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Doyle Creek Ranch
2702 110th
Florence, Kansas 66851
(620) 878-4294
ranch@doylecreek

Doyle Creek Mercantile
Open Thurs—Sat, 8 to 5
& By Appointment
510 Main Street
Florence, Kansas 66851
(620) 878-4567
info@mercantile

Join us for the 2009
Symphony in the Flint Hills, at Doyle Creek
June 13, 2009

Beef for the Future

Doyle Creek Land and Cattle Company is a working commercial cattle ranch. We are continually striving to achieve excellence in our commercial Angus cow-calf operation, and we are dedicated to the improvement of the beef industry. Doyle Creek consists of three ranches owned and operated by Randy and Judy Mills, daughter and son-in-law, Sara and Troy Dawson, and daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Frank Harper. (Learn more about the history of Doyle Creek.)

Over the past decade or so, many changes have been made. Ranch operations focus on the improvement and ongoing development of a sound commercial Angus cowherd. The ranch strives to produce a live, healthy calf from every cow exposed. In addition, those cows exposed are expected to rebreed within a certain time frame. Moreover, all calves should exemplify the traits needed to produce beef that fulfills the desires of consumers.

In order to meet these objectives, the ranch uses, EPDs, herd carcass information, an artificial insemination program for developing heifers, full brother bulls for herd improvement, and mandatory record keeping by all ranch associates. These fundamentals are the basis for an improved herd.

The practice of embryo transfer provides large numbers of genetically similar calves. Bulls from these matings are used in the breeding program and heifers not retained for replacements are sold through a heifer development program. The uniform genetics resulting from embryo transfer or natural matings to full brother bull batteries make replacement heifers from Doyle Creek Cattle Company in high demand. Using the embryo transfer program as a profit center may be one of the most economically sound decisions implemented in the last 20 years.

Since 1984, steer calves produced through this system have been retained through the finishing stage. Retained ownership allows the ranch to optimize superior genetics through efficiency in the feedlot and quality performance in the packing house. Selling cattle into an industry alliance has provide access to market premium and carcass data used to direct breeding decisions.

Providing safe, healthy beef to the consumer starts at the ranch. To accomplish this goal, Doyle Creek strictly adheres to Beef Quality Assurance guidelines. Each ranch associate is responsible for documenting his or her work, recording vaccinations, animal care and other herd observations.