About Us

Freeman Beef Genetics has a deep root in the Great Plains.  Ralph Freeman was born on the Matodor ranch in Texas in 1924.  His parents ended up near the fertile elk creek bottom between Hobart and Sentinel Oklahoma.  This elk creek bottom and the dry hills around it are where Ralph grew up before heading off to WW2.  

Upon his return from Germany he married Maurine Hopkins and together they raised 4 children near Sentinel Oklahoma.  Their boy Charles Ralph Freeman, DVM  grew up on a cotton plow in the same area as his father and grew to dislike cotton farming and this strengthened his desire for animal agriculture and gave him a desire to go to veterinary school at Oklahoma State University.  Charles graduated from veterinary school and returned to SW Oklahoma to practice veterinary medicine in 1973.  

Charles and Betty Freeman raised their 5 children, CR, Valerie, Andrea, Melody, and Joe Max in Hobart, Oklahoma.  CR the oldest son of Charles and Betty Freeman founded premium Beef Feeders and currently feeds natural cattle and farms alfalfa, cereal grains, and other forages in the same elk creek bottoms that his grandfather was raised in.  Joe Max and Meghan Freeman returned to southwest Oklahoma following veterinary school in 2010, and began raising their family in the same region Joe Max grew up. Joe Max currently practices veterinary medicine and raises registered red and black angus cattle.  

Our family has always had one constant in western Oklahoma agriculture and that is the production of beef cattle.  We raise what we think are the most efficient and highest quality red and black angus cattle we can produce.  We focus on several traits that we believe are integral in success and profitability of a beef cattle herd.  

Number one is disposition, if an animal within our herd has a bad disposition they are culled.  Cattle with bad attitudes are a safety hazard for ourselves, our employees, and our customers.  Number two is reproductive efficiency.  We strive to have cows that will settle to either AI or natural service within their first 2 estrus cycles that breeding is attempted.  Third we focus on soundness of our cattle.  We believe foot structure and flexibility is key.  Fourth we love phenotype.  EPDs are good tools, but only as good as the data returned to the breed association, and we still have to look at the cattle in the pasture. 

We believe that phenotype trumps EPD in most instances, and true cattlemen still will find those cattle that are calm, efficient, and structurally sound.