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After graduation from Tranquility High School in Tranquility, Calif., Silveira attended California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo where he studied agri-business and began working to realize his lifelong dream of creating a diversified agriculture and cattle operation, which would become Silveira Bros. Diversified Farming.

Silveira has been involved in ranching for more than 34 years. With cattle interests rooted in the Angus community, Silveira Bros. which includes, Dudley Silveira, Darrell’s brother who is an accountant, and Rick Blanchard his son, who serves as operating manager.

Silveira has served on the board of directors of both the California Angus Association and Western States Angus Association. For more than twenty years he has represented California as a delegate to the American Angus Association annual meeting.

Silveira was part of a group of breeders instrumental in starting “California Angus Days,” an annual female show and sale that also hosts the annual meeting for the state association. He also helped create the “California Angus Breeder’s Bull Sale,” designed as a marketing outlet for small-scale Angus producers.

Two sales are held annually at Silveira Bros.: the “Partners for Performance” bull sale and the “Partners for Performance” female sale. The ranch also markets cattle through several annual consignment sales, including The Signature Collection, The Showgirl Revue, the California Angus Breeder’s Female Sale, the California Supreme Sale and Angus of Distinction Sale.
Additionally, Silveira Bros. has exported bulls and females internationally to many countries including Argentina, Australia, Mexico and Canada.

Born and raised in one of the richest agricultural regions in the country, Silveira has been directly involved in the industry his entire adult life, making his living only within the realm of agriculture. He raised cotton, sugar beets and alfalfa hay in the early years of his farming business. Today, in addition to alfalfa, Silveira Bros. also raises wine grapes and almonds.

Using his connections from his early years in the alfalfa business, Silveira worked with a research team to develop a specialized alfalfa seed. S&W Seed Company, another agricultural firm he created, markets seed throughout the U.S. and internationally in Mexico, South America, Australia, and the Middle East.

Silveira has extensive agricultural organization and board experience. He served for nearly two decades on the board of directors of the California Crop Improvement Association at the University of California at Davis. He was a director for the local irrigation district. As one of the founding members of the National Farmer’s Organization in the San Joaquin Valley, he went on to serve as a director and president. He also served on the California Alfalfa Seed Research Board for 15 years.

His peers in the agriculture industry have recognized his leadership through several prestigious awards. In 2007, Silveira was inducted into the California Angus Hall of Fame for his many contributions to the state association and dedication to the advancement of the breed. He was honored in 2005 with the California State Fair’s “California Golden Bear Award.” Good friend, Jim Reeves of, College Station Texas, presented Silveira with the award praising his tireless efforts toward the advancement of agriculture and cattle in California. The California Beef Cattle Improvement Association named Silveira Bros. its “Seedstock Producer of the Year” in 2004.
For many years, Darrell Silveira’s lifelong Angus friends and business associates have urged him to consider candidacy for the American Angus Association board of directors.

The members of the California Angus Association and the Western States Angus Association board of directors respectfully ask for the consideration of AAA delegates to elect this international agri-businessman to help address the breed’s challenges today and seize the opportunities of the future.