Biographical sketches

Biographical Sketch W.O. FARR

The Farr farming and I ivestock business was established over 100 year ago in Greeley, Colorado by William H. Farr. In 1929 W.O. joined his family's business and has been actively involved in the livestock

industry ever since. Today at the age of 77, W.O. still maintains an office at Farr Feeders, a 144-pen 36,000 head capacity commercial cattle feeding facility which he and his sons built in 1974. Although no longer actively involved in the business, he still reveals the inquiring mind of a corporate executive, international envoy, governmental adviser, banker, water expert, rancher, farmer, cattle feeder and ci vic-minded resident. Born: May 26, 1910

Married: To Judy Farr since 1933

Father. of: Four sons, two of whom are in the I ivestock business.

Farr has given himself to service in the national livestock industry with his broad background and experience of sheep feeding, cattle feeding, irrigated farming, cow/calf operations and stocker operations combined with significant leadership and participation in the banking industry, state and national water affairs and a strong dedication to public service.

His local, state and national appointments and honors include former President of the National Cattlemens Association, Director of National Livestock and Meat Board, Director of National Livestock Tax Committee and the Colorado-Nebraska Lamb Feeders Association. He received the American Meat Institute's Animal Agriculture Award in 1969, the Record Stockman's Livestock Man of the Year in 1969, Colorado State University's Livestock Industry Award in 1971, the- Colorado Associ at ion of Commerce and Industry Pub I i c Service Award in 1981, the Wayne N. Asp i nail Water Leader of the Year award in 1985 presented by the Colorado Water

Congress, and the National Go I den Spur Award given in recognition of a I ifetime of achievement by the nation's major I ivestock organizations in 1986.

Through his 60-year career in the livestock industry,- W.D. Farr has been a I eader and an innovator whose study and common sense approach to the business has he I ped catt I emen across the nat ion squeeze profits out of tight margins.

W.D. FARR - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

W.D. Farr is President of Farr Farms Company of Greeley, Colorado. Farr Farms Company is a diversified agricultural company, whose main business is cattle feeding. Other activities include cattle ranching, irrigated farming, potato production and storage of chipping potatoes. Mr. Farr has spent his entire business career with the family corporation. Mr. Farr is active in other business affairs in Colorado. He serves as Director and Chairman of the Board of Affiliated Bankshares of Colorado, Inc., which as a registered bank holding company, and he is a Past Director of the Greeley National Bank and United Bank of Denver. In addition, he is a Past Director of Mountain Bell Telephone Company and Great Western Sugar Company.

Mr. Farr has spent a great deal of time with livestock and farming problems, both at the state and national level. He is a Past President of National

Cattlemen's Association. He is a member of Colorado Cattle Feeders Association and National Cattlemen's Association.

He is also active in civic affairs. He is currently Chairman of the City of Greeley Water Board, Chairman of the 208 Areawide Planning Commission of Larimer-Weld Council of Governments, and Director of Home Light and Power Company. He is Past President of the Greeley Rotary Club and Greeley Chamber of Commerce.

W. D. FARR

Born - May 26, 1910

See attached Biography for Business, Civic, State and Regional Activities through 1986.

1988 - Honorary Doctorate of Law - University of Northern Colorado

"Few people have had the broad background and experience of sheep feeding, cattle feeding, irrigated farming, cow-calf operations, and stocker operations combined with significant participation in the banking industry, state and national water affairs and a strong dedication to public service."

Malcom Anderson neighbor & friend) nominating

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D. Farr for the Golden Spur Award (sponsored by: National Cattlemen's Association

American Quarter Horse Association National Wool Growers

Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers

Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers The Ranching Heritage Association and American National CattleWomen

Awarded 1986.

States from Ontario, Canada, and worked as an apprentice blacksmith. When he had saved up a sum of money, he went to the railroad ticket office and told them he wanted a ticket for as far west as his money would take him. It took him to Chyenne where he continued working as a blacksmith. In

1876, he heard that the town of Loveland, Colorado, was in need of a blacksmith, so he took the train to Greeley (the end of the line) and then a stage to Loveland. He

homesteded in the area and his brothers followed him to Colorado.

William H. Farr got into the lamb feeding business thanks to an early blizzard that caught them with about 500 yearlings on the home place as they were being driven to Denver for shipment to the east. He had hay and barley enough to feed them through the winter and found that they gained about 20 pounds each on the program.

Farr Farms became one of the largest lamb feeding operations in the United States with lots at Greeley, Scottsbluff,

Nebraska and Torrington, Wyoming.

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H. founded Farr

Produce Company to store and ship potatoes, and was also the first farm implement dealer in Colorado.

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D. Farr attended the University of Wisconsin but the illness of his father, Harry Farr, brought him back to the family business. He had worked on a ranch during high

market had eroded and he built a cattle feeding pen for 125 of cattle. By 1980, Farr Feeders were operating a 144-pen facility, 2 grassland ranches, and 6 farms growing potatoes, sugar beets, alfalfa, pinto beans, corn for both grain and silage, oats and onions.

When he was still a young man, Bill Farr became interested in the water development of Northern Colorado. When the Colorado-Big Thompson authorization election was to go

before the voters, he joined those pushing for its passage. "I went with them, did the driving, and we took a dog and pony show and went up to Wellington and Fort Collins and put on a pep rally and told them how they ought to vote 'yes' on this ... finally the election came and it went 17 to 1 in

favor; so I started litterally with (Colorado-Big Thompson)"

(Quote taken from Colorado Heritage article by John

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Bromley (Issue Two, 1990).

Delayed by World War II, the project did not run its first water through a temporary pipeline until 1954. Farr was elected to the board of the Northern Colorado water

Conservancey District in 1955 and has served ever since---a total of 36 years when his term ends in 1991.

His grandfather, as a member of Greeley's City Council early in the century, had been instrumental in building the city's first water treatment plant. Bill, once regional

water supplies were assured through Colorado-Big Thompson, turned his attention to the Greeley water system building on what his grandfather had begun. He became the first

chairperson of the Greeley Water and Sewer Board in 1958, a postion he still holds. He was also a prime mover in the Windy Gap Project (dedicated June 29, 1985) in which the cities of Greeley, Fort Collins, Loveland, Boulder and

Longmont banded together to form a municipal Subdistrict of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District to help meet the water supply to the rapidly growing area of the Front Range.

A former Greeley city manger, Peter Morell believes the Windy Gap project is reflective of the characteristics of

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D. Farr. "Farr's particular strength is looking to the future - his foresight, his vision. I've seen a lot of vision but none to exceed his. He has the ability to

communicate his vision also, the ability to put complicated issues into perspective."

(Quote from Colorado Heritage - the article is based on a series of oral history tapes made with

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D. Farr, now a part of the "Project Colorado" archive at the University of Northern Colorado Michener

MARCH 1986

BI(X;RAPHY OF W.D. FARR

I. BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

Chairman of the Board - Farr Farms Company, Farr Feeders, Inc. , Farr Farms Potato Company, 70 Ranch Corporation, L F Ranch Company.

II. CIVIC ACTIVITIES

Chairman - Greeley Water and Sewer Board

Co Chairman - Northern Colorado Foundation (Procurement of Civic Auditorium)

Director - Home Light and Power Company

Past Director and Chairman of the Board - Greeley National Bank Past Director - West Greeley National Bank

Past President - Greeley Chamber of Commerce Past President - Greeley Centennial Commission Past President - Greeley Rotary Club

Past President - T-Bone Club

Past President - Greeley 4th of July Rodeo "Centennial Family of 1976"

Member - First Congregational United Church of Christ Member - Greeley B.P.O.E. #809

Member - Greeley Rotary Club Member - Greeley Country Club Member - Republican Party

III. STATE AND REGIONAL ACTIVITIES

Past Chairman - Affiliated Bankshares of Colorado

Past Chairman - Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority Past Chairman - 208 Areawide Planning Commission of Larimer-Weld Council

of Governments

Chairman - Municipal Subdistrict of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District

Director - Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District Director - National Western Stock Show

Past Director - Mountain Bell Telephone Company Past Director - Great Western Sugar Company Past Director - United Bank of Denver

Past Chairman - Longs Peak Council of Boy Scouts of America Vice President - Colorado Public Expenditure Council

Past Secretary - Colorado-Nebraska Lamb Feeders Assn. Advisor - American Grouwth Fund, Inc.

Member - Governor's Blue Ribbon Panel - 1981 Member - Colorado Cattle Feeders Association Member - Colorado Cattlemen's Association Member - Newcomen Society

W.D. Farr Biography

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Director - Foundation for American Agriculture Director - Agriservices Foundation

Past Director - National Livestock Tax Committee Past Director - National Livestock and Meat Board Past President - National Cattlemen's Association

March, 1986

Past President - National Cattlemen's Foundation 1972-1984 Past Chairman - National Cattlemen's Association Feeder Grading

Subcormnittee

Past Chairman - National Cattlemen's Association Beef Grading Committee Former Member - Department of Health, Education and Welfare/Food and

Drug Administration Cormnittee

Former Member - Food Advisory Committee of the Cost of Living Council Former Member - Water Polution Control Advisory Board of the Department

of the Interior

Former Member - U.S.D.A. National Cattle Industry Advisory Committee (Under Truman, Kennedy and Nixon)

Former Member Agriculture Committee - U.S. Chamber of Commerce V. SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS

Represented Foreign Agricultural Service of U.S.D.A. and the United States Feed Grains Council in Expositions in France, Italy and Spain ln 1967.

Represented U.S.D.A. and N.C.A. on excursion of Australia in 1974. At request of People's Government of China, toured agriculture in China in 1974 and 1977.

VI. HONORS

"Water Leader of the Year" 1985 - by Colorado Water Congress "Grand Marshall" - Independence Stampede Rodeo, 1985

"Public Service Award" - Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry 1981

"Paul Harris Fellow Rotary Award" - 1977 "Centennial Family" - 1976

"Citizen of the Year" - Greeley B.P.O.E. 1975

"Livestock Industry Award" - Colorado State University 1971 "Outstanding Citizen of the Year" - Weld County Realtors 1970 "Animal Agriculture Award" - American Meat Institute 1969 "Livestock Man of the Year" - Record Stockman 1969

"Feeder of the Year" - Feedlot Magazine 1968

"Outstanding Boss of the Year" - Jaycees of Greeley 1966 "Silver Beaver Award" - Boy Scouts of America

"Honorary Life Member" - CCFA

Contact: Jim House 1540 Emerson S':reet

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Denver, Colorado 80218 (303) 266-2142

AMERICAN NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION

W. D. Farr President

W. D. Farr combines a life-long career in the cattle business and a host of

important business positions as he brings practical knowledge and organizational

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know-how to the presidency of the ~year-old American National cattlemen's

Asso-ciation.

Born at Greeley, Colorado, an important cattle feeding center, Farr returned

to his home town following graduation from Iowa State University and post-graduate

work at the University of Wisconsin. He started in business with his father, Harry W. Farr, in 1929. Today the operation includes the feeding annually of

30,000 head of Farr-owned cattle and 2,000 irrigated farm and ranch acres.

Farr has been an ANCA member since 1930 and served as the industry-wide

or-ganization ~s first Feeder Committee chainnan. Since then he has served as

chair-man of the Legislative Committee and the Beef Grading Committee, member of the

Executive Committee and Board of Directors, and as first vice president.

He is a member of the ~lorado cattlemen's Associ~tion and a founding member

of the Colorado Cattle Feeders Association, which he served as a director and vice president. He also belongs to the USDA National Cattle Industry Advisory Canmi ttee, the U.S. Chamber of Corrmerce Agriculture Committee, the National

Live-stock Tax Committee, and President Nixon's Water Pollution Control Advisory Board.

His outstanding contributions to the cattle industry were recognized when he

was named 1968 "Feeder of the Year" by Feedlot Magazine_, and recipient of the 1969 - - -nore

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American Meat Institute's Animal Agricultural Award.

His business acumen has brought him to directorship of the Foundation for American Agriculture, Greeley Home Light and Power Company, and Mountain States

Telephone & Telegraph Company. He is chairman of the Greeley National Bank Board

of Directors, the Greeley Water Board, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Affiliated Bankshares .of Colorado.

As president of the American National, he is chief spokesrran for thousands of individual ranchers, feeders, and pure-bred breeders, and for over 140

affil-iated county and state organizations.

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New York, N. Y. 10014

Gentlemen:

Attached is a proof for William Daven Farr, President of Farr Farms Company.

Everything is correct except that I am no longer a director of the

Greeley National Bank nor of Mountain Bell. I am 69 years old and

both of these firms have retirement age of 68 for directors. I am

still a director of Home Light and Power Company and I am still Chairman of the Board of Affiliated Bankshares of Colorado. Yours truly,

W. D •. Farr WDF:kg Enclosure

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Greeley Colo. 80631

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