How You Can Help With the CFC Herds:

For IRS purposes, we will provide you with an IRS 8283 for non-cash contributions and a receipt for cash contributions just like you get from your church. You can contact us for additional information. We are a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit ministry so all donations are income tax deductible as allowed by law. 100% of the proceeds from our Cattle for Christ herds go to support the work of Cattle for Christ. Both Glenn and Greg raise their own salary and do not get one penney of the funds generated from the CFC herds or the money given for missions. Though we need and can accept any number of cattle that can be donated, we currently need at least 65 sound and productive females (of any beef breed: purebred or commercial) to put into our AL herd and 105 females for our TX herd for us to reach our minimum goal for each herd. We also have ongoing needs for top quality registered herd sires. (Since herd sires affect the genetics and performance of so much of our herd, we reserve the right to lease out or sell any donated bulls that we feel will not significantly help our herds). To help us with our herds, here are just a few of the ways you can help:

1. Donate beef cattle to be placed into our herds and we will take care of them (a non-cash contribution). We will help arrange transportation if needed.
   
2. Designate a particular animal/animals in your herd, keep them at home, and donate the proceeds of their progeny to fund our work: (a cash contribution).
   
3. Designate a particular lot (an animal, pregnancy, flush, embryos or semen) in your production sale and advertise that the proceeds from that lot will go to support Cattle for Christ: (a cash contribution).
   
4. Donate the funds for us to purchase cattle to go into our herds: (a cash contribution). **(We do not purchase any cattle unless funds are specifically designated for that purpose)
   
5. Donate or sell cull beef or dairy cattle that we can sell and the proceeds will go to fund our mission work: (Could be a cash or non-cash contribution depending on how it is handled.)
   
6. If you have other income to tithe to your local church, tithe the proceeds of your cattle sales: (a cash contribution).
   
7. Donate the proceeds of any animal that you choose year to year (a cash contribution).
   
8. Donate hay, feed, equipment, vehicles, tractors, supplies, land, etc., to help with our herd needs: (non-cash contribution).
   
9. Donate semen or embryos that we can use in our International training events or resale (non-cash contribution). **Due to storage restraints, we reserve the right to accept only the semen and embryos that we determine we can either resell, transfer into recipients, or export to enhance our mission work.
   
10. Advertise for us in your sale catalogs, website and/or other advertisements. We have print ready ads available from business card size to 1/4, 1/2 and full page ads that we can send to you or your printer.
    
11. If you are a business, become one of our Corporate Sponsors and donate your goods or services: (cash or non-cash contributions). Click here to see a partial listing of our Corporate Sponsors.
    
12. Invite us to speak or meet with your local, regional, state and national cattle meetings or your church and civic organizations.
    
13. Use your influence to help us get the support of others.

Cattle for Christ is a member of the Nation al Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), the American Angus Association, the American Simmental Association, the American Hereford Association, the United Braford Breeders Association (UBBA), the Beefmaster Breeders United Association (BBU), the Alabama Cattlemen's Association, the Alabama Angus Association, and the Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association (BCIA).

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How We Give Back to the Industry

Our mission work and our cattle herds have opened the doors for Glenn and Greg to speak with and host several youth organizations, high schools and universities through the years. Our last field day was held on the farm in AL on October 26th 2016 with the Coffee CountyYouth Leadership Program. Many of these high school students have never been on a cattle ranch. Not only did we get to pray for them and share the Gospel message, but we also taught and showed them how beef gets safely from the pasture to their plates. They also got to learn about free range chickens, goats, and forestry. We try to host as many of these type field days as we can for various cattle groups, youth organizations, Farm/City events, and military famiies at the neighboring Ft. Rucker, AL where all of the U.S. Army helicopter pilots, Warrant Officer Candidates (and other specialties) spend at least a year of their career. Most of these families have never been on a working cattle farm, so our herds help us to educate them about the safety of the beef industry, the humane treatment that farmers and ranchers provide for the cattle, and how farmers and ranchers are the best stewards of the environment----most all of which is contrary to what they hear and see in the media. These field days not only give recognition to our Corporate Sponsors and exposure to the genetics of the Farms and Ranches that donate their cattle, but it gives us the opportunity to really educate the public about beef production and promote the industry as a whole. In 2010, the year before we had our first Cattle for Christ Moving' Em Out for Missions Sale, the Cattle for Christ AL farm was awarded the Farm/City Outstanding Conservation Farm of the Year Award. We do all we can on our farm and in our herds to not only be successful and generate income for the ministry of Cattle for Christ International, but also to make the Industry look the best that we can. We run our farm and our cattle to make all the Farmers, Cattlemen, Ranchers and Ag Industries proud of our representation of the industry as a whole. The way we see it, we are accomplishing a lot of what Beef Checkoff dollars are doing, but at no cost to the producers. We are lifelong cattlemen and we are doing everything we can to make the industry we love and that has been good to us, the best it can be. Thank you to all who have supported our work. We pray that you will continue to do so. If you are not a Cattle for Christ ministry partner, we hope that you find us worthy of your support.

Herd History

Glenn and Larry Cochran talked and prayed on a Thursday afternoon in 2007 about what Glenn thought to be a leading of the Holy Spirit to start a Cattle For Christ herd. We had nowhere to put cows and no equipment to handle them except for six acres that Glenn owned and a small catch pen that he had built for his six personal heifers at the time. We felt that having a CFC herd would allow more cattlemen and others in the agriculture industry to be involved in the ministry through the donation of live cattle, embryos, semen, equipment, feed, supplies, services, etc., when giving cash may not be an option for them. We had no idea how to start the herd or how to make it work, but the Lord did! You can watch a You-Tube Video about our cattle herd and how it works by clicking here. Well to make a long story short, within just three years we had over 300 head of predominately registered Angus cattle running on over 200 acres of donated or rented pasture--and we never purchased a cow and never borrowed any money! In addition, we have the help of over 65 Corporate Sponsors who help with equipment, feed, minerals, supplies, maintenance, construction, embryo work, etc.. Click on this link to see a current listing of our Corporate Sponsors. On September 5th, 2011 we had our first Cattle for Christ "Moving Em Out For Missions" Sale where we sold over 175 head that generated over $300,000.00 to support our misson work here at home and around the world. In addition, we sold addditional cattle after the sale private treaty and we kept 29 cows as 'seed' to restart our herd. Our ability to be profitable in the CFC herds would not be possible without the help of the Corporate Sponsors and the many Ranches and Farms that help us.