Eunice Williams

Eunice Williams, married Bud Williams in 1952, and works today to provide the succession of all Bud’s materials and techniques to the next generation.

Bud was born in 1932 on a farm in Southern Oregon, where he was raised with a variety of farm animals including work horses, dairy and beef cattle, sheep, and hogs. After getting married, Eunice and Bud worked on cattle and sheep ranches in Northern California. Bud’s reputation as a “trouble shooter” evolved from being a good neighbor and “bringing in the ones that got away.” From this early beginning, stock dogs were a very important part of our lives, and they enabled us to do many things we couldn’t have done without them.

The main qualifications enabling Bud to perfect his method of handling livestock were his great powers of observation and pure stubbornness. He always said, “No cow is going to get away from me, she doesn’t live long enough.” He was also able to rotationally graze without fences by taking any type of livestock (including weaned calves) onto unfenced ranges and teach them to stay as a herd.

After their daughters left home, Bud and Eunice started traveling in earnest, only taking jobs that were difficult and interesting. They had excellent results working both beef and dairy cattle, sheep, goats, elk, fallow deer, reindeer, bison, hogs, and ….

Bud and Eunice gathered wild reindeer above the Arctic Circle in Alaska and wild cattle in Old Mexico and the Aleutian Islands and implemented remarkable increases in production in dairy herds as well.

In 1989, after much urging from people Bud had helped through the years, they began actively teaching his Stockmanship methods to a larger number of people in the hope his unique methods of working livestock would not die with him.

For the eleven years ending in 2000, Bud and Eunice headquartered at Vee Tee Feeders Ltd. near Lloydminster, Alberta. This is one of the most northern feedlots on the continent. Since the bulk of the incoming cattle were freshly weaned calves and the weather conditions were far from ideal, Bud felt the information he gathered there had special significance.

In April of 2002, Bud and Eunice started teaching Bud’s unique livestock marketing methods which he had developed through the years, used at Vee Tee Feeders, and put into a program to teach others.

The revolutionary stockmanship taught was named one of the Top Ten Innovations (right up there with barbed wire, antibiotics, and refrigeration) in the beef industry by Beef Producer in 2011, and in the September 2013 issue of Beef, Bud and Eunice were named one of the top fifty industry leaders.

Bud died of pancreatic cancer November 25, 2012. Eunice continues to update the website and sell materials to spread the word about Bud and his livestock handling and marketing techniques.