{"id":1067,"date":"2017-03-14T14:43:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T14:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2017-03-24T01:09:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T01:09:16","slug":"brahman-hall-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/brahman-hall-fame","title":{"rendered":"2017 Brahman Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRAHMAN HALL OF FAME<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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\u201cFor many people, American Brahman and the Partin family are synonymous,\u201d ABBA Executive Vice President Chris Shivers said. \u201cMike combines a history of service to the ABBA and influence to the breed through his outstanding cattle.\u201d<\/h5>\n

On March 8, 2017, Mike Partin of Partin and Partin Heart Bar Ranch in Montalba, Texas will be inducted into the Brahman Hall of Fame. Brahman historian and past ABBA President Marcus Shackleford will give the presentation during the ABBA\u2019s Membership Meeting at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.<\/p>\n

GROWING UP WITH BRAHMANS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Partin was born into the Brahman cattle business. He is a fourth generation cattle rancher. His father Edward \u2018\u2019Geech\u2019\u2019 Partin and mother Connie raised him on the family\u2019s Heart Bar Ranch in Kissimmee, Florida. He had four siblings \u2013 Ed, Judy, Kathy and Roy. The children started working cattle on horseback at the age of four.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a family operation,\u201d Mike said. \u201cWe all loved Brahman cattle. I grew up in it, and it\u2019s a part of me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mike\u2019s grandfather was the legendary Brahman breeder Henry O. Partin, who is known for bringing Brahmans to Florida in the 1930s and raising the breed-changing bull \u201cEmperor.\u201d The Partin herd started with Manso bloodlines from the J.D. Hudgins ranch along with Imperator bloodlines from the Marceaux breeders.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe thought the Imperator and Manso bloodlines would be a good cross,\u201d Mike said. \u201cMy granddaddy\u2019s ability to select good matings was uncanny, and all four of his sons were the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Mike, the family continued with those bloodlines, and for the most part, line-bred the cattle they started with.<\/p>\n

In tenth grade, Mike met the love of his life and future wife, Janet. The two started \u201cgoing steady,\u201d and married in 1960. After the nuptials, Mike continued working on the ranch, and Janet began keeping books for the family business, Henry O. Partin and Sons, Inc., in 1961.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe used to say he \u2018only cycled through the third grade,\u2019 but Mr. Henry was the smartest and most compassionate person I have ever met,\u201d Janet said. \u201cI was still really young when I started working for him, and he was always very patient. I would make a mistake, and he would tell me, \u2018Janet, that\u2019s what erasers are for.\u2019 He was a great man, who raised a wonderful family and kept it intact for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henry passed away in 1971. Of course, Janet and Mike remained integral members of the family ranch. In 1986, the overarching company was divided into four parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BRAHMAN HALL OF FAME \u201cFor many people, American Brahman and the Partin family are synonymous,\u201d ABBA Executive Vice President Chris Shivers said. \u201cMike combines a history of service to the ABBA and influence to the breed through his outstanding cattle.\u201d On March 8, 2017, Mike Partin of Partin and Partin Heart Bar Ranch in Montalba, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":1070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-abba-news","8":"category-american-brahman-breeders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brahmanjournal.com\/cattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}