Bar V Wagyu is located in the countryside, south of Abilene, KS, and is located on the historical Chisholm Trail (the trail that brought 5,000,000 longhorn cattle from Texas to Abilene, KS, to be loaded on the local railcars, headed East.)

Bar V entered the Wagyu industry in 2015 when as a Family, we visited the Denver Stock Show and witnessed an F1 Wagyu Livestock Show. The animals were beautiful and good size, and we already knew the meat had marbling and amazing flavor. The sire of theses calves was MFC Itomoritaka 0-41,  and so we found out that Michael Goodell was the owner and contacted him immediately to purchase his bull. While starting our herd we also purchased 45 embryos, and weaned 71% Fullblood calves that first year, using our own recips.

After much success in the Greyhound Industry, we were already purchasing a lot of pasturelands for our small herd of Angus cows, that now were only being used for Wagyu Embryo Recips, and for F1 production. In 2016, we attended our first Bar R Production Sale and saw the most beautiful Purebred Homozygous Polled Wagyu cow imaginable, “BAR R 5U!” Laurita knew that Vince wanted to eventually make a Polled Wagyu breed in America, so she encouraged him to be the final bidder.

As the rest is history, we topped the Whole sale buying 5U for $34,000, and making Polled waves in the USA that are still reverberating to this day. 5U passed away at the end of 2022, but is still producing Embryos calves for us every year, and her offspring are still producing the very best Polled Wagyu animals in the world.