Faraway Cattle Company

Faraway Cattle Company Faraway Cattle Company is a family owned and operated Charolais seedstock producer located in the foothills of North Carolina. The former follows the latter.

Our family has had beef cattle in the Piedmont of North Carolina forever. Personally, we’ve been students of cattle breeding and Charolais genetics since 1980, and indirectly involved in the cattle business since 1992, working in veterinary medicine. Our little herd has been around since 2003. We’ve had some success in the show ring and in bull tests, and we’ve been honored to have our cattle sele

cted by some great Charolais breeders. We believe that any successes we’ve had are attributable to the excellent advice of our friends and our efforts to keep it simple, and rely on just a few principles:
• The customers are cow-calf producers, cattle feeders, and consumers. Calving ease, reproduction, growth, and carcass traits all matter.
• Consistency in type and pedigree is of great value. Cattle with depth of pedigree ought to be sought out and respected.
• All other things being equal, it’s more fun to breed cattle that are structurally sound and easy to look at.

Check this out-- hear Colin Rex, Helge By, David Hobbs, Lee Eaton, and me talk about Charolais cattle. If you listen cl...
08/25/2026

Check this out-- hear Colin Rex, Helge By, David Hobbs, Lee Eaton, and me talk about Charolais cattle. If you listen closely, you can catch me guessing the price of a finished steer and getting within about $1500. Oops.

This guy came up to me and wanted to talk to me at the show in Brisbane a few weeks ago. Helge By told me later that he sent him to interview me because I talked a lot. Or something like that.

Podcast Episode · The Weekly Grill · August 14 · 25m

I was studying this April-May 1970 issue of the Charolais Bull-o-Gram and wanted to share a few articles, so I decided t...
08/24/2026

I was studying this April-May 1970 issue of the Charolais Bull-o-Gram and wanted to share a few articles, so I decided to just give the whole thing. I think I might have a near complete set of this publication- it was published by Litton Charolais Ranch from the late 1960s until maybe 1980. Pretty interesting, and they must have put just a ton of work into it.

This one has several articles about how and why Litton Charolais was leaving the practice of showing cattle competitively. They wanted to promote carcass shows only, and they had developed a sophisticated computerized animal breeding evaluation program. To be sure, they were way ahead of their time in a lot of ways. Stories about the new program and their show ideas are throughout the issue.

This issue also has stuff on the groundbreaking for the new AICA office on Old Spanish Trail in Houston- the last one before AICA went to Kansas City.

A good bit of tax advice— probably should check with your accountant before relying on 60 year old tax advice.

I looked, and the only obvious references to anybody still in the Charolais business is a Nord Farms ad on page 54, and I’m pretty sure Bill Arlitt’s sister is Miss Charolais USA in the show pictures on page 7.

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295 Howard Lingerfelt Road
Vale, NC
28168

Telephone

+17033620828

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