February 2013 Hereford World by American Hereford Association

February 2013 Hereford World

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Published by the American Hereford Association

February 2013; Vol. 103, No. 9

The Magic Cross . . . . . 28

Oregon’s Triangle Ranches: A Common Sense Approach . . . . . . 37

Proven Performers Greenview Farms has found success marketing Hereford genetics in the Southeast by using a breeding philosophy that focuses on performance and quality from grazing. by Angie Stump Denton

ith the goal to produce quality cattle in a sustainable environment, Greenview Farms has proven Hereford genetics can perform in the sub-tropical environment of the Gulf Coast region. “We have the data to prove Hereford genetics can add pounds and efficiency to the commercial cattle industry,” says

Buying Bulls . . . . . . . . . 50 Sweet Thing, Rebecca, Stockman, Role Model Win in Reno . . . . . . . . . . 84

Greenview’s owner, Jonny Harris, a fifth-generation cattleman and farmer from Screven, Ga. The late Winton Harris, Jonny’s father, began the Harris family’s involvement in the polled Hereford business in 1942 (see “About Greenview”). Greenview Farms is now the oldest registered Hereford herd in Georgia.

Today the operation is a family business that consists of a cattle operation that produces Hereford and registered F1 Brafords by crossing Hereford females with Brahman bulls, as well as a diversified farming operation (see “Utilizing resources”). In 1981 after Jonny had been encouraged by many of his bull and continued on page 18...

“Herefords have been left out of many herd mixes for up to 10 or 15 years. Adding Hereford back to their program gives the producer the hybrid vigor they are looking for.” — Jonny Harris

World Class Hereford Bulls from Churchill

Churchill Domino 2130Z ET

955W x Sensation’s dam. Huge top, big square rear end, loads of quality! He has exploded from weaning to yearling and could be another Sensation!. Breed leading EPDs. BW 2.0; WW 62; YW 99; MM 25; REA 0.64; MARB 0.11

Churchill Sensation 254Z

Sensation x Harland. Bonafide very low BW bull with tons of thickness, quality and pigment! Very unique prospect! BW -0.7; WW 56; YW 85; MM 31; REA 0.40; MARB 0.28

Churchill Helton 2101Z

Helton x Harland. Awesome polled bull that is super long bodied and thick as can be! A rancher’s dream bull! BW 2.5; WW 53; YW 87; MM 28; REA 0.33; MARB 0.14

• Ninety Churchill bulls for sale at private treaty, including 35 ET bulls • Sired by breed leaders: Churchill Sensation 028X, CL 1 Domino 955W, CRR Helton 980 and Golden Oak Outcross 18U! • The AVERAGE Churchill bull for sale ranks in the top 12% of all Herefords for both weaning and marbling yet is still in the smallest 25% for birth weights! • Curve benders in volume! • Go to www.churchillcattle.com for a video of each bull or contact us for a catalog. • Delivery available anywhere

Churchill Domino 2133Z ET

955W x Rancher. Elite herd bull prospect! Quality, thickness and depth with great numbers! BW 3.6; WW 58; YW 95; MM 24; REA 0.33; MARB 0.25

Churchill Helton 235Z

Helton x Dutch. Very complete, total package polled Helton out of a fantastic Dutch daughter! Great genetics! BW 4.6; WW 62; YW 97; MM 26; REA 0.55; MARB -0.03

Churchill Helton 260Z

Helton x 766 donor cow. The powerhouse bull of our calf crop! Great hair, super deep, strong bone, awesome dam! BW 5.7; WW 65; YW 104; MM 28; REA 0.50; MARB 0.27

Churchill Outcross 2140Z ET

Outcross x STAR 273U. Very thick, very balanced polled powerhouse! Loads of eye appeal. Will have awesome females! BW 5.0; WW 63; YW 103; MM 23; REA 0.66; MARB 0.07

The Churchill Bull Program There’s nothing else like it! See www.churchillcattle.com for more information.

Churchill Sensation 2228Z ET

Sensation out of Yankee’s full sister. This late March calf is an incredible prospect with incredible numbers! BW -0.5; WW 57; YW 88; MM 25; REA 0.69; MARB 0.35

Dale and Nancy Venhuizen 1862 Yadon Rd. • Manhattan, MT 59741 Cell 406-580-6421 • 406-284-6421 dale@churchillcattle.com • www.churchillcattle.com

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February 2013 • Vol. 103 • No. 9

Cover Proven Performers

Sale Day… Every Day Bull production is our business - selecting and producing the genetics that can produce and reproduce the most efficient, dependable and profitable cattle possible. Now with 100 years of breeding Hereford cattle and four generations of Wiese management, our confidence in marketing a value added bull is the strongest ever. Contact us for your bull needs. We have a large selection of coming twos and yearlings. All bulls appraised for structure, condition, efficiency, fertility and disposition. We have a powerful offering at the Iowa Beef Expo Sale. Lot 16 — 43227801 Cattleman’s beef bull. Big body, plenty of muscle. Lot f17 — P43227929 Calving ease. 63 lb. act. BW. 0.5 BW EPD, 3.5 CE. Heavy pigment. Lot 67 — P43321613 Super maternal brood cow that would show.

Greenview Farms has found success marketing Hereford genetics in the Southeast by using a breeding philosophy that focuses on performance and quality from grazing.

28 The Magic Cross

Hereford Bull Prices Expected to Climb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

37 Oregon’s Triangle Ranches: A Common-Sense Approach

DNA Testing Update. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Breeding Hereford bulls to Angus cows results in the perfect female, and the steers hold their own, too. For more than 60 years, Don Anderson has used Herefords as a practical approach to the commercial cattle business.

50 Buying Bulls

54 58 62 68

Extension specialists share important things to consider when shopping for bulls.

Winter Bull Management Pre-Breeding Bull Management How, What Will We Feed Cattle? Healthy Handling

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Performance Matters What’s New?

Association News and Events . . . . 10

CHB Bites

Bull Buying and Management

The sustainability of ranching operations and of families who can harmoniously work together may be some of the best spin-off benefits derived from effectively handled livestock.

Certified Hereford Beef (CHB) Program Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Beef Talk

Don’t Forget the Bulls. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

72 Three Tips to Prepare the Cow for Spring Calving 76 Don’t Lose Your Land 84 Sweet Thing, Rebecca, Stockman, Role Model Win in Reno

New Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

98 Why We Need Technology

Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Highlights of the 2012 Western Nugget National Hereford Show.

Efficient food production is key to help end world hunger, lower food costs and protect natural resources.

Sales Digest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Advertisers’ Index . . . . . . . 120

AHA C American Hereford Association

Certified Hereford Beef Staff

Field Staff

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Vice president of sales Mick Welch, mwelch@herefordbeef.org Vice president of customer service Brad Ellefson, bellefson@herefordbeef.org Account analyst Cheryl Monson, cmonson@herefordbeef.org Communication specialist Christy Couch Lee, christylee@hereford.org Territory manager Danielle Starr, dstarr@herefordbeef.org Hereford Verified and Hereford Marketplace specialist Heidi Tribbett, hktribbett@hereford.org 970-580-4503 For information about Hereford Marketplace, visit HerefordMarketplace.com or call 970-580-4503.

Western Region – Mark Holt Ariz., Calif., Idaho, Nev., Ore., Utah and Wash. 2300 Bishop Rd., Emmett, ID 83617 208-369-7425, mholt@hereford.org Mountain Region – Ben Brillhart Colo., Mont., Wyo. and western Canadian provinces P.O. Box 181, Musselshell, MT 59059 406-947-2222, bbrillhart@hereford.org North Central Region – Levi Landers Kan., Minn., Neb., N.D. and S.D. 19870 Poole Rd., Gibbon, NE 68840 308-730-1396, llanders@hereford.org Upper Midwest Region – John Meents Ill., Ind., Ky., Md., Mich., Ohio, Pa., W.Va. and Wis. 21555 S.R. 698, Jenera, OH 45841 419-306-7480, jmeents@hereford.org Southwest Region Advertising Representative – Dustin Layton Ark., La., N.M., Okla. and Texas 1615 Castellina Court, Edmond, OK 73034 405-464-2455, laytond@yahoo.com Eastern Region – Tommy Coley Ala., Fla., Ga., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn. and Va. 1284 Stage Coach Rd., Sewanee, TN 37375 815-988-7051, tcoley@hereford.org Central Region – Contact the AHA Iowa and Mo. Northeast Region – Contact the AHA Conn., Del., D.C., Maine, Mass., N.H., N.J., N.Y., R.I., Vt. and eastern Canadian provinces

AHA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President Cliff Copeland, Nara Visa, N.M. Vice president Steve Lambert, Oroville, Calif. Directors Term expires 2013 Marty Lueck, Mountain Grove, Mo. Dale Micheli, Ft. Bridger, Wyo. Term expires 2014 Keith Fawcett, Ree Heights, S.D. Dale Venhuizen, Manhattan, Mont. Term expires 2015 Fred Larson, Spring Valley, Wis. David Trowbridge, Tabor, Iowa Eric Walker, Morrison, Tenn. Term expires 2016 Curtis Curry, McAlester, Okla. Jonny Harris, Screven, Ga. Sam Shaw, Caldwell, Idaho

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Call today: 888-301-6829 Office 712-653-3678 31552 Delta Ave. Manning, IA 51455 wiese@mmctsu.com

Breed Focus

Executive vice president Craig Huffhines, chuffhin@hereford.org Chief operating officer and director of breed improvement Jack Ward, jward@hereford.org Chief financial officer Leslie Mathews, lmathews@hereford.org Director of communications Angie Stump Denton, adenton@hereford.org 785-363-7263 Director of records department Stacy Sanders, ssanders@hereford.org Director of youth activities Amy Cowan, acowan@hereford.org National Shows Coordinator and Youth Activities Assistant Bailey Clanton, bclanton@hereford.org Records supervisor Cindy Coleman, ccoleman@hereford.org BuyHereford.com manager Dennis Schock, dschock@hereford.org 903-815-2004

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Whispering Pine Farms Bulls

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TH 122 71I Victor 719T

P42800895 BW -0.1; WW 67; YW 92; MM 23; M&G 56

TH 89T 743 Untapped 425X ET

P43117135 BW 3.8; WW 52; YW 78; MM 18; M&G 44

TH SHR 605 57G Bismarck 243R ET

P42629061 BW 5.2; WW 63; YW 112; MM 17; M&G 49

C New Era ET

P42992025 BW 8.2; WW 63; YW 103; MM 19; M&G 51

When you are looking for calving ease bulls, extra pounds and performance, we have the bulls for you. Here is a sample of our private treaty bulls. ID#

Reg. #

1031 P43274535 1033 P43274537 1034 P43274538 1038 P43274542 1043 P43324341 1211 43236523 2002 43302612 2008 P43303982 2009 P43303981 2010 P43303980 2011 P43303979 2017 P43303973 2018 P43303972 2020 P43303970 2030 P43303963 2031 P43303962 2033 P43303960 2035 P43304752 2037 P43303950 2044 P43302609 2047 P43302610 2049 P43303940 2053 P43303936 2054 43303930 2056 P43303926 2062 P43303911 2064 43303909 2066 43303907 2074 P43303875

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MM M&G MCE

FAT

REA

MARB

7/23/11 0.3 3.6 46 85 19 42 2.3 0.9 0.003 0.53 0.04 10/15/11 -1.0 2.3 42 60 25 46 -0.4 0.9 0.037 0.49 0.01 10/15/11 1.8 1.0 44 67 19 41 0.7 0.8 0.051 0.28 0.07 10/18/11 1.4 3.0 49 77 25 49 1.4 1.1 0.045 0.27 0.07 12/20/11 -3.5 4.9 49 73 25 50 -1.9 1.1 0.032 0.51 0.04 8/29/11 1.9 4.0 48 69 28 52 1.8 0.9 -0.005 0.11 -0.03 2/1/12 3.8 1.7 45 62 24 47 1.5 0.7 -0.007 0.38 -0.04 2/24/12 3.5 1.7 56 82 24 52 0.2 0.8 -0.008 0.50 -0.01 2/26/12 6.3 1.1 62 93 24 55 0.7 1.1 -0.010 0.63 -0.02 2/27/12 4.0 0.1 50 76 23 48 1.7 1.0 0.009 0.41 -0.01 2/27/12 4.8 -0.9 50 76 20 45 2.3 0.9 -0.010 0.32 0.00 3/1/12 5.3 2.5 65 94 22 54 0.0 1.0 -0.026 0.51 -0.05 3/3/12 4.8 2.1 55 85 19 46 -0.2 1.1 -0.009 0.50 -0.06 3/5/12 -1.3 5.2 53 90 26 52 0.2 0.8 -0.039 0.71 -0.10 3/7/12 7.1 -0.2 52 79 20 46 2.4 0.9 -0.011 0.49 -0.03 3/8/12 0.8 3.1 52 89 18 44 2.1 0.7 0.014 0.44 -0.07 3/8/12 -0.5 3.8 55 83 22 50 0.1 1.2 0.019 0.36 0.07 3/10/12 2.8 4.6 63 98 22 54 -0.2 1.0 -0.017 0.46 -0.12 3/11/12 7.8 -1.0 39 58 17 37 1.8 0.6 -0.004 0.35 -0.02 3/13/12 0.8 2.6 52 77 23 49 2.9 0.8 -0.026 0.56 0.16 3/14/12 2.4 1.9 51 80 22 47 1.7 0.6 -0.028 0.62 0.10 3/15/12 0.4 4.4 51 89 15 40 2.4 0.9 -0.010 0.43 0.09 3/15/12 5.7 0.3 50 76 20 45 2.1 0.9 0.013 0.41 0.04 3/18/12 2.6 1.9 47 69 12 36 1.0 1.3 0.057 -0.08 0.43 3/21/12 -0.4 2.3 40 62 20 40 1.4 1.0 0.059 0.29 0.07 3/26/12 0.8 3.0 49 81 19 43 1.0 0.9 0.006 0.57 -0.06 4/1/12 0.3 3.5 51 82 20 45 1.9 0.6 0.001 0.47 0.07 4/1/12 0.8 2.3 53 85 19 45 2.4 0.9 0.029 0.47 0.02 4/9/12 3.3 2.1 45 79 23 46 2.9 0.7 0.026 0.17 0.13

Jason and Marcy McDonald, Owners Scott and Deb Brown, Managers Scott’s cell 740-641-7089 72196 325th St., Kimball, MN 55353 320-398-6317 • Jason’s cell 320-221-0280 jasonm@meltel.net • www.whisperingpinefarms.com Hereford.org

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by Craig Huffhines, executive vice president

Hereford Bull Prices Expected to Climb There are many factors that affect the average price paid for range bulls across the industry, but none are as highly correlated as the price of feeder cattle. On an individual seedstock operation basis, average prices can vary widely across the industry based on producer reputation, genetic profile, phenotypic quality and condition of the bulls, and breed popularity. However, American Hereford Association (AHA) production sale data tracked since 1980 reveal a very strong correlation between average feeder calf price and price paid for range bulls at auction. Since 1980 the average price paid for a Hereford bull (at auction) has equated the price paid for four and a half feeder calves weighing 550 lb. Since 2008 the price ratio has increased to 1 to 5 at a time when feeder calves have been on a record climb in value. This stronger price paid for Hereford bulls in relationship to feeder calf price in the last four years is another indicator of the growing demand for Hereford genetics in the commercial

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Historic average Hereford bull price versus historic average 550-lb. feeder price

Source: CattleFax and American Hereford Association

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marketplace. In fact, Hereford breeders are seeing new buying competition on the auction seats, which is being reflected in this ratio. Based on the data, it is anticipated that Hereford bull sale prices should continue to climb in 2013. Fall 2012 feeder calf prices were on average $10 per hundredweight (cwt.), higher (6.8%) than in 2011, $159 versus $149 respectively. If drought conditions break across a large part of the U.S. this spring, the cow herd expansion signal will be on full go, and heifer retention will take additional feeder cattle out of the marketplace adding to the already bullish calf market. It will be easy to justify the genetic enhancements and economic kick that Hereford heterosis will deliver to cow-calf producers. Aside from the differences in real and perceived values of individual seedstock programs, the Hereford breed as a whole has been on track to win back market share. Much has been said about the industry’s need to introduce maternal heterosis while at the same time maintaining beef quality, which has long been the Hereford breed’s mission. Both new and historic scientific studies suggest that the Hereford cross

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will add 7% in pregnancy rates along with a 3% increase in growth, not to mention longevity, to a cow’s lifecycle, which is a real cost-cutting measure for any operation. Under the right feed conditions, future feeder calf prices could drive well beyond $200/cwt. A 10% increase in pounds of calf available to sell at the top of the market will be an undeniable truth to the profit picture of the cowcalf industry. As an organization, the AHA is most proud of our objective to continue to push the envelope in breed improvement, whole-herd recording and, now, genomic-enhanced expected progeny differences (GE-EPDs). No other breed in the world has such a large database on whole-herd female production records leading to a very sound economic assessment of the population. This commitment to breed improvement is allowing breeders and commercial customers to make selection decisions with confidence. This confidence in Hereford genetics in addition to the value that crossbreeding brings to the producer’s profit picture is creating strong stimulus in the marketplace for Hereford genetics. HW

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REPLACEMENT OPEN HEIFERS 16-head of replacement heifers. They are daughters of TH 266K 63N Tundra 135X, STAR Embracer Gem 10N ET and Mohican Top Money 3T ET. This is an outstanding group of heifers, ready to breed to your own good bull. Several of these heifers are of show quality.

POLL TERRA PASTURES Plymouth, Neb. Stan and Karen Buckow 402-656-3758

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by Jack Ward, chief operating officer and director of breed improvement jward@hereford.org

DNA Testing Update Over the course of the past few months, the American Hereford Association (AHA) has transitioned to a new DNA lab, and we have tried to clear up as many misconceptions and concerns through Hereford eNews, Hereford World articles and a DNA testing procedure brochure that was available at the Annual Meeting. However, I think it is good to again address any issues breeders may have on the topic, so I want to cover a few of the questions that keep surfacing. First, I would like to reflect on the most current AHA Strategic Plan.

Core Strategy 1: Improve the overall quality, consistency, predictability and profitability of Hereford genetics.

Objective A: Increase the accuracy of breeding values in young cattle and manage functional defect rates by developing a plan for including genomic information into genetic evaluation.

Tactics: • Build test populations for discovery purposes.

• Develop DNA tests for measurable traits (birth weight and calving ease are priorities).

• Collect DNA for cosmetic/ function problems.

So, with this reminder, the reason for a lab change from Maxxam Analytics to GeneSeek Inc. was to enable the AHA to use the most comprehensive DNA technology at one spot in order to develop the type of tools necessary to reach our strategic goal without affecting the normal testing for parentage and abnormalities. Maxxam could not develop a business plan that would allow them

to compete on the price schedule with this move. Maxxam was a very reliable service provider; they understood our position and the change was very amicable. All of the DNA that was stored at Maxxam was delivered to GeneSeek and has been properly cataloged. Here are a few of the frequently asked questions about DNA testing. You can also find more at Hereford.org/dnatesting. Q. Why did the AHA change DNA labs? A. Over the course of the past few years, the AHA has been working closely with the scientific community and academia to develop a set of DNA markers that can be used to help enhance the pedigree, phenotypes and progeny phenotypes that are used to calculate expected progeny differences (EPDs). This new tool utilizes SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) technology versus microsatellite technology. In addition to this EPD enhancement, scientists at USMARC (U.S. Meat Animal Research Center) produced a set of SNP markers that could be used for parentage verification, and, in addition, Jon Beever, University of Illinois animal scientist, converted the abnormality markers to a SNP-based test. All of these things together allowed us to change the technology and to utilize one lab for all of the testing. Q. Do my AI (artificial insemination) and ET (embryo transfer) permits still exist on animals tested at Maxxam? A. All AI and ET permits are still honored on animals that were

tested at Maxxam and prior. We even have some that still exist on animals that were blood tested. However, the issue starts when you want to AI permit an animal born to a parent that was microsatellite tested. If this need occurs, we will try to upgrade the parents to a SNP profile first because this process makes the most sense to move forward. This upgrade is a $15 expense to the breeder who wants an animal parent verified. If there is no DNA available but an animal has a microsatellite profile available, then it is still possible to get the progeny parent verified. This possibility is not the case with blood typing. Q. Why do I get various DNA statement reports on one animal? A. Today, we have several more tests available for each animal, and at GeneSeek this availability of multiple tests means you may have an individual test performed on a different day, and the AHA wants to get you the results as quickly as possible on each test performed. So, you may receive parentage results before H/P (horned/polled) results and that before GE-EPD (genomicenhanced EPD) results. It should be common practice to get DNA to the lab at least three weeks prior to needing any results. That does not mean order the kits three weeks ahead; it means have the DNA at the lab three weeks ahead.

registered starting in 2014. In the past a steer had to only be sired by a registered bull, and its dam needed to be either a registered or commercial Hereford cow. This policy was adopted by the AHA and affects national and regional shows. We have seen many of the Midwest state fairs already adopt this policy and others that use no papers at all. We are only concerned with what will happen at the Junior National Hereford Expo and regional shows; we do not dictate the rules for any state or local shows. We will still provide a steer certificate if that is what is needed. However, there have been some calls to the office asking why the dam of a steer will need to be parent verified before a steer is registered. That is not a rule, and a steer will go through the same registration process as a heifer or a bull. There are lots of exciting changes; we have already seen a tremendous amount of utilization of the new DNA testing. We have literally just scratched the surface of what this will open up for AHA members and their customers. By February we will have added many high accuracy sires to the training population. We have nearly 20 legacy sires scheduled to be sequenced, and we are looking at markers to predict feed intake. If you have any further questions or concerns about DNA testing, please contact me at 816-842-3757 or jward@hereford.org. HW

Steer papers The AHA Board voted to have all Hereford steers that show at an AHAsponsored show need to be fully

American Hereford Association National Reference Sire Program Responsibilities of Test Herd:

Responsibilities of Bull Owner:

• Select from nominated bulls • Contact bull owner for semen shipping instructions • Breed 55-60 cows at a random mating across genotypes • Breed 30 cows to one reference sire that has been tested in previous years (at the cost of the test herd, semen and shipping at a commercial rate) • Provide complete data on National Reference Sire Program (NRSP) forms • Breeding data: Cow ID, specific breed makeup (based on percent), age of cow at breeding time, date bred and sire used • Birth data: Calf ID, date of birth, weight and calving ease score • Weaning data: Calf ID, date weaned and weight • Interim data: Calf ID, date, weight • Carcass data: Calf ID, carcass weight, marbling score, fat thickness, ribeye area, internal fat and yield grade • Test herd must provide at least 55% conception rate • Test herd must retain ownership or partnership at 50% or greater on cattle until they have been harvested

• Nominate bulls for test sire • Nominate bulls to American Hereford Association (AHA) by March 1, 2013 • Furnish 60 straws of semen and pay shipping cost to test herds • Pay fees as required

Test Herd Cost:

• Obtaining high accuracy carcass EPDs (expected progeny differences) • Obtaining performance data compared to other sires tested in herd contemporaries • Opportunity to market semen as a NRSP reference sire, after nominated and selected • Opportunity to test sires next to the top Hereford genetics in the breed

• All costs will be covered by test herd • Test herd will pay for the reference sire semen for the 30 cows, and shipping semen will be priced at a commercial rate, data collection will be paid by test herd on all cattle

Bull Owner Cost: • Semen and shipment of semen • Pay the test herd fee per bull tested when semen is shipped — contact Jack Ward for details

Responsibilities of AHA: • Receive data and report all data back to bull owner and to test herd

AHA Cost: There will be no cost to the test herd or the bull owner for the data reporting done by the AHA

Benefits of Test Sires:

For an application go to Hereford.org/NRSP or contact AHA at 816-842-3757 8

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013 • 12:30 p.m. Manhattan Commission Co. • Manhattan, Kan. Selling: 100 Fall and Spring Yearling Hereford and Angus Bulls 80 Hereford and Angus Females Spring Pairs, Heavy Breds, Fall 3 and 1’s Show Heifer Prospects and Proven Donors Progeny and service of these sires sell: Churchill Rancher, Harland 408, GO 3196 Advance S109, UPS Domino 3027, Victor 719T, Revolution 4R, C 212 Domino 4011, CL 1 Domino 860U, Moser 242 All-Around 17U MCR 3027 Harlands Domino 1218 • 43281508

8/26/2011 Sire: UPS Domino 3027 • Dam’s Sire: CJH Harland 408 MGS: OXH Mark Domino 8020 CE 4.4; BW 4.5; WW 60; YW 109; MM 33; M&G 63; MCE 1.7; MCW 89; SC 1.2; FAT 0.013; REA 0.51; MARB 0.30; BMI$ 21; CEZ$ 18; BII$ 16; CHB$ 36

MCR Revolutions Domino 1211 ET • 43281535

8/26/2011 Sire: MSU TCF Revolution 4R Dam’s Sire: C –S Pure Gold 98170 MGS: CL 1 Domino 386 CE 0.1; BW 3.3; WW 60; YW 95; MM 23; M&G 54; MCE 0.8; MCW 78; SC 0.8 ; FAT 0.013; REA 1.01; MARB 0.00; BMI$ 17; CEZ$ 13; BII$ 14; CHB$ 29

MCR Harland Gold Domino 225 ET • 43293334

1/10/2012 Sire: CJH Harland 408 Dam’s Sire: C –S Pure Gold 98170 MGS: CL 1 Domino 386 CE 1.1; BW 2.0; WW 49; YW 83; MM 29; M&G 53; MCE 1.8; MCW 78; SC 1.4; FAT 0.048; REA 0.42; MARB 0.26; BMI$ 22; CEZ$ 16; BII$ 20; CHB$ 25

MCR Ranchers 408 Domino 216 ET • 43293332 1/9/2012 Sire: Churchill Rancher 592R Dam’s Sire: CJH Harland 408 MGS: OXH Mark Domino 8020 CE 1.3; BW 3.8; WW 60; YW 97; MM 27; M&G 57; MCE 1.9; MCW 107; SC 1.4; FAT 0.045; REA 0.42; MARB 0.40; BMI$ 24; CEZ$ 16; BII$ 21; CHB$ 33

Mill Creek Ranch 20635 Hessdale Rd. Alma, KS 66401 Dave Breiner 785-449-2841 Cell 785-456-4790 Chad Cell 785-564-2091 Hereford.org

MCR 408 Gold Dominet 808 ET • 42929304

• Harland 408 x 239 (Pure Gold x 035 – 552’s Dam, the great 386 daughter) • CE -0.2; BW 4.1; WW 57; YW 101; MM 27; M&G 56; MCE 1.0; MCW 91; SC 1.2; FAT 0.042; REA 0.56; MARB 0.00; BMI$ 17; CEZ$ 13; BII$ 14; CHB$ 25 • Progeny Performance: WW 123.5/2 head; YW 117.5/2 head; REA 102.5/4 head; IMF 89/4 head

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Northern Division Bob and Derek Moore 423 E. Lake Dr. Hamlin, TX 79520 800-338-4610

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by Angie Stump Denton, editor adenton@hereford.org

“What’s New?” is a column designed to keep you in-the-know about Hereford happenings. You can also sign up for Hereford eNews, a weekly electronic newsletter from the American Hereford Association (AHA). Send an e-mail to eNews@hereford.org to subscribe. Archived issues are posted at Hereford.org.

Use A for 2013 The year letter code for 2013 is A. This notice is for producers who use letter codes in their identification system. For more on tattoo and identification tips, visit the Education Center at Hereford.org.

High accuracy bulls sought, cost-share option available During the American Hereford Association (AHA) Board meeting the Board discussed its continued

commitment to DNA testing more high accuracy sires. Hereford breeders who have a bull that does not have a genomicenhanced expected progeny difference (GE-EPD), has a weaning weight accuracy of better than .50 and was born in 2001 or after, can contact Toni Shapiro at the AHA office, and the AHA will pay $40 of the fees to have the bull DNA tested. A list of high-use Hereford sires that the Association would like tested has been generated. To see if a bull

you own is on that list, contact Jack Ward, AHA chief operating officer and director of breed improvement, at jward@hereford.org or at 816-842-3757. For more about Hereford DNA testing visit Hereford.org.

Reno photos available Western Nugget National Hereford Show photos, including candids and backdrop photos, are available to purchase at HerefordPhotoShop.com.

Spring Gold TPR breeders named Eighty-five dedicated Hereford breeders achieved Gold TPRTM (Total Performance Records) status for spring 2013, according to the American Hereford Association (AHA). Also, the AHA has released the updated EPDs for spring 2013. The EPDs and the updated Trends, Traits and Distributions report is available online at Hereford.org. The Gold TPR Breeder recognition is presented to progressive Hereford breeders who have measured traits and collected and promptly submitted performance data at all levels of production. “The reason the Gold TPR program was established was to recognize those breeders who go the extra mile to collect data at all levels of production and report that data in a timely manner,” says AHA Chief Operating Officer and Director of Breed Improvement Jack Ward. Since the program’s inception in 2005, Hereford breeders have increased their data collection efforts. Breeders must meet a specific set of requirements in order to be eligible for the program. They are: • Herd inventory submitted prior to date inventory surcharge goes into effect. • Complete reporting of calving ease and reproductive status for each dam on inventory. • Complete reporting of birth weights for all live calves recorded in the calf crop. • Complete reporting of weaning weights for all live calves recorded in the calf crop. • Complete reporting of yearling weights for all live calves recorded in the calf crop. • Complete reporting of scrotal measurements for each bull calf with a recorded yearling weight. • Ultrasound data reported on 25% or more of the calf crop. • Note: For weaning and yearling weights, disposal codes are accepted if the animal has been removed from the herd. The following Hereford breeders were recognized as spring 2013 Gold TPR Breeders, organized by state:

Colorado

Nebraska

Leroux Herefords, Windsor

Gary Hedrick, Marietta Hill Vue Farm, Blairsville

Blueberry Hill Farms Inc., Norfolk JB Ranch, Wayne KEG Herefords, Valentine Linton Polled Herefords, Miller Monahan Cattle Co., Hyannis Alfred Schutte & Sons, Guide Rock Valley Creek Ranch, Fairbury

Idaho

Nevada

Florida Jay Johns, Gainesville

Georgia

Elkington Polled Herefords, Idaho Falls JBB/AL Herefords, Gooding

Illinois Ellis Farms, Chrisman

Indiana S.E. Lawrence Polled Herefords, Avilla Gerber Polled Herefords, Richmond Greives Herefords, West Lafayette

Iowa Beef Resources Partnership, Tabor Casteel Polled Herefords, Perry K7 Herefords, Lockridge Simpson Polled Herefords, Redfield

Kansas 4V Douthit Hereford Ranch, St. Francis Brannan & Reinhardt, Otis CK Ranch, Brookville Douthit-Downey Land & Cattle, St. Francis Mike Flory, Lawrence Gustafson Herefords, Junction City Frank Hug & Sons, Scranton Brent McClayland, Alma Mill Creek Ranch, Alma S&S Farms, Windom Sandhill Farms/Kevin Schultz, Haviland Schu-Lar Polled Herefords, Lecompton Allan Shumaker, Wetmore Springhill Hereford Farms, Blue Rapids Towner Farm, Girard

Kentucky Beckleys Herefords, Ravenna

Maryland Church View Farm Inc., Millersville

Minnesota Krogstad Polled Herefords, Fertile Kruse Polled Herefords, Harris Oxley Hereford Ranch-N. Division, Mahomen

Missouri

David or Juanita Jennings, Rogers

Felton Hereford Ranch, Maryville EL Mobley, Fairdealing Nickelson Farms, Belgrade

California

Montana

Arkansas

Tom & Kathy Deforest, Adin Gino Pedretti, El Nido Sonoma Mountain Herefords, Santa Rosa Weimer Cattle Co., Susanville

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Churchill Cattle Co., Manhattan Holden Herefords, Valier Wichman Herefords, Moore

Bell Ranch, Paradise Valley Genoa Livestock LLC, Minden

New York John and Kathi Wagner, Catskill

North Carolina Harry Myers Jr., Statesville Thompson Cattle Co., Polkville

North Dakota Baumgarten Cattle Co., Belfield Perman Herefords, Streeter Stuber Ranch, Bowman

Ohio Douglas Banks, Hamilton Rex Bradford, St. Marys

Oregon Quentin C./Gayle K. Cook, Vale

Pennsylvania Flat Stone Lick, Marianna

South Dakota Baker Hereford Ranch, Rapid City Bar JZ Polled Herefords, Holabird Hillsview Farms, Eureka Eldon Olthoff, Emery Mike & Lori Peskey, Iroquois Ravine Creek Ranch, Huron Thorson Herefords, Quinn Thorstenson Hereford Ranch, Selby Williams Herefords, Presho

Texas BKR Cattle Etc., Abernathy Indian Mound Ranch, Canadian JP Family Limited Partnership, San Angelo Texas 2T Farm, Nacogdoches

Virginia Bay Brook Farm, Dabneys Deer Track Farm, Spotsylvania Knoll Crest Farm, Red House Meadow Ridge Farms, Inc., Broadway Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg Willis Polled Herefords, Emory

Wisconsin Huth Polled Herefords, Oakfield Owego Stock Farm, Argyle

Hereford offers internship The AHA is offering several opportunities this summer for college students hoping to further their education and gain valuable real-world experience working with youth activities. The AHA youth department is offering college juniors or seniors the opportunity to assist with the planning and execution of junior shows and leadership events and to gain experience in association work. Applicants must be enrolled in an agriculture-related major and should be self-starters who are detail-oriented and outgoing and have the ability to work well with all types of people. Travel to the Junior National Hereford Expo (JNHE) and other shows should be expected as part of the internship. The internship spans approximately mid-May to mid-August, with specific starting and ending dates depending on applicant’s availability. Applications are due Feb. 15. Applicants may send a cover letter, résumé and references to Amy Cowan, AHA director of youth activities, P.O. Box 014059, Kansas City, MO 64101. For more information, contact Cowan at acowan@hereford.org or 816-842-3757.

JNHE Ambassador Program College students can also apply for the JNHE Ambassador Program. The 2013 ambassadors will assist the National Junior Hereford Association (NJHA) Board and AHA staff throughout the JNHE week — July 14-21 — in Kansas City, Mo. The five ambassador positions are: 1. Contest coordinator — help with the facilitation of the 22 contests including room set up, starting on time, judge gifts, etc. 2. Event coordinator — assist with organization of opening ceremonies, awards banquet and shows. 3. Technology coordinator — assist with show office, data entry, social media, etc. 4. Operations assistant — help coordinate people and cattle checkin and assist with oversight of tie outs, showring and facility setup. 5. Communications assistant — assist with press releases, photos and daily newsletter as well as contribute to the September Hereford World. Candidates must be a 2013 high school graduate or older and have had national show experience. Ambassadors can not be exhibitors or competitors at the 2013 JNHE. Ambassador applications are due March 15 and are available online at JrHereford.org/jnheambassador. HW

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COLYER HEREFORDS 280 head sell!

33rd Annual Production Sale

155 Hereford bulls 75 Angus bulls Includes 2-year-olds, junior and senior calves. Complete performance data including EPDs, pelvic and scrotal measurements, ultrasound and carcass data.

Monday, February 25, 2013 At the Ranch — Bruneau, Idaho

50 Hereford and Angus heifers

BW 3.9 WW 48 YW 73 MM 23 REA 0.66 MARB 0.06 Lot 78 — C Tapped Off 2222 ET

Outstanding son of Untapped and Notice Me. Big time herd bull potential. Full sister topped our fall sale at $50,000.

BW 4.5 WW 54 YW 86 MM 22 REA 0.78 MARB 0.03

Powerful genetic package combining Mr Hereford and Notice Me. He is extremely long sided and has that extra look and balance from the side. He is very smooth from beginning to end and has added pigment to go with his standout pattern.

We feel this is one of the elite herd bulls to sell this year. He combines quality and balance with a tremendous amount of muscle shape and body depth. Dam topped our 2009 fall sale, selling to Bar One Ranch.

Complete and fault-free son of the popular Untapped bull and Notice Me. Full sister topped our fall sale at $50,000 to Castle’s in Oklahoma.

Lot 37 — C 88X Notice Me 2103 ET

Full brother to Stockman, the 2012 Reno Grand Champion Bull. He has so many of the qualities we are searching for in today’s industry. Lots of muscle shape and depth of body with balance and style. Three full sisters in our fall sale averaged just under $30,000. Six full brothers will sell.

Lot 89 — C BAR1 9161 Untapped 2267 ET

Big time polled herd bull prospect. You will love his balance and pattern. He blends so many good things into one package.

BW 4.5 WW 54 YW 86 MM 22 REA 0.03 MARB 0.78

BW 2.6 WW 50 YW 85 MM 25 REA 0.37 MARB 0.18 Lot 88 — C R111 Sentinel 2264 ET

One of the unique bulls in the sale. Offers low birth with top carcass, growth and maternal. We look forward to using him in our program as well.

BW 2.6 WW 56 YW 84 MM 21 REA 0.54 MARB 0.02 Lot 43 — C R111 Mr Hereford 2111 ET

BW 4.5 WW 54 YW 86 MM 22 REA 0.78 MARB 0.03

BW 2.5 WW 51 YW 78 MM 29 REA 0.50 MARB 0.11

BW 3.9 WW 48 YW 73 MM 23 REA 0.66 MARB 0.06 Lot 76 — C Notice Me Untapped 2214

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Lot 83 — C BAR1 Untapped 2248 ET

BW 2.7 WW 52 YW 72 MM 25 REA 0.64 MARB -0.03 Lot 74 — C Notice Me 11X 2205 ET

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Lot 90 — C BAR1 9161 Untapped 2268 ET

An Untapped son with a big top and as much upper hip as any in the offering. Eye catching because of his added dimension and bold rib shape. His extra eye pigment and deep red color are added bonuses to his impressive phenotype. Dam topped our 2009 sale.

BW 2.6 WW 56 YW 84 MM 21 REA 0.54 MARB 0.02

BW 2.6 WW 56 YW 84 MM 21 REA 0.54 MARB 0.02 Lot 49 — C R111 Mr Hereford 2128 ET

Lot 41 — C R111 Mr Hereford 2109 ET

Three flush brothers by Mr Hereford and the powerful donor cow, R111. They are all deep red in color and have added look and quality to go with their tremendous EPD profile. These brothers should offer tremendous versatility when mating because of their low birth weight and high milk and growth numbers. Full sister sold for $28,000 to Iron Lake in our fall sale.

31058 Colyer Rd. • Bruneau, ID 83604 Guy, Sherry and Katie Colyer 208-845-2313 Kyle and Bobby Jean 208-845-2098 Ray and Bonnie Colyer 208-845-2312 Fax 208-845-2314 • Guy Cell 208-599-0340 Kyle Cell 208-250-3924 guy@hereford.com • www.hereford.com Hereford.org

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by Christy Couch Lee, AHA/CHB LLC communication specialist christylee@hereford.org

“CHB Bites” is a column designed to keep you in-the-know about Certified Hereford Beef (CHB) program happenings. You can also follow CHB on Facebook at facebook.com/CertifiedHerefordBeef.

CHB Ambassadors promote the product at Ohio grand openings In November Millers Market in Lodi and New London, Ohio, conducted grand opening events featuring Certified Hereford Beef (CHB®). Millers, a family-owned franchise based in Indiana, purchased the locally owned Ohio markets earlier in 2012 and introduced CHB to its meat case selection. CHB Ambassadors Nicole Morrison and Mary Ann Berg manned the grill, providing ribeye steak sandwiches and samples to hundreds of shoppers, Berg says. “The samplers loved the flavor with no added seasonings, rubs or marinades,” she says. “The staff and shoppers were impressed that Nikki and I were producers who were willing to give of our time to promote a product we believed in. We accomplished our goal: good will, good presentation and good promotion of a great product.”

Hunting for appreciation Recently, CHB packer Greater Omaha Packing Co. Inc. showed its appreciation to Sysco Minnesota and Sysco Virginia. For their support of the CHB program, Greater Omaha treated these distributors with a pheasant hunt at Rausch Hereford Ranch in Hoven, S.D., and a CHB meal at Dakota Joe’s Café in Tolstoy, S.D. Enjoying a CHB ribeye meal at Dakota Joe’s Café in Tolstoy, S.D., (pictured, l to r) are: John Erding, Sysco Minnesota merchandising manager; Mick Welch, CHB LLC vice president of sales; Dean Johnson, Greater Omaha Packing Co. Inc.; Steve Tracy, Sysco Minnesota center of the plate merchandiser; and Nick Rausch, Greater Omaha Packing Co. Inc.

Ridley’s expands the CHB brand CHB retailer Ridley’s Family Market is expanding once again — this time, with the purchase of the Kohler’s Marketplace in Highland, Utah. This December acquisition brings the total number of Ridley’s stores to 18 across Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming — all of which carry the CHB brand. Ridley’s, a family-owned business since 1984, has been a CHB retailer since 2006 and is an active promoter of the product throughout its marketing and advertising campaigns.

Riesbeck’s Food Markets earns CHB Bronze Bull Riesbeck’s Food Markets recently earned the CHB Bronze Bull Award for 10 million lb. of CHB sales. Brad Ellefson, CHB LLC vice president of retail sales, says Rusty Stephen, Riesbeck’s meat and seafood director, and CHB LLC have built a strong relationship since its first store Brad Ellefson (left), CHB LLC vice president of carried the product in 2001. retail sales, presents Rusty Stephen, Riesbeck’s “The quality and consistency of meat and seafood director, with the CHB Bronze Bull Award for 10 million lb. of CHB sales. CHB has proven to make a long-term relationship with Riesbeck’s,” Ellefson says. “Rusty believed our product would bring tender, great-tasting beef to the Riesbeck’s customers’ tables, adding a great value for them. I believe this has led to a great relationship between Rusty and the CHB brand.” Currently 12 Riesbeck’s Food Markets in Ohio and West Virginia carry the CHB brand.

Minnesota breeders enjoy CHB On Dec. 7 the Minnesota Hereford Breeders conducted its annual Gopher Sale and banquet in Hutchinson, during which CHB was discussed and promoted by John Schiltz, the owner of Lake Elmo Inn, Lake Elmo, Minn., and the 2012 Minnesota Beef Backer award winner. Nick Rausch, Greater Omaha Packing Co. Inc. and June Dunn, Sysco Minnesota center of the plate specialist, also were in attendance. During his presentation, Schiltz touted how CHB has been a great addition to his offering, Dunn says. “John told the group of 120 breeders that CHB has changed his business since switching over earlier in 2012,” Dunn says. “Sysco Minnesota also displayed our CHB Million Pound Awards that we have achieved so far, and I thanked them for what they are doing as Hereford breeders.” The evening before this banquet, 25 members were treated to a CHB steak dinner at Molly’s Café, Silver Lake, Minn.

Certified Hereford Beef hits prime time CHB made it to prime time during the holiday season. The CHB rib roast and CHB District Manager Danielle Starr were featured in Hen House Market’s holiday ads in the Kansas City area. “I was overwhelmed with excitement to take part in the Hen House commercial, along with Hen House managers, to promote CHB for the holidays,” Starr says. Today, 28 stores fall under the Hen House Market and Ball’s Price Chopper names in the Kansas City metro area. Hen House is a longtime supporter and promoter of the CHB product.

Minnesota Hereford breeders were greeted by the CHB steer, Brisket, at Molly’s Café, Silver Lake, Minn., prior to the 2012 Gopher Sale and banquet.

Millers Markets reaches 10-million-lb. CHB milestone Millers Markets, LaGrange, Ind., recently earned the 10-million-lb. CHB Bronze Bull Award. This award was presented by Brad Ellefson, CHB LLC vice president of retail, to Garry Miller, Millers Markets owner, for his promotion of the CHB product in his seven markets in Indiana and Ohio. Ellefson says Miller is one of the brand’s biggest champions. “He has been a huge supporter of the CHB brand since 1997,” Ellefson says. “Whenever there is a discussion about beef, Garry is the first to chime in and tell everyone listening that CHB is the best beef in the world.” HW

CHB District Manager Danielle Starr and Hen House managers promoted the CHB rib roast in Hen House Market’s holiday television ads in the Kansas City metro area.

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Garry Miller, owner of Millers Markets, LaGrange, Ind., recently earned the 10-million-lb. CHB Bronze Bull Award for his promotion of the product. Hereford.org

47th Annual

Production Sale

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

The Cooper Program

At the ranch located 1/2 mile south of Willow Creek, Mont.

MAKING HEREFORDS BETTER!

Producing linebred Hereford bulls for over 60 years. A program built on calving ease, performance, maternal and carcass merit.

Selling 80 Performance Tested Yearling Bulls 20 Top End Yearling Heifers, including two picks from a flush 8 Young Bred Cows, due April 1, 2013 10 Fall Bred Recips, due Sept. 15, 2013

CL 1 DOMINO 2163Z 1ET

Sire: CL 1 DOMINO 0145X 1ET MGS: HH ADVANCE 3113N 1ET BW 3.4; WW 54; YW 93; MM 38; M&G 65; FAT 0.009; REA 0.38; MARB 0.11

CL 1 DOMINO 216Z 1ET

Sire: CL 1 DOMINO 860U MGS: CL 1 DOMINO 590R BW 0.9; WW 63; YW 112; MM 38; M&G 69; FAT 0.094; REA 0.01; MARB 0.05

CL 1 DOMINO 2100Z

Sire: CL 1 DOMINO 042X 1ET MGS: CL 1 DOMINO 638S BW 2.6; WW 52; YW 82; MM 49; M&G 74; FAT 0.093; REA -0.28; MARB 0.21

CL 1 DOMINO 218Z

Free delivery for first 1,000 miles on purchases totaling $4,500 or more.

CL 1 DOMINO 292Z

Sire: CL 1 DOMINO 042X 1ET MGS: HH ADVANCE 5104R BW 3.8; WW 65; YW 108; MM 61; M&G 93; FAT 0.069; REA 0.17; MARB 0.02

Sire: HH ADVANCE 0118X MGS: CL 1 DOMINO 477P BW 2.2; WW 50; YW 71; MM 40; M&G 65; FAT 0.023; REA 0.25; MARB 0.08

CL 1 DOMINO 2109Z

CL 1 DOMINO 2142Z 1ET

Sire: CL 1 DOMINO 994W 1ET MGS: CL 1 DOMINO 590R BW -0.9; WW 50; YW 85; MM 35; M&G 60; FAT 0.089; REA 0.15; MARB 0.06

Buy with confidence! Call, email or write for a catalog

Sire: L1 DOMINO 08542 MGS: CL 1 DOMINO 9126J 1ET BW 2.2; WW 48; YW 82; MM 22; M&G 46; FAT 0.067; REA 0.19; MARB 0.20

Visit www.cooperherefords.com for additional photos and information

P.O. Box 126 • Willow Creek, MT 59760 406-285-6985 Office • info@cooperherefords.com Mark and Cristy Mark cell 406-539-6885 Hereford.org

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POWERFUL PERFORMERS 47TH ANNUAL PRODUCTION SALE

Monday, March 11, 2013 At the Ranch, Valier, Mont.

Selling 90 BIG, STOUT YEARLING BULLS 25 POWERFUL 18-MONTH-OLD BULLS 20 TOP QUALITY YEARLING HEIFERS 4 Elite Donor Cows Selling with complete performance and carcass ultrasound data. Free delivery on purchases totaling $4,500 or more. HH Advance 2047Z ET

Sire: HH Advance 8050U ET MGS: HH Advance 5104R • BW 1.5; WW 62; YW 95; MM 38; M&G 69; REA 0.38; MARB -0.10 • Thick, long, well marked and fancy with great EPDs. Maternal brother to the 0002X bull that topped our sale at $55,000 for ½ interest in 2011. One of three full brothers to sell.

HH Advance 2106Z

Sire: HH Advance 2168M MGS: CL 1 Domino 7128T 1ET • BW 3.9; WW 49; YW 83; MM 19; M&G 44; REA 0.45; MARB -0.06 • Long bodied, thick made bull that is super fancy fronted and stylish. Dam is a maternal sister to the 8050U herd sire.

HH Miss Advance 6155S

Sire: L1 Domino 03571 MGS: HH Advance 0024K • BW 1.5; WW 52; YW 80; MM 28; M&G 54; REA 0.30; MARB -0.03 • This powerful donor female is a full sister to 8050U. She is a huge topped, big hipped cow with loads of volume and fleshing ability. She has tremendous EPDs and is a topnotch embryo producer with an average of 21 good embryos per flush. She sells with a calf at side!

HH Advance 8050U ET

Sire: L1 Domino 03571 MGS: HH Advance 0024K • BW 1.2; WW 60; YW 84; MM 29; M&G 59; REA 0.49; MARB -0.13 • One of the greatest breeding bulls we have ever raised. 8050U is a powerful combination of calving ease, growth, maternal and carcass combined with tremendous length of body, muscle expression and phenotype. He ranks in the top 10% of the breed or higher on BW, WW, MM and M&G EPDs. Sons sell!!

HH Advance 2009Z ET

Sire: HH Advance 8050U ET MGS: CL 1 Domino 2136M • BW -0.7; WW 55; YW 81; MM 38; M&G 65; REA 0.32; MARB 0.07 • Curve bending numbers combined with a great phenotype and good pigment. A ¾ brother was our second high selling bull last year.

HH Advance 1259Y ET

Sire: HH Advance 8050U ET MGS: CL 1 Domino 2136M • BW 0.8; WW 60; YW 90; MM 37; M&G 67; REA 0.44; MARB 0.06 • Long bodied, thick and clean made with great EPDs and pigment. Three-quarter brother sold to Van Newkirk Herefords in our 2012 sale for $37,500.

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60 years of consistent, balanced trait performance selection backed by a linebreeding program that guarantees predictability and uniformity HH Advance 2124Z ET

Sire: HH Advance 9144W MGS: CL 1 Domino 320N • BW 1.4; WW 56; YW 90; MM 47; M&G 75; REA 0.47; MARB -0.07 • Tremendous length, thickness and loads of eye appeal combined with exceptional EPDs. Dam is one of our best and a daughter of the great 5139R cow.

HH Advance 2125Z

Sire: HH Advance 9144W MGS: HH Advance 7101T • BW 2.4; WW 57; YW 93; MM 41; M&G 70; REA 0.31; MARB 0.03 • Goggle-eyed, heavily pigmented bull with tremendous length, muscle, volume and outstanding EPDs. Maternal grandam sold for $37,500 in our 2010 Cow Sale.

HH Advance 2012Z

Sire: HH Advance 0002X MGS: HH Advance 7034T ET • BW 2.1; WW 57; YW 95; MM 45; M&G 73; REA 0.16; MARB 0.05 • Curve bending EPDs and loads of pigment along with extra length and eye appeal. Dam is a future donor from a top cow family.

HH Advance 2151Z

Sire: HH Advance 0132X MGS: HH Advance 7026T ET • BW 0.6; WW 45; YW 71; MM 39; M&G 61; REA 0.19; MARB 0.26 • Calving ease bull with excellent depth of side, pigment, length and eye appeal. Out of our 0132X sire that is in the Genex lineup.

HH Advance 2158Z

Sire: L1 Domino 08469 MGS: CL 1 Domino 320N • BW 4.1; WW 50; YW 84; MM 24; M&G 49; REA -0.03; MARB 0.50 • Tremendous pigment, length and eye appeal in a great package.

HH Advance 2102Z

Sire: CL 1 Domino 017X MGS: HH Advance 8203U ET • BW 1.0; WW 55; YW 84; MM 37; M&G 65; REA 0.25; MARB 0.29 • Thick made, extra deep sided bull with 100% pigment and lots of class. Curve bending numbers combined with maternal and carcass power.

HH Advance 2181Z

Sire: CL 1 Domino 886U MGS: CL 1 Domino 320N • BW 2.6; WW 54; YW 82; MM 40; M&G 67; REA 0.09; MARB 0.09 • Powerhouse bull with tremendous volume, fleshing ability and muscle. Phenomenal maternal pedigree and out of the dam of HH Advance 0132X.

HH Advance 2207Z

Sire: CL 1 Domino 886U MGS: HH Advance 4055P • BW 3.7; WW 64; YW 97; MM 41; M&G 73; REA 0.28; MARB 0.38 • Tremendous performance bull with great EPDs across the board. 2207Z is the #1 bull on adj. 365-day wt. at 1,550 lb. and is out of the dam of last year’s second high selling bull.

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Avg. 205-day wt. 750 lb. • Avg. 365-day wt. 1,350 lb.

Average EPDs on sale bulls:

BW +3.0; WW +51; YW +80; MM +30; M&G +55; REA +.19; MARB +.13

DVDs of sale cattle will be available.

Please call or e-mail and we will be glad to send you one.

The average bull in our sale ranks in the top 4% of the breed for MM and M&G EPDs, the top 20% for MARB EPD and the top 25% for WW EPD while still being well below breed average for BW EPD.

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About Greenview In 1860 Harris ancestors purchased land in the Wayne County area of southeast Georgia. Through the generations, family members have continued to farm the land and raise cattle. In 1942 Winton, a fourth generation Harris cattleman, and his wife, Emily, established a polled Hereford herd, thus making Greenview Farms the oldest, continuously active polled Hereford breeder in the The father-and-son team work together to manage the state of Georgia. Winton was a cattle, farming and timber operation. keen cattleman and farmer, who produced cattle that were fed by foraging and grazing alone. Winton continued to have an active role in the operation of the farm until his death in 2005. His love of agriculture was passed down to his son Jonny and grandson Paul. Together they continue the operation of Greenview Farms along with Jonny’s wife, Toni, and Emily. “Seeing Hereford and Braford cattle grazing on green pastures, knowing that we have records and performance data to predict profitability, is a sight to behold,” Toni says. “Our family is blessed to have been in the cattle business for the past 70 years.” Paul and his wife, Lou, have two boys. Paul adds, “Hopefully my sons will continue the legacy at Greenview.” HW

The Harris family made the decision to produce F1 Brafords in the early ’80s.

heifer customers to produce F1 heifers, he traded Hereford bulls for red Brahman bulls to test the market. The first F1s were sold in 1983, and today the Harris family breeds half its herd to produce registered Herefords and half its herd to produce F1 Brafords and enjoys a strong demand for both resulting offspring. Home to productive Hereford mommas, you won’t find a Braford cow or bull on the farm. All F1 Brafords are marketed. “Many commercial breeders, especially ‘black cow’ producers, have realized the advantage of adding Hereford,” Jonny says. “Because we have identified genetics that work well in our sub-tropical environment. Hereford breeders are now sitting on a gold mine with the opportunity to supply bulls to cover this region’s black cow herd and to supply heifers to be foundations for a commercial herd.” He says the Hereford advantage includes increased pounds at weaning, improved fertility, superior maternal traits and improved manageability (docility). “Herefords have been left

out of many herd mixes for up to 10 or 15 years,” he explains. “Adding Hereford back to their program gives the producer the hybrid vigor they are looking for.”

The program With 400 cows Jonny and Paul — Jonny’s son and partner — have a 120day calving season from mid-October to mid-February. Replacement heifers are bred to Hereford bulls and expected to calve in mid-December. They are artificially inseminated (AI) one time before being put with a bull. After the first-calf heifers calve, they are immediately put with a bull. “We have 10 years of data proving this sysytem with our first-calf heifers. We get 95% of the 2-year-olds rebred and move them up to the first part of our calving season with their second calf,” Jonny says. This process also identifies less fertile females early and allows Jonny and Paul to eliminate them from the herd. Along with the first-calf heifers, about 60 cows are AI bred each year. The rest of the herd is bred naturally to either Brahman or Hereford bulls.

Greenview Farms is the oldest registered polled Hereford herd in Georgia. A Whole-Herd Total Performance Records (TPR™) breeder, Greenview collects birth, weaning and yearling data and submits them to the AHA.

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Each year the Harris family markets about 60 Hereford bulls off the farm.

The F1 bulls are also in high demand. For several years Greenview Farms has been the second largest producer of Braford in the U.S. by number of animals registered. Half of the Greenview cow herd is bred to Hereford bulls while the other half is bred to red Brahman bulls to produce F1 Brafords.

The female Good Hereford mommas are key to Greenview Farms’ success. Jonny says the Greenview female must survive on grass. She has depth, rib and volume and is structurally sound. He expects all females to have good maternal traits that have been passed from their mothers. Other important traits are pigmentation and, a given for Southeastern cattle, a slick hair coat. “To remain in our herd, a heifer must calve at 2 years old, perform on grass, have a good udder with good milk flow and produce a calf every year,” Jonny explains. The Harris family does not buy many females; their plan is to make genetic improvements with bull purchases or semen. “We feel what makes a good cow herd is a group of half sisters,” Jonny says. “This adds uniformity and consistency to the offspring produced.” The Harrises also purchase half brothers to use in their breeding program. Jonny adds, “If a producer comes here to purchase an animal they can be confident they are evaluating cattle that are the result of 70 years of selecting cattle that will work on critera we demand to thrive in our environment. They can be assured if they buy a bull from me they know what it is going to do.”

Replacement heifers are bred to calve in mid-December. After calving they are immediately turned with a bull. This practice has led to a 95% breed-back conception rate and helped move the females up in the calving cycle. To remain in the cow herd, a heifer must calve at 2 years old, perform on grass, have a good udder with good milk flow and produce a calf every year.

Marketing plan Annually Jonny and Paul select between 120 and 130 bulls to develop and market. They also offer between 50 and 150 open heifers each year — Hereford and F1 Brafords. Jonny says the Harris family originally targeted the Gulf Coast states with its marketing efforts, but in recent years, the demand has expanded and migrated north. One of the family’s goals is to continue producing seedstock with quality to meet the purebred breeder’s needs and quantity to serve the commercial breeder while supplying both with the information they need to make their selections. The Harrises participate in two all-breed consignment bull sales each year with the remaining bulls continued on page 20...

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Serving the industry The Harris family believe in the beef industry, and although their plates are full with responsibilities on the farm, they have found time to serve the beef industry and community. “Through my activity in the Georgia Cattlemen’s Association, I saw need for farmers to stand up and tell their story,” Jonny says. “I became aware other people don’t understand what we as cattlemen and farmers do day to day. So if we don’t tell our story who will?” In November Jonny was elected to serve on the American Hereford Association Board of Directors. He says during his term on the Board, his goal is to continue to move the Hereford breed forward with the collection and promotion of science-based data that validate the Hereford advantages specifically related to the commercial industry. Other leadership roles held by Jonny include Georgia Hereford Association director, United Braford Breeders director and former treasurer, former Georgia Cattlemen’s Association (GCA) regional vice president and executive committee member, Florida Cattlemen’s Association member, former Wayne County Livestock Association president, former Southeast Georgia Cattlemen’s Association president, Wayne County Farm Bureau director and Wayne County Soil and Water Conservation District supervisor. He represents GCA on the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association property rights and environmental committee, has testified at a U.S. Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Interior listening session and has participated in two Washington, D.C. fly-ins promoting sustainable agriculture and conservation. Working with the local chapter of the Wild Turkey Federation, the Harris family annually hosts turkey hunts for disabled and terminally ill youth and a separate hunt for local youth. HW

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and heifers offered private treaty off the farm. Steers and cull females are marketed at the local sale barn. When selecting bulls for consignment sales, Jonny attempts to sort the bulls into three groups based on quality. He picks two Herefords

and one Braford out of each group so buyers have a chance to see the types available back at the ranch. Jonny says the consignment sales are more than a chance to sell the bulls he takes to the sales. They are a chance to promote his herd and to get buyers

interested in visiting the farm to evaluate his entire offering. Customer service is important to the Harris family. Jonny’s philosophy is that it is important to build relationships with his customers. He always stays around to help

Utilizing resources Located in southeast Georgia, Greenview Farms Inc. is a diversified operation. Its 3,500 acres are divided almost equally between pastures, timber and row crops with its cattle operation, row crops and timber land enhancing one another. Six generations of Harrises have worked on the farm that specializes in producing Herefords, F1 Brafords, hay, haylage, cotton, corn, soybeans, peanuts, pecans, vegetables, annual forages, pine straw and timber. The farming enterprise is currently the sole source of income for three generations of Harrises who work on the farm. “My daddy and granddaddy taught me that if you take care of the land, it will take care of you,” says Jonny Harris. “I am reaping the benefits of years of good stewardship as is evident throughout the farm.” Unfenced fields are not an option at Greenview Farms. Jonny says the farming operation complements the cow herd with the cows gleaning the fields after cotton picking and pasture grazing the woods.

“We don’t feed anything we don’t grow,” Jonny explains. “The only thing not grown here on the farm is the mineral.” The farming operation includes the production of horsequality Bermuda hay that is shipped across the Southeast from Georgia to Texas and also the production of other forages for baleage. Currently, through a SARE Producer Grant, Jonny is working in conjunction with the University of Georgia in forage trial plots, which will supply data to better understand the value of high-qualtiy annuals for baleage. Conservation practices utilized by the Harris family include:

1) whole farm conservation planning;

2) crop rotation;

3) conservation tillage;

4) small grain cover crops;

5) forage and soil sampling;

6) integrated pest management;

7) cross fencing;

8) grassed waterways;

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9) nutrient management;

10) forest management;

11) heavy use areas; and

12) wildlife habitat management.

“Our family has been blessed to be stewards of this land for 150 years,” Jonny says. “It is an honor, privilege and challenge to feed about 600 consumers a day as a family. We don’t take it likely as there are fewer and fewer of us.” Through the years, the Harris family has been recognized for its conservation and stewardship practices. In 2007 the farm received the Georgia Governor’s Agriculture Environmental Stewardship Award and in 2009 was named the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Region II Environmental Stewardship Award Winner. HW

customers load out after the sale and to make sure they are happy with the purchases they made. The demand for the F1 female is so strong that for the past 10 years Jonny has had the F1 females sold before they were born. In recent years, he’s seen the same demand for Hereford females. “At Greenview, we are honored when a customer calls about our cattle,” Jonny says. “When they leave our farm I hope they feel they have been treated hospitably, shown good cattle that are at least as good or better than they had been represented before their visit and the producers feel they’ve been given information and data to help select their purchase.”

Health program Greenview has followed a vigorous herd health program for more than 50 years, and for the last 10 years has followed Pfizer’s signature protocol. The family advocates herd health by hosting demonstrations and field days locally and regionally to help educate fellow cattlemen. Jonny is committed to making sure all Greenview offerings meet strict health screenings. All bulls are BVD/ PI tested, and for seven years, cultured samples have been taken for Johne’s disease to meet Class A certification.

Looking forward Jonny is a strong believer in continuing education and the need for research. “If I was producing the same thing I did 10 years ago I’d be out of business,” he says. “Without research we are dead ducks.” The Harris family participates in educational programs sponsored by Georgia Extension and also attends or hosts two or three field days per year. “Learning from projects what not to do is just as beneficial as the ones proving what we should do. To continue to progress, we’ve got to make improvements and learn from research.” Jonny says he is excited about the future of Hereford genetics in the Southeast. “Commercial producers are realizing the advantage the Hereford cow brings to their operation while at the same time the value of heterosis when crossing their existing herd with Hereford bulls.” Likewise, the future of Greenview Farms looks to be successful. With the fifth and sixth generations of Harris cattlemen at the helm and the seventh generation learning the ropes watching Dad and Grandpa, there’s no doubt raising quality Herefords will continue to be the tradition for years to come. HW

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Second Annual Bull & Female Sale February 11, 2013 • At the Ranch Selling 125 Hereford bulls, twos and yearlings; 10 Angus bulls; 5 bred heifers of donor quality and 275 commercial Hereford, Angus and baldie bred heifers at the ranch.

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Breeding Hereford bulls to Angus cows results in the perfect female, and the steers hold their own, too. by Sara Gugelmeyer

ereford is the new breed of choice for many commercial cattlemen. For ranchers in the Northern Plains, Hereford bulls are providing the magic cross on their Angus cows.

Take Gary and Sharon Romey, Hot Springs, S.D., for example. Gary is a lifelong cattleman and grew up, like most from his generation, with commercial Hereford cattle in the pasture.

He says, “We had Hereford cattle until the mid-’80s, then we started crossbreeding. Baldies (Hereford-Angus F1 females) were in big demand, so we put an Angus bull on our Hereford cows. We got a set of baldie cows that ended up being phenomenal.”

Back to Hereford But after using Angus bulls for nearly two decades, Romey was losing the Hereford influence in his herd. “We used (only) Angus bulls forever, and those good baldie cows were 12, 13, 14 years old and still having calves,” he says. When the baldie cows started disappearing, Romey knew it was time to find some Hereford bulls.

About seven years ago, he found what he was looking for from Topp Herefords, Grace City, N.D., and he’s been using Hereford bulls ever since. Ryan Topp says, “When Gary first started to look at Herefords he ended up at our ranch, and wanted to go through the cow herd. Gary took the better part of a day going through the herd. At the end of the day Gary came back with a list of cows. He has never waivered from that list of cow families in all the years of buying herd bulls. He has progressed with some of the more modern up-todate genetics of those same cow families, but still never waivered from that initial list. Subsequently

“I can see where there’s a market coming and there’s going to be a price increase for the F1 baldies if they’re the right kind.” — Gary Romey This calf is proof Romey’s producing top-quality F1 black baldies.

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what Gary has done is stack several generations of sound, moderate framed, easy fleshing females with exceptional udder quality.” By using Hereford and Angus bulls, Romey plans to keep his ranch stocked with Hereford-Angus cross cows because he thinks it’s the best cow. “She gets some more hybrid vigor and if she’s bred right she’s going to have more fleshing ability to her,” Romey says. “I’ve seen a little more kick out of these calves if they come out of a baldie female.” That’s exactly why fellow South Dakota rancher Fred Walker sought Hereford bulls to put on some of his 400 Angus cows. “My dad used to breed Herefords,” Walker says. “Everybody was telling me what a good cross that is. So we bought a couple Hereford bulls and put them with our 3-year-olds to raise some black baldie heifers.” Walker says he’s wanting some Hereford-sired females to retain in the herd. “The Hereford bulls seem to pass on a good disposition which makes the baldie cows easy to be around and to handle. This gets to be more important every year as we get older. Also, there is the hybrid vigor factor.” To make these baldies, Walker found a couple of dark red Hereford bulls with a lot of pigment from Jim Lambert, Chadron, Neb., which resulted in 100% black whiteface calves, no reds.

Steer success Unfortunately for Walker, the first calf crop was all bull calves. His second crop of calves is due to start hitting the ground any day now, but he was not disappointed in the way the Hereford-sired steers performed. “The reason I (bred to Hereford bulls) was to get some black baldie heifer calves, but I am hoping the baldie steers continue to weigh as much or more than the Angus calves. They gained good and I was pleased with them.”

He sells his calves through Crawford Livestock Market, Crawford, Neb. Jack and Laurel Hunter own and manage that auction barn, which is also where Romey does his selling. Jack Hunter says they’ve been seeing more and more cattlemen switch to or add Hereford bulls to their bull batteries. “In the last few years we’ve seen quite a few guys that have switched to Hereford bulls to get some more hybrid vigor,” Hunter says. And they’ve had success. “They’ll sell just as good as the straight black-hided ones on the steers. Sometimes the heifers will bring more,” Hunter says. A good price has certainly been the case for Walker and Romey. Walker says his Hereford-sired steers sold right with his straight Angus calves. Romey markets his calves when they weigh 600 to 700 lb. “We usually sell about three potloads of steers every year,” he says. “And the baldie calves are right up at the top every year and a lot of the progeny

Breeding Hereford bulls to Angus cows gives the baldie calves an advantage of hybrid vigor.

Baldies in demand Hereford-sired steers sell just as well as straight Angus calves, but the baldie female is the offspring where the magic of the cross really shines through. Romey keeps many of his Hereford-sired heifers every year to improve his own herd, but those he decides to part with are certainly in high demand.

“The Hereford bulls seem to pass on a good disposition which makes the baldie cows easy to be around and to handle.” — Fred Walker that come out of those baldie cows are better.” Several repeat buyers bid on his calves every year, and all were receptive to the Hereford-sired calves and liked them, Romey says. “At the present time we’re marketing the (Hereford-sired and Angus-sired) steers together but we’re probably not too far from marketing them separately,” he says.

“We see more demand for the baldie heifers every year,” he says. “I can see where there’s a market coming and there’s going to be a price increase for the F1 baldies if they’re the right kind.” By carefully choosing his seedstock, Romey has created quite a reputation for producing quality cattle. As such, all of his heifers are either retained or sold for replacements.

The key is to buy the best Hereford and Angus genetics possible. (For more on that, see “The right kind.”) Topp says careful selection of seedstock has helped Romey’s success, “One can witness the fruits of that selection by the demand for his calves. They are very simply as good a set of baldies as one can find.” Good genetics are what lead to top prices for the cattle. With good prices paid for steers and better prices paid for heifers, cattlemen have no excuse not to put some Hereford in their programs and realize the benefits of crossbreeding. Hunter says at his auction, “If they’re good cattle, feeders won’t shy away from them. A whiteface steer might not bring any more than a solid black steer but on the heifer end they’ll bring more to make a cow.” Demand continues to rise for Hereford-Angus cross females as more and more cattlemen are realizing the importance of the magic cross of the baldie cow. Both Romey and Walker plan to continue using Hereford and Angus bulls to keep their cow herds as profitable as possible. HW

The right kind It is important for a producer who is shopping for the right bull to have a list of criteria in mind. (See “Buying Bulls” on Page 50 for more.) Seven years ago, when Gary Romey, Hot Springs, S.D., decided to add Hereford bulls to his operation again, he shopped for two years before buying. During that time, he found the now very popular TH 122 71I Victor 719T. “719T” is now co-owned by Topp Herefords, Nelson Land & Cattle and Genex Cooperative Inc., but Romey first recognized his potential. Romey says for himself, when it comes to bulls, No. 1 has to be their disposition. Then, he says, “I like a long, moderate-framed, deep-sided bull that when you look at him from the back he’s got four legs coming off all four corners. He’s got to have a wide base front and back, be deep flanked and deep stifled.” Then, especially when looking at bulls to sire females, Romey says it’s important to see his dam. “I am really critical on what his mom looks like as far as udder quality and legs.” When asked about considering EPDs (expected progeny differences), Romey says it’s important, but he likes to evaluate phenotype first. “I look at the bulls first and then come back to the numbers. The numbers have to be in line. The carcass numbers, the better they are, great, but I am looking for a particular type of bull to make a particular type of calf. Heavy weaning weights and moderate birth weight is what I am looking for. Light birth weight, heavy weaning, moderate frame at maturity.” Those are all traits he identified in 719T, who has gone on to be one of the breed’s leading sires. He ranks in the top 5% of the breed for these traits of beef production: calving ease, early rapid growth, maternal and muscle. Hereford.org

Romey discovered this bull, “719T”, through his careful selection process. He has since become one of the breed’s leading sires.

Ryan Topp of Topp Herefords says this about Romey’s buying habits. “Gary has always been very thorough in his bull selection, and has never been afraid to step out of the normal parameters of bull buying. A typical battle at the Topp Herefords bull sales is Gary Romey bidding against several of the leading AI studs in the country. Their stringent parameters are very similar to that of this astute rancher.” HW

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53rd Annual Bull and Female Sale Monday, March 11, 2013 • 1 p.m. At the farm located near Burchard, Neb.

Selling 35 Polled Hereford Bulls and 30 Bred and Open Females

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Oregon’s Triangle Ranches:

A Common-Sense Approach For more than 60 years, Don Anderson has used Herefords as a practical approach to the commercial cattle business.

on Anderson has raised commercial cattle his whole life, but he’s still likely to show up at different Hereford and industry events, ready to participate and learn. Perhaps Mark Holt, American Hereford Association (AHA) Western region field representative, says it best, “I always enjoy visiting with Don whether it be about Hereford cattle, rodeo or good horses. He is a true cattleman, always looking to improve the genetics used on his ranch by utilizing all of the tools available.” The whitefaced breed has played a leading role in the Anderson family’s legacy, with Triangle Ranches now being worked by the fifth and sixth generations. In fact, Hereford bulls have been at work on this family’s Oregon rangelands since 1923.

A legacy of Herefords The marriage of Don to his late wife, Pat Wright, eventually brought together their two family ranches, both steeped in area history.

Don’s great-grandparents homesteaded in Gilliam County in 1892 near Arlington, Ore. The homestead is located 135 miles east of Portland just off Interstate 80 near the Columbia River. Today Don still resides on this ranch, located just above the river bluffs. In 1942 Don’s parents took over the family cattle and wheat ranch. His father was most interested in the farming aspect, so he allowed Don, the fourth generation, to take over and pretty much direct the cattle enterprise when he was 19 years old. Don’s grandfather, Wash McKinney, was known as a real stockman and purchased this ranch’s first Herefords in 1927. Some 70 miles south of there, in Morrow County, is where Pat was raised on her family’s ranch. Her grandfather settled his place in 1890. Her father, Walter Wright, took over their ranch in 1934 and, by then, it was already stocked with quality Hereford cattle. The first Hereford bulls on Pat’s family’s ranch had been purchased in 1923.

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by Kim Holt

Don Anderson appreciates good cattle and good horses. At 80 years young, he helps trail his family’s cattle 25 miles over two days to summer mountain range in early June. Each fall he helps gather cattle from the allotment in preparation for the eventual two-day trail drive back home.

Walter Wright was known as an outstanding stockman who purchased uniformly bred sets of herd bulls. In 1969, because of health issues, he sold his cattle and rangeland and transferred his range leases to Don and Pat, thus combining two herds of Herefords. “They were an awfully good set of cows,” Don recalls. “And I had a pretty good set.”

One of Don’s mantras is “you can’t make a living with a cow if she doesn’t raise a good calf.” So when the two herds combined, he says the culling process was easy as the lesser quality quickly surfaced from among the rest.

Triangle Ranches of today Today the Anderson family’s farming and cattle operations are managed by Don’s son, daughter and son-in-law. Brad Anderson continued on page 38...

Mark Rietmann, Don’s son-in-law, gathers cattle from Toll Rock and heads them toward the family’s National Forest Service allotment in Oregon’s Umatilla National Forest, pictured in the distance. It’s an allotment the Anderson family has shared with cousin Matt Clark’s family since 1907. Hereford.org

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Taking a lunch break while trailing cattle home from summer range (l to r) are: Shanna Sallee; Shelley McCabe; Mark Rietmann; Brad Anderson, on foot; Don Anderson; and friends Tim Dickenson and Ken Bailey. Don’s granddaughters, Shanna and Shelley, have trailed cattle to and from summer range since they were about 5 years old. Shelley is a doctor of physical therapy in Heppner, and Shanna will graduate from Oregon State this June with a doctorate in veterinary medicine.

Brad and Mark share wheat harvest duties in mid-July. The Anderson land lies on the bluffs overlooking the scenic Columbia River, which forms the Oregon-Washington border.

Calves arrive at Wilson Prairie, a deeded meadow. While they are the few transported to summer pasture, these pairs will eventually meet up with the remainder of the herd on leased land located about 20 miles from the headquarters and then trail home as a group in mid-October.

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manages the wheat acreage, while Tami and Mark Rietmann manage the cow-calf end. As a family-run enterprise, all work together to carry out cattle work and wheat harvest. The Rietmanns live and work on the Morrow County unit, located west of Heppner. Mark explains the region from Arlington south to the Heppner area transcends from dryland wheat country to foothills and then timber. It also increases in rainfall. Don says their high-mountain pastures, some up to 4,500 feet in elevation, stay green nearly all summer. From where they winter to summer grass is about 30 miles, so most of their cows trail to and from summer pasture. Tami and Mark take care of the day-to-day workings of the cattle operation, but at 80 years of age, Don is still out every day as part of the operation. “I’m a pretty darned good hired man. I do what they tell me,” he jests. Don gathers and trails on horseback and processes cattle, and he and Brad carry out the winter feeding of herd bulls and the spring breeding of replacement heifers. He also gives Mark his “two-cents worth” when attending sales and selecting new bulls. Don’s family turns out 30-35 Hereford bulls annually. They will buy 2-year-olds if they can find them, but 90% of their new bull purchases are yearlings. Because of this, Don says they try to take good care of their bulls, especially the first year,

and manage all cattle according to age. “We found out that if we didn’t take care of the yearlings, we didn’t have much down the road. We’re trying to help ourselves. I think that’s our mission in life. If you take care of them, they’ll take care of you pretty well.” This philosophy of care has been passed down through their generations. “My late father-inlaw was probably as good as grassman and cowman as I was ever around,” Don comments. He also credits some neighbors equally as well. These younger bulls stay out a short 45-day breeding season and are turned out with the younger females. Older bulls can be left out longer and are turned out with mature cows. During winter, bulls utilize wheat stubble for forage; they’re also fed unlimited hay by age, and younger bulls receive additional pellets so they’re ready for spring breeding season. Don and his family aim to start calving all females Jan. 20. They’re also careful where they run their younger cows — generally only four-year-olds and up go to their national forest leases and no more than 30-40 new cattle at one time. The cows have to first learn this new open country in order to best utilize the good feed found there.

Building beef Not all of their rangelands are this productive though. “We run in some pretty good country and some pretty marginal country, so those cows have to fit what we’re doing,” Mark assures. Herefords work because these cattlemen know firsthand how the whitefaced cow will rustle to find feed. The cows’ high-desert and mountain environment limits mature cow size, but Don found he didn’t need a cow that big. He says, “I know we sell pounds, but if females are too big, they can’t get over those mountains as well.” Furthermore, the Hereford’s temperament is pretty much unmatched within the industry, and this is something both Don and Mark really appreciate. “Running a family outfit, disposition means a lot,” Don remarks. “They’re easier to handle in the mountains and rough country than some of the other breeds.” Any that do get out of hand on this ranch are culled, whether females or bulls. Triangle Ranches raises all of its own replacement heifers, eye-appealing 145 head and then cutting this group back to about 90 head through pelvic measurements. “Some veterinarians don’t agree with me,” Don says, “but after we started pelvic measuring, it really helped our first-calf Hereford.org

heifers. We hardly have any calving problems.” And he well knows, “A live calf is better than a dead one.” With this practice in place, Don and Mark consider birth weight but especially focus on soundness, milk and ribeye area when selecting sires. Don also wants a bull to have plenty of eye appeal. Mark Holt often sees Don at Northwest production sales and makes this observation: “Don has a great eye for correct structure and phenotype, but will also sort through the bulls he purchases with ultrasound, expected progeny differences (EPDs) and actual birth weights.” Willard Wolf, who had a 33-year career with AHA, describes this family’s feeder cattle as “uniform” and “consistent.” He says they stand out from feed performance to carcass. Wolf has purchased many bulls for Don the past 40-plus years. He says this cattleman has always sorted for sound, big-topped bulls with volume, depth and muscle. In later years, he’s stayed above breed average in most all traits, with emphasis on actual ribeye area and ribeye EPDs. Don comments, “We started buying the biggest ribeyes we could afford when the ultrasound data started coming out.” Their focus on this trait is paying off, based on the individual carcass data Mark receives from Country Natural Beef (CNB).

Natural marketing Triangle Ranches has raised and marketed cattle through Country Natural for 10 years. This local cooperative includes nearly 70 family ranches from throughout 13 Western states. In business since 1986, CNB is one of the nation’s leaders in natural beef production. Ranchers

Cattle owned by Triangle Ranches and cousin Matt Clark trail toward corrals closer to home, where they’ll be split by ownership and then turned onto deeded land. Some of Clark’s cattle are black, making them easy to spot and split out.

own their cattle from conception to rail and receive individual carcass data. Mark reports the Triangle cattle that have gone though CNB have done “very well.” He believes this performance is partly due to the family’s avoidance of extremes when selecting bulls. “We balance the EPDs, don’t single-trait select and keep them moderately framed with muscle. Don has a history of that and we, in turn, have followed those guidelines.” With the feedback from CNB, “We can see what these cattle do,” Mark says, “and if we need to make some changes, we can.” He explains that uniform, moderate-size carcasses fit CNB specs of 750-lb. carcasses with a quality grade of low Choice/high Select and 11.5 to 13.5 square-inch ribeye areas. In the ’80s Don also received carcass data when he sold feeder calves to Simplot for 15 consecutive years. “That was really helpful,” he recalls. Simplot saved some of the Anderson replacements for its

own herd. A number of other years, Wolf marketed some of Don’s replacement heifers as far as Texas and Nebraska. Wolf also marketed Don’s steer calves into five different cattle feeding operations during the first six or so years of the Certified Hereford Beef program.

Crossbreeding consideration Don has experienced marketing success over his years in business with Herefords, but he won’t tell anyone crossbreeding never crossed his mind. He realizes the black-baldie calf is very appealing to cattle feeders.

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With a number of major movements of cattle by horseback each year, the Triangle Ranches’ crew needs to stay well mounted, as are Tami and Shanna here. “We ride all registered horses,” Don says. “It’s just like anything else — you like to drive a good pickup, so you like to ride a good horse.”

Hereford cattle graze meadow grass at Wilson Prairie. In preparation for turnout into big country, all calves are vaccinated and branded for ownership. Other than replacements, Triangle calves are destined for Country Natural Beef. They are retained through the rail, and all will have received three modified-live respiratory vaccinations before leaving the ranch for backgrounding and finishing. Hereford.org

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A lifetime learner Don Anderson may have reached an 80th milestone last spring, but he’s still a student of both the beef industry and the Hereford breed. As an Oregon commercial cow-calf producer, Don likes to raise quality Hereford cattle and ride good horses. During his 60-plus years in the cattle business, he’s been willing to listen and learn but also careful to draw his own conclusions about what would work best for his family’s Triangle Ranches. In a 1975 Hereford Journal article, Don credits his success in the cattle business to the good advice he received from close neighbors who ran Hereford bulls, his in-laws and Hereford breeders like Doug Bennett, who managed the former Stone Hereford Ranch in the late ’60s to mid-’70s and Lone Star Herefords after that. Willard Wolf, who met Don in 1968, Wolf’s first year representing the American Hereford Association (AHA) in the Northwest, would also be included on this list. Wolf describes Don as “a very experienced, practical, common-sense cattleman,” who has made his cow herd work for his family, not vice-versa. Through the years, Don’s willingness to break away from his ranch for “continuing education” led to his involvement and attendance at major breed improvement events that AHA conducted. These included events at Oklahoma State, and others held in the West in the research and development of the breed and Certified Hereford Beef. He’s been to AHA annual meetings, where he’s attended every presentation, and, last summer, Don headed north to the World Hereford Conference in Calgary. He claims this was “one of the greatest” events he’s been to yet. “I talked to people from all over the world,” while also noting, “They have good horses up there too.” Don attends activities based on this philosophy: “If you’re going, you’re going to learn something or you just as well stay home.” It holds true for the National Western Stock Show (NWSS) too. “You go to Denver for one thing: to try to learn something. I go through every pen of bulls in the Yards — unless it’s below zero. I might miss some then.” Don judged Hereford carload bulls at the NWSS in 1990 and ’91 and was one of the commercial cattlemen on several occasions to judge the sale bulls at Reno’s Nugget in its earlier years. He has worked very closely with his daughter and son-in-law, Tami and Mark Rietmann, to pass on his information, contacts and knowledge from these activities. Wolf says, “Mark has done a great job of carrying on the knowledge and experiences that Don has worked for years to build.” Don was honored in 2005 as a Lifetime Commercial Cattleman honoree at the Western Nugget National Hereford Show, and has been an especially great supporter of the breed and its major activities in the Northwest. In his day he was a very good calf roper, Wolf says, and he had the distinct honor of winning the wild cow milking at the old Stone Hereford field day in the early 1970s. In a field of 25-plus commercial ranchers, Don bested Wolf, who represented AHA, by one placing. Don says he’s seen the most changes in marketing during his tenure in the livestock business and encourages cattle people like himself to “get out” so they stay informed. “You also need to watch what other people do,” he advises, “because you might learn something.” HW

Recently sorted for ownership, Triangle pairs patiently wait to be released for the last leg of their fall pilgrimage home.

However, from his years of helping neighbors work their cows, he’s drawn these conclusions: He’s achieved better bull-to-cow coverage with Hereford cattle than have some of his neighbors who run other breeds of bulls in similar terrain. In other words, he gets more calves per bull with greater longevity — and good disposition to boot. This isn’t to say there aren’t any black-baldies in the Triangle herd. There are a few they’ve kept from their neighbor’s bull, and “it’s not a problem,” Don says, as long as the females meet the pelvic area requirements. But it would be “difficult” to carry out crossbreeding on their outfit given its numerous ranges and required movements, he concludes, because they’d want to breed for the true F1 cross each year. Instead, they try to outcross in the pedigrees of the Herefords they select, so their cattle aren’t bred too tightly.

Their journey nearly complete, Triangle pairs trail to deeded land located four miles from Mark and Tami Rietmann’s ranch headquarters in Morrow County. Within two weeks, pairs will trail to home corrals. Here, calves stay and are weaned while cows are driven back to fall range until the onset of winter feeding.

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Paying for some ranches Wolf points out that Don and Mark have made impressive improvements in their operation by selecting bulls from Northwest Hereford operations. In earlier years, bulls came from the foundation genetics of TT Herefords and Stone Hereford Ranch and then BB Cattle Co. They’ve built on this foundation with additions from Birds, Harrells, Colyers and a few other breeders. Don has used all registered horned Hereford bulls up until last year, when they also turned out a polled bull for the first time. He says not having to dehorn is as “appealing” to him as it is to end-product users. The big test is if the cattle will work in their demanding environment. “Sometimes as things get better, you have to go with it,” he remarks. But you also have to “listen and make some conclusions on your own,” as Don has willingly done throughout his years in the cattle business (see “A lifetime learner”). His family’s ranch is testimony to the capabilities of the whitefaced breed and to his practicality and perseverance in an often challenging Western environment. “We think we’ve made these Hereford cattle work,” Don comments, pointing out, “They were the breed that made the West.” Mark adds, “The corner’s been turned and the Hereford industry has made a lot of progress to compete with the Angus breed.” He believes producers are experiencing a turnaround to Herefords for crossbreeding, and prices paid last year for Hereford bulls are certainly a good indicator of this. While explaining their farming operation, Don says the wheat variety, Soft White 101, they grow in their northern Oregon arid climate has been good to them “like Hereford cattle have.” He adds, “I had a guy ask me one time why we raised Herefords. I said, ‘They’ve helped pay for some ranches.’” Need more be said? HW Hereford.org

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Buying Bulls Extension specialists share important things to consider when shopping for bulls. by Sara Gugelmeyer

uying a bull is a big decision. Especially if females are to be retained in the herd, the choices made today will affect the profitability of the operation for many years to come. But, bull buyers can easily be overwhelmed with the Bull amount of information Buying available. That’s why and Management we’ve compiled some information and resources to help make this all-important decision less daunting. Kansas State University Extension Cow-Calf Specialist Bob Weaber says preparedness is key to making a good purchase. “As

the winter and spring bull-buying season approach, seedstock purchasers should do their homework to help ensure the bull, or bulls, they purchase this year meet their needs,” he says.

Know your operation, set goals The first thing that’s important to do is sit down and make a list of goals for your operation, if you haven’t already. Then use those goals to form a list of what you’re looking for in a bull. For example, a producer whose main goal is to improve performance and carcass merit in steer calves because of retained ownership through the feedlot might look at different bulls than one whose primary market is selling replacement heifers.

Weaber gives this advice: “Make sure you know what traits you would like to improve in your herd. What breed or breeds fit in your mating system? If you are using a crossbreeding system, make sure the breed you selected fits your objectives. Other factors to consider are: keeping replacement heifers, endpoints for progeny marketing (weaning, backgrounded or in the beef). Assessment of these factors will help point you to the best breed for your needs and the combinations of maternal/growth/carcass traits that best fit your operation and environment. Be sure to apply selection to traits that have direct economic importance in your production system.” University of NebraskaLincoln Beef Cattle Genetics Extension Specialist Matt Spangler agrees, saying, “It is critical for producers to understand what their breeding objectives and marketing goals are. This information helps

to inform what traits are the most important to focus on. Once the traits of importance to a particular operation are identified, use expected progeny differences (EPDs) to select sires that have optimal values for those traits, keeping in mind environmental constraints (i.e. low feed and/or labor). Keep in mind that multiple-trait selection is important and many breeds now publish bio-economic index values to help with this. It is important to use indexes that fit your breeding objective.” See “EPD basics” for more on EPDs.

Be informed In order to evaluate bulls and find one or more that meet your needs, it’s important to have a good working knowledge of the numbers used to assess bulls. Spangler says, “There is a plethora of information available today to help producers make selection decisions when choosing the next sire for their cow herd.

EPD basics Expected progeny differences (EPDs) allow for the comparison of animals within a breed for their genetic potential as parents for a given trait. EPDs have existed in the beef industry for decades, and their use has produced intended genetic change in many traits.

Basics of an EPD Many traits (weaning weight, yearling weight, ultrasound measurements, etc.) must be recorded within certain age ranges to provide a fair comparison of animals. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Beef Cattle Genetics Extension Specialist Matt Spangler says, “Too often seedstock producers and bull buyers get caught up in the actual weights, ultrasound data, etc., when selecting sires. EPDs (expected progeny differences) provide a measure by which animals within a breed can be compared to one another for their genetic potential as parents for specific traits. EPDs incorporate multiple sources of information, including full pedigree, an animal’s own record, and

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progeny information. As additional sources of information become available, the accuracy of the EPD value increases.”

trait. Producers should not use both birth weight and calving ease EPDs together since the birth weight EPD is already used in the calculation of calving ease.

EPD definitions Spangler selected just a few EPDs to discuss as a demonstration. For a full list of EPD definitions, go online to Hereford.org/content/epd-basics. BULL A BULL B Calving ease direct Birth weight Yearling weight Maternal milk Maternal calving ease

10 +2.0 +40 +3 4

6 +3.5 +52 -2 6

Spangler explains each: Calving ease direct — Bull A should have 4% more unassisted births from first-calf heifers than Bull B. While birth weight is an indicator of calving ease, it does not tell the whole story. Calving ease is an economically relevant

Birth weight — Bull B’s calves would be on average 1.5 lb. heavier at birth. Normally, producers should select bulls for use on heifers that are at or less than the breed average for birth weight. Depending on the breeds involved, you may need to limit use on heifers to bulls significantly below breed average. Keep in mind that when crossing breeds, heterosis or hybrid vigor can increase birth weights 10 to 15% over a straightbred average. Yearling weight — Bull B’s calves should average 12 lb. heavier at 1 year of age. Maternal milk — Daughters from Bull A should produce calves that are 5 lb. (the difference between +3 and -2) heavier at weaning. This is not a measure of pounds of milk

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This includes an individual’s actual weights, ratios, ultrasound measurements, genomic profile and EPDs. “For cow-calf or seedstock producers, understanding what this information means and how to effectively use it to make positive genetic change is critically important.” In the last decade or so, bull buying has changed significantly because there are many new genetic selection tools. Spangler says, “There are more genetic selection tools now than there were five to 10 years ago. The list of available EPDs continues to grow. This makes identifying the most important traits to an operation, and using index values to alleviate the confusion that surrounds selecting on numerous traits at one time, even more important.”

See “Hereford economic indexes” for more on indexes. Now some breed organizations, including the American Hereford Association, have EPDs that are enhanced with the inclusion of genomic information. See Page 8 of this issue or visit Hereford.org/dnatesting, for more on genomically-enhanced EPDs. Spangler adds, “This means that there can be differences between accuracy values on yearling bulls, whereas before there was traditionally not. Although the amount of information, specifically the number of EPDs, and the information included in EPDs (genomics) has changed, the fundamentals of bull buying have not.” Weaber agrees and says the first step to bull buying is to

“Make sure you know what traits you would like to improve in your herd.” — Bob Weaber

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Hereford economic indexes Economic indexes allow for multiple-trait selection or simultaneous selection for more than one trait. They do so by combining multiple expected progeny differences (EPDs), each weighted by an economic value, into one numeric value, often expressed in dollars per animal. Just like EPDs, indexes are to be used across herds within a particular breed. Although accuracy values are not published for indexes, use caution when making selection or mating decisions based on the index value of a young sire. As progeny information is added, indexes will change. Accuracy values associated with the EPDs in an index are good indicators of how accurate the index will be. The various indexes described below are intended for use within specific production goals. Adverse effects could be realized if indexes designed for terminal scenarios (terminal indexes) are utilized as the primary selection tool in a herd that retains replacement females.

Economic indexes defined An economic index is a collection of EPDs weighted by their economic value such that traits with greater effects on production goals have a larger economic weight associated with them. For more on Hereford economic indexes, visit Hereford.org/node/310.

but rather weaning weight due to milk production. This 5 lb., unlike the weaning weight figure attributed to growth from the bull, is the result of differences in the daughters’ milk production and mothering ability. Excessively high milk levels in low input environments should be discriminated against due to increased nutrient requirements of cows. Maternal calving ease — Bull B’s daughters should calve as first-calf heifers with 2% more unassisted births (6-4) than the daughters of Bull A.” There are two new Hereford EPDs that are in research report distribution at this time: sustained cow fertility (SCF) and heifer calving rate (HCR). SCF is a sire model where a sire gets credit each time a daughter calves beginning at 2 years of age instead of waiting to see if a sire’s daughters make it to 5 or 6 years of age. In addition, SCF will account for censored records. Hereford.org

Baldy maternal index (BMI$)

Calving EZ index (CEZ$)

This index is designed to select bulls for use on Anguscross cows and heifers when some replacements are kept and all other offspring are sold on a grid-based system. These cattle could potentially qualify for either Certified Hereford Beef (CHB) or Certified Angus Beef (CAB) programs. Both calving ease (CE) and fertility (as measured by scrotal circumference) are emphasized. Weaning weight (WW) is weighted positively, while yearling weight (YW) is weighted slightly negatively in an attempt to promote preweaning gain but minimize mature cow size. Intramuscular fat (IMF) is emphasized more than ribeye area (REA) in order to enhance quality grade while maintaining an acceptable (3 or lower) yield grade.

This index is designed for selecting bulls to be used on heifers and thus emphasizes both CE and maternal CE. Although less emphasis is placed on growth and carcass traits, it still assumes that all cull offspring will be sold on a CHB grid.

Brahman influenced index (BII$) This index is similar to the BMI$ except that calving ease (CE) is not emphasized as much, and it is assumed that all cull offspring are marketed on a commodity (weight) basis, since most grids do not accept Brahman influenced cattle. Fertility is strongly emphasized.

For example, if a female goes into an embryo transfer (ET) program or is sold to another registered breeder, then that female will not be considered a failure, but the record will be censored with no credit. For more on SCF, go to Hereford.org/content/sustained-cow-fertility. HCR is a sire model as well. It is shown by percentages of daughters calving and is somewhat similar to the units for calving ease EPDs. Higher values indicate greater likelihood of a sire’s daughter producing a calf, given that she was retained as a replacement. To use these values, breeders should compare two or more sires and consider the difference/differences between or among them. For example, if sire A has an HCR EPD of +3.0% and Sire B has an HCR EPD of -2.0%, the difference between the sires is 5.0%. If daughters of both sires are developed and bred in the same environment, you would expect sire A’s daughters to have a 5% higher calving rate. Sires can also be compared to the breed average, currently +1.5%. The range in HCR EPD in the current analysis is from

Certified Hereford Beef index (CHB$) This is a terminal index that places emphasis on WW and YW, CE and carcass traits. Fertility and milk are not index components, since all offspring are expected to be sold on a CHB grid. CE is included in an attempt to avoid extreme calving problems. Although fertility is not included in the index, it can be expected that scrotal circumference (SC) would increase due to its genetic correlation with growth traits. Milk is obviously ignored in the CHB$ index. It is included in the other indexes, but is weighted slightly negatively because milk production in excess of the calf’s needs becomes an added expense because of the influence milk production has on the maintenance requirements of the cow. — Matt Spangler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

+23.9% to -25.3%. For more on HCR, log on to Hereford.org/heifer-calving-rate-epds. In summary, Spangler says, “EPDs represent the genetic component of an animal’s phenotype that is expected to be passed on to the next generation. Studies have shown that using EPDs are seven to nine times more effective than selecting based on actual phenotypes. While most producers think of increasing the economic efficiency of their operation by changing management systems (i.e., grazing schemes, calving dates, etc.) or utilizing different nutritional programs, the importance of correct genetic selection is all too often overlooked. If selection is based on nongenetic factors, as is the case when selecting on actual or adjusted measurements instead of EPDs or economic indexes, then an inefficiency is automatically built into the cow-calf enterprise. It is critical to understand how to interpret EPDs and to know breed averages, and be able to use percentile ranks in order to identify potential sires that fit the desired breeding objective.” HW

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Looking for a Hereford bull? Here’s where to start.

Shopping at a sale A sale, whether it’s one hosted by a seedstock supplier or a consignment sale, is a great way to buy bulls. Bob Weaber, Kansas State University Extension cow-calf specialist, reminds producers to keep these things in mind when planning to buy a bull or many bulls at a sale: 1) Once you receive the sale catalog, make a short list of bulls (6-12 head) that fit your specifications.

4) Shorten this list of candidates based on conformation and updated data to identify your purchase candidates.

2) Seek out recommendations from your supplier well in advance of the sale.

5) Keep the sale order in mind.

3) Arrive at the sale site early to inspect the bulls on your short list.

6) Stay focused on the bulls you selected earlier. Sticking to your plan will avoid impulse purchases. Remember: failure to plan is planning to fail.

A list of upcoming sales can be found in the Event Central tab at Hereford.org and a list of sale catalogs can be found at HerefordMarketplace.com.

make sure you understand the use of EPDs and selection indexes. “While EPDs are not the only selection information you should consider, EPDs are the most effective tools available to describe the genetic differences between animals within and across herds. EPDs are much more effective genetic predictors than actual or

adjusted performance records. If an EPD is available for a trait it should be used instead of an animal’s own performance record for that trait. The EPD removes age and environmental effects that can bias a decision based on actual or adjusted performance records. Use calving ease (CE or CED) EPD, rather than birth

Find a Hereford breeder near you by going to Hereford.org/node/34.

You can find contact information for breeders in each state.

Visit HerefordMarketplace.com to find feeder calves, commercial

females and bulls for sale under private treaty sales. Also on

Hereford Marketplace are listings for production sales. Catalogs are available for download to be printed or in searchable web format. Sale results are posted as well. Go to BuyHereford.com. Monthly consignment sales are hosted

there, as well as production sales.

Not online? Don’t worry; just give the American Hereford

Association a call at 816-842-3757. weight (BW) EPD if it’s available, to select bulls that minimize calving difficulty. CE EPD calculations include BW data and other sources of information that affect dystocia.” Many commercial producers are switching to Hereford bulls, and for first-time Hereford bull buyers, it’s important to remember that not all EPDs are the same. Weaber says, “Make sure you know the appropriate information for the breed of cattle you are purchasing. For a useful reference on EPDs and other genetic topics see the “Beef Sire Selection Manual” — Nbcec.org/producers/sire.html. Obtain the breed average EPDs and a percentile rank table available from the most current genetic evaluation for Herefords (or the breed of interest). These tools will enable you to compare the relative genetic merit of individual animals to other animals in the breed.”

Budget accordingly

budget for bull purchases. Like most things in life, price is driven by quality. Evaluation of a seedstock supplier’s prior year sale averages will give you an idea of what to expect in terms of purchase costs. That said, prices over the last 12 months indicate that seedstock purchases are substantially more expensive, some as much as $500 more, than in previous years. The increased bull cost is largely driven by increased development costs incurred by seedstock producers. The added purchase cost makes it even more important to make a well thought-out decision.” Finally, it’s critical to build a relationship with your seedstock supplier. If you already have a relationship, use it to your advantage. Weaber says, “Get to know your seedstock supplier and make sure he or she knows you and your operational goals.” HW

Also important is to set a budget. Weaber says, “Set a realistic

Buying sight unseen For some it’s not possible or even necessary to travel to the sale or visit the seller’s ranch. In many situations, it’s perfectly fine to make a purchase without physically seeing the animal. In order to make this “sight-unseen purchase” work, a large amount of trust must exist between buyer and seller. While the bull’s genotypic information can be easily accessed from afar, phenotype is important as well. High-quality photos or videos can allow buyers to evaluate bulls when seeing them in person isn’t possible. Most of the time, seedstock suppliers will provide photos and video upon request. These visual aids can help assure the buyer that the bull in question has the desired phenotype and can help prevent buyer’s remorse when the bull arrives. Matt Spangler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln beef Extension specialist, admits that phenotypic evaluation is important, but not necessary, to a purchase. “It is important that a bull has sufficient structural integrity to be able to do his job for several years. I would hope that commercial customers have a close enough relationship with their seedstock supplier, and that the seedstock supplier stands behind their product, such that this is not an issue.” He says properly using genetic selection tools is a must. “We really need to think of bulls as an envelope, a carrier if you will, of genetic material that will be passed to the next generation. We cannot see that from the outside, but we can quantify that through genetic selection tools such as expected progeny differences (EPDs). Phenotype is comprised of both genetic and non-genetic factors, but selection should focus on the genetic factors. With this in mind, visual appraisal via any medium, should take a back seat to using genetic selection tools as the primary selection method.” A marketing option that is gaining popularity is BuyHereford.com. The online tool hosts monthly consignment sales as well as hosting many producers’ online sales.

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Winter Bull Management by Heather Smith Thomas

all and winter management of bulls is important for having them healthy and in top shape for the next breeding season. Dr. Ram Kasimanickam, Washington State University department of veterinary clinical sciences, says any bull that has lost weight should be brought back to adequate condition: “Studies Bull have shown that a body Buying condition score of 5 is and Management adequate for a breeding bull. Yearling bulls need special attention because they are still growing.” Feed supplies and sources may vary from ranch to ranch as to what is economical to feed

as forage and/or concentrates or supplements. The main thing is to make sure young bulls have adequate nutrition to keep growing and to stay in adequate body condition. “Bulls need proper levels of trace minerals and vitamins for good sperm production. Vitamins A and E, and selenium, copper, zinc and manganese serve as protectors and prevent damage to sperm from stress. Stress-damaged sperm will result in reduced fertility; even if fertilization occurs, the resultant embryo will fail to develop. Knowledge of soils and what they might lack will tell you which minerals need to be supplemented,” Kasimanickam

says. Proper supplementation will depend on the region and the individual ranch. The vitamin-mineral program should be part of the yearround management and not just seasonal. Producers don’t need to do anything special for bulls but just keep them on the same program as the cows, regarding mineral and vitamin supplementation.

Don’t forget excercise One aspect of bull management that is sometimes ignored is exercise. Bulls need exercise to stay fit. “There are many ways to make sure they get enough exercise. Some producers put the feed and water at different ends of the pen or pasture, so bulls have to walk. They need to be fit before the next breeding season so they have adequate endurance and can cover their cows early in the season,” Kasimanickam says. You don’t want bulls too soft and fat — with no stamina — after their winter “vacation.” Bulls should not be underfed or overfed; they need optimum condition to have

enough ambition and stamina to cover the cows. They do need to be fed a little extra during winter, however, to have enough energy to keep warm during cold weather. Weather severity and climate in each producer’s area will determine how much extra feed the bulls will need. If bulls come out of the cow herd a little thin after breeding season, some producers tend to overfeed them when picking them back up in flesh again. “The fat layers around the scrotum insulate the testes and can interfere with proper thermo-regulation of the testes. The sperm parameters and sperm production will be adversely affected in overfed bulls. This is why lean-to-moderate body condition is better than over-fat bulls,” he says. Avoiding overfeeding is also important for health reasons. “Too much grain in the diet can lead to acidosis and liver abscesses, or foot problems,” he says. Also make sure feeds don’t contain endophyte-infected fescues or other plants that act as vasoconstrictors, which

Pecking order If a group of bulls will be spending the winter together, they soon have the pecking order figured out, and there’s not much fighting after that. To avoid injuries, put them all together on the same day or as soon as possible. This management strategy is actually easier on them — as they all fight one another and no one bull gets picked on. If you keep adding bulls to a group, the newcomers are ganged up on by the ones that are already there and may be run to exhaustion. It can be detrimental to add bulls later, because any change upsets the whole social order. You may need to keep yearlings and new bulls separate for a while, especially if the yearlings need better feed than the older ones to regain weight while still growing. If you put them with older bulls later, usually the old bulls tend to leave the young ones alone. The young ones are more timid and don’t challenge the bigger bulls as aggressively as they would their peers. Also the young bulls are fairly agile and athletic and are good at getting out of the way of the older bulls, so they are less apt to get hurt. HW

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interfere with circulation to the extremities. Cattle have been known to lose ears and tails and have foot problems during cold weather when eating certain feeds. “This interference with adequate blood circulation can also have an effect on the testicles and sperm production, affecting thermoregulation,” says Kasimanickam.

Protect from frostbite Windbreaks for the bulls are important. “During cold weather in winter, there can be adverse effect on the testicles if bulls can’t get out of the wind. Scrotal frostbite adhesions may be temporary or permanent, depending on the severity of frostbite. This will hinder the bull’s ability to raise or lower the testicles for proper thermoregulation, and this can dramatically and adversely affect sperm production and parameters,” he explains. If a bull has mild frostbite, there is good chance for recovery before the next breeding season. But according to Kasimanickam, if it’s severe frostbite the bull may not recover and won’t be fertile — and must be replaced. “Prevention is best,” he explains. “Make sure bulls have windbreaks and bedding. Some people pile up old hay and straw for bedding. Heat from fermentation in these piles will help the bull stay warmer in cold weather. Any bull that is exposed to severe cold weather may suffer frostbite unless he has some protection.”

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Health program is also key It is also important to pay attention to vaccination programs, and control internal parasites as well as lice and ticks. “A sound health program is important,” Kasimanickam says. “Most people have a pretty good program for the cow herd but sometimes the bulls are ignored. Don’t wait until the last minute for vaccinations, since bulls need enough time to build immunity.” Any new bull should come from a reputable source and should have vaccination records. “Usually bulls are vaccinated before being sold, but if they haven’t been vaccinated, this should be done in a timely manner before the next breeding season,” he says. Unless they are young virgin bulls, they should also be tested for trichomoniasis before breeding season. Every bull should have a breeding soundness exam. Even if the bull was fine last year, there may be changes due to age, injury or infection that may affect fertility for the next breeding season. HW

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ith calving like because of nutrition season and bull and management. sales underway, Most frequently you Bull many producers are will purchase yearling Buying evaluating their herd bulls that have been and Management genetics and determining fed a high grain diet to what bulls to purchase to get optimal growth and reach their production goals, but even performance, but this is not ideal for a if you purchase the “perfect” bull, he bull that will be turned out to pasture may not perform as well as you would with the cows. The key with these bulls

Pre-Breeding Bull Management is to bring them down off of that high grain diet slowly, rather than turning them out to “rough it.”

Diet Yearling bulls are still growing, so they need to be gaining weight and maintaining condition for 120 days prior to breeding, but we don’t want them to be overly fat, as this could have a negative impact on their breeding performance. In order to transition the bulls to a 100% forage diet, determine what their diet consisted of prior to you owning the bull. Then provide that ration or a

similar quality grain diet at 60-70% of their total daily intake. Decrease this portion of the diet by 10% each week, until they are on a 100% forage diet. Plan at least seven weeks to step the diet down, if this process is rushed, semen production can be negatively impacted, which may not be detected until pregnancy check time.

Pen management Another key to handling newly purchased bulls is to put the bulls that will be working together in the same pen or pasture prior to the breeding season so they can determine their social structure. Research has determined that socially dominant bulls will breed more cows, so a good practice is to put similarly aged bulls together in breeding pastures, rather than a mix of young and mature bulls, as the young bulls may be constantly fighting the dominance of the mature bulls resulting in fewer bred cows and injury.

Get them fit Exercise is another key factor to ensure longevity and performance of bulls. In many cases, yearling bulls are developed in a drylot situation, which limits the opportunity for exercise. If bulls are given a larger area for exercise, they will remain sound longer and will have increased libido during the breeding season. Periodically, we will observe a bull being “lazy” and not working as he should. In some instances, this is a result of inadequate exercise or being overconditioned prior to breeding season. The ideal body condition for any bull prior to breeding is 6. This is slightly more condition than cows should be in at calving, but the bulls will lose approximately 100 lb. during breeding so they need to be carrying more condition. You may be asking, how do I know if the bull is in a condition score 6? This is described as spongy fat over all ribs, hooks and pins, shoulder muscle movement is slightly visible, and fat deposits appear in the brisket. Key points to remember especially with yearling bulls but important for all bulls is to bring them down off of a high-grain diet slowly so that there is not a negative impact on semen production. Allow the bulls to develop and determine their social structure prior to breeding season. Allow for adequate room for exercise to ensure soundness and increased libido. All bulls should be in a body condition score 6 prior to breeding. — Adele Harty, South Dakota State University Extension cow-calf field specialist

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by Kris Ringwall, North Dakota State University Extension kris.ringwall@ndsu.edu

Don’t Forget the Bulls The first winter storm brings the reality of the season. It’s important to remember to care for bulls during inclement weather. For many the cows and calves head home, and then the calves are sorted for market. The busyness of it all is mind-boggling at times. The pens are stretched to the max, and there is not enough time to get every animal fed and watered on a normal schedule. A quick sort often will move the bulls aside and put the cows and calves at center stage. Off in the distance, one can hear someone ask if the bulls have been fed. The point being, bulls still are a very important part of a cow-calf enterprise. In all honesty, way too many times bulls take a backseat once the breeding season is done. Just like cows, bulls need time to recover. If the bulls can’t hold up, why are they there in the first place? That question is a point of discussion. We all need to remember that many bulls are terminal bulls. In other words, they breed cows and sire calves that are designed to be feeder calves. These bulls often are purchased for high dollars, so the key to making the bulls affordable is years of use. A bull that can be depreciated out over four or five

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breeding seasons is much better for the bottom line than a bull that only lasts two or three seasons. The market calves will perform well in the feedlot and be aggressively sought after by feeder calf buyers. The majority of bulls are not intended to produce replacement heifers. If, in fact, the bull was intended to sire replacement heifers, he had better come in in reasonable shape. Regardless, the bulls have worked hard and need some recuperation. The cow-calf management class that I teach at Dickinson State University is always fun, and listening to the students certainly brings insight into the beef business. A former student once wrote, “After the breeding season, many producers would like to forget about their breeding bulls, and some do. They become a hassle because no one wants them in the way. How much easier it is to push them to the back 40 and worry about them next spring. “Although it is apparent that breeding bulls do not require a lot of extra attention in the off-season, some care must be fulfilled to reduce costs for the next year. Most breeding commences in the spring or early summer and extends for two to three

more months. Even with a 60-day prebreeding conditioning period, this still leaves approximately seven months of post-breeding. These usually are in the fall and winter months. “After the completion of the breeding season, old or crippled bulls should be sorted off and sold. Mature, healthy bulls won’t require a lot of extra care, so they could go by themselves. This leaves the younger, thinner bulls to work with. These are the ones that should receive a little higher-quality feed through the winter to increase their years of productivity. Properly balanced nutrition, including minerals, should be available to assure optimum reproductive performance. “Nutrition begins with adequate amounts of feed. For example, a 1,300‑lb. bull needing to gain 1.5 lb. per day needs 26.1 lb. of dry matter. It would consist of 2 lb. (7.9%) of protein and 15.6 lb. (59.7%) of total digestible nutrients (TDN) or energy. A larger bull, say 1,900 lb., needs to gain .5 lb. per day. This bull would need 32.2 lb. of dry matter per day. To accomplish this, the bull needs 2.2 lb. (6.9%) of protein and 16.8 lb. (52%) of TDN or energy. “Shelter also is an overlooked aspect. Testicles easily can be frozen in this part of the Midwest, so some

bedding and shelter are important. Remember that bulls constitute 50% of next year’s calf crop. Therefore, wise management practices can reduce variable costs, which will result in greater overall revenue.” I couldn’t have said it better or been any more right when he said that producers sometimes would like to forget about the bull inventory because bulls can be a pain. The key to bull management, like all other cattle management, is the willingness to address topics in a very timely manner rather than to wait until a crisis arises. Bull care and nutrition need to start now, not next spring prior to bull turnout. Bulls need to be physically healthy, athletic in nature and conditioned for a vigorous marathon. In addition, they require approximately eight weeks for viable sperm cell development. For bulls that are mismanaged and have their spermatogenic cycles disrupted, a minimum of two months is needed for them to start having a viable sperm supply for the proper conception of next year’s calf crop. Listen up: Don’t forget about those bulls; keep them in sight and properly fed. HW

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How, What Will We Feed Cattle? by Troy Smith

People known to be deep thinkers are pondering the future of cattle feeding. It’s a risky business, you know, and anyone anticipating long-term involvement has to be thinking about the sustainability of cattle feeding as we know it. Of course, the industry “as we know it” is a product of evolution. It has changed. Just ask the industry’s silver-haired veterans about feeding cattle 40 or more years ago. But what changes might be coming? How and what will cattle be fed in the next 10, 20 or 30 years? Some far-sighted folk think a continuing struggle to manage feed costs

will spur further innovation in ration formulation. We’ve already seen how using grain, principally corn, for biofuel production reduced availability and increased the price of corn for feed and prompted greater use of byproduct feed ingredients. Speaking at the International Livestock Congress (ILC)-USA conference in 2012, Texas feedlot owner and cattle feeding consultant Hollis Klett said he would have never dreamed 30 years ago of using some ingredients now common to finishing rations. “But we’ve reduced the amount of corn in rations by half — from 70% to about 35% — by using distillers’ grains, corn gluten pellets, sweet bran and

other byproducts,” stated Klett, adding, “It probably saved our lives.” Klett told the ILC-USA audience that he anticipates even greater reliance on commodity byproducts, including more and different types. Fellow speaker and feed supplement manufacturer Joe Harris agreed. The Westway Feed Products executive noted the long history of using, as feed for livestock, the leftovers from human food processing or product manufacturing. Soybean meal, molasses, sugar beet pulp and cottonseed are byproducts that became common ingredients for manufacturing livestock feeds. On a regional or local

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level, cattle feeders have incorporated available byproducts such as citrus pulp, bakery waste, or waste from processing potatoes and other vegetables and fruits. “It’s not new — taking garbage and turning it into feed,” said Harris. “I recently looked at a new potential feed ingredient that is a byproduct of manufacturing tissue paper.” Ruminant nutritionist Jim MacDonald thinks such innovations are likely to continue at a more rapid pace. A researcher at Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center near Amarillo, MacDonald expects more numerous and diverse choices of feed ingredients. He thinks feeders will find it increasingly necessary to consider the alternatives. Feeders may have to change ingredients frequently, according to the availability of different byproducts and as their relative values change. MacDonald says the major focus, thus far, has been on distillers’ grains, the byproduct of ethanol production. He calls it the “No. 2” finishing ration ingredient, second only to corn. But its value could change. “Originally, all components remaining after producing ethanol from corn, went back into distillers’ grains. Nutrient levels in that byproduct are relatively high. But the value of the soluble portion is now recognized and can be marketed separately. Removing solubles removes nutrient value from distillers’ grains,” explains MacDonald. “Maybe the next thing is removing the fat and using it for another purpose, such as biodiesel production. That will remove energy and change the value of distillers’ grains.” On the other hand, MacDonald notes how biodiesel production yields crude glycerin as a byproduct. As a potential substitute for a portion of the grain in cattle diets, glycerin’s energy value compares favorably with corn on a dry matter basis. “Personally, I’m not worried about running out of feed for cattle, as long as we don’t run out of water. The potential for increasing crop yields is tremendous, as long as there’s water for irrigation,“ states MacDonald. “I think we will have plenty of feed for finishing cattle, but we will use different feeds.” University of Nebraska ruminant nutritionist and feedlot specialist Galen Erickson says high feed costs are pushing innovators to feed less corn. Some would like to feed none, but Erickson calls that a mighty big challenge. “We have collected data showing byproduct feeds can help minimize the amount of grain used in finishing rations. It suggests that a little grain can go a long way,” says Erickson. “We need to find out what the minimum amount of grain is, but we also need to figure out the minimum amount of time that cattle need to be fed grain.”

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silage. A ration consisting of corn silage and 40-50% distillers’ grains could have some real advantages. “When you harvest corn and then harvest the dry stalks, you lose about 10% of the energy value that’s available when the corn is cut for silage,” explains Erickson. “There is some good stuff captured in silage — sugars with the energy value of corn — that isn’t there in October. We need more data on this, but if I had access to an ample supply of distillers’ grains, I’d have to think about silage.” An alternative energy source that could replace part of the corn in finishing diets of the future is alkalinetreated forage. With results similar to the decades-old practice of treating straw with ammonia, corn stover and other low-quality forages can be treated with calcium oxide (quicklime) and water to make the forage more digestible by rumen microbes. According to Erickson, recent research suggests treated forage can replace an additional 10-15% of corn in finishing diets, without sacrificing animal performance or carcass merit. Erickson believes cattle feeding innovations will come out of necessity. He thinks simply grazing cattle longer prior to the finishing phase is not a visionary solution to the challenge of high grain prices.

probably a limit to the amount of (feed cost) relief we can get,” explains Peel. “Economics may push us to reconsider the ruminant’s comparative advantage — its ability to utilize forage.” It may be time, suggests Peel, to consider how cattle can be finished using an optimum rather than maximum amount of grain. He wonders if finishing rations of the not-so-distant future might contain more byproducts but also more forages with cattle receiving grain later in the production process. Peel wonders if, in Oklahoma, for example, cattle might be taken from 850 to 1,050 lb. (or more) on wheat pasture, followed by a short period on a high-grain diet. Of course, cattle feeders might also have to set their sights on optimum levels of animal performance — not maximum. “There’s potential, if feed grain prices remain high enough, long

enough, for the whole production system to change,” says Peel. “Cattle might not be pushed onto a hot ration so fast. They might be on a high-grain diet for just 60 or 70 days, instead of up to 180 days. How they are managed prior to placement in the feedlot could change. It would have to change the way cattle are backgrounded and it might have an impact all the way back to the cow-calf segment.” Peel suspects a production system that is more forage intensive, overall, would require different thinking with regard to genetics. However, that might quell some long-standing differences between the cow-calf producers and cattle feeders. “For a long time, there have been some antagonisms related to feedlot incentives and cow-calf incentives. Selection for genetic traits important to feeding cattle grain, in the feedlot,

is sometimes antagonistic to traits important to the cow-calf producer relying primarily on forage,” notes Peel. “Decreasing those antagonisms might make it easier to focus on genetics that work well in every phase of production.” Peel thinks it might be time to remember that forages once played a much bigger role in cattle finishing diets. During the 1950s and ’60s, feed grains were still valued relative to forage. Over time the industry pushed grain-intensive production much further than many cattle feeders of that era could have expected. However, the industry might be headed back toward the place from where it came. “I’m not sure we have any idea how far we could push a forage-intensive system,” says Peel. “The economic environment for cattle feeding might lead us to find out.” HW

More forage “Graze them where?” asks Erickson. “Grain production is taking more acres away from forage, including pasture. Hopefully, we’re going to build up the nation’s cow herd. When we do, where will we graze (stocker) calves? Will we have enough pasture for the cows? We may need to look at ways to replace pasture for growing calves and maybe for cows too. I wonder if we’ll be looking again, in some areas, at keeping cows in confinement and feeding low-quality forages plus byproducts — those we have and others that are coming.” Oklahoma State University Agricultural Economist Derrell Peel says it might sound like science fiction to some people — just too strange to be true — but he foresees a time when finishing rations may contain significantly more forage. Peel thinks cattle feeders may deliberately increase the forage component, knowing full well they are giving up some level of animal performance. According to Peel, the cattle feeding industry has been focused on making cattle eat more grain with once cheap corn providing the incentive to push for ever increasing animal performance, including rate of gain and feed conversion. Feeders learned how to do a pretty good job of finishing a steer on a high-concentrate diet. They’ve successfully pushed the limits for feeding grain to a ruminant animal. Now, says Peel, the incentives have changed. The cost of grain is significantly higher, and he expects it to remain high, on average. Peel thinks economics could force cattle feeders to find ways to feed much less grain and still produce a high quality beef carcass. “The first step has been to substitute other feed ingredients for corn. That may be just a short-term response. We might be able to take it only so far. It’s still tied to the corn market and there’s Hereford.org

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Gerber Right Kind Sale Tuesday evening, April 9, 2013

Featuring the best of our Spring 2012 bull calf crop

Gerber Zenith 008Z

Sire: Feltons Domino 774 MGS: Gerber Firestorm 116K CE 3.1 (.14); BW 1.9 (.38); WW 50 (.31); YW 79 (.30); MM 16 (.21); M&G 41; MCE 2.3 (.14); MCW 69 (.25); SC 1.4 (.17); FAT 0.070 (.20); REA -0.06 (.21); MARB 0.34 (.19); BMI$ 26; CEZ$ 19; BII$ 24; CHB$ 24

Gerber Zenith 011Z

Sire: KCF Bennett 9126J R294 MGS: MSU TCF Revolution 4R CE 7.0 (.10); BW -0.4 (.37); WW 57 (.29); YW 90 (.27); MM 27 (.12); M&G 56; MCE 4.1 (.08); MCW 85 (.20); SC 1.3 (.14); FAT 0.011 (.16); REA 0.37 (.17); MARB 0.32 (.15); BMI$ 27; CEZ$ 22; BII$ 21; CHB$ 34

Gerber Zenith 007Z

Sire: KCF Bennett 9126J R294 MGS: MSU TCF Revolution 4R CE 5.4 (.10); BW 1.4 (.36); WW 61 (.29); YW 102 (.27); MM 28 (.12); M&G 59; MCE 1.6 (.08); MCW 95 (.20); SC 1.2 (.14); FAT 0.016 (.15); REA 0.43 (.16); MARB 0.28 (.15); BMI$ 23; CEZ$ 19; BII$ 18; CHB$ 35

Also selling Angus, SimAngus and Simmental bulls, all raised by us. Look for our ad in the March Hereford World

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Northeast Texas Hereford Association

Annual Sale March 9, 2013 • N oon M t . P leasant , T exas Located at the Titus County Fairgrounds behind the Civic Center on Business 271

Complimentary lunch at 11 a.m.

Selling 62 lots Bulls • Cows • Pairs • Heifers Sires Represented in Sale:

CRR About Time 743, PW Victor Boomer P606, SHF Marshal 236G M33, C Maui Jim ET, Huth R006 Puckster W016, CL 1 Domino 5110R, H Embracer 8006, KCF Bennett Revolution X51, DM BR L1 Domino 146, THR Thor 4029, H Bullet 0313, Willis 10H WC 0702ET, SHF Rib Eye M326 R117, -S Mr Advance U145 X22, KJ 2403 Lead On 321S ET, C 212 Domino 4011 ET, KCF Bennett 9126J R294, UPS Domino 3027, Loewen P20 Sir 17T, BR DM Sooner 7013 ET, LCG Master Cosco 9W, GO 3196 Advance S109, SHF Weston R117 W96 ET, KPH Keynote N45 T40, SHF Vow R117 U31 ET, UPS Odyssey 1ET, H Easy Deal 609 ET, STAR Bright Future 533P, LaGrand Reload 80P ET, SHF Trousdale R125 T01 ET

Consignors: A&H Polled Herefords, Mt. Vernon, Texas Attaway Hereford Ranch, Como, Texas Circle G Cattle, Forney, Texas Larry Foreman, Farmersville, Texas Hartley Herefords, Melissa, Texas Hidden Oaks Ranch, Hamilton, Texas Kinnear Polled Herefords, Joshua, Texas KJB Herefords, Hillsboro, Texas Kurtis Mathias, Mt. Pleasant, Texas Marks Polled Herefords, Grandview, Texas Metch Polled Herefords, Canton, Texas Nolan Herefords, Gilmer, Texas

Pullen Herefords, Rockwall, Texas Rockin 4H Ranch Inc., Canton, Texas S-W Herefords, Bennington, Okla. Stewart Polled Herefords, Cumby, Texas Still River Ranch, Wolfe City, Texas Texas 2T Farm, Nacogdoches Texas Trinity Farms, Mt. Pleasant, Texas Brad and Vernell Voss, Garland, Texas W-2 Cattle Co., Dublin, Texas W5 Hereford Ranch, Arp, Texas Willis Polled Herefords, Emory, Texas

For more information, contact: Dennis Schock 5120 Ledgestone Dr. • Ft. Worth, TX 76132 903-815-2004 • dschock254@gmail.com The Oldest Continuous Hereford Association Sale in Texas.

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The Illinois Hereford Association proudly presents...

2013 Illini Classic Illinois State Fairgrounds, Springfield, Ill.

Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013

Parade: 9 a.m. (upper arena) • Sale: 11 a.m. (lower arena) Sale catalog online at ilpha.com

Selling top show heifer prospects, bred females and herd bull prospects!

Sale Contacts: Andrew Garnhart 815-238-2381 garnhart@gmail.com Monte Lowderman, Auctioneer 309-255-0110 John Meents, AHA Fieldman 419-306-7480

All pic cattle tured in this sell sale

FRIDAY, FEB. 22, 2013 • NORTHFIELD CENTER • SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS

Elite Embryo Auction

Held in conjunction with the IHA Annual meeting • 5:30 p.m. Social • 6 p.m. Banquet Both sales will be broadcast live on DVAuction.com

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Healthy Handling The sustainability of ranching operations and of families who can harmoniously work together may be some of the best spin-off benefits derived from effectively handled livestock.

by Kim Holt

on cattle handling, both personally and professionally, “for a long time,” he says. He conducted his first stockmanship clinic in 1996, and his commitment to this educational effort takes him cross-country to work with producers, livestock markets and feedyards, among others. The last six years he has conducted the industrysponsored Stockmanship & Stewardship clinics with Curt Pate, a Montana rancher and well-respected horse and stockmanship clinician. Stockmanship & Stewardship uses live cattle demonstrations to inform beef producers about the importance and benefits of proper cattle handling — and its critical role in increasing consumer confidence in beef.

Proactive on behalf of producers

Gill, a professor and Extension livestock specialist for Texas AgriLife Extension, has worked

• Improved public

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on Gill is a presenter, educator and promoter of the effective stockmanship concept because he knows it works. He says: “There’s a real need for it and there’s interest in it. And where we have a commitment to change, from ownership/management on down, you can see some real differences.”

As a rancher, too, Gill has seen the results of the practices he’s so committed to teaching. He explains that his ranch was experiencing higher death loss and lower gains in loads of high-risk, newly weaned calves purchased through auction markets for its preconditioning yard managed by his brother, Richard. “So we got more serious about actually settling those cattle as they came in, trying to reduce their stress level in order to get them more accustomed to people and their surroundings.” He said results were almost immediate. “We saw about a 2% drop in death loss,” he says. “But from that point on, our death loss dropped to near nothing. And

medicine/treatments

• Less money for facilities

PHOTO BY ROSS HECOX/WESTERN HORSEMAN

Quality of life

Ron Gill has conducted effective stockmanship clinics for 15 years. The past six years he’s also presented the industry-sponsored Stockmanship & Stewardship clinics with rancher and clinician Curt Pate.

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• Profitability • Sustaining family operations • Enjoyment of ranching lifestyle

This triangle illustrates why effective stockmanship is important to both producers and the beef industry. Curt Pate, a Montana rancher and well-respected stockmanship clinician, believes that low-stress livestock handling is a win-win for both beef producers and consumers. It improves performance, so it is a good fit for profit-minded ranchers, and it gives consumers the assurance that food animals have been treated right. Source: Effectivestockmanship.com

our gains went up about a quarter of a pound per day. “We weren’t getting along too badly from the start, but thought we could do better and sure enough we did.” Of the acclimation process, Gill reports, “It actually didn’t take much time at all — just a little bit of effort.” Cattle were never allowed to run out of gates but were always made to walk out past the handler, down the alleyway to holding pens. If they got to trotting in corrals, “we’d go back and settle them again and place them on the feedbunk.” Normally they wouldn’t walk and bawl past the first day. Gill realizes he and Richard should have put these practices into play earlier. But he hadn’t taken the time to train everybody at the yard. “That was my fault for not doing this to start with. We have always done this with our ranch calves, but never with a set of put-together cattle.” He continues, “I think that’s one of the big problems with our industry — we don’t take the time to train everybody and get all on the same page. A lot of us know a lot more than what we’re actually doing — whether it’d be with technology or just management I think we can all re-focus and do things a little better.” He also observes that after they started acclimating calves, their weight gains and death rate both benefited, so “we didn’t have to purchase as many cattle to accomplish what we wanted to do.” That’s a lesson certainly for others in this industry too.

Improved livestock handling benefits

The Gills’ example is but one illustration of how improvements in livestock handling can have direct economic benefits through reduced sickness, reduced labor and improved gains. “The increase of performance is really recognizable at weaning through the finishing phase of cattle — you see a big difference there,” Gill says, but it’s not as easy to measure at the cow-calf level. The biggest differences they’re seeing at that level are in savings from facility design. One Texas ranch Gill’s been working with estimates it has saved $15,000 just in facility cost. Instead of building tub systems for both load out and processing areas, it used existing facilities with Bud Boxes, a concept designed by stockman Bud Williams, for both locations. While savings in facilities can be significant, “It does take a commitment to change how you handle livestock,” Gill assures. “Dr. Temple Grandin can engineer it where nearly anybody can get cattle through a system. That’s Hereford.org

Ten keys to effective cattle handling 1) The only way to work cattle quickly is slowly. 2) Work from the front to draw cattle to you. 3) Apply pressure when cattle have a place to go. 4) Pressure from the side. 5) Cattle must be comfortable to go by you and stay straight. 6) Pressure cattle from behind only when absolutely necessary. 7) When working cattle, move in straight lines and triangles. 8) Going with the flow of cattle slows them down or stops their movement.

PHOTO BY BETH HARRELL MACKENZIE

9) Going against the flow of cattle initiates or accelerates their movement.

the difference — if you’re willing to take the time to learn how to use their (cattle) behavior to your advantage, you can sure save a lot of money.” Gill is also quick to admit that not all benefits of effective stockmanship are monetary. There are many spin-off benefits, including the sustainability of ranching operations and of families who can harmoniously work together. “There’s a lot of family strife that actually occurs when working cattle because of frustration,” he remarks. “If everybody can stay quiet and calm, the cattle stay better, the help stays better. We see a lot of kids who don’t want to go home and work with their dads, but they’ll work with granddad.” Some of the most rewarding comments Gill has received from the Stockmanship & Stewardship program have nothing to do with handling cattle. He says, “We’ve had numerous people come up and tell us that it’s made a difference in their relationship with their family members and how they work livestock. “That goes into that quality of life aspect of this that we’ve talked about — the sustainability of family operations.”

Putting effective handling into play

In order to learn more about effective stockmanship, Gill encourages producers and families to do “whatever they can,” whether it be reading articles, watching videos or attending lowstress handling seminars. Over the years, low-stress handling experts Tom Noffsinger, DVM, and the late Bud Williams have both been influential for Gill. “We’ve found through the Stewardship & Stockmanship clinics that a lot of people who have seen Bud or Dr. Noffsinger’s videos will come up and say ‘it now makes sense.’” Gill explains, “You can see it on the video, but Hereford.org

10) Cattle work best when they are ready — you have to get them there.

“There’s a lot of family strife that actually occurs when working cattle because of frustration. If everybody can stay quiet and calm, the cattle stay better, the help stays better.” — Ron Gill can’t measure the dynamics of the interactions with the cattle. That’s why we’re still committed to doing these live demos.” It’s his belief there aren’t enough people like him working one-on-one with industry stakeholders. “But there are also not enough people asking us to do it to justify getting more people involved,” Gill explains. But still, adopting changes in livestock handling needs to remain a front-burner issue within the industry, Gill assures, especially as the industry comes under more scrutiny from consumers and activist groups. “To me it’s a pretty urgent issue. We are making inroads — last year I think we’ve seen more

What is stockmanship? The handling of cattle with the intent of enhancing profitability through: 1) improving consumer confidence that cattlemen are good stewards of livestock; 2) improving the safety of animals as well as handlers by working with the natural instincts of cattle during handling; and 3) using low-stress handling techniques to enhance animal health and assure a higher response to medicines.

change than in the previous three. But this is one that we really need everyone to stay hooked on until we do make some changes,” Gill says. He points to the antibiotics issue, as an example. Most

Effective stockmanship is based on four basic principles of cattle behavior: Cattle want to see you. Cattle want to go around you. Cattle want to go to and be around other cattle. Cattle can only think of one thing at a time.

of the antibiotic use in calves occurs in that 60-day window following weaning. “If we can reduce sickness rates in weaned calves, we’ll do a lot to alleviate the pressure there. Changing how we manage through that stress level won’t fix it all,” he says, “but we can do a lot as far as consumer perception of our industry and less use of antibiotics through effective, low-stress handling of our livestock.” HW Editor’s Note: For effective stockmanship training information, go to Ranchtv.org. This site features numerous video clips featuring Ron Gill and Curt Pate demonstrating effective handling techniques. Gill’s site, Effectivestockmanship.com, also offers a summary of low-stress cattle handling pointers, along with diagrams of the “Bud Box” concept for cattle pens. For Bud William’s low-stress handling methods, see Stockmanship.com.

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Herefords & Quarter Horses 49th Annual Production Sale February 23, 2013 • 12:30 p.m. At the Ranch South of Cottonwood Falls, Kan.

2012 Black Filly TR Kit Rey daughter

Offering 2-Year-Old Hereford Bulls Aged bulls ready for heavy service backed by functional, maternal trait breeding. Ideal for commercial cows! Sired by CJH Harland 408, TS Harland Explosion 0736, TS Explosion Builder 0632, EE 0024 8114 5315 and UPS Domino 3027. Quality Quarter Horses with Color Gentle started riders, breeding stock and yearlings from our time-tested breeding program. Sired by Fancy Zan Gold Bar, TR Kit Rey and CRR Hurricane Cat. TS Customer Commercial Replacement Females Hereford-influenced bred females backed by “real world,” efficient ranch genetics - reputation cattle from Flint Hills ranchers! Carrying the service and influence of the historical TS Herefords brand.

2012 Buckskin Stallion Fancy Zan Gold Bar (Zans Rawhide)

Find videos, pictures and more info at:

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Wes Bailey 620-273-6906, 620-583-4172 Buck Bailey 620-340-2237 Marcia Bailey marcia_bee@yahoo.com

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Powerful Hereford Bulls Top Line 1 Horned Genetics Performance bred for maternal excellence! Hereford.org

The Agar Family • 3292 Grass Creek Rd. • Thermopolis, WY 82443 • 307-867-2404

First Annual Live Bull Sale February 18, 2013 • Worland, Wyo. Cattle for Commercial Cowmen from Commercial Cowmen 45 Elite Range Ready 2-Year-Old Hereford Bulls

For catalog, contact Wyatt Agar 307-867-2404 • durbincreekranch@yahoo.com NO FRILLS — Cows run out on native grasses in commercial settings on the high desert. NO GIMMICKS — Cows calve in large pastures (3,000 acres) and do it themselves or they are eliminated by nature or management.

e calve in April so the females are on green grass. This gives us a better idea of the udder quality of the females and puts less stress on the calves. The females winter out and calve in a 3,000-acre pasture. They are checked once a day by horse. If a cow has calving problems, a calf does not get up and nurse or if the cow cannot travel from water hole to water hole, they are eliminated. We run approximately 1,200-head of commercial females that are exposed almost exclusively to Durbin Creek

Lot 13

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Lot 15

NO EXCUSES — Entire cow families have been eliminated for prolapse, eye, udder, feet and leg or fleshing ability problems for 40 years. NO SECOND CHANCES — Every cow raises a calf every year, period.

Ranch bulls. Like you, these cows are our livelihood. We cannot afford diminished calf crops, low conception rates or poor carcass traits. The registered cow herd was designed with these cows in mind so that we would know in depth the history of the cattle dictating the genetic future of the program. We have retained ownership of our calf crop for 20 years. Extensive carcass and performance data have been compiled over the years.

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Three Tips to Prepare the Cow for Spring Calving Spring calving is upon us, providing the promise of a new calf crop and excitement for the future. Steps taken today can set cows up for a successful calving season. However, poor preparation has a direct impact on the health and well-being of those calves as well as future reproductive performance of the herd, says Ted Perry, beef nutritionist with Purina Animal Nutrition LLC. For an optimal calving season, Perry recommends that producers focus on three areas: body condition

with today’s beef prices, producers can’t afford to lose any calves.

Body condition scores

scores, mineral programs and the area where cows will calve. “Implementing a few strategies ahead of the calving season can make calving programs successful,” he says, adding that

The ideal body condition score (BCS) at calving is a 6, on a 9-point scale. “Being at the ideal BCS is probably the most important thing beef producers can do prior to calving,” says Perry. “It’s not hard to slip down to a body condition score of a 4 or 5, and think it’s no big deal. But anything less than a 6 spells trouble.” Keeping the cows in good body condition all year can pay huge

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• On the long and winding roads of the Beef Industry, do you have a trusted “Xplorer” to lead your program? Elm-Lodge Xplorer 6X was a crowd favorite at the 2012 North American, winning Senior Champion Bull. One of his first calves born was recently named Reserve Grand Champion Hereford Steer at the highly competitive 2012 Hoosier Beef Congress. According to the data from his first calf crop, Xplorer is living up to his reputation of a low birth weight EPD of 1.3. Xplorer is combining a stylish front end with smoothness of lines and abundant rib shape and muscling in his offspring.

Top 15% of the Hereford breed for BW EPD Top 5% of the Hereford breed for REA

Do Not Be Left in Unchartered Waters Alone! Use a Proven “Xplorer”! Be sure to check out two Xplorer daughters selling in the 2013 Kentucky Beef Expo Show/Sale. Also, we will have five Fall 2012 bull prospects sired by Xplorer for sale in March.

Call for more information related to semen sales and additional animals for sale.

River Bend Farms William G. Doig, M.S. • 317-402-2594 Dr. Bill and Leslie Doig P.O. Box 146, Waldron, IN 46182 • www.doiglivestock.com Contact William G. Doig, MS for nutritional consulting and livestock judging. William is a Beef Cattle Nutritionist and has judged over 50 shows in 8 states and Canada

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dividends on individual calf and herd performance. Cows with low body condition scores are at risk for more calving problems. Their calves may be weaker and not as vigorous and, therefore, are less likely to get up and drink colostrum in the first few hours after birth. Perry says that low BCS numbers could be a common problem this year as beef producers are trying to get through winter with low forage supplies. Fortunately, it’s not too late to increase a cow’s BCS. “Getting your body condition scores up to a 6 by calving will pay dividends,” he says, explaining that an adequate ration with protein, energy and mineral supplements can set cows up for a successful season.

Mineral program Having a good nutrition and mineral program in place is essential for a variety of reasons, including better response to vaccinations and colostrum quality for the calf, which provides immune protection. “The ideal body condition score prior to calving coupled with a good mineral program can translate into good quality colostrum and calves that are better protected from the start,” says Perry. He explains that from midgestation to late-gestation, there will be an increase of about 20-25% for protein and mineral needs by the cow. Nutritional needs increase again as the cow gets closer to calving, increasing by more than 60% for minerals and 25% for energy and protein between late gestation and calving. Meeting these nutrient requirements is critical to calf growth in-utero and the cow’s ability to care for the live calf.

Clean calving area Providing a clean environment for cows to calve in is a simple but effective recommendation for successful calving. “The cleaner the calving environment the better,” says Perry. Perry recommends keeping cows out of the calving area for 30 to 45 days prior to calving to reduce the amount of manure in the area. “If you are using the barn to provide shelter, consider reducing the amount of space allotted to the cows and save a portion for calving time,” he says. “Providing a clean and dry environment for calves will go a long way in protecting the future of your herd.” Keeping these three recommendations in mind when preparing for calving season can help better prepare cows for the upcoming season. “There are a lot of newborn calf management practices out there, but nothing trumps a cow with an optimal body condition score that’s fed the correct mineral program before calving into a clean environment,” Perry says.

— Purina Animal Nutrition LLC

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Kreth Herefords & Angus 48th ANNUAL PRODUCTION SALE Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013

1 p.m. at the farm, located 14 miles south of Mt. Vernon, S.D., off Exit 319 off I-90

Selling 80 Bulls (50 Yearling Angus, 30 Yearling Hereford) 10 Hereford Heifers

Sale sires: Sitz Upward 307R, Connealy Impression, Connealy Mentor 7374, Connealy Stimulus 8419, GO Abe T32, UPS Domino 3027, Sitz Madison 10477

Sale bulls stressing calving ease, top performance and strong maternal traits

K Advance Extra 272 Sire: UPS Domino 3027 • MGS: GO Abe T32 BW 0.3; WW 55; YW 83; MM 34; M&G 61; FAT -0.004; REA 0.35; MARB 0.18

K Advance Extra 2116 Sire: UPS Domino 3027 • MGS: GO Abe T32 BW -0.1; WW 55; YW 82; MM 35; M&G 63; FAT -0.008; REA 0.32; MARB 0.17

K Big Abe 234

K Big Abe 2154 ET

Sire: GO Abe T32 • MGS: CL 1 Domino 482P 1ET BW 1.4; WW 61; YW 92; MM 34; M&G 64; FAT -0.013; REA 0.48; MARB -0.05

K Big Abe 26 Sire: GO Abe T32 • MGS: KB Centurion 179 BW 1.8; WW 58; YW 86; MM 30; M&G 59; FAT 0.016; REA 0.21; MARB -0.02

K Great Mentor 288 Sire: Connealy Mentor 7374 MGS: Connealy Danny Boy BW 2.5; WW 62; YW 105; MM 22; Marb I+.28; RE I+.76; Fat I+.002

AmericanAngus Association, Vern Frey American Hereford Association, Levi Landers • Auctioneer, Joe Goggins

KRETH HEREFORDS Darwin Kreth • 26791 397th Ave., Mt. Vernon, SD 57363-5913 605-236-5769 • darwin@krethcattle.com Barclay Kreth • 26667 397th Ave., Mt. Vernon, SD 57363-5913 605-236-5775 • 605-630-8335 • barclay@krethcattle.com www.krethcattle.com Hereford.org

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Thursday, March 7, 2013 • 1 p.m. (PST) Northwest Livestock Commission, Hermiston, Ore.

OFFERING

60 Bulls, Horned and Polled • Performance Tested Yearlings 2-Year-Olds • Ranch Raised Bulls Auctioneer: C.D. “Butch” Booker CONSIGNORS

Bird Herefords

High Desert Cattle Co.

Reinland Herefords

Barry Hereford Ranch

Mulrony Cattle

Sullivan Herefords

CX Ranch

Ottley Herefords

Thompson Herefords

For catalogs or more information, contact: Mark Holt, AHA 208-369-7425 Willard Wolf 509-994-8051 Hereford.org

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Don’t Lose Your Land

PHOTOS COURTESY OF USDA-NRCS

Waterways outside of Ballinger, Texas, provide a filtration system that amplifies conservation-minded producer’s means of producing cleaner water for surrounding residents.

by Katrina Huffstutler, The Cattleman

Irrigation system updates allow for an effective and efficient means of water delivery to this Texas wheat crop.

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rosion isn’t just a rainy season problem. It can strike amidst the most exceptional drought and become a major problem once the rains return. That’s why we went to Natural Resources Conservation Service’s (NRCS) Phillip Wright, Edwards Region Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative coordinator for the lower Edwards Plateau/Hill Country area. Wright, who covers a 15-county area in Texas, works with private landowners to provide technical assistance on grazing management issues. He says over the last two years, much of his time has been spent helping landowners figure out how to best cope with the drought without sacrificing their rangeland resources, whether that means continuing to hold livestock but feeding or decreasing their herd numbers and trying to maintain their rotational grazing system as is. He says producers will likely see an increase in erosion problems during a drought, due to both plant loss and overgrazing. And if those areas aren’t addressed in a timely manner, they could get much worse when a more normal weather pattern returns and rain is present to further wash those areas away. So

what can you do once you notice the early signs of erosion on your place? Here are the basic steps according to Wright.

Call a pro “The first thing they should do if they feel they have an erosion problem develop on their property is contact us,” Wright says. “The faster they get in touch with one of our local NRCS offices, and begin to work with those people and get them out on the grounds to take a look at it, the better chance they have of taking care of it before it gets worse.” He says a small erosion area can become a critical area, if it is not treated.

Work together to find a solution Wright says, once the producer gets in touch with NRCS, a conservationist will come out to evaluate the sites with the landowner, determine how severe the problems are and start working to find a solution. He says the conservationists have several options for treating erosion problems and can customize a plan based on the landowner’s particular situation. If it’s the beginning of a gully — a landform created by running water and resembling a large ditch or small valley, for example, they will likely look at the possibility of Hereford.org

a grassed waterway, a common type of over the remainder of the pasture or conservation practice. rangeland,” he says. “That would mean going in and Protect the area from further damage grading and shaping the land so it Once a method is chosen and would be able to withstand the flow implemented, Wright says it’s that would come through that area important to move quickly and take and then trying to get it established as the necessary steps to make sure the quickly as possible with a good grass buffer can do its job. cover that would protect that site from “In an ideal situation,” he says, future erosion,” Wright says. “once you’ve shaped it, you want to go Another option Wright uses in and seed it or sprig it as quickly as frequently is called critical area possible, to get the grass established as treatment. It’s a process similar to soon as possible, and then protect that putting in a grassed waterway, but area during that time.” they use their standard specifications He says that could mean applying for critical area planting, which means mulch or putting hay bales around the increasing the seeding or sprigging area to protect it from concentrated rate up to double the usual amount. flow. Filter fences and other types of No matter what type of solution is runoff diversions will prevent the area chosen, Wright says it is imperative to from getting washed out before the make sure there is an adequate outlet. grass has time to establish. “In other words we don’t want to fix Wright adds, “And that is probably an area and cause it to create erosion the hardest thing we deal with when further downstream,” he explains. we are looking at either a critical area Sometimes that means using a treatment or grass waterway — just combination of practices, like a grassed trying to get the grass established waterway in association with filter before the next large rainfall.” strips. In these situations, Wright says, He says when possible, he advises you can mix in native legumes or forbs seeding or sprigging the area and to provide additional grazing, and then putting some type of irrigation diversify for wildlife. on it to get it established faster — but “[With] grassed waterways, we tend he understands many, if not most, to want to use grasses that can be landowners don’t have that option. managed so the water will flow across “Most of us just have to rely them and then go out the outlet in a on Mother Nature to get things manner that does not create erosion established for us,” he says. During and in the filter strips. Those grasses [also] following a drought, create wildlife habitat, protecting those areas as well as potential also means being extra grazing for the future. “… a small erosion diligent when it comes “Native grasses proper grazing and forbs can be area can become a to management. planted in this strip “These critical around the waterway critical area, if it is areas, grassed to filter the sediment not treated.” waterways, filter out, but allow the strips and other water to run through — Phillip Wright recommended and then go into the practices, are really grass waterway flow good methods that along the waterway work well. But the key is that we and out the lower end. And when it have to protect those areas from comes out the lower end, it moves out, additional erosion while the grasses but it’s slowed before it spreads out

Still looking for more erosion control solutions? In addition to the methods suggested by Phillip Wright, wetland construction can also solve certain erosion problems. Winner of Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) and the Texas Section of the Society for Range Management’s joint Outstanding Rangeland Steward Award, Gary Price has 40 acres of man-made wetlands on his 77 Ranch in Blooming Grove, Texas. “I never thought I’d say I built a wetland,” he told Ellen Brisendine, TSCRA executive director of communication services, “but it works well.” Working with Ducks Unlimited, Price turned a highly erodible, farmed-out parcel of cropland into an area that stops erosion, holds floodwaters — allowing sediment to settle before the water enters the larger water system — and creates habitat for ducks. For more information on wetlands, visit nrcs.usda.gov and select “Water,” then “Wetlands.” HW

are getting established,” Wright says. “That means protecting those areas with temporary fences or electric fencing, or something like that, so that they aren’t overgrazed — at least the first growing season and, in most cases, the second growing season. “We want those grasses to get established. We want those root systems to develop. Not overgrazing — that’s a critical thing.” He adds that once stands are established, proper grazing techniques still apply. “All of these practices should be protected by using a rotational grazing system after they have been well established. That way you can protect your land.” HW Editor’s Note: Reprinted by permission from The Cattleman.

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Angus and Polled Hereford

BULL SALE SELLING

60 Hereford & Angus 2-Year-Old Bulls

Friday

February 22, 2013 1 p.m.

Platte Livestock Platte, S.D. Chisum Peterson, Auctioneer

YOUR BLACK BALDIE SOURCE! Herefords Make Black Better!

Gant Rib Eye 281

Gant Wrangler 230 Hereford Service Sires SHF Rib Eye, Huth Prospector K085, MC Ranger, JDH Yankee 3U, THR Thor 4029, JDH 15T Wrangler 25W

Angus Service Sires

WAR Final Answer, Miller In Focus, WAR Mainline, Mogck Whispering Wind 438 Sitz Upward

Delivery is available or deduct $50 if picked up by March 1, 2013. All bulls have a first breeding season guarantee

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r a B JZ Ranches

Bar JZ Show Of Force 005Z

Lot 1 — Homo Polled • Absolute x Revolution

BD CE BW WW YW MM REA MARB 3/06 4.6 3.8 69 119 19 0.95 -0.03

62nd Annual Bull & Female Sale Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 • 1 p.m.

Thomas Ranch Sale Facility, 16.5 miles east of Onida, S.D.

Lot 7 —

Bar JZ International 015Z

Lot 16 —

Worldwide x Devo

BD CE BW WW YW MM REA MARB 3/10 6.9 -2.0 35 46 32 0.02 0.15

Bar JZ Crossroad 033Z Crossfire x Lombardi

BD CE BW WW YW MM REA MARB 3/14 0.5 3.9 49 77 20 0.26 -0.06

• Four half-brothers sell.

Bar JZ Charlie 045Z

Lot 21 — Homo Polled • Victor 719T x World Class BD CE BW WW YW MM REA MARB 3/15 5.2 2.9 67 94 26 0.40 -0.08

Lot 23 —

Bar JZ Absolutely 055Z Absolute x Durango

BD CE BW WW YW MM REA MARB 3/16 6.5 0.3 56 88 22 0.54 -0.02

• Twelve half-brothers sell.

Bar JZ Freedom 091Z

Lot 33 — Independence x Rib Eye

BD CE BW WW YW MM REA MARB 3/21 4.8 1.0 63 93 29 0.50 0.18

Bar JZ Freedom 065Z

Lot 29 — Independence x Request

BD CE BW WW YW MM REA MARB 3/17 4.7 0.6 52 79 24 0.41 0.09

• Eleven half brothers sell.

Lot 39 —

Bar JZ Marksman 121Z On Target x Request

BD CE BW WW YW MM REA MARB 3/27 5.6 0.9 48 83 23 0.29 0.18

Lot 40 —

Bar JZ Everywhere 126Z Worldwide x Triple Play

BD CE BW WW YW MM REA MARB 3/28 2.9 3.0 59 95 21 0.29 0.10

• Four half-brothers sell.

Selling 48 Polled Hereford Bulls • 16 Polled Hereford Bred Heifers 25 F-1 Black Baldie Open Heifers • 67 Limousin and Lim-Flex Bulls Also selling sons of Revolution, Durango 84U, Legendary and Bar JZ This Time 419X. Bred heifers carry the service of R Independence, 719T, SHF York and Bar JZ Authority 635Y.

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WISCONSIN Hereford Association

Proudly Presents

the

2013

SPRING SALE Saturday, March 2, 2013 • Noon Grant County Fairgrounds, Lancaster, Wis.

Offering 53 lots

Hand Selected, Purebred Hereford Cattle 2-Year-Old and Yearling Bulls, Open Heifers, Bred Females and Cow-Calf Pairs Sale day phone 902-493-8173 John Meents, AHA Field Staff, cell 419-306-7480 Cody Lowderman, Auctioneer, cell 309-313-2171 Mike Sorensen 641-745-7949

Pre-Sale Banquet/Fun Auction Friday, March 1, 2013

Social at 6 p.m. • Dinner at 7 p.m. at the Extension Building on Grant County Fairgrounds, Lancaster, Wis.

BREEDERS Baker Polled Herefords, Elkhorn, Wis. Biggs Polled Herefords, Dixon, Ill. Boettcher’s Brookview Acres, Fairchild, Wis. Brown Nursery Farm, Hartland, Wis. C&L Hereford Ranch, Ixonia, Wis. Chwala Farms, Jefferson, Wis. Gari-Alan Farm, Johnson Creek, Wis.

J&J Polled Herefords, Hartford, Wis. Kegley Farms, Burlington, Wis. Lietzau Hereford Farm, Sparta, Wis. MGM East, Hartford, Wis. MGM West, Sun Prairie, Wis. Paulson Farms, Deerfield, Wis. Pierce’s Hereford Haven, Baraboo, Wis.

Point Creek Herefords, Newton,WI Quade Hereford Farms, Milton, Wis. Stanton Farm, Whitewater, Wis. Starr Polled Herefords, Manawa, Wis. Tower Hill Farm, Rudolph, Wis. White Willow Polled Herefords, Morris, Ill. Grant Wiswell Family, Elkhorn, Wis.

For catalogs and information, contact: Michael Boettcher 414-339-2516 • Ruth Espenschied 608-543-3778 www.wisconsinherefords.org Please view for supplemental items on cattle and sale day announcements. 80

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Central Oregon’s

March 16, 2013

Location: VF’s Long Hollow Ranch in Terrebonne, Ore.

Host Ranch: VF Red Angus

120 Red Angus Bulls • 50 Hereford Bulls 50 Red Angus Heifers Herd Sires Represented:

C MAUI JIM ET

BW 4.1; WW 51; YW 95; MM 20; M&G 46; FAT 0.011; REA 1.02; MARB -0.16

TH RL 719T SALES FORCE R1W BW 1.6; WW 55; YW 89; MM 25; M&G 53; FAT 0.008; REA 0.38; MARB 0.03

TH SHR 605 57G BISMARCK 243R ET

SPH KABOOM 912W ET

BW 2.2; WW 46; YW 75; MM 17; M&G 40; FAT -0.008; REA 0.31; MARB -0.01

Feddes Montana X44

BW -0.8; WW 63; YW 100; MM 22; TM 54; MARB.31; REA .43

BW 5.5; WW 65; YW 112; MM 19; M&G 51; FAT 0.027; REA 0.81; MARB -0.07

Larson Masterpiece 009

BW -3.3; WW 66; YW 108; MM 23; TM 56; MARB 0.72; REA 0.00

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for Ready 2013 ?

WE A RE !

TH 49U 719T

Sheyenne 3X

7HP107 P43101191 Sire: TH 122 71I Victor 719T • MGS: TH 75J 44M Legacy 103R

Sporting one of the best CED and BW projections in the breed, Sheyenne will be highly sought after for not only his calving ease abilities, but for his shape, capacity and pedigree. Moderate, dark red and super sound, Sheyenne is the bull that many have been waiting for! From Topp Herefords, N.D.

Semen: $25/Straw; Non-Certificate

Spring 2013 AHA Sire Summary EPD Acc % Rank

CED BW 10.1 -3.5 .13 1

WW 52

YW 73

.48 .39 .39 1

MM 23

M&G 49

MCE 2.1

SC 1.0

.14 .10 25

FAT 0.005

REA 0.41

MARB -0.05

BMI$ CEZ$ 22 24

.15 .23 .23 .20 20

BII$ 18

NJW 98S

CHB$ 24

Durango 44U

7HP105 P42892264 Sire: THM Durango 4037 • MGS: CL 1 Domino 9126J 1ET

Study his data – if you’re going to use the best genetics, Durango needs to be on your list. Additional progeny have raised his YW by 16 lb. since last spring so take advantage of his low BW and strong performance. Durango’s first daughters are right-sized, easy fleshing beef cows with balanced, well-attached udders. From Ned and Jan Ward, Wyo.

Semen: $25/Straw; $60/Certificate

Spring 2013 AHA Sire Summary EPD Acc % Rank

TH 122 71I

CED BW 7.7 -0.1 .33 1

.85 5

WW 55

YW 88

MM 35

M&G 62

.74 20

.69 25

.22 2 2

MCE 4.5

SC 1.1

.24 10

.42 15

FAT REA -0.020 0.51 .44 20

MARB -0.08

.45 .39 20

BMI$ CEZ$ 20 22 20

BII$ 14

CHB$ 27 20

Top Shelf 504X ET

7HP108 P43122851 Sire: DRF JWR Prince Victor 71I • MGS: NJW 1Y Wrangler 19D

This full brother to 719T is fancy and stout. With solid stats for growth and no AI certificates, Top Shelf will find his way into plenty of herds that want to improve both their cows and their performance. His pedigree and phenotype are reasons enough to use him. From Topp Herefords, N.D.

Semen: $25/Straw; Non-Certificate

Spring 2013 AHA Sire Summary EPD Acc % Rank

CED

M&G

MCE

5.0 2.4 P .25 10

58 .24 15

92 21 50 -0.3 0.8 .23 .22 P .16 20 25

FAT

REA

MARB

BMI$ CEZ$

-0.022 0.55 0.00 .18 .19 .17 15 15

MCR

BII$

CHB$

Bluestem 977

7HH57 43086834 Sire: CJH Harland 408 • MGS: Feltons Legend 242

With a pedigree built from two breed standouts, Bluestem is bred to do the right things. Incredibly sound, he displays tremendous capacity and fleshing ability with the potential for low birth weights. With high rankings for nearly every trait, Bluestem can improve a calf crop in lots of ways! From Mill Creek Ranch, Kan. Spring 2013 AHA Sire Summary Semen: EPD Acc % Rank

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CED 3.7

BW 1.9

WW 59

YW 92

MM 24

M&G 53

.17

.38

.31

.32

.19

$20/Straw; Non-Certificate

MCE 1.1

SC 1.1

FAT 0.059

REA 0.57

MARB .21

.16

.30

.26

.25

.24

BMI$ CEZ$ 22 18 15

BII$ 18

CHB$ 29

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Western Nugget National Hereford Show

Sweet Thing, Rebecca, Stockman, Role Model Win in Reno B F 144U Sweet Thing 2103 ET and Triple-A 9121 Rebecca 5Y topped the female shows at the Western Nugget National Hereford Show Dec. 7-8 in Reno, Nev., while C Stockman 2059 ET and TCW Role Model 28M 208Y won the bull shows. Also during the show, Dan L. Forsea & Sons Ranch was honored with the 2012 Lifetime Cattlemen Award. Lee Haygood, Canadian, Texas, judged the 195-head show, and complimented the bull and female exhibitors both days describing the show as “tremendous from top

Judge Lee Haygood

to bottom.” On bull show day he added, “Today, we’ve not had tons of numbers but we’ve witnessed tons of quality. Along with phenotype the cattle have also had good, balanced numbers.” BF 144U Sweet Thing 2103 ET came out on top of the polled show. She is bred and owned by junior Kari Brumley, Orovada, Nev., and is a March 2012 daughter of TH 75J 243R Bailout 144U ET. Earlier in the week Sweet Thing also won champion bred-and-owned female honors in the junior show. Reserve in the polled female show and champion in the junior calf division was C Eye Candy 2079, owned by Piper and Cruz Colyer, Bruneau, Idaho, and sired by NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET. In the horned female show, Triple-A 9121 Rebecca 5Y was chosen champion horned female after winning the junior yearling division. She is owned by Kelsey Stimpson, Melba, Idaho, and is by CL 1 Domino 9121W 1ET.

BW 4.8 WW 56 BF 144U Sweet Thing 2103 ET Grand and spring calf champion polled female, by Kari Brumley, Orovada, Nev., with a YW 93 MM 19 March 1, 2012, daughter of TH 75J 243R Bailout 144U ET. M&G 47

BW 3.4 WW 46 TCW Role Model 28M 208Y Grand and yearling champion polled bull, by Rees Bros. Herefords, Morgan, Utah, and YW 79 Weimer Cattle Co., Susanville, Calif., with a March 2, 2011, son of Golden-Oak 4J Maxium MM 19 28M. M&G 41

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Reserve champion horned female was C 88X Notice Me 2067 ET owned by Gary & Kathy Buchholz, Waxahachie, Texas. She is a January 2012 daughter of NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET. Colyer Herefords, Bruneau, Idaho; Pablo Martin Y Herrera, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Ned and Jan Ward, Sheridan, Wyo., exhibited champion horned bull, C Stockman 2059 ET, first to the junior calf division title. He is a January 2012 son of NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET. Reserve champion horned bull won the senior bull division, Desert Comfort 037. Largent & Sons, Kaycee, Wyo., own the son of L3 Desert Fox 842 ET. In the polled bull show, yearling division winner, TCW Role Model 28M 208Y, by Golden-Oak 4J Maxium 28M was slapped champion. He is owned by Rees Bros. Herefords, Morgan, Utah, and Weimer Cattle Co., Susanville, Calif. Reserve champion polled bull SB 54E 75R Fusion 138X ET by

Lambert Remedy 2030 75R first won the senior bull division. He is owned by Split Butte Livestock, Minidoka, Idaho, and Stallings Polled Herefords, Eugene, Ore. Colyer Herefords exhibited the champion pen of three bulls. The group included C Tapped Off 2222 ET, C 88X Ribeye 2059 ET and C Bar 1 Untapped 2248 ET. BB Cattle Co. Connell, Wash., exhibited the reserve pen. The group included BB 3027 Domino 2026, BB Yankee 2037 and BB 626S Neon 2036. Colyers were also named premier horned breeder and horned exhibitor and premier polled breeder. The polled premier exhibitor and best six head banners went to Weimer Cattle Co. Colyer Herefords also exhibited the first-place horned get of sire with a group sired by NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET. The 113-entry junior show was judged by Jirl Buck, Madill, Okla., on Dec. 6. Kari Brumley, Orovada, Nev., won champion bred-and-owned female with BF Sweet Thing 2103 ET.

Triple-A 9121 Rebecca 5Y

Grand and junior yearling champion horned female, by Kelsey Stimpson, Melba, Idaho, with a Feb. 10, 2011, daughter of CL 1 Domino 9121W 1ET.

C Stockman 2059 ET

Grand and junior calf champion horned bull, by Colyer Herefords, Bruneau, Idaho; Pablo Martin Y Herrera, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Ned and Jan Ward, Sheridan, Wyo., with a Jan. 6, 2012, son of NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET.

BW 4.5 WW 49 YW 77 MM 24 M&G 48

BW 2.1 WW 43 YW 68 MM 30 M&G 52 Hereford.org

Reserve champion bred-and-owned and reserve champion owned female honors went to Rylee Barber, Channing, Texas, with BR Bailee 1066 ET by DM BR Sooner. Champion owned heifer was C 11X 8238 Notice Me 2102 by TH 71U 719T Mr Hereford 11X owned by Tristen Carnley, Clifton, Texas. In the bred-and-owned bull show, Brooke and Kari Brumley, Orovada, Nev., added to their list of accomplishments with BF Perfect Poison 174Y by BF Domino Affect 702T ET claiming the champion title.

Reserve bred-and-owned bull was exhibited by Cody Simpson, Bend, Ore. SCC Cash Advance 3102 is a March 2012 son of Purple Currency 24U ET. To view complete results of the 2012 Western Nugget National Hereford Show visit Hereford.org. HW Horned get-of-sire — Colyer Herefords with a group sired by NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET.

Reserve champion pen of three bulls — BB Cattle Co., Connell, Wash.

Champion pen of three bulls — Colyer Herefords

C Eye Candy 2079

Reserve grand and junior calf champion polled female, by Piper and Cruz Colyer, Bruneau, Idaho, with a Jan. 8, 2012, daughter of NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET.

SB 54E 75R Fusion 138X ET

Reserve grand and senior champion polled bull, by Split Butte Livestock, Minidoka, Idaho, and Stallings Polled Herefords, Eugene, Ore., with an April 22, 2010, son of Lambert Remedy 2030 75R.

BW 2.3 WW 60 YW 92 MM 27 M&G 57

BW 4.5 WW 53 YW 85 MM 21 M&G 48

C 88X Notice Me 2067 ET

Reserve grand and junior calf champion horned female, by Gary & Kathy Buchholz, Waxahachie, Texas, with a Jan. 7, 2012, daughter of NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET.

Desert Comfort 037

Reserve grand and senior champion horned bull, by Largent & Sons, Kaycee, Wyo., with an April 2, 2010, son of L3 Desert Fox 842 ET.

BW 2,1 WW 43 YW 68 MM 30 M&G 52

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ADDITIONAL POLLED DIVISION RESULTS Reserve polled spring calf champion heifer: Cache Cattle Co., Wellsville, Utah, with CC CX 23X4V Gizzelle 29Z by CC P28 Chisel 4V. Reserve polled junior calf champion heifer: Iron Lake Ranch, Athens, Texas, and Jared Lide, Mexia, Texas, with C R111 Ms Hereford 2088 ET by TH 7U 719T Mr Hereford 11X. Polled fall calf champion heifer: Gary & Kathy Buchholz, Waxahachie, Texas, with GKB TMH New Era Breeze B169 ET by C New Era ET. Reserve polled fall calf champion heifer: Weimer Cattle Co., Susanville, Calif., with TCW Lassen Lass 243R 301Z by TH SHR 605 57G Bismarck 243R E. Polled intermediate champion heifer: Brad & Dawn Gohr, Madras, Ore., with Heritage Snookie 11255 ET by STAR TCF Shock & Awe 158W ET. Reserve polled intermediate champion heifer: Brice, Sallie and Bailey Anderson, Rupert, Idaho, with BSB 165 Glamour 11083 by WSF MC Destination 120J 545 ET. Polled spring yearling champion heifer: Fallon and Gunnar Gohr, Madras, Ore., with C Chanel’s Lady 1220 ET by TH SHR 605 57G Bismarck 243R E. Reserve polled spring yearling champion heifer: Gary & Kathy Buchholz; Colyer Herefords, Bruneau, Idaho; and Jacqueline Rosson, Milford, Texas, with C GKB R111 Lady Advance 1225 ET by C New Era ET. Polled junior yearling champion heifer: Jack Huckaby, Paris, Ky., with C Lady Era 1157 ET by C New Era ET. Reserve polled junior yearling champion heifer: Fallon Gohr with Gohr Beyond Platinum 1102 by CRR About Time 743. Polled champion senior yearling heifer: Potter Ranch Herefords, Winton, Calif., with TBR Catalina 01104 ET by BR Moler ET. Reserve polled senior yearling champion heifer: Layn Bright, Le Grand, Calif., with Arrowstar Morgan 14S 080 by SHR Strictly Business 14S.

Polled spring calf champion bull: Colyer Herefords and Bar One Ranch, Eugene, Ore., with C Bar1 9161 Untapped 2267 ET by TH 89T 743 Untapped 425X ET. Reserve polled spring calf champion bull: Split Butte, Minidoka, Idaho, with SB BVM Here’s Your Sign 2044ET by SB 122L Git-R-Done 19R ET. Polled junior calf champion bull: Colyer Herefords with C Tapped Off 2222 ER by TH 89T 743 Untapped 425X ET. Reserve polled junior calf champion bull: Genoa Livestock LLC, Glen, Nev., with Genoa 144U Bailout 12033 by TH 75J 243R Bailout 144U ET. Polled fall calf champion bull: Josh Bonds, Catheys Valley, Calif., with Apache Everest 246Y by H Easy Deal 609 ET. Reserve polled fall calf champion bull: Hannah Bianchi, Hollister, Calif., with HB Tank 263 by BR Royal Flush 157 ET. Polled champion intermediate bull: Tan Polled Herefords, Rupert, Idaho, and Wooden Shoe Farms, Blackfoot, Idaho, with Heritage Ariat 11276 by SB 122L Ariat 61R ET. Reserve polled intermediate champion bull: OJJ Ranch, Shelley, Idaho, with OJJ Titanium 632Y by H WCC/WB 668 Wyarno 9500 ET. Reserve polled yearling champion bull: Duane Chandler, Baker City, Ore., with Chan Secret Weapon 3 by Purple Currency 24U ET. Polled junior yearling champion bull: Black Hills Herefords, Olympia, Wash., and Colyer Herefords with C R111 New Era 1173 ET by C New Era ET. Reserve junior yearling champion bull: Joseph Barry, Gresham, Ore., with BHR Bright Class 111 by KF Got Class 809U. Reserve polled senior champion bull: Cox Herefords, Jefferson, Ore., with C Domino Wideload 2321 ET by AA PRF Wideload.

ADDITIONAL HORNED DIVISION RESULTS Spring calf champion heifer: Brooke Brumley with C BAR1 9161 Tanqueray 2265 ET by TH 89T 743 Untapped 425X ET. Reserve spring calf champion heifer: Gary & Kathy Buchholz wih GKB B927 Miss Platinum B231 ET by GKB EJE B627 Full Tank B927 ET. Reserve junior calf champion heifer: Tristen Carnley, Clifton, Texas, with C 11X 8238 Notice Me 2192 by TH 71U 719T Mr Hereford 11X. Fall calf champion heifer: Curtis & Jackie Castle, Crawford, Okla., and Colyer Herefords with C 88X Notice Me 1313 ET by NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET. Reserve fall calf champion heifer: Jacqueline Rosson with GKB EJE New Era Breeze B168 ET by C New Era ET. Intermediate champion heifer: Tucker Dodge, Powell Butte, Ore., with ER L1 Master Lady 124 by ER L1 Masterpiece. Reserve intermediate champion heifer: Genoa Livestock LLC with Genoa Miss Ribstone 11227 ET by K 64H Ribstone Lad 157K. Spring yearling champion heifer: PJ Ranch, Winton, Calif., with C 860U Notice Me 1260 ET by CL 1 Domino 860U. Reserve spring yearling champion heifer: Kallie Goss, Vinton, Calif., with KGR Golden Lady 312Y by TH 223 63N Tundra 408W ET. Reserve junior yearling champion heifer: Brooke Brumley with BF BAR1 Tainted 101Y by BF Domino Affect 702T ET. Spring calf champion bull: Colyer Herefords and Bar One Ranch with C BAR1 Untapped 2248 ET by TH 89T 743 Untapped 425X ET.

Reserve spring calf champion bull: Chandler Herefords with Chan 0100 T243 by C Chandler 0100. Reserve junior calf champion bull: Whitney Bennett, Connell, Wash., with BB 626 Neon 2003 by Churchill Neon 626S. Fall calf champion bull: Jolene Bennett, Connell, Wash., with BB 626 Neon 1181 by Churchill Neon 626S. Reserve fall calf champion bull: Josephy Barry with BHR 3027 Classy Domino 128 by UPS Domino 3027. Intermediate champion bull: Brooke and Kari Brumley with BF Perfect Poison 174Y. Yearling champion bull: Gary & Kathy Buchholz and Colyer Herefords with C Notice Me Maxium 1206 ET by Golden-Oak 4J Maxium 28M. Reserve yearling champion bull: Amy Stillahn, Cheyenne, Wyo., with TS Rock Solid 109 by ARS Neon Moon 802. Junior yearling champion bull: Morrell Ranches, Willows, Calif., with M Maximum Return 1165 ET by Golden-Oak 4J Maxium 28M. Reserve junior yearling champion bull: Colyer Herefords; Curtis & Jackie Castle; Square G Ranch, Thomas, Okla., and The Thriller Group, Bruneau, Idaho, with C Thriller ET by UPS TCC Nitro 1ET. Reserve senior champion bull: Jordan, Kelley, Mark and Nathan Largent, Kaycee, Wyo., with L3 Desert Diamond 115 by L3 Diamond 679.

Western Nugget Junior Show Judge: Jirl Buck, Madill, Okla. • 113-head shown Judge Jirl Buck

Showmanship winners:

Peewee showmen: Jessica Simpson, Bend, Ore., champion; and Emma Eldridge, Redmond, Ore., reserve. Junior showmen: Brandt Downing, Terrebonne, Ore., champion; and Rylee Barber, Channing, Texas, reserve. Intermediate showmen: Kelsey Stimpson, Melba, Idaho, champion; and Emilee Holt, Caldwell, Idaho, reserve.

Champion bred-and-owned female

Champion owned female

Tristen Carnley, Clifton, Texas, with C 11X 8238 Notice Me 2102, a Jan. 11, 2012, daughter of TH 71U 719T Mr Hereford 11X.

Senior showmen: Kallie Goss, Redmond, Ore., champion; and Brooke Brumley, Orovada, Nev., reserve.

Reserve champion bred-and-owned and reserve champion owned female

Champion bred-and-owned bull

Reserve champion bred-and-owned bull

Kari Brumley, Orovada, Nev., with BF 144U Sweet Thing 2103 ET, a March 1, 2012, daughter of TH 75J 243R Bailout 144U ET.

Rylee Barber, Channing, Texas, with BR Bailee 1066 ET, an April 19, 2011, daughter of DM BR Sooner.

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Brooke and Kari Brumley, Orovada, Nev., with BF Perfect Poison 174Y, a May, 1, 2011, son of BF Domino Affect 702T ET.

Cody Simpson, Bend, Ore., with SCC Cash Advance 3102, a March 10, 2012, son of Purple Currency 24U ET.

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Horned premier breeder and exhibitor and polled premier breeder — Colyer Herefords.

Dan L. Forsea & Sons Ranch recognized as 2012 Lifetime Cattlemen Honorees The 2012 Western Nugget National Hereford Show Lifetime Cattlemen Award honorees were Walt and Dan Forsea of Dan. L. Forsea & Sons Ranch, Richland, Ore. Seeking freedom and better opportunities for a young, energized man, Dan L. Forsea came to the U.S. in 1906 from Romania. His first job was working for the railroad on the Snake River between Huntington and Homestead, Oregon. His next job was working with horses, cattle and sheep on the Jim Grant Ranch near Flick Bar. He also attended school to acquire a better knowledge of English and to learn as much as he could about farming and raising livestock. He soon met and married Blanch Ross, a French Canadian German who was working at a nearby fruit farm. In 1916 they began homesteading on the Snake River — raising cattle, sheep, horses and five children. Dan and his two boys — Walt and Bob — continued to ranch on the Snake River until the Brownlee Dam was constructed and flooded much of the farmland. They purchased land in Richland, where they moved their families and raised most of their hay. The majority of the rangeland for their cattle is in the steep country of the Snake River, where moving cattle can be very challenging. Bob has since passed away, and Dan (Walt’s son) has taken over the operation of the ranch. The ranch started with Hereford-based cattle but now has Hereford/ Angus cross cows. Dan takes pride in the genetics of the cattle and purchases the best Hereford and Angus bulls he can. The Forseas have been recipients of numerous conservation and agricultural awards throughout the years. Dan has recently been instrumental in putting together a project “beef in the schools,” which provides quality beef to Baker County schools and has greatly improved their school lunch program. Dan and other local ranchers supply the beef for the project. Walt, who still works almost daily on the ranch, his wife, Norma, and Dan and his wife, Renece, all live on the Forsea Ranch. They are very active in their local grange, of which Walt is the grange master, and they all provide a great deal of local community service. Walt was a Boy Scout leader for many years and received the Silver Beaver Award. For 15 years Renece has been the coordinator of a beautiful wildflower garden that adorns the city near the entrance to Richland. She has volunteered countless hours to this project, which was once a weed patch. Dan and Renece are also active in the Baker County Livestock Association and Cattlewomen. In 2008 the Forsea Ranch won the Excellence in Agriculture Award for Baker County. Even with the difficult challenges ranching now brings, the Forseas are eager and willing to continue raising quality beef in the beautiful Richland valley. HW

Polled premier exhibitor and polled best six head — Weimer Cattle Co.

Nugget Sale Grosses $4,744 This year the annual sale on center stage at John Ascuaga’s Nugget on Dec. 8 featured 19 lots as 16 live cattle averaged $4,744, 1 flush gathered $20,000 and two embryo lots averaged $650 per embryo. Leading the high sellers at $20,000 was Lot 1, a flush to AH JDH Ms 19D Violet 6T ET, a Feb. 2, 2007, daughter of NJW 1Y Wrangler 19D. Bobby May, Mineral Point, Wis., and Randy Jones, Harrod, Ohio, claimed the winning bid, which allowed them to flush this famous donor to the bull of their choice. This lot was consigned by Hoffman Ranch, Thedford, Neb. King Herefords, Moriarty, N.M., brought a good one to the stage that commanded the high bid for live animals at this auction at the mark of $9,500. Prairie Rose Cattle Co., Sherman, Ill., laid claim to Lot 22, BK Miss New Era 2041, a heifer born Jan. 21, 2012, and daughter of C New Era ET. Macfarlane Livestock, Cottonwood, Calif., sold choice of four calves by the mating of Remitall Online 122L and NJW 29M Investor Gal 129R for $8,500. Raise-Em Right Ranch, Roosevelt, Utah, placed the high bid to lay claim to Lot 3. OJJ Cattle Ranch, Ririe, Idaho, reached deep into its replacement heifer pen and brought a great one to center stage as Lot 7. OJJ Juliett 328Z, a March 15, 2012, heifer by Haroldson’s Tank 45P 21W, brought $7,000. This heifer will venture to Canada as ANL Polled Herefords, Steelman, Sask., and Haroldson’s Polled Herefords, Wawota, Sask., formed a partnership on this heifer. Daniels’s Polled Herefords, Malad City, Idaho, consigned a stout Jan. 4, 2012, heifer sired by SHF Rib Eye M326 R117 that proved popular at the bid of $6,250. Eugene Gulish, Puryear, Tenn., placed the winning bid to take Lot 13 to the Southeast. Only one bull walked to the stage this year, and he was a good stout one, Lot 19. Gohr Herefords, Madras, Ore., and Colyer Herefords, Bruneau, Idaho, consigned C Gohr 9158 About Time 1101, a Jan. 15, 2011, calf sired by CRR About Time 743. JBB/AL Herefords, Gooding, Idaho, paid $6,000 for the right to walk this bull in its pastures. Rounding out the high sellers was a popular brood cow prospect from High Desert Cattle Co., Canyon City, Ore. HDCC Miss Classy Advance 203, born Jan. 12, 2012, and sired by HH Advance 9027W, left the stage with a bid of $5,500, bound for Santa Rosa, Calif., and resident Hannah Noren. This is one event all Hereford breeders need to put on their bucket list. The hospitality throughout the event, a double tough show — junior and open, the generosity of the John Ascuaga staff, and the spectacle of the cattle on center stage are well worth the trip to Reno. Mark it on your 2013 calendar — Dec. 5-7 and plan to attend. — Joe Rickabaugh, AHA director of field management and seedstock marketing

Pictured at the award presentation on Friday night are: Mark Holt, American Hereford Association fieldman, and Dan, Renece, Norma and Walt Forsea. Hereford.org

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FTF Bull Selection Day

March 16, 2013 • Live Auction 5 p.m. at the Farm Buy your next bull from the herd built and selected on multiple trait performance for over 35 years. Sires Represented:

KCF Bennett 3008 M326, MSU TCF Revolution 4R, SHF Rib Eye M326 R117, DR World Class 517 10H, PCR 286 Mr Advisor 502R, Grandview 7Oaks Sonora 145R, TH 122 71I Victor 719T, Sparks Trend 2007, FTF Limited Edition 232, FTF Garrett 020X, FTF M362 050X

MSU TCF Revolution 4R

CE 4.6; BW 2.3; WW 68; YW 109; MM 26; CHB$ 37 Ten sons of this curve bender sell.

DR World Class 517 10H

CE 4.0; BW 2.7; WW 61; YW 91; MM 37; CHB$ 28 Five sons of this multiple-trait leader sell

Avg. EPDs on 45 Jan.-Feb. Yearling Bulls

Bulls available for viewing starting at 2 p.m. Live auction to begin at 5 p.m. Food served before the sale. Bulls can be picked up any time before April 20th. Free delivery within a 100-mile radius. Bulls are performance tested, ultrasounded, semen tested and DNA tested free of genetic defects. Sight unseen guarantee and volume discounts available. See website or call for further details.

CE BW WW YW MM M&G MCE SC FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$ 3.0 2.4 54 89 25 50 3.4 1.1 0.010 0.35 0.15 21 18 18 28

Avg. EPDs rank in the top 10% of the breed for SC, CEM, CHB$, BMI$; top 15% for CED, WW, YW, MM, M&G, MARB, CEZ$, BII$; top 25% for BW; and top 30% for REA.

KCF Miss 3008 N344

Dam of ABS bull, KCF Bennett 9126J R294. Selling five ET full brothers by Revolution that will set a new standard in performance EPDs.

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Falling Timber Farm 16777 Ridder Rd., Marthasville, MO 63357 Glenn and Yvonne Ridder 636-433-2858 John and Heidi Ridder 636-358-4161 geridder@centurytel.net • www.fallingtimberfarm.com

55th ANNUAL MAGNOLIA HEREFORD ASSOCIATION

POLLED AND HORNED SALE Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013 Sale: 12:30 p.m. (CST) • At the Columbia County Fairgrounds One mile north of Magnolia, Ark., on AR 355 off Hwy. 82

Dale Stith, Auctioneer

SELLING

Bulls • Cow-calf pairs • Females • Show heifer prospect Scott Sullivan, President • Tommy Owens, Vice president

Sherry Beaty-Sullivan, Secretary • 284 Longview Rd., Nashville, AR 71852 • 870-451-3624 • sherrybeaty@gmail.com

4M Herefords Arrowhead Cattle Co. C3 Cattle Co. Crowson & Cherry Land & Cattle

CONSIGNORS

K Bar K Ranch Tolley Polled Herefords Metch Polled Herefords Southern Arkansas University Rockin 4H Ranch Inc.

Drum Sand & Cattle Steward Polled Herefords Evans Farm Triple S Ranch

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Shaw Andrews • Aubrey Ellison • Scott Galyon • Crystal Lambert • Bill Langley Robert Russell • Robert Tolley 88

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N M The Hereford World welcomes new members who joined the American Hereford Association Dec. 1, 2012, through Dec. 31, 2012. A and E Herefords 4241 Pine Bluff Grant, MI 49327 Baker Livestock LLC Vicki Baker P.O. Box 54, 1501 Gunner Rd. Wright, WY 82732 Banner Angus Farm Michael Banner 1264 N. Main St. Eagleville, TN 37060 Burgett Hill Herefords J.F. Burgett 1099 Dailey Rd. Snead, AL 35952

CAL Ranch Dakota Stefanko 4171 Atlas Rd. Davison, MI 48423

Duis Farms Robert Duis P.O. Box 297 Donovan, IL 60931

Gorton Herefords James and Susan Gorton 95 Mt. Carmel Rd, Cave City, AR 72521

Lon and Michelle Chambers 12686 Upper Lewisburg-Salem Rd. Brookville, OH 45309

Bradley and Angela Fennewald 5331 Franklin Church Rd. Greenwich, OH 44837

Circle B Farm LLC 64472 Cooks Run Rd. Cambridge, OH 43725

Gardner Cattle Co. Johnny Gardner 999 Blackland Rd. Oil Trough, AZ 72564

Greyman Ranch LLC Hieu Huynn 9822 Lantern Village Ln. Katy, TX 77450

CLS Farms Calvin Schenck 74258 Hwy. 25 Covington, LA 70435

Greg Gill 216 Carl Goss Rd. DeRidder, LA 70634

Craig Harrell 146A E. Frontage Rd. Lucedale, MS 39452 Harrell Ridge Jack Harrell 12265 S. Pleasant Valley Gentry, AR 72734 Charles Hayden 900 Thomas Ln. Bloomfield, KY 40008 Jonathan Hensley 5675 First Butler Rd. Cypress Inn, TN 38452 Hutchens Farms Wade Hutchens Jr. and Sr. 1845 Falcon Rd. E. Bend, NC 27018 Sammie Jay 11516 N. 1970 Rd. Elk City, OK 73644 Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Properties Joe Doyle 10881 Rd. 820 Philadelphia, MS 39350 R&L Cattle Randy and Lisa Martin 428 Ft. Ritner Rd. Bedford, IN 47421 John Reichert 418 Union St. Johnson Creek, WI 53038 6D Farm Chuck Dickson 501 Eskridge Ln. Normangee, TX 77871 Adam Sawyer P.O. Box 333 Roswell, NM 88202 Tobin Herefords Sheldon Tobin 24232 386th Ave. Plankinton, SD 57368 Guy Womack 294 Hempstead 154 Hope, AR 71801-9073 Yorlum Cattle Co. Joseph Mulroy P.O. Box 389 Trego, MT 59934 HW

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Fallon All Breeds Bull Sale

Sale: Feb. 16, 2013 • 11:30 a.m. Sifting: Feb. 15, 2013

Fallon Livestock Exchange • Fallon, Nev. All bulls are semen tested, trich tested, graded and sifted.

Over 140 quality range-ready bulls. Breeds consigned: Angus, Limousin, Murray Grey, Red Angus, Hereford and Balancer.

For a sale catalog or for more information, call the sale office or visit our website. FALLON ALL BREEDS BULL SALE P.O. Box 310 • Elko, NV 89803 775-738-9214 Office

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46 Years in the Hereford Business Cattleman’s Connection Bull Sale Monday, March 11, 2013

1 p.m. at Spring Cove Ranch, Bliss, Idaho

Selling 50-head of 2-year-old, Fall yearling and yearling Hereford bulls 15 Hereford heifers

JBB 3027 Domino 202 • He sells March 11!

AL 3027 Domino 191 • He sells March 11!

CE 7.1; BW 0.9; WW 51; YW 80; MM 29; M&G 54; MCE 5.5; MCW 72; SC 1.1; FAT -0.006; REA 0.36; MARB 0.24; BMI$ 24; CEZ$ 23; BII$ 19; CHB$ 30

CE 8.1; BW -0.7; WW 43; YW 65; MM 29; M&G 51; MCE 4.3; MCW 54; SC 0.9; FAT 0.014; REA 0.13; MARB 0.26; BMI$ 22; CEZ$ 23; BII$ 18; CHB$ 25

Sons and daughters of JWR 024P Sara’s Prince 153T sell March 11th

Sons and daughters of C 860U Domino 0152 ET sell March 11th

JBB/AL Herefords John and Bev Bryan 208-280-1507 James and Dawn Anderson 208-280-1505 1993 S. 1500 E. Gooding, Idaho 83330 jbbalherefords@hotmail.com Hereford.org

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Why We Need Technology Efficient food production is key to help end world hunger, lower food costs and protect natural resources. by Kindra Gordon

ere are three numbers you may want to tuck into your memory — especially if you want to “wow” your friends and inform consumers — for future chat sessions. The numbers are 50, 100 and 70. What do they mean? By the year 2050, the world will need 100% more food and 70% of this food must come from efficiency-improving technology. That’s the forecast by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization regarding the food needed to nourish a world population expected to reach 9 billion in the next 40 years. Experts concur we don’t have enough agricultural land available in the world to boost our food production capabilities; so to do so, the world must turn to technology. The technology that agriculturalists need to consider includes:

Applying better production and management practices. Using new, innovative tools and technologies to produce better products. Employing genetics to enhance desired traits in plants and animals. Veterinarian Jerry Stokka concurs that technology is key to a viable future. Unfortunately, he says, it is often given a bum rap. Stokka, who formerly worked with Pfizer Animal Health, joined the faculty at North Dakota State University last summer as a professor of livestock stewardship.

By the year 2050, the world will need 100% more food and 70% of this food must come from efficiency-improving technology. He says, “Technology is not a dirty word. It is not evil.…The prudent use of technology is part of good stewardship.” It’s often believed that consumers are against technology — and a vocal few are. But while the voices of these few may be loudest and get the most media attention, they are actually in the minority. Results of an International Consumer Attitudes Study examined opinions and food-buying behaviors of more than 97,000 consumers in 26 countries. The project looked not only at what people say they want but also at how they spend their money. The results suggest 95% of consumers are fully supportive of using technology to produce their food, and they primarily make food purchase decisions based on taste, cost and nutrition. With world hunger statistics burgeoning — one in every eight children in France, one in every seven in Japan and one in every five in the U.S. grows up in childhood poverty — the need for more food around the globe is evident.

An epiphany for beef Stokka notes that crop producers have done a fantastic job of embracing technology — from genetically modified hybrid

seed varieties to computers for precision in applying crop protection products and GPSguided machinery. He asks beef producers: “Are we doing enough on the beef side to keep up?” He cites animal health products, expected progeny differences (EPDs), artificial insemination (AI) and DNA marker information and suggests, “If we don’t use it, we’re going to be behind.” Likewise he points out that it would be very rare to find a modern farmer today who does not use herbicides or fertilizers on his crop; so why do we still have producers who do not utilize vaccines and other products for their cattle, he questions. He expresses frustration as well at the industry statistics that indicate the peak in giving implants to suckling calves was 10 years ago — and today the use of implants is way down even though research has shown they do add pounds — pounds which mean more dollars per calf sold. He also notes that only 7% of the cows in the U.S. are AI-bred, a process which allows the opportunity for the best genetics to be propagated. Stokka says, “We need more commercial beef producers to use the best genetics possible.” He explains this can be achieved either through bull

purchases of superior genetics or through the use of proven AI sires. In an analogy to corn, he notes that most farmers don’t buy their seed corn genetics from their neighbor’s bin, rather they are willing to invest $300 per bag to get the best genetics available. With specific reference to genetic markers, Stokka adds, “Over 50,000 markers contribute to genetic indexes and accuracy. The information gives us better accuracy of where that bull is going to end up. This is using technology at hand right now. So, as a commercial bull buyer, this is something to ask your seedstock breeders to supply so that better results can be achieved.” Stokka acknowledges that the beef industry has made “huge strides” over the past few decades, but he adds, “To go forward we’re going to have to think about some things differently. We need to apply more high-tech strategies, while managing our low inputs. “We have powerful tools to do even better,” Stokka concludes, and he suggests that beef producers should continue to watch the crop industry and follow its lead when it comes to tapping technology for a productive and profitable future. HW

“Over 50,000 markers contribute to genetic indexes and accuracy. The information gives us better accuracy of where that bull is going to end up. This is using technology at hand right now. So, as a commercial bull buyer, this is something to ask your seedstock breeders to supply so that better results can be achieved.” — Jerry Stokka

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D Missouri Hereford Assn.

SALE INDEX Brillhart Ranch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 99 Buckeye Holiday Hereford Bonanza - - 99 Oklahoma Hereford Assn. - - - - - - - - - 99 Minnesota Hereford Breeders - - - - - - 99 Missouri Hereford Assn. - - - - - - - - - - 99 Myers Hereford Farm - - - - - - - - - - - - 99 North Dakota Hereford Assn. - - - - - - 99 North Dakota Hereford Assn.

Valley City, N.D.—Dec. 1 Auctioneer: Andy Mrnak Reported by: Levi Landers 15 females- - - - - - - - - - - - $43,100; average- - - $2,873 FEMALES BCC Tara 228Z, 2/16/12, by LSW WCC About Time X06, consigned by Baumgarten Cattle Co., Belfield, to Ben and Rylee Lodoen, Westhope- - - - - - - - - - - $9,750

Sedalia, Mo.—Dec. 2 Auctioneer: Dale Stith Reported by: Joe Rickabaugh 5 bulls- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $14,350; average- - - $2,870 40 females - - - - - - - - - - - $109,700; average- - - $2,743 45 lots- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $124,050; average- - - $2,757 Additional lots 3 embryos- - - - - - - - - - - - - - $2,700; average- - - - $900 3 steers- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $4,700; average- - - $1,567 BULL NJW ABRA S01 Banker 61Y ET, 10/17/11, by HCC Legacy S01 ET, consigned by AbraKadabra Cattle Co., Columbia, to Tyler Gerke, Smithton- - - - - - - - - - $5,500 FEMALES Bacon Ms Twice As Nice 204B, 6/6/12, by Harvie Dan T-Bone 196T, consigned by Justin Bacon, Siloam Springs, Ark., to Alex and Anna Roth, Altenburg - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $5,200 BPH 741P Bounty Woman 763Z, 2/18/12, by KJ BJ Bounty Hunter 741P, consigned by Butler Polled Herefords, Republic, to Payton Kanoy, Concordia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $5,200

BCC Miss Bell 2103Z, 3/19/12, by BCC L1 Hogan 710, consigned by Baumgarten Cattle Co., to Josh Stangeland, Pipestone, Minn.- - - - - - - - - - - - - $4,000

APH Rachel 7Z, 1/30/12, by MSU TCF Revolution 4R, consigned by Aufdenberg Polled Herefords, Jackson, to Norman Highfill, Atchison, Kan. - - - - - - - - - - $5,000

CKP 0933 Liza 2004 ET, 2/8/12, by CKP Justin Time 0933, consigned by Pelton Polled Herefords, Halliday, to Frey Angus Ranch, Granville- - - - - - - - - - - - - $3,750

H2 Bling Bling 03Z, 2/16/12, by H2 Revolutionn, consigned by Justin Hurst, Nevada, to Lauren Russell, Rogers, Ark.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $4,500

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Marietta, Okla.—Dec. 1 Auctioneers: Eddie Sims, Matt Sims Reported by: Dustin Layton 47 bulls- - - - - - - - - - - - - - $124,950; average- - - $2,659 5 females - - - - - - - - - - - - - $12,200; average- - $2,440 52 lots- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $137,150; average- - - $2,638 Additional lots 9 embryos- - - - - - - - - - - - - - $1,440; average- - - - $160 1 semen - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $2,900; average- - - $2,900 10 black baldie comm. fem. - $16,875; average - - $1,688 30 comm. fem. - - - - - - - - - $48,100; average- - - $1,603 BULLS MH 74-51 122L T-Bone 1463 ET, 1/28/11, by Harvie Dan T-Bone 196T, consigned by 74-51 Cattle Co. LLC, Oklahoma City, to Burdine Ranch, Eufaula- - - - $4,500 F&F Patron 134, 5/5/11, by BR DM Patron 5005 ET, consigned by Fuston Herefords, Turkey, Texas, to Rick Arnold, Shamrock, Texas - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $4,000 JLB Tucker 1066, 11/27/10, by DPH Tucker 277T, consigned by Jason and Lori Brown, Dwight, Kan., to Mann Cattle Co., Lubbock, Texas- - - - - - - - - - - - $3,700 MH 74-51 L22 Boomer 1683 ET, 3/11/11, by CS Boomer 29F, consigned by 74-51 Cattle Co. LLC, to McMillan Ranch, Mannsville- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $3,700 MH 74-51 337K T-Bone 1530, 2/4/11, by Harvie Dan T-Bone 196T, consigned by 74-51 Cattle Co. LLC, to Coffee Creek Cattle Co., Guthrie - - - - - - - - - - - - $3,600

Columbus, Mont.—Dec. 5 Auctioneer: Roger Jacobs Reported by: Joe Rickabaugh 50 bulls- - - - - - - - - - - - - - $179,900; average- - - $3,598 BULLS BRC Ribstone Y19, 3/12/11, by F 157K Ribstone 763, to Stuber Ranch, Bowman, N.D. - - - - - - - - - - - - $9,900 BRC Ribstone Y36, 3/22/11, by F 157K Ribstone 763, to Tom Lowry, Grass Range - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $6,500 BRC Ribstone Y03, 3/1/11, by F 157K Ribstone 763, to Joe Fretheim, Shelby - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $6,500 BRC Ribstone Y14, 3/8/11, by F 157K Ribstone 763, to Tom Lowry - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $5,750 BRC 07016 Domino Y15, 3/12/11, by KC L1 Domino 07016, to Joe Fretheim- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $5,750

Buckeye Holiday Hereford Bonanza

Hillsboro, Ohio—Dec. 8 Auctioneer: Gene Steiner Reported by: John Meents 3 bulls- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $6,175; average- - - $2,058 33 females - - - - - - - - - - - - $50,870; average- - - $1,542 36 lots- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $57,045; average- - - $1,585 Additional lots 12 comm. females- - - - - - - $13,395; average- - - $1,116 FEMALES NS 6376 Patti Lass 030, 4/16/10, by NS DCC 46B Passwood 6376 ET, and a November heifer calf by NS

Extra 045, consigned by NS Polled Herefords, Mason, to Friend Bros., Exchange, W.Va.- - - - - - - - - - - - $2,550 NS 492 Martha 873, 9/30/08, by Feltons Ozzie 492, and an October heifer calf by Schu-Lar 34X of 5U 1U, consigned by Brielmaier Farm, Cincinnati, to Helsinger Polled Herefords, Germantown- - - - - - - - - - - - - $2,500

Minnesota Hereford Breeders

Hutchinson, Minn.—Dec. 8 Auctioneer: Jim Birdwell Reported by: Levi Landers 1 bull - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $3,500; average- - - $3,500 36 females - - - - - - - - - - - $105,150; average- - - $2,921 37 lots- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $108,650; average- - - $2,936 FEMALES JDH Ms 7W Maiden 31Y ET, 2/12/11, by Harvie Tailor Made ET 7W, consigned by Delaney Hereford Farms, Lake Benton, to Jack Lourash, Seymour, Ill. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $7,000 GHF 0321 Merci Ziva 41Z, 1/6/12, by H Bailout 0321 ET, consigned by Gottschalk Polled Herefords, Byron, to Jeff Neil, Pine Island- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $4,500 WMS 186U 755T Victor 429Y, 4/30/11, by TH 223 71I Victor 755T, consigned by Williams Hilltop Polled Herefords, Rushford, to Dose Family Herefords, Arlington- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $4,250 PLC Miss Ribstone 39, 4/6/09, by BN Ribstone 501, and an April heifer calf by MSU TCF Revolution 4R, consigned by Pauly Land & Cattle Co., Belle Plaine, to Joe Sutherland, Brainard - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $4,200 NEIL 70U Ultress 160Y, 4/10/11, by JDH 412R Ultra Red 70U, consigned by Neil Farms, Northfield, to Delaney Hereford Farms- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $4,100

Myers Hereford Farm

Statesville, N.C.—Dec. 8 Auctioneer: Will Thompson Reported by: Tommy Coley 25 bulls- - - - - - - - - - - $88,600; average - - - - - $3,544 7 females - - - - - - - - - - $8,225; average - - - - - $1,175 32 lots- - - - - - - - - - - - $96,825; average - - - - - $3,026 Additional lots 82 comm. females- - $106,800; average - - - - - $1,302 BULLS HWM L 1 D omino 2012, 2/12/11, by JA L1 Domino 314N, to Norwald Bodins, Rockwell- - - - - - - - - - $5,600 HWM L 1 D omino 102Y, 1/22/11, by HH Advance 5104R, to Bill Dotger, Mt. Pleasant - - - - - - - - - - $5,000 HWMJR L1 Domino 103, 1/24/11, by CL 1 Domino 860U, to Ronald Teague, Siler City- - - - - - - - - - $4,800 HWMJR L1 Domino 138, 3/29/11, by CL 1 Domino 860U, to Porter Farms Inc., Concord - - - - - - - - $4,800 HWMJR L1 Domino 120, 2/17/11, by CL 1 Domino 560R, to Jody Standley, Clayton - - - - - - - - - - - $4,600

SALE SUMMARY Females

No.

57.00 $2,719

144.00 $2,715

201.00

$545,895 $2,716

Production

75.00 $3,580

7.00 $1,175

82.00

$276,725 $3,375

Month Total

132.00 $3,208

151.00 $2,643

283.00

$822,620 $2,907

1,537.51 $4,267

2,738.50 $4,705

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Total

Sales Sale Consignment 6

12/13 YTD

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MAR. 18th @ 6 PM Lowderman’s Sale Pavilion Macomb, IL Only Our Top Cut Rancher Bulls Will Be Offered For Sale

• (25+)Stout Yrl. Bulls With Performance Data • (6) 18 Mo. Old Hereford Bulls • Angus & Hereford Females w/Baldy Calves at Side • Hereford Cows With Hereford Calves at Side • Fancy Bred Heifers MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND! CATALOG WILL BE ONLINE Feb. 14, 2013 Selling… • An Outcross son out of a daughter of Git R Done • A fancy heifer out of Donor 406 & a son of Git R Done • A bred heifer sired by Red Rock & Bred to About Time

Selling… A Bred Hfr. Safe In Calf To T-Bone A full sister to Donor 244. High selling cow in the ‘12 ITC Sale. Dam of Back N Time & Long Drive. Look For In April 2013 Lowderman Cattle Co.’s Inaugural ONLINE ONLY Sale. Featuring breed leading genetics including Embryos, Pregnancies, Flushes, Semen and a select set of Fall Calves.

(U.S. sales reported in this summary occurred during the 2012-13 fiscal year.) No. Bulls

ANNUAL “BALDY MAKER” BULL & HEREFORD INFLUENCE FEMALE SALE

No.

Gross

Avg.

4,276.01 $19,444,308 $4,547

Lowderman genetics offer YOU foundation bulls & females to produce offspring that will result in extra dollars in YOUR pocket. Contact LCC to participate in our premium program. Ofﬁce: 309-833-5543 Web: www.lowderman.com Email: info@lowderman.com February 2013 /

ALABAMA Campbell Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Debter Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 ARIZONA Las Vegas Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Mountain View Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 ARKANSAS Crooked Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 James Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Magnolia Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CALIFORNIA Alto Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Five H Farms/J-B Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jess Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lambert Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McDougald Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Morrell Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrnak Herefords West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parham Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pedretti Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Perrin Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R&R Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sonoma Mountain Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tripp Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valentine Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weimer Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilbourn Cattle Co., Aaron & W6 Herefords . . . .

100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

COLORADO Campbell, James T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Clark Anvil Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Coleman Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Coyote Ridge Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 100 Ernst Family, Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Hall and Family, Doug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Hanging W Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Kubin Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 LeRoux Land & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Robb & Sons, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Sidwell Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Strang Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 GEORGIA CES Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Crawford Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Greenview Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Hill-Vue Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 HME Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Leonard Polled Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Mead Cattle Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BC Nunnally Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Predestined Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Sunset Ridge Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Thompson Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 White Hawk Ranch Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 IDAHO Canyon Gem Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Colyer Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 100 Eagle Canyon Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Elkington Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Fern Ridge Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Harrison & Sons, Hawley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 JBB/AL Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95, 100 Moonlight Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 OJJ Cattle Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Shaw Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 100 Split Butte Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97, 101 Udy Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Wooden Shoe Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 ILLINOIS Apple Ridge Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Bafford Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Baker Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 101 Behrends Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Benedict Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Bickelhaupt Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Biggs Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Bixler Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Bob-O-Lou Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Burns Polled Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Crane Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 DeLHawk Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Double B Herefords LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Ellis Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Eubanks Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Fleisher Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Happ Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Harbison and Sons, Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Illinois Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Knott Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Loehr Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Lorenzen Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Lowderman Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99, 113 McCaskill Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Miller Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Milligan Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Newbold Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Northfork Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Oak Hill Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Perks Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Perry Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Plainview Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Prairie Meadow Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Purple Reign Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Rabideau, Arlyn W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 River Ridge Ranch & Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Rustic Oaks Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Sayre Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Stephens Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Sweatman Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46, 101 Valley Creek Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 White Willow Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 46, 101 INDIANA Able Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Beck-Powell Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

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CDF Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Clinkenbeard Farms & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 DAD’s Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 DaVee Enterprises, R.W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Everhart Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Gerber Land & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Green Meadow Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Greives Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Hayhurst Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Hunt Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 J&K Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Kesling Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Kottkamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Laudeman Family, Gale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Miller Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 River Bend Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Stuckey Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 IOWA Amos Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Baja Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Beef Resources Partnership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Curran, Jay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Hixson Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Iowa Beef Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Israel Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Jackson Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 JJB Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 JR-CCF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 K7 Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60, 109 Landt Herefords, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 109 Ohnemus Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Petersen Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 R&R Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Rooney, Stacey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Rosenberg, James N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Sladek Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Sorensen Family, Mike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 St. Clair Hay & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Stream Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101, 109 Wiese & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 101 Woodland View Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 KANSAS 4V Douthit Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Alexander Farms Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 B&D Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Bittersweet West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Carswell-Nichols Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Davis Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Douthit Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Herbel Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Jamison Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 23, 101 Jensen Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 M-M Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Malone Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Meitler, Gene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Mill Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Oleen Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Oleen Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Sandhill Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41, 102 Schu-Lar Herefords LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Springhill Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Towner Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 TS Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Umberger Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 VJS Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 KENTUCKY BBL Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Botkin Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Boyd Beef Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59, 102 Chambliss Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Dogwood Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 JMS Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Kentucky Beef Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Peyton Well Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Popplewell Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 LOUISIANA 5C’s Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 MARYLAND All Seasons Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Church View Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . East Side Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foggy Bottom Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R&T Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red Oak Point Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SCH Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tamsey Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

108 108 102 102 102 102 102 102

MICHIGAN Behnke’s Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Castle Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Cottonwood Springs Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Grand Meadows Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Hanson’s Double G Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 McDonald Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Neal’s Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Parks Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 RLB Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Rottman, Phil and Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Sugar Sweet Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Veeser’s Triple E Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 MINNESOTA DaKitch Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Delaney Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Lawrence Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 McIver’s Happy Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Schafer Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Springwater Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Whispering Pine Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 102 MISSISSIPPI Broadlawn Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Caldwell Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Grandview CMR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

MISSOURI Abra Kadabra Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Bellis Family, Jim D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Bonebrake Registered Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Cattle Visions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 25, 26 Doss Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47, 117 Falling Timber Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88, 102 Findley Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Glengrove Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Harding Bros. Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Journagan Ranch/Missouri State Univ. . . . . 102, 117 Kaczmarek 4K Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 McMillens Toothacre Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Mead Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Phillips-Renner Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Reed Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Roth Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102, 117 Schneider Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Woessner Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 MONTANA Brillhart Ranch Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Broken Pick Land & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Churchill Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IFC Cooper Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 102 Curlew Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Dutton Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Ehlke Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Feddes & Sons, Marvin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Ft. Keogh Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Holden Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 17, 102 J Bar E Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 McMurry Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Mohican West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Thomas Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 NEBRASKA 7 Mill Iron Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Blueberry Hill Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Fisher, Lowell and Carol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Frenzen Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Gibson Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Hoffman Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 JB Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Linton Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Monahan Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Niedermeyer Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Poll Terra Pastures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Ridder Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Schutte & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61, 103 Spencer Herefords Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Tegtmeier Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Upstream Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Van Newkirk Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 NEVADA Bell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Brumley Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Fallon All Breeds Bull Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Genoa Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Hutchens Herefords, Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 NEW JERSEY Grass Pond Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 NEW MEXICO C&M Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 31, 103 Copeland & Sons LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Cornerstone Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 King Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90, 103 West Star Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 NEW YORK SK Herefords LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 NORTH CAROLINA Brent Creech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Claxton Farm LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Double J Farm LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Myers Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103, 121 Prestwood Beef Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Terrace Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Triplett Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 W&A Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Will-Via Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 NORTH DAKOTA Baumgarten Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Boehnke Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Carter’s Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Friedt Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Friesz Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Mrnak Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103, 119 North Dakota Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Olson Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83, 119 Pelton Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Rockeman Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 OHIO Banks Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Berg Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Brad Lamoreaux Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Buckeye Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Fark Family Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Grandview Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Helsinger Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Herman Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Hively’s Hereford Lane Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103, 110 J&L Cattle Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Mohican Polled Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . 103, 110 Morrison Stock Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Oakridge Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Sunny Side Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 OKLAHOMA 4B Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Beacon Hill Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Birdwell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 CNB Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Dennis Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Double 7 Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Dufur Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Durham Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103, 116 Flying G Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Fullerton Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Graft-Britton Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Gray Land & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Hereford Heritage Inaugural Bull & Female Sale . 91 Langford Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 LeForce Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Loewen Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91, 104 McGaha Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Moss Herefords, Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Nelson Land & Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 P&R Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 OREGON Bar One Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Bird Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Chandler Herefords Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Cowman’s Classic Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 England Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Harrell Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13, 104 High Desert Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Moss Land & Cattle LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Northwest Hereford Breeders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Oregon Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Quick Mill Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Stallings Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81, 104 VF Red Angus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Vollstedt Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Y Cross Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 PENNSYLVANIA Bar-H Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Creekside Hollow Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Dana Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Deana Jak Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104, 108 Flat Stone Lick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BC Glenview Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BC Hausner Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Slayton’s BearDance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104, 108 Stone Ridge Manor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Vogel Valley Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 SOUTH CAROLINA Forrest Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fowken Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Keese Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . White Column Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

121 121 104 121

SOUTH DAKOTA Bar JZ Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79, 104 Bischoff’s Ravine Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 104 Blume Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Carmichael Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Courtney Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Cranston Herefords, Roy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Eggers Southview Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Fawcett’s Elm Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 104 Frederickson Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Gant Angus and Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Hoffman Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 JBN Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 K&B Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Kreth Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 LaGrand Angus and Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Rausch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 104 Stenberg Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Thorstenson Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 TENNESSEE Bartholomew Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Burns Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114, 122 Coley Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57, 104 Cunningham Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 DLL Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Four L Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Jackson Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Mud Creek Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57, 105, 122 Notchey Creek Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Parker Bros. Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 River Circle Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56, 105 Rogan Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56, 105, 122 Tennessee Agribition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56, 57 Triple L Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Walker Polled Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Woodard Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Woolfolk Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 TEXAS Alpha Equine Breeding Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 B&C Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Barber Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Case Ranch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Doyle Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Dudley Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Flying S Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Fuston Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 G3 Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 GKB Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Glaze Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 H2 Ranch and Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Indian Mound Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Kinnear Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105, 111 Larsons’ Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Massey Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 McInnis Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 McMullin Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Metch Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 ML Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Neel Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Noack Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Nolan Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Northeast Texas Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Pied Piper Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Powell, James L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Rockin 4H Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IBC Rockin’ W Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Rocking Chair Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Sanders Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Skrivanek Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Spearhead Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105, 111

Still River Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunny Hill Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Williams Family Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Willis Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

111 105 105 105

UTAH Allen & Son, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cache Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Circle BJ Polled Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ekker Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johansen Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pallesen Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

105 105 105 105 105 105 105

VIRGINIA Fauquier Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Knabe Jr., Harry A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Knoll Crest Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Meadow Ridge Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Poplar Ridge Farm LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Rolling Hills Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106, 108 Thistle Tree Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 WASHINGTON CX Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Diamond M Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Ottley Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 WCA Bull Test Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Yoricka Farm Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 WEST VIRGINIA Cottage Hill Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Goff & Sons, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grandview Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grassy Run Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haught Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hickory Springs Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Law & Sons, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McDonald Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Westfall Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

107 107 107 107 107 107 107 107 106

WISCONSIN BBC Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Boettcher’s Brookview Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 C&L Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106, 116 Huth Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44, 106, 118 Kegley Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Koens Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Larson Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Lietzau Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Lininger Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 MGM East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 MGM West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Owego Stock Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 118 Pierce’s Hereford Haven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Sandrock Ranch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Starr Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Whiskey Run Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Wisconsin Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Wiswell Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 WYOMING Berry’s, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Durbin Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Holmes Herefords/Drake Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Largent & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Lockhart Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 McClun’s Lazy JM Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Micheli Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Middleswarth Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 NJW Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 106 Ochsner Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Perkes Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Wyoming Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 CANADA Anderson Family Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Elm Lodge Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Hirsche Herefords and Angus Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . 106 Stauffer Farms Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Ulrich Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 SERVICES ABS Global Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Barnes, Tommy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Bessler Inc., James F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 T/Big Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Biozyme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Birdwell, James M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Birdwell, Joel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Booker, C.D. “Butch” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Breeders Insurance LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Burks, Eddie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 BuyHereford.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Carper, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 CattleMax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Conover, Al . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Emmons Ultrasounding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Gay Livestock Insurance, Jerry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Genex Cooperative Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 106 Hoffman AI Breeders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Jensen Live Stock Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Layton, Dustin N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Lowderman, Cody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Lowderman, Monte W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 McClintock, Mark and Teresa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 MCS Auction LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Midwest Cattle Service Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Multimin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 National Cattle Services Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 National CUP Lab & Tech Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Red Brand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Reed Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Ritchey Livestock ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Schacher Auction Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Select Sires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Stith, Dale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Sullivan Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 T Bar C Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Wendt, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

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PW VICTOR BOOMER P606 {SOD}{DLF,HYF,IEF} CMR GVP MR MATERNAL 156T {DLF,HYF,IEF} P42830222 JG WCN VICTRA 17 2103

REMITALL BOOMER 46B {SOD,CHB}{DLF,HYF,IEF} PW VICTORIA 964 8114 MHF VICTOR R125 17 MHF MS VIC A51 567

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P43106350 — Calved: Jan. 4, 2010 — Tattoo: LE 0758/RE THM

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H 8E EMBRACER 8006 {CHB} STAR ROCKIN ERICA 38F {DLF,HYF,IEF} CS BOOMER 29F {SOD,CHB}{DLF,HYF,IEF} THM 5048 VICTRA 8037 {DOD}

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CE 0.9 (.08); BW 2.4 (.37); WW 60 (.25); YW 89 (.23); MM 20 (.10); M&G 50; MCE 2.2 (.07); MCW 98 (.16); SC 0.6 (.07); FAT 0.000 (.09); REA 0.49 (.11); MARB 0.06 (.08); BMI$ 17; CEZ$ 14; BII$ 13; CHB$ 28

WSF Online Victoria 351 ET

Mother of: GV CMR 156T Fullback Y471 ET Grandview CMR Strong 156T Y449 ET GV CMR 351 Proof Y459 ET

PW Victoria 964 8114

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STAR Rockin Erica 38F

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THM 8027 Vicky 1026 Mother of: THM Solution 6056

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