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Red Hill Farms Honored as 2017 Red Angus Breeder of the Year

Johnny Rogers, left, presented Red Hill Farms of Lafayette, Tennessee, with the
Breeder of the Year Award. Ty, Sarah and Bart Jones, accepted the award at the
National Red Angus Convention in Colorado Springs in September.

Immeasurable passion, time and devotion stays engaged with their customers through
are common denominators on all esteemed continued education and outreach programs.
cattle farms and ranches. The producers who Additionally, the family is repeatedly a leader
rise above the rest are dedicated to pushing in volunteerism through Red Angus committee
boundaries and extracting the maximum return service, event hosting and advocacy for the Red
on investment from their cattle. The Red Angus Angus breed.
Association of America honored Red Hill Farms
headquartered in Lafayette, Tennessee, as the The original farm was purchased by Bart’s great-
Breeder of the Year at its 64th annual awards great-great-grandmother in the late 1860s. The
banquet in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on family has tilled the land with pride and raised
September 15, 2017. quality livestock for seven generations on the
rolling hills of northern middle Tennessee and
The Breeder of the Year Award is presented to south central Kentucky. Red Hill Farms operates
members who maintain an excellent standard in Macon County, Tennessee, as well as Allen,
of quality in breeding Red Angus cattle. Red Hill Monroe and Warren Counties in Kentucky.
Farms is owned by Bart, Sarah and Ty Jones and
Gordon and Susan Jones. The family farm consists of 450 Red Angus, Sim-
mental, SimAngus™ and Angus cows, 150 acres
The Jones family has a long history of promot- of burley tobacco, 100 purebred sows and row
ing Red Angus in their region and have never crops that support the livestock enterprises. The
wavered on their commitment to utilize data to cattle operation utilizes artifi cial insemination,
aggressively select for economically relevant embryo transfer, extensive performance records
traits and deliver greater profi tability to their and DNA analysis to produce bulls and females
commercial customers. Red Hill Farms believes for their annual sales held the last Saturday in
in the “More Than Just a Bull” philosophy and October and the third Saturday in March.