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Nebraska Ranch Receives Certified Angus Beef Commercial Award

Date: Sep 25 2023

Breeding & Cow Herd & Grid Marketing & News Release & Post Weaning & Premium Potential & Retained Ownership

Troy Anderson, managing a Nebraska ranch, focuses on breeding thriving maternal cows that will grade premium Choice and Prime, while respecting livestock, people and land. Anderson Cattle receives the 2023 CAB Commitment to Excellence Award. Their journey includes improving genetics, feeding home-raised and purchased calves and using data for better breeding decisions, all with a bottom-line approach.

Everything They Have

Date: Sep 18 2023

Big Thinkers & Breeding & Cow Herd & Forage Management & Maternal Function & Post Weaning & Premium Potential & Sire Selection & Stockmanship

Progress is a necessity on the Guide Rock, Nebraska, ranch where Troy Anderson manages a commercial Angus herd, small grower yard, his 10-year-old son, and a testing environment. Troy’s approach includes respect for his livestock, people and land. For that, Anderson Cattle was honored with the CAB 2023 Commercial Commitment to Excellence Award.

Progress, Not Perfection

Date: Oct 07 2022

Big Thinkers & Breeding & Consumer Connection & Heifer Development & Stockmanship & Sustainability

It’s a labor of love, obvious in the way she lights up explaining their family’s 33-year effort to proactively adapt Angus cows to their land. A lifetime of telling stories from the pasture or kitchen has resonated with nonfarm consumers as much as fellow ranchers. “Everything we do is about cattle, but it’s also about family and connecting our kids to the land and to the cattle,” Debbie Lyons-Blythe says.

Following Second Dreams

Date: Oct 07 2022

Big Thinkers & Breeding & Cow Herd

Cow work, genetic improvements and breeding plans are on the table for hours because building the perfect cow takes constant adjustments to the plans they lay out. The Larsons are working on a masterpiece that moves their families and customers closer to “best” every day. Their determined journey toward elusive perfection helped Larson Angus Ranch earn the CAB 2022 Seedstock Commitment to Excellence award.

Following the numbers

Date: Oct 07 2021

Big Thinkers & Breeding

Diversification proved to be key in evolving the ranch. What began as an Angus-based commercial herd, the trio took signals from the data and sought new avenues for revenue. The Woolfolk men have a target: creating more high-quality, profitable cattle. As for how to get there? They’ll continue to follow the numbers.

Prime of his life

Date: Oct 01 2021

Big Thinkers & Breeding & Cow Herd & Post Weaning & Retained Ownership & Sustainability

Ross Humphreys’ adept gait tells of many days in and out of the saddle checking his herd, fence lines, water tanks, and grass availability. Yet at 72, he can still drop down and roll under the barbed wire fence quicker than most men half his age. But Humphreys is not your typical cowboy. He’s a chemist, book publisher, family guy, conservationist, and rancher.

Angus done different

Date: Sep 15 2021

Big Thinkers & EPDs

A passion and an entrepreneurial spirit started CK Cattle in Alabama. The Madaris’s were chasing a fantasy but now support three households through their Angus seedstock business.