Koupal Angus is located in southeast South Dakota, with easy access for our Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota customers. Koupal Angus is a family run operation comprised of LaVern and Alice Koupal, Bud and Bernie Koupal, and Dave and Peggy Koupal.

Each operation is run separately yet in conjunction with each other. LaVern and Alice live on the home place and they go by Koupal Angus. Bud and Bernie along with their family – Derek, Joe, Daniel and Kim – live just one mile from Dante, and they are known as B&B Angus. David and Peggy and their sons – Colton and Ryan – live four miles away and they go by Sleepy Hollow Angus.

Four generations of Koupals have raised Angus cattle. LaVern's dad purchased his first Angus cows in 1947. In 1977 LaVern and Alice joined the American Angus Association and sold their first five bulls in 1978. Their cow herd has been handpicked for performance and maternal traits. This has been by trial and error, and has produced some of the best females in the nation. Only the very best females stay in the herd and if they are not consistent, they weed themselves out.

LaVern and Alice manage 600 mother cows, Bud and Bernie 200, and Dave and Peggy 75. No creep is fed to the calves and all cows run in large pastures. Our biggest strength we feel is our cow herd. Koupal Angus is very conscious of udder quality, teat size, milking ability and just good mothering qualities. Koupal Angus had 47 cows in the Pathfinder Report this year, and three Pathfinder sires. We judge a bull by the kind of females he leaves in our herd.