About Us

Paul J. Brown
Chairman of the Board
pbrwon@cattle-empire.net

Roy N. Brown
CEO
rbrown@cattle-empire.net

Ronald C. Shortridge
CFO
rshortridge@cattle-empire.net

Dedicated to Providing the Best Possible Service to Our Customers!

Cattle Empire LLC is one of the largest family owned commercial cattle feeding operations in the United States.  We have 140,000 head capacity in three different feedlots which are all within 20 miles of each other.  Our feedlots sit in the Heart of the Beef Feeding Empire with all four major packers within 50 miles.  Cattle Empire has developed a tradition of honesty, hard work and performance, which can only be found in a family business.  
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Paul Brown started that tradition in 1978 and now it is carried on by his son Roy Brown.  Paul currently acts as Chairman of the Board of the company and oversees the various construction projects at the feed yards.  
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Roy Brown is the CEO and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company.  If you have any questions or problems in your dealings with Cattle Empire LLC, Roy is the one to contact.  
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Ron Shortridge is our CFO and is responsible for reporting the accuracy of financial and tax records.  Ron oversees bank relations and customer finance as well as overseeing financial strategies regarding purchasing and hedging.  Ron is also in charge of analyzing our subsidiary investments. 

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You are welcome to leave a message for Paul, Roy or Ron  if there is something we can do to make your feeding experience with Cattle Empire LLC more enjoyable or more profitable.
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Rather than to go in great detail trying to tell you about Paul Brown, Roy Brown and the Brown Family's empire, we prefer to let our friends do it.  Below you will find links to a collection of articles that have appeared in various publications which do a good job of telling our story.

LINKS TO ARTICLES:

As Cattle Empire grew, its reputation for honest dealings and reasonable cost of gains grew as well.  In the course of its growth, Paul Brown found his niche in feeding light cattle.  In one of her first articles on Paul Brown, Betty Jo Gigot for Calf Magazine highlights the Cattle Empire limit feed program for light cattle.

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Building An Empire -- Calf News Cattle Feeder
Building An Empire (Part 2) -- Calf News Cattle Feeder
Building An Empire (Part3) -- Calf News Cattle Feeder
Wanted: More Elbowroom -- Beef Today
A Look at the Future -- Calf News Cattle Feeder
Kansas Feedyard Empbarks on Liquid Business -- Feed-lot
Cattle Empire ....Light Cattle are Their Specialty-- Calf News
          Cattle Feeder
A Search for Excellence -- Calf News
Five Minutes with Roy Brown -- Cattle Network

 

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