Back in the late 40's and 50's there were a lot of country elevators/feed stores in this area who handled Gooch's Best, which was produced at Salina, Kansas. We fed a complete feed ration they dubbed "Oprema" to our 4-H fat steers. Each Gooch's product had "Gooch's Red Circle" either on the tag or on the sack, and each circle had a value on it like 2, 4, 10, etc., and people collected the circles as they could be used to purchase merchandise from a catalog from the company. The unique thing about Gooch's, was that the family that owned the feed plant also had a large cattle ranch just west of Salina and every summer they held an auction at the ranch and sold club steers to 4-Her's and FFA kids. Kids from all over the midwest came to the auction. They sold mainly Horned Herefords as that was what they raised on the ranch, but they also purchased some Angus calves from local ranchers to sell. I finally saved up enough of the red circles (after about 4 years of saving) to buy me a steer calf. If I remember correctly, Goochs also produced flour and some pasta products like noodles and macaroni, which also had the red circles. I think the feed plant and flour mill closed in the early to mid 70's. Anyone remember the products or the Red Circle Auction?
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