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While many web sites provide a detailed history of the farm or ranch’s origin, we at Hopewell Farm hope you might also be interested in what is happening now and what is planned for the future. With that in mind we offer you this page.

A little about the past:

We became Hopewell Farms in 1986 when we purchased 323 acres south of Indianapolis, IN. The farm had been one of several owned by a local doctor and as it was located at the edge of the Hopewell/Big Springs community had always been referred to as “The Hopewell Farm”. The name stuck and came with us when we relocated to Northeast Missouri in 1999.

By the time that we moved to Missouri the cow herd which had started at Hopewell as an “almost” Angus based commercial herd had changed to a solid productive group of purebred Angus females. Those changes had begun in 1989 when we had spent the week after Thanksgiving looking at some of the finest Angus animals in Montana. That week contains several major Montana Angus sales: N Bar, Vermillion, Sitz and at that time, the combined sale of the Stevenson, Basin and Diamond Dot ranches. It was at Basin that we had found the quality of cattle and people we wanted. The first sale we returned with the best heifers we had ever owned. The second with more heifers and sons of three of the best bulls the breed has seen: Basin Max 602C, QAS Traveler 23-4, and GDAR Rainmaker 340. Both the Hopewell cow herd and our friendship with Doug Stevenson and his family have grown from there.

Hopewell Farms today is a combination of row crop and pasture totaling about 2500 acres. It is a combination of 450 spring and fall calving Basin and Hopewell owned cows. It is a combination of two generations, Bob and Lynn, sons Bobby and Alec, and Bobby’s wife Patty. It is a combination of the hardest work and the best way of life in the world.

A thing or two for the future:

March 17, 2010- Basin Angus Spring Production Sale, selling 400 bulls at 12 noon, MDT
March 27, 2010- 2nd Annual Customer Appreciation/Private Treaty Bull Day postponed due to scheduling conflict with NEMO BCIA Performance Tested Bull Sale.
November 29 & 30, 2010- Basin Angus Fall Production Sale, selling 200 Elite Registered Females, 500 bulls and 1000 Commercial Females.