Reed Polled Herefords

09/03/2025

Congratulations to the individuals selected for the 2025 Hereford Seedstock Academy!

Joining us for the academy this week are Denise Loyning, Absorkee, Mont., L Bar W Cattle Company; Darrin Reed, Clifton, Kan., Reed Polled Herefords; Chance Wiese, Manning, Iowa, Wiese & Sons, LLP; Miles Hoffman, Leola, S.D.; Ivan Blume, Zell, S.D., 4/0 Blume Ranch; Peter Rausch, Hoven, S.D., Rausch Herefords; Austin Cole, Bowling Green, Ky., Rockin C Cattle; and Kacie Kursave, Thedford, Neb., Hoffman Ranch.

06/10/2023

We’ve been super pleased working with the AHA Hereford Feedout program at HRC Feedyards.

We had a couple pens of Hereford steers and heifers that graded out 97.6% choice /prime. Out of that 10% was prime.

To top that off we had a Validated steer out of a Tested x651 cow that Lee Mayo, Shane Bedwell and Trey Befort handpicked and entered into the Beef Empire Days live and carcass show in Garden City, KS. He had a .90 marbling epd. This animal ended up placing 4th in the carcass show against all breeds and hundreds of cattle from all of the large feedyards in SW Kansas who handpicked animals to enter into the contest from thousands of head of fed cattle. It just goes to show the progress the American Hereford Association and it’s breeders have made. A big thank you to all of these guys. I highly recommend participating in the AHA Feedout program. This has been our 4th year and we’ve made more money than we ever did selling at a sale barn. The data has been invaluable. It shows us that our cattle are on the right track and the genetics are truly doing what they say they will do.

The 2023 Beef Empire Days was one for the record books - a Hereford steer placed 4th in the carcass contest! A prime, yield grade 2.66 carcass. The Tyson Plant representative specifically called out the steer during the awards ceremony, stating he could tell by the steer’s maturity that he was one of the youngest steers in the entire competition! Congratulations to Hereford breeder, Darrin Reed, Reed Polled Herefords. American Hereford Association

07/05/2020

Video of our herd bull NJW 10Y 135U Hometown 63A with a beautiful Kansas sunset.

04/01/2020

Ideal uddered Tested X651 heifer out of our Revolution 4R x Whitmore donor cow. Pictured with with her 2 week old red angus calf from our clean up bull.

03/28/2020

Pretty excited to come home with lot #5 SHF Game Changer B413 G185 from Sandhill Farms.

He's a smooth polled Validated son out of a terrific Z210 daughter with a great udder. We will keep back all of his daughters and use him to increase carcass merit while moderating our mature cow size.

Top 7% CE, Top 15% BW, Top 3% WW, Top 17% YW, Top 25% REA, Top 1% IMF.

02/06/2020

We are now starting with ET calves. We utilize a good friend’s commercial herd south of Junction City KS - Amthauer Farms. All of our calves are out of our former donor cow Churchill Lady 002x. Sires include NJW 135U 10Y Hometown 63A, EFBeef TFL Tested X651 and Hyalite On Target 936.

01/29/2020

A good run of AI calves the last 2 days with 14 calves in the last 36-48 hours. Our cows just started and our heifers are almost 60% done. We did 2 rounds of Ai on our heifers and the 2nd round is just starting up.

This years sire groups include:
Behm 100W Cuda 504C on the heifers

EfBeef BR Validated B413 on the cows

01/17/2020

63A son

09/09/2019

NJW 135U 10Y Hometown 63A keeps making fantastic replacement females for us to maintain in our herd