1975 —
First Bull Sale - 115 bulls averaged
$578/bull. Top selling bull brought $1175.
1976 —
Simbrah was added to the herd for
more heat tolerance and hybrid vigor to
help customers in areas needing that factor
1981—
Betsy Brown Bellah & her husband
Jody come home to the ranch to manage
the accounting, the commercial cow herd
and expand the wheat farming division
of the family business to 5,000 acres to
be used in developing the growing bulls
and replacement heifers from weaning to
yearling
1987 —
Red Angus was added to the
program with the purchase of Roy Beeby’s
entire crop of Replacement heifers An
airplane load of Senepol cattle were
imported from the Virgin Islands to be
used in a planned crossbreeding program
to bring heat tolerance and hybrid vigor
without Brahman influence. Added benefits
were better dispositions, quality grade and
tenderness
1988 —
The entire Greenway Angus
herd (400 cows) was purchased under the
advisement of Dr Bob Long who had been
consulting for them to build the Dynamo
based herd Big cows were in demand and
after bringing the cows to Texas the 100
daughters of Pine Drive Big Sky were sold
which almost paid for the entire herd
1989—
The composite Hotlander™ herd
was started under the advisement of
Dr Keith Gregory at the Meat Animal
Research Center (MARC) & Dr. Ronnie
Green at Texas Tech. Angus (red & black),
Simmental, Brahman and Senepol were
blended to create the ultimate hybrid for
hot environments
1990 —
Rob A Brown with his wife
Talley, in partnership with Rob & Jody
Bellah bought an interest in a
commercial feedyard where
feedlot and carcass data was
gathered in testing of the ranch’s
top sires
1993 —
R A Brown Ranch
honored as the Seedstock
Producer of the Year by the
Beef Improvement Federation
Donnell & Kelli Brown graduate
from college and come back to
the ranch to help manage the
seedstock business
1995 —
Rob Brown serves as President
of American Quarter Horse Association
Marianne Brown McCartney and her
husband Todd return to the ranch to manage
one of the seedstock cow herds
1997 —
The Ranchers Renaisance (RR)
alliance was born and became one of the
most successful alliances throughout the
next decade RR started with a meeting at
the ranch when Rob & Donnell unveiled
their vision to a group of people invited
from all segments of the beef industry
1997 —
Cooperator Herd program started
in order to fill the growing demand for
more bulls The Brown Gardiner Angus
partnership was formed to add a franchise
herd of Gardiner Angus Genetics That
same year a trade was made with Jim
Leachman for our pick of 17 females
from his Elite Nucleus Red Angus herd in
exchange for his pick of 17 head from our
Quarter Horse mares and foals
1998 —
An intensive Embryo Transfer
program was started to help multiply the
superior RAB genetics
1998-2000 —
All cows on the ranch were
dry-lotted and fed all winter, due to severe
drought conditions
Elevation Wednesday
38th Annual Bull & Female Sale
2012
1999 —
R A Brown Ranch is one of
nine ranches to be named NCBA Cattle
Business of the Century and later that
year, Rob was honored as the nation’s top
rancher with the Golden Spur Award
2000 —
75% of the ranch was unusable
because of drought drying up drinking
water supplies
2001 —
Just before the drought breaks, R
A Brown Ranch has a mature cow herd
dispersal of their Angus and Red Angus
cow herds Embryos were implanted
in commercial cows to rebuild the elite
nucleus herd The new AI and Bull
Development Center was also constructed
2002 —
Browns continue their intensive
embryo transfer program and start selling
every 3 year old 1A Red Angus female
every year
2006 —
Bull sale cancelled Over 500
bulls were sent to slaughter All of the
registered Angus cow herd was sold to
Three Trees Ranch in GA Bred heifers,
weaned heifers and embryos were kept to
rebuild the Angus herd
2007 —
Rob Brown honored with the
Beef Improvement Federation’s Pioneer
Breeder Award
2008-2010 —
Kelli Brown elected to
serve as the National President for the Red
Angus Association of America
July 5, 2009 —
Casey Zboril was hired
to take the reins as Ranch Foreman,
continuing the heritage of managing over
1000 seedstock cows at the RAB
Summer, 2011 —
Due to severe drought
conditions, some of the registered
cows were shipped to lease country in
Montana
October 10, 2012 —
Brown JYJ
Redemption Y1334 sells for $140,000 at
the R A Brown Ranch 38th Annual Bull,
Female, & Quarter Horse Sale
October 9-11, 2013
— The R A Brown
Ranch Legacy Sale, The Complete & Total
Dispersal, and 39th Annual Bull Sale held
at the historic, R A Brown Ranch
9
