Dallas Horton

Dallas Horton was born in Sheridan, Wyoming and raised on a sheep and cattle ranch in eastern Montana.  Dallas earned his B.S. from Montana State University and his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Washington State University.  He moved to Colorado and earned his M. S. in Animal Nutrition from Colorado State University. Dallas launched his dream of his own business of feeding cattle, veterinary consulting, researching feed additives and medicines, and improving the overall performance of cattle production. Thus, Horton Feedlots and Research Center was established in Wellington, Colorado in 1978. 

Dallas’s love of the cattle industry and people led him into many amazing partnerships and adventures from feeding cattle for Japan, sending breeding stock to Ukraine, working with embryo transfer techniques to improve genetics, to building profitable composite bulls to enhance feedlot performance – just to name a few. Dallas’s vision was always toward the future and improving the cattle industry. 

Dallas served on the U.S. Beef Board, as president of the Academy of Veterinary Consultants, president of the Colorado Livestock Association, a member of the National Cattleman’s Beef Association, and the American Association of Bovine Veterinarians. 

With his passing in 2020 Dallas left a legacy of his love for God, family, country, and agriculture.