{"id":389,"date":"2012-04-03T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/?p=389"},"modified":"2012-05-09T22:49:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T22:49:22","slug":"news-this-is-my-story-barthle-brothers-ranch-featured-in-the-brahman-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/news-this-is-my-story-barthle-brothers-ranch-featured-in-the-brahman-review\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;This Is My Story&#8221;- Barthle Brothers Ranch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Barthle family name also began appearing in Florida\u2019s cattle records in the 1930s and 1940s. \u201cAt that time our <strong>Brahman cattle<\/strong>, like most, were open-ranged in the eastern part of our county. Cattle intermingled with neighbors,\u201d said Larry Barthle, a member of the third generation of the ranch. Though this may have fostered a lack of incentive to breed up to improve <strong>Brahman genetics<\/strong>, it did run straight into a barbed-wire fence and the importance of the Barthle family\u2019s need for the <strong>Brahman breed<\/strong>. \u201cOnce the fence laws came into effect, upgrading started, and the first breed we used on the <strong>Florida<\/strong> scrub cattle were <strong>Brahmans<\/strong>.\u201d At this point, Barthle needed to improve his<strong> Brahman<\/strong> genetic base and did so by implementing <strong>Brahman bulls<\/strong> bought from \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 <strong>Henry O. Partin<\/strong>. Barthle\u2019s originally operated under the name of J.A. (Joseph Albert) Barthle &amp; Sons. In later years it would shorten to <strong>Barthle Brothers Ranch<\/strong>, which is the name the operation still carries today. The ranch was divided in the 1970\u2019s between J.A.\u2019s two sons families: Albert (Al-Bar Ranch) and Joe (Barthle Bros). Joe\u2019s son, Larry Barthle, is one of several family members involved in the operation. \u201cOur families original ranch is in one tract and all intact,\u201d Larry proudly states. \u201cThough the ranch may be split between brothers and uncles and other family members, it is still one unit with all the property connected.\u201d The Barthle family began showing their<strong> Brahman cattle<\/strong> in the 1960s, but later took some time away from the ring to dedicate to the <strong>Brahman herd<\/strong> itself. In 1989, the junior show circuit attracted the Barthle and Dillard children, and thus the family began competing once again.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article as featured in The Brahman Review, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/My-Story_FL-BrahmanBreeders.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Barthle family name also began appearing in Florida\u2019s cattle records in the 1930s and 1940s. \u201cAt that time our cattle, like most, were open-ranged in the eastern part of our county. Cattle intermingled with neighbors,\u201d said Larry Barthle, a member of the third generation of the ranch. Though this may have fostered a lack of incentive to breed up to improve genetics, it did run straight into a barbed-wire fence and the importance of the Barthle family\u2019s need for the Brahman breed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ranch-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barthlebrothersranch.com\/ranch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}