Lowline Angus Cattle The Perfect Grass-Fed Cattle For Any Farmer!

Average final weight of

1200-1400lbs

Easier calving with lower birth weights

Less feed requirement

More cattle per acre

More ribeye area per hundred weight

Less carcass waste

Higher quality of meat

Moderate frames

Crossing a Lowline bull with a

traditional Angus will provide you

with a 50% Lowline

(Halfblood) that averages:

15% larger rib eye per 100lbs. of body

weight

25% less back fat

22 more retail pounds per acre

15% reduced cost and waste

National Lowline Angus Registry

www.usa-lowline.org/index.php

SPRINGS CATTLE FARM

721 Berry Rd

Boiling Springs, SC 29316

864-497-2407

Lowline Angus Advantages

Breed Avg # of

breeding

cows/100a

cres

Lbs of

avg.

carcass/

head

weight at

15 months

off grass

Lbs of

carcass

weight/

acre

Retail

carcass

yield %

saleable

weight

Lbs of

retail

product/

acre

Simmen-

tal 23 556 115.0 69% 79.4

Waygu 38 442 151.1 55% 83.1

Short-

horn 28 532 132.4 65% 86.1

Hereford 30 552 147.2 64% 94.2

Angus 33 543 161.7 68% 110.0

Lowlines 54 418 203.1 76% 154.3

Breed Comparison:

“We are a forage based business. The cost of doing business can triple

when cattle go into feedlots with the cost of grain. So, we really have to

look at the cows produced on grass.”

“We used Lowline bulls on conventional commercial cattle to produce F1,

first cross cattle and followed them through the feedlot. The F1 (half-

blood) offspring had a frame score of 4-5 and had finished weights from

1100-1300 lbs. If someone says “ they will never grow up” they are

wrong, don’t believe them. With final weights of 1100-1300 lbs they can

definitely fit in the industry. The cattle graded 69-100% choice so they

met the quality grade requirements of the industry very well in addition to

the market weight.”

“The easiest thing to do in cattle when trying to down size their frame is to

lose muscle. This is not the case when using lowline sires.” Using Low-

line Angus sires provided the best calving easy and a smaller frame with-

out the muscle loss.

“What about females? We bred the F1 (halfblood) females to calving ease

angus bulls and were quite pleased with the resulting calves. What really

impressed us was the average cow weight of the F1 relative to the weight

of the calf produced. The other thing that was impressive was the acres

per pair that were required to feed the half-bloods compared to the con-

ventional larger framed cow calf pairs.

“We have 80 head of half-blood lowline females. We know the lowline

influence will reduce cow size and reduce calving issues. We produce

more ribeye area/hundred weight.. We produce more gain per acre and the

lowline influence creates management options that we can implement. We

have an opportunity to breed Lowline bulls to conventional heifers. The

male offspring can be marketed through traditional channels. The half-

blood females become replacement females that are then able to be bred to

calving ease bulls. This beef cattle system results in reducing 300 lbs off

your cow size while maintain muscle and producing mainstream industry

carcasses.”

“How do you decrease cow size in anticipation of producing cattle for a

grass-based operation? The effort to decrease cow size had failed because

muscle mass was reduced. Once Lowline angus sires were used in the

experiment they had birthing weights that average 70lbs or less, a frame

score of 4.8, 83% graded choice or higher and had an average daily gain of

3.1 lbs/day. We therefore, had more cows per acre that produced more

beef per pound of grazing cow. Also, the rib eye per hundred weight of

live weight actually is greater on smaller framed heifers.”

How Can We Make The

Cattle Industry Better? Quotes & Data from Kris Ringwall

(Beef Specialist) North Dakota State

University, Dickinson Extension Research Center Conventional

size

herd

Half-blood

lowline

angus herd

Acres/

Pair

12.5 10.1

Gain/

Acre

23.6 32.4

% Cow

wt

weaned

46.2% 51.9%

C

ow

s less

tha

n 1

,300

lbs

1,3

01-1

,40

0

lbs

1,4

01-1

,50

0

lbs

1,5

01-1

,60

0

lbs

Co

ws

gre

ater

tha

n 1

,600

lbs

Mo

nth

ly

fora

ge d

ry-

ma

tter

inta

ke

93

3 lb

s

99

7 lb

s

1,0

51 lb

s

1,1

01 lb

s

1,1

88 lb

s

Req

uired

acr

es/cow

/

gra

zing

seaso

n

10

.75 ac

11

.49 ac

12

.11 ac

12

.68 ac

13

.68 ac

Pre

dicted

wea

nin

g

weig

ht

61

7 lb

s

61

1 lb

s

58

9 lb

s

59

8 lb

s

57

2 lb

s