Our vision is on efficient and fertile females. We realize there are genetic antagonisms between several of the important economic traits in beef cattle. For example, extreme growth rate will negatively affect calving ease, fertility, and feed requirements for maintenance. There are trade-offs that must be considered when making breeding decisions. We can only select for so much growth, muscle, and milk without having some negative consequences. Therefore, the optimum level for many traits lies somewhere in the middle. We AI our cows using early maturing, top maternal, low birth weight bulls. The early maturing cattle will be more fertile, marble sooner and grade and yield better. All the flashy extremes that the beef industry is drooling over must be avoided.

Any supplements given to our livestock are all natural and we plan on being Certified Organic in the near future. The only supplements our cows receive are protein in the last gestation period before calving. Our cows survive on what God intended for them to survive on and that is grass. We let our livestock feed themselves the year round from standing grass. While doing this we notice which genetics work and which will not. Large number EPD's will not work in this environment. Large number EPD's require more input and rob you of more profit. As everyone should know, feed costs are our number one robber of profits from the livestock business. Our goal is to have a frame size 4 to 4.5 cow. We feel this size of cow will still weigh around 1200 pounds mature and will be better able to hold her condition with no inputs and still wean a heavy calf.

We leave the calves on the cows all winter and let the cows wean the calves naturally. We feel the mothers teach their calves what to eat and how to survive in rough winter conditions. This makes better cows and mothers from the replacements.

Most calves are self weaned by March and we separate the calves from the cows at this time using a five wire, barbed wire fence to separate them. After sufficient separation time, the heifer calves are placed back with the cows until breeding season in August. The bulls are left on pasture until sale time in January. The bulls gain, on the average, 2.6 pounds a day from May 1 to October 1st on nothing but grass, water, fresh air, salt and mineral. Our cattle are never confined in small areas.

Our bulls are forage raised to go to work for you. We do not use grain to achieve maximum gain, but instead use the grass nature provided to bring longevity to your bull battery herd with sound feet and legs and bulls that will not lose weight during the first breeding season.

We have set our calving date back to May and June to provide healthier calves at birth and reduce costs. Our cows calve on pasture at this time. This also matches the cows highest nutritional requirements with the ranch's best and highest grass production time. We use a 45 day breeding period and cull the cows that cannot breed back in this time frame.

Our goal is to raise cattle on an entirely forage base program. Mother Nature will help us sort out the cattle with calving, fertility and mothering problems and what is left will be highly fertile, deep-bodied and easy fleshing converters of grass that raise sons that are able to pass these traits on to your herd. We believe that we are producing cattle that will thrive in any environment in the most profitable and efficient way possible.

We raise all our cattle naturally and they have to work on the grass God provided for them. We do not work for our cows. We do not use growth hormones, insecticides or grain and plan on being certified organic in the near future.