Julian Cattle Company

I caught up with Tommy Julian and Staci Addison of Julian Cattle Company as they were hauling a four-bull team to the Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour Dayton Rumble at the Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio for Saturday, March 11. They were overnighting somewhere in Missouri, and they were delightful folks to interview!

It is quite obvious that they both love what they do. And the fourbull team they were hauling would compete in the CBR Bull Team Challenge as part of the Million Dollar Bull Team Challenge. This same four-bull team won the CBR Bull Team Challenge three weeks ago in Cedar Park, Texas. The bulls are 130 Clown, 908 Brimstone, 40-9 No Socks (co-owned by Checkered Flag out of South Carolina), and F00 Sugar Smack.

It is also quite obvious that this couple and their Julian Cattle Company have a lot going for them right now! They own a two-year-old bull named Holy Shift, who bucks with the bucking dummy. A few weeks ago, Holy Shift was in the ABBI competition in Oklahoma City. The top five bulls from that event were then invited to compete during the PBR Unleash the Beast event in Little Rock, Arkansas the next weekend. The CBS commentators shared with the viewers that Holy Shift is the number one two year-old and has won $122,000 this year!

Staci Addison and Tommy Julian - PBR World Finals, 2021

Julian Cattle Company is also partnered with D&H Cattle Company and co-owns the current number one PBR bull 35F Cool Whip (based on a minimum of four outs). “Cool Whip is my favorite bull right now,” Tommy Julian revealed. “He’s got a good shot at winning the PBR Champion Bull title this year. We sure hope he wins the title!”

“Cool Whip was the Derby Reserve Champion two-years ago,” Tommy continued, “and he was the Classic Champion last year. He also won the Women’s Futurity World Championship in 2021, with Staci flanking him. He has earned a total of $325,000 so far in his career!”

Julian Cattle Company also is partnered with D&H Cattle Company and co-owns 705E Manaba, who is currently in 6th place in the PBR world standings. They also co-own F20 Alakazam with D&H Cattle Company, currently in 9th place. Other hot bulls right now that Tommy and Staci co-own with D&H Cattle Company are 70F Brusta, and 23G Erik the Red. They also own 922 Flyin Wired, who is in a four-way tie for 20th place with Woopaa, Utz BesTex Smokestack, and Pookie Holler.

Staci Addison and Tommy Julian - Guthrie, OK

Julian Cattle Company calls Broken Bow, Oklahoma home. They have 700 acres down in the southeastern corner of the state, and have about 70 bulls, both young and old, that they are raising. Tommy started Julian Cattle Company as just “Tommy Julian” about six years ago, partnering with D&H Cattle Company on the bull 20A High Test. High Test won the 2017 ABBI Classic Championship.

After about three years, Staci Addison entered the picture and they formed Julian Cattle Company. They bought some cows from D&H Cattle Company and brought them to the ranch and started a breeding program.

Cool Whip as a two year old

“We are unbelievably blessed,” Staci shared. “Tommy is outwardly very calm, very unemotional all the time. But inside, he is the most competitive person I’ve ever known! At the beginning, he went to HD Page at D&H Cattle Company and told him he wanted to win! That’s how he started partnering with D&H on some bulls.”

“Being in the bull business is a lot of work and a lot of time,” Tommy said. “But when you have that great out from a bull, it makes you feel so good, so joyful, that you just want to continue to do it.”

Staci added, “Our bulls, our mama cows and our calves are as much a part of our lives as if they were our children. There is so much more involved than just putting them on a trailer and hauling them to an event. We are very ‘hands on’. I will sit on a five-gallon bucket with a treat in my hand and hold it out to a bull for sometimes as long as 30 minutes…just to get the bull to come and smell my hand.”

“Our bulls are excited to buck,” Staci then declared. “When we pull up a truck or get out a flank rope, there’s just something in all of them that wants a relationship with you, either good or bad! We love them and we treat them with respect. When we go to buy a bull, we don’t pay as much attention to the bloodline as we just watch how that bull bucks.”

Future buckers!

Tommy grew up on a small cow farm in Valliant, Oklahoma. He was never involved in the rodeo, but his dad raised some bulls in the mid-90’s. Tommy played sports in high school and college and was involved in racing for many years before becoming a stock contractor.

Staci was a fundraising consultant out of college, and she traveled all over the country. She eventually got burnt out and moved to Washington state and became an inn keeper. After a couple of years of spreading joy in Washington, she moved to Tishomingo, Oklahoma and became the inn keeper at the inn owned by Miranda Lambert. She was introduced to Eddie Dempsey, a friend of Tommy’s, who later introduced them to each other.

Holy Shift - 93.52 points Little Rock, AR - March 2023

“Our plan is to continue our breeding program. We want to compete and keep doing what we are doing,” Tommy concluded. “We have our first sale coming up Memorial Day weekend. It will be an online sale as well as an on-location sale in Broken Bow.”

“We love what we do, and it shows,” Staci declared. “We are very intentional in all we do. We want to spread the good we have through all our relationships. We pay attention to all the tiny, minor details. It is important to Tommy and I to be good stewards to everyone.”

Editor’s note: The four-bull team that Julian Cattle Company hauled to Dayton did not win the Bull Team Challenge on Saturday night. But their bull Sugar Smack was crowned the Bull of the Event as he bucked off Marco Eguchi in 3.52 seconds in the championship round for an event high 44 points.

Staci and Cool Whip

Photos provided by Julian Cattle Company