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Hannah Farber
| Nov 09, 2026
Kathy Palladini of Double K Longhorns in the Texas Hill Country didn’t set out to breed colorful cattle. She set out to breed correct ones; large-framed, rectangle conformation, feminine females with strong toplines. Over time, the color followed the conformation. So did a photography business and a canvas art page she never planned on building.
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Hannah Farber
| Nov 06, 2026
Jeff and Marcia Wilson started with a single steer meant as yard art and built it into a growing Texas Longhorn herd. Their new Hired Hand powered website brought in its first inquiry within two hours of going live.
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Hannah Farber
| Oct 26, 2026
Lexi & Lane Schweigert built Maple Trace Farm as a tribute to family roots and a path of their own, and their new Hired Hand powered website leans on the pedigree feature to help show off both their herd and the breed.
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Hannah Farber
| Oct 14, 2026
Austin McCollough is building McCollough Longhorns from outside the usual Longhorn strongholds, backed by a growing herd, a favorite cow named Lucky Lucy, and a new Hired Hand powered website designed to help buyers find him wherever they are.
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Hannah Farber
| Oct 08, 2026
Steve and Leanne Caret moved to Texas looking for a home and found Prairie Palace Farm instead, a small herd built around morning walks, a growing community, and two dogs who can't get enough of the steers they resemble. Their new Hired Hand website is helping them build the relationships and trust they're after.
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Hannah Farber
| Oct 02, 2026
Wes Autry's Longhorns started as pasture art and turned into a genuine passion, the latest chapter in a three-generation ranch that's raised everything from hogs to leopards. His new Hired Hand website leans on the linked pedigree system to handle both advertising and record-keeping.
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Hannah Farber
| Sep 25, 2026
Baroque Farm breeds Highland ponies and Andalusian horses under a name pulled from centuries of European history and a Cajun term for a little something extra. Anna Hill's new Hired Hand website aims to bring an endangered breed into the spotlight and help the right people find their next horse.
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Hannah Farber
| Sep 21, 2026
Reid and Ashley Tolar of Tolar Longhorns in Prattville, Alabama are four generations into a cattle family that has never done anything quite like this. What started as a pasture maintenance plan became a registered Texas Longhorn breeding program, a direct-to-consumer beef operation, and one of the Southeast's most promising trophy steer destinations, built by a lawyer, a horse trainer, and a four-year-old gate guy named Watson.
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Hannah Farber
| Sep 14, 2026
Paul Miller's path to Texas Longhorns started with a favor for his brother-in-law and turned into Miller Cattle Company, a ranch built on family, mentorship, and the joy of a new calf hitting the ground. His new Hired Hand website is helping the right buyers finally find what he's built.
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Hannah Farber
| Sep 02, 2026
Ryann Bauer started Rock Bottom Ranch in Maiden Rock, Wisconsin in 2022 with two heifer calves and no ranching background. Four years later she is approaching 50 head, building toward a nonprofit that will use Longhorns to serve survivors of human trafficking, and sharing the unfiltered reality of first-generation ranch life with a growing online audience.
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Hannah Farber
| Aug 26, 2026
Hunter and Jordan Boelte found Texas Longhorns three years ago on a centennial farm in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma, right along the path of the Great Western Cattle Trail. In that time they have built one of the most talked-about young programs in the breed, with Country Song Chex heading to Bull Alley in 2026 and a breeding philosophy built around one simple idea: when you come to Flying B, every animal in the field should make you stop.
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Holly Peacock
| Aug 24, 2026
We recently attended the 2026 Top Hand Longhorn Sale. The sale used Hired Hand Live for internet viewing and bidding. Check out how the internet influenced bidding, plus view photos from the event.
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Hannah Farber
| Aug 14, 2026
Eddie Driskill built D&D Longhorns from scratch with no hired help and strong Texas Longhorn genetics. Now a new Hired Hand powered website helps this family-run ranch get the recognition its bloodlines deserve.
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Hannah Farber
| Aug 11, 2026
Cody Robbins has spent nearly 13 seasons filming some of the biggest bucks in North America for Live 2 Hunt on the Outdoor Channel. What most people don't know is that he has spent just as long building Rafter 7 Longhorns in Delisle, Saskatchewan, one of the only registered Texas Longhorn programs in Canada bringing world-class American genetics north of the border.
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Hannah Farber
| Aug 04, 2026
Mike and Kali Smith of Cold Copper Ranch in Burnet, Texas traded a refrigeration company for 300 acres, a Guinness World Record cow, a pasture-finished beef program, and two feed store locations. They did not plan most of it.
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Holly Peacock
| Jul 27, 2026
We recently attended the 2026 Great Northern Longhorn Classic. The sale used Hired Hand Live for internet viewing and bidding. Check out how the internet influenced bidding, plus view photos from the event.
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Hannah Farber
| Jul 14, 2026
Tanner Evans of Frontier Longhorns in Abilene, Texas came back to the breed he grew up with and built a program around a philosophy: preserve the legacy of the Texas Longhorn while building something that stands the test of time.
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Hannah Farber
| Jul 07, 2026
Leslie and Marshall Merritt of Norse Ridge Ranch near Dallas built a registered Texas Longhorn program around three words: therapy, beauty, and respect. Two hours from the city, every weekend on the ranch has become something their 36-year marriage did not know it was missing.
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Holly Peacock
| Jun 29, 2026
We recently attended the 2026 Oregon Trail Sale. The sale used Hired Hand Live for internet viewing and bidding. Check out how the internet influenced bidding, plus view photos from the event.
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Hannah Farber
| Jun 29, 2026
What started as a comment at Thanksgiving dinner became a full-time Texas Longhorn breeding and beef program in New England, and a mission to build the Longhorn community across the entire Northeast.
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