Tuesday, March 11, 2025 • 12:00 Noon (CST) at the Ranch, Leoti, KS
• 175 Red Angus & Red Angus Composite Bulls
• 150 Fancy Commercial Open Heifers (pelvic measured, tract scored & ready to breed)
• 10 Hand-Picked Registered Red Angus Open Yearling Heifers
Welcome to Wedel Beef Genetics’ 25th Annual Bull & Replacement Female Sale
Welcome to our 25th annual production sale. We, and much of the southern plains have been blessed with some much needed moisture, and are off a summer/fall calf market that routinely valued weaned calves over $1700 per head and yearlings over $2200. The bulls we’ll offer on March 11th are the result of breeding decisions made in the spring of 2023, but more than that they are the product of 10 years of testing for Feed Efficiency, 40 plus years of feedlot and carcass data collection and more than 10 generations of our cow herd being honed for maternal efficiency and environmental fit against all the droughts and harsh winters our western great plains location could offer.
Last spring I remarked that I’m having more fun breeding Red Angus seedstock than I’ve ever had. That results from witnessing the success our customers have enjoyed with market topping results during the big summer video sales as well as seeing the daughters of bulls from our program such as Cornerstone, Ranchmaster and Prime-Time function so well in our less than welcoming environment.
2025 will be our 8th year of using the $Profit suite of economic selection indices to describe our cattle, and offer ranchers what we feel is the industry’s most meaningful tool to compare cattle for their relative contribution towards “whole-herd” profitability. In addition, 2025 will mark our 10th year of collecting individual animal dry matter intake (DMI) to evaluate the relative efficiency with which our cattle convert feed. It wasn’t very long ago that pens of cattle with feed conversion below 6 lbs. of dry matter per pound of gain were newsworthy. A good percentage of our 2025 sale bulls converted below 5, and a handful of bulls converted below 4 lbs of dry matter per pound of gain. We are confident that the progress we are making to improve feed efficiency is going to play a big part of making our customers’ herds more profitable and our beef industry more sustainable for future generations.
This will be our 9th year of selling bulls with our good friends at Anderson Land & Cattle. Our ranch customers from the high deserts of eastern Oregon and northern Nevada tell us their ALC prefix bulls hold up just like the Wedel bulls, which we expect since they are developed exactly the same and the Andersons share very similar selection priorities. Thanks again for your interest in Wedel Beef Genetics, please let us know if we can better serve you in either bull selection or in the marketing of your next calf crop!
Frank and Susan Wedel
Three Generations of Wedels
WEDEL BEEF GENETICS
25th Annual Bull & Replacement Sale
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
180 - Feed Efficiency Tested Bulls that will improve Ranchers’ Bottom Lines
150 Commercial Red Angus Open Yearling Replacements 10 - “U-Pic-Em” Registered Red Angus Open Yearling Replacements
Schedule:
Monday, March 10th
All Day - View Sale Bulls & tour Wedel cowherd
Tuesday, March 11th
9:00 am - Bulls penned for viewing
11:00 am - Lunch, compliments of Wedel Red Angus
12:00 Noon - 25th Annual Wedel Production Sale - Bulls Sell in Catalog OrderAccommodations:
Hi Plains Motel, Leoti, KS 620/375-2239
Best Western, Scott City, KS 620/872-7373
Publication & Buyer Representatives:
Auctioneer.................................Trent Stewart 541/325-3662
KS Livestock Assoc................Steven Russell 785/458-2650
Red Angus Association..............Taylor Ohlde 913/626-2715
Special Assignment..................Barrett Simon 573/881-1876
Absentee Bidders: If you cannot attend the sale, bids may be directed to Wedel Red Angus or one of the listed buyer representatives. All bids will be handled confidentially.
• Customer Incentives •
Volume Discounts: Buy 5 Bulls and get a 3% Discount • Buy 10 bulls and get a 6% Discount. Trucking Discount: Haul your bull purchases away on sale day, or arrange to pick them up at the ranch no later than Friday, March 17th and receive an additional $100 per bull discount. Trucking discount does not apply to commercial or registered females.
Meet the Team:
Dean and Kinzie Labuschagne (left) Dean is the Foreman at our Wallace Ranch where the mature cow herd runs.He and Kinzie were blessed with their son, Jaeger, born 6/22/23.
Adolfo and Betty Ibarra (right) Adolfo has been with the Wedels for 48 years. Adolfo and Frank manage the head-quarters where the bulls and replacements are developed and the two-year-olds raise their first calves.
SALE CATALOG DATA:
$Profit Index & Percent Rank
See pages 6 & 7 for a detailed explanation of $Profit
GridMaster Index & Percentile Rank
WEDEL REMEDY 4081
Calving Ease, Weight & Repro Traits EPDs and percentile ranks
CED = Calving Ease Direct BW = Birth Weight WW = Weaning Weight ADG = Average Daily Gain YW = Yearling Weight MLK = Milk
Name, Registration Number, Date of Birth, Herd Prefix, and Tattoo $Ranch Index & Percent Ranks
CEM = Calving Ease Maternal F:G = Feed Efficiency EPD Lower (negative) means less feed required for gain
Fertility EPD - Developed by the $Profit team and predicts differences in the number of calves produced by an individual’s daughters by the time they are 8-yrs-old.
Anderson Land & Cattle, Inc.
The cattle produced at Anderson Land & Cattle have been founded on strong maternal, growth and carcass traits since the mid 70’s. We have used many selection tools along the way to accelerate our genetic progress. Artificial Insemination, carcass data collection and embryo transfer are standard operating procedures. Good cow families produce good bulls. Our females are scrutinized heavily and must produce and prove their value. We are realizing the improvements made through years of production records. By selecting those strong females as donor cows we can produce a larger percentage of calves born each year with those important genetics.
Carcass EPDs & % Ranks
MARB = USDA Marbling Score
CW = Hot Carcass Weight REA = Ribeye Area
$Feeder Index & Percent Ranks
See pages 6 & 7 for a detailed explanation of:
• $Profit
• $Ranch
• $Feeder
• F:G (Feed Efficiency EPD
• FERT (Fertility EPD)
We strive to produce cattle that excel in every measurable area. Finishing our cattle in our own lots allows us to observe and measure progress from the day they hit the ground until they leave the yard headed for the rail. Since 2010, over 1400 home raised cattle have earned 21 Red Angus Gridmaster awards. Our pasture to plate operation is providing us the ability to build a better bottom line, one cow at a time for our program and yours. Thanks to the Wedels for allowing us to join them in offering you some great profit opportunity selections. Sincerely,
The ALC Crew
Thank you Adolfo...
Adolfo Ibarra started working for us nearly 48 years ago. He has been an invaluable part of the success of Wedel Beef Genetics. He has become an accomplished herdsman and no one is better in the feedlot to see a calf that needs attention. In other words he can do anything and everything and do all of them with excellence. He started working for us at age 18 as a seasonal employee. He married Betty and became full time four years later. In 1992 he became a full United States citizen. He probably knows the constitution better than most. Adolfo and Betty raised two sons. Limber lives in Salina with his family and is a full time firefighter and EMT. He is also an EMT instructor. Michael lives in Lawrence and is a Dr of psychology and works with troubled and abused youth in the court system. We wish Adolfo a well earned retirement and if he decides retirement doesn’t suit him, he will always have a job with Wedel Beef Genetics. Thank you for your many years of faithful service.
Frank and Susan Wedel
At Wedel Beef Genetics, Rancher Profitability is Job #1
In the fall of 2015 we introduced our goals of improving beef industry profitability through improved feed efficiency. Now, four years later, we’re making our feed intake and conversion data even more meaningful. By leveraging the complete contemporary group data we collect on all of our bulls against hundreds of thousands of animals that have been similarly evaluated by the $Profit team, we bring the power of pedigree relationships to the prediction of feed efficiency and in this year’s catalog will present this information in a true multi-breed Feed Efficiency EPD: F:G. In addition, the relevance of Feed Efficiency data and the resultant EPD are enhanced through it’s inclusion in a multi-breed economic selection index; $Profit.
How $Profit Works:
$Profit assumes that the average commercial bull will sire 100 progeny over his lifetime, that 30% of the replacements will be retained and that the rest of the heifers and all of the steers will be finished and sold on a value-based grid. Even though many ranchers sell their calves at weaning - and don’t own them all the way to harvest, we have seen feedlots’ willingness to pay for calves from genetics recognized for superior post-weaning value.
Example:
• Bull A has a $Profit of $8,000
• Bull B has a $Profit of $4,000
• We would expect Bull A to produce $4,000 ($40/head x 100 calves) than Bull B $Profit = One number that predicts your bottom-line!
How F:G (Feed/Gain) Works:
Predicts differences in the amount of feed a bull’s progeny will consume to produce one pound of gain.
F:G Example: Bull A = 0.25 F:G EPD Bull B = -0.25 F:G EPD
Progeny from Bull B would be expected to consume 1/2 pound less dry matter for each pound of gain when compared to progeny from Bull A.
What traits are included in $Profit?
Nearly every trait that impacts profitability. The relationship between most traits and profit is usually straight forward. Here is the list relevant traits and their impact on $Profit:
Revenue Traits:
• Calving Ease = More Calves
• Weaning & Yearling EPD = More payweight
• Fertility = more calves produced over a cow’s lifetime
• Carcass Weight = worth more up to 1050 lbs.
• Marbling = valued based on grid premiums
• Ribeye area = value as impacts Yield Grade
• % Retail Product = more yield is more meat
Cost Traits:
• Cow Mature Size = in general, bigger eats more
• Cow intake = increased feed intake means increased costs
• Feed Efficiency = cost of Gain
• Carcass Weight = worth more up to 1050 lbs.
• Marbling = valued based on grid premiums
Some traits are less easily characterized. Milk for example, is a good thing until you get too much. When milk EPD moves over +25 it begins to have more of a negative effect on fertility than the positive effect it has on weaning weight.
$Ranch:
Selection Simplified: $Profit, $Ranch & $Feeder
$Ranch was developed for cow calf producers who retain their own replacements and market 100% of the steer calves and cull heifers after weaning. This is a very typical production system for a majority of beef producers, so $Ranch is an excellent tool for producers to compare how different bulls will impact their profitability.
Traits included in $Ranch = Fertility, Milk, Weaning Growth, Cow Herd Feed Intake and Mature Cow Size
Multi-generational use of $Ranch will ultimately result in increased pounds of calf harvested per unit of feed/land resource.
Example:
•Bull A has a $Ranch of $80
•Bull B has a $Ranch of $40
•We would expect Bull A to produce $40/head greater profit than Bull B.
$Feeder:
$Feeder is a tool developed to compare how bulls will impact profitability in the post-weaning phase (weaning to harvest).
Traits included in $Feeder = Feed Conversion, Carcass Value (Marbling & Yield Grade) and Carcass Weight
Example:
•Bull A has a $Feeder of $100
•Bull B has a $Feeder of $150
•We would expect Bull B to produce $50/head greater profit than Bull A during the feeding and finishing phases of the production cycle.
Cow Herds Built to Last - FERTILITY EPD
The Cow Fertility EPD predicts large differences in the calf crop percentage expected from a bull’s daughters! High Fertility EPD bulls will build cow herds with consistently better breed back, higher calf crop percentage weaned, less culling requirements, and reduced replacement rates. Improved calf crop percentage drives HUGE differences in profitability. The Cow Fertility EPD was incorporated into both $Ranch and $Profit in January 2023 due to it’s huge impact on Profitability.
Fertility EPD Example:
•Bull A has a FERTILITY EPD of 2.0
•Bull B has a FERTILITY EPD of 1.0
•We would expect daughters of Bull A to produce 1 more calf during the first 8 years of their life when compared to daughters of Bull B
LOT 1 - ALC MASTERCLASS M31
Get ready for a whole new approach to sustainable profitability in the beef business. MasterClass packages previously unatainable spread from Calving Ease to Yearling and Carcass Weight with Marbling that’s more than a full standard deviation better than the top 1% of Red Angus - No other bull in the RAAA database can match that combination of traits. He earned ultrasound ratios of 141 IMF and 114 REA, and his dam has average progeny ratios of: 108 weaning, 111 yearling, 113 IMF and 104 REA.
We plan to use this bull in our program
SOR Marlee Brn CMT 9266W, (pictured at 12-years-old) is both paternal and maternal great-great grandam of Lot 1
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ALC MASTERCLASS M31
WEDEL APTITUDE 4081
LOT 2 - WEDEL APTITUDE 4081
Lot 2 has a talent for profit across all links of the beef supply chain, and with his tremendous lower rib shape and elite Fertility EPD, you’ll want a whole herd of his daughters. Aptitude got more valuable with each trip through the chute earning ratios of: 103 weaning, 111 yearling, 120 ADG, 147 IMF and 109 REA. Plus he checks a lot more boxes: docile, excellent foot structure, single-digit ranks for Feed Efficiency, and his dam maintains a 364-day calving interval which supports his elite rank for Fertility.
We plan to use this bull in our program
LOT 3 - ALC BREAKTHROUGH M19
One things for sure, if you asked 10 different bull customers which is the best bull in the sale... all three of these first Transcendent sons would be on someone’s list and Lot 3 would have his fair share of supporters. He has the highest GridMaster index of any bull born in the Red Angus breed in 2024. BREAKTHROUGH is a 3/4 brother to Lot 1, and like him comes with unmprecented ranks for pay weight and marbling and adds single-digit ranks for REA and Fertility. We plan to use this bull in our program
ALC BREAKTHROUGH M19
LOT 4 - WEDEL PREDICTION 4172
Prediction is the Prime Time son out of the E7102, dam of the $80,000, Ranchmaster. The result of two highly proven individuals, Prediction removes the guesswork from your next calf crop and entrusts your cow herd to highly predictable genetics. He comes by his tremendous spread and carcass merit naturally, his pretty uddered 8-year-old dam maintains incredible progeny ratios of: 15% lighter at birth, 7% heavier at weaning, 5% heavier at yearling, with 16% more marbling and 4% more REA.
We plan to use this bull in our program
ALC PREFERENCE M18
LOT 5 - ALC PREFERENCE M18
If you’ve got heifers to breed, this bull is for you! Not many calving ease specialists come with Top 1% GridMaster, a 20 CED to 125 YW spread, Top 1% Marbling and 1% values for both $Profit and $Feeder. His dam is a 5/8 sister to the dam of Lot 1, and his maternal grandam, 9266W is one of the best daughters of marbling legend, Brown Commitment S7206, and had the udder of a 4-year-old when she was 12. We think the two Prime-Time sons on this page will work in large commercial heifer breeding projects. We plan to use this bull in our program
WEDEL PERPETUAL 4188
LOT 6 - WEDEL PERPETUAL 4188
If you like females that are densely made, moderate framed, deep-ribbed and wide sprung, you need to own Lot 6 and keep all the daughters. Perpetual comes out of the good uddered 10-year-old maternal grandam of the $80,000 Wedel Ranchmaster 9052G, who has nearly 10,000 units of semen sales to his credit. His cow herd building credentials are supported by his single-digit ranks for Fertility, Heifer Pregnancy Rate, Maternal Calving Ease and $Ranch. Selection for $Ranch over time builds a cowherd with responsible frame size, superior breed-up, improved stocking rates and more pounds of calf weaned per acre.
ALC PRIMAL M58
The 107 MPPA Confidence Plus dam of Lot 7 is deep bodied, good uddered, sound footed, and one of the most functional females in the ALC program. If you or your bull customers sell them by the pound, you’ll want Lot 7. If they sell them on a value based grid, they’ll really want this bull.
WEDEL CORNERPOST 4103
Here’s a half brother to last year’s $37,000 high sellng bull. If selling more pounds of premium beef while spending less on feed sounds like a good strategy for your operation, take a hard look at Lot 8, and his better than 1% rank for Feed Efficiency. He earned ratios of: 116 weaning, 108 yearling and 108 IMF.
ALC CORNERSTONE M70
Those top cow families just keep showing up. Lot 9’s 109 MPPA dam is a full sister to the maternal grandam of Lot 9. This Cornerstone son had ultrasound ratios of 105
and 109
Lot 10 - WEDEL TRU-2-FORM 4005
ALC BULLET PROOF M65
G A R TRANSCENDENT
ALC TRANSCENDENT K02
TRU-2-FORM is as exciting as when his sire went through this sale ring as our top Black/Red to date and now he’s produced 4 of the first 10 bulls in the sale order. Lot 10 had almost an unfair advantage considering he was raised by a Prime-Time 2-year-old, who raised him to a 113 weaing weight ratio with a typically flawless udder. You’re going to be impressed with the foot structure on this Transcendant sire group and Lot 10 is no exception.
ALC REMEDY
2 years ago, someone took a chance on a black/red bull named Transcendant K02, and look how well that decision has been rewarded. Nows your chance to get in on the ground floor on this next significant outcross Black/ Red Sire. Just imagine what a bunch of Red sons of Bullet Proof might be worth two years from now.
These Remedy’s might just be the largest sire group in this offering and that’s for good reason. He improves spread from CED to Yearling, has elite marbling, improves feed efficiency, and they are easy to look at. This one traces back to the great Commitment daughter, 9266W, who shows up in the pedigree of Lots 1,5,9 and 10.
ALC REMEDY K60
Sire of Lots 5 & 6
ALC ABILITY M66
ALC Ability M66 supports his better than Top 1% Marbling EPD with a 139 IMF ratio and a pedigree the best two high accuracy Red Angus quality grade sires of the past 20 years: 5L Genuine 1603-195C and Brown Commitment S7206. This is another branch of the same cow family that produced lots: 1, 5, 9 and 10.
WEDEL CURE-ALL 4296
We can’t make a more profitable growth curve than Lot 14. He was 12% lighter at birth, 12% heavier at weaning, gained 11% faster to weigh 12% more at yearling. At ultrasound he had 7% more IMF and 20% larger REA. One of the featured calving ease specialist in the sale.
WEDEL REMEDY 4153
Look to these Remedy sons to add big tops and lots of eye appeal. Lot 15 will improve Ribeye, Marbling, Gain, Growth, Feed Efficiency and calf crop value when used on a set of “wet” 2-yr-olds or mature cows.
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Who knew calving ease could have so much shape and muscle? Here’s two half-brothers to Brown Reverence L156, the $40,000 high selling bull at last October’s RA. Brown Ranch sale going to Genex and Koester Red Angus. Lot 16 graced the cover of our 25th Annual Sale catalog, and earned ratios of: 103 weaing, 107 yearling, 111 ADG, 115 IMF and 106 REA.
Lot 18 combines outstanding spread from easy calving CED to tremendous, gain, weaning, yearling and carcass weight. He also combines best of breed marbling with superior feed efficiency, so you’ll earn bigger carcass premiums and buy less feed in the process.
ALC TRANSCENDENT M42
Another well balanced Transcendent son with outstanding foot structure, tremendous spread from low birthweight to heavy weaning weight, rapid post weaning gains and better than 1% Marbling.
ALC CULMINATION M32
If you ran second place back on the amazing Lot 3 Transcendent son, here’s his full-brother! He and his brother are tied for the high Red bulls for $Profit. The combination of best of breed carcass weight and marbling means even bigger PRIME premiums.
WFL PROSPECT 5084
Dam of the $50,000, WFL ProfitMaker E7030, maternal grandsire of Lot 19. Pictured here at the Wallace Ranch. Our donors and herd bull mothers are expected to live the same as the rest of our cowherd, with no extra supplementation.
WEDEL TRANSCENDENT 4016
Lot 21’s Cornerstone dam hit it out of the park on her first attempt, weaning Lot 21 with a 116 weaning ratio. We like the udder quality on Cornerstone daughters, the 2nd crop of which is having their first calves this year
Lot 22 - WEDEL EQUILIBRIUM 4143
Frank “wands” a cow in the chute which reads her EID tag and is connected to the electronic scale heads recording weights and other herd data.
ALC PRIME TIME M25
Here is the full-brother to Lot 7, so if you didn’t get your hand in the air fast enough last time, this brother is
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This will be the first crop of Equilibrium sons to sell, and they are thick, deep and big topped. Equilibrium was the $34,000 high selling bull in our 2023 sale going to Mushrush Ranches. Lot 22 ratioed 107 at both weaning and yearling.
Just like his “old man” Lot 23 delivers profitability across all phases of beef production. Lot 23 balances 10 traits in the top 25% of Red Angus.
Keep all the daughters of Lot 25. His black/red Success dam has a beautiful udder and maintains a 353-day calving interval as a 4-year-old. His 2-yearold maternal-sister by Cornerstone is a prototype Red Angus first calver.
WEDEL EQUILIBRIUM 4039
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This big middled Equilibrium son gained ground in this order with each trip through the chute, earning ratios of: 106 weaning, 110 yearling, 115 ADG, 110 IMF and 102 REA.
WEDEL EQUILIBRIUM 4067
Another Equilibrium son that’s loaded with performance. Lot 27 was born 12% lighter than his contemporaries, but went on to earn ratios of: 112 weaning, 109 yearling, 104 ADG, 106 IMF and 107 REA.
WEDEL CORNERSTONE 4083
Frank and Susan’s granddaughters, Olivia and Sophia sang the National Anthem to open the sale in 2024!
This calving ease specialist by Cornerstone is out of a first calf daughter of Prime-Time who weaned him at a 108 ratio.
The dam of Lot 29 is the maternal grandam of Lot 1. Great cow families are woven throughout this sale offering.
ALC IN THE BLACK M61
Lot 32 is the first in a pair of ET full-brothers out of a highly productive Ultimatum daughter. These two represent high marbling, outcross genetics to many of the bloodlines Wedel and Anderson customers have purchased in recent years.
Cornerstone has superior marbling and CED to YW spread, just like his sire, 5L Genuine 1603-195C, but he adds best 1% Feed Efficiency. Lot 30 earned ratios of: 107 weaning, 105 yearling and 119 IMF.
ALC IN THE BLACK M55
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ALC JUMPSTART M09
There are some excellent sons of the $185,000 Jumpstart in this offering, and Lot 34 is one of the best. A calving ease bull that will improve gain, quality grade, and replacment female value.
WEDEL TOP TIER 4211
WFL COMMITMENT 042Y
This is the first of several Top Tier sons to sell. Count on this sire group for balanced trait improvement, and extra muscle shape and definition. Lot 35 defies the antagonisms excelling for both direct and maternal calving ease.
Lot 36 begins a run of 4 good-footed, balanced trait Remedy sons that all will add pay weight, improve quality grade, increase feeder calf value and make excellent replacement females.
No animal in the sale predicts to convert feed as efficiently as this Remedy son. Lot 38 also comes with excellent spread from low birthweight to heavier weaning and yearling weights.
We sell them by the pound, but buy feed by the ton. Lot 39 should shift that equation in ranchers favor when his eite weaning and yearling weight EPDs come with elite Feed Efficiency
Wedel & ALC Hybrids...
The Wedel and Anderson families are serious about SimAngus genetics, and really like the Hybrid bull approach to crossbreeding. Hybrid bulls like those selling as Lots 4047 allow our customers to inject some heterosis into their cowherds without big swings in cow size or days to finish in the steer progeny.
Our hybrid cows run on the same range as our Red Angus, and every one is enrolled in Total Herd Reporting (THR) - just like our Red Angus have been since THR was adopted in 1995.
We roll into the SimAngus bulls with another Remedy son who will improve Yield Grade and increase muscling and REA, but won’t get out of bounds in terms of frame size, mature cow weight or birth weight.
ALC REMEDY M80
Full-Brother to Lot 41, this Remedy son is one of the highest Profit bulls in the entire sale. Just look at his values for $Profit, $Feeder and GridMaster. And he does it without adding birthweight or mature size.
WEDEL PRIME-TIME 4096
This 7/8 Red Angus, 1/8 Char composite is loaded with natural thickness, and should still improve quality grade based on his Marbling EPD rank and his 115 IMF Ratio.
WEDEL MAINSPRING 4094
If you feel like you’re leaving some money on the table due to insufficient carcass weights, consider turning out either or both of these Hilger One sons. They are out of high producing full-sisters by marbling legend, 5L Genuine 1603-195C.
We wished the Wallace ranch had looked that green in the summer of 2024. With just a little well-timed moisture the Wedel cow herd doesn’t need any extra.
We start back into the Red Angus bulls with a pair of Transcendent sons, whose EPDs and $Profit tabulation could have started most sales. Either of these half-brothers will add payweight and improve quality grade while keeping positive pressure on calving ease, fertility and feed efficiency. The maternal-granddam of Lot 49 is the dam of Merlin.
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This bull’s old man sold well under the money two years ago, becauses of his black hide color. This bull checks all the boxes for the traits that add value. Just like Transcendent, think what his Red sons would be worth two years from now.
WEDEL FRANKLY 4336
This bull’s sire was the $20,000 second high seller in our 2019 sale going to Lundgren Angus Ranch. We could never get Lot 51’s dam sire verified, but she maintains a 370-day calving interval and has averaged a 111 weaning weight ratio on her 6 calves, so some commercial rancher is going to get a real cow herd builder here.
Ultra high powered son of Prime-Time whose superior predictions for heavier pay weights are backed up with performance ratios of 111 weaning, 112 yearling and 113 ADG.
Take a look at the dams that produced these Prime-Time sons that sell as Lots 52-54. Lot 52’s 107 MPPA dam maintains a 364-day calving interval. Lot 53’s dam maintains a 352-day calving interval and Lot 54’s dam is a donor in our program who has weaned her 5 natural calves at a 110 weaning weight ratio.
Not many bulls stamp their progeny with powerful phenotype the way Brown Confident J1263 does. Lot 55 is a half-brother to the $40,000 high-selling bull at Donnell & Kelli Brown’s 50th Anniversary October bull sale.
This may be the deepest first 100 bulls we’ve ever sold. Here’s the high $Profit bull in the entire offering and he comes almost a third of the way through the sale offering.
WEDEL CORNERSTONE
WEDEL TOP TIER 4068
KDLC TOP TIER 402
If you like the expressive muscling that comes standard on the Top Tier sons, but wished for a little more performance, check out the half-brothers selling as Lots 59 and 60. They could be turned out together in a multi-sire pasture on a set of wet 2-yrear-olds or running age cows and add: gain, pay weight and quality grade.
ALC REMEDY M17
If the idea of selling more pounds of PRIME carcass while paying a lower feed bill to your custom feeder, maybe you should turn out this pair of high efficiency, high marbling brothers by Remedy.
Lot 63 - WEDEL REMEDY 4351
WEDEL REMEDY 4114
WEDEL REMEDY 4351
If you need to add pay weight to a set of mature cows, you should own Lot 63. He ratioed 117 at weaning and 111 at yearling.
Here’s a pair of Remedy sons wiith excellent calving ease and low birth weights that would work great on virgin heifers, but have sufficient carcass merit and feed efficiecy to roll right into the cow herd as they mature.
ALC STOCK EXCHANGE M132
ALC STOCK EXCHANGE
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Heifer bull deluxe! Lot 66 should improve both post weaning gain and quality grade, and his maternal grandam is the same cow behind Lots 1 and 5.
WEDEL TOP TIER 4265
WEDEL GENUINE 4205
Top Tier semen is all but gone, so this will be one of the last opportunties to incorporate his calving ease, fertility, marbling and muscularity into your program.
WEDEL MAINSPRING 4077
WEDEL CORNERSTONE 4201
WEDEL MAINSPRING 4108
WFL NEXT 071Z
This cow defies genetic trends. 13 years after she was born she’s a $24,000+ $Profit. That’s hard to do with our yearling heifers. Pictured as a 9-year-old, she stayed at the top of our progam until she was 12. She’s in the pedigrees of seveal herd sires including Cornerstone and Grand Salm
WEDEL EQUILIBRIUM 4107
The Prime-Time sons and grandsons selling as Lots 73-76 will press down on the scales and light up the ultrasound machine.
WEDEL EQUILIBRIUM 4052
ALC MISS CONFIDENCE PLUS HO34
Dam of Lot 76 and 77 (Pictured after weaning her calf in the horrific drought . western Kansas experienced in 2022.)
We’re closing in on the halfway mark and we have a Red son of Anderson’s 107 MPPA Confidence Plus daughter. This is one of the top individuals in the offering when it comes to combining elite $Profit, $Feeder, GridMaster and Marbling.
ALC PRIME PLUS M40
It just keeps getting better. You’ll have a hard time picking between the two high marbling outcross half-brothers that sell as Lots 77 and 78. This one is out of a half sister to the dam of Grand Slam, who topped last year’s sale at $37,000.
WEDEL REMEDY 4329
Lots 79-81 are three high marbling half-brothers by Remedy that would make excellent choices to use on heifers.
Lot 81 is one of the best combinations of feed efficiency and quality grade in the entire offering, and he stays between the lines in terms of birthweight and replacment female value.
WEDEL CORNERSTONE 4142
Few buls in the entire offering predict to add more value to a pen of feeder calves than Lot 84. And with his carcass weight EPD there will be a lot more pounds of PRIME to sell.
TRANSCENDENT
This Black/Red Transcent son is a tank, and a good choice if you want to add rib shape, depth of body, muscle, marbling and feed efficiency without getting out of bounds on calving ease, milk or mature weight.
KDLC
IT ON
WEDEL CORNERSTONE 4072
Lots 88-90 are three Cornerstone sons that should all work on heifers. We have our 2nd crop of Cornerstone daughters in production, and love their udder quality and maternal ability.
WEDEL CORNERSTONE 4031
Wedel bull customers receiving Red Angus GridMaster Awards at Superior’s Video Royale sale in Winnemucca, Nevada. There are 3 Red Angus Commercial Producer of the Year recipients in this photo: Delong Ranches, Winnemucca, NV, Sitz Ranch, Drewsey, OR and Otley Bros. Diamond, OR.
WEDEL CORNERSTONE 4156
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WEDEL MAINSPRING 4071
MAINSPRING 2162K
2093K WEDEL GENUINE 018A 0035H
WEDEL PRIME-TIME 4080
One of the elite bulls in the entire sale for Feed Efficiency.
WEDEL PRIME-TIME 4228
WEDEL CORNERSTONE
The 5 Prime-Time sons on this page average best 6% for $Profit, and marbling and best 3.5% for feeder calf value.
WEDEL PRIME-TIME 4159
WEDEL PRIME-TIME 4158
WEDEL ESSENTIAL 4194
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WEDEL ESSENTIAL 4075
WEDEL REMEDY
This is our deepest offering ever! The first 100 bulls average:
$18,424 $Profit (5%)
$175 $Feeder (2%)
$62 $Ranch (15%) 84 Gridmaster (4%)
15.5 CED to 124 YW spread .84 Marbling (4%)
Just because we made it thorough the first 100 bulls - we haven’t run out of high marbling, high profit, heavy payweight bulls that keep you out of the ditches for calving ease and mature size. Check out Lot 103 for example.
Lot 105 - WEDEL MAINSPRING 4043
WEDEL MAINSPRING 4043
WEDEL MAINSPRING 4010
WEDEL
WEDEL MAINSPRING 4165
This two-page spread features 8 Cornerstone sons and grandsons (through Mainspring). They average best 6% $Profit, 2.5% $Feeder, 124 YW (14%) and .81 Marbling (3%),
WEDEL MAINSPRING 4280
3-year-old Merlin daughter on native range at our Wallace County ranch. Known for docility and excellent foot structure, we always like to see Merlin daughters in the pedigrees of the bulls we use ourselves. Merlin is the maternal grand-sire of Lot 108.
WEDEL CORNERSTONE 4246
WEDEL TOP TIER 4069
This two-page spread features 8 Cornerstone sons and grandsons (through Mainspring). They average best 6% $Profit, 2.5% $Feeder, 124 YW (14%) and .81 Marbling (3%),
If you like them moderate, deep, thick and good, be sure to study Lot 113. A great combination of high marbling and greater feed efficiency, he also ranks very high for fertility, Ranch and comes out of a 107 MPPA dam, so you’ll want to keep all of his daughters.
WEDEL TOP TIER 4258
WEDEL TOP TIER 4212
MAGNANIMOUS 4178
WEDEL MAGNANIMOUS 4298
WEDEL MAGNANIMOUS 4179
WEDEL DEFENDER 4407
KDLC LONG HAUL 405
WEDEL
WEDEL EQUILIBRIUM 4040
WEDEL REMEDY 4210
REMEDY 4253
Before we start back into SimAngus bulls we have 7 Red Angus bulls: 3 Cornerstone sons and Grandsons and 4 Remedy sons that sell as Lots 124 through 130. There are now about 45 bulls to go in the sale and these 7 still average: Top 9% $Profit, Top 6% $Feeder and top 9% Marbling. Each sire group provides the opportunity to increase calf crop uniformity by using the Cornerstone derivatives or the Remedy sons in multi-sire pastures.
WEDEL REMEDY 4437
WEDEL REMEDY 4255
SimAngus Bulls - Lots 131-138
ALC IN THE BLACK M13
Back into the Red Angus Composite bulls and the opportunites for heterosis, increased reproductive efficiency and calf vigor that presents. The 3 Composite bulls on this page, Lots 131-133 average top 4% for $Profit, a 16 CED to 110 YW spread and .87 marbling which will compete with the top 2-3 % of straight Red Angus bulls.
BIEBER JUMPSTART J137
WEDEL ORACLE 4378
WEDEL MAGNANIMOUS 4249
WEDEL CONFIDENT 4002
WEDEL MAINSPRING 4011
Here’s another Confident J1263 son, and like his brothers: loads of muscle and eye appeal. His lack of a birth weight cost him many spots in the sale order, but this is an easy calving sire group and we wouldn’t have any problem recommending this bull on a set of wet 2-year-olds.
MAINSPRING 4225
WEDEL MAINSPRING 4207
WEDEL EQUILIBRIUM 4066
WEDEL CORNERSTONE 4173
WEDEL POWERHOUSE
WEDEL DEFENDER 4353
WEDEL PRIME-TIME 4032
WEDEL DEFENDER 4396
WEDEL CORNERSTONE 4138
REDS RISING
Red Angus boosts profitability with docile temperaments, environmental resilience, premium carcass quality and exceptional maternal traits. Registrations have surged by 24% over the past decade, underscoring Red Angus’ significance across all segments of the beef industry.
WEDEL REMEDY 4281
WEDEL REMEDY 4524
WEDEL REMEDY 4452
WEDEL DEFENDER 4146
WEDEL MAGNANIMOUS 4295
WEDEL MAGNANIMOUS 4238
WEDEL MAGNANIMOUS 4237
WEDEL DEFENDER 4322
WEDEL ULTIMATUM 4286
WEDEL E7483 4356
DEFENDER 4402
WEDEL E7483 4496
Will DeLong
January 16, 1974 - November 13, 2024
For many a year, someone named DeLong has been on the seats in Leoti, Kansas every March for the Wedel Beef Genetics’ Annual Bull Sale. For many years that was usually John, but for the past decade or so, it was Will DeLong, who flew into Denver and traveled to our sale with his good friend and Superior Rep, Jim Davis and two SUVs filled with his fellow high desert ranchers. As a rancher and a cattleman, he was masterclass. As a son, husband, father and friend he was even better.
While outwardly we may not have liked it when Will bid against us on a bull, inwardly our confidence grew with the knowelege that he shared our opinion. Will was a student of Red Angus genetics. He maintained an inventory of every bull purchased by DeLong Ranches going back over 30 years. He looked at the genetic trends for those traits of greatest economic relevance in his environment and always prescribed a multi-trait approach. He understood unchecked progress in revenue traits might have adverse consequences for the cow herd. He and his family were recognized for their excellence. DeLong Ranches was named Red Angus Commercial Producer of the year and won many GridMaster awards, and their closeouts were the stuff of legends. Last year their steers exceeded 50% PRIME with only 2.4% YG 4’s. We fed a load of their heifers that gained over 4.24 lbs/day and converted at 5.23 lbs Dry feed/lb. of gain. The reputation of their cattle was understood, wherever the market was, when the DeLong cattle showed up on Superior’s video screen, the market got higher. We always bid on his cattle, we couldn’t always afford them.
I can’t remember many times Will didn’t have a smile on his face, and when you were with him, you’d have a smile too. His handshake was all the contract we ever needed, and his friendship will be missed. His passing is tragic for his parents, John and Judy, his wife Katie and their kids, Billy, Matti and Louise and for our industry. But we, like many others are better off to have known and learned from Will, and we’ll give thanks that God let our paths cross many years ago. Frank and Susan Wedel
Will turning out cows
(from left)
Louise, Will, Katie, William “Billy” and Matti DeLong
Wedel Beef Genetics’ Commercial Heifer Sale
1) Commercial Heifers to sell immediately following the bull sale.
2) All open heifers have been pelvic measured and reproductive tract scored.
4) Heifers will sell in gate cut groups of 10 head within their respective lot number.
5) Successful bidder may “roll” successive groups within the same lot.
6) Commercial Heifers sell F.O.B. Wedel Beef Genetics, Leoti, Kansas. Buyer is responsible for trucking costs.
Lot 201 - Commercial Red Angus Open Yearling Replacement Heifers
60 head of Red Angus open yearling replacement heifers that we purchased from Red Angus Commercial Producer of the Year, Sitz Ranch. There are multiple GridMaster awards represented in these heifers.
Pelvic measured & repro tract scored • Guaranteed Open and ready to breed for Spring 2026 calves • 100% OCV • Solid Red Approx. Wt. 800 lbs. • Same Vacc/Parasite Protocol as our registered replacement Heifers
201 (a) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
201 (b) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
201 (c) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
201 (d) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
201 (e) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
201 (f) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
Lot 202 - Commercial Red Angus Open Yearling Replacement Heifers
40 head of Red Angus open yearling replacement heifers. These are home raised heifers from Wedel Beef Genetics
Pelvic measured & repro tract scored • Guaranteed Open and ready to breed for Spring 2026 calves • 100% OCV • Solid Red
Approx. Wt. 800 lbs. • Same Vacc/Parasite Protocol as our registered replacement Heifers
202 (a) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
202 (b) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
202 (c) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
202 (d) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
Lot 203 - Commercial Red SimAngus Open Yearling Replacement Heifers
50 head of SimAngus (Approx 3/4 Red Angus x 1/4 Simmental) open yearling replacement heifers from Red Angus Commercial Producer of the Year, Otley Bros. There are multiple GridMaster awards represented in these heifers.
Pelvic measured & repro tract scored • Guaranteed Open and ready to breed for Spring 2026 calves • 100% OCV • Solid Red Approx. Wt. 800 lbs. • Same Vacc/Parasite Protocol as our registered replacement Heifers
202 (a) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
202 (b) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
202 (c) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
202 (d) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
202 (e) 10 head Open Red Angus Yearling Replacement Heifers __________
LOT 301 - WEDEL
Warning, we didn’t plan this to be easy on you! When you pick between Lots 301 and 302, you could be picking your next donor and ours too! We get started with two heifers that are both over $24,000 $Profit, both rank in the Top 1/10th of 1% for $Feeder, both 1% GridMaster, both 1% ProS, both over 1.0 for Marbling, and both come with excellent fertility and big time spreads from calving ease to pay weight.
Selling the choice of Lots 301 and 302 and we’ll be happy with the heifer you don’t pick!
Sells open and ready to breed.
Selling Buyer’s Choice of: Lot 301 or Lot 302
WEDEL TRANSCENDENT 4004
302
WEDEL TRANSCENDENT 4014
LOT 302 - WEDEL TRANSCENDENT 4014
There’s a 50% chance they’ll be a bull, then there’s a 50% chance they’ll be black...so when we share these Red daughters of a totally unique Black/Red sire such as Transcendent, you know we’re serious about sharing our favorites.
We don’t pamper our replacements and we didn’t pick out these sale heifers until mid-January. This Transcendent daughter comes from a good uddered first-calf heifer by Prime-Time. She results from a pedigree stacked for Profit, 1% or better for ProS, GridMaster, $Feeder and $Profit.
Sells open and ready to breed.
LOT 303 - ALC MISS TRANSCENDENT M433
Two front-pasture full-sisters to choose between and each takes profitablity to a whole new level in her own unique way.
Lot 303 earned her amazing marbling EPD the old fashioned way - with a 114 IMF ratio. She’s one of the rare females in the Red Angus database that has a sire and maternal grandsire that both exceed 1.0 for marbling EPD. Her top 1% $Profit results from her balance of performance, quality grade, calving ease, and fertility. She comes loaded with rib shape, depth of quarter and a repeatable and productive cow family.
Sells open and ready to breed.
Selling Buyer’s Choice of: Lot 303 or Lot 304
ALC MISS TRANSCENDENT M433
ALC MISS TRANSCENDENT M425
KJL/CLZB
LOT 304 - ALC MISS TRANSCENDENT M425
Here’s the high Octane full-sister...and she’ll get her fair share of admirerers, even if they never look at her EPDs and profit indices.
If you run a Red Angus EPD search and plug in this heifer’s: GridMaster, weaning, yearling, carcass weight and marbling values, it will return only her.
Sells open and ready to breed.
ALC MISS PRIME TIME M466
LOT 305 - ALC MISS PRIME TIME M466
Whether you’re in Oberlin or Leoti, Kansas, the Prime-Time daughters are as good as it gets. Beautiful udders and tremendous rib shape are standard equipment in this sire group. Just like the big time marbling, calving ease and $Profit that we’ve come to expect.
Lot 305 is a prototype Red Angus bred heifer, that deserves to be mass produced whether you like her for her amazing phenotype or her breed impacting EPD tabulation.
Sells open and ready to breed.
Selling Buyer’s Choice of: Lot 307 or Lot 308
ALC MISS PRIME TIME M471
LOT 306 - ALC MISS PRIME TIME M471
You can imagine how hard it is to part with a Red ET daughter out of a great black/red donor like H034, our 107 MPPA Confidence Plus daughter. These two females are diffent enough that we can make strong arguments for either. To be honest, this pair of PrimeTime daughters is one case where we’re glad you’re going to pick for us.
Lot 306 earned her amazing carcass EPDs when she scanned 117 IMF and 112 REA ratios
Sells open and ready to breed.
LOT 307 - WEDEL PRIME-TIME 4045
Here’s two more PRIME-TIME daughters that come right off the top of our replacements.
Lot 307 represents our freshest genetics by putting Prime-Time on a Cornerstone daughter. Her balanced growth, carcass, feed efficiency, heifer pregnancy and fertilty delivers Top 10% ranks for profitability both for ranchers who sell calves at weaning, or retain ownership and sell on a quality based grid.
Sells open and ready to breed.
Selling Buyer’s Choice of: Lot 307 or Lot 308
WEDEL PRIME-TIME 4045
PRIME-TIME 4227
LOT 308 - WEDEL PRIME-TIME 4227
Prime-Time has revolutionized what we can expect from Calving Ease cattle. Now we can have sleep-all-night calving ease with more pounds, faster gains, breed leading quality grade, and fertile, beautiful uddered daughters.
Lot 308 is strong topped, deep ribbed and belongs in any front pasture. Her dam weaned her 5th calf three weeks prior to her 6th birthday and had average progeny ratios of: 113 WW, 109 YW, 105 IMF and 117 REA.
Sells open and ready to breed.
LOT 309 -ALC MISS REMEDY M428
Remedy is another sire shared by the Wedel and Anderson families both herds used him heavily. In fact, he’s the high use sire as represented by progeny in this sale.
She earned her best 1% Marbling EPD with a 110 IMF ratio and her dam, a daughter of marbling legend 5L Genuine 1603-195C, has 4 progeny with a 111 average IMF ratio.
Sells open and ready to breed.
Selling Buyer’s Choice of:
Lot 309 or Lot 310
ALC MISS REMEDY M428
ALC MISS REMEDY M431
ALC
5L
LOT 310 - ALC MISS REMEDY M431
Full-sister to Lot 309, and just like her; long as a well rope with just as much spring of rib. This heifer has tremendous natural thickness and lower quarter to go along with her shape and eye appeal. Remedy adds value at each segment of production, delivering progress across many traits, and consistently makes cattle that excel in phenotype.
Sells open and ready to breed.
LOT 311 - WEDEL MAINSPRING 4131
Here’s a pair of ET full-sisters sired by Mainspring. They are out of the dam of the $34,000 high seller of the 2023 sale, which was purchased by Mushrush Red Angus.
We love the depth of body and rib shape that this first crop of Mainspring progeny exhibit and Lot 311 is as good as it gets.
Sells open and ready to breed.
Selling Buyer’s Choice of: Lot 311 or Lot 312
WEDEL MAINSPRING 4131
312
WEDEL MAINSPRING 4154
LOT 312 - WEDEL MAINSPRING 4154
Lot 312’s sire, Mainspring was a standout in the first crop of Cornerstone sons that sold in our 2023 sale. The dam and maternal grandam of Lots 311 and 312 are two of the most phenotypically pleasing females on our ranch, and both have excellent udder quality.
Sells open and ready to breed.
ALC MISS JUMPSTART M439
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LOT 313 - ALC MISS JUMPSTART M439
Pick either flavor, Red or Black. Both sisters excel for pay weight, muscularity, marbling, heifer breed-up, fertility and phenotype. Both heifers have an unusually high combination of payweight and fertility.
Sells open and ready to breed.
Selling Buyer’s Choice of: Lot 313 or Lot 314
ALC MISS JUMPSTART M459
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LOT 314 - ALC MISS JUMPSTART M459
We love the phenotype of this heifer: big ribbed and deep quartered. Imagine the mating opportunities these two high growth, high fertility, and elite carcass females present.
Sells open and ready to breed.
LOT 315 - WEDEL EQUILIBRIUM 4193
Equilibrium was the $34,000 high-selling bull from our 2023 sale.
Lot 315 is her dam’s third calf conceived on the first A.I. service. In fact, 0518H had her third calf almost 60 days prior to her 4th birthday. She maintains a 370 day calving interval and a 111 average progeny weaning ratio.
Sells open and ready to breed.
Selling Buyer’s Choice of: Lot 315 or Lot 316
WEDEL EQUILIBRIUM 4193
WEDEL EQUILIBRIUM 4203
LOT 316 - WEDEL EQUILIBRIUM 4203
Lots 315 and 316 prove we are willing to share our best cow families.
We love the rib-shape and lower quarter that comes with this super functional Equilibrium daughter. Her Genuine dam maintains a 363-day calving interval and an average weaning weight ratio of 108.
Sells open and ready to breed.
LOT 317 - WEDEL CORNERSTONE 4050
When we say we’ll share our most productive cow families, we aren’t kidding. Lot 317’s maternal grand-dam, 6094, is the highest producing cow at Wedel Beef Genetics with a 117 MPPA. She is also the maternal grandam of the $37,000 Wedel Grand Slam 3377 owned with Chasah Ranch in Jolly, TX and Waldman Ranch in Tryon, OK. She’s also the maternal grandam of the $22,000 Wedel Blew Sky 3555 owned with Schuler Red Angus, Bridgepport, NE and Blew Partnership, Castleton, KS.
Sells open and ready to breed.
Selling Buyer’s Choice of: Lot 317 or Lot 318
WEDEL CORNERSTONE 4050
CORNERSTONE 4164
LOT 318 - WEDEL CORNERSTONE 4164
The dam of this deep bodied Cornerstone daughter produced three calves with three straws of semen. Her third calf coming about a month before her fourth birthday. She also has an amazing progeny record with average progeny ratios of: 110 weaning, 110 yearling and 122 IMF.
Sells open and ready to breed.
LOT 319 - WEDEL REMEDY 4123
The maternal grandam of Lot 319 is the dam of the $50,000 WFL ProfitMaker E7030 who was purchased by ABS-Global in our 2018 sale.
WFL Prospect has a legendary progeny record of: 5% lighter at birth, 11% heavier at weaning, 13% heavier at yearling, 13% more IMF and 2% larger REA .
Sells open and ready to breed.
Selling Buyer’s Choice of: Lot 319 or Lot 320
WEDEL REMEDY 4123
WEDEL REMEDY 4312
LOT 320 -WEDEL REMEDY 4312
Lot 320 and her half-sister, Lot 319 are both superbly femine Remedy daughters. Lot 319 is out of a maternal-sister to ProfitMaker. Lot 320 is out of a 3-year-old daughter of Profitmaker and has produced 2 A.I. sired calves with an average weaning ratio of 104.
Sells open and ready to breed.
You’ll earn more PRIME premiums and buy less feed thanks to PrimeTime’s unique combination of marbling and feed efficiency. Prime-Time has become our “Go-To” PROVEN calving ease sire to add pounds, save feed, earn carcass premiums and beautifully uddered daughters.
The High Selling bull from the 2024 Wedel Beef Genetic’s Sale, Grand Slam represents the next generation of high profit Red Angus sires that stack outstanding spread from CED to YW with exceptional marblng and superior Fertility. His dam generated nearly $100,000 last year at her first Wedel Bull Sale. Her maternal granddam, 6094 is the high producing female in the Wedel’s herd with a 120 MPPA as a 9-yr-old.
Bring your A.I. tank to the Wedel Beef Genetics Sale Tuesday, March 11, 2025 • Leoti, KS Save shipping plus earn an extra 10% discount (in addition to any volume discounts)
Owned By: R.A. Brown Ranch, Throckmorton, TX
Wedel Beef Genetics, Leoti, KS
Cedar Hill Farm, Jane Lew, WV
• IMPORTANT INFORMATION •
Mail or Phone Bids: If you cannot attend the sale, bids may be directed to Wedel Red Angus or one of the listed buyer representatives. All bids will be handled confidentially.
Lunch is on us, and begins at 11:00 am CST.
Pledge: Wedel Red Angus guarantees the fertility and disposition of every animal purchased through the sale.
Sale Terms and Conditions:
Bidding: The auctioneer in charge will settle any disputes as to bids, and his decision on such matters shall be final. Terms of the sale are cash.
Purchaser’s Risk: Each animal becomes the risk of purchaser as soon as it is sold. Wedel Red Angus will care for sold animals free of charge until loaded for shipment, or until one week after the sale - but at the purchaser’s risk.
Announcements from the auction block shall take precedence over this and all other printed material.
Identification: Seller offers each bull with a readable tattoo corresponding to its registration.
Guarantees: All animals sell under the guarantees as suggested by the Red Angus Association of America, a copy of which will be made available at the sale.
Rights and Obligations:
A) The above terms and conditions of sale shall constitute an agreement between buyer and seller of each animal and shall be equally binding upon both. Each sale or resale of an animal constitute a separate transaction.
B) All persons attend the sale at their own risk. Neither Wedel Red Angus, nor any other person connected with the management of the sale assumes any liability, legal or otherwise.
Delivery:
• Bulls will be delivered FREE of charge for the first 500 miles and at cost after that.
• Deliveries begin immediately after the sale. If you prefer not to take delivery as scheduled, we will care for your bull purchases at our risk for $4.00/hd/day to cover feed costs. The cost begins on April 1st and continues through the date your bulls are picked up.
• Please advise the sale clerks of an appropriate date for your bulls to be picked up and the appropriate feed costs will be included in your invoice.
• We always appreciate your assistance in getting the bulls delivered in a timely manner.
Retained interest & Semen Rights:
Wedel Red Angus will retain 1/2 semen interest on all bulls. Purchaser receives 100% possession and 100% salvage value. Wedel Red Angus reserves the right to collect, use and market semen; purchaser has equal right to do the same. Unless mutually agreed, semen collection will be at Wedel’s expense and the purchaser’s convenience. Wedel Red Angus will assume full liability at the purchase price of the bull during collection, including transportation to and from the collection facility - unless the collection is mutually agreed upon between Wedel and the purchaser, in which case the liability and expenses will be shared equally.
Scrotal Circumference & Fertility:
All bulls have been fertility examined to insure against seminal vasculitis. All bulls have been semen tested and the purchaser will receive a breeding soundness evaluation which follows the guidelines established by the Society of Theriogenology. Scrotal measurements were adjusted to 365 days.
All bulls will be Trich tested negative when required by destination state.
Category:
This classifies an animal’s registration with the Red Angus Association of America (RAAA) according to its percentage of Red Angus blood:
1A 100% Red Angus; no disqualifying features.
1B
Greater or equal to 87% Red Angus blood, but less that 100%; no disqualifying features.
2 Equal or greater to 87% Red Angus and up to 100%; with disqualifying characteristics.
3 Less and 87% Red Angus.
Headquarters: 9 miles west of Leoti, KS on Hwy 96
Then north on Rd 3 for 5 1/2 miles
WEDEL BEEF GENETICS
Frank & Susan Wedel
1012 W. County Rd. K Leoti, KS 67861
620-874-1437
fswedel@wbsnet.org wedelbeefgenetics.com
25th Annual Production Sale
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 • 12:00 Noon (CST)
• 175 Feed Efficiency Tested Red Angus & SimAngus Bulls
• 150 Commercial Red Angus Open Yearling Replacements
• 10 “U-Pic-Em” Registered Red Angus Open Yearling Heifers
