Milburn American Wagyu

Milburn American Wagyu is a Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) certified producer of quality, home-raised Wagyu and Angus cattle. Through this certification process, we are able to ensure proper management techniques and a commitment to quality throughout every segment of our process. Our focus is quality replacement heifers. As demand increased, we began to offer frozen genetics as well.

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Our carrying capacity is limited due to the amount of pasture available to us. As a result, our cattle are housed in the feedlot here on the home place for roughly five months out of the year. We “go to grass” and start calving in April. The pairs return home in November. We pay a tremendous amount of attention to our winter-feeding programs. Working closely with various Feed/Nutrition Specialists, we are able to maximize this portion of our production process.

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We grind great amounts of feed. Every pound goes through our 30-year-old Roto Grind grinder. “Old Faithful” is on the third set of hammers and still grinding like it was brand new. It’s been tipped over, shot at, and pulled a thousand miles. I can’t seem to wear it out. I was so impressed with Roto Grind that I acquired dealership rights to Southeastern Colorado in 2016. I now sell Roto Grind grinders throughout the United States.

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In 2019, my wife of 31 years lost a lengthy battle with cancer. Most of 2020 was spent grieving, evaluating, downsizing and restructuring. Part of that process included bringing on a full time Ranch Manager. I was able to steal Anna Roan from a large feedlot/farm in a neighboring county. Her son Lane had worked for me throughout high school. In 2021, Anna and I were married.

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To build on that relationship, we have partnered with our kids. They manage much of our recip herd north of Hays, Kansas. There, the cattle are much closer to the embryologist, and vet doing the implant/Al work. Life is good.

Bryan Milburn