"Honestly, you could have two bulls and that's it," Wegener said. That format allows contractors to compete without needing a higher number of bulls to haul, so Rafter J has been able to focus on a smaller head. Rafter J focuses on team bull riding competitions such as this one - contractors put up an entry fee for anywhere from two to four of their best bulls, depending on the format, and team riders with the tour will ride for each contractor. The top 35 in country compete in the regular PBR, Wegener said, but the riders Rafter J works with are still of a high caliber. In fact, this year has been Rafter J's first as part of the PBR Velocity Tour, a bull team event including PBR's riders ranked 36th to 75th in the country. The current iteration has grown pretty quickly since five years ago, Darrell Wegener said. before ending up in the new generation of the family's hands today. The brand changed hands a number of times over the years - in 1921 to cattleman and wheat farmer Frederick B. Joseph Plaff first registered the brand with the Kansas Brand Commission that year after moving to Barber County, Kansas from Chillicothe. Rafter J, in its current form, has a five-year history, but the brand has actually existed since 1905. Now, Tracey describes her son as "the other side of Rafter J," taking the experience he earned during his own time as a rider and lending it to Rafter J as a contractor. Wegener said the family sat down five years ago, when Dick started having children of his own, and discussed doing something "different" - that would turn into a partnership racing and hauling bucking bulls through Rafter J Cattle Company. "They raised Jesse in a rodeo family so naturally, Jesse grew up wanting to ride bulls," Dick's step-father Darrell Wegener said. Jesse Dick grew up in a rodeo family - his mother, Tracey Wegener, went to college on a barrel-riding scholarship, and his father was a team roper. Rafter J Cattle Company breeds bulls for riding competitions and competes at events in the state and across the nation, all stemming from a rich rodeo history in the family.
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