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Earl Petznick, Sr. (center), an Arizona Farming and Ranching Hall of Fame honoree, recently retired from Northside Hay Company and his sons, Olen (left) and Earl Jr. (right) are the third generation to run the business.
and it currently has 157,000 cattle on feed south of the Phoenix metro area along with selling alfalfa hay and alfalfa pellets for the horse market nationwide.
“Both my brother and I have been involved with all aspects of our business and over the years we have both done every job from the ground up,” Earl said.
They learned the business from their father Earl Petznick, Sr., an Arizona Farming and Ranching Hall of Fame honoree who started his career in agriculture in 1960 when he went to work for his father­in­law Olen Dryer at Northside Hay Mill and Trading Company in the community of Laveen just southwest of Phoenix.
Northside operates mostly in Arizona, where it has about 140 employees, but does business in several western states, Earl said. Specializing in the purchase
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