The company also has been a three-time winner of the American Heritage futurity - the premier futurity event hosted each year by the industry's leading bloodline registry and organized by American Bucking Bull Incorporated (ABBI). Over the past decade, Homestead Genetics has won more than 60 championships. With futurity wins, breeders earn credibility in the industry and see increased demand for their stock's bloodlines, which explains the popularity of Homestead Genetics' lineage. When all elements are combined, a bull can earn up to 25 points per round in a futurity. Each judge scores on a different element, including the height of the buck, the extension and snap of the kicks, the amount of spin a bull exhibits, the amount of effort it displays, and the degree of difficulty that the bull shows in his bucking. The futurity bulls compete in a riderless bucking contest that is scored by judges. Focus on FuturitiesĪ futurity is a program in which breeders nominate outstanding 2-year-old bucking bulls from their herds.

In 2002, he phased away from show cattle and began concentrating on bucking bulls - specifically futurities. Meanwhile, he fostered an interest in livestock genetics by breeding and selling cattle for stock shows. After earning a degree in finance from Hardin-Simmons University, he set his sights on the rodeo arena and competed as a professional calf roper for 10 years. Situated on a former horse farm, the operation is atypical among the cotton farms and mesquite-dotted beef cattle ranches in this Rolling Plains region, north of Abilene.Īlthough he wasn't reared in the cattle business, Baker developed a passion for rodeo during high school in Abilene. That's the year that he and his wife, Paige, and their sons, Colt and Cade, started raising bulls for the rodeo industry. And just like in coaching any professional sport, your reputation is only as good as your winning record.īaker has a long record of wins dating back almost to 2002.

Raising bulls for bull riding