Southwest Iowa Gelbvieh Balancer Bull & Female Sale and

Friday, March 17, 2023 • 1 p.m. (CST)

Creston Livestock Auction • Creston, Iowa

Breeding Guarantee: All bulls have been semen tested and will be fully guaranteed to be capable of settling healthy, sound and fertile cows of breeding age. Bulls selling for $3,000 or more will carry an additional guarantee against injury effecting breeding as declared by a licensed veterinarian; and not injured due to abuse or neglect. This guarantee is for the spring breeding period. The seller will give the purchaser of the bull credit at next year’s sale for one half of the purchase price, minus the salvage value. Seller of the bull must be notified immediately if injury occurs. If any other problems occur, the terms and conditions as stated by the breeding guarantee of the AGA (in the back of this catalog), will be in effect. Any guarantee is between the individual seller and the purchaser.

Online bidding: Contact Cody Frey at (641) 344-6112 or the sale barn at (641) 782-7025. To view only, the sale can be seen on www.dvauction.com. To be able to bid, click on submit and then contact Cody Frey or the sale barn three (3) days prior to the sale.

Welcome to our 14th Annual Bull and Female Sale!

The Southwest Iowa Gelbvieh and Balancer Group would like to thank all of our customers and all who have shown interest in our cattle over the last twelve years. You can drive as far as you want and not find better seedstock than we offer. The bulls have all been tested for feed efficiency, ultra-sounded, scrotal measured and semen tested. Bulls have been fed for soundness, longevity and ease of handling from birth to buyer. The bulls have been fed in a feed efficiency program which automatically weighs all the feed consumed and at the time of day. If you choose high efficiency bulls and retain heifers from them, in a few generations (as have been studied and tested by universities and cattle testing stations such as Werner Feed Efficiency Testing Center), you can achieve feed efficient cattle that can save as much as $100 per cow per year in feed costs. On 100 cows that translates to $10,000 saved!

Thanks to Cody Frey and his crew at the Creston Livestock Auction for all the work they have done; Jordan Vander Molen for clipping and fitting the bulls and to Tucker Mittag who took the videos and pictures for the catalog. We would also like to thank Jane Adolph for her expertise in putting our catalog together over the past years.

We look forward to seeing you at the sale on Friday, March 17th!

— The Southwest Iowa Gelbvieh & Balancer Group

Delivery: Any bull bringing over $3500 will be delivered free of charge up to 200 miles. Bulls sold farther than 200 miles will be delivered to a midway point between buyer and seller, as soon as it is convenient for both parties.

Semen Interest Retained: The sellers are retaining a 50% semen interest in all the bulls in the sale. The buyer is getting full possession and 50% semen interest. If we choose to collect semen we will work with the new owner and schedule the collection around his schedule. We will rarely exercise this option, but with all the new DNA technology we may want to use some of these genetics in the future.

Catalog by: Jane Adolph, Mt. Carroll, IL | 815-244-5456

Special Guest: Tom Strahm, AGA Commercial Marketing Director

Please bring your catalog with you to the Sale on March 17th!

About the EPDs: The bulls in the Southwest Iowa Gelbvieh & Balancer Sale have been tested and rated on all the major tests for breeding bulls; including ultra-sound for carcass, semen tested, scrotal measured, BVD tested and the new EPDs for weights, milk, carcass, etc. The new EPDs are more accurate through genetic testing, termed “Genomic Enhancement”. This is done by picking out genetic markers in blood samples for individual EPD traits and the degree they influence each trait. In the past EPDs have been calculated from many generations of weigths and growth. The addition of genomic markers for each trait, combining the past accumulated records gives us the more accurate genomic enhanced EPDs.

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