January 2015 Hereford World by American Hereford Association

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January 2015; Vol. 105, No. 8

Answering with Hereford Seeing an increase in demand for Hereford genetics, the Bennett family responds with what their customers want. by Julie White

Full Steam Ahead . . . . 24

HERD REBUILDING SECTION Homemade Heifers . . 34 Three Steps to Negotiating a Great Cow Lease . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Damper Disease in Young Calves . . . . . . . . 40 Motherly Instinct . . . . 42 Genetic Summit — Continuing the Conversation:

Stewardship Insight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Chac Mason 2214, DeLHawk Sapphire 102A ET Top National Hereford Show in Louisville . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

roviding “value added” genetics has kept Knoll Crest Farm, Red House, Va., in the seedstock cattle business for 70 years. Starting with polled Hereford cattle in the 1940s, the Bennett family has witnessed industry trends, the good and the bad, in a cross-section of breeds and strives to meet its customer’s demands. And today, what bull buyers are wanting is what Hereford genetics can offer. Knoll Crest Farm began as a tobacco and commercial cattle operation when Paul Bennett’s grandfather, Paul D., and his brother purchased the Red House, Va., homeplace in 1929. The Bennetts are not new to the Hereford breed. Paul D. and Paul’s father, James, brought their first polled Hereford heifer to their herd in 1944. Paul says Knoll Crest Farm has been collecting comprehensive performance data since 1963. “When our Hereford herd was at an all-time high in the early 1980s, we decided to add Gelbvieh cattle in the mix,” Paul explains. In 1990, when Angus cattle were introduced to the farm, the Bennetts began reducing their Hereford numbers. “It wasn’t necessarily a decrease in demand that we decided to do this, it was simply needing to create room for other breeds we were working with.”

Responding to demand Today on 3,500 acres in the rolling hills of south-central Virginia, Knoll Crest markets Angus, Hereford and Gelbvieh bulls in addition to hybrid bulls, which are composites of the two or three breeds — black baldies, three-way crosses and Angus-Gelbvieh crosses. “The hybrid bull component from a bull marketing stand point has been very good to us,” Paul says. “We see that being pretty active moving into the future.” The farm offers around 150 bulls in a December sale and another sale in the spring, selling between 100 and 120 bulls. Nearly 400 bulls a year are

Knoll Crest Farm strives to meet the cattleman’s desire for a problem-free herd. Paul Bennett believes the upward trend in demand for Hereford genetics comes from his customers recognizing the fundamental need to capture hybrid vigor and using a Hereford bull to do so.

marketed off the farm through private treaty with customers in more than 15 states. In the most recent December sale, Knoll Crest moved 70 Angus bulls, 40 Hereford bulls and 10 Gelbvieh bulls; the remainder were hybrids. Paul and his brothers Brian and Jim, as well as his father, are the foundation of the operation today. Paul’s son Scott now works in Washington, D.C., but remains active in the family farm. Dalton, Paul’s nephew, works daily at Knoll Crest and also serves as the auctioneer.

Paul says they calve out 800 registered cows and utilize cooperator herds in order to market the number of bulls they do. “With a couple of folks we own the cows and run them on shares,” he says. The cooperator herds look different, and one has their genetics exclusively and generates hybrid bulls. Other cooperators generate their embryo transfer (ET) calves. “Recently as we’ve gotten to a stable inventory or number of each of those breeds, and in effort to respond to continued on page 18...

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Cover Answering with Hereford — Seeing an increase in demand for Hereford genetics, the Bennett family responds with what their customers want.

24 Full Steam Ahead — Record cattle prices, solid beef demand and continued cow herd expansion expected for 2015.

• Over 100 breeding age bulls (2-year-olds, 18-month and yearlings) available for your selection. • Most bulls are offered from 14-24 month of age — ruggedly grown and developed for ease of adaption to various environments. • Wiese and Sons offer a volume selection of our fully developed bulls under near natural conditions. All bulls are grown with a low energy ration with careful evaluation for structure, doability, breed character, disposition and fertility then sold with the Wiese guarantee.

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30 2015: Waiting on El Niño — If it develops, anticipate warmer winter in the

40 Damper Disease in Young Calves — Examining management practices can help prevent and minimize disease during calving season.

42 Motherly Instinct — Tips on assisting the bonding process. 48 Microwaveable and More — The Beef Checkoff-funded Beef Innovations Group works to meet consumer demand.

52 Stewardship Insight — Genetic Summit: Continuing the Conversation An industry expert shares the proactive approach being taken to address society’s shifting animal agriculture concerns.

60 Chac Mason 2214, DeLHawk Sapphire 102A ET Top National Hereford Show in Louisville

66 2014 State Tours in Review — Hereford breeders host tours and field days.

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Association Customer Service Tips and Tricks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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Certified Hereford Beef (CHB) Program Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 New Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 From the Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Sales Digest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Advertisers’ Index . . . . . . . . . . 116

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Performance Matters What’s New?

34 Homemade Heifers — Heifer development involves selection and management. 36 Three Steps to Negotiating a Great Cow Lease — Cow leasing, if done properly, can be advantageous to both parties in the agreement.

From Cotmore to DNA Technology. . . . 6 Understanding Calving Ease EPDs . . . . 8

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Understanding Calving Ease EPDs

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A major advantage of a genetic evaluation for calving ease is the division of the trait into direct and maternal components. Direct calving ease is the genetic contribution of the calf to its own ability to be born unassisted, primarily because of its size and length of gestation. Shape of calf may have a minor contribution to calving ease, but research has shown weight to be a much more significant factor to calving difficulty than any measurement of calf shape. That contribution is, in turn, a result of the genes for those traits inherited from the sire and the dam. The dam also affects the calving ease of her newborn through her own pelvic size, her ability to relax the pelvis and the ability of her uterus to limit fetal growth to a manageable size (maternal effect on birth weight). These factors are a result of the cow’s genes, not the calf’s. They would, in turn, be inherited from the cow’s sire and dam. The genetic model for calving ease includes both direct and maternal genetic effects and produces direct calving ease (CE) and maternal calving ease (MCE) EPDs. Anytime a seedstock or commercial producer envisions keeping daughters of a sire as replacements, both direct and maternal calving ease EPDs should be considered. When a producer is selecting bulls to mate to heifers, special attention should be paid to direct calving ease, but maternal calving ease would not be a consideration for a commercial producer selecting terminal sires. Another advantage of calving ease EPDs is that they place the correct relative emphasis on calving ease scores and birth weights. It’s important for Hereford breeders to understand that calving ease EPDs are calculated from both calving ease scores and birth weights. In fact, birth weights are just as important as calving ease scores in the calculation

s we are preparing for calving season, calving ease is on the minds of many Hereford breeders and their commercial bull customers. Surveys find calving ease as one of bull buyers’ most important selection criteria. The obvious labor requirements of assisting cows during calving and the economic cost of lost calves are the primary reasons. Also, whether because of injury, stress or other reasons, cows experiencing calving difficulty are less likely to claim their calves and take more days to breed back. Calves born with difficulty are less healthy later in life, probably because they consumed less colostrum.

Advantages For many years, birth weight expected progeny differences (EPDs) were the primary tool used to select for reduced calving difficulty. However all major U.S. beef breeds now calculate calving ease EPDs, which report sire differences in percentage of unassisted calving instead of calf birth weight. Calving ease EPDs have several advantages compared to birth weight EPDs and are the more effective selection tool.

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of calving ease EPDs, so it’s imperative that breeders continue to submit accurate birth weights along with calving ease scores. Birth weight is a more heritable trait than calving ease, meaning it is more influenced by genetics and less influenced by management practices and environment. Among contemporary group mates with identical calving ease scores, birth weight helps rank the animals to identify the genetics most likely to minimize calving difficulty. However, because birth weight is used in the calving ease EPDs’ calculations, the most accurate selection for calving ease occurs when producers use calving ease EPDs but ignore birth weight EPDs. It’s human nature to want to use every bit of available information, leading some producers to seek out bulls with both favorable (high) calving ease EPDs and (low) birth weight EPDs. But doing so will result in less genetic improvement than using calving ease EPDs alone. In effect, those producers are overemphasizing the birth weight data and underemphasizing the calving ease scores. Some geneticists have questioned whether birth weight EPDs should continue to be published when calving ease EPDs are available. Just as weaning weights and birth weights are adjusted for the age of the dam, calving ease scores are similarly adjusted so that a calf born assisted to a heifer is penalized less than one born assisted to a mature cow. Unique to calving ease is the concept that differences among sires depend on the age of the female to which they are mated. For example, if one sire is 2 lb. lower than another for birth weight EPD, you would expect that to be the average difference in birth weight of their progeny, whether they were mated to heifers or to older cows. However, an easier calving sire might have a significant advantage in percent of unassisted births compared to an average sire when both were used on heifers but much less difference when used on mature cows.

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Calving ease EPDs are published on the heifer scale, since mating heifers is the time when calving ease is of greatest concern. So if one sire has a two-unit advantage in direct calving ease EPD (+3 vs. +1, for example), you would expect 2% greater unassisted births when used on heifers. When sires are mated to mature cows, the difference in unassisted calving would likely be less. The same is true with maternal calving ease EPDs. If a sire has a fiveunit advantage for MCE EPD (+4 vs. -1, for instance), you would expect his daughters to calve unassisted 5% more of the time as heifers compared to the daughters of the other sire. The difference in daughter calving ease will decrease in mature cows, but again, calving heifers is the time when commercial producers are most concerned about calving ease, because that is the time when the likelihood of calving difficulty is greatest. While heterosis generally improves maternal calving ease by increasing pelvic area, it reduces direct calving ease by increasing birth weight in the crossbred calf. Commercial producers using their first Hereford bulls after several generations of straight breeding with another breed may experience calving difficulty because of the increased birth weights due to heterosis, plus the loss of maternal heterosis in the straightbred commercial cow. Calving ease should be superior in the Hereford-sired half-blood daughters. Hereford breeders should understand that it takes a higher level of calving ease genetics to avoid problems in a commercial crossbred herd compared to what is required in a purebred herd. In recent years, the long-term trend of increasing calving difficulty has flattened, but increased selection for direct and maternal calving ease is needed to maximize Hereford’s market share in the beef industry. HW

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“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 C for 2015 The year letter code for 2015 is C. This notice is for producers who use letter codes in their identification systems. For more on tattoo and identification tips, visit the Education Center at Hereford.org.

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

Take advantage of Herefordinfluenced feeder calf sales Consigning Hereford and Herefordinfluenced calves to a special Hereford sale not only provides a great outlet for buyers interested in Hereford genetics but also may result in a premium for the seller. Contact these organizers today for the specific requirements of each sale. Many have a consignment deadline, and the earlier you commit your stock, the better advertisement your calves will get. Whether you have one head or 100, one of these sales may be the perfect marketing outlet for you:

Greater Midwest Certified Hereford Feeder Calf Sale Date: Saturday, Jan. 3 Location: Carthage Livestock Auction, Carthage, Ill. Contact: Brent Lowderman 309-221-9621 Anita Livestock Auction HerefordInfluenced Feeder Cattle Sale Date: Saturday, Jan. 24 Location: Anita Livestock, Anita, Iowa Contact: Bernard Vais 712-762-3330 Tennessee Hereford Marketing Program Spring Feeder Calf Sale Date: Thursday, April 16 Location: Tennessee Livestock Producers, Columbia, Tenn. Contact: John Woolfolk 731-225-2620 or Darrell Ailshie 931-212-8512

Hereford offers internships, ambassador program The American Hereford Association (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 and communication/marketing projects.

Junior activities internship — 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 will span from approximately mid-May to mid-August, with specific starting and ending dates depending on applicant’s availability. Applicants for the junior activities intern can send a cover letter, résumé and references by Feb. 15 to Amy Cowan, AHA director of youth activities, P.O. Box 014059, Kansas City, MO 64101. For more information, contact Cowan at 816-842-3757 or acowan@hereford.org. Hereford Publications Inc. (HPI) internship — HPI is offering a communications internship for college juniors or seniors to assist

with projects of the Creative Services department and production of the Herd Book, August and September Hereford World issues. The internship will provide experience in feature writing, photography, editing, proofing, communicating with clients and managing projects. Applicants must be working toward a degree in agriculture communications or agriculture journalism. Writing and editing skills are required along with knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, InDesign, Photoshop and AP (Associated Press) style. The internship will span from approximately mid-May to mid-August, with specific starting and ending dates depending on applicant’s availability. Applications are due Feb. 15. Communication internship applicants can send a cover letter, résumé and three writing samples and references to Caryn Vaught, HPI production manager, P.O. Box 014059, Kansas City, MO, 64101. For more information, contact Vaught at 816-842-3757 or cvaught@hereford.org. The AHA communications department has been selected to continued on page 13...

Herefords headin’ to Denver Hereford enthusiasts will be in Denver Jan. 14-17 for the National Western Stock Show (NWSS). Hereford events in Denver will begin with the national Hereford bull show in the Stadium Arena on the Hill Thursday, Jan. 15, at 8 a.m., followed by the junior heifer show at noon. Friday’s highlights begin in the Yards with the pen and carload show at 8 a.m. The Mile High Night National Hereford Sale starts at 6 p.m. Friday on the stadium floor of the NWSS. Kicking off the sale will be Lot 1, CCC SR ILR Foundation Lady 437B ET, a female donated by Churchill Cattle Co., Manhattan, Mont.; Stuber Ranch, Bowman, N.D.; and Iron Lake Ranch, Athens, Texas. All proceeds will go to the Hereford Youth Foundation of America (HYFA) “Growing a Lasting Legacy” campaign to ensure the sustainability of future Junior National Hereford Expos and leadership events for CCC SR ILR Foundation Lady 437B ET generations to come. “Foundation Lady embodies everything the Hereford breed is about,” says Brady Jensen, National Junior Hereford Association chairman. “She is ultra-maternal, greatstructured and has a hard-to-find combination of an elite balanced look and power. This female has the pedigree and phenotype that can make a major impact.” She is a Jan. 2014 daughter of the popular bull NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET and out of the phenomenal dam Churchill Lady 1162Y ET by Golden Oak Outcross 18U. Visit Herefordyouthfoundation.org/foundation-female/foundationlady for more information on the lot, or contact Amy Cowan at 816-842-3757 or acowan@hereford.org. Visit HerefordMarketplace.com to download a Mile High Night catalog. Hereford events conclude Saturday morning with the National Hereford Female Show in Stadium Arena on the Hill at 8 a.m. For those unable to attend the NWSS, you can find Hereford show results online at Hereford.org. Judging the National Hereford Show on the Hill will be Troy Thomas, Harold, S.D., and Brian Barragree, Absarokee, Mont. Pen and carload show judges are Bill Goehring, Libertyville, Iowa; Ronny Morgan, Burwell, Neb.; and Paul Bennett, Red House, Va.

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While in Denver, stop in to mingle with Hereford breeders and take some time to shop the latest Hereford apparel and goods at the Hereford General Store and Lounge. Sponsored by Hereford breeders, the General Store and Lounge will be on the second floor of the Exchange Building and will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, through Friday, Jan. 16.

Schedule of Events Wednesday, Jan. 14 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Hereford General Store and Lounge open, Exchange Building

Thursday, Jan. 15 8 a.m. National Hereford Bull Show, Stadium Arena on the Hill 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Hereford General Store and Lounge open, Exchange Building noon Junior Hereford Show, Stadium Arena on the Hill

Friday, Jan. 16 8 a.m. Hereford Pen of Three Female Show, Livestock Center Arena in the Yards 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Hereford General Store and Lounge open, Exchange Building 9:30 a.m. Hereford Pen and Carload Bull Show, Livestock Center Arena in the Yards 6 p.m. Mile High Night National Hereford Sale, Stadium Arena on the Hill

Saturday, Jan. 17 8 a.m. National Hereford Female Show, Stadium Arena on the Hill

Hotel information

Headquarters hotel: Renaissance Denver Hotel 3801 Quebec St. Denver, CO 80207 800-468-3571

Overflow hotel: Drury Inn & Suites Denver Stapleton 4550 North Central Park Blvd. Stapleton, CO 80238 303-373-1983

Stock show shuttles Shuttles will run to and from the Renaissance Denver Hotel to the National Western complex on a regular basis between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. daily. The shuttles will pick up in front of the hotel and drop off at the NWSS grounds by the horse complex on the Hill. Check the hotel lobby for a complete schedule. The Drury Inn will not offer shuttles to the NWSS. HW

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ur severe environment culls inefficient, poor fleshing cattle orty years of selection has greatly increased the efficiency and fleshing ability of our cattle. Line ed Elkington bulls will produce high performing calves and easy fleshing, high p oducing cows that will work anywhere on less feed than most cows are accustomed to. Our bulls live in harsh conditions and are developed on a high roughage ration at high altitude between 6,000 and 7,000 feet. Western America has an Angus based cow herd. Elkington bulls will give you added growth with greater life span over a straight Angus cow. Our customers are reporting 35 lb. to 80 lb. added at weaning over their straight Angus calves. Black baldie calves have always been the preferred cattle in the industry. Elkington bulls will produce these sought after calves. View catalog on line at Elkington Polled Herefords.com or on Facebook at Elkington Polled Herefords.

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DRF JWR PRINCE VICTOR 71I {SOD}{CHB} TH 122 71I VICTOR 719T {CHB}{DLF,HYF,IEF} P42800895 KBCR 19D DOMINETTE 122 {DLF,IEF}

KJ 597N VINCENT 463T {CHB}{DLF,HYF,IEF} KJ BJ 473T REVENGE 064W {CHB}{DLF,HYF,IEF} P43022676 KJ HVH 33N RADISSON 473T ET {DLF,HYF,IEF}

KJ HVH 33N REDEEM 485T ET {CHB}{DLF,HYF,IEF} KJ 416T REDEEM 492Y {DLF,HYF,IEF} P43185653 KJ MARGO 416T {DOD}{DLF,HYF,IEF}

EPHR SUNNYSIDE 828W {DLF,HYF,IEF} EPHR ANNIE 215Y P43201086 EPHR MISS IDA 525M {DLF,HYF,IEF}

JDH ISAACS 075 62N {SOD}{CHB}{DLF,HYF,IEF} EPHR CHARLEY 71X P43098977 EPHR MISS BLIZZARD 803F {DOD}

EPHR STRIDER 22R {CHB}{DLF,HYF,IEF} LE MISS EILEEN 38X P43099060 LE MISS SHERI 646U

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Herd bull prospect Moderate, thick and pigmented Some of the best EPDs you will fin Heifer bull, BW 64 lb. Ratios WW 107, YW 104, REA 101, IMF 109 CE 4.0; BW 0.5; WW 50; YW 87; MM 22; M&G 47; MCE 3.9; MCW 92; SC 0.9; FAT 0.005; REA 0.48; MARB 0.12; BMI$ 20; CEZ$ 19; BII$ 16; CHB$ 27

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Smooth polled son of 860U out of a massive dam Big, long and deep Will really pack on the pounds BW 98 lb. Ratios WW 106, YW 111, REA 102, IMF 103 CE -0.8; BW 5.0; WW 55; YW 101; MM 25; M&G 53; MCE 0.7; MCW 113; SC 1.1; FAT 0.041; REA 0.28; MARB 0.05; BMI$ 16; CEZ$ 13; BII$ 13; CHB$ 24

A moderate framed son of 719T, thick and easy keeping Dam is a first calf heifer with a g eat udder. A great sire for a heifer project. BW 63 lb. Ratios WW 103, YW 98, REA 109, IMF 108 CE 6.9; BW 0.0; WW 52; YW 70; MM 20; M&G 46; MCE 1.4; MCW 74; SC 0.9; FAT -0.003; REA 0.33; MARB 0.11; BMI$ 23; CEZ$ 21; BII$ 19; CHB$ 26

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Lot 679A — EPHR Hot Point 679A

Smooth polled son of 860U out of our best cow, 512M Depth and style Tons of thickness EPDs in the top 10% for Growth, top 20% for Milk BW 83 lb. Ratios WW 102, YW 112, REA 110, IMF 100 CE 1.6; BW 2.7; WW 54; YW 97; MM 26; M&G 53; MCE 1.8; MCW 106; SC 0.4; FAT 0.032; REA 0.40; MARB 0.08; BMI$ 11; CEZ$ 14; BII$ 7; CHB$ 25

Free delivery: West of Mississippi on $4,000 bull purchases. We will pay ½: East of Mississippi on $4,000 bull purchases and on nationwide heifer purchases. Sale broadcast on LiveAuctions.TV

Lot 632A — LE For Runner 632A

Lot 614A — EPHR Hot Point 614A

P43388993 — Calved: Feb. 24, 2013 — Tattoo: BE 614A

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Lot 701A — EPHR Clasic 701A

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Long, thick and massive Out of the 492Y Redeem bull Will add weight to any calves BW 89 lb. Ratios WW 117, YW 106, REA 109, IMF 107 CE 0.9; BW 4.2; WW 62; YW 92; MM 24; M&G 55; MCE 2.9; MCW 98; SC 1.1; FAT 0.001; REA 0.56; MARB 0.05; BMI$ 21; CEZ$ 16; BII$ 17; CHB$ 29

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Lot 807A — EPHR Sand Rail 807A

Class winner at the Eastern Idaho State Fair Herd bull prospect Long, thick and deep Great ratios BW 90 lb. Ratios WW 104, YW 108, REA 107, IMF 103 CE 0.3; BW 5.7; WW 60; YW 104; MM 19; M&G 49; MCE 2.4; MCW 107; SC 1.2; FAT -0.004; REA 0.47; MARB 0.06; BMI$ 21; CEZ$ 15; BII$ 18; CHB$ 30

For more information, contact:

Elkington Polled Herefords 5080 E. Sunnyside Rd., Idaho Falls, ID 83406 Keith 208-523-2286 • 208-521-1774 Cell Brent 208-523-6461 Layne 208-681-0765 Cell

Cattle available for viewing anytime in beautiful eastern Idaho. We will help with all delivery arrangements. Check us out on Facebook! Hereford.org

20 Polled Bred Heifers due to calve March/April

Lot 622A — EPHR Miss Mandy 622A

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Daughter of 719T. Great EPDs. Goggle-eyed Long and feminine BW 70 lb. Ratios WW 109, YW 102 CE 5.7; BW 1.7; WW 58; YW 85; MM 22; M&G 51; MCE 0.5; MCW 90; SC 0.8; FAT 0.003; REA 0.38; MARB 0.09; BMI$ 20; CEZ$ 19; BII$ 15; CHB$ 29

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Eric’s show heifer. She is good. Broke to lead and calm Tons of growth and potential BW 80 lb. Ratios WW 107, YW NA CE 3.8; BW 1.1; WW 48; YW 72; MM 18; M&G 43; MCE 4.2; MCW 77; SC 0.4; FAT 0.012; REA 0.30; MARB 0.00; BMI$ 16; CEZ$ 18; BII$ 12; CHB$ 21

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Lot 644A — EBE Lindsey 644A

Lot 668A — EPHR Miss Angie 668A

This was a ha d one to sell. A daughter of 860U out of a great cow Super numbers Very complete. The total package Horned BW 81 lb. Ratios WW 106, YW 108 CE 2.3; BW 3.1; WW 55; YW 94; MM 27; M&G 54; MCE 1.4; MCW 106; SC 0.9; FAT 0.009; REA 0.39; MARB 0.00; BMI$ 16; CEZ$ 15; BII$ 12; CHB$ 26

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host the 2015 American Agricultural Editors’ Association (AAEA) marketing communications intern. The intern will assist with AHA communication and marketing projects such as Hereford eNews, writing press releases about the breed and other events, the maintenance and updating of Hereford.org and social media projects as well as the Hereford Events App. The intern will also help with development of educational YouTube videos. The AAEA intern will earn a $4,500 stipend for approximately 10 weeks and another $1,000 toward the cost of attending the Agricultural Media Summit in Scottsdale, Ariz., July 26 to 29, 2015. This internship is made possible through grants from the AAEA Professional Improvement Foundation. Applications for the AAEA-sponsored internship are available at ageditors.com and are due Feb. 1. If you have questions about the internship or the application process, contact Angie Stump Denton, AHA director of communications and public relations, at 785-562-6197 or adenton@hereford.org. College students can also apply for the JNHE ambassador program. The 2015 ambassadors will assist the National Junior Hereford Association (NJHA) board and the AHA staff throughout the JNHE week — June 28 to July 3 — in Grand Island, Neb. The five ambassador positions are: 1. Contest coordinator — help with the facilitation of the 22 contests and scholarships including working with state advisors, the National Hereford Women and the NJHA boards, judges, awards, etc. 2. Event coordinator — assist with organization of opening ceremonies, the awards banquet along with Hereford Youth Foundation of America (HYFA) activities, NJHA delegate and membership meetings, and various special events that occur throughout the week. 3. Marketing coordinator — be responsible for managing all social media outlets including posting event photos, results, videos, etc.

4. Operations assistant — help coordinate trade show vendors, the state basket silent auction, meals and shows. Responsibilities will also include showring set up and maintenance as needed. 5. Show office assistant — coordinate the show office by assisting exhibitors and families as needed, selling tickets, facilitating questions and making general announcements, etc. Responsibilities will also include coordinating people check-in. Candidates must be a 2015 high school graduate or older and must have had national show experience. Ambassadors cannot be exhibitors or competitors at the 2015 JNHE. Ambassador applications are available online at JrHereford.org/ jnheambassador and are due March 15.

Revised DNA testing prices In early October, the AHA announced an updated pricing structure for DNA testing. The reduction in cost is due to a new 30K LD (low density) product that has been built and produced by GeneSeek. The 30K panel allows AHA to impute to 50K to produce molecular breeding values (MBVs) that are used to produce GE-EPDs. Please note the process to request DNA kits has not changed — Hereford breeders must continue to request a kit from AHA. Also the new LD panel has not shortened the testing time. Please continue to allow enough time to get data back for a production sale if you have a deadline. Basic test — $35 (no bulk rate available) includes profile, parentage, abnormalities GE-EPD test — $55 (no bulk rate available) includes profile, parentage (needs to be requested), abnormalities and GE-EPD Stand-alone horned/polled (H/P) test — $45 Full package — $85 includes profile, parentage (needs to be requested), abnormalities, GE-EPD, H/P (needs to be requested) HW

Attention, National Western exhibitors: Updated animal ID requirements The state of Colorado has changed its animal identification requirements. This new rule will affect all cattle going to the National Western Stock Show (NWSS) in Denver. This change includes cattle showing or displayed in the Yards or on the Hill as well as those sold in the Mile High Night National Hereford Sale. The new Colorado rule states that as of March 2013, all cattle moving interstate for exhibition or show events, such as the NWSS, are required to have individual identification ear tags present in the ear. To avoid potential problems, all U.S. cattle entering the NWSS grounds will be expected to have a USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) official ID ear tag present in the ear. The following tags are considered official: 1) Orange metal official calfhood vaccinate (OCV/Bang’s) tag,

2) Silver metal USDA tag,

3) 840 RFID (radio frequency identification) tag,

4) Visual/panel 840 ear tag or

5) An ear tag with the U.S. seal and “unlawful to remove” plus a unique animal number. Examples of these tags are available online at Hereford.org/NWSSinfo. Cattle that arrive at the NWSS without proper identification may have an official tag placed at the discretion of the Colorado State Veterinarian’s office and at the owner’s expense. All NWSS animals must also have a negative BVD-P1 (persistently infected) test. For more information about NWSS health or identification requirements, contact the Colorado Department of Agriculture State Veterinarian’s office by calling 303-869-9130 or visit colorado.gov/ag/animals. HW

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Lot 710A — EPHR Miss Perfection 710A

A polled daughter of Cooper’s 732T bull Super long and classy Should be a great heifer BW 85 lb. Ratios WW 105, YW 107 CE -0.3; BW 5.4; WW 55; YW 91; MM 25; M&G 53; MCE 2.3; MCW 98; SC 0.3; FAT 0.038; REA 0.30; MARB 0.09; BMI$ 11; CEZ$ 12; BII$ 6; CHB$ 24

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MEMBER SERVICE

by Christy Bradshaw, AHA education coordinator cbradshaw@hereford.org

A new year and a new registry system

Whole Herd Total Performance Records (TPR™) reminders

Do you make New Year’s resolutions? If so, add “get caught up on Hereford paper work” to your list. The American Hereford Association (AHA) has a new online registry system called MyHerd.org. The new system makes it easy to do paperwork with real-time animal registration, animal transfers and custom to-do lists for performance breeders. E-mail your AHA member number to MyHerd@hereford.org to sign up for a free MyHerd account.

The spring 2015 cow herd inventories have been generated. Contact the AHA Records Department if you haven’t received your inventory by mail or if it’s not available to update online. The spring 2015 cow herd inventory is due March 1, and all inventories turned in after will incur a $2 per head surcharge. Remember weaning weights are required for each registered calf and fall 2014 inventories must be turned in before you can register your fall calves with performance information.

MyHerd help

FAQ

Do you need help learning how to use the new online registry system, MyHerd. org? If so, the MyHerd team is going to offer webinar sessions to help members get started using the new system. What is a webinar? A webinar is a seminar that takes place on the Internet. This allows participants from different locations to come together for a virtual presentation and to ask questions. The MyHerd team plans to host a variety of webinars. Watch the Hereford eNews and Hereford.org for upcoming webinar sessions.

Q: Do I have to have an authorized user account to use the expected progeny difference (EPD) search feature at Hereford.org? A: No, you do not have to have an authorized user account to use the EPD search at Hereford.org. When you go to Hereford.org and click on EPD Search, you have the option of entering as a Guest or an Authorized User. Click on Guest to use the EPD search without having to enter login information. Contact the records department if you want an authorized user account. Authorized accounts are only available to current members of the Association. Q: How do I enroll in the Whole Herd TPR program and have a cow herd inventory generated? A: Contact the records department to enroll your herd. How to participate: 1) Complete the provided current dam inventory form for all cows and breeding age females expected to calve within the next 12 months. 2) For each animal inventoried, assign a herd ID, the animal’s registration number, its registration name and the date calved. 3) Designate each female as either fall or spring calving. 4) Mail the completed inventory form to the AHA, and retain a copy for your records. HW

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by Larry Brooks whiteface1881@gmail.com

“CHB Bites” is a column designed to keep you in-the-know about Certified Hereford Beef (CHB) program happenings. CHB LLC is celebrating 20 years with a “Farm-to-Fork” series featuring how Herefords become the ultimate eating experience. You can also follow CHB on Facebook at facebook.com/CertifiedHerefordBeef.

Seedstock Genetics Part 1: Seedstock Part 2: Stocker Part 3: Feedlot Part 4: Packer Part 5: Retail Part 6: Foodservice Part 7: Consumer

The series will feature how Herefords become the ultimate eating experience and will appear in upcoming Hereford World issues covering the following topics: seedstock and genetics; stocker operations; feedlot operations; packers; retail distributors and retailers; foodservice distributors and restaurant chefs; end consumers, including real-world experiences; and then CHB LLC, the next 20 years.

Looking back

PHOTO COURTESY OF DALE VENHUIZEN

Part 8: Future

In today’s world of here now and forgotten by tomorrow, there remains one constant — Hereford cattle. Hereford cattle have been icons in beef cattle history for more than 100 years. Today, the beef industry faces more challenges than ever, and consumers are seeking more information about their food: Where does it come from? What does it eat? How was it raised? How was the product handled? What was it given during the course of its life? At the same time, producers are seeking ways to continue improving their herds — doing more with fewer inputs yet still providing the ultimate eating experience for the consumer. How do you navigate between the two? The American Hereford Association (AHA) led the way in pioneering that endeavor with the creation of Certified Hereford Beef (CHB®) almost 20 years ago. In fact, the CHB program will be turning 20 years old next October, and to celebrate this milestone, CHB LLC staff will highlight all segments of the CHB program with a “Farm-to-Fork” series.

Dale Venhuizen, Churchill Cattle Co., Manhattan, Mont., says he appreciates what Hereford genetics bring to the beef industry.

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Think back to 1817 when America was still a youngster. James Madison was president until James Monroe took over, and Herefords were being imported by some progressive cattlemen out on the western frontier. Herefords became known as the “great improvers” because they made anything they were bred to that much better. Fast forward to 1881 and the AHA is formed in Chicago. Just to give you a point of reference, 14 days after the creation of the Association, Billy the Kid is shot by Pat Garret near Fort Sumner on July 14, 1881. The West was still wild, but progressive thinking was already improving a great breed of cattle for the consumer. Today, the AHA is one of the oldest established American breed associations. In 1992 the AHA commissioned a study through Colorado State University (CSU) to accomplish three things: to determine the extent to which the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) quality grading system accurately evaluates palatability of beef produced by straightbred and crossbred Hereford cattle; to identify specific live, carcass and/or palatability traits to which intensified selection pressure could be applied to improve desirability and marketability of Hereford cattle; and to ascertain the feasibility of implementing a niche-marketing program for lean beef that meets acceptable palatability ratings. As a result of the CSU study, in 1995 AHA established the CHB program to usher in a new era of great taste and nutrition and to truly build upon its “Excellence Built by Tradition.” “The Association established CHB LLC to promote the timehonored traditions of raising great quality beef,” explains Craig Huffhines, AHA executive vice president. Quality is a

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Farm -toFork

Joe and Cyndi Van Newkirk, Van Newkirk Herefords, Oshkosh, Neb., say they are proud of the Hereford breed’s maternal traits.

delivered promise with CHB, a beef that provides a satisfying eating experience every time. All CHB is individually evaluated and always certified and graded by the USDA,” he adds. “We’re in the business of humanely raising great beef and providing consumers with consistently great taste and tenderness for an economical price.” That endeavor starts at the farm with Hereford seedstock producers. Seedstock producers are the genetic suppliers for the breed. Genetic improvement is the key focus of a seedstock cattle operation. Seedstock breeders produce purebreds or registered cows, bulls and heifers and semen or embryos as value-added beef cattle genetics. All Hereford breeders produce cattle that meet their own desires and preferences, as well as cattle that meet the desires of potential buyers. Usually they are producing cattle that satisfy both conditions. “Everyone down the line from the farm benefits from the seedstock producer’s commitment to a quality product,” says David Trowbridge, a Hereford breeder from Tabor, Iowa, and CHB LLC board chairman. “The seedstock producer guards our ‘Excellence Built by Tradition’ by evaluating which cattle rise to the top and meet the criteria to be registered.” Take for example Dale and Nancy Venhuizen, owners of the Churchill Cattle Co., Manhattan,

Mont., who say they are loyal to the Hereford breed and appreciate the qualities that Hereford genetics bring to the beef industry. “Hereford cattle excel in their feed efficiency as well as efficiency in general,” Dale says. “They are known for their excellence in crossbreeding, disposition and longevity as well as their growth traits.” Or, just ask Joe Van Newkirk of Van Newkirk Herefords, Oshkosh, Neb. Van Newkirk Herefords has been in operation since 1892. “In the 1980s we struggled,” says Joe. “Everybody decided to make their cows black, and the Herefords lost a lot of market share. But we knew our cattle were good, and although it would have been pretty easy to change breeds during that time frame, we decided to stick with them and build up our cow herd. We were persistent in making our cattle better and more efficient, and that’s what it took to stay in business.” Members of the CHB LLC staff are proud of our rich heritage and the uncompromising dedication to quality from our Hereford seedstock producers. This is how we bring the legacy of naturally great beef from our families’ ranches and farms to your family’s fork. CHB is “Excellence Built by Tradition. HW

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The “Brand That Works” PRODUCTION SALE

Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 • 12:30 p.m. Manhattan Commission Co. • Manhattan, Kan.

2015 sale offering includes progeny and service of: • BLUESTEM • HARLAND • REVOLUTION • RANCHER • 3027 • 719T • ABOUT TIME • TRUST • REDEEM MCR Trust Harland 364 ET {DLF,HYF,IEF}

43505413 — Calved: Sept. 2, 2013 Sire: NJW 73S M326 Trust 100W ET • MGS: CJH Harland 408 CE 0.0; BW 2.9; WW 58; YW 104; MM 34; M&G 63; MCE 3.5; MCW 126; SC 1.5; FAT -0.014; REA 0.76; MARB 0.28; BMI$ 24; CEZ$ 16; BII$ 20; CHB$ 35

AHA

GE•EPD

• Act. BW 74 lb.; WW top 8%; YW top 2%; MM top 2%; CEM top 9%; SC top 2%; REA top 2%; REA ratio 13.54/106 MARB top 4%; MARB ratio 110; BMI$ top 5%; CHB$ top 2% • 364 puts it all together in a low birthweight, high performance ribeye and marbling package. A sure fire herd sire prospect.

MCR Bluestem Domino 426 ET

P43523951 — Calved: Jan. 10, 2014 Sire: MCR Bluestem 977 MGS: KCF Bennett 3008 M326 CE 2.6; BW 2.4; WW 60; YW 94; MM 21; M&G 51; MCE 2.9; MCW 82; SC 1.2; FAT 0.023; REA 0.57; MARB 0.09; BMI$ 22; CEZ$ 17; BII$ 18; CHB$ 29

• Act. BW 76 lb.; BW top 20%; WW top 5%;

YW top 10%; CEM top 15%; SC top 8%; REA top 10%; BMI$ top 10%; CHB$ top 8% • Our first offering of our Bluestem calves. As a sire group they are low in birth, high in performance, packed full of muscle and 426 will sure work as a herd sire.

MCR Harlands Domino 359 ET

43519525 — Calved: Sept. 1, 2013 Sire: CJH Harland 408 MGS: CL 1 Domino 9126J 1ET CE 2.9; BW 2.7; WW 53; YW 89; MM 30; M&G 56; MCE 2.6; MCW 94; SC 1.5; FAT 0.003; REA 0.43; MARB 0.08; BMI$ 23; CEZ$ 18; BII$ 19; CHB$ 27

SHOW HEIFER PROSPECTS AVAILABLE

• Act. BW 81 lb.; BW top 20%; WW top 20%;

YW top 20%; MM top 5%; CEM top 20%; SC top 2%; REA top 20%; REA ratio 13.3/105; MARB top 30%; BMI$ top 7%; CHB$ top 15% • 359 is a full brother to the CK and Burns Ranch herd sires. Proven genetics, built in longevity. A top herd sire prospect.

Mill Creek Ranch 20635 Hessdale Rd. Alma, KS 66401 David Breiner 785-449-2841 Cell 785-456-4790 Chad Breiner 785-564-2091 Ryan Breiner 785-207-3070 Bob and Derek Moore Hereford.org

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Knoll Crest calves out 800 registered cows and utilizes cooperator herds to market the number of bulls they do.

where we have anticipated demand longevity are good, so our customers going in the future we have felt like we are expecting improved profitability.” most definitely needed to increase our Bulls sold at Knoll Crest mostly Hereford numbers,” Paul says on the sire replacement females; therefore, shift in their operation focus. maternal traits are a selection priority “For the last in their operation. two to three years, “We recognize that essentially all of our a fairly high percent “We do believe ET resources have of bulls sold will be the demand for been dedicated to used on virgin heifers propagating Hereford our Hereford bulls so birth weight and cattle. So we are very calving ease are has increased much in a mode extremely important,” of increasing cow he explains. “With and we have no numbers on the that said, the average Hereford side. We do bull born here this reason to believe believe the demand year will be in the top it won’t continue for our Hereford bulls 5% of their respective has increased and breeds for weaning to increase.” we have no reason and yearling weight — Paul Bennett to believe it won’t EPDs (expected continue to increase.” progeny differences).” Paul doesn’t singletrait select and says performance and The power of heterosis carcass merit are just as important. “I Paul believes this trend in demand don’t want to sound like everything for Hereford genetics comes from his customers recognizing the fundamental is very important, but really it is,” he says. The average Hereford bull need to capture hybrid vigor. marketed from their farm is in the “We have a lot of customers that top one-fifth of 1% for the Certified moved away from crossbreeding Hereford Beef Index (CHB$). (Visit and developed predominately black hereford.org/seedstock/profit-index for more cow herds,” he says. “We have found information on CHB$). there is a big sector of that type of “We make a really concerted effort customer who has realized they need in selection for added marbling and to be crossbreeding — to generate and added ribeye. It is very important to create some crossbred black baldie us along with moderating mature females to replenish their herds with size. Irrespective of breed we look for cattle that have improved fertility and high levels of weaning and yearling stayability — just overall improved performance, but would be no more reproductive efficiency.” than breed average for mature weight Knoll Crest Farm’s bull customers and mature size.” are seeking to build herds that are Wanting to improve disposition more efficient, and Paul says Hereford of their herd is another theme Paul bulls are fitting that demand. “It’s recognizes in his customers and says possible to generate the same number Hereford once again fits that demand. of pounds with fewer inputs,” he “Docility is important to our says. “The Hereford breed, generally customers,” he says. “It’s pretty well speaking, is a good way to create recognized that the Hereford breed will more efficient cows. Those Herefordimprove disposition as quick as if not influence females tend to require fewer quicker than any other breed,” he says. inputs. Their fertility, disposition and In addition, his customers are looking to improve lameness and chronic foot problems within their own operations. “The Hereford breed has been a nice way to address and correct foot structure problems that have existed in the herds of our customers.”

Crest they strive to meet cattlemen’s desire to have a problem-free herd. “Different people will identify and quantify problem free in different ways,” he says. “We believe our customers want problem free and user friendly cattle. Our goal is to create cattle through the right genetics that are essentially free of problems. With that said, we are trying to create calving-ease cattle that will have high levels of early growth and will mature at a moderate size in effort to create efficient cows. We want to maximize end-product merit through marbling, yield grade and feedlot performance increasing profitability for feeders and packers as well as cow-calf producers.” Paul says that to reach this goal, traits the Hereford breed offers like good disposition, soundness of structure, fertility and longevity are things that can affect the producer’s bottom line and can cause frustration if not present.

“For us comprehensive data collection is so important,” he adds. Each bull sold from Knoll Crest Farm has genomic-enhanced EPDs. “Our goal is to provide our customers with as much info as we possibly can to assist them in quantifying our cattle. We are very strong proponents of genomics and encouraging the American Hereford Association and breeders to do whatever it takes to facilitate the continued development of genomics for our breed.” Knoll Crest Farm strives to provide excellent customer service. “This is paramount for us,” he says. “We take great pride in taking care of our customers. A lot of our bulls are purchased sight unseen, so it’s important for us to provide buyers, who trust us and depend on us, with best service and genetics we can.” HW

Dalton Bennett (left) auctioneers for Knoll Crest sales. Paul Bennett (right) sits on the block at the 2014 Total Performance Bull Sale.

A family farm Knoll Crest Farm was established in 1929 by Paul D. Bennett and his wife, as a 290-acre tobacco and commercial cattle farm. In 1950, their son James attended Virginia Tech, but returned home during his freshman year to manage the farm after his father suffered heart problems. In 1944, Paul D. and James purchased their first registered polled Hereford heifer. James and his wife Barbara raised five children, Beth, Paul, Jim, Brian and Jonathan. With interest from Paul, Jim and Brian to return to the farm, it was necessary that Knoll Crest diversify and expand. In 1981, Knoll Crest brought the first purebred Gelbvieh cattle to Virginia and in 1990, Angus were introduced. Today, Paul, Brian and Jim operate Knoll Crest Farm, and at age 81, James is still active in the daily farm life. The three brothers each bring their own interests and skills to make Knoll Crest a successful operation. Paul focuses on breeding and marketing of their cattle. Brian manages the day-to-day office responsibilities including record keeping and accounting in addition to providing equipment maintenance. Jim oversees the cow herd management and production and purchasing of feed. Jim’s son Dalton and Paul’s son Scott have taken an interest in the family business ensuring its continuation. Dalton is a 2013 graduate from Virginia Tech in soil and crop science and works on the farm daily. He is active in herd marketing and breeding as well as crop production. He also serves as auctioneer for Knoll Crest sales. Scott is a 2012 agricultural economics and political science graduate of Virginia Tech. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he is the government affairs associate for the Keys Group, a lobbying firm that represents many meat-packing and animal health entities on Capitol Hill, but continues to take an active role in the family farm. HW

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Providing to producers Brian and Jim Bennett (l to r) along with their brother Paul, operate Knoll Crest Farm.

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Looking forward and considering beef industry trends, Paul says at Knoll Hereford.org

12B by 1193Y

14B by 028X

27B by 105Y

35B by 2207Z

56B by 2Y

53A by 0141

64A by 723U

65A by 0141

409 by 0141

It’s Your Business to be Profitable It’s Our Business to Help Your Business. Annual Bull & Heifer Sale Feb. 5 — At the Ranch 127 Lots:

• 22 Yearling Bulls — Including our 2015 Denver Carload Bulls • 63 2-Year-Old Bulls — Our most powerful set yet! • 42 Yearling Heifers — Several show prospects

71A by 723U

84A by 102W

407 by 1193Y

417 by 2Y

472 by 2207Z

480 by 102W

We aim to provide the most problem-free Hereford bulls and heifers possible and we expect our cattle to perform well, behave well and dress well. That sta ts with our factory — our cow herd. This ear’s sale offering i stacked with Dam of Distinction cows. Half of our sale bulls are recommended for first se vice on heifers and still shine in performance and carcass. We look forward to working with you February 5th! John and Mary

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Bid from the seats, online and on DISH TV via Superior Auctions. Request your sale catalog today! Common sense breeders with leading-edge genetics.

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POWERFUL PERFORMERS 49TH ANNUAL PRODUCTION SALE Monday, March 9, 2015 At the Ranch, Valier, Mont.

Selling 140 POWERFUL HEREFORD BULLS 100 BIG, STOUT YEARLING BULLS 40 POWERHOUSE 18-MONTH-OLD BULLS 50 FRONT PASTURE, LINE ONE FEMALES 2 SPECIAL “PICK OF FLUSH” HEIFER LOTS 20 TOP QUALITY YEARLING HEIFERS 20 CHOICE FALL PAIR LOTS • 8 FALL BRED HEIFERS

Bulls sell with complete performance and ultrasound data. All Yearlings and 18-month sale cattle will have GE EPDs. Free delivery on purchases totaling $5,000 or more. HH ADVANCE 4082B ET

Sire: CL 1 Domino 1161Y Dam: HH Miss Advance 9102W BW 3.3; WW 58; YW 103; MM 34; M&G 63; REA 0.43; MARB -0.06 • One of the best powerhouse herd bull prospects we have ever raised. 4082P has exceptional bone, substance, volume, neck extension and eye appeal. He is an easy moving bull with great muscle expression. His dam is a powerful donor cow out of a great cow family. Great combination of cow power, performance and phenotype.

HH Miss Advance 9102W — Dam of Lots 4082B and 4104B

HH ADVANCE 4059B ET

Sire: HH Advance 1038Y • MGS: HH Advance 3196N BW 4.2; WW 52; YW 91; MM 20; M&G 46; REA 0.31; MARB -0.02 • Big butted, smooth moving and extra fancy herd bull prospect out of the maternal grandam to Lots 4082B and 4104B. One of five full b others to sell.

HH ADVANCE 4104B ET

Sire: HH Advance 1098Y • Dam: HH Miss Advance 9102W BW 3.9; WW 62; YW 101; MM 35; M&G 66; REA 0.45; MARB -0.06 • Extra pigment, length of body, muscle expression and style in this powerful herd bull prospect by 1098Y. 4104B weaned off at almost 900 lb. and is loaded with muscle. He ranks in the top 5% of the breed on WW, YW, MM and M&G EPDs.

3139 Valier Dupuyer Rd. • Valier, MT 59486 www.holdenherefords.com • jtholden@3rivers.net 406-279-3301 home • 406-279-3300 Ranch 406-450-1029 Jack Holden cell • 406-590-3307 Brad Holden cell Jay D. Evans 406-279-3599 • 406-450-0129 mobile

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60 years of consistent, balanced trait performance selection backed by a linebreeding program that guarantees predictability and uniformity HH ADVANCE 1098Y

Sire: HH Advance 8050U • MGS: HH Advance 7101T BW 2.5; WW 57; YW 85; MM 34; M&G 63; REA 0.49; MARB -0.04 • 1098Y topped our 2012 sale at $102,000. He consistently sires progeny with extra pigment, performance, muscle expression and length of body. Dam is a perfect uddered, moderate framed cow out of the great 1028L donor female. Thirteen Powerful Sons Sell!

HH ADVANCE 4105B ET

Sire: HH Advance 1098Y • MGS: L1 Domino 96988 BW 0.9; WW 45; YW 73; MM 28; M&G 50; REA 0.10; MARB 0.24 • Big hipped, deep ribbed, well marked and fancy. 4105B is an outstanding bull that combines performance, phenotype and maternal strength into a great package. Dam is a top donor cow that is still in production at 16 years of age and sound in every way.

HH ADVANCE 4067B ET

Sire: HH Advance 1013Y • MGS: L1 Domino 03571 BW 1.9; WW 46; YW 73; MM 32; M&G 55; REA -0.14; MARB 0.21 • Tremendous depth of side, performance and power. One of five ful brothers out of 1013Y and the 8255U cow that sold for $30,000 to Hoffman Herefords in our 2013 Female Sale. This is a great flush o bulls!

HH ADVANCE 4075B ET

Sire: HH Advance 1013Y ET • MGS: HH Advance 8203U BW 3.8; WW 54; YW 80; MM 27; M&G 53; REA 0.27; MARB 0.30 • Outstanding rib shape and volume in this big hipped, easy moving, stylish made 1013Y son. 4075B is a top herd bull prospect with carcass and maternal strength combined with the phenotype we are all looking for. Dam is a picture perfect 8203U daughter that is one of our favorites.

HH Advance 4091B

Sire: CL 1 Domino 1161Y • MGS: HH Advance 8050U BW 2.8; WW 65; YW 101; MM 36; M&G 68; REA 0.50; MARB -0.14 • Great set of EPDs combined with extra pigment, thickness and eye appeal. 4091B is really complete in his pattern and is out of a great 8050U first calf heifer that is a mate nal sister to HH Advance 0002X.

HH Advance 4201B ET

Sire: CL 1 Domino 297Z • MGS: CL 1 Domino 320N BW 2.8; WW 52; YW 86; MM 38; M&G 64; REA 0.19; MARB 0.02 • Well marked, long bodied, clean made herd bull prospect. 4201 is stout made and fancy. He is a maternal brother to our HH Advance 0132X herd sire and out of the great 6054S donor cow that sold for $60,000 in our 2013 Female sale.

HH Advance 1013Y

Sire: HH Advance 4055P • MGS: CL 1 Domino 320N BW 3.4; WW 52; YW 76; MM 33; M&G 59; REA 0.17; MARB 0.25 • 1013Y consistently sires progeny that are easy fleshing, big middled moderate framed and easy on the eye. He is out of the 7003T cow that topped our 2013 Female Sale at $70,000 and his maternal grandam is the $175,000 5139R donor cow. Great combination of performance, carcass, maternal strength and phenotype. Fifteen Top Quality Sons Sell!

HH ADVANCE 4042B ET

Sire: HH Advance 1069Y • MGS: CL 1 Domino 320N BW 2.1; WW 53; YW 74; MM 39; M&G 66; REA 0.22; MARB 0.18 • Powerhouse herd bull prospect that is a maternal brother to the 1013Y herd sire. 4042 is extra long bodied, deep sided and stout made along with being well marked. His pedigree is loaded with top cows.

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January 2015 /

Bulls for Sale Private Treaty Offering 44 coming 2-year-old bulls

HWK FOUR TEN 314A

P43401989 • Calved: March 11, 2013 • Act. BW 88 lb.

HWK 160 STANDARD 358A

P43402029 • Calved: March 26, 2013

HWK FOUR TEN 325A

HWK FOUR TEN 326A

P43402000 • Calved: March 17, 2013 • Act. BW 88 lb.

P43402001 • Calved: March 18, 2013

HWK 408 HARLAND 320A

HWK 7718 STANDARD 312A

43401995 • Calved: March 15, 2013 • Act. BW 88 lb.

43401987 • Calved: March 10, 2013 • Act. BW 80 lb.

HWK 408 HARLAND 347A

HWK 281 STANDARD 307A

43402018 Calved: March 23, 2013

43401982 Calved: March 8, 2013 • Act. BW 86 lb.

Bulls are priced from $5,000 to $7,500. Hawks program is one without extremes and no show influence. Just honest cattle raised to meet the buyers needs without disappointments.

TH 223 71I VICTOR 410X ET Full brother to the proven great 755 with sisters that have absolutely perfect udders. Also, rare to find 2-yea -olds of this pedigree.

HAWKS

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CJH HARLAND 408 He is one of the best proven maternal sires the breed has known. Rare do you find 2-yea -old bulls by him in numbers.

Ed and Gloria Hawks 19340 197th Place, Howes, SD 57748 Ranch 605-985-5300 • Cell 605-515-1467 ehawks@goldenwest.net www.hawksherefords.com Hereford.org

ANNUAL PRODUCTION SALE February 9, 2015

Offering 50 ho ned and polled yearling Hereford bulls, 50 2-year-old Hereford bulls, 5 yearling Angus bulls, open and bred commercial and registered females ECR High Class 3009

• Sold in last year’s sale to Blume Herefords, Jimmy Atlas, Keith Carmichael and Knippling Bros.

ECR AL Ree Heights 3003 ET

• Sold to Mrnak Herefords and Carswell-Nichols

Thanks to those g eat ranches for your confidence in ours. ulls like these sell.

DHD Turbo HH 1103

DKF RO Cash Flow 0245 ET

CL 1 Domino 2109Z ET

HH Advance 2029

Average of 15 active herd bulls: BW WW YW MM M&G REA MARB 2.8

0.7

0.06

Breed average: BW WW YW MM M&G REA MARB 3.5

0.28

0.06

Our bulls are phenotypically great - backed by productive great uddered females.

Fawcett’s Elm Creek Ranch

Keith, Cheryl, Matt, Kris and Erin Fawcett • Daniel, Kari, Hollis and Ivy Fawcett • Robert Fawcett 21115 344th Ave. • Ree Heights, SD 57371 605-943-5664 • kcfawcett@hotmail.com • Daniel 605-870-6172 www.fawcettselmcreekranch.com Hereford.org

January 2015 /

Full Steam Ahead Record cattle prices, solid beef demand and continued cow herd expansion expected for 2015. by Kindra Gordon

f you had to use one word to describe current conditions in today’s cattle industry that word would likely be this — unprecedented. Indeed, cattle prices have reached peaks never seen before. Cattle producers thought the 2013 average price received for a 550-pound steer was quite good at $168 per hundredweight (cwt.). Then 2014 came, and tight supplies drove prices even higher. The CattleFax average estimated price for 550-pound steers for 2014 is $240 per cwt., and the 2015 estimate is $255 per cwt. Unprecedented.

What’s even more astonishing is that this price phenomenon may stay in place through 2015 and even into 2016. Kansas State University (KSU) livestock economist Glynn Tonsor credits much of this to the fact that the beef industry is facing tight supplies coupled with continued strong beef demand. He says this is a scenario that is likely here to stay for at least another year — depending on herd expansion. Tonsor projects prices for 500-600-lb. calves in 2015 could be as high as $270 per cwt., and in 2016 they could be $280 per cwt.

As a result, average cow-calf returns are over $500. Tonsor says, “In the past a $150 return was considered great, we saw that in 2004 and 2005 and got close in 2013. Now, producers are seeing over $500 and that is expected to hold for 2015. This sets the stage for a lot of excitement for expansion.”

Expansion underway In addition to dollars, several other factors are helping encourage expansion including cheaper feedstuffs and improved drought conditions allowing for ample range, pasture and hay.

CattleFax webinar helps producers in high-price environment The current expansion environment has produced record profitability and exposed the segment to more financial and production risk than any other time in recent history. CattleFax will address the challenge during its next Trends+ Cow-Calf Webinar at 5:30 p.m. MT, Jan. 21, 2015. During the one-hour session, CattleFax analysts Mike Murphy and Lance Zimmerman will discuss how producers can navigate marketing decisions and business plans for the next five to 10 years. To participate in the webinar and access program details, producers and industry leaders simply need to register online at www.cattlefax.com/meetings.aspx.

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Elanco Animal Health is sponsoring the webinar – making it free for all cattle and beef producers to benefit from CattleFax’s analysis and perspective on factors influencing the cow-calf, stocker and backgrounding businesses. The webinar will include:

• A winter and spring 2015 market outlook for breeding cattle, calf, feeder cattle and feedstuff markets,

• Advice on high-return cow herd and bull purchasing decisions, and

• Considerations on the long-term implications of U.S. beef cow herd expansion. HW

Tonsor says heifer placements on feed and cull cow rates have slowed over the past year — indicating herd expansion is occurring. However, he says that since July 2014, there have been some mixed signals in the marketplace, indicating expansion slowed a little. In spite of that slowed expansion, long-term forecasts suggest between now and 2023, the national cow herd inventory could grow from 4% to 16%. That growth would move the U.S. from a current 29 million cows to upward of 33.7 million head, which Tonsor says is about equivalent to what the cow herd was in the year 2000. The U.S. cattle cycle has not seen a significant expansion phase since the 1991 to 1996 expansion, increasing by 1.7 million cows. Moderate efforts for expansion from 2004 to 2006 were cut short by drought in the Southern Plains. Tonsor says indicators to watch with regard to expansion are the percentages of cull cows and heifer placements. When the cull cow rate is below 10%, that’s an indicator that expansion is happening. In 2015 the rate is projected to be below 9%. Another indicator that expansion is on the horizon can be seen in the years when heifer slaughter percentage of total fed slaughter is around 35% or lower. With regard to expansion, Tonsor says that is an individual question that each producer should ask himself, and Tonsor notes that it may not be the right option for some cattle operations. Tonsor says other important questions to ask yourself with Hereford.org

regard to expansion are: What can I afford to pay for a replacement female? Should I buy cows instead of heifers? Should I buy or raise my own replacement heifers? Tonsor says two web spreadsheet resources can help answer those questions:

• www.agmanager.info/Tools/default.

asp#LIVESTOCK (Scroll to KSU Beef Replacements and download.)

• www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/ livestock/html/b1-73.html

The bottomline, says Tonsor, is that the beef industry has “lots of positive things going on.” Now, if expansion occurs, consumer demand will need to be maintained or increased as well. Surprisingly, to date in spite of increased retail beef prices, consumer demand in the U.S. has remained resilient. But the question analysts are monitoring will be how will beef demand hold up going into 2015 with expected larger pork and poultry production? That’s a question that remains to be answered. Going forward, a report authored by agriculture economist Jessica Sampson and James Robb with the Livestock Marketing Information Center (LMIC) suggests that two major uncertainties need to be monitored: crop production and the macroeconomic environment as it relates to domestic and international beef buyers. If those factors remain favorable, LMIC projects average cattle prices could peak in 2016 or 2017. However, if unfavorable weather affects U.S. crop production, that could in turn affect cattle feeders and calf prices. Additionally, if significant economic slowdowns — or recessions — come into play, beef prices and consumer purchasing could be adversely affected. But for now, it continues to be an unprecedented ride.

That said, he acknowledges that many farmland values have gone “straight to the moon.” One recent report based on numbers from the United States Department of Agriculture showed that only two states, Arizona and West Virginia, have experienced zero or negative change in land values from 2005 to 2013. Corn Belt farmland values have seen sharp increases, and land values in North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska have seen the largest increases — up to 218%. Gloy notes: “Could it crash or be a bubble? It absolutely could.” He adds, “My view is that the land market is on a plateau with a slight

downward tilt. It’s not a free fall.” But he also cautions, “Keep in mind, my expectations may not play out. If the 10-year treasury bond skyrockets, (it went from 7.5 to 14 in the 1980s) all bets on farmland values are off.” With grain commodity prices coming down and sky-high land values potentially outpacing production returns, Gloy recognizes the “land bubble” concerns. However, he remains bullish for farming’s future, noting that the last few years have been somewhat of an anomaly. He explains that for grain farmers, the last several years haven’t just been good, “they’ve been spectacular.” Gloy

says they are probably the best seven years in the last 100. Thus, he’s realistic about the future, and on the grain side of the farm economy, he says, “The next seven years may not be as good as the last seven. Farm incomes are likely to fall from historic highs, but not to historic lows.” Of the higher prices in the livestock market, Gloy says, “It is livestock producers’ turn, and I’m happy for them.” HW

SOUTH MOUNTAIN RANCH

7TH ANNUAL BULL SALE

February 10, 2015 • 1 p.m. (MST) • Melba, Idaho 100 HEREFORD AND ANGUS BULLS AND OVER 50 CALVING EASE BULLS! Sons of these breed leading sires sell!

HH Advance 1098Y

NJW 73S M326 Trust 100W ET

K&B Sentinel 0042X

A A R Ten X 7008 S A

NJW 98S Durango 44U

S A V Angus Valley

What about land prices? In addition to hot cattle prices, can you help but speculate on sky-high land prices as well? Is this a bubble? Is it going to burst? When’s the time to buy land or expand? Brent Gloy gets those questions a lot. Trained as an economist, Gloy has a keen grasp on the global agriculture scene. He has held tenured faculty positions in agricultural economics at Purdue University and Cornell University, and his research has been quoted and referenced in media ranging from the farm press to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today among others. Gloy’s credentials become even more stellar when you learn that he is currently operating his family farming operation in southwest Nebraska. So, what’s Gloy’s take on the future of agriculture? He usually starts by pointing out that he and his wife and their young children wouldn’t have returned to the family farm if they weren’t optimistic about the future of agriculture.

Hereford.org

RANCHERS KIND OF BULLS

Calving Ease, Growth, Maternal, Disposition, Carcass First Season Breeding Guarantee Ultrasound data available All cattle tested negative for PI-BVD Sight unseen purchases are fully guaranteed.

Sale broadcast on LiveAuctions.TV

Sale address: 13584 State Hwy. 78, Melba, ID 83641 To receive a sale book, contact: Matt Duckett • 208-459-3070 • 208-230-5650 Cell southmountainranch@gmail.com • www.herefordangus.com

January 2015 /

Upstream Ranch

ANNUAL PRODUCTION SALE â&#x20AC;˘ SATURDAY, FEB. 7, 2015 12:30 (CST) at the Ranch

Selling 300 horned and polled bulls, including 150 coming 2-year-olds and 150 fall yearlings Selling 50 heifers, including 45 bred heifers and 5 heifer calves

UPS Domino 3025

UPS Sensation 3082

BW WW YW Milk M&G REA MARB

3.1 65 111 25

0.4 50

0.46

0.18

UPS About Time 3269 ET

0.27

0.2

UPS Sensation 3303 ET

BW WW YW Milk M&G REA MARB

3.1 65 111 25

0.5 49

0.46

0.18

0.32

0.31

Maternal brother to UPS Navarro

UPS Advance 3573 BW WW YW Milk M&G REA MARB 4.1 66 106 25

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0.34

0.05

UPS Navarro 3020 BW WW YW Milk M&G REA MARB 1.9 51

0.41

0.31

Hereford.org

UPS Sensation 3783 ET BW WW YW Milk M&G REA MARB 0.5 57

0.62

0.18

Maternal brother to UPS Uptown

UPS Sensation 3799 ET BW WW YW Milk M&G REA MARB 0.5 57

0.62

0.18

Maternal brother to UPS Uptown

UPS Wonder 3304 ET BW WW YW Milk M&G REA MARB 1.7 46

0.26

0.19

Maternal brother to UPS Domino 3027

UPS Domino 3307 ET BW WW YW Milk M&G REA MARB 1.3 45

0.27

0.06

Full brother to UPS Domino 3027

UPS Spartan 3514 BW WW YW Milk M&G REA MARB 3.9 62

0.61

0.1

UPS Trust 3317 ET BW WW YW Milk M&G REA MARB 2.5 53

0.76

0.18

Maternal brother to UPS Domino 3027

UPS Handshake 3120 BW WW YW Milk M&G REA MARB 5.2 62 107 28

0.81

0.23

UPS Sensation 3086 BW WW YW Milk M&G REA MARB 1.1 58

0.36

0.23

Go to upstreamcattle.com for videos and sale catalog

Upstream Ranch

Brent and Robin Meeks 45060 Upstream Rd. • Taylor, NE 68879 308-942-3195 • Cell 308-214-0719 • upstreamranch@gmail.com Hereford.org

January 2015 /

LOGTERMAN FAMILY HEREFORD & ANGUS PRODUCTION SALE

Monday, Feb. 9, 2015 • 2 p.m. (CST) • Valentine Livestock Auction • Valentine, Neb. Selling: 80 2-year-old Hereford bulls • 50 yearling and 50 2-year-old Angus bulls

ALSO SELLING BRED HEIFERS!! 30 Bred Registered Hereford Heifers 60 Bred F1 Black Whiteface Heifers 10 Bred Angus Commercial Heifers

Online buyers must register with cattleusa.com

KC Mr Ribstone 10071 “Freckles” BW 0.2; WW 54; YW 85; MM 27; M&G 54; REA 0.35; MARB 0.24 • Curve bender. 146 calves average birth ratio 98, nursing ratio 101. Leader in ten EPD traits, including marbling. Thick, deep, gentle and pigmented with perfect feet. Heifers in production have the best udders and teat quality we’ve raised. • One-half possession semen interest in Freckles is for sale privately. • Twenty sons sell

AHA

GE•EPD

UPS Domino 5216 BW 1.7; WW 46; YW 71; MM 28; M&G 51; REA 0.57; MARB 0.18 • Renowned throughout the beef industry for calving ease, great carcass and superb daughters. His progeny have that easy keeping, full ribbed look that ranchers demand. • Eighteen sons sell

AHA

GE•EPD

CL 1 Domino 032X BW 3.1; WW 59; YW 85; MM 36; M&G 66; REA 0.05; MARB 0.29 • 032X has been used successfully on more than 100 heifers at our ranch and at Feddes, plus he works great on cows. He takes off white and adds body length and marbling. His heifers are very promising. • Eighteen sons sell

K Big Abe 1111 BW 0.7; WW 45; YW 63; MM 37; M&G 59; REA -0.02; MARB 0.07 • A standout in Kreth’s sale, 1111 has excelled as a trouble-free heifer bull. As an individual, he has tremendous mass and eye appeal. His half-sisters by Abe are heavy milking cows with great udders, so we are eager to calve our first 111 daughters. • Three-quarter interest and full possession of 1111 is for sale privately. • Eleven sons sell

F 400 Domino 813

• The 2-year-olds were born and raised on our South Dakota ranch and nothing has been sold beforehand. They have been raised on a modest ration and spent the entire summer on a grass and salt diet only. • The yearling Angus bulls were born and raised in Montana at LeRoy’s ranch. • Wintering arrangements can be made. Semen tested, trucking discounts and a one breeding season guarantee. Complete details in the catalog.

BW 3.8; WW 69; YW 114; MM 28; M&G 62; REA 0.87; MARB -0.13 • A proven mainstay of our program. 813 sons have been popular with ranchers and we have many good cows by 813. He adds serious pounds and ribeye. • Seven sons sell

For a catalog or more information, contact:

Dwight Logterman 605-429-3209, Cell 402-389-1165 www.logterman.com 28

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Hereford.org

COLYER HEREFORDS 35TH ANNUAL PRODUCTION SALE

30+ years of genetic selection based on the economics of the commercial industry

Monday, Feb. 23, 2015

At the Ranch — Bruneau, Idaho

Selling: 225 Hereford and Angus Bulls 40 Hereford Females

2014 Reno Premier Horned Breeder and Premier Polled Breeder

C Miles McKee 2103 ET 2014 Denver Supreme Champion and World Record Selling Bull. His first calves hit the Jackpot in Reno! Numerous sons and daughters sell!

C Candy Crush 4272 ET

2014 Reno Reserve Grand Champion Female by Miles McKee for Glen Barrilleaux, Oakwood, Texas

Other Top Performers

C KRC 1008X Miles 4288 ET

C CJC Chanels Miles 4200 ET

C Candy Cane 4030 ET

Owned with Castle Herefords, Okla. 2014 Reserve Grand Champion Junior Bull Calf He sells Feb. 23, 2015

2014 Reserve Grand Champion Polled Female for Piper Colyer. Full sister to Eye Candy.

C Bar 1 Golden Dan 4119 ET

C KLC R98 Hometown 4282 ET

2014 Reno Reserve Grand Champion Polled Bull by Miles McKee He sells Feb. 23, 2015

C R111 Hometown 4230 ET

Owned with Bar One Ranch, Eugene, Ore. 2014 Reserve Polled Junior Bull Calf Champion He sells Feb. 23, 2015

2014 Reserve Grand Champion Horned Bull He sells Feb. 23, 2015

2014 Reno Horned Junior Bull Calf Champion He sells Feb. 23, 2015

Champion Pen Of Bulls They Sell on Feb. 23, 2015

Champion Get-Of-Sire NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET

Renamed C ETF Wildcat 4248 ET Now owned with Elm Tree Farms, Paris, Ky. 2014 Reno Polled Junior Bull Calf Champion

C 95T Trust 4248 ET

31058 Colyer Rd., Bruneau, ID 83604 Guy and Sherry Colyer 208-845-2313 Kyle Colyer 208-250-3924 Ray and Bonnie Colyer 208-845-2312 guy@hereford.com • www.hereford.com Hereford.org

January 2015 /

2015: Waiting on El Niño If it develops, anticipate warmer winter in the North and colder weather in the Southern tier. by Kindra Gordon

ater temperatures in the Pacific Ocean trended much warmer throughout September 2014, which led the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) to announce on Oct. 9, 2014, that an El Niño weather pattern is likely developing. El Niño, which is Spanish for “little boy,” occurs about every three to five years and will typically reach peak strength in December and affect weather into April. Climatologists predict that the 2015 El Niño effects will include warmer-than-average temperatures over Western and Central Canada and the Western and Northern United States. Additionally, wetter-than-average conditions are likely over portions of the Southern U.S. and along the East Coast, while drierthan-average conditions can be expected in the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest. For California, where nearly 60% of the state is suffering from extreme drought, CPC’s Mike Halpert says that although this El Niño is not likely to be as strong as some in the past — which would mean ample rainfall — he does predict: “…there is at least a 2-in-3 chance that wintertime precipitation will be near or above average throughout the

state. However, complete drought recovery is unlikely. With such widespread, extreme deficits, recovery will be slow.” Specific to temperatures, Halpert says the outlook favors a warmer-than-average winter in a band extending from the West Coast through most of the Intermountain West and across the U.S.-Canadian border to New England. Colder-than-average conditions are favored in the South Central and Southeastern states. The Precipitation Outlook favors above-average precipitation across the Southern tier of the country, from the southern half of California, across the Southwest, South Central and Gulf Coast states and Florida, and along the Eastern Seaboard to Maine. Below-average precipitation is forecast for the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest. The U.S. Seasonal Drought Outlook announced in midOctober and valid through January 2015 reflects the El Niño forecast and suggests drought improvement in portions of California, the Central and Southern Plains, the Desert Southwest, and portions of New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. However, it also suggests, drought is likely to persist or

The ups and downs of weather phases El Niño and La Niña are opposite phases of what is known as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle. The ENSO cycle is a scientific term that describes the fluctuations in temperature between the ocean and the atmosphere in the east-central Equatorial Pacific. La Niña is sometimes referred to as the “cold phase” of ENSO and El Niño as the “warm phase” of ENSO. These deviations from normal surface temperatures can have large-scale affects not only on ocean processes but also on global weather and climate. El Niño and La Niña episodes typically last nine to 12 months, but some prolonged events may last for years. They often begin to form between June and August, reach peak strength between December and April, and then decay between May and July of the following year. While their periodicity can be quite irregular, El Niño and La Niña events occur about every three to five years. Typically, El Niño occurs more frequently than La Niña. HW

/ January 2015

intensify in portions of California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. As well, new drought development is likely in northeast Oregon, eastern Washington, and small portions of Idaho and western Montana because a dry signal during El Niño winters usually develops.

Almanac and AccuWeather forecasts Of course, when it comes to weather forecasts, no one knows for certain how the winter will play out, and the 2015 edition of the “Farmers’ Almanac” paints a much colder picture of winter than does the CPC. The almanac says: “The winter of 2014–15 will see below-normal temperatures for about threequarters of the nation. A large zone of very cold temperatures will be found from east of the Continental Divide to the Appalachians. The most frigid temperatures will be found from the Northern Plains into the Great Lakes. The coldest outbreak of the season will come during the final week of January into the beginning of February, when frigid arctic air drops temperatures across the Northern Plains to perhaps 40 below zero. As the frigid air blows across the Great Lakes, snow showers and squalls will drop heavy amounts of snow to the lee of the Lakes.”

It goes on to predict: “No region will see prolonged spells of above-normal temperatures; only near the West and East Coasts will temperatures average close to normal.” Likewise, AccuWeather.com is anticipating a frigid winter in the Northeast. Its website says: “Cold air will surge into the Northeast in late November, but the brunt of the season will hold off until January and February. The polar vortex, the culprit responsible for several days of below-zero temperatures last year, will slip down into the region from time to time, delivering blasts of arctic air.” AccuWeather also predicts:

The Northern and Central Plains will endure roller-coaster temperatures. Fewer clipper systems than normal will reach down into the area, preventing high overall snow totals. The drought will persist in the Northwest and northern California and ease slightly farther south. Farther south, ice storms and snow events will threaten the Tennessee Valley and parts of the Southern Plains. Much of the South can prepare for a wet winter, with some severe weather encroaching on Florida. HW Hereford.org

RAUSCH HEREFORDS

REVOLUTION — ON TARGET SALE Over 60 Revolutions

in the

Offering

PRESIDENTS DAY • Monday, FEB. 16, 2015 140 BULLS — 50 top end yearling bulls — 90 top end 2-year-old bulls 30 REGISTERED HEIFERS from the top end of replacement • 170 Registerable replacement heifers Every bull indexed for best use on black cows • Every bull indexed for calving ease AVERAGE OF SALE BULLS PICTURED 90

100

Blood lines are tested for more than one generation. See www.RauschHerefords.com

Calv. Ease Direct

3.1

Birth Wt.

2.4

Weaning Wt.

Yearling Wt.

103

Milk

CEM

2.8

Scrotal Circ.

1.4

Fat 0.000

Rib Eye Area 0.55

Only the cream of the crop is offe ed from the Rausch Sire Evaluation Program.

IMF 0.17

BMI Index

$25

CEZ Index

$18

CHB Index

$35

TOTAL $78

BELOW BREED AVERAGE

Volume Selection

from

ABOVE BREED AVERAGE

Powerful Herd Bull Battery

50+ Rausch herd sires average well above breed average for growth while being well below average for birth weight. Yearling Bulls Heifers

Lot 1

Lot 2

R On Target 4374 • P43499811

Sire/Dam: On Target 936/Wideload

Lot 4

R On Target 5914 • P43499958

R A1 Centennial 4274 • 43525251

Sire/Dam: Churchill A1/Revolution

The Rausch cow herd has qualified 605 females for the Breed’s Dams of Distinction List since 1980.

Lot 142

Lot 143

R Miss Bonanza 134 • P43499498

R Miss New York 34 • P43499698

Lot 144

Lot 155

Sire/Dam: Bonanza 11051/Revolution

Lot 8

Sire/Dam: On Target 017/Ribstone

R Bonanza 4164 • P43499790

Sire/Dam: Bonanza 11051/Revolution

R Miss On Target 344 • P43499699

2-Year-Old Bulls

Sire/Dam: On Target 936 Wideload

Sire/Dam: York 19H/On Target

R Miss Revolution 544 • P43499723 Sire/Dam: Revolution/Navigator

R On Target 6403 • P43399512

Sire/Dam: On Target 017/Wrangler

GR New York 23 • P43399643

Sire/Dam: York 19H/Revolution

Lot 51

Lot 94

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CHURCHILL’S WORLD CLASS BULL SALE Tuesday, January 27, 2015 Year after year we have sold high-quality bulls at rancher prices by private treaty. This ear, these rancher bulls sell January 27, 2015 • At the Ranch CHURCHILL JIM DANDY 4158B ET

BW 2.6; WW 58; YW 95; MM 27; REA 0.64; MARB 0.20 BW 83 lb., WW 825 lb. AI son out of an Outcross cow, 0104X

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CHURCHILL LHF DOMINO 4141B ET

BW 3.7; WW 66; YW 101; MM 34; REA 0.36; MARB 0.14 BW 84 lb., WW 762 lb. 955W out of a 03571 cow Big time prospect

CHURCHILL SENSATION 4280B ET

BW 1.0; WW 55; YW 83; MM 28; REA 0.45; MARB 0.20 BW 87 lb., WW 720 lb. Sensation out of a 501 cow The ranchers kin

CHURCHILL LHF BAKKEN 4150B

BW 4.7; WW 67; YW 105; MM 34; REA 0.38; MARB 0.20 BW 98 lb., WW 859 lb. Bakken out of a 03571 cow New genetics

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GE•EPD BW 3.3; WW 74; YW 113; MM 37; REA 0.46; MARB 0.18 BW 90 lb., WW 804 lb. 955W out of a Sensation heifer Curve bender deluxe

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CHURCHILL DOMINO 4102B

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CHURCHILL DOMINO 4286B ET

BW 2.8; WW 56; YW 91; MM 33; REA 0.49; MARB 0.14 BW 93 lb., WW 754 lb. Domino 0130X out of 6124 donor Full sister was our high selling bred heifer

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CHURCHILL DOMINO 4203B ET

BW 5.2; WW 67; YW 108; MM 38; M&G 71; REA 0.81; MARB 0.09 BW 93 lb., WW 802 lb. 955 W out of an Outcross cow, 0185 He is very good

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CHURCHILL BLAIRS TRIUMPH ET

BW 1.2; WW 55; YW 82; MM 28; M&G 55; REA 0.46; MARB 0.07 BW 80 lb., WW 725 lb. Maternal brother to Sensation by 88X - could be the next Sensation April calf

CHURCHILL A1 4165B ET {DLF,HYF,IEF}

BW 1.5; WW 56; YW 91; MM 36; M&G 64; REA 0.34; MARB 0.28 BW 79 lb., WW 724 lb. AI out of Cooper cow 1177 by 955W and out of 440P

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CHURCHILL A1 4160B ET

BW 1.3; WW 56; YW 91; MM 37; M&G 65; REA 0.33; MARB 0.31 BW 79 lb., WW 728 lb. AI out of Cooper cow 1177 by 955W and out of 440P

100 Hereford Bulls and 26 Open Commercial Hereford Heifers Sell January 27 32

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CHURCHILL MANHATTAN 428B ET {DLF,HYF,IEF}

BW 0.8; WW 62; YW 97; MM 29; M&G 61; REA 0.70; MARB 0.18 BW 79 lb., WW 785 lb. Lot 1 by Sensation out of Outcross cow, 002X – one of our best ever!

CHURCHILL SURE BET 4195B ET {DLF,HYF,IEF} BW 0.8; WW 62; YW 97; MM 29; M&G 61; REA 0.70; MARB 0.18 BW 70 lb., WW 701 lb. Sensation out of Outcross cow, 002X Could be next great calving ease bull.

CHURCHILL RIBEYE 4154B ET {DLF,HYF,IEF}

BW 3.3; WW 58; YW 88; MM 28; M&G 57; REA 0.45; MARB 0.17 BW 94 lb., WW 836 lb. 88X out of an Outcross cow, 0200X - Big and fancy

CHURCHILL RED BULL 457B {DLF,HYF,IEF}

BW 1.9; WW 70; YW 110; MM 27; M&G 62; REA 0.68; MARB 0.11 BW 84 lb., WW 863 lb. Churchill Red Bull out of a Ribeye cow Curve bender

CCC GRAND LARCENY 4294B ET

BW 5.2; WW 66; YW 105; MM 27; M&G 60; REA 0.76; MARB 0.10 BW 85 lb., WW 785 lb. Outcross out of a Sooner cow, 9200 March calf

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CHURCHILL GAMER 4258B ET

BW 4.3; WW 58; YW 99; MM 20; M&G 49; REA 0.51; MARB 0.14 BW 89 lb., WW 706 lb. Game Changer out of a polled Yankee cow, 8001 March calf

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CHURCHILL GAMER 4179B ET

BW 3.0; WW 59; YW 94; MM 25; M&G 54; REA 0.56; MARB -0.01 BW 94 lb., WW 716 lb. Maternal brother to Sensation out of Game Changer

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Herd Rebuilding

Homemade Heifers Heifer development involves selection and management. by Heather Smith Thomas

It’s ideal for heifers to reach puberty quickly, but it’s more important not to get them fat, which can be detrimental to fertility, milking ability, calving ease, soundness and longevity. Easy-fleshing, efficient cattle reach puberty early on moderate feed without pampering. The goal is to have cattle that will perform optimally on forages, rather than having to supplement them with feed. The first step in a heifer program is to have the right genetics for efficient cattle.

Program for early breeding Idaho cattleman R.J. Hoffmann says he wants his heifers to all calve within the first 45 days of calving season. “I don’t go by the standard rule of thumb that a heifer has to be 65% of her projected mature body weight by breeding age. I pull a few out that are too big. If you consistently cull the top end as well as the bottom end on size, you won’t be continually

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eveloping a set of good replacement heifers is the goal of every breeder who raises his own replacements. With the price of cattle today, it is even more attractive for ranchers to keep and develop their own replacements. Success depends on many factors including age at puberty, herd health (biosecurity, vaccination program, parasite control, etc.) and nutrition. Fertility and age at puberty are heritable but are also influenced by nutrition. Heifers need optimal nutrition for growth and development including proper amounts of energy, protein, trace minerals, etc., but this doesn’t mean overfeeding. A heifer genetically programmed for early puberty and fertility on a moderate plane of nutrition will cycle earlier and be more successful for a long life of production than a less fertile heifer that is overfed to reach her target weight for breeding.

At Holden Herefords, Valier, Mont., replacement heifers are weaned on grass at the end of August. Their diet is supplemented with feed during the winter months.

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Weaning regime increasing frame size and weight Jack Holden of Holden Herefords, of your mature cows,” he says. Valier, Mont., is part of a family There’s a happy medium for that has been raising Hereford efficiency and fertility. Hoffmann seedstock more than 50 years. feels it’s better to have a medium“We have always developed our size cow that raises a big calf and heifers by starting them out at always breeds back quickly than weaning still on to have huge cows grass at the end of that eat more feed August,” he says. and don’t produce “If you “They are 7 months that much more consistently of age by then. We pounds of calf. wean them in a lot Sorting for cull the top for a few days, on a fertility is part of end as well as corn-based pellet that the selection process is 14% protein and in the Hoffmann the bottom 4% fat. They only herd. Most of his get between 2 and 3 end on size, cows and heifers lb. per day, and the calve during the you won’t be main reason we feed first three weeks of them — even when his calving season. continually they are back out on “I don’t see the increasing grass — is just to be point of calving heifers early, ahead frame size and out with them every day. This is partly of the cows, like weight of your to check for health some people do, and to get because my heifers mature cows.” issues, them used to people breed back quickly — R.J. Hoff ann amongst them enough,” he says. banging buckets, Any young etc. This helps with cow that doesn’t disposition issues and gentles breed back quickly is sold. This them nicely.” strategy puts constant selection He adds that this additional pressure on fertility. The heifers feeding is also a way to include that stay in his herd as cows have Bovatec in the diet. “I firmly generally come from a long line believe that feeding the ionophore of fertile females. Keeping more to heifers aids in earlier puberty,” heifers than needed through he says. “As soon as we get them first calving and then picking eating, we turn them out on the ones that bred quickly and hayfield aftermath, but still go out calved easily is the ultimate and feed the pellets once a day in selection tool. the morning.” There are advantages to Joe Van Newkirk, whose family keeping all heifers through has raised Hereford seedstock their first winter, making final near Oshkosh, Neb., for several selections at breeding time or generations, says his calves are right after the breeding season born February and March and based pregnancy — keeping the weaned the end of September pregnant heifers and selling the or first of October. “We don’t open ones. In today’s market, this fence-line wean but the cows are is an attractive option. Hereford.org

Winter feed programs Mark Elhke’s heifers are on grass and pellets for 60 days after weaning and are then sent to a development lot about 50 miles away during the winter months. “Historically we’ve done that because we don’t have room to winter them here,” Ehlke explains. “We are currently in the process of expanding our operation, and hopefully can keep the heifers here at home in the future. The folks who develop our heifers have done a great job but we hope to eventually have enough green feed that we can run the heifers out on that through winter. That way we can let them come along more slowly and not push them,” he adds. Jack Holden’s heifers are on grass after weaning, but Holden keeps feeding them a little through winter. Hereford.org

“When we have to add hay to their diet we use a chopped hay mix that contains some good alfalfa and barley straw,” he says. “We add a forage crop bale (either wheat forage that we planted or a hay/barley or pea type forage). We can also utilize first year (new seeding) hay, or rained on hay as a quarter of that mix, to add roughage.” Holden’s target is a 1.5 lb. per day gain, though the genetics of the herd generally allow them to hit 1.7 lb. per day. “They are efficient cattle and gain well,” Holden says. “We basically stay on that ration until February first. The pellets containing Bovatec are fed in bunks and the chopped hay in free-choice feeders and we keep those full,” he says. Around the first of February, Holden stops feeding pellets and takes yearling weights, keeping his heifers on chopped hay and an ionophore tub supplement. “This helps with feed efficiency and earlier puberty,” he says. “We continue this supplement on through breeding, which starts the first of April. They breed up nicely on this ration because we don’t have any green grass yet.”

Breeding program The Van Newkirk heifers are kept on a ground hay and sorghum silage ration until early April. “We then add a couple pounds of grain back in the ration about the time we start them on MGA for the artificial insemination (AI) protocol,” Van Newkirk says. “This helps flush them a little for breeding. We also add a comprehensive mineral to their feed at that time. It’s equal parts calcium and phosphorus and put it into the feed rather than free choice. It’s chelated, which is supposed to make it more bioavailable,” he says. After AI during early May, the heifers are left in confinement until they’ve gone through their next heat cycle. “We split them up after the AI and put cleanup bulls with them until they go to the range,” he says. After wintering on hay, Elkington heifers are vaccinated and synchronized for breeding. “About 30 to 40 days before we give them their synchronizing shots we put them on about 3 lb. of grain,” Elkington says. “After they are AI bred we immediately haul them to the range and turn them out with cleanup bulls. Studies have shown there is less early pregnancy loss from moving them if you do it quickly rather than leave them a few days.” Holden’s heifers weigh about 900 lb. by the time they go out with bulls and are well developed and cycling. “We pull the bulls out about May 20 after a 50-day breeding season,” Holden says. “We usually don’t have grass until May 10, so we’re about done breeding by the time they are on grass.” Holden says he usually has a 94-95% conception rate in a 50-day breeding season. “We might breed a few AI but we don’t do any synchronization programs,” he says. “Occasionally the bulls we want to turn out are still being collected. In that situation we

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right outside the corral,” he says. “We feed the calves a commercial pellet (complete feed) the first 3 weeks but we also put big bales of native hay out for them to eat free choice,” he says. After that, the heifers are sorted, and replacements are selected. “We put them on a ration of ground alfalfa hay, sorghum silage and about 5 lb. of wet corn. We also give them a supplement pellet that contains mainly minerals and vitamins and a little protein, just to balance the diet,” Van Newkirk says. The heifers are in a large pen and fed in feed bunks. They have a lot of room for exercise. “We keep them on that ration until early December, then remove the grain. We want to put a little bit of bark on them during the first couple months before they go into winter, but don’t want to get them fat. We don’t want fat in their udders,” he explains. Keith Elkington has been breeding Polled Herefords near Idaho Falls, Idaho since the 1960s. “We don’t baby replacement heifers,” he says. “We wean them at the upper ranch and bring them to the valley where we put them on round bales of hay. We don’t feed them any grain. They grow up a little more slowly but this shows which ones are efficient and able to perform on natural feeds, and they last longer as cows.” At weaning, heifers are given vaccinations prior to taking them off the cows. “They don’t need any other shots at weaning; all we do is use a pour-on and put them in the corrals. The cows stay up at the ranch and the calves are brought to the valley,” says Elkington. Mark and Della Ehlke raise registered Herefords near Townsend, Mont. “We wean the heifers like we do our bull calves, giving a pre-weaning round of vaccinations. When we take them off the cows we put them on a weaning pellet and free choice hay until they have quieted down,” Mark Ehlke says. Then they go on irrigated grass under a pivot. “They are born early and weaned while there is still green grass available. They are fed the weaning pellet — about 1.5 to 2 lb. a day,” he says.

Mark and Della Ehlke, Townsend, Mont., say their replacement heifers are given a pre-weaning round of vaccinations.

may do some AI at the start of the breeding season but mainly it’s natural service for the heifers.” There are advantages to just letting them be out with bulls. “Our heifers are in large pastures (40 to 80 acres) all winter and move around a lot. I prefer this method of developing heifers as opposed to confinement for feeding and breeding,” he says. The Ehlke heifers, by contrast, are in a confinement heifer development program because there isn’t room at home. “About 30 to 40 days prior to breeding we increase their feed and give them a Multimin shot,” Ehlke says. “We’ve had very good luck with

that, regarding number of heifers that conceive at first cycle AI breeding.” All the heifers are bred AI at least once. “Whether we leave them in for another cycle depends on when the turnout pastures are ready. Normally they just get one round of AI and they are ready to come home, and we put them out with low birth weight cleanup bulls,” he explains. The challenge of developing a great set of heifers boils down to a combination of genetics and management, with a good health program as a supporting factor. HW

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JA L1 Domino 0214

43129984 • Sire: CL 1 Domino 555R BW WW YW MM M&G REA MARB 3.8 50 88 26 51 0.11 0.04

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42717039 • Sire: GB L1 Domino 935C BW WW YW MM M&G REA MARB 2.5 47 73 22 46 0.20 0.13

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Three Steps to Negotiating

a Great Cow Lease Cow leasing, if done properly, can be advantageous to both parties in the agreement. by Harlan Hughes in BEEF, beefmagazine.com

oday’s record-high market prices are renewing interest in leasing beef cows. Doing so allows a rancher to run more cows without the added capital investment. Meanwhile, outside investors can gain a potential return on investment capital plus a tax advantage from the cow depreciation. Cow leasing, if done properly, can be advantageous to both parties. A common question I get on cow leasing is how the calf crop should be shared. In other words, what’s an equitable lease arrangement? A typical cow lease is one where one partner owns the cows and perhaps the bulls, while the other partner provides facilities, feed and labor. I’ll refer to the outside investor as the “cow owner” and the partner running the cows as the “working rancher.” The cow owner gets the cullcow income, while the owner of the bulls gets the cull-bull income. Typically, the cow owner wants total control of the genetics of the herd, so the cow owner typically owns the bulls. This arrangement, however, is negotiable in the lease. Here’s my three-step process for setting up an equitable beef-cow lease. In this example, I’ll use my 2014 beef-cow budget for eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska.

Step 1:

Assemble the herd production facts for the beef cow herd producing 2014 fall-weaned calves.

The partners should never mix replacement heifer development into the beef-cow lease. It’s a bookkeeping nightmare, and

someone typically gets taken. I recommend that heifer development be contracted out to a third party, with heifer development the sole responsibility of the cow owner. My study herd’s production data are summarized in Figure 1. This herd weaned 256 live calves in fall 2014 for an 87% calf crop. The herd’s average fall-2014

weaning weight was 584 lb. for steer calves and 554 lb. for heifer calves. This generated 495 lb. of weaned calf per female exposed. The herd’s average culling rate was 14%, and the average heifer conception rate was 80%. Cow death loss was 1%. These are the minimum production records I recommend for any leased beef cow herd.

Figure 2: Total economic cost summary for each business partner in proposed lease 2014 calves

Total gross income/cow (excluding heifer replacement)

$ total

Cow owner share

Working rancher share

$1,527

Winter feed costs/head

$162

Winter feed costs/lb. gained

$0.64

Returns over winter feed costs

$1,213 Pasture cost

$162

$200

$200 Return over total feed costs

$1,013

Non-feed costs

$202

Vet and medicine costs/cow

$18

Returns over direct production costs

$794

Replacement animal costs (gross replacement cost)

$427

100%

Bulls

$96

Bull allocation

Figure 1: 2014 production data from my eastern Wyoming-western Nebraska study herd

100%

Avg. bull investment

-$5,000

Avg. cow investment

$2,000 $2,200

Females exposed

294

Live calves weaned

256

Capital investment/cow

Percent calf crop

87%

Labor, 8 hours

Pounds weaned/female exposed

495

Wages ($/hr.)

$12

Herd average culling rate

14%

Management (5% gross)

$79

Heifer conception rate

80%

5% capital investment

100%

$110

Percent cow death loss

$537

$756

42%

58%

Extra replacement heifers

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Purchase price = $2,000

Full economic costs

$1,293

Cost-sharing percentage under an equitable lease

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As mentioned before, the cow owner gets the cull-cow income, as well as any inventory changes (positive or negative) and all beefcow depreciation. Generally, the cow owner also provides all the pregchecked replacement heifers. In some leases, the working rancher provides the replacement heifers, as his owning them is one way for the working rancher to slowly gain investment control of the total herd. In about seven years, the entire herd will be the working rancher’s. This approach works especially well when the cow owner is a retiring rancher who wants to sell his cow herd over time in order to reduce his income-tax liability on the sale. The owner of the bulls gets the cull-bull income and buys all replacement bulls. The upper limit on acceptable cow and calf death loss can be set in the lease agreement to encourage proper management by the working rancher to protect the cow owner’s capital investment. Thus, cow losses up to that limit are the cow owner’s responsibility. Losses above that threshold are instead charged to the working rancher. This arrangement is negotiable at the time the lease is drawn up. A suggested standard is 1%-2%. Deciding who absorbs calf losses can also be negotiated. One suggestion is that losses up to 8% might be shared by both partners and that losses beyond that figure might go to the working rancher only. Again, this is done to encourage good management and should be negotiated in the lease agreement.

Step 2:

rancher. Labor cost is based on eight hours/cow, valued at $12/hour. Management cost is figured at 5% of gross income. Investment capital is figured at 5% of current market value. Cow herd depreciation, cow death loss and bull replacement are totaled in the “replacement animal cost” category and are allocated to the cow owner. The herd, in this example, ends the year with the same number of preg-checked females as it started the year; thus, there is no inventory change. Of the full economic costs, 42% are allocated to the cow owner, and 58% to the working rancher.

Step 3:

Determine the equitable lease.

Given this analysis, what’s an equitable lease? My analysis suggests a 58/42 lease is equitable, but I’d round it off to 60/40, with the working rancher getting 60% of the calf crop income and the cow owner getting 40%. Which partner gets steer calves and which partner gets heifer calves is negotiable. Another option is for the partners to divide the sale-barn receipts from the calves 60/40. Finally, put the lease agreement in writing. The lease period should run from weaning date one year to weaning date of the following year.

It’s also important to define and document the termination procedures before signing the lease. I suggest a two- or three-year lease with right of renewal under agreement of both partners. Use a lawyer to draft the final lease with the termination procedures spelled out clearly in writing for both parties. While legal battles are infrequent, they generally come about due to lack of a written termination agreement or a lease year ending other than at weaning time. Do your homework in developing a beef-cow lease, and it can be a win-win situation for both parties. HW

Prepare a full-cost economic budget for the leased herd.

The key, and more difficult, question behind a successful lease agreement is, “What’s a fair and equitable division of the herd’s weaned calf income?” I believe an equitable lease divides the calf crop into the same proportions each partner contributes to the full economic costs of the herd. These full economic costs are based on local pasture-rental rates, fairmarket value of the farm-raised feeds, annualized costs of assets used by the cow herd and the out-of-pocket costs of running the herd. Let’s calculate the full economic costs for the study herd. Production expenses need to be allocated on a “full economic cost basis.” This includes: ■ an interest charge for investment capital, ■ a labor charge for all labor used in the cow herd, ■ a management charge for running the cow herd. My study herd’s full cost summary is presented in Figure 2. Each major cost category is allocated to either the cow owner or the working rancher. Routine production costs tend to be allocated to the working Hereford.org

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BW 2.3; WW 47; YW 86; MM 38; REA 0.30; MARB -0.08

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43472063 • Calved: Jan. 12, 2014

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YW 81

MM REA MARB CHB$ 28 0.49 0.08 26

M 608Z Final Answer 493B

17778478 • Calved: Feb. 10, 2014 Sire: Sitz Final Statement 608Z • MGS: Connealy 044 062 ED BW C 10 .4

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SITZ FINAL STATEMENT 608Z

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SITZ UPWARD 472T

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Herd Rebuilding

Damper Disease in Young Calves Examining management practices can help prevent and minimize disease during calving season. by Heather Smith Thomas

any producers today are trying to build their herd numbers. With the price of replacement heifers at an all-time high, focus has been on keeping more heifer calves within the herd. The best place to start is preventing or minimizing losses and striving for a 100% calf crop with live, healthy calves.

Reducing scours The most common illness in young calves is scours. According to George Barrington DVM, professor of food animal medicine and surgery at Washington State University, diarrhea results in the greatest economic loss from disease in this age group. In beef calves, a recent study showed that 5.5% of calves die from diarrhea during the first three weeks of life. Some years are worse than others for disease. Bacteria, viruses or protozoa can cause intestinal infection and diarrhea. Whether or not calves get sick is often related to multiple factors including exposure (contact with pathogens and the “dose” of pathogens), level of immunity and stress. Good weather, clean ground and stress reduction, which includes shelter from bad weather and minimal confinement, can help reduce the incidence of scours. The Sandhills calving method, in which the cows that have not

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yet calved are moved to a new, clean pasture every two weeks, is one way to help prevent scours in young calves. “You want to keep the pathogens away from the youngest calves, and keep these babies away from the pathogens,” Barrington explains. Mark Hilton DVM, clinical professor of beef production medicine at Purdue University, says that if producers follow best management practices like the Sandhills calving system to keep the calving environment clean, potential for calf disease problems will be greatly minimized. “If you routinely have calves that get diarrhea or pneumonia, you need to find out why because this is not normal,” Hilton says. “I have herds that I’ve been working with here for 16 years that have never had a calf with scours, a young calf with pneumonia or a case of navel infection. These clients are proving that excellent management, clean environment and good nutrition are effective in disease prevention.”

Avoiding contamination Disease is usually a reflection of errors that happen somewhere during a calf’s life. Hilton says disease often occurs as an accumulation of errors and the goal is to pinpoint the two or three things causing disease and prevent them the next year.

“Realizing that calves will get exposed, it’s a matter of controlling the level of infection in a calf’s environment,” Barrington explains. “We know the pathogens are there, so we try to spread the calves out and minimize grouping them in small areas,” he says. Feeding is often necessary when winter and early spring pastures are not nutritionally adequate, but feeding concentrates cattle in a smaller area. “We can feed in a strategic manner, however, to promote more dispersal of the animals,” Barrington says. “If our feeding pattern can help spread them out, this can minimize problems. Sometimes a feeding area becomes contaminated quickly when space is limited or the ground is wet, and in other conditions more slowly. But in general, we know that contamination occurs in less than two weeks.” Barrington suggests moving feed bunks or round bale feeders often, and if feeding on the ground, producers should also keep moving to new areas. He also says feeding some distance away from the water source helps to reduce manure build up around a small area, but the most important thing is to never calve in your winter feeding area because it is highly contaminated. One rancher Hilton worked with could not remember a year without calf scours. “Every year for the past 20 years, about halfway through the season they’d start treating calves,” he says. Hilton took students to visit the rancher in order to determine ways to remedy his problem. They drew a diagram of all pastures and facilities and used photographs to brainstorm and to examine options.

No vaccine will make up for poor management, but vaccination can augment good management in a prevention program. — George Barrington DVM “He’d tell us what might work and what wouldn’t work, and we set up a Sandhills calving system for him,” Hilton says. “It wasn’t exactly like the one that David Smith and Dale Groteluechen helped originate, but it seemed workable. The next year, the rancher had no calf scours. He kept expecting to see some sick calves at some point, but it didn’t happen.” Preventing scours can be more challenging in some operations than others, especially if a producer is locked into a calving

season that puts newborns in bad weather and bad environmental conditions. This difficulty happens when cattlemen must calve in January and February to have yearling bulls old enough to sell or when Western ranchers depend on public land grazing and need to have the cows calved out and possibly bred again before they go to summer pasture. “The rancher we worked with was calving too early for good conditions, because he is a seedstock producer needing bull calves old enough to sell as yearlings,” he says. “We were still able to set up a system for him that worked. It was more of a challenge than for a producer who can calve in May,” he says. The ranch went from a yearly 50% scour incidence to none in one year, and the rancher is now expanding his herd. He was reluctant to do so in the past because he dreaded calving season but is now looking to purchase 40 additional cows. “I know a herd in Nebraska that calved in February and March because they were selling seedstock and fought scours and pneumonia. They finally decided to calve in August and September when weather was better. Instead of selling bulls at 14 months of age they are now 18-months-old, and it’s working great. Their cost of production went down. They are no longer fighting nature.”

Vaccinating Certain vaccines, given at the appropriate time during pregnancy, stimulate the cow to produce antibodies against some of the pathogens the calf will encounter. The calf receives this “instant immunity” by nursing her colostrum. Even if vaccinating pregnant cows enables them to produce a high level of appropriate antibodies for their colostrum, a calf must nurse on time to absorb those antibodies. “We can address specific immunity through vaccination,” Barrington says. “There is no one vaccine that will halt all problems, however, and trying to depend too much on vaccines won’t resolve a scour problem. No vaccine will make up for poor management, but vaccination can augment good management in a prevention program. The most time and effort should always be put toward proper management versus dependence on vaccination. It’s a mistake to skimp on management practices thinking you can cover yourself with the vaccine.” Hilton agrees. “We can’t rely on a vaccine to prevent scours or pneumonia,” he says. “The important thing to consider is the calf’s environment. Yet once in a while you do everything right and still get a sick calf that you can’t prevent. For these instances, you Hereford.org

Biosecurity need electrolytes on hand. If it sits there for 10 years and never gets used, that’s great, but any calf with diarrhea needs fluids, no matter what the cause.”

Asking for help Hilton says it may take making two or three minor changes to see improvement. If that is not the case, call other resources such as Extension beef specialists or veterinarians and seek their input. “They can all look at it from a little different angle and help find a way to make it work,” he says. “They might come up with some ideas you haven’t thought about or it may be a combination of what all of these people say. Sometimes the rancher comes up with a solution because they got him thinking about something he’d overlooked. Two or three heads are better than one.” Scours is highly contagious, and if one calf has it, more will be getting sick. “There is value in having the veterinarian come onto the farm to not only suggest proper treatment for that first one but he/she might be able to help you prevent the next 20 or 30 or 100 calves from having scours,” Hilton says. “If we can find out why that calf got sick and prevent the next ones from getting scours, that’s what’s important. Assessing the environment is key.” Sometimes it just helps to bring a fresh set of eyes to look at possible ways to improve the environment for calves with just a few management changes. It might mean taking all the cows that are left to calve and putting them in a new, clean pasture and giving those babies a chance to be born in a clean environment.

Barrington emphasizes two major strategies for disease prevention: 1) External biosecurity — reducing the likelihood of introducing an infectious disease agent into the herd such as being careful not to bring cattle into the herd that might expose your cattle to new pathogens — and 2) Internal biosecurity — reducing the likelihood of transmitting a disease that is already present. An example of the first strategy would be to avoid bringing home dairy calves to cows that lose their calves. A dairy calf might bring salmonella, cryptosporidium, or even Johne’s disease into a beef herd. For the second strategy, make sure your cows calve on new, clean ground rather than in your winter feeding area to minimize newborn calves’ contact with fecal material and contamination. The most common disease agents causing diarrhea in young calves are normal inhabitants of the GI tract of most healthy mature cattle. These organisms exist in low concentrations and without clinical signs of infection, according to Barrington. “Most cattle are exposed to continuous, low doses of these pathogens, shed by subclinically infected or immune herdmates,” he says. “When young, immunologically naïve calves are exposed to low doses, they too can develop immunity and not show signs of disease. However, if young calves are exposed to high doses, they

typically develop clinical disease and become ‘super shedders’ and release millions of pathogens per gram of feces. This super shedding contaminates the environment very quickly and puts other calves at a much higher risk for disease,” he explains. Younger calves that have less resistance, or that become exposed to a high level of pathogens, are most at risk. “There are some nasty bacteria like Salmonella that you don’t want to bring into your herd, but most of the others are already there,” he says. “Most of the viruses (rotavirus, coronavirus), protozoa (especially coccidia, and sometimes cryptosporidium) and even many E. coli are usually present in the herd. Preventing scours in young calves is mainly a matter of minimizing the exposure of young, immuno-naïve calves to these pathogens.” Barrington says it doesn’t hurt to have some exposure, because this stimulates the young calf to start building immunity, but calves become sick when they are exposed to an overwhelming level. “Since most of the pathogens that we’re concerned about are passed in feces — from adult cattle and from older calves that have come into contact with these pathogens — we want to keep young calves in a relatively clean pasture.” HW

Treating disease If a calf gets sick and needs fluids, providing timely treatment and isolating that calf and its mother can reverse the disease process quickly before disease pathogens are spread throughout the pasture. Hilton feels that an esophageal feeder is something every producer should have. “Pour boiling water through it after use, and clean it up really well before the next use. We don’t want to put something down a calf’s throat that’s full of bacteria.” He advises having a couple on hand — one for giving colostrum to newborns and another for treating sick calves — and prefers the kind with a slightly smaller bulb on the end of the probe. He says it is less abrasive to the throat tissues, especially if the calf needing treatment is small. It’s also a good idea to keep a few packages of colostrum replacer. “Make sure it’s a high quality replacer and not just a colostrum supplement,” Hilton suggests. “Ask your veterinarian which one is best. Then you’ll have it for an emergency if you ever have a heifer that tries to kill her calf or a cow that has a problem and there’s no colostrum for the calf.” Considering prevention of disease over treatment can lead to more live, healthy calves that will help you reach your production goals. HW Hereford.org

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Herd Rebuilding

Motherly Instinct Tips on assisting the bonding process.

Heifers unsure about motherhood

Hormones are key The bonding process is a complex blend of hormonal-induced and learned behavior. Mature cows that have already had calves are more apt to quickly mother their offspring than first-time heifers. Experience is part of the equation — older cows tend to be more consistent mothers with more maternal drive than heifers — but only a small part.

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Dr. Joseph Stookey, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, says hormones initiate and drive most of what we perceive as maternal behavior. “Some cows, especially older cows, become interested in any newborn calf, up to a week before they actually calve. Their hormone pump is already primed; those hormones are already reaching a level that makes them receptive to any new calf,” he says. “At the other end of the spectrum are cows that don’t have proper hormone profile or levels, and don’t want their calf. We see this most often in first-calf heifers or in some of the females we assist, or those that undergo a C-section. If it’s too much of a rodeo getting the cow in or she suffers too much trauma, she may be less interested in the newborn calf. There are other hormones overriding the whole system, due

Sometimes a heifer is confused or indifferent toward her calf at first. She may continue to lie there after the calf is born and not bother to get up. When she does get up,

she seems surprised to see this strange, new wiggling creature behind her. She may walk away, ignoring it, or kick the calf when it gets up and staggers toward her. Some heifers attack the calf if it tries to get up. If you had to pull a heifer’s calf, this procedure may disrupt the normal bonding process. If you take a newborn cold calf to the barn to warm and dry it before the dam has a chance to smell and lick it, this intervention may also disrupt proper bonding. “One technique that helps facilitate maternal response is smearing birth fluids across the muzzle and tongue of the dam following an assisted delivery,” Stookey says. “This seems to jump-start the maternal response. Simply moving the newborn to the front of the mother may not be sufficient stimulus to start the maternal behavior, especially for some first-calf heifers. Pouring feed onto a newborn calf may entice some reluctant mothers to approach the calf and eventually come in contact with birth fluids as they eat the feed. Any attractant that can stimulate the cow to lick the calf is useful.” If a heifer is not interested in her calf, help it nurse. The act of nursing triggers release of oxytocin, the hormone that stimulates uterine contractions and milk letdown, and makes a cow or heifer feel more motherly. In some instances, a heifer may not have much milk at first. Then as her milk starts to come in, she becomes more interested in her calf. If you can help the calf nurse the indifferent heifer a time or two, she usually will decide she likes it. You may have to restrain her for the nursing so she won’t run off or try to kick the calf. “If you can stimulate milk letdown a few times by assisting the calf in nursing, the hormone comes on board and improves maternal behavior,” Stookey says. “Oxytocin

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ccasionally you encounter a cow or heifer that doesn’t want to mother her newborn calf. Most reluctant mamas change their minds in a day or so and are good mothers from then on. A few seem to have a hormonal deficit, and even though you persuade them to mother the calf this year, they are reluctant again at the next calving. Most get better over time, but some are just as stubborn on their fifth calf as they were on their first.

to stress, pain, and some of the drugs used during a C-section,” says Stookey. Changes in progesterone and estrogen levels initiate the birth process, but rising oxytocin levels trigger maternal behavior. Oxytocin is released in the brain during birth. “Its presence in the olfactory bulb of the brain helps explain the role of odor in the bonding process, with the cow recognizing her calf by smell,” he says. “Cervical stimulation is crucial for proper hormonal triggers,” explains Stookey. Release of oxytocin is caused by stretching and stimulation of the cervix and birth canal. Cervical stimulation, the gradual dilation of the cervix as the feet of the fetus push against it with each uterine contraction and the subsequent passage of the fetus through the cervix, is one of the main triggers for oxytocin release. “With a C-section there isn’t much cervical stimulation, since the fetus doesn’t come through. This could be a factor when that cow is slow to mother her calf,” says Stookey. First-calf heifers produce less oxytocin than cows that have had previous calves, and their having a lower level of this hormone may be the reason why heifers may be less motherly and more apt to reject or abandon their calves. “Giving birth seems to prime the system and allows for release of larger quantities of oxytocin with subsequent births,” Stookey says. “Heifers are less experienced than cows, and also have lower levels of oxytocin release in the brain during calving.”

A newborn calf is assisted in the process of nursing, while its mother is restrained in a headcatcher with a foot tied back So she can’t kick at her baby. Hereford.org

can switch off a heifer’s aggression, reluctance or fear, and turn it into interest and mothering.”

Heifers strongly opposed to motherhood If a heifer doesn’t accept her new calf or viciously attacks it, you need to keep her from injuring or killing her calf. If she’s in a barn or pen she may slam it into the wall or fence. In an open field she may eventually get tired of rooting it around, knock it down and walk away. Sometimes the new mother’s instincts tell her this is something important and she must deal with it, but she’s not sure how. She smells it and starts bellowing and rooting it around, butting it with her head if it moves or tries to get up. She may knock it down when it tries to stand. She’s on the fight, ready to protect this new calf from anything and everything, but she’s confused and focuses all that aggression toward it. Usually, however, if you stay out of sight and just monitor the situation, the heifer gets it figured out. A clue that she’s going to be a good mother is that she is furiously licking the calf and mooing at it even as she knocks it around. She just needs a little time to transmit that motherly attitude in the right direction, encouraging it to the udder instead of rooting it around so harshly that it can’t get up. By contrast, if a heifer is not licking her calf and merely knocking it around with her head, you’ll have to intervene. If she just ignores it except when it moves and then charges at it, there’s a good chance she’s not going to mother the calf. Sometimes after the calf nurses, the aggressive heifer simmers down and starts to mother it, but reaching this point may take several supervised nursings, with the calf safe in a penned-off area between nursings so she can’t hurt it, until she changes her mind.

Leave hobbles on her hind legs so she can’t kick it at nursing time. If you don’t have a separate pen, put a panel across the corner of the stall or pen to make a safe enclosure for the calf. Let it out with her two or three times a day for nursing until she resigns herself to accepting it. Even the most stubborn heifer can be made to raise her calf if you are persistent, though her accepting the calf may take two or three weeks of supervised nursing. If she’s hobbled and you give her a flake of alfalfa hay to eat at nursing time, she may stand relatively still for the calf to nurse. If she is still aggressively resentful, trying to butt it with her head or smash it into the fence or wall, restrain her during nursing time. A stanchion or headcatcher works if it is in or near her stall or pen. You can give her a little hay or grain to eat while she’s restrained or put a halter on her and tie her up. If she’s only fed at nursing time, she’ll more willingly concentrate on food while the calf nurses and be less intent on attacking it. Usually after a couple of days of this supervision, even a stubborn heifer will let the calf nurse, and you no longer have to tie her. You may still have to supervise nursing for another day or so, but she won’t try to harm the calf each time. Eventually you’ll see clues that she’s tolerating it. You may find her standing next to its enclosure and content to be near it rather than at the far corner of her pen ignoring it. Once she starts to show a change of heart, mooing at the calf in its enclosure, licking it a

little while it nurses or worrying about it when you put it back into its own place after nursing, it’s usually safe to leave them together. Observe them awhile, to make sure she won’t harm the

calf. Even if she attempts to and you have to separate them again, it’s only a matter of time until she accepts it. Once she begins to change her mind, you know she will raise that calf. HW

Liberated woman My husband and my first experience with an unmotherly mama was a Hereford heifer 46 years ago. She calved quickly and easily, then got up and marched off. The calf bawled, and she looked back once to see what had made that noise but kept going. Her calf was not to be so easily deserted. He got to his feet and staggered after his departing mother, bawling plaintively. She didn’t want anything to do with him, kicking at him when we herded her back. So we brought the calf in the house and fed him a bottle. As I was drying the calf in the kitchen, my own young son needed a diaper change so I left he calf, which we named Tuffy, lying on towels. He’d been enjoying the towel rubbing and suddenly felt deprived; perhaps he thought that I, too, was suddenly deserting him. He lurched to his feet and wobbled after me into the living room, where I diapered my baby with the help of a blundering, slobbery calf I had to keep pushing away. Tuffy spent the night in the barn, after another bottle from us. The next morning, we were awakened by his mother bellowing. She was standing by the gate, bawling her head off. She had a full udder and this may have triggered maternal yearnings; sometime during the night she must have realized she had a baby. We brought Tuffy to her, and she immediately began licking and loving him, and he went right to her udder to start nursing. As he was slurping milk, she was licking his little rear end quite roughly as if to say, “Where ya been all this time, kid?” From that moment on, they were a bonded pair. She was a perfect example of delayed reaction to calving. HW

Dog trick Sometimes if a cow won’t mother her calf, you can kick-start her protective instincts and change her mind by bringing a dog into the pen or nearby. The urge to protect a calf from predators is so strong that this trick will often get a cow excited and upset about the dog, and she will think about the calf and want to protect it. This trick may help her develop an interest in the calf and start to mother it. PHOTO BY CATHY WRIGHT

Restraining the mother If a cow or heifer refuses to mother her calf, keep the pair in separate adjacent pens or stalls for a few days so she can’t hurt it. Hereford.org

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where their food comes from and want ethnically diverse foods. Lundeen said, “This is what [consumers] want from beef — make it easier, make it healthier, make it cheaper.” He added that the beef industry is enjoying high prices and that consumers are willing to pay for beef as long as the taste is superb. As far as those who have been priced out of eating beef are concerned, Lundeen said when supply catches up and prices soften, “Some [consumers] will come back because of price, but others we will have to fight for because they’ve found something else that their family likes.”

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The Beef Checkoff-funded Beef Innovations Group works to meet consumer demand. by Sara Gugelmeyer

n beef production, there is oftentimes a disconnect between cattlemen and the person eating the food. When a rancher goes out to chop ice every day this winter, he is probably not thinking about how the marketplace is changing and what that means for the way next year’s calf crop will end up on a fork. The Beef Innovations

Group (BIG), funded by the Beef Checkoff, works diligently to bridge that gap and to marry beef products and consumer wants. BIG invited media to its kitchen in Denver last November to share how it’s helping beef producers.

What is BIG?

Wasser demonstrates the method to remove the flat iron steak from the shoulder clod of the chuck primal.

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BIG’s mission is to lead, inspire and aid beef product developers by contributing premier knowledge, skills, tools and ideas which will accelerate product innovations and new product introductions and ultimately to improve the sales, profits and competitive position of beef products in the marketplace. BIG Executive Director Steve Wald explained at the media event that BIG incorporates expertise from meat scientists, food scientists, product developers, researchers, chefs, packaging experts, marketers and even plant operators. “We have a group of staff, but we also have volunteers and contractors,” Wald said. “These people come together to move the industry forward in the areas of product development.”

Today’s beef consumer: • According to Lundeen, the majority, 62%, of American households have only one to two people

healthy choices and do more cooking at home

Who is today’s beef consumer? Millennials, 80 million strong, use social media as a major information source, and their beef knowledge is lower than previous generations. They want to know

• Two-thirds, 70%, of women are working and say that 60 minutes from start of prep to table is too long

Wald added that the group looks for new cuts, like they did with the flat iron steak, as well as innovative technologies. Because of detailed market research, the group is focusing on convenience products and new menu ideas for restaurants. “The Beef Innovations Group acts as a catalyst for new product development,” Wald said. “We’re looking for game changers or something that is really going to move the industry forward.” Because the Millennial generation, people born between 1980 and 2000, is even greater than baby boomers in numbers, a lot of the focus is placed on Millennials’ buying preferences. “They are the new, hurried family; they’re technologically advanced, but time-starved,” Wald said. Much of BIG’s focus is based on the research presented by John Lundeen, senior director of market research for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA). Lundeen also presented his market research at the Hereford Genetic Summit in September. Read more in the October Hereford World.

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• While safety concern over chicken has been nearly the same since 2002, only 10% of consumers cited beef in the supermarket as their highest safety concern, down from 19%

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Laura Hagen, BIG culinary senior director showed attendees around the Beef Checkofffunded Culinary Innovations Center.

technology Bridget Wasser works hard to teach everyone from consumers to foodservice workers to packers about beef. Wasser gives presentations about beef harvesting and cutting to various groups. For example, she might give a presentation to chefs or restaurateurs about different cuts within the shoulder clod of the chuck primal. This is where the flat iron steak comes from, and she demonstrates the method used to remove it from the shoulder by hand. The flat iron steak was just one cut made successful through the muscle profiling research done by BIG in the 1990s. The research showed that this muscle was the second most tender in the carcass. But, before the research, it was grouped with many other less tender muscles and lost its value to the consumer. “We call it the ten-year overnight success, because it took so long to be accepted, mostly because of difficulty cutting,” Wasser said. “It needed more processing.” Now many restaurants and grocery stores sell the flat iron steak. Wasser said there was 71 million lb. of flat iron sold into food service in 2013. That’s compared with the porterhouse and T-bone combined selling only 65 million lb. According to a CattleFax estimate, BIG muscle profiling research has added $50 to $60 per carcass already, and Wasser said BIG is still working to make other underutilized cuts as popular as the flat iron with that research. “Through product education, (chefs, retailers and more) want to know where they can get these cuts. We help marry relationships and develop interest to build supply. We help drive demand from all segments,” Wasser said. See Figure 1 for other cuts that BIG now has in various stages of development from information gained in the muscle profiling study. Even the middle meats need help because increased carcass size has resulted in cuts too big for consumers. Hereford.org

“Carcass weights are increasing over time and cut sizes are increasing over time as a result. We hear that complaint a lot. They’re challenged with size too big. The temptation is to cut steaks thinner to stay at 12 ounces, which makes them more difficult not to overcook. The research is to find ways to cut the steaks up,” Wasser said.

Meal solutions Director of Innovations and Product Solutions Shenoa French explained how working closely with the research team has helped identify consumer perceptions and problems with beef. For example, it was discovered, through consumer research, that most Americans freeze ground beef after purchase. Then it must be thawed before cooking, and thawing adds prep time, or if it’s done on the counter, it could cause a safety problem. So BIG has rolled out a graphic and a video on how to properly thaw ground beef in just a couple of minutes. Watch it on YouTube under the “Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner” channel. Also, about 43% of Americans freeze steaks before use. So, BIG has discovered that steaks can be cooked from frozen with just a few extra minutes of cook time. There is a handy chart distributed by BIG which gives guidelines on how to do just that. Another goal of BIG is to make eating beef easier. Consumers want a fresh, wholesome, homecooked meal on the table in 30 minutes or less. So, BIG is working on new products in new packaging. In one easy-to-read, eye-catching package, consumers can buy a cut of fresh beef, specific seasonings that will make that beef taste great and simple tried-and-true instructions so a rushed mother can make a beef meal delicious with little effort. A very exciting project BIG has been working on is making fresh, center-of-plate entrées that can be cooked in the microwave. Just being released into test

BIG has other cuts of beef in various stages of development from information gained in the muscle profiling study. According to a CattleFax estimate, BIG muscle profiling research has added $50 to $60 per carcass. According to Bridget Wasser, BIG executive director of meat science and technology, they are working on product education to build interest in underutilized cuts.

stores are microwave seasoned tri-tip, microwave seasoned coulottes (sirloin) and mess-free microwave ground beef. All are in microwaveable, ready-to-cook packaging. All the consumer has to do is pop it in the microwave and then enjoy tasty, heathful beef in less than 20 minutes. The packaging includes a built-in drain feature so the cook doesn’t need to worry about a mess. Also in test markets are 3-in-1 skillet meals. One example is a beef strip kit with three different seasoning options: stroganoff, beef stew or an Asian entree. That way shoppers have three options when they get home, but all ingredients are included for each. Because so many shoppers are getting food to-go from the grocery store deli, BIG is looking for ways to tap into the chickendominated cold and hot delis. Now in the store test-marketing phase is the oven-roasted beef meal solution, which can be sold in the deli as premium roast beef, continued on page 50...

Checkoff-funded consumer research showed that most Americans freeze ground beef after purchase. Thawing before cooking adds prep time and could be a safety concern if not done properly. BIG produced a graphic and video on how to properly thaw ground beef in just a couple of minutes. Visit BeefItsWhatsForDinner.com for a full-size version of the graphic.

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Certified Hereford Beef Innovations smoked brisket, meatballs, shredded beef and premium hand held options.

The next big thing Wald was excited to share the latest, greatest innovation: the new and improved slow-cooker roast. All ingredients are ready to go in the package the cook only needs to drop the whole thing into a slow cooker and go. The meat is trimmed and seasoned and will be cooked to deliciousness by the end of the day. The consumer can use it for a variety of recipes or eat it as is. In focus groups, this product performed outstandingly. “Most consumers were excited about how easy it was to prepare and most of all easy to clean up. They used the meat to prepare sandwiches, tacos, beef and noodles which created a new use for a roast they otherwise wouldn’t have bought,” Wald said. Wald added that there are also exciting implications for foodservice, as anyplace with an outlet can be used to cook these products. As early as fall 2015, these products could be in stores and delis. HW

There are exciting improvements happening within Certified Hereford Beef LLC as well. Mick Welch, vice president of sales, says that while right now the main focus is to sell boxed beef, CHB staff is always looking for opportunities in the marketplace. “Value added products come in many venues and take time to introduce to our current offerings,” Welch explains. “New hires such as Mike Mitchem, director of food service, will be instrumental in education and distribution to launch new products.” Mitchem and Welch say an important sell for them has been ground beef patties. “The thing we’ve really gone after strongly are ground beef patties — fresh and frozen. Ground beef is such a huge part of the foodservice industry; we’ve had success especially with fresh beef patties,” Welch says. CHB LLC has partnered with a number of ground beef processors to supply patties to foodservice customers and retailers. “The real challenge has always been keeping product fresh and so the majority of these companies are set up so products enjoy a 28-day shelf life,” Welch explains. One innovative way CHB LLC is reaching consumers is through the ground beef brick program. Instead of traditional chubs where the beef is hidden behind the packaging, CHB is offered in bricks with attractive labeling but clear, mess-free vacuum packaging. Andrew Brooks, vice president of marketing, points out that CHB LLC staff is working to produce stew meat for a beef stew. It’s still in the early phases, but it’s a value-added product that really fits what customers are looking for. Plus, expanding to different venues is a way to build on the Hereford name, Welch says, to get the product to more customers. “We are also looking at pre-cooked products, like corned beef and pastrami,” Welch says. “There are a lot of things we can work

Mick Welch, CHB LLC vice president of sales, says ground beef patties, fresh and frozen, are a popular product in the foodservice industry. CHB LLC partners with distributors to supply ground beef to foodservice customers.

on that will be an additive to our current boxed beef program.” He points out that CHB LLC packing partners like National Beef Packing Co. work diligently to develop products and to make them available in stores. It’s CHB’s job to provide the packers with the beef. One product that is already available and seeing success is the flat iron steak. It’s available where CHB is sold as a case-ready cut. The shopper can then buy flat iron steaks, cook them and then slice them or slice and then cook them. Welch adds, “We are always interested in a way to sell CHB. Whether that idea comes from our immediate staff or an outside source like BIG, we look at those offerings very seriously and see how we can apply it to expanding our awareness of our brand in the market. Ultimately we look for ways to market more beef, that’s our goal, to utilize the majority of that carcass in any way we possibly can. But it has to be of value and it has to be consumer driven.” HW

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Gerber Revolution 021Y

Sire: MSU TCF Revolution 4R • MGS: Feltons Domino 774 CE 4.0 (.33); BW 2.8 (.45); WW 62 (.36); YW 103 (.40); MM 21 (.24); M&G 52; MCE 0.9 (.29); MCW 103 (.36); SC 1.4 (.33); FAT 0.048 (.30); REA 0.60 (.30); MARB 0.27 (.27); BMI$ 26; CEZ$ 18; BII$ 21; CHB$ 33

Hyalite On Target 936 {CHB}{DLF,HYF,IEF}

Sire: Schu-Lar On Target 22S • MGS: KT Top Secret 1030 CE 3.8 (.36); BW 3.0 (.81); WW 73 (.71); YW 122 (.72); MM 23 (.29); M&G 59; MCE 2.7 (.29); MCW 119 (.46); SC 1.8 (.58); FAT 0.016 (.51); REA 0.72 (.51); MARB 0.18 (.48); BMI$ 29; CEZ$ 19; BII$ 23; CHB$ 39

EFBeef U208 Fortune Z088 ET {DLF,HYF,IEF}

Sire: EFBeef Foremost U208 • MGS: Feltons Legend 242 CE 6.7 (.30); BW 0.5 (.43); WW 56 (.35); YW 99 (.37); MM 18 (.17); M&G 46; MCE 2.5 (.25); MCW 79 (.34); SC 1.3 (.31); FAT 0.040 (.29); REA 0.57 (.28); MARB 0.33 (.26); BMI$ 27; CEZ$ 22; BII$ 22; CHB$ 33

Additional sires of bulls selling: MSU TCF Revolution 4R, EFBeef Foremost U208, Schu-Lar On Target 22S, TRM 4263 Clean River 2008 ET, Gerber Tribute T047 and CRR About Time 743.

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Continuing the Conversation During the Hereford Genetic Summit Sept. 4-5, 2014, Hereford breeders were challenged to embrace technology, focus on the customer, and concentrate on feed efficiency and end product merit to help position the breed to gain more commercial market share. We will “continue the conversation” in upcoming Hereford World issues as we discuss with breeders key take-home messages from the conference and as an Association we continue to build a roadmap for improving Herefords’ position in the cattle industry. For a complete summary of the event, visit HerefordGeneticSummit.com or see the October Hereford World. This issue:

Sharing the Story

Stewardship Insight An industry expert shares the proactive approach being taken to address society’s shifting animal agriculture concerns. by Kindra Gordon

rained as a veterinarian, Gerald Stokka has always been interested in animal care. His career has included seven years in private practice, 12 years on the faculty at Kansas State University and 11 years as a member of the Pfizer Animal Health veterinary operations team working from Cooperstown, N.D. In 2012 he began a new role with North Dakota State University as a “livestock stewardship Extension specialist.” Stokka explains that his “stewardship” position — and others like it at land-grant universities — is being created to take a proactive approach in assisting livestock producers, primarily beef producers, and the consuming public in understanding one another. In his role Stokka says his goal is “to help restore trust, respect and communication between agriculture and the consumers of our products.”

The stewardship story Quality, taste and safety remain at the top-of-mind for consumers today, but for the 80 million Millennial consumers, born between 1980 and 2000, even more is expected of cattlemen and the beef industry. “Transparency is expected,” explained John Lundeen, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) senior executive of market research, at the Hereford Genetic Summit on Sept. 5. Lundeen shared with attendees why they need to consider the consumer when making management decisions. “Consumers don’t necessarily want to know a lot, but they want to know a little. They also want to see continuous improvement. With Millennials you’ll hear about social responsibility and sustainability. We have to continue to tell the story about how we are caretakers.” Lundeen said supermarket chains and restaurants are moving toward adopting a set of animal welfare standards. “We need to get ahead of the curve of what they expect,” he said. “Consumers mistrust science or they find their own science on the Internet. We have to do a better job of telling our story about growth enhancements and why the feedyard exists and put it into terms of benefits and how it gets them quality, consistent, safe and tasty product.” HW

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He points out, “Due to the current structure of our society, there are very few of us directly involved in utilizing renewable resources – sunshine, moisture, forage and grain – to produce food. As a result the vast majority of our population no longer connect or understand the ‘culture’ that is agriculture.” Stokka notes the widening disconnection that has intensified between rural and urban people over the past decade. To address this, Stokka’s efforts have included helping audiences in agriculture to understand what stewardship is all about – and asking them for their help in communicating with consumers. Stokka says, “I cannot do this alone. At every opportunity I challenge, yes even coerce, producers to be willing to take on the challenge of being a spokesperson.” The audiences he works with are, of course, producers, veterinarians and others involved in agriculture. But additionally, he is aiming to reach the consuming public with messages about production agriculture. In communicating with consumers, Stokka says he strives to share information from an objective, scientific standpoint when possible, but he also tries to encompass the passion producers have for what they do. “Producing food – agriculture – is a culture that deserves all of our respect. However, we cannot demand respect, in some cases we [agriculture] need to earn it back.”

Defining stewardship

different audiences, Stokka acknowledges that there are various terms and definitions that encompass animal welfare, animal care, stockmanship and stewardship. He says, “The definition I use and want people to remember is this: Stewardship is the careful and responsible management of things entrusted to one’s care.” Stokka says that definition is from Webster’s dictionary, and he particularly likes the use of the word “entrusted.” He continues, “What are those things entrusted to us in agriculture? They are land, livestock, people. We have a philosophical reason to carefully and responsibly manage these resources. If not us, then who? Only those who have a vested interest, and not just materially, will manage these properly.” Stokka also adds one more item to the list, saying, “We have a responsibility to be stewards of the ‘truth.’ We can no longer sit back and allow untruths and misleading statements about agriculture, food, diets, and the people in our culture to go unchallenged.” Looking to the future, Stokka says his goal in addressing stewardship issues is to be a responsive, knowledgeable resource for the industry and to help producers lay as much groundwork as possible in educating and earning trust from consumers in order to stay ahead of issues that may harm agriculture. HW

As he carries the message of livestock stewardship to

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Horned and Polled Herefords Since 1966

Selling 50-head of 2-year-old fall yearling and yearling Hereford and Red Angus bulls 20 Hereford and Red Angus heifers Monday, March 9, 2015 Cattleman’s Connection Bull Sale 1 p.m. at Spring Cove Ranch, Bliss, Idaho

Selling JBB/AL 2809 Thor 4094 (P43477200)

Selling AL MS 88X Ribeye 4009 (P43477237)

CE 0.2; BW 4.9; WW 60; YW 101; MM 23; M&G 53; REA 0.70; MARB 0.10; CHB$ 32

CE 4.6; BW 1.4; WW 56; YW 81; MM 27; M&G 55; REA 0.34; MARB 0.11; CHB$ 28

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Pictured above with her dam and also below

Selling JBB Ribeye 88X 4045 (43477253) CE 6.3; BW -0.2; WW 53; YW 76; MM 30; M&G 57; REA 0.23; MARB 0.21; CHB$ 29

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2014 NAILE Reserve Champion Bull RC Bohlin 307 ET {DLC,HYF,IEF} Sire: BR Currency 8144 ET • MGS: CS Boomer 29F BW WW 3.7 57

YW 93

MM 26

M&G 54

FAT 0.019

REA 0.40

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2014 NAILE Winter Bull Calf Champion

RC Grizzly 3U 362

Sire: H W4 Grizzly 0146 ET • MGS: Remitall Online 122L BW WW 3.9 57

YW 98

MM 25

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FAT -0.013

REA 0.69

MARB 0.10

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RIVER CIRCLE FARM 615-374-2883 • 615-633-1913 Martha Dixon • Julie Chapin 6940 Hwy. 141 S. • Hartsville, TN 37074 rivercirclefarm@bellsouth.net

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North American International Livestock Exposition

Chac Mason 2214, DeLHawk Sapphire 102A ET Top National Hereford Show in Louisville Chac Mason 2214 won the bull show and DeLHawk Sapphire 102A ET topped the female show at the North American International Livestock Exposition Monday, Nov. 17 in Louisville, Ky. Lydell Meier, Clinton, Tenn., judged the 317-head show. Prior to

Chac Mason 2214

the selection of the grand champion bull, he complimented exhibitors on the quality shown throughout the day adding it was one of the deepest quality shows he had ever judged. Lydell also complimented Hereford breeders and the Association for making impressive strides within the industry.

Grand and champion senior bull, by Gary and Kathy Buchholz, Waxahachie, Texas; Eleanor James, Sherman, Ill.; and Prairie Rose Cattle Co., Sherman, Ill., with a Feb. 6, 2012, son of CRR About Time 743.

BW 3.9 WW 51 YW 77 MM 26 M&G 52

BW 3.7 WW 57 Reserve grand and champion yearling bull, by River Circle Farm, Hartsville, Tenn., with YW 93 MM 26 a Jan. 15, 2013, son of BR Currency 8144 ET. M&G 54

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Grand and champion senior bull honors went to Chac Mason 2214, owned by Gary and Kathy Buchholz, Waxahachie, Texas; Eleanor James, Sherman, Ill.; and Prairie Rose Cattle Co., Sherman, Ill. The Feb. 6, 2012, bull is sired by CRR About Time 743. River Circle Farm, Hartsville, Tenn., exhibited the reserve grand champion bull, RC Bohlin 307 ET. The Jan. 15, 2013, son of BR Currency 8144 ET was first named champion yearling bull. Garrett Post, Shabbona, Ill., won the grand champion female honors with DeLHawk Sapphire 102A ET. The April 5, 2013, daughter of CRR About Time 743 was also named reserve grand champion female in the junior show.

JTH SC Kiss & Tell 20A ET by UPS TCC Nitro 1ET was chosen reserve champion female after winning the junior yearling division. The Jan. 31, 2013, female is owned by Devin Hay, Leesburg, Ind. The premier breeder and premier exhibitor banners went to Purple Reign Cattle Co., Toulon, Ill. This was their eighth year to take home premier breeder honors. In the junior show on Sunday, Nov. 16, Judge Jeff Jackson, Stephenville, Texas, evaluated 181 head. Cassidy Hanson, Linn Grove, Iowa, exhibited the champion heifer, Purple Jaxon 36A ET, by AH JDH Cracker Jack 26U ET. Visit Hereford.org for complete North American International Livestock Exposition results. HW

DeLHawk Sapphire 102A ET

Grand and champion spring yearling female, by Garrett Post, Shabbona, Ill., with an April 5, 2013, daughter of CRR About Time 743.

JTH SC Kiss & Tell 20A ET

Reserve grand and champion junior yearling female, by Devin Hay, Leesburg, Ind., with a Jan. 31, 2013, daughter of UPS TCC Nitro 1ET.

BW 2.7 WW 54 YW 79 MM 25 M&G 52

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BW 973H Sugar & Spice 215Z ET

Champion cow-calf pair, by Lance Wirth, New Richmond, Wis., with a May 4, 2012, daughter of Remitall Online 122L and her March bull calf by TH 122 71I Victor 719T.

JLCS 9438 She’s Darn Kool Z21

Reserve champion cow-calf pair, by Blu Oil Land, Fairlawn, Ohio, with a Feb. 27, 2012, daughter of MSU TCF Revolution 4R and her February heifer calf by THM Hickson 2056.

Premier breeder and premier exhibitor — Purple Reign Cattle Co., Toulon, Ill.

ADDITIONAL DIVISION RESULTS Spring calf champion heifer: Melissa Grimmel, Jarrettsville, Md., with GGSC Carlee 6B by CRR About Time 743. Reserve spring calf champion heifer: Purple Reign Cattle Co., Toulon, Ill., with Purple Magnolia 93B ET by RS 45P Magnum 91Y. Junior calf champion heifer: Keysto Stotz, Skiatook, Okla., with MKS 4R 15U Ballerina 24B ET by MSU TCF Revolution 4R. Reserve junior calf champion heifer: Payton Farmer, Brownstown, Ind., with CFCC EF Amaryllis 155B ET by Purple Milsap 45S. Winter calf champion heifer: Rylee Barber, Channing, Texas, with KLD BR Chloe D310 ET by RW KW Hummer K23 3078. Reserve champion winter calf heifer: Marie Lock, Avon, Ill., with LCC ML She’s All Foxy by RST Time’s A Wastin’ 0124. Senior calf champion heifer: Rayne Starkey, Pisgah, Ala., with RRO TRM Chanel 3136 ET by Purple MB Womanizer 14U ET. Reserve champion senior calf heifer: Andrew Chastain, Danielsville, Ga., with Innisfail Partisover Olivia A2 by CRR About Time 743. Intermediate champion female: Sydney Wisnefski, Wyoming, Ill., with Purple Gerri 93A by Purple MB Womanizer 14U ET. Reserve intermediate champion female: Jay Blake and Blake Herefords, Brookston, Ind., with Blake Scarlett 319 by H Excel 8051 ET. Reserve spring yearling champion female: Payton Farmer with EF PF Mae 523 3133 ET by Purple Milsap 45S. Reserve junior yearling champion female: Payton Farmer with CFCC Hope 910A by STAR Shock Wave 13Y ET. Senior yearling champion female: Cash Langford, Okmulgee, Okla., with Langfords Cinderella 2400 ET by BR DM TNT 7010 ET. Reserve senior yearling champion female: Matthew Murphy, Douglasville, Ga., with LPH MTM Kitsie 122L Z427 ET by Remitall Online 122L.

Champion cow-calf pair: Lance Wirth, New Richmond, Wis., with BW 973H Sugar & Spice 215Z ET by Remitall Online 122L, shown with a March bull calf by TH 122 71I Victor 719T. Reserve champion cow-calf pair: Blu Oil Land, Fairlawn, Ohio, with JLCS 9438 She’s Darn Kool Z21 by MSU TCF Revolution 4R, shown with a February heifer calf by THM Hickson 2056. Spring calf champion bull: Payton Vogel, Hartley, Iowa, with MAV Premonition 414B by BH MR Kutter 3011 ET. Reserve spring calf champion bull: TNB Herefords, Hull, Ga., with TNB Trust Issues 109 ET by NJW 73S M326 Trust 100W ET. Junior calf champion bull: TNB Herefords with TNB Advanced Placement 105 ET by GO 3196 Advance S109. Reserve junior calf champion bull: Purple Reign Cattle Co. with Purple Playmaker 15B ET by NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET. Winter calf champion bull: River Circle Farm, Hartsville, Tenn., with RC Grizzly 3U 362 by H W4 Grizzly 0146 ET. Reserve winter calf champion bull: Walker Dunn, Cochranton, Pa., with WD 719T Sharp Dressed Man 3256 by TH 122 71I Victor 719T. Senior calf champion bull: Trademark Genetics, Pikeville, Tenn.; Burns Farms, Pikeville, Tenn.; and Paquette Hereford Ranch, St Anne, Ill., with BF TMG 485T Redemption 3165 by KJ HVH 33N Redeem 485T ET. Reserve senior calf champion bull: Perks Ranch, Rockford, Ill., with Perks Money In Ur Pocket 3143 by BR Currency 8144 ET. Intermediate champion bull: Purple Reign Cattle Co. and Zachary Hopkins, Winchester, Tenn., with Purple Jango Fett 101A ET by KJ HVH 33N Redeem 485T ET. Reserve champion intermediate bull: Rock Ridge Herefords, Versailles, Ky., with PHH Rock Ridge Courageous 385 by CRR About Time 743. Reserve yearling champion bull: S&W Polled Herefords, Burnsville, Miss., with S&W 144U High Octane 17A ET by GO 3196 Advance S109. Reserve champion senior bull: Perks Ranch; Carter St John, Pell City, Ala.; and Green Dorr Farms, Elsie, Mich., with Perks DCF 181R Dynasty 2109 by BR DM TNT 7010 ET.

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Junior Show

Judge: Jeff Jackson, Stephenville, Texas — 181 head shown

Champion female, by Cassidy Hanson, Linn Grove, Iowa, with Purple Jaxon 36A ET, 3/1/13, daughter of AH JDH Cracker Jack 26U ET.

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Reserve female, by Garrett Post, Shabbona, Ill., with DeLHawk Sapphire 102A ET, 4/5/13, daughter of CRR About Time 743.

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2014 NAILE Champion Senior Bull

2014 NAILE Champion Intermediate Bull

BF TMG 485T Redemption 3165

Purple Jango Fett 101A ET

P43447094 • Calved: Sept. 23, 2013 Sire: KJ HVH 33N Redeem 485T ET MGS: Purple Milsap 45S • Owned with Trademark Genetics and Paquette Hereford Ranch

David Burns, 615-477-5668 Dr. Phillip Burns, 423-447-6789 12733 Old State Hwy. 28 Pikeville, TN 37367 burnsfarms@msn.com www.burnsfarms.com

P43444755 • Calved: June 13, 2014 Sire: KJ HVH 33N Redeem 485T ET Dam: Purple Cotton 40T ET MGS: LaGrand Reload 80P ET • Owned with Purple Reign

RANCH OF HEREFORDS HOPKINS Roy, Kim, Zachary, Jordan, Nathan and Ethan Hopkins 2314 Mingo Rd., Winchester, TN 37398 931-967-0241 • 931-808-6308 cell

2014 NAILE Reserve Champion Yearling Bull

2014 NAILE Reserve Champion Senior Heifer

S&W 144U High Octane 17A ET

LPH MTM Kitsie 122L Z427 ET

43429438 • Calved: March 13, 2013 Sire: GO 3196 Advance S109 MGS: STAR Bright Future 533P ET

P43374215 • Calved: Nov. 27, 2012 Sire: Remitall Online 122L MGS: Circle-D Wrangler 832W

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POLLED HEREFORDS Matthew Murphy 4360 Bronte Ln. • Douglasville, GA 30135 • 770-778-3367 Keene Murphy, 770-355-2192 Hereford.org

New Name… …Same Focus

TNB Advanced Placement 105 ET P43505448 2014 NAILE Junior Bull Calf Champion Contact us about semen

TNB Trust Issues 109 ET

P43505453 2014 NAILE Reserve Spring Bull Calf Champion Maternal brother to THM Durango 4037 FOR SALE

ALLEN CATTLE COMPANY (Formerly TNB Herefords) George and Ruby Allen 864 Hardman Hooper Rd. • Hull, GA 30646 706-338-3472 • rnallen5@yahoo.com

Olivia A2

43455433 2014 NAILE Reserve Senior Heifer Calf Champion

TNB Bailout Ruby 11 12 88 ET P43351141 2013 NAILE Fall Heifer Calf Champion

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Hereford breeders host tours and field days. On the following pages are highlights of 2014 field days and tours that were reported to Hereford World staff.

California/Nevada Hereford Tour

The California/Nevada Hereford Association hosted a tour in Sonoma County on April 26. More than 85 Hereford enthusiasts were welcomed by Jim Mickelson and family of Sonoma Mountain Herefords, Santa Rosa, Calif. Jim is also president of Kunde Family Vineyards, Kenwood, Calif. Mickelson’s son Bobby, herdsman, provided the group with a cow herd and ranch tour. Marcia Mickelson and Christy Bradshaw, AHA education coordinator, gave an in-depth view of CattleMax and MyHerd.org programs. Kunde winery staff provided tours of the wine-making process. At the conclusion of the event, participants were treated to a Certified Hereford Beef ® tri-tip and wine dinner on the patio.

Illinois Hereford Tour

A nice crowd attended the Illinois Hereford Tour Aug. 23-24 in central Illinois. Hosting tours on Saturday were Stephens Hereford Farm, Taylorville; Sturdy Hereford Outlet, Rochester; Ostermeier & Meteer Cattle, Athens; and Prairie Rose Cattle, Sherman. West Wind Herefords, Edinburg; Bafford Farms, Blue Mound; and Loehr Hereford Farm, Peoria, welcomed attendees on Sunday. Numerous Illinois Hereford breeders welcomed attendees to their operations.

Hereford breeders visited farms in central Illinois during the Illinois Hereford Tour. The 2014 California/Nevada Hereford Association directors pictured front row (l to r) are Barry Morrell; Shelly Truelock, secretary; Chris Bianchi; and Gail Blagg, treasurer. Back row are Carl Blagg, Tim Baker and Jim Mickelson, president.

Iowa Hereford Breeders Tour

Iowa Hereford Association members and guests enjoyed a day of farm visits amidst the wet conditions left from late summer rains during this year’s Iowa Hereford Tour on Aug. 30. Around 60 Iowa Hereford Association members and guests, including breeders from Missouri, turned out for a day of fellowship and Hereford history. Tour stops included Black’s Herefords, Chariton, along with Offenburger Polled Herefords, Lacona, which brought a sampling of its herd to this location; Ohnemus Farms, Inc., Milo; Amos Hereford Farm, Indianola; and BAJA Cattle, Truro. A highlight of the tour was a stop at the birthplace of Polled Herefords near St. Marys and New Virginia.

MM Ranch, Chanute, hosted a tour stop which included lunch for the attendees.

Kansas Hereford Tour The tour made a stop at the birthplace of Polled Herefords near St. Marys and New Virginia. The parcel of land is the spot where the Gammon Barn originally stood before being moved to the Iowa State Fairgrounds.

Kansas Hereford breeders toured six farms and ranch operations in the Flint Hills region of the state Aug. 16-17. Saturday stops included Goedeke Herefords, McCune; MM Ranch, Chanute; and Evans Hereford Farm and Blackjack Herefords of Fredonia. Breeders who hosted tours A bull was displayed at the Waites’ operation in Winfield, where participants heard about the history of on Sunday were Malone Polled the Waite family and its contributions to the Hereford Hereford Farm, Emporia; breed over the years. Milbourn Ranch, El Dorado; and the Dwaine and Teresa Waite operation, Winfield.

BAJA Cattle, Truro, displayed heifers during the tour.

Participants walked through a pen to view the herd at Black’s Herefords in Chariton.

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Cattle on display at Malone Polled Hereford Farm, Emporia. Hereford.org

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A nice crowd attended the Minnesota Hereford Tour.

Minnesota Hereford Tour

Numerous Hereford breeders in northwestern Minnesota hosted Hereford enthusiasts during the Minnesota Hereford Tour on Sept. 20. Tour hosts were Red Oak Farms, Detroit Lakes, with guests Lost Meadow Farms, Frazee, and Bellefy Herefords, Bagley; Krogstad Polled Herefords, Fertile with Rangeline Cattle Co., Thief River Falls; and Dakitch Hereford Farms, Ada with Keulbs Cattle Co., Hillsboro, N.D., and Morgan Sip, Ada.

Fort Keogh Livestock & Range Research Laboratory is a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service location, working cooperatively with Montana State University to discover innovative range livestock and rangeland management technologies and practices. The Fort Keogh Line 1 Hereford cattle are offered to the public as a spin-off of the research program.

Montana Hereford Tour

Montana Hereford breeders hosted the 2014 Montana Hereford Tour Sept. 5-6. The event started at Sparks Ranch, Plevna, and ended at the Miles City Area Chamber of Commerce for the Ag Appreciation Banquet and Dance. Cattle were on display from J Bar E Ranch, Plentywood; Thomas Herefords, Gold Creek; Diemert Ranch, Lothair; Wichman Herefords, Moore; M/D Herefords, Baker; Beery’s Land and Livestock Co., Vida; L Bar W Cattle Company, Absarokee; and Brillhart Ranch Company, Musselshell; and a tour was provided at the Keogh Livestock & Range Research Laboratory. The program also featured numerous presentations from industry speakers.

Tom Sparks, Montana Hereford Association president from Plevna, welcomed the group to Sparks Herefords. The first stop of the tour was Red Oak Farms, Detroit Lakes, where cow-calf pairs were on display.

Nebraska Hereford Tour

The Nebraska Hereford Tour was Sept. 20-21 and headquartered at the Niobrara Lodge in Valentine, Neb. Tour attendees enjoyed the scenery and viewed great cattle as the tour wound through the rolling hills of north central Nebraska. The tour showcased eight breeders and the Sandhills Cattle Association. Tour stops included KEG Herefords, Valentine; Nolles Cattle Co., Bassett; Stewart Hereford Ranch, Newport; Rod and Brett Gireau, Springview; Ollerich Bros., Clearfield, S.D.; Adams Bros. & Co., Kilgore; Dwight Logterman Family, Kilgore; and Hoffman Herefords, Thedford.

A good crowd attended the tour.

North Carolina Hereford Field Day

The North Carolina Hereford Association (NCHA) hosted its annual field day on Aug. 9, at the Rowan County Fairgrounds in Salisbury, N.C. The morning program kicked off with a presentation on feeder calf grading by Marcus Harward, Turnersburg, who operates Stanly County Livestock Market, and Steve Lemmons, Stanly County Rod Lowe, DVM, Rowan Animal Clinic, provided a livestock Extension. They reproduction and AI demonstration. discussed conformation, condition and muscle thickness needed for grading feeder cattle and answered several questions from Hereford breeders. Rod Lowe, DVM, Rowan Animal Clinic, provided a hands-on reproduction and artificial insemination (AI) demonstration, utilizing actual reproductive tracks from cows. After lunch Tommy Coley, American Hereford Association eastern region field staff, gave a presentation on “What it takes to make a good sale consignment.” An auction followed with proceeds going to the North Carolina Junior Hereford Association. Will Thompson, NCHA director, served as the auctioneer.

Rod and Brett Gierau, Springview, display a set of yearling heifers.

Participants gather at the Niobrara Lodge to hear from Ronna Morse, Sandhills Cattle Association manager. Hereford.org

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Oregon Hereford Field Day

A nice crowd attended the Oregon Hereford Association Field Day on July 26. The program began with a tour of Dayton Natural Meats LLC in Dayton. Kim Herinckx of Dayton Natural Meats provided a tour of the facility and presented on the company. Herinckx is also the Oregon Junior Hereford Association advisor and was recently elected to the National Hereford Women board of directors. Dave and Becky Kneiling of Rocking K Ranch in Salem hosted the group for a ranch tour. On display were show cattle and donor females and their progeny along with cow-calf pairs in the pasture.

South Carolina Hereford Field Day

South Carolina Hereford breeders met at Clemson University, Clemson, S.C., on Sept. 20, for the South Carolina Hereford Association (SCHA) field day. SCHA president Deryl Keese welcomed the group, and Matthew Burns, Clemson University beef specialist, opened the program with a discussion on the negative effect of toxic fescue on reproductive efficiency and gave several suggestions for management. Steve Meadows, director of public service and agriculture program integration at Clemson, provided the history of Herefords at the university, dating back to the 1930s. Meadows handed out copies of an article that was printed in the July 1952 Hereford Journal about the Clemson cow herd and its early history. A discussion followed about Clemson’s link with the Neil Trask herd, and his genetics, which are the nucleus of today’s cowherd. After lunch the group was addressed by George Askew, vice president of public service and agriculture; Tom Dobbins, director of Extension service, and JR Strickland, department chair for agriculture and veterinary science. Following the program attendees took a walking tour of the cow herd. Steve Meadows, Clemson University, provided a history of the university’s Hereford herd which began in the 1930s.

Oregon Hereford breeders enjoyed a tour of Dayton Natural Meats LLC.

Tennessee Hereford Field Day

Burns Farms, Pikeville, Tenn., hosted Tennessee Hereford Association members for its annual field day on Sept. 27. David Burns welcomed the group to the farm and gave a brief history of their operation. Neil Schrick, University of Tennessee (UT) department head of animal science, gave a David Burns welcomed attendees to Burns Farms. demonstration on delivering calves with abnormal presentation. Jason Duggin, University of Georgia (UGA) Extension beef specialist, presented on bull selection and explained the importance of selecting for structure and eye appeal as well as using performance records. Duggin’s program Junior participants practiced delivering a calf from UT’s Neil Shrick’s homemade box, which represented a cow. moved out to the pens to discuss live cattle and concluded with a question and answer session. A Stock Show U fitting demonstration was provided for juniors in attendance. The program concluded with a program on animal handling and herd health by Todd Jennings, senior sales development representative for Merial.

South Carolina Hereford breeders viewed the Clemson University Hereford herd.

West Virginia/Mason-Dixon Field Day

The West Virginia Hereford Association and the Mason-Dixon Polled Hereford Association hosted a joint field day on July 19. Kevin Shaffer, West Virginia University Extension specialist for livestock, shared the history of the Hereford herd at the university and gave an update on its current program. HW

Kevin Shaffer, West Virginia University Extension specialist for livestock, explained to the group the research in feed intake studies.

Jason Duggin, UGA Extension, discussed bull selection for structure and performance.

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FRIEDT HEREFORDS Pr oduction S ale

February 11, 2015 • 1 p.m. (MST) Stockmen’s West, Dickinson, N.D. • Auctioneer: Scott Weishaar SELLING:

33 Yearling Bulls • 10 Coming 2-Year-Old Bulls • 1 Herd Sire - CL 1 Domino 124Y 1 ET 25 Registered Yearling Heifers • 10-15 Black Whiteface and Red Baldie Heifers FH L1 Domino 400 MD 43514852 - Calved: Jan. 1, 2014

• Actual birth weight 89 lb. • Black Hills Stock Show entry. A typical bull sired by the Harrell Hereford Ranch sire, 156. Long, thick and clean 3.8 made. Dam is a very productive Harland daughter.

BW WW 55 YW 97 MM 33 M&G 60 FAT 0.034 REA 0.27 MARB 0.12

BW 3.5 WW 57 YW 99 MM 29 M&G 58 FAT 0.043 REA 0.29 MARB 0.15

FH L1 Domino 415 LC

43514862 - Calved: Jan. 16, 2014

• Actual birth weight 88 lb. • Another stout 156 son. Well marked and out of a Harland daughter.

FH L1 Domino 433

43511845 - Calved: Jan. 29, 2014

BW 2.6 WW 57 YW 85 MM 27 M&G 56 FAT 0.035 REA 0.20 MARB 0.09

• Actual birth weight 85 lb. • An attractive son out of our old 695 herd bull. He sired productive daughters with good udders. This bul ’s dam is more moderate and really produces.

BW 2.1 WW 50 YW 77 MM 29 M&G 54 FAT 0.023 REA 0.25 MARB 0.11

FH Sensation 438

43514881 - Calved: Jan. 30, 2014

• Actual birth weight 90 lb. • Our only Sensation son but a good one. His dam comes from one of our best cow families.

FH 2185 Domino 439 MD 43514839 - Calved: Jan. 31, 2014

BW 2.9 63 WW YW 106 MM 25 M&G 57 FAT 0.063 REA 0.25 MARB 0.25

• Actual birth weight 88 lb. • The first son of the high selling arrell Hereford Ranch 2185 bull. This bull has olume and thickness with an outstanding EPD package.

BW 3.8 60 WW YW 101 MM 27 M&G 57 FAT -0.019 REA 0.44 MARB 0.10

FH Navarro 446

43514932 - Calved: Feb. 2, 2014

• Actual birth weight 85 lb. • One of our favorites from a home raised Navarro son from a top 902 daughter. He is everything we are trying to breed for: length, thickness, depth, pigment and docility.

FH L1 Domino 451 AF 43514853 - Calved: Feb. 3, 2014

BW 4.2 WW 60 YW 99 MM 24 M&G 54 FAT -0.031 REA 0.45 MARB -0.02

• Actual birth weight 90 lb. • Thick with a lot of olume. He is typical of the sons 902 produces. We sold a Navarro daughter out of this dam to Fred Baker in Illinois.

BW 4.8 WW 55 YW 86 MM 18 M&G 46 FAT -0.025 REA 0.30 MARB 0.09

FH Yankee 3300

43514916 - Calved: Dec. 21, 2013

• Actual birth weight 85 lb. • Dam is a first calf heifer that did an outstanding job. Moderate framed, thick and deep sided.

Sires Represented: H5 9131 Domino 2185 • H5 9131 Yankee 156 • FH L1 Domino 902 • FH L1 Domino 695 MF UPS Navarro • Churchill Sensation 028X • FH Navarro 242 MD Catalogs and Videos available mid-January on www.friedtherefords.com Gary, Kirsten and Aaron Friedt • Megan and Dusty Dukart • Drew and Lindsey Courtney 8733 55th St. S.W. • Mott, ND 58646 701-824-2300 • 701-290-7231 Gary • 701-290-7230 Megan gfriedt@hotmail.com • www.friedtherefords.com Hereford.org

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As Good As Your Beef Business Is… Make It

Use AI Sheyenne

Better!

Take advantage of the traits you want from these breed leaders!

TH 49U 719T

7HP107 P43101191 • Improve Calving Ease

Sire: TH 122 71I Victor 719T • MGS: TH 75J 44M Legacy 103R Excelling as one of the best calving ease bulls in the breed, Sheyenne delivers excellent calf vigor to dark red, fast-growing calves. He keeps size under control and adds carcass bonuses to every mating. With the value of every live calf going up, it pays to use the best bulls to make them — Sheyenne is one of those bulls. From Topp Herefords, ND

Semen: $20/Straw; Non-Certificat

Fall 2014 AHA Sire Summary

CE BW

M&G

EPD

12.3 -2.7

Acc

.38 .73

.62

.58

.21

% Rank

NJW 98S

MCE MCW

FAT

REA

MARB

0.9

1.1

.030

.40

.26

.30

.41

.25

.38

.40

BMI$ CEZ$

BII$

CHB$

Durango 44U

7HP105 P42892264 • Improve Females Sire: THM Durango 4037 10H • MGS: CL1 Domino 9126J 1ET Highly-proven as a super cow sire, Durango makes big-middled females that excel for udder quality and femininity. His reputation for customer success continues to grow and his EPD profile is deep with goodness. Backed up by a strong maternal pedigree, Durango should be on your short list for both your heifers and your cows. From Ned and Jan Ward, WY

Semen: $25/Straw; $60/Certificat

Fall 2014 AHA Sire Summary

CE BW

M&G

EPD

8.0 0.3

Acc

.54 .89

.84

.83

.41

% Rank

MCE MCW

FAT

REA

MARB

5.6

1.0

-.023

.43

-.06

.41

.59

.68

.56

.52

BMI$ CEZ$

BII$

CHB$

EFBeef TFL U208

Tested X651 ET

7HP110 P43091736 • Improve Carcass Traits

Sire: EFBeef Foremost U208 • MGS: PW Victor Boomer P606 Tested is proven to deliver below-average BW and above-average growth with significant improvement for Marbling. ested, along with his sidekick, Sheyenne, make up an incredible duo of new-age calving ease in the Hereford breed. No other bulls can touch these two in terms of their incredible Calving Ease and Growth advantages. From Ellis Farms, IL and LIII Farms, MO

Semen: $20/Straw; Non-Certificate

Fall 2014 AHA Sire Summary

CE BW

M&G

EPD

6.6 -1.6

Acc

.31 .68

.59

.61

.20

% Rank

KJ HVH

Redeem 485 ET

MCE MCW

FAT

REA

MARB

3.3

1.3

.042

.94

.43

.26

.43

.37

.36

.37

.33

BMI$ CEZ$

BII$

CHB$

7HP109 P42834201 • Improve Muscle

Sire: SHF Radar M326 R125 • MGS: HVH Kremlin 57F 108K Redeem has made plenty of friends with his ability to sire power and muscle. He offers a big boost for growth performance and injects extras for both Marbling and Ribeye. Big-footed and wide-based, Redeem generates moderate-sized, thick cattle with eye-appeal and high demand. From Jensen Bros., KS; Delaney Herefords, MN; Churchill Cattle Co., MT; and Hoffman Herefords, NE

Semen: $25/Straw; $60/Certificat

Fall 2014 AHA Sire Summary

CE BW

M&G

EPD

0.9 3.2

102

Acc

.49 .89

.83

.53

% Rank

MCE MCW

FAT

REA

MARB

2.2

112

1.4

.072

.65

.18

.39

.64

.68

.64

.65

BMI$ CEZ$

BII$

CHB$

Contact Select Sires Today to Make Your Beef Business Better!

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BAUMGARTEN CATTLE

12th Annual Production Sale Friday, Feb. 6, 2015 — 1 p.m. (MST) At the Ranch, Belfield, N.D.

SELLING 60 BIG, STOUT, Performance Tested Bulls and 30 Hereford Heifer Calves

BCC L1 Domino 459A

CE BW WW YW MM M&G SC REA MARB CHB$

1.1 1.9 49 88 35 60 0.9 0.22 0.12 23

BCC L1 Domino 489B

Sire: CL 1 Domino 297Z BW 74 lb.; 205-day wt. 660 lb. Maternal strength top and bottom

BCC Macho Man 443B {DLF,HYF,IEF}

CE BW WW YW MM M&G SC REA MARB CHB$

0.7 2.7 48 81 29 53 1.3 0.25 0.14 23

CE BW 1.4 WW YW MM M&G SC REA MARB CHB$

6.0

Sire: KC L1 Domino 12050 BW 79 lb.; 205-day wt. 689 lb. Must see, thick and classy

CE BW WW YW MM M&G SC REA MARB CHB$

0.5 4.8 65 114 26 58 1.7 0.62 0.31 37

BCC Bakken Man 407B

Sire: NJW 73S W18 Hometown 10Y ET BW 94 lb.; 205-day wt. 717 lb. Powerhouse!

58 91 31 60 0.9 0.50 0.19 32

Sire: UPS Domino 3027 BW 77 lb.; 205-day wt. 747 lb. Phenomenal EPDs straight across

O BCC Denali 422B

Sire: LSW WCC About Time X06 BW 88 lb.; 205-day wt. 745 lb. Flushmate to Mile High consignment

CE BW WW YW MM M&G SC REA MARB CHB$

1.9 2.3 52 88 28 54 0.9 0.54 0.11 27

ur operation is a no BS, no excuse business. We breed for trouble-free cattle and cull the ones that are not. We believe herd bulls are only as good as their mothers, therefore, our cow herd is based on maternal strength. When investing in our bulls, you are investing in a future productive cow herd.

For more info and video, visit our website

BAUMGARTEN CATTLE CO. 4260 127th Ave. S.W., Belfield, ND 5862 Rollie 701-575-8292 or 701-290-3469 • Jake 701-290-3450 www.baumgartencattle.com

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N M The Hereford World welcomes new members who joined the American Hereford Association Sept. 1, 2014, through Nov. 30, 2014. 2C Acres Martin Crutcher, 1016 Mitzi Ln. Van Buren, AR 72956 4 Bar A Miniature Herefords Frank and Norissa Aquirre 10101 S. Western, Amarillo, TX 79118 4C Ranch Vernon and Melissa Lang 15 S. Brokenfern Dr., The Woodlands, TX 77380 A&L Partners Addison Patton P.O. Box 395, Chovdrant, LA 71227 W.A. Abbott P.O. Box 1425, Halifax, VA 24558

Thad and Gil Alexander 1282 W. 60 S., Winamac, IN 46996

Daniel Beam 4088 Cross Keys Rd., Mt. Crawford, VA 22841

Steve Alfers 2102 Stillwell Beckett Rd., Hamilton, OH 45013

Joe Bebout P.O. Box 2132, Lowell, AR 72745

Jennifer Alto 337 Bacchetti Dr., Eureka, CA 95503

Rees Beguhl 24011 Washington Ave., Kansasville, WI 53139

Arrow Point Farm Wendy Davis 9754 U.S. Hwy. 19, Baconton, GA 31716

Bethea Farm Lamar Bethea P.O. Box 231, Lancaster, SC 29721

Bar Z Bar Ranch Ron King 625 S. Main St., Central Valley, UT 84754

Robert Beville 128 Live Oak, Hereford, TX 79045

Edward Barnett 604 Jasontown Rd., Westminster, MD 21158

Geoff Birchnell Level 19, 144 Edward St., Brisbane, Queensland 4001

Blair’s Ag Cattle Co. Kevin Blair Box 610, Lanigan, SK S0K 2M0 Block Farms Scott Block 3540 Public Well St., Paris, IL 61944 Blue Bonnet Stables Jim and Judy Doss 260 S. Moody Ln., Cleveland, TX 77328 Boesl Farms Jeff Boesl 10280 Co. Rd. 5 N.W., Brandon, MN 56315 Bradley Farm Brian and Brenda Bradley 28 C.R. 768, Corinth, MS 38834 Kaylyn Branen P.O. Box 411, Collinsville, OK 74021 Debbie Bridgman P.O. Box 157, Creston, CA 93432 Brines Farms Michael Brines 24552 200th St., Leon, IA 50144 Bromley Acres Joe Bromley 2947 Wagon Ct., St. Cloud, FL 34772 Twila Brown 1905 E. Hwy. 160, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147 Kera and Jason Bullard 4610 E. 24th St., Casper, WY 82609 Brock and Kylie Burch 8227 33 Mile Rd., Casper, WY 82604 C&M Farm Drew McFarland 3213 Harpeth Springs Dr., Nashville, TN 37221 Cane Creek Ranch Floyd Cooper III 13295 Hwy. 78, Fruithurst, AL 36262 Carpenter Farms Shane Carpenter 6630 Raleigh-LaGrange Rd., Collierville, TN 38017 Kinley Castle 520 State Hwy. 17, Rush Springs, OK 73082 Cedar Hill Farm Jo Sporing 10758 Street Rt. 48, Loveland, OH 45140 Christenson Cattle Co. Scot and Jennifer Christenson 11730 Linden Rd., Linden, IA 50146 Circle C Polled Herefords Joshua Creecy 1433 Lawrenceburg Hwy., Waynesboro, TN 38485 CK Polled Herefords Courtney and Katelyn Bradley 3865 N. F.M. 2869, Winnsboro, TX 75494 Toby Clark 911 S. Mount Calvary Rd., Hendrix, OK 74741 Clearwater Ranch Jennifer and Steve Yohn 6803 N. 181st Ave., Waddell, AZ 85355 Nicholas Cobble 2882 Fish Hatchery Rd., Morristown, TN 37813 Edgar Collins Rt. 5, Box 875, Coalgate, OK 74538 Community of Caritas Terry Colafrancesco 100 Our Lady Queen of Peace Dr., Sterrett, AL 35147 Cook’s Minis Teri and Paul Cook 3513 N. U.S. Hwy. 281, Blanco, TX 78606

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Jay Cowart 2304 Tierra Rica, Altus, OK 73521 Crabtree Farms Tanya Crabtree 721 W. V Hwy., Liberal, MO 64762 Craig Cattle Co. Steve and Terri Craig 6703 E. New Salem Ln., Ashland, MO 65010 Ronald Craig 2827 Matt Dr., Longview, TX 75605 Dayspring Mini Farm Rod Hewitt 217 Darby Hill Rd., Rockingham, VT 05101 Dean Herefords Thomas Dean P.O. Box 142, Robert Lee, TX 76945 Dean’s Farm James Dean 61 Still Creek Ln., Newland, NC 28657

Full Cry Farm Alex Butler 104 Morgan Dr., Nicholasville, KY 40356

Greenfield Family Farms Myron Mitchell 1662 Watts Rd., Walnut Cove, NC 27052

Hannahill Farm David Hanna 28062 35th Path, Branford, FL 32008

Furdas Rolling Green Acres Patricia Furda 2465 Rt. 136, Eighty Four, PA 15330

Grove Springs Farm William and Kristy Grove 121 Grove Springs Ln., Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

Hart’s Herefords 17330 10th St. S.E., Dover, MN 55929

Zach Garner P.O. Box 892, Duchesne, UT 84021 Gillespie Angus Ranch Chris and Christina Gillespie 3505 W. Central Rd., Emmett, ID 83617 Gillespie Farms Nathan Gillespie 4350 Huston Rd., Hamilton, OH 45013-9682 Granados Farms Inc. Michael Granados 2300 Hunting Creek Rd., Huntingtown, MD 20639

Gregory Hereford Ranch 12389 Chamberlin Rd., Houstonia, MO 65333 GTEC Farms Greg and Theresa Bonine 5517 Private Rd. 124, Elizabeth, CO 80107 Thomas and Patricia Hall 1964 Georgetown Verona Rd., W. Manchester, OH 45382 Sonny Hamill P.O. Box 1214, Noble, OK 73068

Hawes Cattle Gary Hawes 12050 Falcon Rd., Crandall, TX 75114 Kelly Hendrix 8151 N.E. Trout Creek Rd., Ashwood, OR 97711 Hereford HQ Daniel and Jentry Graham 2013 170th Ave., Diagonal, IA 50845 Hidden Acres Farm 1248 Hidden Acres Ln., New Kensington, PA 15068 continued on page 76...

George DeLeon 728 Lake Rd., Lake Jackson, TX 77566 Dier Family Herefords Joseph Dier 23296 270th St., Grundy Center, IA 50638 Dohl Difebo 450 Riverton Rd., Bangor, PA 18013 Don Dixon Box 188, Kerens, TX 75144 DN Farm Don Nichols 76560 Wilson Rd., Kentwood, LA 70444 Double M Farms Mitchelle Myers 11169 N. 640th St., Altamont, IL 62411 DR Cattle David and David Richards 19731 Gusher Rd., Hull, TX 77564 Dream Big Cattle Karol Burlile 2515 Foxfire Ln., Emmett, ID 83617 Robert Dresser 6900 S.W. 16 St., Lincoln, NE 68523 Laurie Elliott 3485 Co. Rd. K, Tekamah, NE 68061 Embry Hereford Farm Raymond Embry 14065 N. 1020 E., Hope, IN 47246 Todd and Cori Enders 42 Sam Leo Rd., Miles City, MT 59301 Harold Eubanks 808 Setting Sun Ct., Pflugerville, TX 78660 Derek Evans 1607 15th Ave., Seaton, IL 61476 Mike and Trudi Evans 330 Darbun Rd., Kokomo, MS 39643 EZ Farm Zachary and Erica Clark 4420 River St., Newaygo, MI 49337 Fischer Farm & Livestock Brian Fischer 28950 298th St., Neola, IA 51559 Martin Fleetwood 7538 W. 300 N., Brownstown, IN 47220 Emylee Fontenot 979 Cooley Rd. S., De Quincy, LA 70633 Marlee Fontenot 13828 Hwy. 10, Pitkin, LA 70656 Rylie Fontenot 979 Cooley Rd. S., De Quincy, LA 70633 Jay Franzen 11040 70th Ave., Indianola, IA 50125 Paul Fulbright III 120 Triple W Farm Dr., Williamston, SC 29697 Hereford.org

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Debra Kleven 595 Bass Lake Rd., Stoughton, WI 53589

Hide Away Farm Lisa Schloss 10128 S. 700 W., Columbus, IN 47201

Timothy Huffman 5822 Straight Fork, Sweetland, WV 25523-9017

J. Hudson Hines P.O. Box 23, Beatrice, AL 36425

Hursey’s Covered Bridge Herefords Brenda Hursey 69540 Hopewell Rd., Cambridge, OH 43725

Hofstad Herefords Chris Hofstad 4120 Hwy. 9 N.E., New London, MN 56273 Holder’s Hereford Country Jacob Holder P.O. Box 4161, Batesville, AR 72503 Richard Hopper 4561 S. Montgomery, Starkville, MS 39759 Horseshoe Acres Ranch Inc. Jeffery Reed 83 Wilson Ln., Trout Creek, MT 59874 Timothy Honeycutt 872 Deer Run Rd., Center Ridge, AR 72027 Phillip and Catherine Howe 329 Pooles Cemetery Rd., Salley, SC 29137

Kodiak Farms Vincent Benefield 2980 Poplar Springs Rd., Buchanan, GA 30113 Angie Kolb 2725 Westwood Rd., Lockhart, TX 78644

J&K Bishop Ranch LLC Harold Bishop 11213 S. F.M. 99, Karnes City, TX 78118

KW Farms Keith Watford 770 Johnnie Ingram Rd., Webb, AL 36376

J&L Cattle Jeff and Lanee’ Anderson 4809 W. Wood Rd., Waukomis, OK 73773

Land & Forest Cattle Co. Bret Robinson 53 Fruitwood Trail, Fairfield, PA 17320

K Bar C Mike Braddock P.O. Box 1661, Tahoka, TX 79373

Sharon Langford P.O. Box 39, Dawson, TX 76639

KC Waneck Ranch Casey Waneck P.O. Box 188, Smithville, TX 78957

Lazy B Farm Robert and Mary Brown 131 Suffolk Ln., Bridgewater, VA 22812

Judy Kennedy 704 Compton Rd., Crawford, TX 76638

NJW 98S R117 RIBEYE 88X {CHB}{DLF,HYF,IEF}

Lazy H Ranch Steven Christensen 9747 Grey Cloud Island Dr., St. Paul Park, MN 55071 Lazy J Farm Jeff and Jamie Ridenhour 8210 Dayton Rd., Mandsfield, AR 72944 Lerblance Cattle David, Ashley and Zach Lerblance 3469 E. Anderson Rd., McAlester, OK 74501 April Lester 4553 Alum Ridge Rd., Floyd, VA 24091 Linsam’s Farms Lindy Meagrow 4690 Medusa Rd., Norwalk, OH 44857 Little Branch Farms Megan Marvicsin 5589 Luckeys Bridge Rd., Dearing, GA 30808 Lone Pine Farm Kyle Miller 11893 Springfield Rd., Tremont, IL 61568 Lone Star Herefords Rodney Howell 1711 C.R. 402, Gainesville, TX 76240 Lorren Joyce Farm Amy Gowell Drogue 19 Sam Clark Rd., Center Barnstead, NH 03225 Mack Land & Livestock 11421 W. Wheat Capital Rd., Enid, OK 73703 Mike McCully 906 Harrison St., Park Ridge, IL 60068 Paul McGinnis 109 Hillside View Ln., Monticello, KY 42633 Medio Creek Cattle Co. Kelly Durham 11939 Coleto Creek, San Antonio, TX 78253 Carl Lan Mengedoht 517 New Jersey St., Bicknell, IN 47512 Misty Hills Farm Zach McPhee 8115 W. Calla Rd., Canfield, OH 44406 Mitchem’s Farm Wayne and Crystal Mitchem 400 David’s Chapel Church Rd., Vale, NC 28168 Darrel Mogck 3306 Whiting Dr., Yankton, SD 57078-6903 Morris Mortensen P.O. Box 104, Pattonville, TX 75468 Robert Newsome 9003 Flowers Rd., Wimauma, FL 33598

CE BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC 4.2 1.4

61 87 30

6.7

FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$

102 0.9 -0.035 0.36 0.21

43094146 — Calved: Feb. 8, 2010 — Tattoo: LE 88X/RE 98S

KCF BENNETT 3008 M326 {SOD}{CHB}{DLF,HYF,IEF} SHF RIB EYE M326 R117 {SOD}{CHB}{DLF,HYF,IEF} P42584003 HVH MISS HUDSON 83K 8M

RRH MR FELT 3008 {SOD}{CHB}{DLF,HYF,IEF} KCF MISS 459 F284 MSU MF HUDSON 19H {SOD}{CHB}{HYF} SUN VINDY MISS 83K

CL 1 DOMINO 9126J 1ET {SOD}{CHB}{DLF,IEF} NJW 9126J DEW DOMINO 98S {DOD}{DLF,HYF,IEF} P42693893 NJW 57G 74G DEW 5M {DLF,HYF,IEF}

HH ADVANCE 767G 1ET {SOD}{CHB}{DLF,IEF} CL 1 DOMINETTE 490 {DOD} RU 20X BOULDER 57G {CHB} NJW 832W FAITHFUL 74G

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P M Ranch & Cattle Patrick Finan 351 Fisher Rd., Florence, TX 76527 Lauren Page 21245 Hawthorne Rd., Joplin, MO 64801 Douglas Parnell P.O. Box 1297, Yellville, AR 72687 Gloria Payne 2100 W. Wadley, #17, Midland, TX 79705 Pompey’s Rest Don and Patsy Jackson 13186 Indian Mound Rd., Ware Shoals, SC 29692 Lynn Presley 10400 Goodes Mill Lake Rd., Moss Point, MS 39562 Rainbow Ranch Wesley Clark 2225 N. State Hwy. 34, Kaufman, TX 75142

Bill King 505-832-4330 • 505-220-9909 Tom and Becky Spindle 505-832-0926

Ranger Cattle Co. Laura Rudwick 7772 C.R. 4819, Wolfe City, TX 75496

P.O. Box 564 • Stanley, NM 87056

Ridge Top Farm Steven and Elizabeth Fulton 269 Holmes Pond Rd., Johnston, SC 29832

Located five miles north of Moriarty on Hwy. 41, then 1.5 miles east.

Klaas and Kathy Rietsema 10101 10 Mile Rd. N.E., Rockford, MI 49341

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Cory Rife 5057 C.H. 330, Upper Sandusky, OH 43351

Lisa Thorne 1689 N. Co. Rd. 775 W., Petersburg, IN 47567

Riverhill Farm Kelly Squire 52104 Stewart Rd., New London, OH 44851

William Thornton 5732 F.M. 2110, Crockett, TX 75835

Jeremy and Kate Roberts 50 N. Frontage Rd., Park City, MT 59063 William Roberts 6777 Longhorn Dr., Tallahassee, FL 32311 Mickey Ryan 4530 450th Rd., Hay Springs, NE 69347 S&S Farms Brian Smarr 2358 Lower Sleith Rd., Frametown, WV 26623 S&S Herefords Scott Edgar 12360 F.M. 914, Stephenville, TX 76401 Santee Farms LLC Chip McEwen 13401 Rickenbacker Pkwy., Ft. Myers, FL 35913

Todd Show Cattle LLC Beth, Todd, & Mary Show 2308 170th Ave., Manchester, IA 52057 Triple G Farms Bruce and Tamara Graham 6241 Graham Rd., Mt. Vernon, OH 43050 Triple V Farms LLC Brent Versemann 22708 Hwy. C, Perryville, MO 63775 Warren Udd 164 Dewberry Ln., Victoria, TX 77904 Vallad Cattle Jason and Deanne Vallad 975 Morgan Ave., Ontario, OR 97914

Vicemong Hereford Genetics Pty. Ltd. Hinner Koster Brooklyn Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa 00181 Weidenbach Ranch Barbara Weidenbach 18035 331st Ave., Highmore, SD 57345 WH Farms Earl Hodge P.O. Box 203, Sandersville, MS 39477 White Cattle Company LLC Luther White P.O. Box 1296, Chiefland, FL 32644 William Wilhelm P.O. Box 676, Spearfish, SD 57783 Timothy Willingham 43600 E. Arizona Place, Bennett, CO 80102

Windy Hill Farms Brogan Thompson 212 Rigsbee Dr., Vidalia, GA 30474 Windy Knob Farm Laurie Allgood 842 Wide Gap Rd., Lexington, VA 24450 WJ Hawkins Farms Jeff Hawkins 1203 Lola Hawkins Rd., Anderson, SC 29621 Wolf Creek Farm Brad and Katie Little 1077 Co. Rd. 143, Town Creek, AL 35672-4137 Wren Family Farm Brian and Susan Wren 34268 Cooper Rd., Poteau, OK 74953 HW

Windy Acre Farm Nicholas Bryan 145 Church St., E. Smithfield, PA 18817

Justin Savits 38 270th St., Rippey, IA 50235 Katelyn Scott 8210 N. 1810 Rd., Crawford, OK 73638 Shady Creek LLC 29476 240th Ave., Long Grove, IA 52756 Sharp Land & Cattle LLC Alex Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Rourke 1005 S. Sycamore, Healy, KS 67850 Shaw Cattle Brent Shaw 30 Hereford Rd., Chadron, NE 69337 Michael Shepherd 10646 N. 950 W., Wingate, IN 47994 Harold Sidwell 13172 C.R. 110, Carr, CO 80612 Silva Pasture Farm Christine Watkins 2091 C.R. 472, Thrall, TX 76578 Silver Star Farms T.J. Hargis 8160 N. Hwy. 27, Science Hill, KY 42553 SLR Herefords Stacey Rooney 11750 N.E. 112th St., Maxwell, IA 50101 Quentin Smola 1120 30th Rd., David City, NE 68632 Soehnlen Cattle Co. Stanley Soehnlen 6143 Beth Ave., Navarre, OH 44662 Southern Star Polled Herefords Patrick Hale 150 Co. Rd. 71, Riceville, TN 37370 Stairstep F Ranch Company LLC Robert and Francine Acord Brown P.O. Box 624, Parachute, CO 81635 Stehr Land & Cattle Philip Stehr 112 Sumner Dr., Altus, OK 73521 Kevin or Caren Stevens 510 Cow Creek Ln., Corvallis, MT 59828 Stout Farms Jonathan and Beulah Stout 345 Oak Hills Ln., Mountain City, TN 37683 Sunbridge Farms Jill Clark 1175 Baker Rd., Leslie, AR 72645 Talbert Farms Rick and Kathy Talbert & Family 4861 Napoleon Rd., Fremont, OH 43420 Fred Taylor 65510 Batesville Rd., Quaker City, OH 43773 Zach and Larissa Tessier 12950 43rd St. S.W., Belfield, ND 58622 Thornbriar Farm Jeff Beach 11089 Twp. Rd. 30, Forest, OH 45843 Hereford.org

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America’s Convenient AI Brand CRR 109 American Made 310 PHH PCC 812 True Grit 002

CRR Catapult 109 x CRR Colorado 433 BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 1.5 68 109 17 51 0.059 0.55 0.16

VIN-MAR TCC BPF Red Baron 338

H W4 Grizzly 0146 ET

KCF Bennett 3008 M326 x PW Victor Boomer P606 BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 3.6 65 119 30 63 -0.043 1.29 0.21

K&B Baron 0183X x DR World Class 517 10H BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 3.1 57 80 24 52 -0.016 0.46 0.10

Golden Oak Outcross 18U x C -S Pure Gold 98170 BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 2.6 55 98 33 61 -0.011 0.80 0.19

H WCC/WB 668 Wyarno 9500 ET

RB 29F 002 Right Now 630S

H Excel 8051 ET

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TH JWR SOP 16G 57G Tundra 63N x C -S Pure Gold 98170 BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 2.4 46 84 24 47 -0.013 0.36 0.06

NS LAKES Kilo 002 x CS Boomer 29F BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 3.6 64 106 14 46 -0.017 0.53 -0.06

GO Excel L18 x C -S Pure Gold 98170 BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 3.5 48 79 29 53 -0.057 0.53 -0.12

CRR About Time 743 x Feltons Ozzie 492 BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 2.3 58 94 26 55 -0.022 0.69 -0.13

BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 4.4 53 95 24 50 0.005 0.55 -0.08

TH SHR 605 57G Bismarck 243R ET x Square-D Fullback 615C

AH JDH Cracker Jack 26U ET

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Purple MB Womanizer 14U ET

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NJW 1Y Wrangler 19D x SHF Interstate 20X D03 BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 3.4 56 80 23 51 0.044 0.29 0.30

TH 122 71I Victor 719T x NJW FHF 9710 Tank 45P BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 0.9 56 72 28 56 -0.029 0.43 0.08

CH Enuff Prophet 2913 x C -S Pure Gold 98170 BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 3.0 68 97 21 55 0.026 0.92 -0.03

WLB Eli 10H 83T x WLB Global 72M 50S BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 1.2 59 87 23 53 0.018 0.57 0.00

SHF Radar M326 R125 x HVH Kremlin 57F 108K BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 3.2 67 102 22 56 0.072 0.65 0.18

H H Perfect Timing 0150 ET

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CRR About Time 743 x HH Advance 3196N BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB -1.0 45 65 27 49 0.043 0.38 0.12

SHF Wonder M326 W18 ET x PW Victor Boomer P606 BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 2.3 52 99 25 51 0.001 0.80 0.07

NJW 73S W18 Hometown 10Y ET

SHF Wonder M326 W18 ET X NJW P606 72N Daydream 73S

BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 2.5 59 106 25 55 0.038 0.59 0.53

AXA Golden-Oak Xceed ET 704X

SHF Rib Eye M326 R117 x NCX 23C Jupiter 16J

BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 3.1 49 82 23 48 -0.033 0.36 0.14

CRR About Time 743 x KJ 520E Victor 417L BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 0.9 58 76 27 56 -0.020 0.73 0.00

NJW 73S M326 Trust 100W ET

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TH 223 71I CONQUER 409X ET

DRF JWR Prince Victor 71I x NJW 1Y Wrangler 19D BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 6.3 72 111 25 61 0.006 0.59 0.161

Brookview 408 Wisconsin 40W

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STAR Bright Future 533P ET x MSU BR Hallmark 25H BW WW YW MM M&G FAT REA MARB 5.5 65 109 23 56 -0.024 0.60 0.03

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NJW FHF 9710 Taank 45P x Blaiar-Athol The Rock ET 19M

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EFBEEF SCHU-LAR PROFICIENT N093

EFBEEF TFL U208 TESTED X651 ET

C E BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$ 6.5 0.5 54 81 27 54 7.9 71 1.1 0.045 0.43 0.07 23 23 17 25

C E BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$ 6.6 -1.6 61 96 18 48 3.3 78 1.3 0.042 0.94 0.43 31 22 25 38

EFBEEF FOREMOST U208

EF F745 FRANK P230

C E BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$ 4.9 2.1 67 108 20 53 2.9 89 1.5 0.043 0.72 0.36 30 20 24 38

C E BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$ 5.5 3.3 52 84 10 37 1.9 88 1.9 0.089 -0.37 0.98 39 24 36 38

EFBEEF M821 BEEF EATER U332

EFBEEF U208 FORTUNE Y848

C E BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$ 4.9 1.9 51 79 8 34 0.1 63 2.6 0.005 0.14 .25 40 24 40 28

C E BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$ 5.3 0.0 48 78 26 50 0.8 59 0.8 0.071 0.41 0.38 20 19 17 27

R&R PRIME CUT 6378 ET

GG REVOLUTION 101Y

C E BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$ 6.9 0.7 60 88 14 45 7.9 92 1.9 0.093 -0.43 1.07 42 27 36 42

C E BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$ 2.7 2.4 64 93 22 54 3.2 97 1.5 0.042 0.54 0.33 28 19 24 34

EFBEEF N093 PROFESSIONAL W485

EFBEEF 22S ONTARGET Z055

C E BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$ 1.5 3.0 64 95 21 53 3.6 99 0.9 0.089 0.42 0.70 26 17 20 39

C E BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$ 5.0 0.4 57 96 16 45 3.2 103 1.4 0.045 0.45 0.40 29 21 25 34

Our livelihood depends on offering bulls/ females to the commercial cow-calf customer. Our bulls are built on the tenets of profi able cattle production: fertility, calving ease, growth, carcass merit and sustainable cow size. We recognize that cattlemen have many choices of breeds and breeders to source their input genetics from. To compete in the commercial cow-calf world, our bulls are genetically designed, environmentally pressured and finally sele ted to be profit leade s.

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The American Hereford Association (AHA) recently recognized those Hereford animals with the most profit poten ial for the beef industry through the Top 200 $Profit Ind x lists. Ellis Farms would like to thank and congratulate the following seedstock breeders and cow-calf producers that invested in EFBEEF genetics and now have been recognized by AHA as owning the most profi able genes in the Hereford breed.

Hora Prime Beef, Iowa 6D Land & Cattle, Nevada Huth Polled Herefords, Wisconsin MM Ranch, Kansas Reeds Farms, Missouri Alan Hartwig, Illinois Innisfail Farm, Georgia Morgan Farms, Illinois Iron Lake Ranch, Texas Allan Shumaker, Kansas JD Seward, Indiana Olsen Ranches, Nebraska John T. Smith, Illinois Ann Roberts, Indiana Kim Prestwood, North Carolina Pin Oak Farm, Illinois Shaw Cattle, Idaho Art Linton, Nebraska Knoll Crest Farm, Virginia R&R Farms, California B Bar 6 Ranch, California Asmus Herefords, Iowa Laffoon Family Farm, Kentucky Bay Brook Farm, Virginia Maple Springs Farm, Indiana Rausch Herefords, S. Dakota Marion Lambeck, Indiana Beef Resources Partnership, Iowa Mark Luka, Illinois Reid Family, North Carolina Mary Lou Wright, Illinois Roberts Family, Indiana Warfel Family, Illinois Rollingwood Ranch, California McMurry Cattle, Montana Blecha Herefords, Montana Mike Willis, Texas Schu-Lar Polled Herefords, Kansas Thomas Family, Missouri Brannan & Reinhardt, Kansas Nelson Polled Herefords, Minnesota Brian Simon, South Dakota Lee Bula, Texas David Silver, Illinois Will Green, Texas Steve Haiser, Indiana Joe Waggoner, Mississippi Tim Shope, Tennessee Drummond Mine Ranch, Alabama Duncan Ranch, Montana The Berry’s, Wyoming Tom Luthy III, Missouri Bar JZ Polled Herefords, S. Dakota Fark Family Farm, Ohio Alder Creek Farms, Missouri Turner Brothers, Oklahoma Kaczmareks 4K, Missouri Flat Stone Lick, Pennsylvania Mead Farms, Missouri Frank Greiner, Iowa Ozark Hills Genetics, Missouri Woods Branch, Wisconsin Still River Ranch, Texas Gerber Land & Cattle, Indiana Kallion Farms, Texas White Hawk Ranch, Georgia Lawlyes Farms, Indiana Greathouse Family, Illinois Skubal Farms, Iowa Greives Herefords, Indiana John Ade, Indiana Gary Doss, Missouri Nate Chalupa, Iowa Hardy Edwards, Georgia Harry Taylor, Missouri Heyen Farms, Illinois J&L Cattle Services, Ohio Holliday Farms, Illinois

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Robert “Bob” Arthur Rathwell, 69, Abbotsford, British Columbia, passed away Oct. 27. Bob graduated from Washington State University with an animal sciences degree. In 1970 he began a long career in the cattle industry working for Coppertone Farms, a polled Hereford operation in Abbotsford. In 1974 Bob moved to Alberta to start his own purebred operation but returned to Coppertone Farms in 1979 to carry on with cattle and subsequent hog operations. He was a member of the Canadian Hereford Association, the British Columbia Hereford Association and the West Coast Hereford Club and volunteered his time assisting 4-H clubs in the area. Bob is survived by his brother, Jim Rathwell; his sister, Patti Blower; and several nieces and nephews. Dennis R. Geffert, 64, Reedsburg, Wis., passed away Nov. 2 . Dennis was a 1968 graduate of Webb High School and a lifelong farmer. He and his brothers operated Geffert Hereford Dennis Geffert Farms and displayed bulls in the pen and carload show at the National Western Stock Show in Denver for many years, winning champion carload. Dennis was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Loganville. He had also served on the Board of Directors for the Westfield Mutual Insurance Company.

Dennis is survived by his wife, Kathy; two children, Melissa and Shea Geffert; his brothers, David and Dan Geffert; a sister, Rita Leis; and several nieces and nephews. Gerald M. Carney, 78, Virden, Ill., passed away Nov. 5. Gerald was active in FFA and a graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale with a Gerald Carney degree in agriculture. He was presented the Outstanding Agricultural Alumni Award from the university in 1989. He served four years in the Illinois Air National Guard. Gerald and his brother Warren farmed together for more than 30 years in the Lowder, Girard and Modesto areas. He was a lifetime member of the Virden United Methodist Church and active in the Omni Venture group. Gerald was installed in the Virden Masonic Lodge in 1951 and became a Shriner in 1970. Gerald is survived by his wife, Jane Lee; a daughter, Kim Lonny; his brother, Ronald Carney; a sister, Nancy Edwards; and grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

million, making the average price per head $1,536. When compared to the auction market’s “premier feeder calf sale” that same afternoon, the Herefordinfluenced steers sold higher in 10 of the 12 weight groups. The Herefordinfluenced steers ranged from $5.73 to $17.99 per hundredweight (cwt.) higher. The Hereford-influenced heifers also outsold the others in nearly all weight groups. They sold for more than $1.02 to $8.38 per cwt. higher. Six of the loads purchased were bought by Certified Hereford Beef (CHB) cooperating feedots. In order to be eligible for the sale, organized by the Montana Hereford Association, the calves were required to be at least 50% Hereford, with the other 50% being of British breeding, dehorned and castrated. Producers were encouraged to have them weaned for 45 days, with appropriate vaccination and deworming programs as well as age and source verification. Prior to the sale, Nick Campbell of Zoetis sponsored a social for buyers and sellers. For more information about the Montana Hereford-Influenced Feeder Calf Sale, visit mhafeedercalfsale.com or contact Della Ehlke at 406-439-4300. HW

In the News Buyers paid up for Hereford-influenced feeder calves at the 6th Annual Montana Hereford-Influenced Feeder Calf Sale Nov. 19 at the Headwaters Livestock Auction Yard in Three Forks, Mont. More than 1,000 head sold in the sale for a total revenue of $1.54

Deana Jak Farms matches donation to support Hereford youth and future Junior National Hereford Expos The Howes presented $35,000 as chairmen of the 2014 JNHE host committee, a sum which was a surplus of the fundraising from “A Sweet Family Tradition” in Harrisburg, Pa. The 2014 JNHE was hosted by Hereford breeders from Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and West Virginia. “Because of the hard work and fundraising done by the six host states, the 2014 JNHE was one of the most profitable to date,” says Amy Cowan, American Hereford Association (AHA) director of youth activities and foundation. “To help continue the ‘family tradition’ and support future JNHEs, the host committee contributed its remaining funds to HYFA’s ‘Growing a Lasting Legacy’ campaign.” The Howe family of Deana Jak Farms, Wagontown, Pa., contributed an additional $50,000 to support the campaign. “Doug and Jenny have been supporting HYFA and Hereford youth for many years,” Cowan says. “We can’t thank the Howe family enough for their continued support and commitment to Hereford youth. Because of their generosity, generations of Hereford youth will continue to benefit from activities like the JNHE and the PRIDE (Program Doug and Jenny Howe of Deana Jak Farms Inc., Wagontown, Pa., are pictured with Amy for Reaching Individuals Determined to Excel) Cowan (center), AHA director of youth activities and foundation. The Howes presented Convention.” HW an $85,000 check to the HYFA’s “Growing a Lasting Legacy” campaign. The Howe family

Doug and Jenny Howe of Deana Jak Farms presented $85,000 to the Hereford Youth Foundation of America’s (HYFA’s) “Growing a Lasting Legacy” campaign during the Hereford Honorees Reception Oct. 31 in Kansas City. The campaign is designed to ensure the sustainability of future Junior National Hereford Expos (JNHEs) and leadership events for generations to come.

contributed $50,000 in addition to the $35,000 contribution from the 2014 JNHE.

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SALE INDEX Able Acres - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Barber Ranch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Bluegrass Stakes - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Bowling Ranch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Burns Farms - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - California Hereford Classic - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fenton Hereford Ranch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Great Lakes Hereford Roundup - - - - - - - - - - Heart of America Hereford Assn. - - - - - - - - The Hereford Source - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jamison Herefords - - - - - - - - - - - - Kentucky Hereford Assn. - - - - - - - - - - - LeForce Herefords - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Largent and Sons - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nebraska Hereford Assn. - - - - - - - - - - - Oklahoma Hereford Assn. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rees Bros. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Show-Me Polled Hereford Classic - - - - - - - - South Dakota Hereford Assn. - - - - - - - - - - - Virginia Hereford Assn. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Wooden Shoe Farms - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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Pikeville, Tenn.—Nov. 1 Auctioneers: Tommy Barnes, Dustin Layton Reported by: Tommy Coley 61 bulls- - - - - - - $273,250; average - - - - - $4,480 Additional lots 80 comm. females- - $216,000; average - - - - - $2,700 BULLS BF CSF Target 3209, 2/17/13, by Churchill Target 0165X ET, consigned by Cottonwood Springs Farm, Cedar, Mich., to Langford Herefords, Okmulgee, Okla. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$12,000 BF 9116 Ely 2229, 10/26/12, by BF Nucky 9116, to Jimmy Thompson, Tompkinsville, Ky. - - - - - - - $7,500 BF JE 9116 Jordy 2265, 11/21/12, by BF Nucky 9116, to Harold Land Farms, Live Oak, Fla.- - - - - - $7,500 BF 9116 Ely 2236, 10/29/12, by BF Nucky 9116, to Jackman Cattle Inc., Clewiston, Fla.- - - - - - - - - $7,000 BF CSF High Time 3103, 1/9/13, by H H Perfect Timing 0150 ET, to Judy’s Iron & Metal, Orange, Texas - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $6,500

Great Lakes Hereford Roundup

Williamston, Mich.—Nov. 2 Auctioneer: Cody Lowderman Reported by: John Meents 3 bulls- - - - - - - $12,200; average - - - - - - - $4,067 45 females - - - - - $166,725; average - - - - - - - $3,705 48 lots - - - - - - $178,925; average - - - - - - - $3,728 Additional lots 1 steer - - - - - - - - - - $1,800; average - - - - - - - $1,800 3 embryos- - - - - - - - - $750; average - - - - - - $250 BULL MF 914W Barnabas 0150 401B, 1/7/14, by H H Perfect Timing 0150 ET, consigned by McDonald Farms, Grand Rapids, to Hanson’s Double G Herefords, Stephenson- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $5,200 FEMALES PCR Abigail Kayte 856U, 2/14/08, by PCR 286 Mr Advisor 502R, consigned by McDonald Farms, to Paul Mastine, Melbourne, Quebec; and a March bull calf by NJW 73S W18 Hometown 10Y ET to Maple Lane Farm Group LLC, Caledonia- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $11,700 MF 5151R Zendayo 122L 208Z ET, 2/12/12, by Remitall Online 122L, consigned by McDonald Farms, to Neal’s Polled Herefords, Bellevue; and a March steer calf by HC Last Call 202Z to Amanda Nething, Mansfield, Ohio- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $6,300 SHF Progress T49, 2/10/07, by SHF Progress P20, consigned by McDonald Farms, to Carl Cline, Albion; and a February heifer calf by NJW 73S W18 Homegrown 8Y ET to Lowderman Cattle Co., Macomb, Ill. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $5,950 CCC 316 Take A Lil’ Chance, 9/4/13, by RRR Bones 316 ET, consigned by Castle Cattle Co., Carney, to Caleb Smith, Jamestown, Ind.- - - - - - - - - - $5,300 96

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GG 19D Cowgirl T714, 3/3/07, by NJW 1Y Wrangler 19D, consigned by Hanson’s Double G Herefords, Stephenson, to Carl Cline; and a February heifer calf by SHF Wonder M326 W18 ET to Alan Fredrickson, Wolfeboro, N.H.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $5,200

Wooden Shoe Farms

Blackfoot, Idaho—Nov. 5 Auctioneer: Matt Sims Reported by: Mark Holt 5 bulls- - - - - - - $31,200; average - - - - - - - $6,240 43 females - - - - - $167,475; average - - - - - - - $3,895 48 lots - - - - - - $198,675; average - - - - - - - $4,139 Additional lots 3 flushes- - - - - - $12,500; average - - - - - - - $4,167 9 embryos- - - - - - $5,900; average - - - - - - $656 BULL WSF Home Schooled B76 ET, 3/15/14, by NJW 73S W18 Hometown 10Y ET, to Home Schooled Syndicate, Blackfoot (½ interest) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $20,000 FEMALES WSF Lady Beth B44, 2/14/14, by CMR ILR Domino 86P, to LPH Ranch, Layton, Utah- - - - - - - - $11,000 WSFCatalina’s Hereford GirlB43, 2/15/14, by TH 71U 719T Mr Hereford 11X, to Majestic West Livestock, Mt. Pleasant, Utah- - - - - - - - - - - - $10,000 WSF Lady Hereford A113 ET, 10/19/13, by TH 71U 719T Mr Hereford 11X, to Bobo Cattle Co., Connell, Wash.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $9,000 WSF Lady Catalina B34 ET, 2/8/14, by Haroldson’s WLL Anchor 4T, to Beck-Powell Polled Herefords, Bainbridge, Ind.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $7,750 WSF P606 Lady Sparkle A6, 1/27/13, by PW Victor Boomer P606, to Pelton Polled Herefords, Halliday, N.D.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$7,600 WSF P606 Miss Showcase A118 ET, 11/4/13, by PW Victor Boomer P606, to Grandview CMR, Como, Miss.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $7,500

Rees Bros.

Morgan, Utah—Nov. 7 Auctioneer: Butch Booker Reported by: Mark Holt 36 bulls- - - - - $151,100; average - - - - - - - $4,197 6 females - - - - - - - $18,600; average - - - - - - - $3,100 42 lots- - - - - $169,700; average - - - - - - 4,040 BULLS RB Beyond 18, 3/9/13, by STAR SJS Lethl Weapn II 212X ET, to Jerry Tripp, Granger, Wyo.- - - - - - - $8,500 RB Rambo 21A, 3/12/13, by C Rambo 8075, to Doc Jensen, Boulder, Wyo. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $6,900 RB Baron 12, 3/4/13, by K&B Baron 112Y 1ET, to Doc Jensen- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $6,500 RB Baron 41, 3/21/13, by K&B Baron 112Y 1ET, to Doc Jensen - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $6,250 RB Rambo 26, 3/13/13, by C Rambo 8075, to Doc Jensen- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $6,000

The Hereford Source

Como, Miss.—Nov. 8 Auctioneer: Dustin Layton Reported by: Joe Rickabaugh 18 bulls- - - - - - - - $66,250; average - - - - - $3,681 55 females - - - - - - - $273,300; average - - - - - $4,969 73 lots- - - - - - - - - - $339,550; average - - - - - $4,651 Additional lots 347 comm. females- $660,350; average - - - - - $1,903 FEMALES Oakcrest Silky P606 474X, 10/17/10, by PW Victor Boomer P606, consigned by Oakcrest Polled Herefords, Bells, Tenn., to Morris Hereford Farms, Mt. Pleasant, Texas; and a December heifer calf by GV CMR 131K Mr R117 Y621 ET to Belle Meadow Farm, Wartrace, Tenn.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $13,500 DS Miss Fancy Rev 17Y, 2/18/11, by MSU TCF Revolution 4R, consigned by CMR, Como, to Morris Hereford Farms; and a February bull calf by NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET to R&R Cattle Co., Wilton, Iowa - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$11,300 Oakcrest Cinnamon P521 461X, 10/5/10, by PWF Mohican Boomer P521 ET, consigned by Oakcrest Polled Herefords, to Belle Meadow Farm; and a December heifer calf by GV CMR 131K Mr R117 Y621 ET to Jeff Sullivan, Elrod, Ala.- - - - - - - - - - - - $10,250

GV CMR LF WOO4 Gal 56Z, 2/3/12, by GrandviewCMR Mr 552 W004 ET, consigned by Leimer Farms, Jackson, Mo., and CMR, to McGuffee Polled Herefords, Mendenhall; and a February bull calf by Churchill Sensation 028X to Rolling Oaks Farm, Senatobia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $9,700 GV CMR 8T Lady King Z190 ET, 2/5/12, by ALH WS King Ten 8201 ET, consigned by CMR, to Morris Hereford Farms; and a February heifer calf by CMR ILR Domino 86P to Herby Magee Farms, Lawrenceburg, Tenn. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $9,500 DS 29F Lass 40Z ET, 3/5/12, by CS Boomer 29F, consigned by Stockdale Hereford Farm, Dayton, Pa., to EBS Polled Herefords, Covington, Tenn.; and a March heifer calf by TH 122 71I Victor 719T to Wells Bekin, Buffalo, Wyo. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $8,800 CS 4R Ronda 25Y, 2/24/11, by MSU TCF Revolution 4R, consigned by Stockdale Hereford Farm, to JM Cattle Co. LLC, Lawrenceburg, Tenn.; and a March heifer calf by GV WSF 430 No Risk 9366 ET to Skrivanek Ranches, Caldwell, Texas- - - - - $8,200 GV CMR 2078 Ms 156T Z212, 2/7/12, by CMR GVP Mr Maternal 156T; and a February heifer calf by CMR ILR Domino 86P, consigned by CMR, to Skrivanek Ranches - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $8,100

South Dakota Hereford Assn.

Brookings, S.D.—Nov. 8 Auctioneer: Chisum Peterson Reported by: Levi Landers 25 females - - - - - $120,100; average - - - - - - - $4,804 Additional lots 23 steers- - - - - - $59,100; average - - - - - - - $2,570 FEMALES JWG Meg 1444B, 3/26/14, by Blacktop Zues 0330 ET, consigned by Jeff Gerlach, Stickney, to Blacktop Farms, Mitchell - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $9,750 ECR Lady Sport 4511, 5/2/14, by H BK CCC SR Game Changer ET, consigned by Fawcett’s Elm Creek Ranch, Ree Heights, to MNM Acres, Canton - - - - - - $9,250 LCX Anser Zahara 8B, 3/8/14, by WLB Winchester Anser 90X 10Z, consigned by Larry Crane, Mitchell, to RCR Polled Herefords, Lake Andes- - - - - - - - $7,500 SM Mary’s Anser 403, 3/26/14, by WLB Winchester Anser 90X 10Z, consigned by Muller Cattle, Davis, to Caden and Mason Bottum, Tulare- - - - - - - - $6,350 LCX Anser Keepsake 4B, 3/1/14, by WLB Winchester Anser 90X 10Z, consigned by Larry Crane, to Klages Herefords, Ortonville, Minn.- - - - - - - $6,000

Virginia Hereford Assn.

Harrisonburg, Va.—Nov. 8 Auctioneer: Dale Stith Reported by: Tommy Coley 1 bull - - - - - - - - - - $1,350; average - - - - - - - $1,350 53 females - - - - - $167,825; average - - - - - - - $3,167 54 lots- - - - - - - - - $169,175; average - - - - - - - $3,133 Additional lots 3 embryos- - - - - - $1,050; average - - - - - - $350 3 club calves- - - - - $3,975; average - - - - - - - $1,325 FEMALES CHF MST Lady Opportunity 256Z ET, 2/13/12, by STAR Opportunity Nox 529W ET, consigned by Cottage Hill Farm, Petersburg, W.Va., to Billy Koontz, Unionville; and a February heifer calf by NJW 76S P20 Beef 38W ET to Galley Gough, Rapidan- - - - - $7,000 DTF Rising Star 0X26 4B18, 3/3/14, by DTF North Star M326 0X26 ET, consigned by Deer Track Farm, Spotsylvania, to Meadow Ridge Farms Inc., Broadway - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $5,500 DTF Rose Marie 426 0X24, 3/23/10, by DTF Bellisarus 24F 426; and an October heifer calf by DTF North Star M326 0X26 ET, consigned by Deer Track Farm, to W&A Hereford Farm, Providence, N.C .- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $5,000

HVW Oh Thank Heaven 711B, 1/23/14, by Purple Currency 24U ET, consigned by Hannah Wine, Marshall, to Dean Littreal, Madisonville, Tenn. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $4,800 JL Lady Love 556 0802 121, 4/15/12, by THM Missille 0802, consigned by Terrace Farms, Lexington, N.C., to William Vaughan, Virginia Beach; and a May heifer calf by JL Mr Hereford 145 11Y 204 to A. Todd Smith Hauling LLC, Culpeper- - - - - - - - - - - - - - $4,750

Bowling Ranch

Newkirk, Okla.—Nov. 11 Auctioneer: Justin Stout Reported by: Levi Landers 30 bulls- - - - - - $145,000; average - - - - - - - $4,833 26 females - - - - - $116,300; average - - - - - - - $4,473 56 lots- - - - - - - - - $261,300; average - - - - - - - $4,666 Additional lots 1 flush - - - - - - - - - - $3,500; average - - - - - - - $3,500 83 comm. females-$235,625; average - - - - - - - $2,839 BULLS BH Jury 317 A, 2/6/13, by Churchill Jury 1150Y ET, to Stan Crowder, Cherokee- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $8,000 Bowling Sensation Via UPS 347A, 3/16/13, by Churchill Sensation 028X, to River Ranch, Medford - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$7,500 BH Advance 334 A, 2/27/13, by UPS Advance 0906, to Stan Crowder- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $7,000 FEMALES Bowling Lady 631 2006 Z, 9/15/12, by MCR 9126J Advance 631 ET, to Dwaine Waite, Winfield, Kan. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$5,750 Bowling Lady 319 A, 2/10/13, by _D 408 Mr Harland 410 134X ET, to Cabin Creek Farms LLC, Cushing- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $5,000

Barber Ranch

San Saba, Texas—Nov. 11 Auctioneer: Dustin Layton Reported by: Juston Stelzer 76.75 bulls- - - - - - $649,000; average - - - - - $8,456 29 females - - - - - - - $101,850; average - - - - - $3,512 105.75 lots- - - - - - $750,850; average - - - - - $7,100 Additional lots 95 comm. females- - $211,700; average - - - - - $2,228 BULLS BR Currency 2155 ET, 10/8/12, by BR Currency 8144 ET, to GKB Cattle, Waxahachie (¾ interest)- - - $19,500 BR Nitro 3078 ET, 4/5/13, by UPS TCC Nitro 1ET, to Owl Creek Ranch- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $19,000 BR Currency 2152 ET, 10/5/12, by BR Currency 8144 ET, to Raymond Barrier, San Saba- - - - - - - - - $19,000 BR Smartsire ET, 5/1/13, by CRR About Time 743, to Jim Harvey, Okeechobee, Fla.- - - - - - - - - - - - $16,000 BR Thriller 3039, 3/7/13, by C Thriller ET, to Bobby Clark, Brownwood- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $15,000 BR Golden Spread 3A21, 5/22/13, by BR Golden Spread Dan, to Rolling Oaks Ranch, N. Zulch- $13,000 BR Copper 2167, 10/26/12, by BR CSF Copper ET, to Sargent Ranch, San Antonio- - - - - - - - - - - $12,000 BR Golden Spread 3088, 4/16/13, by BR Golden Spread Dan, to GKB Cattle - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $11,000 BR Backdraft 3017, 3/2/13, by BR DM TNT 7010 ET, to Raul Martinez, Laredo - - - - - - - - - - - - $10,500 BR Currency 3038, 3/8/13, by BR Currency 8144 ET, to Dudley Bros., Comanche- - - - - - - - - - $10,000 BR RA Copper 3009, 2/18/13, by BR CSF Copper ET, to Dudley Bros. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $10,000 BR Copper 3010, 2/18/13, by BR CSF Copper ET, to Bonchasse Land Co. LLC, Shreveport, La.- - - - $10,000 BR Sooner 3051, 3/14/13, by BR CSF Sooner 0045, to Foushee Farms, Boerne - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $10,000 BR Moler 3025, 3/3/13, by BR Moler ET, to Gary Baker, Madisonville - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $10,000

SALE SUMMARY (U.S. sales reported in this summary occurred during the 2014-15 fiscal year.) Sale

No. Sales

Consignment Production Month Total 14/15 YTD

8 11 19 72

No.

Bulls Avg.

53.50 629.25 682.75 1,670.75

$4,103 $5,224 $5,137 $5,778

Females No. Avg. 324.00 929.00 1,253.00 3,317.50

$3,788 $4,474 $4,297 $5,530

No.

Total Gross

Avg.

377.50 1558.25 1,935.75 4,988.25

$1,446,775 $7,443,911 $8,890,686 $28,001,475

$3,833 $4,777 $4,593 $5,613

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BR Golden Spread 2179, 11/9/12, by BR Golden Spread Dan, to Bonchasse Land Co. LLC- - - $10,000 BR Golden Spread 3A12, 5/4/13, by BR Golden Spread Dan, to Mike Murry, Ovett, Miss.- - - - $10,000 BR Golden Spread 2119, 9/19/12, by BR Golden Spread Dan, to Rob Thomas, Sinton - - - - - - - $10,000

Fenton Hereford Ranch

Irma, Alberta—Nov. 14 Auctioneer: Bob Balog Reported by: Ben Brillhart 53 bulls- - - - - - - $316,675; average - - - - - - - $5,975 35 females - - - - - $130,025; average - - - - - - - $3,715 88 lots- - - - - - - - $446,700; average - - - - - - - $5,076 Additional lots 75 comm. females-$214,875; average - - - - - - - $2,865 BULLS ZZB 166W Rib Aster 34A, 2/8/13, by FE 29S Aster Lad 166W, to Shane Truby, Durango, Colo. - - $21,000 FE 60X Stanmore Lad 83A, 4/2/13, by SNS 5S Stanmore Lad 60X, to Jim Hines, Dewberry- - $10,750 ZZB 166W Dandy Aster 49A, 2/16/13, by FE 29S Aster Lad 166W, to Dan Sunderman, Holden- - $9,750 FE 60X Stanmore Lad 5A, 2/10/13, by SNS 5S Stanmore Lad 60X, to Park View Farms, Falon - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$9,500

Jamison Herefords

Quinter, Kan.—Nov. 14 Auctioneers: Lynn Weishaar, Seth Weishaar Reported by: Levi Landers 66 females - - - - - - - $297,850; average - - - - - $4,513 Additional lots 68 comm. females- - $209,000; average - - - - - $3,074 FEMALES JA L1 Dominette 3806A, 3/13/13, by JA L1 Domino 9800W, to Jon Miller, Winfield- - - - - - - - - - $15,500 JA L1 Dominette 3744A, 3/27/13, by CL 1 Domino 860U, to Jamison Ranch, Beggs, Okla.- - - - - - $11,500 JA L1 Dominette 3700A, 2/5/13, by CL 1 Domino 860U, to LC Ranch, Crockett, Texas- - - - - - - - - $8,000 JA L1 Dominette 3733A, 3/4/13, by CL 1 Domino 860U, to Kenneth Bowling, Branson West, Mo.-$7,500 JA L1 Dominette 3218A, 3/13/13, by CL 1 Domino 555R, to LC Ranch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $7,250

Bluegrass Stakes

Louisville, Ky.—Nov. 15 Auctioneer: Eddie Burks Reported by: Tommy Coley, John Meents 16 females- - - - - -$102,000; average - - - - - - - $6,375 Additional lots 1 steer - - - - - - - - - - $6,000; average - - - - - - - $6,000 FEMALES DeLHawk Gem Dandy 68B ET, 5/2/14, by NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET, consigned by DeLHawk Cattle, Earlville, Ill., to Ashley Russow, Heyworth, Ill.-$14,000 Perks 53W Snapchat 4054, 2/19/14, by NJW 73S W18 Hometown 10Y ET, consigned by Perks Ranch, Rockford, Ill., to Walker McGuffee, Mendenhall, Miss.; and Herby Magee Farms, Lawrenceburg, Tenn. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$12,500 CFCC EF Kyra 128 ET, 3/21/14, by TFR Cyrus 225 ET, consigned by Circle F Cattle Co., Brownstown, Ind., to S4 Herefords, Mt. Pleasant, Texas- - - - - - - - - - $8,000 HSR Giada 137, 6/7/13, by PHH PCC 812 True Grit 002, consigned by Hidden Spring Ranch, Poynette, Wis., to William Roberts, Petal, Miss. - - - - - - - $7,900 Harkers Roxie Beth B1 ET, 1/10/14, by CRR About Time 743, consigned by Harker Simmentals, Hope, Ind., to Lauren McMillan, Tiskilwa, Ill.- - - - - - - $7,000

California Hereford Classic

Roseville, Calif.—Nov. 15 Auctioneer: Kyle Colyer Reported by: Mark Holt 38 females - - - - - $117,900; average - - - - - - - $3,103 FEMALES ML Ms 88X Gracie B3 ET, 2/17/14, by NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET, consigned by Macfarlane Livestock, Cottonwood, to Madison Andrade, San Juan Bautista - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$7,000 Hereford.org

ML Ms 88X Lady B9 ET, 2/19/14, by NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET, consigned by Macfarlane Livestock, to Clara DeLong, Corning- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $6,200 DF9001 Sweet Whitley 1101 1310, 4/3/13, by DF Sweet Willie 9001, consigned by Dewar Farms, Bakersfield, to Bailey Morrell, Willows - - - - - $5,000 M P8 Grizzly Girl 1483 ET, 2/12/14, by H W4 Grizzly 0146 ET, consigned by Morrell Ranches, Willows, to Bagley Polled Hereford Ranch, Millville- - - - - $4,700

Show-Me Polled Hereford Classic

Windsor, Mo.—Nov. 15 Auctioneer: Dale Stith Reported by: Joe Rickabaugh 5.5 bulls - - - - - - $24,900; average - - - - - - - $4,527 51 females - - - - - $242,850; average - - - - - - - $4,762 56.5 lots - - - - - - $267,750; average - - - - - - - $4,739 FEMALES RHF 690S Vickey 1064Y, 3/31/11, by RHF 212 Victor P606 690S, consigned by Roth Hereford Farm, Windsor, to Morris Hereford Farms, Mt. Pleasant, Texas; and a January heifer calf by MSU TCF Revolution 4R to TNG Farms, Walnut Grove- - $9,600 SF Victoria 97T 0138, 12/26/10, by RF 218 Biltmore 97T ET, consigned by Steinbeck Farms, Hermann, to Chris Helsinger, Germantown, Ohio; and a December bull calf by NJW 73S M326 Trust 100W ET to Laboube Farms, Hermann - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $8,700 THM 46B Rossie 9550 ET, 2/2/09, by Remitall Boomer 46B, consigned by Roth Hereford Farm, to Cecil Jordan & Son, Dresden, Ohio; and a January heifer calf by Boyd Masterpiece 0220 to David Harah, New Florence- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $8,400 LJR MSU Maida 137Y, 2/7/11, by LJR 243G Stampede 137S, consigned by Roth Hereford Farm, to Daryl Ruprecht, Thief River Falls, Minn.; and a January heifer calf by NJW FHF 9710 Tank 45P to Chris Frans, Thomas, Okla.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $8,200 RHF 81S Ladysport 2060Z, 2/29/12, by NJW 8E 120J Embassy 81S ET, consigned by Roth Hereford Farm, to Morris Hereford Farms; and a February heifer calf by H 719T Mr Victor H5Z to David Harah- - $7,300

Oklahoma Hereford Assn.

Marietta, Okla.—Nov. 17 Auctioneers: Dustin Layton, Matt Sims Reported by: Dustin Layton 40 bulls- - - - - - $174,700; average - - - - - - - $4,368 23 females - - - - - $85,750; average - - - - - - - $3,728 63 lots- - - - - - - - - $260,450; average - - - - - - - $4,134 Additional lots 7 embryos- - - - - - $4,300; average - - - - - - $614 3 semen - - - - - - - - - - $450; average - - - - - - $150 30 comm. females- - $39,175; average - - - - - - - $1,306 BULLS DM FPH Domino 330, 5/14/13, by NJW 73S W18 Hometown 10Y ET, consigned by Curtis and Jackie Castle, Crawford, to Ramsey Ranch, Adair- - - - $8,500 F&F Channing 305, 3/28/13, by F&F Channing 705 ET, consigned by J. D. Schnitker, Turkey, Texas, to Jay Cockrell, Joaquin - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $6,600 CH L1 Domino 3002, 2/18/13, by HH Advance 6163S, consigned by Chambliss Hereford Farm, Hardinsburg, Ky., to Double TT Ranch, Rosser, Texas - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $6,200 FEMALES Langfords Lady 3264, 4/6/2013, by BR DM TNT 7010 ET, consigned by Langford Herefords, Okmulgee, to Ron Jenkins, Fox - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $8,500 STAR SV Perfect Fit 281W ET, 3/8/09, by CS Boomer 29F, consigned by Rafter J Cattle Co., Abilene, Texas, to Morris Hereford Farm, Mt. Pleasant, Texas - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $6,400

Largent and Sons

Kaycee, Wyo.—Nov. 20 Auctioneer: Joe Goggins Reported by: Ben Brillhart 83 bulls- - - - - - $576,991; average - - - - - - - $6,952 29 females - - - - - $100,745; average - - - - - - - $3,474 112 lots- - - - - - - $677,736; average - - - - - - - $6,051 BULLS L3 Winn Diamond 400, 7/26/13, by L3 Desert Diamond 115, to Gilmer Ranch, Hamilton, Colo. (½ interest) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $11,000

L3 King Comfort 347, 4/5/13, by Desert Comfort 037, to Ott Ranch, Reedpoint, Mont. (¾ interest) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$14,000 JH Desert Vision 302, 3/16/13, by STAR L3 Gerber Vision 053, to Monte McFate, Callaway, Neb. (¾ interest) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$13,000 L3 Desert Logic 341, 4/2/13, by KJ C&L J119 Logic 023R ET, to Robert Ligocki, Sheridan (¾ interest)-$10,000 TP Mr. Grizz 347, 4/1/13, by H W4 Grizzly 0146 ET, to Brad Stuart, Roby, Texas- - - - - - - - - $11,500 L3 Mr. Rango 353, 4/12/13, by L3 Desert Rango 138, to Bauer L&L, Buffalo- - - - - - - - - - - - - - $10,000

LeForce Herefords

Pond Creek, Okla.—Nov. 21 Auctioneer: Justin Stout Reported by: Joe Rickabaugh 30 bulls- - - - - - $182,000; average - - - - - - - $6,067 8 females - - - - - - - $45,000; average - - - - - - - $5,625 38 lots- - - - - - - - - $227,000; average - - - - - - - $5,974 BULLS LF Churchill 370A, 3/23/13, by Churchill Slugger 800U ET, to Larry Cochran, Cherokee- - - - - - - $10,000 LF Domino 302A, 2/28/13, by CL 1 Domino 789T 1ET, to T.R. Banks, Sentinel- - - - - - - - - - - $9,500 LF Domino 373A, 3/11/13, by Churchill Slugger 800U ET, to Larry Cochran- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $9,000 LF Domino 376A, 3/11/13, by CL 1 Domino 789T 1ET, to Tom Schickedanz, Cherokee - - - - - - - - - - - - $9,000 LF Domino 350A, 4/12/13, by CL 1 Domino 789T 1ET, to Tom Schickedanz- - - - - - - - - $9,000 FEMALE LF Advance Lady 321A, 2/28/13, by Churchill Babe Ruth 714T, to Churchill Cattle Co., Manhattan, Mont. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$7,500

Heart of America Hereford Assn.

Greenville, Ill.—Nov. 22 Auctioneer: Cody Lowderman Reported by: Joe Rickabaugh 5 bulls- - - - - - - $13,100; average - - - - - - - $2,620 34 females - - - - - $88,900; average - - - - - - 2,615 39 lots- - - - - $102,000; average - - - - - - - $2,615 Additional lots 2 comm. females- - - $5,900; average - - - - - - - $2,950 4 steers- - - - - - - - $9,000; average - - - - - - - $2,250 BULLS Biggs 9500 Magics Trick 83WA9, 3/18/13, by H WCC/WB 668 Wyarno 9500 ET, consigned by Biggs Polled Herefords, Dixon, to Erin Donoho, Iuka- $3,900 PPH 4037 Cowboy 207Z, 7/6/12, by THM Durango 4037, consigned by Paul Polled Herefords, Marseilles, to Hilda Donoho, Iuka - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $3,800 FEMALES RST GAT NST 300W Libby 12A ET, 2/2/13, by STAR TCF Lock-N-Load 300W ET, consigned by Matt Deal, Galatia, to Nature’s Acres, Salem- - - - - - - - - $3,800 STAR HF Koch 407T, 4/25/07, by HB STAR Battle Ground 2013, consigned by Sweatman Hereford Farm, Virginia, to Joe Lidy, Wheeler- - - - - - - - - - - $3,750 WW Gabrielle 24Z, 9/1/12, by NJW 43T 4037 Everready 9X ET, consigned by White Willow Polled Herefords, Morris, to Nature’s Acres - - - - - - $3,700

Kentucky Hereford Assn.

Mt. Sterling, Ky.—Nov. 22 Auctioneer: Dale Stith Reported by: John Meents 2 bulls- - - - - - - - $5,450; average - - - - - - - $2,725 61 females- - - - - -$209,250; average - - - - - - - $3,430 63 lots- - - - - - - - - $214,700; average - - - - - - - $3,408 Additional lots 9 comm. females- - $26,900; average - - - - - - - $2,989 FEMALES CR Victoria 2017, 2/3/12, by AH JDH Cracker Jack 26U ET; and a February heifer calf by Grassy Run Irish Red 228Z, consigned by Crossroads Cattle Co., Fraziers Bottom, W.Va., to Dvorak Herefords, Lake Andes, S.D. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $8,400 Grassy Run Spirit Queen 252Z, 3/16/12, by K&B Red Felton 5162, consigned by Grassy Run Resources Inc., Winfield, W.Va., to Dvorak Herefords; and a March heifer calf by TH 122 71I Victor 520X ET to Terry Powlesland, Laurel, Mont. - - - - - - - - - - $7,400

DJB 078K Lady Kim 2Y, 2/8/11, by Gerber Kaiser 078K, consigned by Banks Polled Herefords, Hamilton, Ohio, to Sunny Side Farm, Dresden, Ohio; and a January bull calf by Perks 144U Right Track 2040 to Peytons Well Polled Herefords, Stanford - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $5,800 PWF Miss Spot P809, 1/14/08, by Botkins Victor 647 6005, consigned by Peytons Well Polled Herefords, to Timothy Judd, Germantown; and an April heifer calf by PWF Last Chance P124 ET to L&L Farms, Hot Springs, Ark.- - - - - - - - - - - $5,400 Grassy Run Terri 2W, 9/17/09, by JJD Mr Gold 2001 ET, consigned by Grassy Run Resources Inc., to Friend Brothers, Sand Fork, W.Va.; and a February heifer calf by TH 223 71I Victor 406Y ET to L&L Farms- - $5,300

Nebraska Hereford Assn.

Grand Island, Neb.—Nov. 22 Auctioneer: Tracy Harl Reported by: Levi Landers 23 females - - - - - $92,700; average - - - - - - - $4,030 Additional lots 17 steers- - - - - - $51,750; average - - - - - - - $3,044 FEMALES Frenzen Miss B42, 3/5/14, by KJ 968R Polled Solution 668ZET, consigned by Frenzen Polled Herefords, Fullerton, to Seth Ivey, Oxford - - - - $8,000 MCM Lady Flash 334A, 4/5/13, by BBH TWJ 26U Jack Flash 118Y, consigned by Stanley J. McMahon & Sons, Ayr, to Kian Morris, Wilber- - - - - - - - $7,750 S&S Miss Lamp 178B, 3/16/14, by SHF Yankee R117 Y52 ET, consigned by Alfred Schutte & Sons, Guide Rock, to Woolfolk Farms, Jackson, Tenn.- - - - - $6,250 HH Miss Barretta 1410, 2/7/14, by UPS About Time 0138, consigned by Hula Herefords, Weston, to Garbielle Wythers, Fairmont- - - - - - - - - $6,000 BNT Princess 405 ET, 5/4/14, by NJW 73S W18 Hometown 10Y ET, consigned by Brooke Tracy, Wellfleet, to Wiley and Madie Ziegler, Bloomfield - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$5,750 BAR M Davidson 413, 3/5/14, by TCC Mr Davidson 81 ET, consigned by Persons Bar M Herefords, Hordville, to Wiley and Madie Ziegler- - - - - - - $5,750

Able Acres

Wingate, Ind.—Nov. 29 Auctioneer: Cody Lowderman Reported by: John Meents 1.5 bulls - - - - - - - - - $6,700; average - - - - - - - $4,467 49 females - - - - - $245,850; average - - - - - - - $5,017 50.5 lots - - - - - - - $252,550; average - - - - - - - $5,001 Additional lots 4 steers- - - - - - - - $9,450; average - - - - - - - $2,363 FEMALES AA Ms Wrangler 918, 1/19/09, by SR CG Hard Rock 5073, to Gray Land & Cattle, Edmond, Okla.; and a January heifer by NJW 73S M326 Trust 100W ET to Sturdy Hereford Outlet, Rochester, Ill.- - - - - $11,800 AA Reload Lady 733, 1/27/07, by LaGrand Reload 80P ET, to Mark Cosgray, Idaville; and a January bull calf by NJW 73S M326 Trust 100W ET to Gary Naughton, Grand Ridge, Ill.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -$9,900 AA Motherload 6158, 7/26/06, by AA PRF Wideload, to Double J Herefords, Iowa Falls, Iowa; and a January heifer calf by NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET to Hale Farm, Riceville, Tenn.- - - - - $9,900 AA Timely Lady 0154, 7/8/10, by CRR About Time 743, to Elaine Sigo, Lafayette; and a May heifer calf by H KH DD Excel 0091 ET to Gray Land & Cattle- - $9,300 AA SHO Stella 427, 1/18/14, by C Stockman 2059 ET, to Sennett Cattle, Waynetown- - - - - - - - - - - - $8,800 AA HRD Ariel 490, 3/27/14, by BNT New Design 201, to Ben Warfield, Marriottsville, Md. - - - - - - $8,500 AA JD Carlynn 464, 2/8/14, by PR 144U Bailout 0005 ET, to Jason Ward, Greens Fork- - - - - - $8,400 AA Stella 409, 1/8/14, by C Stockman 2059 ET, to Anna Medley, Lafayette- - - - - - - - - - - - - $8,000 HW

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C The “Calendar” is a listing of Hereford sales and events known to our staff. Italicized dates denote shows and events. Non-italicized dates denote sales. To make the “Calendar” concise we have used the following abbreviations: association, assn.; international, int'l; junior, jr.; mountain, mtn.; national, nat’l; northeast, NE; northwest, NW; performance tested, PT; southeast, SE; southwest, SW; and university, Un.

January _____________________________ 1-2 Sandhills Hereford Show, San Angelo, Texas 3 Greater Midwest Hereford-Influenced Feeder Calf Sale, Carthage, Ill. 11 Pennsylvania Farm Show Jr. Hereford Show, Harrisburg 12 Pennsylvania Farm Show Hereford Show, Harrisburg 14-20 Herefords on the Rocks Online Sale on LowdermanAuctionOptions 15-17 Nat’l Western Stock Show Hereford Shows, Denver 16 Mile High Night Nat’l Hereford Sale, Denver 19 Van Newkirk Herefords Bull and Female Sale, Oshkosh, Neb. 24 Indiana Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Indianapolis 25 Carswell/Nichols Bull Sale, Alton, Kan. 26 Ad deadline for March Hereford World/ AI Book 26 Delaney/Atkins Bull Sale, Lake Benton, Minn. 27 BuyHereford.com Internet Auction 27 Churchill Cattle Co. Bull Sale, Manhattan, Mont. 27-31 Red Bluff Bull and Gelding Sale, Calif. 29 Sioux Empire Farm Show, Sioux Falls, S.D. 31 Buckeye Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Plain City, Ohio 31 M.C. Quantock Bull Sale, Lloydminster, Alberta 31 Texas Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth 31 SE Regional Meeting, Lebanon, Tenn. 31 Wisconsin Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Wisconsin Dells

February ____________________________

1 Texas Hereford Assn. Whiteface Replacement Sale and Cowtown Select Sale, Ft. Worth, Texas 1 Texas Polled Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting and Banquet, Ft. Worth

2 Southwestern Exposition Nat’l Hereford Show, Ft. Worth 2 Topp Herefords Bull Sale, Grace City, N.D. 4-7 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show, San Antonio, Texas 5 Ridder Herefords Bull Sale, Callaway, Neb. 6 Baumgarten Cattle Co. Bull Sale, Belfield, N.D. 6 Dvorak Herefords Bull Sale, Lake Andes, S.D. 6 Elkington Polled Herefords Bull Sale, Idaho Falls, Idaho 7 Klamath Bull Sale, Klamath Falls, Ore. 7 Messner Herefords, Slapout, Okla. 7 Pelton Polled Herefords, Halliday, N.D. 7 South Texas Hereford Assn. Spring Sale, Beeville 7 Upstream Ranch Bull Sale, Taylor, Neb. 8 Dixie Nat’l Hereford Show, Jackson, Miss. 8 Mrnak Herefords Bull Sale, Bowman, N.D. 9 BB Cattle Co. Bull Sale, Connell, Wash. 9 Logterman Family Herefords Bull Sale, Valentine, Neb. 9 Fawcett Elm Creek Ranch, Ree Heights, S.D. 10 South Mountain Bull Sale, Melba, Idaho 10 Thorson Herefords Bull Sale, Phillip, S.D. 11 Friedt Herefords Bull Sale, Dickinson, N.D. 12 Iowa Beef Expo Hereford Sale, Des Moines 14 Baker Hereford Ranch Bull Sale, Rapid City, S.D. 14 Fallon All Breeds Bull Sale, Fallon, Nev. 16 Durbin Creek Ranch Bull Sale, Worland, Wyo. 16 Rausch Herefords, Hoven, S.D. 17 Bar JZ Ranches Bull Sale, Holabird, S.D. 18 Nebraska Cattleman’s Classic, Kearney, Neb. 18 Shaw Cattle Co. Bull Sale, Caldwell, Idaho 19 Olson Hereford Ranch, Argusville, N.D. 20 White Hawk Ranch Bull and Female Sale, Cedartown, Ga. 20 Hoffman Ranch Bull Sale, Thedford, Neb.

Oklahoma State Fair, Oklahoma City, Okla.—Sept. 21

Judge: Dale Pitchford, Porum, Okla. • 94-head shown Champion female, Kylee and Brigham Kelley, Yukon, with EXR Romance 318 ET, 9/5/13, by STAR Bright Future 533P ET. Reserve champion female, Evan Sims, Edmond, with SFCC PF Knockout Rose B418, 1/4/14, by TH 89T 743 Untapped 425X ET.

Champion bull, Vanderwork Herefords, Taloga; KayAnn Eck, Putnam; and Square G Ranch, Thomas, with SG Mr Thriller A49, 4/2/13, by C Thriller ET. Reserve bull, Turkey Feather Ranch and Kinley Urbanovski, Ada, with TFR KU Roll The Dice 1326, 12/5/13, by STAR TCF Lock-N-Load 300W ET. HW

20 Illini Classic Sale, Springfield 21 Carmichael Herefords Bull Sale, Meadow, S.D. 21 Illinois Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Springfield 21 Magnolia Hereford Assn., Magnolia, Ark. 21 West Tennessee Polled Hereford Assn., Martin 23 Colyer Herefords Bull Sale, Bruneau, Idaho 23 Hereford Heritage Bull and Female Sale, Stillwater, Okla. 24 Mill Creek Ranch, Manhattan, Kan. 25 Ad deadline for April Hereford World 26 PCR Online Bull Sale, Fremont, Mich. 27 Ernst Bull Sale, Windsor, Colo. 27 Jamison Herefords Bull Sale, Quinter, Kan. 28 Hula Herefords Open House Bull Sale, Creston, Neb. 28 Kreth Herefords Bull Sale, Mt. Vernon, S.D. 28 Pennsylvania Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, State College 28 Woolfolk Farms Bull Sale, Columbia, Tenn.

March _ _____________________________

Oklahoma State Fair, Oklahoma City, Okla.—Sept. 21

Judge: Cody Green, Prairie Grove, Ark. • 90-head shown Champion female, Allie Schrammel, Orlando, with Reserve champion bred-and-owned female, MH HM 74-51 True Lady 3530, 3/5/13, by PHH PCC Lauren Bilderback, El Reno, with LB CC Miss Tax Day, 812 True Grit 002. 4/15/13, by TFR Cyrus 225 ET. HW Champion bred-and-owned female and reserve champion female, Evan Sims, Edmond, with SFCC PF Knockout Rose B418, 1/4/14, by TH 89T 743 Untapped 425X ET.

2 Harrell Herefords, Baker City, Ore. 3 Schutte and Sons, Guide Rock, Neb. 5 Calgary Bull Sale, Calgary, Alberta 5 Jensen Bros. Bull Sale, Courtland, Kan. 5 Northwest Hereford Breeders Bull Test Sale, Hermiston, Ore. 6 Express Ranches Bull Sale, Yukon, Okla. 6 Kentucky Beef Expo Show, Louisville 6 Snake River Bull Test Sale, Twin Falls, Idaho 7 Bischoff’s Ravine Creek Ranch, Huron, S.D. 7 Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory Bull Sale, Miles City, Mont. 7 Kentucky Beef Expo Hereford Sale, Louisville 7 Sjolander Ranch, Riesel, Texas 7 Wisconsin Hereford Assn., Lancaster 8 Snyder Livestock Bull Test and Sale, Yerington, Nev. 9 Holden Herefords, Valier, Mont. 9 JBB/AL Herefords Sale, Bliss, Idaho 9 Tegtmeier Polled Herefords, Burchard, Neb. 10 Cooper Hereford Ranch, Willow Creek, Mont. 11 Udy Cattle Co. Bull Sale, Rockland, Idaho 11 Vin-Mar Cattle Co. Bull Sale, Rushville, Neb. 13 Tennessee Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Lebanon 14 Boyd Beef Cattle Bull Sale, Mays Lick, Ky. 14 I-29 Bull Run, Sioux Falls, S.D. 14 McIver’s Happy Acres Open House, Farwell, Minn. 14 Tennessee Agribition Sale, Lebanon 16 B&D Herefords Bull Sale, Claflin, Kan. 16 Wagner Herefords Bull Sale, Redfield, S.D. 17 Medicine Hat Bull Sale, Medicine Hat, Alberta 18 Heartland Herefords, North Platte, Neb. 19 Flying S Herefords Bull and Female Sale, Paluxy, Texas 20 Ohio Beef Expo Hereford Show, Columbus 21 Buckeye Hereford Assn., Columbus, Ohio 21 CES Polled Herefords/Predestined Cattle Co., Wadley, Ga. 21 Falling Timber Farm Bull Sale, Marthasville, Mo. 22 K7 Herefords Bull Sale, Lockridge, Iowa 23 DeLHawk Cattle Co. Online Heifer Sale, Earlville, Ill. 23 Oleen Bros., Dwight, Kan. 24 Frenzen/Blueberry Hill Farms, Fullerton, Neb. 24 WLB Livestock Bull Sale, Douglas, Manitoba

BW 2.9 67 WW 94 YW 19 MM M&G 52 FAT 0.014 REA 0.67 MARB 0.28

In the December issue Page 45 there was a mistake in reporting the American Royal National Hereford Show. We apologize for the error.

C&L Advantage M326 22S ET

Reserve yearling champion bull, Vanderwork Herefords, Taloga, Okla.; Kayann Eck, Putnam, Okla.; and Square G Ranch, Thomas, Okla., with SG Mr Thriller A49 by C Thriller ET. HW 112

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HEREFORD RANCH

920-474-7403 • 262-617-6346 Cell www.cnlfarm.com • cnlfarm@hughes.net

April ________________________________

2 Huth Polled Herefords and Beef Resources Partnership Bull Sale, Creston, Iowa 3 Georgia Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Perry 3 Sandhill Farms, Haviland, Kan. 4 Georgia Hereford Assn., Perry 4 Louisiana Bayou Classic Sale, Alexandria 4 Show-Me Classic Bull Sale, Windsor, Mo. 8 Clark Anvil Ranch, La Junta, Colo. 9 West Virginia Polled Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Weston 10 West Virginia Beef Expo Hereford Show, Weston 11 Ellis Farms, Chrisman, Ill. 11 Knoll Crest Farm Bull Sale, Red House, Va. 11 Oklahoma Hereford Assn., Perkins 11 Thorstenson Herefords Bull Sale, Selby, S.D. 11 Washington All Breeds Classic Sale, Puyallup 11 West Virginia Beef Expo Hereford Sale, Weston 14 Gerber Land & Cattle, Richmond, Ind. 16 Tennessee Hereford Marketing Program Spring Feeder Calf Sale, Columbia 18 Burns Farms, Pikeville, Tenn. 18 Stuber Ranch, Bowman, N.D. 18 Virginia Hereford Assn., Harrisonburg 24 Early bird ad deadline for July Hereford World 24 Middle Tennessee Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Cross Plains 25 California/Nevada Hereford Assn. Tour, Calif. 25 Middle Tennessee Hereford Assn., Cross Plains 25 Ritchie County Polled Hereford Assn., Harrisville, W.Va. 25 Young Farmers and Ranchers Youth Livestock Show, Alexandria, La.

May _ _______________________________

1 South Carolina Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Clemson 2 Doyle Hereford Ranch 50th Anniversary Appreciation Sale, Wolfe City, Texas 2 South Carolina Hereford Assn., Clemson 2 Tennessee River Music Inc., Ft. Payne, Ala. 5 Philip Livestock All Breed Bull Sale, Philip, S.D. 8 Switzerland of Ohio Polled Hereford Assn., Old Washington 9 New York Hereford Breeders, Truxton 16 Hereford Alliance Sale, Clifton, Texas 16 Woolfolk Farms Female Sale, Jackson, Tenn. 22 Final ad deadline for July Hereford World 22-23 SW Regional Jr. Show, Turlock, Calif. 23 Barnes Herefords/White Hawk Ranch, Cedartown, Ga. 25 Mead Cattle Co., Midville, Ga. 30 Shaw Cattle Co. Female Sale, Caldwell, Idaho 31 Maryland Jr. Hereford Preview Show, Gaithersburg HW

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25 Ad deadline for May/June Hereford World 25 Washington Cattlemen’s Assn. Bull Test Sale, Eltopia 26 McCabe Genetics, Elk City, Kan. 27 North Carolina Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Statesville 28 Barber Ranch Heifer Sale, Salado, Texas 28 Belle Point Ranch, Lavaca, Ark. 28 Candy Meadow Farms, Lexington, Tenn. 28 Heart of America Hereford Assn., Wayne City, Ill. 28 North Carolina Hereford Assn., Statesville 30 Lowderman Cattle Co. Bull Sale, Macomb, Ill. 31 NJW Polled Herefords Bull Sale, Sheridan, Wyo.

NORTHFORK RANCH Galen Krieg

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ALABAMA Campbell Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Debter Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Drummond Sparks Beef . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Tennessee River Music Inc. . . . . . . . . 64, 104 ARIZONA Mountain View Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . 104 ARKANSAS James Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 CALIFORNIA Alto Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blagg Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Five H Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jess Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lambert Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McDougald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Morrell Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrnak Herefords West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parham Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pedretti Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R&R Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red Bluff Bull & Gelding Sale . . . . . . . . . Sierra Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sonoma Mountain Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valentine Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weimer Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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COLORADO Campbell, James T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Clark Anvil Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Coleman Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Coyote Ridge Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Ernst Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79, 104 Fuchs Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Hall and Family, Doug . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Hanging W Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Kubin Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Leroux Land & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Robb & Sons, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Sidwell Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Strang Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 GEORGIA Allen Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 CES Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Greenview Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Hill-Vue Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 HME Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Leonard Polled Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . 93 Mead Cattle Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BC MTM Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . 62, 104 Predestined Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Sunset Ridge Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Thompson Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 White Hawk Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93, IBC IDAHO Colyer Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29, 104 Daniels Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Eagle Canyon Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Elkington Polled Herefords . . . . . . 12, 13, 104 Fern Ridge Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 Harrison & Sons, Hawley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 JBB/AL Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53, 104 OJJ Cattle Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Shaw Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 105 Snake River Bull Test LLC . . . . . . . . . . . 77 South Mountain Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Udy Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Wooden Shoe Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 ILLINOIS Aden Family Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Albin Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 ALH - Hartwig, Alan and Austin . . . . . . . 105 Apple Ridge Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Bafford Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Baker Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Behrends Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Benedict Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Bickelhaupt Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Bixler Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Bob-O-Lou Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Burns Polled Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90, 105 Crane Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 DeLHawk Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . 59, 91 Double B Herefords LLC . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Ellis Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84, 105 Eubank Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Fancy Creek Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Fleisher Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Gen-Lor Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Hallbauer Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Happ Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Harbison and Sons, Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91, 105 Kline Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Knott Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Loehr Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Lorenzen Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Lowderman Auction Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47, 90 Lowderman Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 McCaskill Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Miller Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Milligan Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Moffett Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Mud Creek Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Nature’s Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Newbold Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Northfork Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Oak Hill Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Perks Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Plainview Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Prairie Cross Land, Livestock & Ranching . . . . . . 90 Prairie Meadow Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Prairie Rose Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 RGR Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 River Ridge Ranch & Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Rustic Oaks Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Sayre Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

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Stephens Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Sturdy Hereford Outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Sweatman Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 INDIANA Able Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Beck-Powell Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . 87 Carlson Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 CDF Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Clinkenbeard Farms & Sons . . . . . . . . . . 87 DAD’s Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Elzemeyer Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Everhart Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Gerber Land & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 105 Green Meadow Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Greives Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Hayhurst Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Hunt Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 J&K Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Kesling Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Laudeman Family, Gale . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Ramsey Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Sankey, Cody and Lindsey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Stuckey Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 IOWA Amos Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Beef Resources Partnership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Castell Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Deppe Bros. Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Goehring Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Iowa Beef Expo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Jackson Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 K7 Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Landt Herefords, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Lenth Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Sorensen Family, Mike . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 St. Clair Hay and Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Stream Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Wiese & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 105 KANSAS 4V Douthit Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Alexander Farms Polled Herefords . . . . . . 105 B&D Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Brannan & Reinhardt Polled Herefords . . . . 105 Carswell-Nichols Herefords . . . . . . . . 57, 105 Davis Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Douthit Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Herbel Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Jamison Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 83, 105 Jensen Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 105 M-M Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Malone Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Meitler, Gene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Mill Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Oleen Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Oleen Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Sandhill Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 106 Schu-Lar Herefords LLC . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Springhill Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Towner Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Umberger Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . 106 VJS Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 KENTUCKY BBL Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Botkin Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Boyd Beef Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Chambliss Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Dogwood Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 JMS Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Peyton’s Well Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . 114 LOUISANA 5C’s Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 MARYLAND All Seasons Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 ChurchView Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 East Side Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103, 106 Foggy Bottom Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Grimmel Girls Show Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 R&T Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Red Oak Point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 SCH Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Tamsey Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 MICHIGAN Behnke’s Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Castle Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Cottonwood Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Grand Meadows Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Hanson’s Double G Herefords . . . . . . . . . 117 Longcore Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 MacNaughton, Ron and Jill . . . . . . . . . . 117 McDonald Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 RLB Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Rottman, Phil and Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86, 117 Sugar Sweet Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Vesser’s Triple E Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 MINNESOTA DaKitch Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Delaney Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 106 Krogstad Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Lawrence Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Schafer Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Springwater Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . 106 Whispering Pine Farms . . . . . . . . . . . 106 MISSISSIPPI Broadlawn Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Caldwell Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 CMR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Leaning Cedar Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 S&W Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 MISSOURI AbraKadabra Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Bellis Family, Jim D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Blue Ribbon Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Bonebrake Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88, 106 BS Herefords LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Cattle Visions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Doss Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Duvall Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Falling Timber Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Findley Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Glengrove Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Harding Bros. Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Journagan Ranch/Missouri State Un. . . . . . 89, 106 Kaczmarek 4K Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . 89 L III Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 McMillen’s Toothacre Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Miller Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Reed Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Roth Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 106 Schneider Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 WMC Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Woessner Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 MONTANA Brillhart Ranch Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Broken Pick Land & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . 106 Churchill Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 33 Cooper Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 106 Curlew Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Dutton Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Ehlke Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Feddes Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Holden Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 21, 106 J Bar E Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 McMurry Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Mohican West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Thomas Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 NEBRASKA 7 Mill Iron Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Blueberry Hill Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Fisher, Lowell and Carol . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Frenzen Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Gibson Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Henkel Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Hoffman Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 107 JB Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Linton Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Logterman Herefords & Angus . . . . . . . . 28 Moeller & Sons, Albert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Monahan Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Nebraska Cattlemen’s Classic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Niedermeyer Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Ridder Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . 19, 107 Schroer Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Schutte & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Spencer Herefords Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Upstream Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 27, 79, 107 Valley Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Van Newkirk Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 107 Vin-Mar Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 NEVADA Bell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Brumley Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Genoa Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Hutchens Herefords, Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Nevada Cattlemen’s Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 NEW JERSEY Grass Pond Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 NEW MEXICO B&H Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 C&M Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Copeland & Sons Herefords LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Cornerstone Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 King Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76, 107 West Star Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 NEW YORK SK Hereford LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Stone House Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 NORTH CAROLINA Brent Creech Taylor’s Mill Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Claxton Farm LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Double J Farm LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Myers Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . 107, 114 Prestwood Beef Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Rhyneland Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Terrace Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Triplett Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 W&A Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Will-Via Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 NORTH DAKOTA Baumgarten Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71, 98 Boehnke Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Carter’s Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Friedt Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69, 98 Friesz Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Mrnak Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . 73, 98, 107 North Dakota Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . 98 Olson Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Pelton Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Topp Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . INSERT Wolff Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 OHIO Banks Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Berg Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Buckeye Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 CSP Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Grandview Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Herman Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 J&L Cattle Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Mohican Polled Hereford Farm . . . . . . 92, 107 Morrison Stock Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Oakridge Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Ostgaard Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Sunny Side Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Switzerland of Ohio Polled Hereford Assn. . . . 92 OKLAHOMA Beacon Hill Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 CNB Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Darnell Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Dennis Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Dufur Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Durham Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Flying G Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Fullerton Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Graft-Britton Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Gray Land & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Langford Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 108 LeForce Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Loewen Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Messner Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 108 Moss Herefords, Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Nelson Land and Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 P&R Herefords LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 OREGON Bar One Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Bird Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Chandler Herefords Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 108 England Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Harrell Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . 51, 108 High Desert Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Hufford’s Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Klamath Bull & Horse Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Oregon Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Quick Mill Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Stallings Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . 108 Vollstedt Farms Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Y Cross Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 PENNSYLVANIA Bar-H Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creekside Hollow Acres . . . . . . . . . . . Dana Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deana Jak Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flat Stone Lick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glenview Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slaytons’ BearDance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stone Ridge Manor . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vogel Valley Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

108 108 108 108 BC BC 103 103 108

SOUTH CAROLINA Forrest Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Fowken Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Keese Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 White Column Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 SOUTH DAKOTA Atkins Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Baker Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Bar JZ Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Bischof’s Ravine Creek Ranch . . . . . . . 85, 108 Blume Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Courtney Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Dvorak Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Eggers Southview Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Fawcett’s Elm Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . 23, 108 Frederickson Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Hawks Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Hoffman Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 JBN Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 K&B Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 LaGrand Angus and Hereford Ranch . . . . . 108 Penner Land & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Rausch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31, 108 Sioux Empire Farm Show . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Stenberg Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Thorson Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Thorstenson Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 TENNESSEE Bartholomew Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Burns Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62, 93 Candy Meadow Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Coley Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 DLL Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Four L Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Hopkins Ranch of Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Jackson Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Mud Creek Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93, 109 Parker Bros. Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . 114 River Circle Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58, 109 Roberson’s Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . 109 Rogan Farms Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93, 109 Triple L Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Triplett Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Woodard Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . 109 Woolfolk Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 TEXAS Alpha Equine Breeding Center . . . . . . . . 109 B&C Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Barber Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Case Ranch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Cowtown Select Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Doyle Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Dudley Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Flying S Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Fuston Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 G3 Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 GKB Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Glaze Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 H2 Ranch and Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Indian Mound Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Iron Lake Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Kinnear Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109, 115 Larsons’ Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . 109 Massey Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . 109 McInnis Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 McMullin Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Metch Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . 109 ML Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Mockingbird Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Neel Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Noack Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Nolan Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Powell, James L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Rockin 4H Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Rockin’ W Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Rocking Chair Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Skrivanek Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Spearhead Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . 109, 115 Still River Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Sunny Hill Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Texas Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . 82, 109 Williams Family Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Willis Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 UTAH Allen & Sons, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Circle BJ Polled Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ekker Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johansen Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pallesen Hereford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peterson Bros. Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

109 110 110 110 110 110 110

VIRGINIA Fauquier Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Knabe, Harry A. Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Knoll Crest Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Meadow Ridge Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . Poplar Ridge Farm LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thistle Tree Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

103 110 103 103 103 110

WASHINGTON BB Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diamond M Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ottley Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yoricka Farm Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

IFC 110 110 110

WEST VIRGINIA Cottage Hill Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Five Star Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Goff & Sons, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grandview Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grassy Run Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Haught Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hickory Springs Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J&A Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Law & Sons, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McDonald Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Westfall Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . .

111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 110

WISCONSIN Baker Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Boettcher’s Brookview Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 C&L Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . 110, 112 Christ the Rock Creek Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Dalton Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Gari-Alan Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Huth Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101, 110 J&J Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Kegley Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Lamb Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Larson Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102, 110 Lietzau Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Lininger Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 MGM East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 MGM West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Next Generation Genetics . . . . . . . . . . 102 Owego Stock Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Pierce’s Hereford Haven . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Sandrock Ranch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Spruce Hill Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . 102 Starr Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Steiny’s Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Whiskey Run Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Windy Hills Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Wirth Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Wiswell Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 WYOMING Berry’s, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Holmes Herefords/Drake Ranch . . . . . . . Largent and Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lockhart Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McClun’s Lazy JM Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Micheli Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Middleswarth Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NJW Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . Ochsner Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Perkes Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

110 110 110 110 110 110 110 110 110 110

CANADA Calgary Bull Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elmlodge Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . Ulrich Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

54 110 110 95

SERVICES Accelerated Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 ADM Alliance Nutrition Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Barnes, Tommy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Birdwell, James M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Birdwell, Joel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Booker, C.D. “Butch” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Breeders Insurance LLC . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Burks, Eddie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 BuyHereford.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Carper, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 CattleMax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 110 Circle H Headquarters LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Conover, Al . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Emmons Ultrasounding . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Gay Livestock Insurance, Jerry . . . . . . . . 110 Genex Cooperative Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Immucell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 James F. Bessler Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Jensen Live Stock Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Layton, Dustin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Lowderman, Cody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Lowderman, Monte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 MCS Auction LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Midwest Cattle Service Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 111 National CUP Lab & Tech Center . . . . . . . . . . 41, 111 Reed Enterprisese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Schacher Auction Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Select Sires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Sims, Eddie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Stith, Dale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Stout, Justin B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Streamline Genetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 111 T Bar C Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 T/Big Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Wendt, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

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2015

S I O U X

E M P I R E FARM SHOW

Thursda , Jan. 29, 2015 • Show at 8 a.m. • Sale at 11:30 a.m. W.H. Lyons Fairgrounds, Sioux Falls, S.D.

Selling 32 Lots — 26 yearling and 2-year-old bulls and 6 heifers (bred and calves)

Auctioneer: Chisum Peterson, Chamberlain, S.D. Hotel and Sale Headquarters — Ramada Sioux Falls, located just south of the fairgrounds. Call 605-330-0000 Hereford Social and Dinner — Wednesday evening, January 28, at the fairgrounds

2014 Champion Bull, consigned by Schmidt Herefords

2014 Champion Heifer consigned by Sleepy Hollow Farm

SPH 11U Jackie 45B, consigned by Springwater Polled Herefords

Son of WLB Winchester Anser 10Z, consigned by Larry Crane

Neilyne Artic Attitude 1A, consigned by Neil Farms

CONSIGNORS Stangeland Farms, Pipestone, Minn. Springwater Polled Herefords, Garretson, S.D. Neil Farms, Northfield, inn. Jaime Hanson, Comfrey, Minn. Huwaldts Herefords, Randolph, Neb. RCR Polled Herefords, Lake Andes, S.D. Larry Crane, Mitchell, S.D. Lounsbery Herefords, Centerville, S.D.

Sale Representatives: Levi Landers, AHA 308-730-1396 Art Handel, Handel Marketing 605-391-8233

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Schmidt Herefords, Pipestone, Minn. Circle S Ranch, Stewartville, Minn. Blake and Claire Solsma, Sanborn, Iowa Muller Cattle, Davis, S.D. Neil Farms, Pine Island, Minn. M & M Acres, Canby, Minn. Payton Vogel, Hartley, Iowa

For catalogs or other info, contact: Cindy Christensen at the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce at 605-373-2016 or any of the Sale Committee. John Schmidt 507-825-2383 Phil Eggers 605-351-5438 Pete Atkins 605-368-2837 Hereford.org

FLAT STONE LICK New Year… New Thought After the Hereford Genetic Summit, it’s time to REEVALUATE. Is FSL on the right track or not? We’ve always relied on AHA data to keep moving forward. More than ever, our cattle are more consistent, more predictable and higher quality with fewer extremes. FSL Cow Herd Average EPDs CE BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC 2.38 2.3

55 84 26

2.2

FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$

81 1.02 0.02 0.49 0.14

We’re not making major changes, only FINE TUNING. For generations, it’s been BIRTH WEIGHT vs. GROWTH. Now it’s SUBTLE TRADE OFFS such as mature cow weight restraint, optimal milk for our environment, getting our bulls to be predictably problem-free on black cows and other more refined traits Aside from large carcass size, our steers satisfy our FSL consumers better than ever. These two bulls epresent what we are using in our herd and selling to other stockmen. We think they are problem-free, stout bulls that are right for today’s industry.

AHA

GE•EPD

FSL Prince Albert 5Y 12A CE BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC 2.2 1.4

57 91 29

.20 .33 .29 .31 .18

0.7

.18

.25 .27

FSL Revolution 4R 29U 26Y {DLF,HYF,IEF}

FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$

1.1 0.013 0.52 0.22 .24

.24

.22

CE BW WW YW MM M&G MCE MCW SC 4.5 2.8

67 103 30

.34 .47 .38 .40 .22

3.5

.29

.37 .33

FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$

1.5 0.053 0.46 0.26 .30

.31

.28

What’s your resolution? Pro Performance Breeders

FSL

FLAT STONE LICK

CATTLE ENTERPRISES Tommy and Tommie Lynne 1230 Reeves Rd. • Midville, GA 30441 706-554-6107 • Cell 706-339-0201 www.meadcattle.com tommy@meadcattle.com

Les and Nancy Midla & Family

W. Massey Booth Jr. and Curtis H. Booth 711 Kings Run Rd. Shinglehouse, PA 16748 814-697-6339 masseyb@frontier.com

34 Cranberry Marsh Marianna, PA 15345 724-267-3325 nmidla@pulsenet.com Documented cattle that are right for today’s industry.