What We Do

Education:

• Ag & Healthcare Scholarships
• Annual & Topic Specific Field Days
• Donations to tri-county youth programs
• Facilities for 4-H & FFA Projects
• Host Meetings & Group Tours
• Youth Agriculture Loan Program
• Youth Farm Tours & Leadership Program

Cattle Operations:

• Artificial Insemination & Embryo Transfers
• Commercial & Registered Angus Operations Electronic Animal ID
• Electronic Estrous Detection
• Freeze Branding
• Low Stress Cattle Facility
• Performance Bull Testing

Other Operations/Demonstrations:

• Sesame Crop
• Conservation Tillage
• Improved Grasses
• Master Naturalist Demonstration – Butterfly Garden
• Native & Improved Pecan Orchards
• Rainwater Harvesting System
• Recreation & Wildlife Farming
• Row Crops
• Solar Powered Water Well
• Sunflowers
• Sustainable Garden
• Truck Farming – Peaches,Plums, Oranges, Sweet Corn
• USDA Continuous Conservation Reserve Program
• Vegetable Garden
• Warm & Cool Season Forages

Other Items of Interest:

• On display at The Luling Foundation: 1927 National Prize Winner of Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, Dawson Dawon-Watson, The Glory of the Morning
• In 1944, turkeys from The Luling Foundation were shipped to Lyndon B. Johnson by train to Washington D.C.
• Founder of Sysco Corporation, John F. Baugh, bought turkeys from the farm in the 1930s.
• The Luling Foundation has hosted worldwide guests from China, Mexico, West & South Africa, Italy, Australia, Canada, Russia & Brazil.