Meet Bryan Gill of South Dakota

We have Bryan Gill from Gill Red Angus on the phone today. Can you tell us how you got started in the cattle business, Bryan?

My brother and I took over my parents’ operation. Dad started Gill Red Angus in 1979. He had commercial cattle before that, but he bought his first registered cattle in 1979, and it progressed along the way, and then my parents retired, and we were here working with them, and when they retired, we just took it over. Back then, it was just commercial cattle, and then in 1979 when Dad bought the first registered Red Angus cattle back, before then, they had some, just kind of a mix-match. They had some herefords and some blacks and whatnot, but there was some red-angus cattle in the country. Then Dad really started to admire, and that’s how we chose Red Angus.

What do you think’s best about them?

For me, it’s the maternal end, it is second to none. The disposition is quiet. Flushability is there. It’s always in good shape, and they’ve got good feet and good utters, and the depths of body, and it’s just very easy to get along with, I guess, the red cattle.

April 22nd, at the ranch near Timberlake, South Dakota, we’re going to be selling 100 bulls, and in them bulls, 60 of them will be age-advantaged, and 40 of them will be yearlings, and then we’ll have 180 commercial replacement heifers, and then we’ll also have, one first time we’ve ever done this, it’s a pick of the herd, 2026 born heifer calves. So they’re just getting born now, but whoever buys it can come into here, and there’s approximately 600 registered cows calving right now, and they get to pick any calf heifer calf they want out of that deal.