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About Us
C. K. Allen, the owner and operator of Woodland Farms, has had a broad and varied experience in the cattle industry that forged the concepts and ideas that ultimately resulted in the policy, management and breeding programs practiced at Woodland Farms.
Raised in southwest Virginia with purebred Herefords and Polled Herefords, he has also owned or worked with many other breeds and composites before concentrating on Angus.
Work experience included management of a commercial cow herd, management of a research feedlot, work as an A. I. technician, management of a bull test, consulting with purebred and commercial herds, progeny testing bulls and collecting feedlot and carcass data. In addition, he was Director of Education and Research for the American Polled Hereford Association, Chief Executive Officer for the American Angus Association, a director and President of the American Gelbvieh Association.
C. K. founded what is now known as Woodland Farms in 1970 and was on the staff at Northwest Missouri State University for 20+ years before retiring in 2003.
The emphasis at Woodland Farms is on the production of seed stock with “Genetic Value” for all traits of economic importance. Woodland Farms uses selection to combine, fertility, calving ease, growth, optimal milk production, desirable temperament, marbling and carcass leanness in one package.
C. K. and son, Clint, with 2002 Certified Angus Beef Seedstock Producer of the Year Award. |
On December 29, 2006, the Angus cows, heifers, donors and natural service sires at Woodland Farms were sold to a forward thinking group of cattlemen that had followed the Woodland Farm breeding program for years. The herd was moved to Mt. Ayr, Iowa, and will be operated as Woodland Angus LLC.
The professionals behind Woodland Angus LLC are David Trowbridge, manager of Gregory Feedlots; Kurt Walters, veterinarian from Buffalo, Wyoming and Mike England and Gary Bjustrom of Mt. Ayr. Their intentions are to continue the Woodland Farms breeding program selecting for balanced trait Angus that calve easily, are strong in fertility and strong in carcass merit.
C. K. Allen will work with the group and continue Woodland Farms, at least for the near future. The Woodland Farms program will be rebuilt from females produced by embryo transfer from the best Woodland cows that were sold
