The dairy beef feeders came to the farm in the ‘90s.Īs John-Scott got older, he wanted a way to fit into the family farm. “We have dairy farms around here.” The dairy beef feeders come from a large dairy farm in Crawford County, ensuring a steady supply of grain-fed beef for retail customers. “I said to my brother ‘I think that’s something we need to do.’” John recalled. Then one day, John saw an ad in Lancaster Farming for a program feeding out Holstein bull calves. It was getting tough to compete with the bigger Western feedlots. They raised feeder steers and grew row crops.
John Port and his brother, Scott, took over the farm from their father around 1975. The farm transitioned into beef cattle next. The Clarion Farms name came from the family dairy farm that operated until about 1960, John said. All I’m here to do is give him a boost.” Turn, turn, turn I am willing to go with it,” John said, of his son. But John-Scott, the sixth generation, is taking the lead these days. It’s a multi-generational effort to run the farm. The current version of Clarion Farms is selling retail beef, from both grain-fed and grassfed cattle. Margy Port holds her grandson, Henry, while they visit the steers on their farm in Clarion, Pennsylvania, on Nov. They’ve raised traditional beef feeder steers and dairy beef feeders. In the past it’s been a dairy farm and crop farm. With each generation, it looks a little bit different. The original Henry Port settled about 100 acres just before the Civil War, said John Port, the fifth generation of Ports and young Henry’s grandfather.
The Ports have been farming in Clarion County since the 1860s. Henry Port could be the seventh generation of Ports to farm the family land outside of Clarion.įor right now though, at 18 months old, he’s just running around the farm, chasing barn cats and trying to love any cows that will let him.
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