bar 5 was established in 1969, by a group of 5 manitoba ranchers of shorthorn & hereford cattle, bar 5 imported more than 100 simmental breeding females from europe during the 1970's, and developed a cross breeding program to upgrade from british based cows to 7/8 or more simmental breeding stock. in 1978, bar 5 sold off most of the percentage cattle and focused on the fullblood simmental herd until 2002. in 2002, bar 5 moved to introduce a designed maternal crossbreeding system to offer our customers 5 different bull options; 1 elite fleckvieh - sa and polled 2 elite red angus 3 elite angus 4 hybrid bulls - two breed cross bulls from these breeds of half to 7/8 percentages 5 stabilizer bulls -- three breed or more crosses of these breeds, including some gelbvieh blood.