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our website, our ranch and our home in the Bitterroot
Valley of Southwestern Montana.
We are "Grass
Farmers" who utilize the sun's energy to grow the best forages we
can. We are proud to have made the healthiest
choice for the planet, the
animals we raise, the people who care for them, the air, water, and soil
they are grown on, and the health benefits of grass-finished beef to our
consumers and their families. Responsible agriculture has always been the
way we roll, and a sustainable high quality beef production model, our
goal.
While we have always bred and raised Black Angus since the early 1970's, it was
our purchase off a Lowline bull from Hawkhill Ranch in Oregon that allowed us
to be sustainable. Australian Lowlines address most of the obstacles to profitability
in an all-grass environment. Australian Lowlines have a history of Black Angus
purity which assures high quality beef and were found to be up to 30% more efficient
at converting grass into pounds of high quality meat produced per unit of land
than the standard Angus.
Australian Lowlines are the way to meeting our goals of sustainable profitability
on grass. Their size, extremely docile temperament, and foragability allow us
to use them as a tool to develop and maintain healthy pastures. We have used
them to clear prospective pasture ground of weeds (spotted knapweed, tansy, and
white top), and brush inexpensively with a water source and a single strand of
electric fencing. Their size (650-900 lbs mature cow size) minimizes hoof damage
on wet or developing pastures, allowing for thicker, healthier swards and increased
flexibility in a management intensive grazing system. 
Environmentally speaking, pastures, and managing those pastures with intensive
rotational grazing is the land's best use. It can sequester more carbon than
a rainforest and erosion is nearly eliminated. Methane production is greatly
reduced. When beef is finished on grass, acidosis (common in grain finished systems)
is not a problem and management intensive grazing (which mimics deer, elk, and
bison grazing habits) further reduces methane production by 20%.
Whether one has a big or small operation, seed stock or grass finishing percentage
stock, Australian Lowlines’ "convenience traits" will enhance
your lifestyle and help insure your sustainability. In my honest opinion, while
no breed in perfect, Australian Lowlines address the biggest obstacles to sustainability
in a grass based beef production model. Size, fertility, calving ease, docile
temperament, and efficiency to finish choice on a grass only diet can be achieved
in one cross with a Lowline as long as the other parent has some genetic merit.
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Freesia of Black Bottom teamed with BBL Sward Master to win Produce of Dam at Louisville Black Bottom Fantasia R01 at Louisville |
 OHF...The Next Generation Wins Big at Louisville with Blackbottom Genetics Again!
BBL Sward Master Wins Grand Champion Fullblood Bull
and Reserve Supreme Champion at Louisville, Great job crew at OHF..TNG
Reserve Supreme Champion, and Grand Champion Percentage Bull (below), Reserve Champion Fullblood Female (above top), and Reserve Champion Fulblood Bull (above).
The fullbloods, Dixie Mae of Blackbottom and BBL Royal Rangeman are flushmates by Wanamara Findon Royal and Millaroo Dharma.
Kierin the percentage Champion is a grandson of Dharma being a son of BBL Bruiser.
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Thanks OHF...TNG for your representation of our bloodlines and for choosing Blackbottom for your foundation of your new herd of Lowlines.
With the combined talents of Ruth, Chriss, Missy and their family, this is only the beginning of their success in this exciting venture of raising gourmet beef in the east. Well done Ladies and good luck with the Farm Store!
Jack Fanning has also taken Neron's Echo to a Reserve National Heifer Champion at the Junior show in Iowa, congrats Jack. Jack's heifer is by Neron out of Bethany, a foundation donor. Her two flush mates are available on the sale page.
See the sale page for a list of buyers who have trusted our program to move closer to the goals they set for themselves. Thank You Pasture, Lands Best Use....
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