Australian Lowline cattle were developed by the New South Wales Department of Agriculture from registered Angus stock at their research center in Trangie NSW Australia.  From 1929 to 1963 the Angus herd won many major awards in the Australian showing circuit.  The research herd was closed to outside genetics in 1964. 

The trial which produced the Lowline breed began in 1974 to investigate the implications of selection for growth rate.  The aim was to establish whether large or small animals were more efficient converters of grass into meat. 

The Trangie herd was divided into three groups based on yearling growth rates.  The low yearling growth rate cattle were named the Lowline, high yearling growth rate were Highline and a randomly selected group named the Controline.  Performance evaluations  for weight gain, feed intake, reproductive performance, carcase yield, structural correctness, and protein conversion were monitored and recorded on an individual basis.  The lines continued to grow apart with the selection process and by the end of the trial 19 years later, the Lowline group was now 60% of the size of normal beef breeds. 

 In August of 1992, a group of interested cattlemen convinced the Department of Agriculture to sell the Lowlines on the open market and they then formed the Australian Lowline Cattle Association.  The complete dispersal sale followed in October of 1993.  The first Lowlines were not imported into the USA until 1996 and the American Lowline Registry was then formed in the late 1990's. 

Australian Lowline cattle are always black, naturally polled and are the smallest beef breed in the world.  They are naturally docile, very easily handled and not intimidating to the average man, woman or child..  They do not carry the Dwarfism gene and therefore there is no risk of genetically generated deformity or abortion.  Calving losses are extremely small and even heifers show ease of calving. 

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