Our History
Geis farming operations in the Barrhead area of Alberta, north-west of Edmonton, commenced over 60 years ago -- in 1928 -- when grandfather Henry Gerloff moved to the present location of Geis Angus now under third generation management of the family farm.

In 1957, going on 35 years ago, Don and Erika Geis purchased the original farm, and then for many years maintained both a registered and a grade Holstein herd of some 40 cows selling fluid mlk to the Northern Alberta Dairy Pool at Barrhead. Also heavily involved with Don and Erika at this time were their two daughters, Darlene and Brenda, as well as their son Brian. Then in 1976 the Geis family established a new registered Angus herd, with the dairy herd and milk quota being faded out nine years later.

The Late Don Geis Founder of Geis Angus

Following the marriage of Brian Geis to Kim Conway of Red Eagle Acres, a Red Angus breeding establishment from Eckville, Alberta, a Red Angus division was also set up at Geis Angus, and today both the black and red Angus herds each represent some 50 percent of the 250-cow herd. Success of the Geis Holstein and Angus breeding programs, together with their active involvement in the community, culminated in the Geis family being named Farm Family Of The Year by Edmonton Northlands in 1982. And then again, in 1989, the family were elected by their peers in the business as Alberta Angus Breeders Of The Year and Red Angus Breeder in 1997.

Involved with bringing the Geis Angus programs into their present high tech state of modern beef breeding was the late Don Geis (who passed away unexpectedly in 1991), and his wife Erika, their son Brian and his wife Kim, and Jenna and Robert.

The 250-cow herd (half black Angus cows and half red Angus cows) are maintained on 1,700 acres of hay, pasture and grainland some 13 miles west of Barrhead which, in normal years, provides more than sufficient production for the herd.

Acceptance of the Geis Angus breeding program is widespread, with sales of both live breeding stock, semen from outstanding herd sires and embryos representing the best of the Geis program being purchased and shipped to many parts of Canada and to leading Angus breeders in other countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Argentina, Denmark, Mexico and Brazil.