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Our Lowline Story...

  Bar J Amanda with calf In the fall of 2005, I was looking for a moderate framed, low birth weight bull with good carcass traits to use to breed our replacement heifers. I found the American Lowline Registry website and learned that they were having a show and sale at the American Royal in Kansas City.
          I went there expecting to find a few good cattle but thought they would mostly be pet stock. I was surprised to find that the more I evaluated the Lowline cattle the more I liked them.
 

Thanks to the brochure created by Neil Effertz containing pictures and information about several of the herd bulls in the breed, I was able to get familiar with some bloodlines and make a more informed decision about the cattle.
          I found a very impressive yearling fullblood bull, LTL Rifle. I was fortunate enough to purchase him from Bill and Amy Goldsberry, owners of Lone Tree Lowline Cattle Company at the sale and the rest, as they say, is history.
          After the sale, LTL Rifle was shown and named the Reserve Grand Champion Fullblood Bull of the 2005 American Royal. I did not have a trailer with me so after talking with Bill and Amy, we agreed that they would take Rifle back with them and show him at Denver for us.

Olive - Beau Ladd heifer
  Q1J - Dillon heifer
          I had never been to the Denver National Western Livestock Show so this was all new ground for me. I asked my son, Sam, if he would go with me to help me continue to analyze the cattle. Sam has a good eye for cattle and was on a few 4-H judging teams that did very well on a state and local level, so I told him to take off on his own and see what he thought. After a few hours, we met up again and he said “Dad, if you can just get past the little, they are pretty good cattle!”
I think he is right. Fullblood Lowline cattle are a little smaller than a commercial operation is used to. However, when you truly analyze their conformation, you must realize that they are well balanced, free moving, easy keeping and have tremendous carcass quality. I believe that the genetics of this breed can be used to moderate the frame score and improve the quality and usefulness of my commercial Angus herd.
JoJo with calf