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Cattle Marketing Hall of Fame
The Cattle Marketing Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to competitive marketing and true price discovery. These men and women are the backbone of the cattle industry. Their efforts ensure a competitive marketplace, the foundation of the American Cattle Industry. Without price discovery we become price-takers and lose our way of life.
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John C. "Jack" Hunter
Ardmore, SD
John C. "Jack" Hunter was born to John W. "Jack" Hunter and Mary Berquist on April 4, 1951. He was the 4th generation born on a ranch in the northwest corner of Fall River County, Ardmore, South Dakota. He was the only child of the couple. His father ranched and his mother taught school.
Jack's mother moved out from California after she and Jack's father met at Officer's Training Camp in Utah, shortly after World War II. To say that it was a culture shock for her was an understatement, but she loaded up on the train and moved out East. She was a graduate of the University of California Berkley and his father attended South Dakota School of the Mines & Technology until the war broke out.
Jack started school in Oelrichs, South Dakota, where his mother taught. With the changing of her contracts so did his schooling, until they ended up in the Igloo school district at the Igloo Depot. He was an Igloo Rattlesnake until sadly the depot closed and his mother began teaching in the neighboring school of Edgemont, South Dakota.
At the beginning of his junior year of high school, he became an Edgemont Mogul. That same year, something else exciting happened to Jack. Laurel Erickson had moved to Edgemont. Her father Gene Erickson started up The Southern Hills Bank. So both being new students that year, I would imagineā¦
Jackie Moore
Joplin, MO
Upon meeting Jackie Moore for the first time, you quickly learn he's not into nuance. At first introduction, he measures you up with the intense eye of a practiced appraiser - someone who's spent almost 3/4 of his life in the livestock auction business. His handshake telegraphs his confident nature. In his corner of the world, he moves like a heavyweight champ, exchanging greeting and flinging one-liners in all directions to a public that all seem to know him. He admits to having a short attention span, a trait he says serves him well in his chosen profession. He seems to operate at just one speed; flat out.
Moore says he's a product of his up bringing, a small cow-calf operation his late father Claude Moore ran, and 45 years spent working in the operation he now co-owns with his sons and son-in-law.
The 64-year-old Moore got his start at the Joplin yards as a 13-year-old. He never wanted to do anything else. He eventually bought a commission at the Joplin yards, which at the time was a faint competitor to the hefty livestock trade going on near Springfield.
Driving by the old Joplin yards one day, Moore says the idea came to him to buy the operation. That's how his inspirations usually come, he adds, by stewing on the multitude of informational bits he picks up in his non-stop contact with business associates, clients and contacts. In 1986,ā¦