private treaty bull sale
SALE opens AT 8AM MST free wintering volume discount breeding season guarantee
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Welcome!
We thank you for your interest and welcome you to the Steppler Ranch Private Treaty Bull Sale. These AGE ADVANTAGED bulls are available for your viewing anytime at the ranch headquarters near Culbertson, Montana. The sale will begin on Monday, December 16 on a first come, first serve basis. We are extremely proud of this year’s offering. The bulls have been rigorously culled over the last year and a half, and have been developed slowly to ensure a reliable product that will hold up in any environment! These are virgin, coming two-year-old bulls that have never been offered for sale.
We are family owned and operated and have been ranching in Montana for over 100 years. The ranch is in northeastern Montana, where the conditions can be very challenging. This has made us focus on maternal genetics and we have built a cowherd that is disciplined in their mature size and can thrive in a wide range of environments. The Black Angus breed has been a cornerstone of our ranch since the early 1980’s. The registered cowherd has been built over the last 10 years, purchasing select groups of females that have several decades of reputable breeding behind them. Cows and heifers are range calved, predominately in May and June and ran on a combination of native and improved pastures. We have focused on working with Mother Nature, rather than against. The cows are required to do most everything on their own, as we want the cows working for us, and not us working for the cows! We believe that these bulls being offered will produce cattle that will excel in every aspect of the industry.
This is an exciting time to be in the cattle business and we look forward to having a chance of meeting your seedstock demands. Feel free to contact us with any questions about the bulls or our program!
Verlin & Kayla Steppler
Cody Steppler
We couldn’t do this without the support of our customers and our dedicated team here at Steppler Ranch. We are extremely thankful for all of you! We look forward to keeping these relationships and creating new ones.
We would like to give a special thanks to Dave and Sylvia Kjelgaard, Ruben and Magdalena Munoz, Alex and Angelica Munoz, Jeff and Trish Peiffer, Charley Miller, and their families for their hard work and dedication throughout the year. As well as a long list of friends and neighbors that we rely on during the “busy seasons”, that seem to be never ending! Also, we would like to thank Marni and Ken Gaskill at Horizon Marketing Agency for helping us along the way and being so accommodating.
Kayla & Verlin Cody Griffin, Harlee, Easton, Burke & Kolt
SALE FORMAT
It is a first come, first serve basis. Private treaty sales will begin at 8am MST on Monday, December 16, 2024 at the ranch south of Culbertson, Montana. Buyers are more than welcome and are encouraged to preview the bulls anytime before the sale begins. Contact Verlin or Cody for bull inquiries!
Official sales can be made via text, phone call, or in person starting at 8am MST on December 16, 2024.
SALE TERMS & DETAILS
• Breeding Season Guarantee: We offer a first breeding season guarantee against injury that prevents a bull from being a sound breeder. If a problem occurs, we will offer a suitable replacement or a full credit minus $2500 salvage.
• Sight Unseen Purchases: If you are unable to make it to the ranch and evaluate the bulls, and would like to make a purchase, please give us a call. We would be glad to help you with your selection and offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
• Herd Health: Dr. Gary Scheiber, DVM at High Plains Veterinary Clinic provides our year-round services on both registered and commercial cow herds. All bulls sell as virgins and are current on all vaccinations.
• Pricing: Individual prices will be assigned to bulls by the 10th of December and available upon request or when visiting the ranch to evaluate the bulls.
• Volume Discount: Volume discount of 5% on the purchase of 3-9 bulls. Then, it is 10% on the purchase of 10 or more bulls.
• Repeat Customers: We value our repeat customers and offer a $500 discount off total receipt when you purchase in three consecutive years.
• Wintering: Free wintering and a spring fertility exam prior to delivery, around April 1, 2025.
• Delivery: Free delivery within 200 mile radius of Steppler Ranch.
• All buyers have the option to pay upon selection, or wait until delivery in the spring.
THE BULLS
The AGE ADVANTAGED bulls in the offering are the top 95 head out of approximately 250 bulls born to registered cows at Steppler Ranch in 2023. They have been culled thoroughly since birth. Bulls are born on native range in primarily May/June and are raised in a real-world environment at their mother’s side without additional creep and supplements. They are brought in and weaned in November and fed a high roughage diet until mid-March to ensure longevity and physical soundness throughout the duration of their breeding life. In approximately mid-March, the bulls are turned out to a big pasture setting of varying topography for the summer. When fall grazing conditions are no longer available, the bulls are brought into a large lot setting to receive adequate exercise and be developed on exclusively mixed grass hay and grain hay until sale time. The bulls are not overfed and will go to work for you, in hopes you will be back again next year.
As a commercial breeder first and foremost, we expect our bulls to hold up in a variety of pasture environments, terrains, and breeding conditions. We feel it is important for a bull to have an outstanding libido and know how to compete with other bulls in the breeding pasture. We carry these same philosophies to our registered program, much like the majority of our commercial customers.
Kayla & Verlin: (406) 787-5522
Verlin cell: (406) 480-7990
Cody: (406) 787-6324
Cody cell: (406) 478-1978
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All are welcome to the ranch south of Culbertson anytime to preview the 95 black angus bulls
Whether you are an old customer, potential new customer, or just curious and want to talk cattle, please don’t hesitate to contact us!
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The bulls are 18 months old and are the top 35% of the registered bulls born at Steppler Ranch in 2023. They have been culled rigorously over the last 18 months.
What does this mean for Steppler ranch bulls?
All bulls selling are 100% parentage verified and have HD50k genomically enhanced EPD’s to help aid in your selections.
Thankyou our 7th Annual age advantage
private treaty bull sale for your support OF
D LAZY T Revolt 2006
AAA: +20941636
An outstanding son of ‘SAV Renown 3439’, ‘Revolt’ has an excellent disposition, top-width and exceptional muscle shape. His Dam is the trend-setting ‘D Lazy T Abigale 962’ who records an individual weaning ratio of 104 and an individual yearling ratio of 110, with a pedigree backed by ‘SAV 004 Density 4336’ from a dam with progeny weaning and yearling ratios of 108 and 106 respectively on two natural calves.
D LAZY T Rebellion 2042
AAA: 20811283
An heir to the throne of ‘SAV Renown 3439’, ‘Rebellion’ will sire herd-changing disposition, top-width and exceptional muscle shape (most notably his rear quarter). His Dam is the trend-setting ‘D Lazy T Abigale 962’. ‘Rebellion’ will sire super attractive, feminine daughters that will be the bull-making kind. They will be heavy-milking daughters with excellent udder structure.
Both brothers have a stacked pedigree on proven females with excellent udder quality, longevity & maternal merit. ‘Revolt’ and ‘Rebellion’ will be explosive sires and are recommended to use for getting heavy-muscled sons, with herd-changing docility and excellent maternal influence.
