Haxtun's Kent Bamford Recognized as Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame 2026 Award Winner
- Media Logic Radio
- Oct 28
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Source Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame Oct 23, 2025
The Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame is pleased to announce its 2026 inductees and award recipients to be recognized at the 17th Annual Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame Banquet.
Bob Foote of Foote Cattle Company in Bucyrus, Kansas, and Kent Bamford of Bamford Feedyard in Haxtun, Colorado, are the 2026 Hall of Fame inductees.
Bob and his wife, Gail, founded Foote Cattle Company in 1985, which encompassed farming, order buying and cattle feeding. Today, Foote Cattle has grown to a multilocation, family-owned cattle operation with 285,000-head feeding capacity as well as land, farming, ranching, banking and other investments across Kansas and Nebraska. Bob passed away in 2022, and his legacy at Foote Cattle continues on with his three sons: Scott, Brad and Greg.
Kent has been involved in the cattle industry his whole life. However, he and his wife, Naida, got their formal start in the business when they returned to the family operation upon his graduation from college in 1974. Bamford Feedyard was started as a small yard, growing to 15,000-head capacity. The company’s growth included utilizing additional feedyards, stocker operations in Colorado and Wyoming, a diversified farming and trucking operation, and a feed additive company. Their two sons, Chad and Cody, are both now involved in the family businesses.
About Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame
Established in 2009, the Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame was created to honor the visionary men and women who have made lasting contributions to the cattle feeding industry, including helping to improve production practices and celebrate the industry’s rich traditions. To learn more about the Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame, visit cattlefeeders.org.
Article: FeedLot Magazine, October 23, 2025
