Description: Today Robert Elliott and Sons is still a diversified family farm with Angus cattle being a mainstay. Our herd is certified brucellosis free, accredited tuberculosis free and we have tested for Johne's for years and have always had a clean test. An annual production sale is held the fourth Monday of February. During the past few years our cattle have sold into over a dozen states with more than 70% of the sales going to repeat customers. Ultrasound data has been collected on our entire purebred herd since it
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In 1942 he married Margaret Bush and they raised three children and furnished all three with a college education, something that they never had. They made sure the children understood the meaning and rewards of hard honest work. The Angus herd grew.
In the early 1950s Robert realized that most cattle were sold by the pound and cows that did not wean a big healthy calf every 12 months did not make you as much money as those that did and he did not have time to manage cows with problems. Robert started keeping records by hand on weaning weights, calving intervals and identifying cows and sires that had problems. He did not just keep records he used them to cull the cows and bulls that did not measure up. He sold the low growth, slow breeding, bad udders,
The two sons both attended the University of Tennessee and returned to the diversified family farm, Joe in 1971 and William in 1975. Both the crop acreage and the cow herd were expanded. Cattle records were moved from the University of Tennessee to AHIR. AI was introduced with and first AI sire used was “Rito 149.”