Lyman Livestock
Lyman Livestock is a 5th generation ranching operation based out of Central Utah. The ranch is run by 3 brothers Eric, Kevin, and Mike, along with the kids. Everyone pitches in with the work. Our kids are taught to work at a young age and are very capable of all ranching activities. Our wives are our unsung heroes; from meals delivered, to feeding when no ones around, to clerical work, and bull sale information. We host our annual bull sale the last Saturday in February, in Salina Utah, where we offer 90 yearling Sim-Angus, Simmental, Angus and balancer bulls. While our ranch is nearing 100 plus years in the cattle industry, it has been a meticulous amount of dedication that our parents, Keith and Glenda, have put into expanding the ranch to what it is today. Our father has never believed in money but he has always believed in dirt, and has worked his whole life to put this ranch together along with his boys. In 1998 we began raising Simmental genetics and have never stopped trying to improve our customers’ and our own cow herds. ‘Sim influenced’ genetics pays you more money. It’s been proven what heterosis does in a cowherd. As we push forward in this new cattle age, we will continue to keep our customer’s wants and needs at the for-front of our seedstock operation. Twenty-five years in the seedstock industry, raising and selling bulls, the life lessons these cattle have taught us are priceless. We annually offer 100 yearling pap tested bulls in Lyman Livestock’s Cattlemen to Cattlemen bull sale the last Saturday in February at Producer’s livestock sale barn in Salina Ut. The ranch consists of 3 main properties where we use a 3 area rotation for the cows. The summer ranch is located between Montpelier Idaho &, Cokeville Wyoming. We typically summer 450 pair there, from late May to early November. From there the cows are loaded on trucks and either taken to late fall pasture or hauled to Monticello Ut. where we winter from December until April. We winter out in large 1000 acre plus high (6,500 ft) desert pastures where cows calve unassisted and are supplemented very little if any hay. As we move from winter to spring the cows are hauled from Monticello to Yuba reservoir area in central Ut. We put the cows on lush green spring grasses to help get the bred back in April & May. A few things to know about our cattle herd is we have been PAP testing for close to 20 years, and we believe in high altitude genetics. We search and use only bulls that can produce suitable pap scores on their offspring. We run our registered stock like a commercial operation, no pampering, the cows are wintered in tough conditions and must breed back with minimal supplemented feed. We operate around 500-600 head of momma cows. We have 300 registered Simmentals, 80 registered Angus, 40 registered Gelbvieh, and around 180 commercial sim-angus influenced cattle.