Fall 2024
Dear Fellow Cattle Producers,
It’s hard to believe this is our 4th Annual Fall Ball Sale! Once again. the quality that will stand in the barn is high. In fact, only the best of each herd is coming to Uniontown. You will have the opportunity to purchase approximately 130 late Fall 2024 through Spring 2025 bred heifers, 20 Fall pairs and 13 Age-Advantaged, virgin bulls
Each individual offering has been screened for quality and structural correctness Performance has been bred into each individual animal offered for your consideration At Blackbelt Cattle Marketing, we believe we are offering the type of cattle that will position your herd well into the future
Additional videos, photos and information can be found on our website If you have any questions, please give us a call, a text or an email. The full catalog will be available on sale day. If you are unable to attend the sale in person, we will handle your bids in a most confidential manner or you may bid online via DVAuction.
Cattle will be ready to view at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, November 21st at the Alabama Livestock Auction in Uniontown, AL. The sale will begin promptly at 11:00 a.m. Lunch will be available at the Stockyard Cafe. We look forward to visiting with you and helping you find the cattle right for your operation.
Beeker Catfish and Cattle is offering 18 Brahman-influenced bred heifers from their breeding program. These heifers are a mix of Brahman-Hereford half-bloods or half-blood plus females (Brahman sires x quarter blood cows). These females have broodcow written all over with plenty of volume and substance of bone. All females were exposed to Krien and J-H Farms Red Angus bulls from March 1 to May 15, 2024. After pregnancy check, all heifers will calve between January 1 and March 15, 2025.
EPD Values of Beeker Service Sires
Will Start Calving in January 2025
Bell Farm and Cattle Company is offering 12 bred and home raised females sired by either Hereford or SimAngusTM bulls. All heifers were bred AI on 7/20/2024 to either Wilks Regiment 9095 or G A R Transcendent. Regiment is an Angus bull that is a calving ease, high growth bull with plenty of muscling and marbling. His calves will push down on the scales at weaning and do well in the feedlot and on a carcass grid. G A R Transcendent is in the top 1% of the Angus breed for marbling. Transcendent is also a calving ease bull with above average growth in a moderate package. Heifers were cleaned up with a JYJ Red Angus bull from August 7 to September 3, 2024. A This cleanup bull is a calving ease bull that will sire heifers that will be excellent mothers and steer calves that will do well in the feedlot and on a grid marketing program.
The Hereford sired heifers are showing slightly less than a quarter ear. Their dams are Brangus type females. The first group of SimAngusTM sired heifers are also out of the Brangus type dams. The second group of SimAngusTM sired heifers are out of SimAngusTM type dams.
Service Sires
Will Start Calving in late April 2025
Broussard Farms are offering 25 of their home raised replacement heifers and pairs. There will be a selection of three-quarter, half and quarter blood bred heifers and pairs. There will also be four (4) three-quarter Angus, one-quarter Hereford heifers. All heifers have plenty of volume and capacity with good substance of bone.
Heifers were bred to low birth weight CK Angus bulls. Later in the breeding season, a Hereford bull was added.
At sale time there will be 5 to 8 pairs. The remaining heifers will calve from the end of November through early February.
Non-Pairs at Sale Time Will Start Calving in late November 2024
Lot 189 is a quarter blood daughter of a Sitz Stellar son (AAA Reg# 20097446) and a Brangus crossbred dam. The Sitz Stellar bull is an exceptionally good footed bull. Lot 190 is a daughter of a Rainmaster son (AAA Reg# 200012943) and an Angus crossbred dam. Rainmaker is known for his exceotional foot quality and quality replacement daughters.
Lots 189 and 190 were pasture bred to either a Woodhill Comstock son (AAA Reg #20623288) or Baldridge Alternative E125 son (AAA Reg # 20623289). Both bulls are in the top 2% of the Angus breed for calving ease with excellent maternal milk, REA and marbling genetics. Lot 189 was observed bred by the Comstock bull on 4/24/2024. Lot 190 will calve in early March 2025.
EPD Values for Sires for Lots 189 and 190
D/G Ranch Service Sire EPD Values
Will Start Calving late January 2025
Lots 525-529 are commercial Hereford heifers that were bred to an Adams Angus bull. Hereford heifers were sired by White Hawk Ranch Hereford bulls and show overall volume and shape of rib, with structurally correctness. The cleanup bull was in the pasture from February 1 to June 15, 2024.
Lot 550 is a commercial Angus heifer with volume and capacity for days. She is also bred to the Adams Angus bull. This puts the calving range for all heifers from early November 2024 to late March 2025. These heifers will be pregnancy checked prior to the Fall Ball Sale and the calving date range will be refined.
This is a tremendous set of F1 Brahman-Hereford females that are heavy bred. When this herd was established, they searched for the best Hereford cows and bred them to the Brahman female maker, Mr. Kallion 1352. They have tremendous volume, shape of rib and bone.There will also be a pen of F1 Brahman-Angus females in this group.
All heifers were bred to a Prairie Eden Angus bull during a 90 day breeding season. Several heifers may calve by sale day and will sell with their calf at side.
Non-Pairs at Sale Time Will Start Calving in late November 2024
Meadowlake Farms are offering 3 true black baldy (Angus-Hereford cross) heifers. These three heifers have a lot of eye appeal, length of body and volume. All three heifers were born in October 2022.
The black baldies were pasture exposed to a Quail Valley Brangus Bull from December 2024 to March 25, 2025. The Brangus bull is in the top 15% of the Brangus breed for calving ease and birth weight. Additionally, the Brangus bull is in the top 40% of the breed for weaning weight, REA and intramuscular fat. The heifers were then exposed to a Next Step SimAngusTM bull from March 25 to July 17, 2024. Lots 442, 443 and 444 will calve between mid-December 2024 and early February 2025.
Service Sire EPD Values
Will start calving in December 2024
Lots 672 to 696 are a solid group of primarily half-blood and three-quarter blood Brahman bred heifers. They were bred to a Highlander Ranch calving ease Angus bull and a Next Step SimAngusTM bull. Heifers will be pregnancy checked prior to the sale.
The Highlander Angus bred bull is sired by S A V Rainfall 6846. He is in the top 30% of the Angus breed for calving ease and will sire calves with good feet and pasterns.
The Next Step bull is a 3/4Simmental, 1/4 Angus bull that is homozygous black and polled. He is in the top 35% of the Simmental breed for birth weight and milk. He is also in the top 15% of the breed for marbling. His females should be great mothers and his steers will do well in the feedlot and on the rail.
Service Sire EPD Values
These home raised commercial Brangus heifers from Prairie View Farms are deep hipped and long bodied with plenty of muscle and volume. Heifers were born in Fall 2022 and early Winter 2023 and raised on Fescue pastures on blackbelt soils. This herd has a complete herd health program and these heifers are up to date on all vaccinations.
Heifers were pasture bred to a UltrablackTM son of BRD Range Rover 889D. This bull was bred right and is in the top 1% for calving ease and top 2% of the UltrablackTM bulls for birth weight. He is in the top 25% of UltrablackTM bulls for yearling weight, milk, REA and intramuscular fat. His progeny will excel both in the feedlot and cow herd.
Heifers were exposed from January 1, 2024 to September 16, 2024. Some heifers will have calved by sale time. The remaining heifers will calve from late November 2024 thru February 2025. The majority of the heifers will calve by the end of December.
Service Sire EPD Values
Non-Pairs at Sale Time Will Start Calving in late November 2024
Meadowlake Farm is offering 11 registered homozygous polled Hereford females out of three sires. They are sired by either the Hereford AI bull Eclipse from Sandhill Farms in western Kansas, CSR 405D Provident 752E or D1033, who is an EF BeefU208 Tested X651 ET son. Heifers were bred to the same Quail Valley Brangus bull and Next Step SimAngusTM bull as Meadowlake’s black baldy heifers 442-444.
Hereford
Charlotte K1296
Meadowlake Farm
Tattoo: 1296
Hereford
Meadowlake Farm
SHF Zane X51 Z115
Eclipse
Lot 639 will calve between February 5 and March 1, 2025.
SHF Eclipse Z115 E165 is a proven calving ease bull in the top 2% of the Hereford breed with top 40% growth and milk, superior udder shape and teat size and in the top 15% for marbling. He is moderate in size with more muscle and rib than average.
642
Hereford
K1313
Commercial Hereford Heifer
Commercial Angus Cross Cow Tattoo: 1326 DOB: 12/2/2022
and
Gidget
Rusty 1205 ET MLF Megan B926 MLF Lulu R486
K1328 Lot 640 will calve between February 20 and March 10, 2025. Lot 641 will calve between December 15, 2024 and January 25, 2025. Lot 642 will calve between December 15, 2024 and January 25, 2025. Lot 643 will calve between December 15, 2024 and January 10, 2025.
Bennett Provident B284 CSR 405D Provident
Farm
Cow Tattoo: 1313 DOB: 10/28/2022 Reg: 44470427 643
Hereford Shiloh Ridge Ranch SRF Cuda 98 Deacon 310L
Bull Tattoo: 310L DOB: 1/9/2023 Reg: 44457452
73S M326 Trust 100W ET BEHM 100W Cuda 504C
Innisfail WHR X651/1723 4013ET Tulip-Thorngren Farms ACC Ruby’s Jewell 116
Hereford Shiloh Ridge Ranch
SRF 102G 910G Tank 314L
Bull Tattoo: 314L DOB: 2/1/2023 Reg: 44457843
Whitehawk Natural 290E WHR 290E 306E Beefmaker 102G
Beefmaid 597B 5008 306E
Whitehawk 225 Beefmaker 597B TCR B335/597B Miss Sara 910G 3TKJ P169 Lady Lion 6064 B335
Hereford Shiloh Ridge Ranch
SRF 102G 347E Big Max 315L
Bull Tattoo: 315L DOB: 2/4/2023 Reg: 44457845
Whitehawk Natural 290E WHR 290E 306E Beefmaker 102G WHR Beefmaid 597B 5008 306E
Whitehawk 1016 Beefmaker 701B WHR Beefmaid 701B X221 347E ET Grandview CMR Miss Vic X221
Hereford Shiloh Ridge Ranch SRF 102G R117 Sir Loin 319L
Red Angus J-H Farms JH David 7W
Shiloh Ridge Farm
Prairie Creek Farms
Judson Johnson
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