02/08/08 Young Farmers and Ranchers, Dalley

Chris Dalley was 14 when he went to the bank, got a five thousand dollars loan, bought some baby Holstein calves and Dalley ranch was born. DALLEY "We background these cattle in the winter; we feed them all winter and then we turn them out on irrigated grass and then in September we put them in a feed lot on feed and we retain ownership of them until they finish." When they started dating Kimmel volunteered to help Chris, his sister and grandfather with some branding. DALLEY "We stopped for lunch and my grandpa says 'what's the deal with that girl?' I said yeah we're dating. 'You not very smart then are you.' I said how can you say they grandpa? He said ' she's been kicked ten times, she's been run over. She's been stomped on. She got crap all over. She ain't coming back.' We did half of them that day. The next morning we finished them off and she came back and helped us finish. He got me aside and said 'well you better keep her because she came back." Today Chris and Kimmel have three young children, they call western Bingham County home and they are very active in the Young Farmers and Rancher's program, serving this year as state Chairmen. Voice of Idaho Agriculture Bill Scott