History

History

• 2021 Reeder began with 10,000 head of stockers and Two Lakes owned 24,675 acres of land in Stratford, New Mexico, and Alabama. Two Lakes purchased an additional 136 acres of land in Alabama, which runs contiguous to our Alabama operation. In June, construction of the Alabama infrastructure was completed and started receiving calves.
• 2020 Reeder began with 10,000 head of stockers and Two Lakes owned 23,123 acres of land in Stratford and New Mexico. Two Lakes purchased 1,600 acres of grass in January, which runs contiguous to our New Mexico operation. In June, Two Lakes purchased 552 acres of land in Russellville, AL.
• 2019 Reeder began with 7,522 head of stockers and Two Lakes owned 21,200 acres of land in Stratford and New Mexico. Two Lakes purchased 1,296 acres of grass land in April. 1,000 of those acres are contiguous to the main Operation in Stratford, Texas.
• 2018 Reeder began with 6,539 head of stockers and Two Lakes owned 13,507 acres of land in Stratford, Texas and New Mexico. To keep growing the cattle operation, Two Lakes purchased 3,160 acres of farmland and 840 acres of grass near the main headquarters and 3,080 acres of grass contiguous to the New Mexico Ranch. Two large projects were completed: adding a sprinkler/water improvement project and a dual snake processing barn. The company began implementing the Micro Beef Technologies cattle software.
• 2017 Reeder had 5,049 head of stockers and Two Lakes owned 6,247 acres of land in Stratford, TX. Two Lakes purchased 7,260 acres of grass in NE New Mexico. Due to a lack of available housing in the Stratford area, the company began providing affordable housing to employees. 

The head office was relocated to the main location in Stratford, Texas.
• 2016 Darryl & Curtis decided to Go Big or Go Home! Reeder Cattle and Two Lakes Land & Cattle began a strategic 5 year growth plan. The idea was to create a scalable stocker program through growing the bulk of our feed and wheat, controlling our supply chain, re tooling our processing protocols and plain Hard Work. Two Lakes purchased 4,800 acres of land located in Stratford, Texas, consisting of 2400 pen capacity, 4,435 acres of grass and 285 acres of farmland. During the year, the company started land improvements adding a 260-acre sprinkler, pens and related equipment.
• 2007-2015   Reeder ran around 1,500 to 2,000 head of stocker calves mostly on leased properties. Purchased 1,467 acres of land in Stratford, Texas.
• 2006 Frustrated with lack of consistent performance, Darryl started feeding stocker calves in Texas.
• 1999- 2005 Darryl custom fed cattle at feedlots in Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado.
• 1999 Darryl Reeder entered the cattle business with 232 head of custom feed cattle.