Lovejoy Cattle Company

The bulls are fed on the range with plenty of exercise which results in athletic, lean muscled, structurally correct with good feet which enables the bulls to travel and cover a cow herd without resulting in a meltdown that occurs with corn fed feedlot bulls. The bulls are handled in a natural environment that is conducive to the longevity of the useful life span of the bull, which cattlemen, cattlewomen, and bankers appreciate.

We have introduced the Fleckvieh Simmental to cross with angus cows to produce big, beefy, blazed faced, half-blood simmy bulls.  We feel this is an optimum cross and works extremely well for commercial cattlemen selling pounds of beef.  We have fed out all our steers for the last five years and are extremely pleased with the carcass quality, yield, and grade.  The simmy cross out perform the straight angus in the feedlot and hang and nice big carcass.  The females are also exceptional mother cows with a calm attitude, good udder and milk, and feet that hold up.

Occasionally we go off the rails — watch the PBR for bucking bulls:  Top Hat, Bil, Up North Outlaw, and Lovejoycattle.com., owned by our son. 

We welcome you and please stop in – anytime. Contact Chris at 605-208-1357.

We are pleased to announce that we are south central South Dakota’s Rio Max mineral dealer.  After using the mineral for a year, and having 2% open cows in the fall of 2024, I was convinced that this is a variable opinion for herd health.  Prior to using Rio Max I used a custom mineral mix in tubs, however, the company sold out and the new ingredients were not up to the same standards and I noticed a decrease in the cows over all condition.  At that time, I decided to try Rio Max but I was concerned about the cost.  After using it for a year and have 2% open cows in the fall of 2024 when the normal rate was 15%-20% in the area, I felt that it paid for itself.  The cows condition and hair improved and they digest and utilize the feed better, actually eating less and gaining weight.  I am convinced that Rio Max is a superior product.  I am feeding it also to the all of our calves that we background and they are more content and healthy and the consumption of feed has decreased but they calves are actually gaining more on less feed due to the gut health and utilization of the feed. [VIEW WEBSITE]

We are excited about the 100 head of private treaty bulls for sale.  Private treaty bid off ending February 15, 2022. 
Offer will include 50 angus bulls and 50 simmy bulls – available to view at any time. 
Sires include:  Musgrave Exclusive, SAV Renew, SAV Raindance, S Powerpoint, Proclamation, Brink 825.  The best set of bulls we have produced yet – and we are very thankful for our previous customers and successful sale in 2021.

LACC Renown N18E , one of our high selling bulls from 2018.

We recently became a recent shareholder of the bull stud. Additional details are coming soon. 
See the Custom Genetic Solutions website for any questions.

We recently purchased prospective donors from Schaaf Angus Valley and were successfully flushed.
We will have progeny available out of Baldridge Colonel, Cowboy Up, and Active Duty in the spring of 2018. Contact us for additional details.

We were honored to recently host several dignitaries from China. They were colleagues from the Chinese Department of Agriculture and were on a ranch visit procuring Simmental genetics to cross with Wagyu. Accompanying them was Dr. Tom Seitz from the University of Wyoming.