Industry Involvement

Our family welcomes the opportunity to participate in all facets of the cattle industry. We are active in the local, state, regional and national beef and Angus organizations.

At the 2026 Certified Angus Beef conference we received the Seedstock Commitment to Excellence Award.  We purchase and feed to harvest over 600 customer steers a year.  We also purchase and develop over 300 heifers a year.  We started a small buy-back program in 2008 and it has grown to a large part of our program.  We harvest at National Beef in Kansas through US Premium Beef.  We get individual harvest data on all steers and return that data to our customers.

We have been a member of the AAA Maternal Plus program since 2018.  We received Gold Data Driven Herd status in 2025 and 2026, the first two years of the award.  We submit over 6,000 data points on our cattle every year to AAA.  This data helps make the EPDs on our herd as accurate as possible.  Using all available tools is an integral part of our program.

At the 2015 American Angus Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, James was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Angus Association and reelected to a three-year term in 2018.  In 2018 and 2019 he served as Chairman of the Angus Foundation Board. In addition to AAA service James served two terms on the Board of Directors and as President of the Kentucky Angus Association. He also chaired the Promotion and Sweepstakes Committees. James is treasurer of the Kentucky Cattlemen’s Foundation.  James served on the Board of Directors and as President of the Central Kentucky Angus Association (CKAA). Grandfather J. L. was a founding member of CKAA, served on the Board of Directors and as President.

In 2014 Branch View Angus was selected by the Kentucky Angus Association as Performance Breeder of the year. Also, in 2014 J. L. received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. In 2010 James represented the American Angus Association on the Young Cattlemen’s Conference Tour sponsored by the National Beef Cattle Association. In 2009 J. L and Evelyn received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kentucky Angus Association. In 2003 J. L received the Historic Herd Awards from the American Angus Association and the Kentucky Angus Association for over 50 years of breeding Angus cattle.