A lifetime with cattle brings local family full-circle
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The Peard family is all about faith, family and feeding cattle. They include, from left: Ben, Russ, Randyce, Chrissy and Andy Peard. Russ is being honored by the York-Hamilton County Cattlemens Association at the end of this month.
Faith, family and feeding cattle.
Living now in the house he grew up in, rural Phillips resident Russ Peard is dedicated to these three pillars in his life. He is being honored for the latter by the York-Hamilton County Cattlemen at the end of the month.
“Our family always had livestock. We were very diversified,” Peard began, telling the story of his start in the world of cattle. “We had the whole gamut. I had done chores before I ever went to school. I gathered eggs and would bring them to the house and helped my mom wash them.”
This was his way of getting a taste of the responsibilities of the farm at an early age. His first real “involvement” came around age 7 to 9.
“I wanted a bicycle,” Peard said with a laugh. “And my dad said, ‘I’ll buy a bicycle, but you need to earn it.’ He was always really big about teaching me the lesson around everything.”
In order to spend money, you have to earn it and have it, he added.
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