Australian Lowlines, sometimes known as Loalas in the United States, are essentially miniature Angus cattle that resulted from a 30-year research project conducted by the New South Wales State Department of Agriculture at their Agricultural Research Centre located at Trangie, Australia.

The Trangie Stud's Angus herd was established to provide high quality Aberdeen-Angus cattle for New South Wales beef producers. The original registered Angus foundation stock was imported in 1929 from James D. McGregor's Glencarnock stud in Canada.

The lineage of Loala cattle can be traced to 1889 when Walter F.C. Gordon-Cuming, brother of a leading Scottish breeder, imported 43 head to Canada to form the basis of the illustrious Angus herd of the Glencarnock Farm in Brandon, Manitoba.

The development of the herd was successfully guided by James D. McGregor, who started in the cattle business in 1877. McGregor was attracted to the Angus for three main reasons: they were polled, they matured to market-finish quicker on grass and they proved prolific on western Canadian ranges - all traits that are still true today.

Three decades later, Australian animal scientists began to develop the Lowline breed from registered Aberdeen-Angus seedstock purchased from the Glencarnock Angus herd. The original Australian importation from the Glencarnock Canadian herd included two bulls, one cow and calf, and 17 heifers.

The two bulls, Glencarnock Revolution and Brave Edward Glencarnock, were from the famous Blackcap Revolution family. http://www.usa-lowline.org