“We’ve never single-trait selected,” Larry says. “You just get in trouble. You can select for carcass and make progress on your carcass, but what have you done to your cows? If you’ve got cows you can’t get bred back because they’re raising yield grade 1 and 2 calves, what have you accomplished? I’d rather get 3’s, not get a premium but get a calf every year. Having a calf is the number one thing to profitability. I don’t care what anybody else says. If they don’t have a calf, you don’t have any opportunity to get a check.”
Hidden Acres Farm carries 600 commercial cows with another 600 to 700 head of stockers. Take a visual tour of the ranch below. Photos by Lynn Jaynes and Carrie Veselka.
Also, learn more about Hidden Acres Farm here.