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| Indiannhead Polled Hereford Association 2012 Hall of Fame- Myron Danielson |
Myron (Pete) and Nancy Danielson purchased their farm in
rural Hayfield, MN in the fall of 1963.
Pete worked full time at IBM in Rochester but was able to squeeze in
some time for farming. It was not until
the fall of 1973 that the first Herefords would grace their pastures. Pete purchased his first five Herefords from
his parents Clarence and Tillie when they sold their farm in rural Peterson,
MN. Another five registered horned Herefords
were purchased that winter and added to the herd. The first calf crop was in the spring of
1974. Pete used a registered polled
Hereford bull that first breeding season and has continued with the polled
Herefords ever since. Pete and Nancy
have three children who were active in showing cattle at the county fair, open
class shows and the state fair when they were growing up. Pete retired from IBM after 33 years of work
in 1990 and has been farming ever since.
Pete became involved in the Polled Herefords locally by
becoming a member of the Rochester Polled Hereford Club that sponsored a show
and sale at the Olmsted County Fairgrounds each spring. He was active with that club until it
dispersed. He has been an active member of the Minnesota Polled Hereford
Association and the Indianhead Polled Hereford Association for many years. He has consigned and purchased many animals
from both of these organizations over the years.
Pete traces his love for Herefords back to his childhood
days. He has always enjoyed the docile
disposition of the Hereford cattle which are easy to work with. Pete showed at the Open Class Hereford show
at the Olmsted County Fairgrounds for many years as well as several trips to
the Open Class Hereford Show at the Minnesota State Fair. He has been awarded a number of awards over
the years, including having a number of females named to the MN Hereford
Breeders Association Dams of Distinction List.
The cow herd has been maintained at about 20-25 cows. He has always maintained a herd bull and
utilized AI to bring in different genetics.
Pete had a number of favorite bulls over the years including a Wrangler
bull that he purchased from the Delaney Family.
That Wrangler bull sired the reserve champion pen of three bulls at the
Denver Stock Show and one of them went on to be the top selling bull at the MN
State Hereford Gopher the Purple Sale.
He sired many outstanding females that were top performing cows. He also had a bull with Wallstreet bloodlines
from Gottschalks that sired good females and bulls. He AI’d with many different top bulls over
the years including Vaquero, Heavy Hitter, Embracer bloodlines, 77U, Hunter,
Felton bloodlines etc.
In the recent years, the cow herd had been reduced to about
twelve cows and last fall they were sold to a neighbor that is getting started
in the Polled Hereford business. Pete
retained all of the 2011 calf crop and all of those heifers are still on the
farm. Pete will be able to enjoy having
his cows back home this summer when the neighbor, who purchased the cows, will
bring them to the farm to pasture.
Pete and Nancy have three children, Pam, Brian and
Renee. Pam and her husband Scott Nielsen
live in Wausau, WI and have four grown children; Heather, Andrew, Krista and
Matthew. Brian and his wife Carla live
in Plymouth, MN and have two children; Jared and Emily. Renee and her husband Lance Krupke live in
St. Michael, MN and have three boys; Marcus, Jordan and Drake.
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| Pete and Nancy Danielson receive their award from Margaret Langness |
