When customers want more of your product, you usually find a way to make more as quickly as possible to meet the demand. Not doing so would be bad business—unless your product is boutique beef. Building a herd of cattle with specific genetics and replicating or improving upon them from one generation to the next requires patience. One genetic modification in the breeding process can take several years to manifest in the offspring, and the rancher needs to hope it is a change for the better. That’s why you still can’t buy an A Bar N Ranch steak, fourteen years after the outfit began breeding Wagyu and Angus cattle in North Texas.A Bar N Ranch founders Gregg Allen and Van Nichols aimed high to secure…
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