Establishing the GK Red Angus stud was a natural progression for us, Kirrily and Gavin Iseppi, two people dedicated to breeding quality stock.

Kirrily is a fourth generation cattle breeder whose family run Poll Hereford and Gelbvieh Cattle.  Kirrily and her father Clyde Johnson and sister Julie were instrumental in helping to establish the Gelbvieh breed in Australia.  After a long upgrading program utilizing british based cows, they produced Australia's first (upgraded) Gelbvieh purebreds in 1991.  Kirrily's family (Johnson) ran a 800 head stud and commercial, Poll Hereford and Gelbvieh, cow herd before dissolving the family partnership in 1994 and moving to Millmerran on the Darling Downs in 2002.

Gavin's maternal Grandparents and Great Grandparents operated the Leafmore Ayrshire Stud in the Toowoomba area. They won many awards with these cattle in the 1940's including numerous Brisbane Royal Show Championships.

Gavin had his own Poll Hereford stud from childhood and his immediate family ran Poll Herefords alongside a commercial crossbreeding operation.  Both Gavin and Kirrily have had a life long interest in purebred cattle and were both members of various Junior cattle movements.  Kirrily and Gavin won the Queensland Junior Poll Hereford Ambassador Award and National Junior Herdsman Competitions (Kirrily with Poll Herefords and Gavin with Angus).  As such these awards included travel to New Zealand and North America.

The Red Angus breed impressed us while on one of these trips to Canada at the end of 1993. A visit to the Mackenzie family's Brylor Ranch at Pincher Creek, Alberta, confirmed the appeal of the breed and as a result we imported our first embryos.
After a disastrous shipment, which included the courier transporting the embryo's having a roll over on the final leg of the journey to home, the few embryos salvaged from the crash, became the first animals to be registered with the GK prefix in 1996.

GK Red Rampager R2 (ET), sired by BBCC Presidio, was the first Red Angus registered by us and he sold at the 1998 AgShow in Toowoomba Qld to Oakleigh Park Red Angus.

We purchased our first Red Angus cow in 1999, IBR Red Bella R512, and registered our first females with the GK prefix in 2000. One of these was GK Red Velvet V4, an excellent cow who is the dam of some outstanding progeny.

These include GK Red Yuppie Y2, top priced bull at the 2005 Red Angus National Show and Sale and GK Red Absolute Power A7, the Red Angus National record holder who sold for $18,000 in July 2007.

A definite highlight in the show ring for GK Livestock, was breeding and exhibiting the Supreme Champion Interbreed Beef female at the 2007 Sydney Royal Easter Show, with GK Red Dina X3.

We aim to breed a select herd of performance cattle while retaining calving ease as well as the meat quality and maternal attributes for which the Red Angus breed is renown.