The Start of a New Era at
Brinkley Angus Ranch
Jim and Sherry Brinkley and their family were pleased to introduce an exciting new cooperative venture with Doug and Dee Ruth and their family in 2024 to provide an opportunity for producers to earn calf credits on carcasses sired by Brinkley Angus Ranch genetics and sold to produce Ruth Family Farms Premium Angus Beef. Ruth Family Farms is a 5th-generation family farm located in Downing, Missouri. Doug started working on the family farm when he was a young boy, instilling in him a love for farming and caring for livestock. After completing high school, Doug pursued his passion for farming and started growing his business. He married Dee in 1993, and they expanded Ruth Family Farms with the birth of their two children, Dustin and Breanna. As the name suggests, this is a multi-generation family operation where Dee works on the farm with the livestock, crops and does the farm record keeping. Dustin and Breanna grew up working on the farm and were involved in FFA and 4-H. Dustin manages the farm’s breeding program, feeding and caring for the livestock, planting and harvesting the crops, working closely with his brother-in-law Chandler Barnes who cares for the family feedlot and the cattle on feed. Breanna manages the family’s Federally Inspected beef processing facility in Kirksville which began harvesting cattle that earned Brinkley Angus bull customers calf credits towards the purchase of bulls in this 2025 Brinkley sale. The Ruth family owns and operates a NE3 USDA Process Verified for Source, Age, EVP China, NHTC, Saudi, antibiotic/ hormone-free Angus cow-calf operation and they have licensed the Ruth Family Farms Premium Angus Beef as a Certified Angus Beef Ranch to Table participant. In their own cow herd, the Ruth family has worked for years to build an elite herd using genetics specializing in marbling that insure the highest quality of beef. With artificial insemination of Ruth home-raised dams, using high-quality semen specializing in marbling and carcass data, and the hand selection of replacement heifers each year from their calf crop to add back to the herd, they are building and continuing a family legacy.
Ruth Family Farms handles its animals with low stress and ease, using quality working facilities and practices, and are certified by the Beef Quality Assurance program. Calves are weaned and fed high-quality feed rations that consist of corn, corn silage, and forage raised on their farm. No animal by-products, Ionophores, or growth hormones are used. The Ruth family prides itself on the integrity and dedication they use to offer the highest quality of beef, with great flavor, which will melt in your mouth. As their new packing plant has come online, the demand for Ruth Family Farms Premium Angus Beef continues to grow. Doug, Dee and their family have realized that their own family cattle production could never be large enough to fit a model that would use economies of scale to their advantage. From that recognition came the cooperative agreement for harvest cattle sired by Brinkley Angus bulls to be purchased by Ruth Family Farms Premium Angus Beef as a significant part of its supply chain for Certified Angus Beef and USDA Prime products. Brinkley Angus Ranch and the Ruth family are assisting Brinkley bull and semen customers in aligning stockers and feeders to either buy or custom-feed calves sired by Brinkley bulls and then coordinating the marketing of those finished cattle to the new Ruth Family Farms Premium Angus Beef plant. This program has a few simple requirements: The use of electronic identification tags to trace Brinkley-sired calves from their herd of origin to the rail in the plant and that the calves have not been treated with any hormones or growth stimulants.
ALL CALVES that the bulls in this sale sire and the calves being carried by the bred females and ALL FUTURE CALVES these sale females produce WILL BE ELIGIBLE for the Brinkley-Ruth Carcass Premium Sale Credit program where
EVERY CALF marketed to Ruth Family Farms Premium Angus Beef that is USDA Graded as Certified Angus Beef earns the CATTLEMAN THAT RAISED that calf a $25 per head credit to be used to purchase future Brinkley Angus bulls and EVERY CALF marketed to Ruth Family Farms Premium Angus Beef that is officially graded USDA Prime will earn the CATTLEMAN THAT RAISED that calf a $50 per head credit! 2
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