Episode
Pleasant View Farms 1st Annual Bull & Female Sale
- Podcast
- American Cattlemen Podcast
- Published
- Mar 23, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2678
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/american-cattlemen-podcast-6597360/episodes/pleasant-view-farms-1st-annual-bull-female-sale/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/american-cattlemen-podcast-6597360/pleasant-view-farms-1st-annual-bull-female-sale.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Welcome back to Genetics & the Gavel, powered by American Cattlemen Media. Just ahead, we have Gale McKinney, he's the Owner of American Cattlemen Media, and he sits down with Jake Lipton, Owner of Pleasant View Farms. In this episode, Jake and Gale will dive into the Pleasant View Farms 1st Annual Bull & Female Sale, held on March 26th, 2026, at 1PM EST, at the Farm in Somers, Connecticut. Pleasant View Farms has been family owned and operated in Somers, Connecticut since it was founded in 1918. Their mission is producing top quality Red Angus cattle. Their goal is to raise and breed animals to benefit any operation. They strive for animals that are balanced by breeding for performance, disposition, and phenotype. Jake explains that the farm began as a dairy enterprise started by his great-grandfather, who emigrated from Poland. Over the decades, the dairy herd expanded to nearly 300 Holsteins and was an early adopter of embryo transfer technology. However, economic pressures in the late 1980s led the family to participate in the National Dairy Buyout Program, ending their dairy days in 1987. Jake’s father maintained the land through crops and feed sales until Jake and his brother reignited the livestock side. Jake describes how the operation evolved into a diversified crop and feed business serving farms throughout the Northeast, and more recently into PVF Red Angus, launched around 2020. Initially, they focused on beef production for a strong local direct-to-consumer freezer beef market. Over time, they became deeply committed to building a maternal-focused Red Angus cow herd suited to their environment but capable of thriving elsewhere. Jake recounts extensive travels across major cattle states to study leading Red Angus programs and emphasizes that both th…