This is us, I love that TV show!
But this is US, just a small farm with a small herd.
We started with a bottle calf, Angus steer, in 2005. Bought Fanny from the same farm as a 4 month old whose mama died in a heat wave. Then traded the bottle calf back as a yearling for Fanny’s half sister M. Yep, not a smart move being in the cattle business, right?
A black steer is worth much more than a Hereford heifer where we lived at the time in NE Missouri. Or was it. 2017 that heifer, M, is still going strong and brought us good income, as are the two M daughters we kept.
When M and Fanny were old enough to breed we used a borrowed bull for our first breeding. The second year they went back to the farm we got them from to be bred. We had WONDERFUL neighbors!
Then we bought Bully who was our herd sire for 7 years. We have four of his daughters still.
The herd has grown, changed, culled, bought, sold….But Fanny and M remain.
We are trying to build our registered herd. Keeping our registered heifer. Bought a few registered cows, some of which we later culled because they just weren’t as good as our commercial cows. Bought a former show cow, Vicky, who has produced nicely for us. We have kept every heifer she has had for us.
Now we have 7 head of registered cows/heifers and our registered bull, Willy. Along with 9 commercial cows and several steers and calves.
This year we are exploring the market of grass fed steers. Hoping to possibly sell locally and not have to take steers to the sale barn.
Pictured is an example of our home grown heifers. This is Fanny Mae, daughter of Fanny.
Our heifers, well we have repeat customers for them. Actually sold some we regret selling. So finding heifers for sale here on Towerview Farm is next to impossible. But then money talks so if you see something you like make an offer 🙂 Better be a good one though 😉
Towerview Farm Herefords 
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