Virginia Hereford Association
Meet Our 2024 Mid-Atlantic Fall Round Up Judges
Kyle and Nicole Lemmon
Kyle and Nicole Lemmon currently own and operate Lemmon Cattle Company. Kyle grew up showing and raising Hereford cattle while Nicole’s family grew up raising Angus, Maine’s and Chi cattle in California. Nicole continued pursuing her passion for the livestock industry by judging at the collegiate level at Modesto Junior College and then finished out at California State University, Fresno. She obtained a Bachelors Degree in Agriculture Business and continued to get a Masters in Business Administration. Currently, Nicole is the Global HR Manager for Vytelle. Kyle has continued to purse his career in the cattle industry by having 4 annual sales, is a sales representative for SC and operates a Vytelle IVF Satellite. Kyle was also recently named by the Hereford Association the 2023 Hereford Herdsman’s of the Year!
Over the years, Kyle and Nicole have had much success at some of the largest shows around the country, highlights include breeding the Reserve Grand Polled Female at the National Western, sold the 2023 Reserve Champion Steer at Jr Nationals, Supreme Champion Cow Calf Pair Jr National Hereford Expo, Supreme Champion Bull Keystone International Livestock Expo and Reserve Champion Hereford Bull North American International Livestock Expo.
Nicole and Kyle were married in 2018 and have since built their first generation cattle operation from the ground up and now utilize their business as a catalyst to raise their two children, Blakely and Kashton.