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BREEDING PHILOSOPHY
Nelson Livestock Company is a family ranch operation run by Warren, Tom and
Renee and their sons Nathan and Brent and Kim, along with their children, Taylen,
Vallie, Gavin and Reggie. Nelson Livestock Company operated on land homesteaded
in 1909 by our great grandparents. In 1970, our first Simmental calves were born
from a mostly black white-faced herd and that herd evolved into a seedstock
operation that is run as closely to a commercial operation as possible. In the
mid-1990s we added purebred Angus to offer our customers more options. Our
breeding sire selection consists of big spread bulls (minus birth weight to high
growth) that are medium framed but have that explosive growth after birth. These
functional cattle are deep, thick, with growth and do-ability to work in any
environment.
Nelson Livestock Company's breeding program stresses maternal efficiency
though selecting for high fertility and calving ease while maintaining moderate
sized cattle
with high efficiency. This disciplined search for the A.I. sires
and herd bulls results in a very efficient program that will add value to your
replacement females and feeder cattle. We do invite you to contact us for more
information or stop in for a herd visit to see for yourself.
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OPTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
Nelson Livestock Company's breeding program offers options and solutions as
we offer Americanized Black and Red Simmentals, Red and Black SimAngus and
Purebred Black Angus cattle that are performance selected. Performance selected
using EPDs, ratios, linear measurements, planned mating, carcass testing and
ultrasounding to help increase overall beef production. Nelson Livestock
Simmentals will provide you with muscle, high cutability, growth, fertility,
maternal power and calving ease that will move them to be the continental breed
of choice. Nelson Livestock Angus will provide the hardiness, marbling, good
females and market acceptability.
Nelson Livestock SimAngus are a combination of Simmental and Angus from a
well planned crossbreeding program. They will increase pounds of calf versus cow
exposed by 20%. Using a crossbred cow will give you 30% more lifetime
production. Crossbreeding utilizing hererosis is the only free lunch in the
cattle industry.
Nelson Livestock Company's offering of black and red Simmentals and SimAngus
plus a selected group of Angus provides the options and solutions of developing
your program to straight breed or giving you the option to utilize heterosis.
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