Chuck & Annette Steffan, Proprietors
Belfield, North Dakota
“Without my cattle, my wallet would be full, my house would be clean, but my heart would be empty.”
– Unknown*.
Herd Sires
Walking Sires
Ridge Dimension 1010 AKA Ridge Body Builder 1010 was purchased from Sandbur Ridge Red Angus in 2022. His first calf crop looks to be very promising and his first females will go into production in 2025. This bull is structurally sound and has depth and volume like the Body Builder sons carry. Walking in 2025.
Ridge Dimension 1010
Ridge True Grit 4030 was purchased from Sandbur Ridge Red Angus in 2025. This is a power packed Ridge True North 0089 son that ranked in the top 1% HB, Stay; Top 3% ProS; Top 10% WW; Top 15% HPG, Top 20% YW, CW; Top 25% Milk. His dam, Ridge Sara 8044-6045 is a neat uddered, well balanced cow with a correct set of feet and legs. We are excited to add this bull to our bull battery. Walking in 2026.
Ridge True Grit 4030
Flying K Galaxy 97M was purchased from Flying K Red Angus in 2025. Chuck had the opportunity to visit Brian and Christine Hanel and view their herd in 2023 (during extreme drought conditions) and again recently prior to their 2025 production sale. This cow herd in our opinion is excellent. We are looking forward to using Flying K Galaxy 97M. His unique Red Angus foundation pedigree intrigued us. Walking in 2026.
Flying K Galaxy 97M
RIDGE Avalanche 2051 is a new herd bull to Heart River in 2023. He is a dark red, Red RMJ Redman 1J son that is deep bodied, wide and attractive. His first calf crop will be born in 2024. Walking in 2026.
Ridge JD 2510 is an new cleanup sire introduced to the Heart River Ranch cowherd in the 2023 breeding season. He is a moderate Ridge Top Gun 9513 son who goes back to 5L Top Gun 560-65B. Walking in 2026.
Ridge Total 2210 was purchased from Sandbur Ridge Red Angus in 2023. He is really has a wide, level top that carries to a square, deep and wide hip. His dam Ridge Sheila 009-8024 is a 5l Norseman King 2291 X 5L Body Builder 4434-68D combination that is a signature cow in Sandbur Ridge's Cornerstone Cow Scoring program with 12 natural calves to her credit on a 363-day calving interval. Walking in 2025.
RIDGE Total 2210
MLK CRK Ultra Kool 3214 is a walking bull that we purchased from Milk Creek Reds in 2024. This young bull is a breeding machine. He was turned in with 2 and 3 years in 2024 and did an excellent job his first year. In 2025, he was moved to the cow herd. This bull continues to impress us and gets better every day.
MLK CRK Ultra Kool 3214
AI Sires
HRR Maternal Express 3201 is a phenotypical and pedigree balanced bull that offers a dark red color in a complete maternal package. He is backed by great cows on both the top and bottom side of his pedigree. He is a calving ease bull that ranks in the top 1% for HB and Stay. His dam, HRR Paula 163 is an outcross pedigree going back 4 generations to a black Sodak dam. She is neat uddered and an up and coming cow in our herd. His sire, HRR Express 5142 was a solid and cow producing herd bull.
HRR Maternal Express 3201
Ridge Navigator 0039 was purchased from Sandbur Ridge Red Angus in 2021. It looks like he will sire calving ease with moderate growth and carcass traits, along with what we hope will produce a self-sustaining female. Calves this far are moderate in structure. His 14 year old dam (as of 2023), Ridge Hobo 016-9027 is a 5l Signature 5615 X Basin Hobo 196 combination that is the top-ranking cow in Sandbur Ridge's Cornerstone Cow Scoring program posting a 93 BWR, 108 WW, 107 YW, 131 IMF and a 99 REA with 12 natural calves to her credit on a 363-day calving interval.
RIDGE Navigator 0039
Red Flying K Max 159Y is a bull we own semen rights to and we continue to utilize his maternal contributions and probably will for some time. His daughters get better with age and many of them are found to be making their mark in producing sons in programs who have used him. His progeny are moderate framed and good footed. Daughters have productive and beautiful udders. Max passed in 2021 at 10 years of age.
HRR Copenhagen 2265 was a top seller in our 2022 sale. This bull is starting to make his mark in several herds producing cattle with performance and phenotype. His dam, RED Bar E-L-Bull Meg 985W came from the infamous Meg cow family from Bar EL in Canada was a moderate tank of a cow and his heifer calves look to follow suit.
Dahlke Rockefeller 009H was an AI sire we selected after doing some research with friends who had seen him and his offspring. He sires balanced calving ease, growth and carcasss traits. They have great dispositions and exceptional feet. He has top ranking EPDS and consistently sires dark red. Rockefeller had an injury that put him down at an early age.
Ridge Rad 9075 is a calving ease bull out of one of the top cows in the Sandbur Ridge program sporting a 99 BW ratio, 105 WW, 101 YW, 111 IMF and 104 REA. Ridge Casey 978-8034 is going on 15 years old and still in production. The Rad calves have performed well for growth and are above average in their carcass scan thus far for both marbling and ribeye. Ridge Rad 9075 serviced our cow herd until he was 8 years old. Semen is available.
RIDGE Rad 9075
RED RMJ Redman 1T is most widely known as the sire to RED Minburn Copenhagen 3Y. We had the chance to use Redman in a flush 10 years ago and really liked the daughters. They are really functional cows with great feet and good udders. We had a chance to purchase some of the last Redman semen on the market.
We purchased Ridge Traveler 5412 from Sandbur Red Angus in 2016. He is a barely a 5 frame bull that is easy fleshing, deep ribbed, good footed and is an athletic, free moving bull. Traveler passed in 2020.
Shoco Data 102 is a bull that we purchased in 2002. To this day he fits the needs of the efficiency-minded cattle industry. Data was moderate in frame and his daughter's are really functional and productive cows. He has proved his ability to transmit milk and strong-structured udders. His dam, VDAR Blackana 303 was an impressive, great uddered cow. We continue to use him AI in flushes and semen is limited.
Shoco Data 102
HRR Express 5142 was used in our herd until 7 years of age and then went on to another herd to continue his career. We will continue to use him AI. We valued the great feet, disposition and daughters that HRR Express 5142 sired for us. His Shoco Data dam, HRR Lakota 115 was a standout donor cow and has a string of exceptional daughters and grand-daughters in our herd. Semen is available.
HRR Express 5142
MLK CRK Cub 722 was purchased in 1998 from Milk Creek Reds. He was really our foundation herd sire. Cub was a bull that is too big in our program today but he brought outstanding feet and legs to the table. In addition, he had a great disposition and stamped his calves with length of body and phenotype. He sired some great bulls like Ole's Oscar, Weber Doc Holiday. He was leased to Alta Genetics and was used extensively in Canada. He is used occasionally AI.