Stock Contractor • Class of 2022 Jake Beutler, RCA card number 1320, was noted as one of the great personalities of the professional rodeo world. In 1929, he joined his brothers Elra and Lynn in creating and running the Beutler Brothers Rodeo Company. The company started when their father, John, bought...
Stock Contractor • Class of 2020 James Sutton, Jr. could have chosen a very different path at the end of his college career. The young South Dakotan was drafted by the Minneapolis Lakers and he attended their preseason training camp. However, he believed following his father and grandfather in the ranching...
Stock Contractors • Inducted 2019 *Inducted as a pair with Elra Beutler. Elra and John Arthur “Jiggs” Beutler formed Beutler and Son Rodeo Company in 1956. Elra had previously worked with his brothers, Jake and Lynn, to form the Beutler Brothers Rodeo Company. The new company started with seven rodeos their first...
Stock Contractors • Inducted 2019 *Inducted as a pair with Jiggs Beutler. Elra and John Arthur “Jiggs” Beutler formed Beutler and Son Rodeo Company in 1956. Elra had previously worked with his brothers, Jake and Lynn, to form the Beutler Brothers Rodeo Company. The new company started with seven rodeos their first...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2018 Billy Minick began his professional rodeo career in 1959, enlisting in the Rodeo Cowboys Association after winning titles in both high school and college. Minick qualified for the National Finals Rodeo as a bull rider in 1966. In 1968, Minick purchased the Harry Knight Rodeo Company...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2003 Mike Cervi, the largest rodeo producer in the country, was always a deal-maker and entrepreneur. As an elementary schoolboy, he sold flavored toothpicks and Christmas trees, hauled ashes and rode racehorses. Born Sept. 9, 1936, in Denver, Cervi became fascinated by rodeo clowns and, by 14,...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2013 Rex “Bud” Kerby is a second-generation ProRodeo Hall of Fame selection, joining his father, D.A. “Swanny” Kerby, who was also inducted as a stock contractor in 1997. The Kerbys’ Bar T Rodeo Inc., has been a family operation since 1945, based in Moab, Utah, initially...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2010 The Beutler name has been synonymous with stock contracting since 1929, when brothers Elra, Jake and Lynn Beutler began providing stock to Oklahoma and Texas rodeos. Jake and Lynn – a member of the inaugural ProRodeo Hall of Fame induction class of 1979 – kept the...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2009 After a decade of producing amateur rodeos, Erv Korkow joined the PRCA in 1958 and formed Korkow-Sutton Rodeo Company with fellow South Dakota stock contractor James Sutton Sr. They had stock in every National Finals Rodeo from its inception in 1959 through the dissolution of their...
Stock Contractor • Inducted 2008 Chandler Earl (Feek) Tooke started raising horses on the family’s Ekalaka, Mont., ranch in the late 1930s and the breeding program he created with his son, Ernest, produced more then 6,000 rodeo broncs, passed along to every top stock contractor in North America. Described as the...
