Orion Beef Group
Building Red Angus Influenced Genetics that are the most $Profitable in the Breed and Beef Industry Today!
Reputation Red Angus and Hybreds
Our Program Ludvigson Stock Farms is a family operation established in 1954. Our roots are based in the commercial cow calf and cattle feeding sectors. We understand what is needed to be successful in these areas and it has shaped our breeding philosophies in the genetics that we produce. Our Ranches
Our Team The LSF team includes not only our family but our managers, cooperators and customers. It takes a team to remain competitive in the industry today and we value the input from all of our team mem- bers. Our Key Members: • Ryan Ludvigson – is our main marketing representative and oversees the cowherd and development operations in Montana.
The Elite Nucleus herd runs on our "home" ranch which is also our ad- vanced genetics center located in Iowa where our parents began farming over 70 years ago. This ranch has served as our donor and embryo trans- fer facility since 1980.
• Justin Beeson – is our donor herd manager, managing our embryo collection and transfer program as well as our embryo export program.
•Cody Matheson - is our main bull and heifer development manager - over- sees all the bulls, replacement females and commercial bred heifers.
Our Genetics We have established a breeding philosophy that incorpo- rates optimizing multiple traits without over emphasizing any single trait. Our foundation herdsires Expectation, Packer, Big Sky, Night Calver and Saga are perfect examples that balance all traits and produce least cost cattle with ex- ceptional phenotypes. Our next generation of herd sires such as Commander, Iden- tity, Prime Plus, Call of Duty and Exactly continue this tradi- tion and headline the bulls that we will be selling in this event.
• Jordan Aller - is our data manager and cooperator coordinator for our per- formance program.
Our Customers Our customers play an integral and ongoing part in our breeding program. It would be impossible for us to remain competitive without constant input by our customers. Our customer's environments range from the High Desert to the High Plains and from the Midwest to the Rio Grande. Adapt- ability of our genetics has been the key to why our customers come back year after year. $Profitability
Our Bull and Heifer Development We develop our bulls and females at various development cen- ters throughout the United States. All the bulls are fed a high roughage ration designed to produce a 3.0 lb ADG
Again this year, every bull will have a $Profit Index. This index ranks cattle on their ability to return “profit” to the beef industry. We believe that this index will simplify the selection process for our customers and move their opera- tions in the right direction faster in this competitive market. Please contact us to visit about this ground breaking index as well as to receive materials that explain the process in more detail.
with 0.2 of an inch back fat. The replace- ment females are fed a carrying ration and we have maintained over an 80% first service AI conception rate on our females. The cattle are developed to adapt to any environment and thrive.
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