ABOUT US
FIVE BRUNING BROTHERS from Germany, came to Nebraska in 1880 - settling on a section of land east of the Burlington railroad, not yet incorporated as a town. The youngest, Frank (Diederich), purchased 320 acres which started Bruning Farms. His entrepreneurial spirit established a livestock business and fostered a love for race horses. His son, Fred H. Bruning, would focus the business on cattle, adding a feedlot in the 1930s and more grazing lands while others plowed the Nebraska plains into farmland. Instilling the passion of range management and cattle production into his son, Frank L. Bruning continued to develop grazing lands in the 1950s. Enterprising fencing systems, reseeding farmlands into native grasses and implementing persistent conservation efforts as he paved the way for son, Fred D. Bruning (we know, it’s a lot of consecutive Freds and Franks, bare with us, the next generation is about to shake it up) who introduced Angus cattle in the 1970s. Now his son, Reiss Bruning, who operates Bruning Farms with wife, Heather. Today, Bruning Farms is a registered Angus and commercial cattle business, calving in both the spring and fall. As a U.S. Premium Beef Qualified Seedstock Provider, our goal is to produce desirable beef of the highest quality. By focusing on maternal without undermining terminal traits, our operation allows us to dial in on performance and provide relevant genetics essential for progressive cattlemen. By seeing each calf crop from birth to summer grazing and finishing in our own feedlot, we see production agriculture full circle. In doing so, we hope to positively impact our customer’s operations so as an industry we can progressively breed for better beef.
top left: Our trusty herdsman, Cody Garland, making hay while the sun shines. middle left: We became parents last year. Henry Frank is now 1 year old, and very into tractors and bulls at the moment. middle right: A rare sight for us in the fly-over states, we saw the northern lights in November - real pretty, eh?!
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