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ABOUT US...
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J & K Livestock, owned by T. Jarrod & Krystal Stenger, is a 200 year old beef cattle operation, located in western Kentucky that is currently focused on Lowline, Tarentaise and Composite Cattle. Our nephew & future partner, Coy Michael Divine, makes J&K Livestock an 8th generation cattle operation! While J & K Livestock raises Lowline and Tarentaise Cattle, their specaltiy is raising composite combinations of Lowline, Tarentaise, Red Angus, Angus, Charolais and Hereford. J&K Livestock is an active member of the American Lowline Registry, the Eastern Lowline Angus Association & the Stenger's have been longtime members of the American Tarentaise Association, using the name, "Bluegrass Tarentaise".
TJ Stenger is a 7th generation Cattleman who has been actively involved with beef cattle his whole life. Growing up, his family began to make the shift from raising mostly traditional English type cattle to raising larger Chianina cross cattle. During his youth, TJ was a junior member of the American Chianina Association and he showed cattle in 4H & FFA. In the 1990's, TJ ran a custom fitting, cattle management and cattle marketing service. He displayed Tarentaise cattle at the National Western Stock Show for 6 straight years, representing 5 different owners, including his families own Tarentaise cattle. During that time period, his family bred and raised cattle that won a National Champion banner, two Reserve National Champion banners, Grand Champion A.O.B. Heifer at the KY State Fair and Grand Champion 4H Steer at the KY State Fair. Also, they raised, bred and exhibited 4 class winning steers at the KY State Fair Steer Show and they had numerous division winners at the National level. TJ's most recent accomplishment was winning Reserve Champion Lowline Herdsman at the Houston Stock Show's first Lowline Show. Also, during the fall of 2007, 2 of the Lowlines that TJ bred and raised, J&K Superman and J&K Hot Senorita, won Grand Champion Percentage Lowline Bull and Reserve Fullblood Lowline Heifer Calf Champion honors, at the 2007 American Royal Lowline Show, in Kansas City, MO.
Not only have our cattle won Grand Champion banners at shows held in Denver, Kansas City and Louisville, they also have done extremely well in Feedlot & Carcass Contests. Two years in a row, in the mid 1990's, our pen of steers competed extremely well in the Great Western Beef Expo Feedlot and Carcass Test, in Sterling, Colorado. One of our steers had the 2nd highest overall rate of gain and it also had the highest carcass value at the Great Western Beef Expo. We also had a top 10 pen for feed effiency, the only carcass to grade prime with a yield grade 2, and an entire pen of our steers graded 100% choice with no yield grades over 3.0 when they were hung on the rail! However, that is not all. A Tarentaise bull, that my dad sold Pharo Cattle Company (Bluegrass Energizer), sired the top gaining bull in a Pharo Cattle Company Forage Test, gaining over 3 lbs. per day on summer grass, according a Pharo Sale Catalogue!
Want to raise high quality Lowline cattle? Want to own the best Tarentaise genetics? Want to produce highly marbled, grass-fed beef? Want to lower birth weights, reduce frame size or increase stocking rates while still acheving excellent weaning weights ratios? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then J & K Livestock's Lowline, Tarentaise & Composite genetics will work extremely well for you!
ABOUT LOWLINE ANGUS CATTLE...
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Lowline Angus Cattle are 100% Angus Cattle. Lowlines originated as the result of several experiments conducted by the Trangie Research Center in Australia. Way back in 1924, the Trangie researchers began with a goal of producing superior Angus cattle that were very efficient, muscular, functional and attractive. With these characteristics in mind, the first Angus seedstock were imported from the Glencarnock Angus Herd in Manitoba, Canada. In 1956, the Trangie Angus herd was permenantly closed to all outside genetics. Then in 1974, the Trangie Angu herd was divided up into 3 groups. The smallest animals in the Trangie Angus herd became known as "Low Lines", and they were permenantly seperated from the rest of the herd. Then in the early 1990's, Australian Lowline Cattle were "officially" recognized as a new beef breed. In 1996, the first Lowline Angus Cattle were imported into the United States. At first, a few of the original importers referred to Lowline Angus Cattle as "Loala" cattle, but in 2001, the American Lowline breeders voted to register their Lowline Cattle as "American Lowline Cattle". Lowline breeders see tremendous value in raising small, exetremely feed efficient Lowline cattle. Lowlines are ideal for small acreage beef production and they can even help commercial operators to lower their inputs and help them to begin to rely soley on forage, instead of expensive grain supplementation. Although Lowlines are fairly new in this country, Lowline cattle have nearly 80 years of government research and breeding behind them!!
For more information about Lowline Angus cattle, please visit our Lowline links page.
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