Episode Details

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 the cattle and the people in the breed drew them in.

The core of the episode previews Pleasant View Farms’ first annual bull and female sale, scheduled for March 26, 2026, at the farm in Somers, Connecticut. The offering includes 28 lots of yearling Red Angus bulls, 11 yearling registered females, six embryo packages, and 25 Red Angus replacement heifers, with both bred and open groups. Jake highlights key sire groups, especially progeny of Burwald PVF Outright, an influential bull whose dam, Abba Grace 1110J, has become the matriarch of their program. He walks through several standout bull lots, stressing balanced calving ease, growth, carcass merit, and structural soundness.

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