Cattle Ranch Of The Week: Harms Plainview Ranch

Harms Plainview Ranch is a unique operation in that the headquarters is situated on Kim’s family’s 120-year-old homestead. Henry & Minnie Buethe purchased the land the ranch now resides on and named it “Plainview Stock Farm” in 1885. Later, the land that was homesteaded by Kim’s great-uncle, known as Cedar Hill, was added to the operation.

While attending K-State, Kim met a Nebraska boy who was also studying Animal Sciences and Industry at KSU. They soon realized they shared a dream that began for both of them when they were children still at home. In 1990 Mark and Kim were married. While both of them worked on graduate degrees at KSU, Kim’s parents, at the young age of 75, decided to sell the homeplace and retire. Mark and Kim decided to purchase the land from her parents and Harms Plainview Ranch began with roots that run deep in the soil and an eye to the future. Kim and Mark’s children, Taylor, Cade and Payton Harms are the fifth generation to raise cattle and horses on the land.

Mark’s passion for genetics and animal breeding soon led to the decision to develop a primarily seedstock operation. In 1993, Harms Plainview Ranch purchased the most complete set of functional Angus females they could find. It comes as no surprise these cows were found not too far away at the home of Dr. Don and Jane Good in Olsburg, KS. As the ranch’s operation has grown it has added a few females from reputable breeders, but the heart and soul of Harms Plainview Ranch has grown out of that original purchase. At this same time Mark and Kim had the good fortune to choose an outstanding yearling bull from Kevin and Mary Hunt’s production sale. This bull, Hunts Calculator 2720, not only became a herdbuilder here, but in several programs across the country as he enjoyed much success and popularity as an Alta Genetics and Genex herd sire. Calculator passed away in 2003, but his legacy lives on in his many daughters at HPR and in other progeny across the U.S. and abroad.

HPR has always viewed breeding seedstock as a lifetime achievement… pursuing excellence one generation at a time. The goal of their efforts has always been to increase the profitability of their valued customers. That focus has not and will never change. The reported successes of their customers drive the breeding decisions HPR makes for future offerings, this quite simply is why a growing number of profit-minded producers have come to rely on Harms Plainview Ranch as their “Partner in Progress.”

For more information visit: www.harmsranch.com

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