Meet Newsam Angus

Today we have Levi Newsom from the Newsam Angus Ranch in South Dakota. How did you get started in the cattle business, Levi?

“My great-grandpa settled right here in the Murdo area and he was a farmer-r rancher and he was kind of the end of that because his kid didn’t want it and so that land sold and then my dad come along and he was a carpenter and decided he wanted to be a cowman and so he started a cow herd when I was young maybe even before I was born and so then it just kind of spun off of that. He bought us a registered cow when I was really young and we kind of dabbled with that just a little bit here and there and I took over pretty young. We lost him when I was 18 and so I kind of got thrown to the wolves and took off with it and once I was kind of on my own and got a little bit established I started pushing harder on the registered deal and got to the point where all the cows are registered and so we keep all of our own replacement and we have a annual bull sale right here at the place. We’ve been selling bulls for I don’t know 15 years at least. Last year we made it move to move it right to our place and it was really well received and went really good so we’re gearing up to do it again on Saturday April 18th. We’re going to sell 55 yearling Angus bulls and about 15 registered Angus heifers and have a good meal and we do something a little bit different here than a lot of places we do it in the evening so our sales start at six o’clock on April 18th.”

That was Levi Newsam from the Newsam Angus Ranch.