Once unloaded in Chicago the cattle would be penned and fed by a “stock agent” a seller representative charged with negotiating the price with the local beef slaughterhouses surrounding the stockyards in. Once a price was agreed upon, the cattle would be driven on foot to the winning bidder’s slaughterhouse. They would then be processed into the finest beef on earth and shipped to steakhouses and butcher shops across the eastern United States.

Sometime in the early part of the twentieth century G.L.’s son, George Walker switched to selling cattle at the nearby Omaha Stockyards. As a young boy I (Jeff) remember walking across the boardwalks elevated above the stockyards there over forty years ago. Plank board pens full of cattle stretched out below far into the distance. Cowboys moved cattle horseback in and out of pens and to the surrounding packinghouses much the same as a hundred years prior in Chicago during my great-great grandfather’s era.

It was a dying remnant of a golden era of livestock production in the Midwest, and I am grateful that I got to witness it. My father, Gary and I sold cattle at the Omaha Stockyards until the late 1990’s. They are gone now, as are most of the small family farm feeders that used to supply America with beef.

The Mundorf family has an unbroken 150-year tradition of raising quality beef in Southwest Iowa. We are proud to offer directly to you the product of our tradition, legacy, and heritage. It is our aim to utilize our generational wisdom coupled with every modern technology working in concert with nature to deliver the highest quality beef to you.