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Cooperators Our Cooperaotrs are the strongest believers in our program They also do the hard work on the ranch with calving, record keeping, and AI breeding. Get to know these top producers. GRU - Chris & Vera Grubl (Stabilizer) Chris and Vera live near a sleepy little town in

of the Tessari Stabilizer dispersal became the foundation of our current herd. These females are being mated to the top $Profit Leachman sires to produce outstanding stabilizer breeding stock. We have witnessed the value of hybrid vigor and superi- or genetics in our commercial herd for many years. Carrying on our cattle operation with these exceptional females is the next chapter for us. KLK - K Lazy K Ranch (Angus & Stabiliz- ers) K Lazy K Ranch is a fourth generation commercial angus ranch located in the grassland above the Missouri River near Highmore South Dakota. The Kusser family started using Leachman bulls in the early 1990’s, and in 1998, bred the first heifers to New Design 1407 and provided the carcass data to Leachman Cattle Co. For the past 20 years, Kussers have AI’d all their heifers and most of the mature cows with an eye toward moderate frames, efficiency and high carcass quality. In recent years the steers from the K Lazy K herd, with their deep Leachman genetics, have been used for carcass testing to provide the efficiency data for LCoC. Since 2014, Jerry and the Kusser family are getting more involved in the Stabilizer business as they’ve been AI’ing their angus cows to some of the top LCoC Stabilizer bulls. LAM-Hiram Lambert (Stabilizer)

western South Dakota 11 months out of the year, but every August, Sturgis roars to life from the thunder of literally thousands of mo- torcycles during the annual rally Chris and Vera have

Lucas, Chris, Adam and Leo Grubl

long been involved with composite cattle going back to the Pioneer bred RX3 cattle. Since 1997, their program has been focused on Stabilizers. HEN - Hairpin Nucleus (Angus, Red An- gus, Stabilizer & Charolais)

HEN is the nucleus cow herd for Leachman Cattle of Colorado. The cow- herd compromises all breeds Leachman Cattle markets: Angus, Red An - gus, Stabilizer, and Charolais.

Triple Creek Ranches are located in North Central Kansas and South Central Nebraska just south of Riverton, NE. The Lam- bert family started raising seed stock in 1978 with the purchase of some registered Angus females. In the fall of 2000 they

Tim & Shirlene Watts and Christina & Garrett Lommatsch

The HEN herd has been striving for excellence based on high $Profit and commercial functionality. HEN has produced elite herdsires such as: Prophet, White Gold, High Country, Fore - most, and Shift, along with elite donor cows like Zara TG004. HLC - Craig and Becky Hays (Stabilizer)

Craig Hays purchased his first purebred Simmental cows in 1992. Over the years, he has added Angus and Red Angus to create composite cattle. Hays

Charlene and Hi Lambert

purchased some Stabilizer Cows from the Leachman Cow Har- vest Sale Currently the Lamberts are raising both Angus and Stabilizer bulls for the Leachman system. MNB - Zach and Jake Meinders (Red An- gus, Angus and Charolais) The Meinders run a small herd of purebred Angus, Red Angus,

Land and Cattle is located in the fescue country of northwest Missouri and southwest Iowa. Craig and Becky Hays, along with their children Lindsay, Jessica, and

Lindsay, Cody, Craig, Becky & Jessica Hays

Cody, and Craig’s dad, Curt, operate the herd. Ultrasound has played a role since the herd’s inception. Individual feed intake data has been collected on bulls and heifers since 2008. The collection of perfor- mance data, through both phenotypes and genotypes, is used to quantify the benefits and deficiencies in the herd.

and Charolais cows in the river bottoms of north central Iowa. They bought their first Leachman females in 2011 and are current-

LKN - Ken and Karen Knievel (Stabilizer) Ken and Karen Knievel are located in Windsor, Colorado. After 50+ years of breeding commercial, crossbred cattle and 20 years of using composite bulls, the oppor - tunity to select from the top cows

Gary, Jake & Zach Meinder

ly working on expanding their herd with superior genetics from multiple breeds. Utilizing ET, they transfer an elite set of embryos into recip cows from their dad and uncle’s 250-head commercial herd

Karen and Ken Knievel

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