Company Description

Our Story

In the 1870s, Dr. Howell Tyson Lykes gave up the practice of medicine to take over his family’s 500-acre farm in rural Hernando County, where he engaged in citrus growing and cattle ranching, including the export of cattle to Cuba. Dr. Lykes moved his family to Tampa in 1895 to focus on the cattle trade and launch his seven sons into the business world. In 1900 the older boys opened an office in Havana, Cuba, doing business as Lykes Brothers. All of the brothers eventually joined the family operations and to this day the company remains a privately held, family-owned and managed business that includes cattle, citrus, farming, forestry, and land and water resources and recreational hunting.

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