E.F. and Dorothy Lawman founded Lawman Farms more than
50 years ago in rural Boone County near Columbia, Missouri. The farm raised
purebred Gelbvieh cattle for more than 40 years.
It has always been their goal to produce
functional cattle that work for commercial cattlemen in central
Missouri. While these cattle have not been heavily promoted, they
have been successfully used by other Gelbvieh breeders. Among
their notable accomplishments is breeding the dam of Mississippi
Gambler, a heavily used bull in the mid-1990's, who still records above
breed average calving ease and growth.
Chuck Miller moved to Lawman Farms in
1993 as a managing partner. He purchased cows from Dr. Jerry Lipsey,
adding Simmental and Angus genetics to the farm. Since then, the farm has
also incorporated Red Angus genetics to create powerful Balancer® and SimAngus
hybrid cattle.
Today, Lawman Farms and Miller Cattle
Co. offer purebred Simmental and Gelbvieh genetics as well as SimAngus and
Balancer® hybrids. The purebreds have worked very well on straightbred
Angus commercial herds to add hybrid vigor, muscle and growth. The hybrid
bulls make crossbreeding easy. Hybrid bulls are a simple way to manage
breed composition and increase uniformity in a crossbreeding program.
The ultimate goal of Lawman Farms and
Miller Cattle Co. is to provide bulls with the phenotype and EPDs for commercial
cattlemen to build profitable cowherds.
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