my cows because that's why I do it.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
Come on. Come on up here. Going to miss the grain.
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
They are livestock. I am raising them to sell them off. But
they respond better to me. They're calmer around me. And it
makes it easier for me to do my job.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
I had my favorites. My very, very favorite is a cow named
Eve. She was my very first calf. And she's very, very loving.
And she's getting a little age on her now but I'm not getting
rid of her. I like her. So, she's got a spot here.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
That's Eve, right there. And then Ginger. The cow over there
is her daughter and then that calf right there is Ginger's
daughter. So, you’ve got three generations standing right
there.
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
I don't yell at my cows. I don't respond well to that. I don't
think they respond well to that. I just kind of talk to them.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
Let’s go! Everybody out. Come on. Nope. Let’s go. Let’s go.
Let’s go. Come on. There you go. Come on Butterbean,
learn the drill.
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
And plus, you can look like a hero if you just pay attention.
Because if a cow is standing here and you walk up right
here, that cow’s going to go that way. You can train you
easier than you can train them.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
My days are, in the summertime, are kind of as busy as I
want to make them. You never run out of something to do on
a farm.
And in the summer, that's when you'd patch your fences and
you cut all the tree limbs off your hay fields, so the tractor
can get up to the very edge and it's not shading the hay. It's
important to rotate your pastures because if you let them eat
everything you got all the time, they will eat it down so much
uniformly that there's not enough to eat there.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
There were cows here when I bought this place. I originally
bought it to just come up and sit on the porch and read a
book and chill out. And there was this guy
((Photo Courtesy: Joyce Crawford))
that was cutting hay and had cows and I couldn't figure out if
he wasn’t interested or if he was just flat stupid. But anyway,
((Photo Courtesy: Joyce Crawford))
we finally ended up getting together. He knew about cows.
He'd always had cows. And then he passed away and now I
do it by myself. And it’s a lot of work.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
Now, I have the world's greatest neighbors. I am telling you. I
have the world's greatest neighbors.
((NATS))
((Neighbor))
Is the bull going?
((Joyce Crawford))
Everybody’s going.
((Neighbor))
Okay.
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
I don't have to ask them for things. They just show up and
they help me. And I try to do that with them as well.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
I like raising beef that I eat because I know where it came
from. I know what it ate and I know how it was cared for. I
personally think my beef tastes better than anybody’s.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((TRT: 05:45))
((Topic Banner: Home Is Where the Herd Is))
((Reporter/Camera: Orlando Pinder))
((Map: Hico, West Virginia))
((Main character: 1 female))
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
My name is Joyce Crawford. I live in Hico, West Virginia, on
a farm, which is kind of been a lifelong dream of mine. I
always had this thought that if you lived on a farm, you were
self-sufficient.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
Herefords are kind of like the Labrador Retriever of cows.
They're very gentle. They're very calm. I feed them grain at
least once a week. Call them all in and look at them. Make
sure, you know, they don't have bad feet or no injuries.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
Come on, girls!
They're all going to come right off that mountain there.
Come on, girls! Come on!
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
I can go out and bang the chain on the gate. And that's their
cue and here they come.
Where’s my pretty girls? Come on, girls. I know! Come on.
Come on, everybody! Here’s all my pretty girls. Come on.
Come on. Come on.
They have different temperaments. Just like people, some of
them are a little more headstrong than others.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
I’m the only one out here that gets to have an attitude. If they
got a bad attitude, they gotta go because I don’t have time
for that.
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
Some of them will let you go right up to them and pet them
and talk to them.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
They do establish a dominance between them as to who is
ruling the roost out there. I have yet to have a bull that ruled
the roost. They just kind of stand back and let those cows go
at it. I guess it's important to me to be, have a relationship
with my cows because that's why I do it.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
Come on. Come on up here. Going to miss the grain.
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
They are livestock. I am raising them to sell them off. But
they respond better to me. They're calmer around me. And it
makes it easier for me to do my job.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
I had my favorites. My very, very favorite is a cow named
Eve. She was my very first calf. And she's very, very loving.
And she's getting a little age on her now but I'm not getting
rid of her. I like her. So, she's got a spot here.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
That's Eve, right there. And then Ginger. The cow over there
is her daughter and then that calf right there is Ginger's
daughter. So, you’ve got three generations standing right
there.
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
I don't yell at my cows. I don't respond well to that. I don't
think they respond well to that. I just kind of talk to them.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
Let’s go! Everybody out. Come on. Nope. Let’s go. Let’s go.
Let’s go. Come on. There you go. Come on Butterbean,
learn the drill.
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
And plus, you can look like a hero if you just pay attention.
Because if a cow is standing here and you walk up right
here, that cow’s going to go that way. You can train you
easier than you can train them.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
My days are, in the summertime, are kind of as busy as I
want to make them. You never run out of something to do on
a farm.
And in the summer, that's when you'd patch your fences and
you cut all the tree limbs off your hay fields, so the tractor
can get up to the very edge and it's not shading the hay. It's
important to rotate your pastures because if you let them eat
everything you got all the time, they will eat it down so much
uniformly that there's not enough to eat there.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
There were cows here when I bought this place. I originally
bought it to just come up and sit on the porch and read a
book and chill out. And there was this guy
((Photo Courtesy: Joyce Crawford))
that was cutting hay and had cows and I couldn't figure out if
he wasn’t interested or if he was just flat stupid. But anyway,
((Photo Courtesy: Joyce Crawford))
we finally ended up getting together. He knew about cows.
He'd always had cows. And then he passed away and now I
do it by myself. And it’s a lot of work.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
Now, I have the world's greatest neighbors. I am telling you. I
have the world's greatest neighbors.
((NATS))
((Neighbor))
Is the bull going?
((Joyce Crawford))
Everybody’s going.
((Neighbor))
Okay.
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
I don't have to ask them for things. They just show up and
they help me. And I try to do that with them as well.
((NATS))
((Joyce Crawford, Farmer))
I like raising beef that I eat because I know where it came
from. I know what it ate and I know how it was cared for. I
personally think my beef tastes better than anybody’s.
((NATS/MUSIC))
