BF 1 on left and Lasater 9357 (Colorado) on right. When I purchased 9357 on 9/13/1990, 2 years after I produced BF 1 from a Lasater bred bull and Lasater
bred cow purchased from Black Jack Cattle Company, I did so based on my belief in the Lasater Philosophy. His color
meant as much as his horn set, NOTHING. I was buying with confidence from a program that had proven itself over and
over again. 5 months short of 9 years later I had produced no paint calves and very few horned calves, but I had moved
my breeding program forward exponentially with fertile heifers, good udders and cattle that could survive where
rattlesnakes carry canteens, all in a way that would convince me that Tom Lasater was more than a cattleman, he was a
Cowman. Today over 60% of our cowherd carries the genetics of these two bulls, 60% of a cowherd that was recently reduced
from 180 cows to 70 cows due to drought, we kept the cows that can survive with no intervention. When a bull
reaches this kind of influence he has proved himself as a "Performance Herdsire"
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