JT Moreland Farms update and new website

[JTM]

This year has been a great year for rain. That may be an understatement. We had a very successful calving season and the best calf crop to date. Things continue to look up for JT Moreland Farms with our recent carcass results on the rail and our bull lineup. Our current walking bull lineup is A&T Renegade 124, GS&J Captain Rob 3x, A&T/JTM Sentinel Prime, and Leachman Apostle UO21B. We are also artificially using Leachman Testify, Leachman Yosemite X730Y, Mapleton Colonel Gus 71U, Uno Mas, Apostle, and Renegade. I wanted to invite everyone to check out our new web page at www.jtmorelandfarms.com. We have gone 100% commercial on our operation and our website explains our story, approach, and ideology when it comes to breeding commercial cattle. Hope you like it!

Couple pics below
1. Leachman Testify bull calf with 50% Shorthorn Dam
2. 50% Shorthorn 2 yr old sired by A&T Renegade
3. Leachman Testify bull out of an A&T Renegade 2 yr. old
4. A&T/JTM Sentinel Prime heifer out of a TG/RRA Complete 421U 2 yr. old

 

[Shorthorns4us]

Very nice re-designed updated web site.

Very informative and appealing.

Just one question-- what qualifies an animal to be a Stabilizer?  you referred "Stabilizer" several times on your site.

Thanks!
EF

 

[JTM]

Very nice re-designed updated web site.

Very informative and appealing.

Just one question-- what qualifies an animal to be a Stabilizer?  you referred "Stabilizer" several times on your site.

Thanks!
EF

Good question. The Stabilizer is essentially a crossbred composite trademarked by Leachman Cattle of Colorado. They combine British and Continental and have tested their performance results through MARC (Meat Animal Research Center) in Clay Center, Nebraska. Through their research they claim that you can retain 75% of the F1's hybrid vigor thus allowing the producer to crossbreed with simplicity. So essentially these are crossbred cattle with consistency. We have been using their bulls on our already third and fourth generation of crossbreeding. All of the cows and calves in the pictures above are crossbred cattle.

 

[sue]

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[OH Breeder]

Nice site! Easy to navigate look very professional. (thumbsup)

 

[Ohio1]

What happened to show cattle? Are you still doing a sale and what're you using all those cows for?

 

[JTM]

What happened to show cattle? Are you still doing a sale and what're you using all those cows for?

My website summarizes the shift in direction. A long story short, show cattle breeding just isn't for me. They have too many negatives and not enough positives. Our shift has been to focus on cattle with very minimal negatives and to focus on high quality beef animals. It has been so much more enjoyable for me. I didn't have a sale last year and sold more heifers for more money than ever before. The commercially oriented heifers are easier to sell and I'm getting the same or better money for them. The red steers we sent to Iowa to be sold on the rail and retained ownership. We cleared almost $1300 per calf which is the equivalent of selling 500# steers for $1300 each. Never sold very many show steers for that much let alone 19 of them. I love raising cattle even more now so I don't really miss the game of picking show ring winners.