or nearly a decade, some of the top Angus genetics have hailed from Indiana - specifically from Ferree Fitzgerald. A major force behind the brand is Tim Fitzgerald. While not originally from the Hoosier State, his journey and
1990 with a degree in Animal Science with a minor in Business. While at OSU, Tim was a member of the Meats Judging Team, National Champion Livestock Judging Team, and the World Champion Quarter Horse Judging Team. Out of college, he moved to Northern Virginia to work in his first full time job as the Herdsman at Whitestone Farm in Aldie. For eight years, Tim managed their show and sale cattle; they ran about 350 cows. Whitestone had a huge production sale every Fall and a bull sale every Spring. Following his tenure in Aldie on the outskirts of Washington DC, Fitzgerald designed, built, and managed Fox Cross Farm in West Virginia for four years before finding his home at Cherry Knoll Farms in West Grove, Pennsylvania for 17 years. After graduating from high school in 1986 in a class of just 10 students, Tim attended Oklahoma State University, graduating in 1990 with a degree in animal science and a minor in business. While at OSU, Tim was a member of the Meats Judging Team, the National Champion Livestock Judging Team, and the World Champion Quarter Horse Judging Team.
After college, he moved to Northern Virginia for his first full-time job as the herdsman at Whitestone Farm in Aldie on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. For eight years, Tim managed the show and sale cattle including their major fall production and spring bull sales. Following his tenure in Aldie, he spent four years designing, building, and managing the Fox Cross Farm in West Virginia before taking the helm at Cherry Knoll Farms in West Grove, Pennsylvania, where he remained for 17 years. From 2004 to 2020, Tim served as the general manager for Cherry Knoll Farm, owned by Bob and Margaret Duprey. Tim reflects fondly on his time there: “We ran about 100 Angus cows, did extensive embryo work, and had 30 to 40 embryo calves a year. We showed a lot—there was a period where we had the American Angus Association’s Show Heifer of the Year six out of ten years.” While the cattle were exceptional, it was the woman behind the farm who made the biggest impact on Tim. “Margaret was probably the most giving person for the junior Angus shows in the country,” Tim said. “For years, she sponsored the gift at the National Junior Angus Heifer Show; she made a point to have the junior members ask her personally to sponsor the show.
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accomplishments along the way have allowed him to make a lasting impact on the cattle industry. Tim Fitzgerald grew up in Harrison, a small western Nebraska town near the Wyoming and South Dakota borders with a population of just 340. Raised on a 17,000-acre ranch, Tim developed a passion for the cattle industry from a young age. “Our ranch consisted of about 500 Angus cows and we grew up doing everything on horseback.” Located just three and a half hours north of Denver, his family made annual trips to the National Western Stock Show with carload bulls, pen bulls and hill cattle. In fact, a member of the Fitzgerald family has exhibited or judged at the National Western Stock Show every year since 1961. After graduating from high school in 1986 [in a graduating class of just 10], Tim went to Oklahoma State University where he graduated in
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