Reinhardt Cutting Horses

Located in the Laurel Highlands region of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Tubmill Creek Farm's property has a long and rich agricultural history tracing back to the pre-Colonial period and William Penn, from whom the Keystone State takes its name. The farm was purchased in 2004 from Gerald and Helen Hood Swatsworth. Helen's family who came to America from Ireland in 1856, bought the farm in 1885. Interestingly, the Swatsworths were Limousin breeders for 22 years prior to our purchase.

CHECK OUT THE NEW LOOK FOR SIX STAR SPECKLE PARKS!!!

SPECKLE PARK CATTLE CO PTY LTD was founded in 2007.
The Directors are Mark Baker, Mike Todd, Greg and Kerrie Ebbeck and George and Marilyn Kusely.

For over 25 years, numerous directors of the company have traveled to North America, particularly Canada to source predominately Poll Hereford genetics and import them to Australia.

Whilst on these trips and walking many times through the huge cattle barns and exhibition halls of the Canadian Western Agribition (one of the world premier and largest livestock shows) they regularly saw a black and white “speckled” breed of cattle on display, which interested them immensely. The cattle’s intriguing colour pattern, quiet disposition, softness and amazing thickness made the breed a must to find and inspect every year they attended Agribition.

In those early years the Speckle Park breed was what the Canadian’s called an evolving breed and on display only, at the show, but the dedicated Canadian breeders new they were onto something very special and continued to work hard strengthening all facets of the breed ensuring their future progress.

Over the ensuing years the directors saw more and more of the breed and became even more excited with what these impressive speckled cattle had to offer the beef industry. The breed did progress and rapidly, in both numbers and quality in the late 1990’s.

2004 saw the Australian’s back to Canadian Western Agribition and witnessed a great showing of the Speckle Park cattle. After much discussion over a couple of years and a ‘100 beers’ between the six Australian breeders it was decided that the Speckle Park breed had so much to offer Australian beef cattlemen that they would try and import embryos and semen in the breed to Australia. And start an Association in Australia and New Zealand and begin breeding this beef breed with all of its unlimited potential.

This started the long and laborious haul of setting up and registering an Association, sourcing the very best cows to embryo transfer, select the top bulls for semen collection, organize the embryo transferring and semen collection programs, put importation protocols in place of which all had to go through the relevant Government, Quarantine and Animal Health departments in both countries.

In 2006 the Speckle Park breeders of Canada were rewarded for their foresight, dedication and years of hard work in stabilizing, refining and perfecting the breed. In July 2006, the breed was recognized as a PURE BREED by the Canadian Minister of Agriculture, the first and only cattle breed to come from Saskatchewan Canada.

Speckle Park Cattle Co had been waiting for this Pure Bred status to finally put into action all that had been discussed, planed and hoped for over the previous ten years. At this point in time negotiations with various Speckle Park breeders in Canada commenced to purchase their best genetics.

The females were found, embryos collected, bulls selected, semen drawn, all imported and in August 2007 the first embryos were implanted in Australian recipients.

The Speckle Park Breed is now a reality in Australia and Speckle Park Cattle Co. invites you to be part of this great breed of beef cattle.

Join them and be part of history.

Ohio Beef Expo Eastern Spring Simmental Sale
March 20, 2010
12 PM
Columbus, OH

Big Bend Trailers has been using gooseneck trailers on our ranches for almost 40 years. We operate ranches in about five different counties of West Texas (The Big Bend Area). The country is big and it takes a lot of acres per cow. Therefore we pull trailers many miles over a lot of rough roads and it is pretty tough on trailers and equipment. We have spent a good deal of time fixing and repairing trailers over the years and have come up with some ideas to make the trailers more durable. These ideas and years of hands on experience have been incorporated into these trailers. I think you will find our trailer a very tough practical trailer that you can use in the harshest of conditions and it will hold up for you.

Its no secret anymore... damar farms has something for everyone!

• Damar Farms is dedicated in producing seedstock to fit both the commercial producer as well as the purebred producers.
• They have been in the Red Angus business for 12 years.
• They run registered purebred Red Angus cows, Simmental cows both purebred and percentage and Commercial females.
• They have purebred and percentage bulls for sale focusing on outcross lines.
• They produce and sell embryos
• Their Simmental Division mainly stems from the Triple C Farms herd.
• The Majority of their Donors and Herdsires come from the proven genetics Triple C strived to produce.
• As always they will continue to produce cattle that utilize strong genetic values (EPDs) and perform in the pasture for you.
• Semen available on Triple C L. Taylor and Triple C Power Drive R2412.
• Their Red Angus herd has a great base from the Boot Jack Ranch.
• They have gathered many genetic tools from the Messmer Dispersal and have focused highly on carcass EPD's.

Please check out their new website and feel free to contact them for all your cattle needs.

Also, don't forget...
Mark your calendars now for the ones to attend:

Best of Both Worlds Bull Sale
March 6th, 2010
• Catalog Online - click to view

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P & M FARMS HAS A NEW WEBSITE

P&M Farms was established in 2004 and operated on the fourth generation Steed farm. Cattle are owned and managed by Patrick and Melanie Steed. The farm started with registered Angus and Angus based cattle with the focus on raising replacement heifers, feeder steers, and a few bulls. As time went on with their A. I. program using Angus and Club Calf bulls they raised very broody, functional, and attractive calves that have been competitive in the show ring.

The Steed family are proud members of the Angus Assoc., Ga. Club Calf Producers, Ga. Cattlemans Assoc., and Ga. Young Farmers. Their children Logan and Baylee Jo are members of the Ga. Jr. Angus Assoc. and the Ga. Jr. Cattlemans Association.

P&M Farms welcomes visitors at anytime.

Click here to visit their new website

Congratulations to Kenner Simmental for winning January's Design of the Month!  

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