Harold Trump named “Livestock Person of the Year’

CLARK COUNTY, MO — Harold Trump is recognized as both an outstanding farm and livestock producer and will be named the 2012 Missouri Livestock Person of the Year on Dec. 7, when he is inducted into the Missouri Livestock Symposium’s Hall of Fame. Trump began his career with four free pet lambs. As a teenager he raised a flock of registered Corriedale sheep and sold breeding stock. In 1950 he purchased two registered bred Angus heifers from his grandfather. By age 20 he began to build his registered Angus female herd with 20 to 25 cows and sold the calves as fat cattle. From 1970 to the present he continued to raise and sell Angus breeding stock. He also raised York Hamp hogs and sold breeding gilts for a time. In the 1980s he raised show steers and had a few state fair champions. He was an early participant of the Missouri Show-Me Select Heifer Program. Trump had his first sale in 2000 and has continued his own annual sale each year on the Friday following Thanksgiving. He holds many awards and recognitions. He is currently an MFA Agri Service board member, a University of Missouri Greenley Research Farm advisory board member, and Industrial Opportunities Inc. board member. He has been a member and former consistory member of the Saint Paul United Church of Christ, a Missouri Cattlemen’s director, ASCS county committee member, and board member on the Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone Board.