Klompien Red Angus

Klompien Red Angus raises red Angus cattle on the Amsterdam Road outside Manhattan, Montana, in the heart of the Gallatin Valley about 20 miles north of Bozeman. Dave and Kay Klompien run the operation as a family business, with their daughters and sons-in-law playing active roles in the day-to-day work of the ranch.

The herd's roots stretch back to 1968, when Kay's parents, Clint and Doris Kallestad, founded CK Red Angus. Dave and Kay established Klompien Red Angus in 1990 by purchasing the CK replacements and leasing the rest of that original herd, giving their program a continuous lineage of more than 57 years — one of the longest-running red Angus operations in the country. The ranch currently runs 200 mother cows and retains around 70 replacement heifers each year.

The breeding philosophy centers on well-balanced, maternal, functional cattle, with an emphasis on avoiding extremes. Feet, udders, attitude, structure, fertility, and calving ease are all selection filters; animals with problems in any of those areas are culled. The mama cow is considered the foundation of the program, and Dave's background in the dairy industry reinforces a particular focus on udder quality. For ranchers searching for red Angus cattle for sale in Montana, this multi-generational program offers breeding stock shaped by decades of consistent selection pressure on the traits that matter in a commercial cow herd. Kay has served in multiple positions on the Montana Red Angus Board of Directors and currently holds the Montana Director seat on the National Red Angus Board.

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