Country Lifestyles
May 2018 Profile: Miko & Me – Bree Worthington Clay
By Jessica Crabtree
The month of May we honor the hard working, caring, giving women that selflessly does for others day after day. Those ladies earned the right to be honored. This issue we feature an extraordinary woman and mother. This mom has a background in trick riding horseback and training buffalos to stand on a pedestal, leap through rings of fire and be ridden. Bree Worthington Clay comes from a family heritage invested in rodeo in one form or another. Her father Mark Worthington rodeoed while her mother Dottie ran barrels and was also a rodeo secretary. Raised in Weatherford, Clay started trick riding at only five years old. Even more impressive, as a youth, Clay received her PRCA card at 10 years old. This August the now grown woman will celebrate her 40th birthday and recently received her PRCA gold card. She has accomplished feat after feat at a young age and at a high rate of speed.
While her parents were largely influential in the horsewoman’s life, JW Stoker is who Clay attributes her ability to trick ride to. “He [JW Stoker] was a famous performer throughout the 90s. He is 90 now and retired here in Weatherford. He trained me,” Clay explained. Always having her father close for help and support, at age 16 she recalled a defining moment, “At 16 my dad said, ‘You’re on your own.’ I realized then he’d been training me to go out on my own the whole time,”‘ she smiled.
While Clay describes herself as a home-body, someone who doesn’t prefer social engagements and crowds, she exuded strength and shined while atop her trusted horses when performing her many maneuvers trick riding. Soon, the young lady took to the rodeo road, performing as the entertainment portion during a rodeo. Her ability permitted her to join a Wild West show, first traveling to upstate New York for six months with the show, and later Las Vegas, Nev., for another six months. While in Nevada the young lady began attending college at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Academically, she also attended Tarleton State University where she met a track runner who would become her husband.
Traveling with the rodeo circuit and Wild West show introduced Clay to new people who became friends and allowed her to visit her extended family in Georgia. Performing rodeo after rodeo and staying months away from home, Georgia became her second home.
To read more pick up a copy of the May 2018 NTFR issue. To subscribe call 940-872-5922.
Clay with her 17-year-old buffalo, Miko. (Photo by Jessica Crabtree)
By: Martha Crump
Most cattle producers can tell you quite a lot about balancing cattle diets for energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals based on the specific needs for their herd and type of operation.
A key factor, and one that is often overlooked, is that how your animals perform is also directly affected by their water intake.
Now many of you may already be thinking “well of course water is necessary, anybody knows that!”
In many years, as September marches into October, we are beginning to experience some return of rainfall. But as many of us know, that is not always the case. Often we are still experiencing hot and dry weather, and water supplies are dwindling.
When we find ourselves experiencing those types of fall conditions, it is critical to not only understand the daily water requirements for cattle, but also the impact that the quality of water can have on herd health and development.
To read more, pick up a copy of the October edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By: Annette Bridges
A friend and I were recently talking about our husbands. She made a comment that I felt also perfectly described me and my hubby.
“He slows me and I hurry him. I’m sure that is why we do well together,” she said.
“Precisely!” I thought. Why?
Because when two different worlds collide, it can be magical.
No matter what those two different worlds are- a man and a woman with very different personalities, beliefs, or backgrounds, two partners with contrasting passions, strengths, or talents, or when a country boy marries a city girl.
To read more, pick up a copy of the October edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
Watauga, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth, is known for its rich history as a railroad stop, but over the course of the last year, one teen girl has put it on the map for agriculture as well. Emma Harvey has lived in Tarrant County her entire life. Despite being highly involved in her local 4-H chapter, she still felt there was more she could do. In the spring of 2023, she stepped up to the plate to take over the title of Tarrant County Teen Miss Agriculture USA.
“It all started when I put in an application for the teen title here in Tarrant County,” explained Harvey.
The Miss Agriculture USA program is a national non-profit, age-inclusive pageant program that offers both competition and non-competition titles to women dedicated to the promotion of agriculture.
Read more in the October issue of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available online and in print. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive NTFR in your inbox each week.
Photo by Hannah Claxton.
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