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The younger McNears, though, appreciate a more natural state that provides wildlife habitat and benefits the environment. In order to protect the farm from future development, they enrolled the Miller land and portions of Greenwood in the state’s conservation program for open space easements. The restrictions, which the state enforces in perpetuity, are binding on their heirs.
When they first moved to Greenwood, “Daddy didn’t know a whole lot about cattle. Ned Johnson sold us our first bunch of (commercial) cattle, purebred Angus culls,” he said. From the commercial black Angus, they crossed to Herefords, producing the white-faced Fl-generation hybrids called “black baldies.” Some of these were sold, while the best heifers were retained as breeding stock. Half of the herd was bred back to Angus or Herefords, while the other half was used to produce “terminal crosses,” or market calves that would be butchered. The McNears also experimented with various large “exotic” breeds, using purebred Simmental, Charolais,. and Chianina bulls on their Angus/Angus-cross cows.
McNear markets his feeder calves at graded sales, through teleauctions, and regular sales, primarily in Orange County. He said, though, that he’s “heard such good things” about the Virginia Livestock, LLD, in Front Royal, that he is seriously considering sending his calves there.
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