Our operation was founded in 1935 by Marion Nicholas. The farm began with only 15 cows. Gary entered the operation full-time in 1958. Marion and Gary proceeded to purchase purebred Hereford females over the years. The use of polled bulls became prevalent in the mid '70's with 90% of the herd being polled today.

In the fall of 1995 we bought our first Gelbvieh cattle as somewhat of an experiment in a second breed. The Gelbvieh breed impressed us with their ability to combine so many traits into one package that the other exotics did not. These traits included growth, muscling, milking ability, lean meat yield, early sexual maturity and fertility, all combined in a relatively easy fleshing package.

The McCoy breeding program has been based on production related selection criteria right from day one. The focus of our breeding program has been to breed multi-trait cattle excelling in maternal and performance traits that are put together in a sound easy fleshing package.

The goal of our program has been to produce bulls equipped with the essentials to create value in progressive commercial cross-breeding programs. As our program has developed and matured we have put more and more focus on managing our herd with minimal input as we realize our customers will need to be low cost producers to be successful in the future.