ANGUS Ancestry by Melissa McGee Buehler photos courtesy Conley Cattle
Kyle & Amanda Conley tap into their rich Angus heritage to grow their business.
September 2019
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Cattle was founded in 2006 by Kyle and Amanda (Penner) Conley. Their families’ roots run deep in the Angus business. Kyle is a third generation registered Angus breeder. His grandfather, William, Sr., started in 1944 at the Gibbet Hill Farm in Massachusetts and continued there
until Kyle’s father, Bill, bought the Gibbet Hill herd in the mid-1990s. Bill continues to manage his herd in northwest Missouri near Clarksdale. Amanda is a fifth generation Angus breeder with her family transitioning to Angus in 1912. She grew up on the Penner Ranch in Mill Creek, the old-
est business in Oklahoma. The Penner Ranch ran Hereford and Red Durham cattle in the early years of the operation. Felix Penner purchased the first Angus cattle in 1912 and began noticing the black cattle only had to move to water every other day versus daily like the red cattle. He eventually
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