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2020 Eagle Pass Ranch Spring Bull and Maternal Edge™ Female Sale
Eagle Pass Ranch Headquarters Highmore, South Dakota February 17, 2020 Auctioneer: Seth Weishaar Sale Report: AJ Munger
Sale Averages: 201 Total Bulls............................................................$5,046 87 Black Balancer® and Gelbvieh Bulls...................$3,862 6 Red Balancer® Bulls................................................$5,708 87 Black SimAngus™ and Simmental Bulls: ..........$5,445 15 Red Angus Bulls: .................................................$8,667 6 Angus Bulls: ...........................................................$6,708 7 Registered Bred Heifers: .......................................$2,371 146 Commercial Bred Heifers: ...............................$1,818
Top Selling Balancer ® Bull: Lot 126 - $11,000 EGL Guinness G046. Connealy Guinness x EGL Lock and Load X415. Robert and Jeremy Haselhorst, Mansfield, SD.
Top Selling Red Angus Bull:
Lot 193 – $70,000 EGL Guidance 9117. McD Spur 6111 x Brown JYJ Redemption Y1334. Sold to 9 Mile Ranch, Touchet, WA, TJS Red Angus, Lodge Grass, MT, Jeffries Red Angus, Checotah, OK, and Triangle Cattle Co, Mineral Wells, TX.
Top Selling SimAngus™ Bulls:
Lot 1 - $23,000 EGL Granite City 220G. CCR Cowboy Cut 5048Z x PA Safeguard 021. Sold to Krebs Ranch - Gordon, NE.
Lot 30 - $22,000 EGL Great Western 87G. T C A Visionary 158 x MR NLC Upgrade U8676. Sold to All Beef and ABS Global, DeForest, WI.
Lot 29 - $16,000 EGL Glacier 48G. G A R Drive x MR NLC Upgrade U8676. Sold to Stan Sears, Montague, CA. Lot 70 - $12,500 EGL Goldeneye 78G. Basin Payweight 1682 x Hooks Shear Force 38K. Farlee Ranch, Dupree, SD D
Gelbvieh Media Productions Photo Contest
The American Gelbvieh Association (AGA) held its photo contest prior to the AGA National Convention. While we displayed the photos all throughout the convention, we apologize for not getting around to officially posting the results in the Gelbvieh World until now. Without further ado, here are the winners. What great shots of Gelbvieh and Balancer® genetics and future breeders from around the U.S.! D
First Place: Audrey Powles “Summer Storms Bring Greener Pastures”
Second Place: Casey McKee Third Place: Gina Thorstenson “Belly Deep Grass Is So Much Better Than Snow Banks”
ALABAMA
Kittle Gelbvieh Farms Quality Black & Red Gelbvieh Cattle 816 Co. Rd. 36 Geraldine, AL 35974 Cell (256) 996-5822 www.kittlefarms.com Dustin Kittle
ARKANSAS
BREEDERS CORNER GW OKLAHOMA
Neal (870) 426-4469 or (870) 704-9450 Quality Gelbvieh & Balancer Genetics Available Private Treaty Sales HODGES RANCH 15702 Hodges Rd., Omaha, AR 72662 Hodgesranch@live.com
Martin Cattle Company David & Rita Martin 256 Boyce Road Judsonia, Ar 72081 C: 501.278.7614 www.martincattleco.com Private Treaty Sales Available Year Round
LeGRAND
809 S. Redlands Rd. • Stillwater, OK 74074 405-747-6950 • alane@c21global.com Ed & Alberta LeGrand Homo. Black, Homo. Polled • Breeding Stock Available
Gelbvieh Genetics at Work Patrick Koehn 73243 Carter Rd., Goltry, OK 580-541-2633 koehncattlecompany@gmail.com Koehn Cattle Co.
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Saturday, March 7, 2020 At the Ranch Selby, South Dakota Auctioneers: Seth Weishaar, Lynn Weishaar Reported by Vaughn Thorstenson
Sale Averages: 113 Balancer® and Gelbvieh Yearling Bulls............$4,183 43 Yearling Angus Bulls............................................$4,005 Total: 156 Yearling Bulls...........................................$4,130 A beautiful spring day and a stout set of yearling Balancer and Angus bulls welcomed a large crowd for the Thorstenson’s Lazy TV Ranch Annual Production Sale Saturday, March 7, at the ranch west of Selby, South Dakota. Cattle sold into nine states.
Drawing lots of attention and a final bid from longtime customer Rau Farm Ranch of Selby, South Dakota, was sale topper Lot 142 at $18,000. A yearling Angus sired by Musgrave 316 Stunner, he posted a -5.22 RFI along with performance EPDs in the top 1% of the Angus breed. He also had a 14.6 adj. REA to index 111 and a 4.48 IMF to ratio 110.
Another Angus, Lot 148, commanded a bid of $12,500 from JK Angus at Montrose, South Dakota. Sired by KCF Bennett Boulder he gained 4 lbs. per day for an adj. YW of 1347. He also scanned an impressive 6.85 adj. IMF to index 168.
Lot 93, a red Balancer topped the Balancer offering with an $11,000 bid from Hicks Ranch, Martin, South Dakota. Sired by KHR Taylor Made, he combined calving-ease and performance numbers.
Lot 4 topped the black Balancer offering with a final bid of $10,500 from John Haefner of Mound City, South Dakota. Another Boulder son, he checked a lot of boxes with nearly every economically relevant EPD in the top 20% of the breed. He also scanned an adj. IMF at 4.8 for a ratio of 149.
Another longtime customer, Larry Thompson of Glenham, South Dakota, made the final bid on Lot 151, Angus, at $10,000. Sired by Schiefelbein Eclipse 927, Lot 151 was the top-ranking Angus bull in the feed-efficiency test with an RFI of -9.72 and also posted an adj. YW of 1311 pounds.
Also selling at $10,00 was Lot 46, a black Balancer out of Musgrave 316 Stunner, chosen by Plateau Gelbvieh of Peetz, Colorado. Lot 46 combines performance EPDs in the top 5% of the breed along with feed efficiency in the top 25% of the test group. D
Grandson Hudson helped repeat customers Joel and Ginger Kuschel of Browns Valley, MN, pick out a red Balancer bull.
ILLINOIS
J & K GELBVIEH FARM, INC.
Jerry & Karen Wilson 335 Gelbvieh Lane, Ava, IL 62907
618-521-8620 • jkgf88@frontier.com REGISTERED GELBVIEH AND BALANCER ®
INDIANA
3 G Ranch Gelbvieh Cattle For Sale Carl, Rebecca & Emily Griffiths 1577 N 600 E • Kendallville, IN 46755 260/897-2160 • ggge3g@embarqmail.com Your call or visit is Always Welcome
NORTH CAROLINA
Quality Gelbvieh, Angus & Balancer Cattle DUANE & WENDY STRIDER, OWNERS (336) 964-6277 ccrosscattle@yahoo.com • ccrosscattle.com
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Producing Black, Polled Genetics for Today & Tomorrow.
Walter & Lee Teeter 1380 French Belk Rd. • Mt. Ulla, NC 28125 (704) 664-5784
Registered Bulls & Replacement Females “Superior Gelbvieh and Balancer Cattle” Chris & Jordan Hampton • Charles & Sue Hampton 839 Davistown Rd. Celina, TN 38551 931-243-3213 H 931-510-3213 C hamptoncattlecompany@gmail.com
Tucker Farms
Gelbvieh & Balancer Cattle BULLS FOR SALE
640 McAdams Loop Jacks Creek, TN 38347 TuckerFarmsTN@gmail.com
Milton Tucker 731-608-5274
VIRGINIA
Roger Morris C.W. Moss 434.315.4294 434.391.4458 REGISTERED POLLED GELBVIEH C.H. Morris & Sons, LLC Roger Morris • C.W. Moss 928 Morris Road Appomattox, VA 24522 434.574.6592
Gale Rippey Farms
SPECIALIZING IN COMMERCIAL BALANCER ® FEMALES Galax, Virginia 276.233.0999 • grippey@embarqmail.com
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KENTUCKY
Coles Bend Cattle Company Raising registered Gelbvieh and Balancer ® cattle since 2000.
TENNESSEE
JEFF PROCTOR CHARLOTTE, TN | 931.801.5787 WWW.CAVECREEKCATTLE.COM CAVECREEKCATTLE@GMAIL.COM CAVE CREEK CATTLE
Quality Gelbvieh & Balancer® Cattle
John & Liz Loy Cl inCh Mountain Gel bvieh 7611 Dyer Rd. Luttrell, TN 37779 j.b.loy@att.net (865) 687-1968 (865) 235-8869 (C) Bulls & Heifers for Sale www.knollcrestfarm.com knollcrest@knollcrestfarm.com Office (434) 376-3567 Fax (434) 376-7008 James D. Bennett 434/376-7299 Paul S. Bennett 434/941-8245 Jim G. Bennett 434/664-7935 Brian R. Bennett 434/664-8309 Dalton G. Bennett 434/664-7946 PO Box 117 • Red House, VA • 23963 Total Performance Bull Sale • Dec. 4, 2020
F QUALITY GELBVIEH CATTLE LITTLE WINDY HILL Farms Doug & Sue Hughes 6916 Peppers Ferry Road Max Meadows, VA 24360 C 276/620-4271 lwhf@wiredog.com W L H
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Gustin’s Diamond D Gelbvieh Annual Production Sale SALE REPORTS
Sale Averages: 75 Gelbvieh and Balancer bulls...............................$4,583 24 Gelbvieh and Balancer bred heifers...................$2,054
Top Selling Bulls:
Lot 50: $9,500, DDGR Firebird 100G, March 23, 2019, red purebred, RWG Exact Combination 7409 X EGL Miguel R056 ET to Eslinger Brothers, Elgin, ND.
Lot 27: $9,000, CMR Consensus 60G, March 16, 2019, black purebred, BNC At Ease A357 X PLA Big Dog 101Y to Prairie Hills Gelbvieh, Gladstone, ND.
Lot 59: $8,500, DDGR Heartland 116G, March 26, 2019, red purebred, RWG Exact Combination 7409 X SINK Full Throttle 27T to Tammy Falstad, Kathryn, ND. Lot 69: $8,000, DDGR Prevalence 331G, April 2, 2019, red purebred, DDGR Nobleman 79B X DVE Davidson Mr Dakota 151X to Ken Elkins, Taylor, ND. Lot 60: $8,000, DDGR Avalanche 117G, March 26, 2019, red Balancer, CMR Protégé 121E ET X LRA Packer 290 to Lynn Gustin, Mandan, ND.
Lot 51: $8,000, DDGR Superman 101G, March 23, 2019, red Balancer, CMR Protégé 121E ET X HXC Conquest 4405P to Grady Uran, Stanley, ND.
Lot 5: $8,000, DDGR Lignite 9G, February 28, 2019, black Balancer, LD Capitalist 316 X JKGF Future Investment A121ET to Kirby Steichen, Goodrich, ND.
Top Selling Heifer:
Lot 91: $2,800, DDGR Fancy Pants 171F, April 3, 2018, black purebred, CKS Dream C11 X THUL X159, bred to SINK DLW Wide Tracks 808F, to Roger Herman, Tularosa, NM. D
