Our family is looking into starting a commercial cattle operation, I have done research into what breed would best fit our situation and have an idea of what I think would fit, but would like other opinions. As of right now our family owns about 300 acres of land, most going towards crop land. We have aprox. 20 acres that we could use for our operation at this time and this is ground we have used for crop so we would still have to fence and plant grass. We live in northern IN, I don't know if the ground here is good for pasture land. For hay forages we would be able to afford decent hay but by no means high quality. Basically we have little resources to deal with until we can buy up more land (hopefully prices go down). If there is any information you'd like to know let me know. On a side note we are just diving into cattle head first with out prior experience, we have shown and, just recently, started raised show cattle. We already have five head that we put on a 7 acre pasture with hay feeders. Thanks for any input.