Cow families, pedigrees and foundational breeding are incredibly important in the overall influence of a calf. The Bull makes up 50% of the herd and his dam is a key influencer in the outcome of his offspring. A $450,000 bull bred to a cow that has been subpar in milk production and weaning weights is not going to give you the full production potential of that bull’s offspring.

We have selected proven cow families to sire our calves. This is over 18 years of breeding, culling, AIing, buying, culling again and again. By continually keeping and tracking performance data on each animal, and building off these strong foundations we insure the best possible breeding stock for our clients.

 

Blackcap Family (Bulls - H F Vernon)

 

H F Blackcap Edith

H F Blackcap Edith bloodline are descendants of KMK Blackcap N12 2V1 R105. AAA15590138. Born 09/17/2006, Breeder: 295949 - K M K Acres, Myakka City FL.  She weighed 1255 lbs., Calving Interval 14@378 days, Birth Ratio 12@105, Wean Ratio 13@107, and Year Ratio 11@105. Dad’s favorite cow to this date. “Solid as they come.” “Calved like clockwork.” “Wish I had one hundred like her.” We culled her in November 2022 at the age of sixteen after a long productive life at our farm.

 

H F Blackcap Karen

H F Blackcap Karen bloodline are descendants of Blackcap Lassie of Toreby AAA2218375. She is traced back to Breeder: 321125 - T E & Edith D Lagerstrom, Burt IA, born Birth Date: 03/04/1955. “Torsten and Edith Lagerstrom were Angus cattle breeders from Burt, Iowa, and pioneers in breeding record systems. Their system included methods of tracking breeding plans, breeding implementation, calving records, weaning records, and sire progeny."

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H F Blackcap Jessica

H F Blackcap Jessica bloodline are descendants of Blackcap Heiress 251 G A R AAA 2235120. She was bred by Breeder: 192625 - Henry C Gardiner, Ashland KS, born Date: 03/18/1955. “Henry Gardiner and Gardiner Angus Ranch served as a research partner with many land grant universities developing and improving technology such as artificial insemination, embryo transfer, expected progeny differences, carcass ultrasound, feed efficiency and DNA marker assisted genomic information. These technological advancements enabled Gardiner Angus Ranch to grow and expand to currently sustaining nine families, with partner herds in nine states and one foreign country.”

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H F Blackcap Kenda

H F Blackcap Kenda bloodline are descendants of Blackcap Effie of S A R AAA 4641755. Breeder: 517050 - Sitz Angus Farm, Harrison MT, born 02/01/1964. This is written on Sitz Angus Farm website, about her sire, "Model" was just the start of a long list of performance sires to traverse the pastures at SITZ Angus. Elation 10 of Model, as described in the 1963 SITZ sale catalog says: "Model, as we call this grand old sire, is going on 10 years old and still weighs close to a ton. He has done a terrific job for us along with siring the top selling Angus sire group and individual bull at Production Indexing Center at Stanford, Montana in 1964."

 

H F Blackcap Grace

H F Blackcap Grace bloodline are descendants of KMK Blackcap S28, AAA +15725539. Breeder: 295949 - K M K Acres, Myakka City FL. Calving Interval 9@389, Birth Ratio 7@103, Wean Ratio 7@100 and Year Ratio 5@96. We purchased her in 2008 and she was a solid as a rock.

 

H F Blackcap Amelia

H F Blackcap Amelia bloodline are descendants of Lemmon Blackcap 0927, AAA 10850796. Birth Date: 10/20/1986. Breeder: 332266 – Mr. & Mrs. A Harvey Lemmon, Woodbury GA. “Mr. Lemmon received a Bachelor's Degree in Animal Science from Virginia Tech. Mr. Lemmon began his career at Millarden Farms as a Cattle Manager until he established his own cattle farm in 1971, Lemmon Cattle Enterprises, in Woodbury, Georgia. He was the owner and operator of Lemmon Cattle Enterprises for 46 years until his death and was known for producing top quality cattle that have been sold all over the United States.”

 

H F Blackcap May

H F Blackcap May bloodline are descendants of “the iconic SAV Blackcap May 4136, which has generated in excess of $8.6 million in progeny sales while being the most influential cow ever to grace the North Dakota pastures of Schaff Angus Valley. This prolific dam has produced an ever growing list of AI sires in the Angus breed including: SAV Resource, Renown, Pedigree, Sensation, Seedstock, and the 2017 record-selling Charlo sons. The female counterparts are just as impressive in production as the herd sires offspring of 4136.”

 

 

 

Rita Family (Bulls - H F Fulton)

 

H F Rita Emma Lou

Rita Emma Lou bloodline are descendants from KMK Rita N19, AAA 14745812. Birth Date: 01/19/2004 Breeder: 597268 - Wehrmann Angus, Wilkesboro NC. Calving Interval 7@615, Birth Ratio 7@101, Wean Ratio 7@102 and Year Ratio 5@101. We purchased her in 2008 and she always met our calving weights, had that feminine look and a great disposition. We chose bulls that would improve her heifer’s calving interval and are pleased with the outcome. 

 

H F Rita Lillian

H F Rita Lillian bloodline are descendants of Baldridge Rita S91, AAA 15395277, Birth Date: 02/02/2006. Breeder: 23574 - Judson Baldridge, North Platte NE. Calving Interval 9@386, Birth Ratio 8@105, Wean Ratio 8@103, Year Ratio 6@107. We purchased her in 2008. Another proven rock. Her offspring will continue to be solid good cattle.

 

H F Rita Greta

H F Rita Greta bloodline are descendants of H F Rita 320 812, AAA 19424026. Birth Date: 11/09/2018 Breeder: 1162847 - Hagen Farms, Heflin AL Calving Interval 3@418, Birth Ratio 3@105, Wean Ratio 2@107, Year Ratio 2@105. We really like what we see here. With Grandsire Sitz Top Product 709 AAA17611783 and Great Grand dam KMK Blackcap N12 2V1 R105, AAA 15590138 on the Dam’s top side we believe this could be a great match to build on for top cattle in our environment.

 

Erica Family (Bulls – H F Hugh)

 

H F Erica Kelly

H F Erica Kelly bloodline are descendants of Williams Erica 812, AAA 17210750. Birth Date: 02/08/2012 Breeder: 611777 - George A Williams II, Gray TN. Williams Erica 812 has Genomic Progeny of 82 and has created a strong footprint in the angus breed. Her calves have it all.

 

H F Emblynette Family (Bulls – H F Murphy)

 

H F Emblynette Kimberly

H F Emblynette Kimberly bloodline are descendants of the SAV Emblynette Family, S A V Emblynette 3623, AAA +17593491, S A V Emblynette 7415, AAA #15688300 (Pathfinder), S A V Emblynette April 1509 AAA #11125556 (Pathfinder). And then on the sire side of “the iconic SAV Blackcap May 4136, which has generated in excess of $8.6 million in progeny sales while being the most influential cow ever to grace the North Dakota pastures of Schaff Angus Valley. This prolific dam has produced an ever growing list of AI sires in the Angus breed including: SAV Resource, Renown, Pedigree, Sensation, Seedstock, and the 2017 record-selling Charlo sons. The female counterparts are just as impressive in production as the herd sires offspring of 4136.”

 

H F Emblynette Audra

H F Emblynette Audra bloodline are descendants of the S A V Emblynette 4271, AAA #17824179 (Pathfinder), S A V Emblynette 6019, AAA #+15423815(Pathfinder), S A V Emblynette 0429, AAA #13593147(Pathfinder) and the sire to the family group is “SAV America 8018, $1,887,500 valuation all-time, top-selling, world-record son of President.  He literally shattered every record including the all-time record at Schaff Angus Valley for 205-day weight at 1107 pounds and the most money ever paid for a bull in history, selling for 80% semen interest at 1.51 million dollars.  He is a "one of a kind" breeding piece, resulting from the last embryo produced out of the legendary SAV Madame Pride 0075, who has produced over $5.5 million dollars in progeny sales to date. America is truly unique.  He will be an important part of the Herbster Angus Farms breeding program and forever represent the great country we live in.”

 

H F Heflin Family (Bulls – H F Ranburne)

 

H F Heflin cow family is made up of descendants of the following bloodlines Pride, Lady, Jilt, and Burgess. We took the top producers of these bloodline to create a new bloodline, H F Heflin. Having purchased the original bloodlines in 2006 we know what we had and knew these cows were producers. Not willing to walk away from 18 years of breeding, and not wanting to focus on any additional cow families, we decided to pay respect to our local community by creating a bloodline in its honor.