Our experience in breeding registered Angus Cattle dates back to 1950 and we have first hand knowledge of how breeding trends have changed from one extreme to the other over the last fifty years.  As a serious breeder,  we have been continuously disappointed with the end results of these drastic trait changes. 

In 1990 we made the decision to develop a unique line of beef cattle that would be a departure from the norms of the industry.  The Angus division of our operation is the result of two years of research to secure a small selected nucleus of registered females and the semen to match.  Bolton of Wye and Burgas of Wye,  two of the sires, can be seen by following their respective links.  The foundation stock was acquired at Wye Plantation in Queenstown, MD.  A "closed" herd, Wye Angus was established in 1938 and has remained truly closed since 1959.  It is the superior females that have enabled us to produce the resulting composite breed of such a great genetic value.

In 1990 we also began our venture into the ultimate terminal breed, the Belgian Blue.  As a breed, the Belgian Blue has the distinction of producing the most pounds of meat per animal, the leanest meat of any breed, the most tender and tasty cuts of all breeds, and the most feed efficient of any breed.  This is backed up by genetic research at the USDA facility in Clay Center, NE.

We invested into a small, select group of proven Belgian Blue females and bulls from both of the "English" and the "Belgian" types of these cattle.  With the mating of this superior beef breed and the superior maternal Angus females, we have laid a cornerstone toward the future for the production of the ultimate beef animal.

One of our most important criteria in maintaining our seed stock is the use of TOTAL LINEAR CLASSIFICATION (T.L.C.).  There are three categories that have a combined total of twenty traits. These are each evaluated and given a value of from a one to a ten.  The individual scores reflect a total score of a percentage of one hundred. The values are further expressed as being super, ideal, good, average, and poor.  The T.L.C. program is an evaluation tool that can be implemented regardless of the breed of cattle and type, commercial or registered. It  is an enhanced version of an internationally recognized evaluation system that determines, through the physical and skeletal grading of certain traits, the related meat fibers and its tenderness, allowing for the genetically predictable FORK TENDER BEEF.