Welcome to our farm on the web:
We hope you
enjoy reading about our operation and also invite you to stop by if
you are ever passing through this part of the country.
About us….located
in East Central Alabama. Our operation is a registered Black Angus
and SimAngus seed stock operation owned and operated by Steve and
Jennifer Lee. Family members also help with the work on the farm.
Farm Name….comes
from Emuckfaw Creek, a tributary of the Tallapoosa River, flowing
along the boundaries of the pastures.
History...
The lands formerly
held by Native Americans became an object of desire and was opened to
white settlers by 1835. The demand for rich fertile land and cotton
ushered in a period of heavy settlement. New settlers poured into
Alabama from Georgia and Tennessee.
Our cattle farm is
located on part of the lands tracing back on 2 sets of 6 generations.
Great, great, great, grandfathers, Simon Bryant and G W McDaniel,
migrated into Alabama and settled on land in Tallapoosa County. These
early ancestors were subsistence agriculture farmers producing crops and
raising animals needed by the family to eat during the year. As time
past, the land previously used to grow cotton and corn turned into
pasture land for a commercial cattle operation by Clifford and Ovell
Claybrook.
After their marriage
in 1995, Steve was persuaded to purchase 6 Charolais and 7 Angus cross
cattle. The commercial cattle operation transitioned to registered Black
Angus after the purchase of an Angus bull from an AUBT sale in January
of 2002. As Steve’s interest in seed stock grew, the use of an AI
program was started in January of 2004. The SimAngus program for the
hybrid vigor of retained females began after the purchase of a Simmental
bull in December of 2005. The ET program began January of 2006 after the
purchase of cattle from the Gardiner program in Kansas.
Emuckfaw Creek Farm
spans over 300 acres with 100 females. We have donor cows from some of
the top females in the Angus family, a select group of AI cows raised on
the farm and purchased from other seed stock operators and Angus,
SimAngus or commercial cows as recipient females. Our ET, AI and Pasture
programs are based on the use of Registered Angus or Simmental bulls.
The seed stock
operation is totally committed to the production of quality cattle. The
goal is low birth weights, high weaning weights, adequate milk, moderate
size, heavy yearling weights, good EPDs, carcass EPDs and ultrasound
data collected. Performance records are maintained with the American
Angus and American Simmental Associations.