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The Midwest Cattleman · March 9, 2023 · P28
Flight Plan at Horsehead Ranch Based on Faith and Brangus

By Brenda Black

Mike Taylor, Talala, Ok., neck, he transferred to the tations, developing bulls and or more important, than biol-
used to be an Air Traffic Con- Tulsa Airport, to be closer to heifers from start to sold, and ogy when it comes to gentle
troller. Now he's a full-time home and help on the farm. talking to cows over a bucket Brangus.
Brangus seedstock breeder. “The air traffic control- of pellets. But ask this man Cattle and Miracles
Though raised on country air ler job was fabulous,” Taylor who was mandatorily retired At a young age, Taylor first
and crossbreds, and a fourth said, “but I had a taste of the after 36 years from the air- saw how God would use cat-
generation cattleman, Tay- big city and didn't much like port tower, which occupation tle in his life to reveal him-
lor's career took him to the it. I was glad to get back to yields the greater risk. He'll self to a country boy.
big city to work at the Dallas/ Oklahoma.” say with conviction, “The cat- “In about 1975, I saw my
Ft. Worth International Air- For the next 10 years, Tay- tle business. I've seen more first miracle,” Taylor said. “I
port. In the tower, he cleared lor and his wife Malinda de- cattle die in pastures than was around 10 years of age.
planes for takeoff, and talked voted themselves to raising people on planes.” It was a Saturday and my
pilots through diversions and boys and helping his dad. By Having endured several father wanted to move a bull
final approaches. In 1990, the time the new millennium phases of training and pass- out of a 160-acre L-shaped
when Taylor's dad broke his arrived, flight plans for the ing a medical exam that in- brushy pasture into a field,
Taylors changed cluded vision, color vision, then around to another pas-
once again. Tay- hearing, psychological, sub- ture. I was the only son and
lor had fallen stance abuse, cardiovascular, obligated to help my dad.
in love with the and neurological screenings, “My mother was going to
Brangus breed one would think Taylor to be town and of course I want-
and bought eight fiercely pragmatic. In reality, ed to go along to check out
females from he is a man that puts more the sporting goods section at
area breeders trust in what is unseen than Walmart. It was quite a treat
to start his own what can be traced by radar. for a young country boy to
herd. Taylor confesses gladly that go to town once every couple
Today, Tay- raising cattle gives him a ce- of weeks to look at fishing
lor runs about a lestial view of God at work poles, BB guns and camp-
hundred Bran- here on earth, and he holds ing gear. However, Mom was
gus cows, man- staunchly to the ideology leaving in a couple of hours,
aging grazing ro- that environment is as much,

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