Hey there! We are Doug Haneline, Melissa Haneline Suggs and Graham Suggs. we are a family operation that has raised and sold 100% grass-fed beef to our friends, family and neighbors around the Iredell County, NC and Lake Norman area since 2009.

This land has been in the Murdock family since 1764. (the Murdocks are Melissa & Doug’s maternal grandparents’ name). The barns and buildings seen at the farm were vital to the dairy operation that our great-grandfather, J.C. Murdock owned and operated from the late 1910s til the late 1960s.*

If you know us personally, you’ll know we’re being honest when we say we’d love to pull up a chair and get to know you more.  We can swap recipes and hear how your vacation went or how the remodel on your kitchen is going. If there’s something you’d like to know and don’t see answered here, drop us a line! If you don’t know us personally – there’s always room for one more friend! Hope to get to meet you soon!

*Here’s a little more in-depth history: William Murdah, the first of the eight generations to farm this land, settled  in the Troutman community in 1764.  The Murdock family has been farming the rolling piedmont just east of Troutman, NC, ever since.  Over the nearly 250 years the Murdock Family farm has been an agricultural producer of a myriad of farm products for the South Iredell community.  From circa 1918 until the late 1960’s the farm as it exists today was the dairy operation of the late John Carl Murdock.  The milk produced here was sold to Carnation Dairy in Statesville.  Through the 1970’s and 1980’s brothers Kenard and Grady Murdock ran an all angus herd of beef cattle on their combined portions of land, some 140 pastured acres, inherited from their father John Carl.  The late Randy Murdock continued on the stewardship towards the Murdock family land and animal husbandry with the bovine herd from the late 1990’s until his untimely death in 2009.  Since April of 2009 the brother and sister combination of Douglas Haneline II and Melissa Haneline Suggs and now husband Graham Suggs have been running the herd on their grandfather, Grady Murdock’s, land and selling the Murdock Farms 100% Grass-Fed Beef directly to our friends and neighbors all across the Carolinas.