Welcome to our home in beautiful Dixie County Florida. Our specialty is registered polled hereford cattle.Evergreen Registered Polled Herefords My goal is to have all of our cattle to grade USDA choice or better. When selecting traits I first look at calving ease both direct and maternal. Next, I examine carcass quality for rib eye, inter muscular fat, and fat. Then we look at phenotype, a dark red with good eye pigmentation, and conservative white markings. I do not believe in line breeding. I insist on at least 4 generations of separation. I learned a lesson in 1962 that I have yet to forget with 5 polled hereford heifers.

Ray & Anne HodgesOur Farm History

Raymond and Anne Hodges are the owner-operators of Evergreen Polled Herefords. Our farm specializes in polled herefords and our herd is certified brucellosis free. We are a Total Performance Records (TPR) member of the American Hereford Association (AHA) as opposed to a "pedigree only" farm.    MORE....


Arialle SpencerHerefords Make A Come Back At The Florida State Fair

Arialle Spencer from Evergreen Farm brings home a Reserve Grand Champion in the 2008 Florida State Fair. Arialle is joined by Levi Henderson, Wesley Roe and Holly Roe exhibiting thier heifers purchased from Evergreen.   MORE....


Certified Hereford BeefEvergreen Hereford Beef for the Freezer

Do you ever think about what beef would taste like if it weren't full of growth hormones and feed from questionable sources? We raise every animal as if it were going to be fed at our table. And some of them do make it to our table.    MORE....


Young CowboysOur Foundation Herd

Our foundation herd focus in the beginning was calving ease and growth. As time went along the focus gradually shifted to carcass quality. For about half of the first cows in our foundation herd, we consider further enhancement of their calving ease is needed.   MORE....


Rubic CubeHow To Read EPD's

EPD’s are an estimate of an animal's genetic worth for that particular trait. An EPD is expressed in the units of measure for that trait. EPD’s are based on a combination of performance information from an animal's pedigree, individual and progeny performance.    MORE....


Hereford CalfHereford Breed History

Herefords are an ancient breed, kept in Herefordshire in western England for centuries. Hereford are medium framed cattle with distinctive red body color with the head and front of the neck, the brisket, underside, and switch in white. They have well developed fore-quarters, a deep brisket, broad head and stocky legs. Herefords are generally docile and fast growing cattle with good beef quality.   MORE....

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Certified Hereford Beef

Anne and Gippy are style'n and driving after Ray had to grade the road.