LUDVIGSON STOCK FARMS
Ludvigson Stock Farms began holding its own bull sales in 2007 at the Iowa Headquarters but for only 2 years. The 2007 sale featured the $18,000 LSF JBOB Expectation 6034S that was one of the high marbling bulls in the breed at the time and a bull to this day that is one of the high marbling bulls in the breed. The 2008 sale featured the $17,000 LSF Tank 7005T and the $16,000 LSF Venture 7062T. THE MONTANA MOVE In the fall of 2008, Ludvigson Stock Farms made the decision to move its bull sale west to Park City, Montana. We held bull sales in Park City from the spring of 2009 until the spring of 2013. Ludvigson Stock Farms continued to grow over those years and outgrew the development facility in Park City and moved in the summer of 2013 to the Weschenfelder Development Facility in Shepherd, Montana which provided the needed size for its growing expan- sion. The Weschenfelder facility is still today the home of Ludvigson Stock Farms development center for its bulls and replacement females along with its Montana sales center. A year after the bull sale was moved west, LSF moved part of the cowherd to Montana and began to run cows in Stillwater County in Montana. In 2010, the majority of the cowherd was moved to Montana with only the donor cowherd left in Iowa. The cowherd was run for 4 years just south of Colum- bus, Montana in the beautiful Yellowstone River valley. In the fall of 2013, LSF merged its Red Angus herd with Steve and Shelley Newberry’s Strawberry Ridge Reds herd to form LN Cattle Company. LSF was experiencing an accelerated demand for its genetics and the opportu- nity to merge allowed LSF to better service its growing customer base. LN Cattle Company purchased a ranch just south of Lewistown, Montana and is the home to the elite nucleus herd. LN Cattle Company supplies the ma- jority of genetics for Ludvigson Stock Farms. National Expansion LSF markets bulls throughout the U.S. and has one of the most geographi- cally diverse customer bases in the beef seedstock industry. Wanting to bet- ter serve this diverse base, LSF began developing regional sales to better serve locales throughout the U.S. The first regional sale was held in Dia-
mond, Missouri in March 2014. LSF added another sale in Mandan, North Dakota in February 2015 and another in Madras, Oregon in March 2016. LSF added additional regional sales in Buffalo, Texas and Visalia, California. Brand Name Ludvigson Stock Farms and the LSF prefix are well known throughout the Red Angus breed as well as the entire beef industry. The cattle bred by LSF are known for their low birth, growth, carcass and maternal characteristics while maintaining some of the most eye appealing Red Angus in the breed throughout the years. LSF has appeared on the top 10 list of seedstock oper- ations for both Beef Magazine and NCBA since 2015. This is the highest ranking for any Red Angus operation in the history of the breed. Technology Advances Ludvigson Stock Farms has always been on the cutting edge of technology. LSF was the very first beef customer for Trans Ova Genetics and has been an active customer since 1980. When beef carcass ultrasound was developed for commercial use, LSF was one of the first breeders to submit not only ul- trasound carcass images on bulls but also all replacement females. As DNA profiles were included in EPD calculations, LSF was one of the first breeders to submit samples on all bulls offered for sale. After those first samples then LSF began submitting samples on all bulls and replacement females. In 2015, LSF installed their own Growsafe Feed Efficiency systems so that every bull and 2/3s of the replacement females were individually feed tested for efficiency. LSF embraced the technologically advanced idea of cloning and “cloned” the first Red Angus bull, LSF Takeover 9943W in 2016. The next phase of technologically advanced ideas that LSF has developed and embraced is in the area of “Precision Breeding” through gene editing to turn Angus genet- ics red. LSF has always embraced technology in the early phases to provide cutting edge genetics to the breed and the beef industry. New Beginnings We are looking forward to writing the next chapter in our history and we hope many of you will be able to participate with us.
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