ASSOCIATION BRIEF

ASSOCIATION BRIEF

ASSOCIATION BRIEF

OKLAHOMA BRANGUS BREEDERS SPRING SALE

The Oklahoma Brangus Association (OBA) Spring Sale is moving back to Ada, Oklahoma! The sale will be held March 20, 2021 at the Southern Oklahoma Livestock Auction. The OBA will be offering Brangus and Ultrablack bulls and females. Most consignments will have weights and ultrasound information, plus DNA and parent verification recorded with IBBA. Brangus-influenced commercial female consignments of high quality are always welcomed. The OBA always welcomes progressive new members to join and be a part of our progressive group. OBA hosts a spring and fall sale each year and supports the junior Brangus programs. For sale information and/or membership information contact Mike Vorel at vorelfarms@gmail.com or 405-826-6959. Further information can be found on our website www.okbrangus.org.

TEXAS BRANGUS BREEDERS ASSOCIATION NEWS

Mark your calendars for the Texas Brangus Breeders Association (TBBA) annual convention. It is set for April 2-3, 2021, at Tenroc Ranch in Salado, Texas. The TBBA annual meeting will be on Friday afternoon, followed by a complimentary and excellent meal, entertainment and fellowship with other Brangus breeders. The TBBA Spring Spectacular Sale will be at 10:30 am on Saturday, April 3rd. Nominations are open now for the sale, contact Joe Fuller, sale chairman at 979-255-7747 or American Marketing Service at www.amscattle.com for more information on nominating cattle to the sale. 2021 memberships are due. Please go to txbrangus.org to find a membership application.

TBBA provides a great advertising opportunity. We offer advertising space on our webpage to promote your ranch. A banner ad is $500 per year and a ranch card ad is $100. Get your ranch name out in front of many potential cattle customers through this economical advertising method. Email frances@txbrangus.org for membership information or for advertising opportunities.

A huge thank you to all that helped make the TBBA Best of Brangus Semen Auction a success. We appreciate Matt Willey spearheading this sale and Hi Point Sales + Marketing for managing the online auction.

SOUTHEAST BRANGUS BREEDERS ASSOCIATION YEAR IN REVIEW

The Southeast Brangus Breeders Association (SBBA) hopes that you have a prosperous, healthy and blessed New Year in 2021. The SBBA, like everyone, faced many challenges in 2020 but we stayed the course and just kept on keeping on getting things done a little at a time and just doing what we do.

The SBBA started off the year 2020 with our annual board of directors and general membership meeting and from there, the year took off. The SBBA’s membership grew, by 115% over the course of the year!

The SBBA Field Day hosted by Phillips Ranch, LLC in Bunnell, Florida in August was a great success. The Phillips family were wonderful hosts and Rob Singleton, International Brangus Breeders Association (IBBA) Board of Director, did a fantastic job putting the event together. The event attendees were given an update about the direction of the IBBA by Darrell Wilkes, Ph.D., IBBA executive vice president with his “State of the Brangus Union” address. Raluca Mateescu, Ph.D., from the University of Florida, gave insight on her Bos indicus research, Vytelle did a live FSH-free oocyte aspiration, Clint McWaters and Ashby Green, Sr., Ph.D. of Neogen recapped old and new genomic technologies and Tom Jones from Hy-Plains Feedyard spoke about the value Brangus sired calves are starting to have in the marketplace.

The SBBA juniors followed the SBBA Field Day with a very solid turnout for the Southeast Regional Junior Brangus Show (SRJBS) in Live Oak, Florida in September led by Tom and Vicki Hayford, and William and Sarah Carte from the SBBA’s SRJBS Show Committee. We had our annual fun auction, banquet, awards ceremony and general membership meeting, where we honored Shane and Stacie Cooper from Lake Majestik Farms with the 2020 SBBA Achievement Award. Inductions into the SBBA Hall of Fame, included the late Joe Reznicek and Joy Reznicek Sundbeck of Cow Creek Ranch, Aliceville, Alabama and the SBBA also dedicated the 2020 Southeast Brangus Breeders Association Showcase Sale in their honor.

The SBBA’s sale manager, Doug Williams from L&W Cattle Company alongside the SBBA’s sale chairman, Jeff Thomas from JRT Brangus and Lea Stokes from the Horseshoe Group, put together the SBBA’s 2020 Showcase Female sale. Twenty-eight consigners came together from eight different states, along with auctioneer Lakin Oakley, and ring men, Jimmy Fetner, Paul Wall and Stephen Mathis to sell 54 lots of 3-in-1’s, bred cows, bred heifers, donors, flush lots, open heifers, pairs and a couple of herd sires averaging $3,962.04.

In December, we hosted The Heart of Alabama Brangus Bull Sale, the Southeast’s oldest Brangus bull sale. The event