Building Virginia's premier land and cattle company with the mission of improving Culpeper and Madison farmland and the Hereford Cattle breed.
Welcome to the Underwood Farms website. We are a Culpeper, Virginia, based land and cattle company that owns and manages a registered and commercial Hereford herd of more than 200 cattle on more than 1,000 acres in Culpeper and Madison Counties.
The objective of our cattle herd is to improve the Hereford breed. The aspiration sounds lofty, but we are confident that we are well-positioned to contribute. We breed with a focus on Beef Quality, Disposition, Vigor, Conformation, and Doability. We line breed to instill prepotency in the herd and to correct the inconsistency prevalent in the current Hereford breed and any genetic defects among our cattle.
Because of our rigorous pursuit of better, more prepotent Herefords, we cull extensively. We generally do not sell Herefords to other registered breeders at this time, because of the significant experiments we are undertaking with a wide variety of Hereford genetics. We love talking about cattle, and appreciate calls from experienced breeders, prospective breeders, and even individuals that need a steer to eat their grass so that they qualify for a lower real estate tax rate. Thoughts on topics as diverse as cattle breeding, local zoning issues, education and various businesses we study are available under the tab entitiled "Tom's Thoughts."
We also sell beef by the half from steers that we raise on the farm. Our beef meets the standards of our cattle. The steers are raised without hormone implants and without antibiotics. Those needed anti-biotics for treatment are culled. We finish most of our beef on lush pasture land with increasing amounts of corn available to the steers by choice. Based upon customer demand, we also finish beef exclusively on grass.
