Macedon Farms Today:

Founded in 1925, Macedon Farms is Alabama's oldest Registered Angus herd and, with 80 years of continuous operation, is one of the oldest Angus herds in the Southeast United States. During this time, Macedon Farms has been bringing the best Angus genetics to Alabama. Under the expert leadership of Mr. Ed Horton, Jr. and Mr. Gregg P. Blythe, Macedon has supplied the Southeastern cattle industry with well over 3,000 Angus bulls. Macedon Farms specializes in private treaty bull sales where every bull is made available to a prospective buyer, along with a guarantee that goes back to 1925.

Macedon Farms History:

The following was compiled by Jarvene Shackelford of American Livestock Brokers

Judge James E. Horton was clearly a man of vision and optimism. A man of devotion to agriculture, the land, and the products it produced as well as a man sincerely interested in the people and community in which he lived and reared his family.

That vision helped him to realize the importance of beef cattle at an early age and prior to 1925 he had a few commercial cattle. In 1925 his interest in Angus cattle and his desire to own these black cattle prompted him to purchase his first registered cow named War Flour, a heifer calf, and a bull from Homer French of Athens, Alabama. In 1935, using the proceeds from a truckload of purebred and commercial steers sold for six cents a pound, Judge Horton headed west to the Ames Plantation Sale at Grand Junction, Tennessee to purchase cattle of a higher quality in order to improve the purebred herd. 

Ames Plantation, at that time, was one of the oldest Angus operations in the South or the United States as their herd was founded in 1913, just thirty years after the formation of the American Aberdeen Angus Breeder’s Association. At the Ames Plantation Sale Judge Horton purchased the daughters of Ames Plantation Pal, a Chicago International Grand Champion bull, and Eric 3rd of Maisemore, an imported sire. These females were bred to Belman 2nd and became the foundation of the Macedon Farms Angus Herd. One of the three original heifers lived to be 21 years old and produced 19 calves naturally leaving more than one hundred dependents in the Macedon herd. 

In the 1930’s, Judge Horton’s wife Anna named the farm after their three sons -- Mac, Ed and Don. Thus the name Macedon Farms was coined. Download entire article.