Protect The Harvest | Lucas Cattle Company: Leading the Way

(June 28, 2023) – Forrest Lucas learned his work ethic in a cattle barn. When you look at the Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts; see Lucas Oil promotions at many NASCAR and Indy racetracks in America; watch a Professional Bull Riders event and see Lucas Oil signage on the chute gates; or buy various Lucas Oil products you might think it’s owned by just another rich tycoon. You would be wrong.
“Forrest and Charlotte Lucas are truly humble, genuine people,” says one of their associates with Lucas Cattle Company. Indeed, they are friendly and approachable at a level that surprises those who don’t know them… yet.

“He’s just a farm boy at heart,” Charlotte says of Forrest. Long before he found himself up to his elbows in oil and grease, he worked showing and fitting cattle. “He missed a few weeks of school every year because he was showing cattle at the Kentucky State Fair or the Indiana State Fair,” she says.

Forrest says he started showing and fitting cattle when he was 12 years old. That job fell through when he was 15 and he went to work for another cattleman. “His wife, she was a real good cook,” Forrest remembers. When you’re a hard-working teenager, that counts for a lot.
So, they asked Forrest to live with them and manage the show cattle. “I stayed there for two years, until I got out of school, and showed cattle all summer long.” He traveled as far as West Virginia,