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September 2021

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REVOLUTION GENETICS

Heist is a Maternal Brother to Spruce Mountains’ Lot 1 Female and Top-Seller – Spruce Mtn Lady 0549, which recently topped their 2021 sale going for $250,000 to Express Ranches (1/2 interest). Heist ranks in the top 5% or better for WW, YW, DOC, CW, MARB, RE, $W, $F, $G, $B & $C. owned with Edgewood Angus, LLC :: Rhoades Ranch

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$Maternal 84 $Weaning 95 $Feedlot 134 $Grid 83 $Beef 216 $Combined 364

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S A T U R D A Y, O C T O B E R 9 , 2 0 2 1

at the ranch - FIREBAUGH, CA // REFRESHMENTS 1PM PDT // sale starts 3pm PDT

Selling 125 head

Bred Cows, Bred Heifers, Pairs + Show prospects

15-20 HEAD

SELLING 1/2 INTEREST + FULL POSSESSION

silveiras passage 7305

POWERFUL SHOW PROSPECTS SELL!

Congratulations to Paige Lemenager! Congratulations to Lane Toledo! Junior Division VI Champion 2021 NJAS 3rd Overall Heifer 2021 CA Youth Ag Expo SILVEIRA/HARA PROVEN QUEEN SILVEIRAS SANDY 0310 Sire: Silveiras Style 9303 Sire: Silvieras Style 9303 Dam: FCF Proven Queen 419 Dam: RW First Class Sandy 903

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SIRE: WR JOURNEY-1X74 // MGS: RITO 9Q13 OF RITA 5F56 GHM CED BEPD WW YW DOC MILK CEM MARB REA $M +8

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*EPDs in RED are top 35% or better [EPDs as of 8/03/2021]

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His service sells, + a full sister - Silveiras Rita 8506 - bred to VAR Revelation featured below!

Sample of the females that sell, all top 1% or better for $C! REG #

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HERD SIRE - Service & Progeny Sells!

LOEWEN GENESIS G16 ET 43987463 • 1/17/19 — Genesis has proven to be one of the most popular yearling bulls in the history of the breed. He is ideal in his phenotype combined with a tremendous EPD profile. His striking color pattern and being homozygous polled will add to the value of his offspring. Owned with Express Ranches, Barber Ranch, King Herefords and Dry Creek Farms.

Open heifers, bred heifers, spring heifer calf pair splits, young donors, embryos, semen and pick of the fall 2021 calves.

HERD SIRE - Semen & Progeny Sells!

LOT 42 C LADY 6245 CANADA 9331 ET

C CJC BELLE HEIR ET 43889959 • 1/12/18 — Belle Heir is proving to be one of the greatest breeding bulls we have ever used. He combines calving ease with extra growth and body length in his progeny. A limited number of semen packages have been sold thus far and we have heard great comments on his offspring from across the country. His ability to transmit extra pigment is another bonus. Dams average progeny record is IMF ratio of 116 and Ribeye ratio of 102. He is enrolled in the NRSP and we feel confident that his popularity will continue to grow. Owned with Knox Brothers, San Angelo, TX.

44077427 • 8/23/19 — A level topped, long sided female with tremendous pigmentation. She has it all, tremendous structure, eye appeal and a super EPD profile. Note the CED and Birth combined with lots of growth and carcass. Top 15% for nine traits. Her dam is one of our favorite donors. Carrying a heifer calf by Belle Heir.

Special attraction at our fall sale — Your opportunity to pick. Selling half interest in our young donor cows on the ranch.

LOT 21 C BAILEE VALOR 0346 ET

C BAR1 CANDY BELLE 8089 ET

Lot 28

C 812U MISS MILES 4196 ET

Lot 2

C BAR 1 MISS MILES 5308 ET C 8105 GENESIS GAL 1008 ET 43602071 • 3/1/15 — AI Bred to C BAR1 BAILEE VALOR 9354 due 01/02/2022. We are kicking off this year’s spring pair split section with what we consider one of the most exciting females in the whole offering. She is the mother of the 2021 OKC Polled Champion Female shown by the Griswold family in Oklahoma. This cow is impressive and can be mated so many ways because of her structure and overall power and dimension. Red to the ground and red‐eyed with lots of bone and extra good feet. We feel this one could fit into an elite donor program and produce many more champions. She definitely has the breeding behind her to do just that. Not only is she sired by the record selling Miles McKee but she is a double bred Notice Me.

44257542 • 1/1/21 — Genesis coupled with our highest selling female and Fort Worth Champion 8105. This heifer is a power donor cow prospect that has the genetic capability to take you where ever you want to go. Lot 2 has been a standout since birth and has continued to impress. You can’t make them any more powerful with this kind of structure and build.

Lot 5

44217663 • 9/24/20 — This may be one of the best females in the entire offering and has so many tools. She has already been shown at the state level and had a ton of friends. She is great necked, deep, and has plenty of muscle shape. A full sister was a former high seller to GKB in Texas and a full brother was the lead off bull in our pen of 3 in OKC. He was sold in February to a great family in Kansas, Davis Herefords. Look this one over we feel she is one of the very best.

Lot 10

C 5355C BELLE HEIRESS 1022 ET C D715 CLASSY MONICA 1182 ET

44257555 • 1/3/21 — The donor dam 5355 is becoming one of our most elite donors. She is the dam of our high selling female in 2020 for $65,000 to Potter Ranch Herefords and her first 3 heifer calves averaged $27,500. This mating with the two time Supreme Denver Champion Belle Air may be her best yet. She is a little greener at this time but has the same pattern and look. This heifer has a full brother that is one of the very best.

44257689 • 1/29/21 — This is a full sister to a division winner for the Effling family at the 2021 Junior Nationals. This female looks very similar to that female. Super good necked and right in her lines. Lots of pin width and extra shape. Her mother D715 was bought in partnership with the Allen family in Texas and she is now starting to produce like we had hoped she would. She won her division many times on the national level and was always in the hunt because of her great design and look.

Lot 7 C 8086 LADY SANCHO 1066 ET

44257593 • 1/6/21 — Lot 7 was in a flush that is so awesome it is hard to explain the quality of these 3 females that sell. They are not all the same but they are all really elite cattle. Lot 7 is just a power house with all the width, body and bone. These are a must see and interesting to sort.

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DROUGHT TOUR - WEST COAST

4 dry smoky states - 7 days - 3,135 miles - 100+ degrees - major wildfires photos by Derek Sample Derek@ABPmag.com

by Tim McCray Tim@ABPmag.com

THE OC Orange County, California is, in a way, a beginning and end to this trip. But I started at LAX airport, which seems like an odd place to start a Ranch tour. Derek came up with a working title of “The C.O.W. tour” as our plans were to visit some locations in California, Oregon & Washington. But Washington had other plans, as we had trouble connecting with ranchers or our schedules weren’t aligned with the forces. Either way, I hope the C-O-W trip may happen in 2022. Starting off from the LA area, we (almost) immediately headed north to Mammoth Lakes, spent a day there enjoying some scenery and Derek’s other house before winding our way through Yosemite National Park. Upon exiting the park and finding a spot with decent reception, I phoned home. My wife Raven grew up in Orange County, but also spent quite a few weekends and summers at a ranch house on the Flying M Ranch near Merced. She talks about her time on the ranch frequently, so much in fact, that I knew someday I would lay my own eyes upon it. After making a phone call or two, Raven sent me a number and I found myself on the phone with Wes Myers, who happened to be at the ranch that day. Wes invited Derek and I to spend the night in their bunkhouse. Our overnight plans were still up in the air so how could we turn that down? 10

FLYING M RANCHES Le Grand, CA – Stocker ranch Flying M Ranch started in 1959 when John & Lucia Myers started purchasing property in Merced County. John Myers was a renowned WWII test pilot, most notably performing experimental test flights on the P-61 Black Widow, America’s first successful night fighter, as well as on the first Flying Wing. At 86 years old, he had logged over 70,000 hours and continued flying until he was 93. Their ranch extends over 24 square miles of the Merced Grasslands, one of the largest and most intact vernal pool-grasslands in the world. They have a long history of ranching and farming in the San Joaquin Valley. The ranch produces beef, almonds and olives. Over the years, John & Lucia established themselves as prominent ranchers, farmers, conservationists and philanthropists. It was during this time that my wife’s parents bought into the ranch and were allowed to build another house on the property which is currently referred to as Middle Marker. Today, Flying M Ranches is operated by John & Lucia’s grandsons, Wes & Luke. The back patio of the bunkhouse where we were staying overlooks the private runway, as does the house where Wes and his family live during their time here. This compound is known American Beef Producer

as La Paloma and lies just NE of Middle Marker. The two locations are far enough apart to offer each other privacy, yet close enough to walk to. Pasture and cattle guards surround both plots allowing inhabitants to be completely surrounded by the herd, but with all the modern amenities for us humans. Wes and his brother Luke oversee this piece of land which became an irrevocable trust as their Grandfather John had wished. They both have day jobs that occupy most of their time, but the brothers are dedicated to preserving the land and the heritage. This year, Wes & Luke are planning to place stocker cattle on the vast amount of grassland that they estimate can sustain 7000-8000 head from October – May. Cattle are coming back to the ranch and maintaining the land for the next generation of Myers. Wes took us about the property the next morning, up to Haystack Mountain, the predominant grassland hill that dominates the landscape, as well as the Rahilly Tree which is another favorite landmark on the ranch. Rahilly is a lone tree in this vast prairie looks more like North Dakota than California to me. This one tree marks the homestead of one of the original families that settled Merced County. It was a favorite of Lucia Myers as well as September 2021

Top: “Enjoy Beef Every Day” sign that‘s over 50 years old @ UC Ranch, McDermitt, NV. Left: Flying W Ranch in Merced, CA Bottom left: Cowboy tribute statues in a park in Pendleton, Oregon. Right below: Hank Kershner herding his Angus across Hwy 95 @ UC Ranch, McDermitt, NV. Right bottom: Ryan Raymond @ Rollin Rock/Raymond & Sons giving us a tour @ Pilot Rock, Oregon

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Left top/middle: Rollin Rock/Raymond & Sons Ranch sale barn and young bull @ Pilot Rock, Oregon. cont‘d on page 18 Middle top: Highland heifers grazing landscapes in Oregon. Middle: Randy Kessler showing off his favorite hydraulic gate. Bottom: Jindra Stonewall at Dixie Valley Angus in Montague, CA. Above: Sunset at Kessler Angus, Milton-Freewater, Oregon

my wife’s memories where she and her sister built a rock wall around the trunk to protect it from the cattle. There’s so much meaning in this tree, that in our route around ranch, we had to pick up a water wagon and get some water to that tree before Wes returned us to La Paloma and back on the road. Upon leaving Flying M, we didn’t have much of a destination. We knew we had to head North into Oregon as we knew we had a few ranches waiting on us and we were still piecing together some stops along the way. Our route was taking us through the great smoky mountains of California. I know that the real great smoky’s are actually in Tennessee, but I’m pretty sure these are far smokier. The wildfires ravaging California at the time (and are even bigger now) made for some difficult visibility as we headed north to Sacramento and then east through Reno. Thankfully the next day gave way to clearer skies as we continued north. Just before we left Nevada into Oregon, we saw an old road sign “Enjoy Beef Every Day”. Of course, that definitely caught our attention. Derek flipped a quick u-turn and while doing September 2021

so, we hadn’t even noticed Hank Kershner on the other side of the highway preparing to move his cows back across the highway. Following introductions, we offered to assist Hank in moving his cattle across the very busy Highway 95. This was dangerous with all the traffic timing was everything. But it seems the herd had done this before. Derek took some photos, we talked to Hank a bit more and he thanked us for our help so we headed onto Oregon. Along the 95, we jog into Idaho, and back into Oregon where we stopped in Pendleton just in time to be 10 minutes late after the dining room closed at Hamley’s Steakhouse. Thankfully they had an over accommodating waitress named Jess who fixed us up like royalty. This long day ended with a steak dinner after all. Jess, as it turned out, grew up on a Charolais ranch. She also volunteered to reach out to her friend Tierra Kessler at Kessler Angus about us stopping there too. American Beef Producer

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Pilot Rock, OR This industry leading seedstock herd combines the experience and history built by Bill and Jennifer Davis partnering with their nephew Ryan Raymond of Raymond and Son Ranch. The Sires and their Progeny are well-rounded and sturdy built. The Legacy lives on, focusing on producing cattle that are rugged, durable, and can adapt to all parts of the country. We met up with Ryan Raymond at Rollin’ Rock’s new sale facility near Pilot Rock, which they started building in November 2019. Then their registered and commercial herds arrived in December. The first sale in the new facility was in March 2020. Nothing but bare ground was there when they started, but they completed the building and the pens in 4 short months. The sale this past March marked the 50th annual sale for Rollin’ Rock, and the 8th in Oregon. Ryan will start weaning bull calves and steer calves here (cont‘d on page 16)

Sale Calendar email Tim@ABPmag.com for updates

1-Sep

Nemah Valley Cattle Co

Bern, KS

8-Sep

Poss Angus Female Sale

Scotia, NE

1-Sep

Silveira Bros. Bull Sale

Firebaugh, CA

8-Sep

Trauernicht Simmental

Wymore, NE

2-Sep

Davis Ranches Show Heifer

online

9-Sep

Black Gold Bull Sale

Williams, CA

2-Sep

Vintage Angus Ranch

La Grange, CA

10-Sep Tehama Angus Bull Sale

3-Sep

Byrd Cattle Co. Bull Sale

Los Molinas, CA

11-Sep Arrellano Bravo/Diablo Valley/Dixie Valley

4-Sep

A Bar Ranch Commercial Female Sale Claremore, OK

11-Sep Arkansas BBA Razorback Classic

Damascus, AR

4-Sep

Beefmaster Breeders Harvest Sale

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11-Sep Benoit Angus Ranch

Esbon, KS

4-Sep

Boyd Beef Cattle Breeders Cup

Mays Lick, KY

11-Sep

Danville, KY

4-Sep

EZ Angus Ranch Bull Sale

Farmington, CA

11-Sep Crazy K Ranch

Michie, TN

4-Sep

Four Star Simmental

Eugene, MO

11-Sep Edwards Land & Cattle

Beulaville, NC

4-Sep

Graber Angus Farm & Guests

Montgomery, IN

11-Sep Henke Angus Farms Female

Salisbury, MO

4-Sep

Linz Heritage

Crown Point, IN

11-Sep KY Simmental Assoc. Fall Sale

Lexington, KY

4-Sep

North Carolina Fall Harvest Sale

Union Grove, NC

11-Sep Lorenzen Farms

Chrisman, IL

4-Sep

OK Angus Gathering Female Sale

Perkins, OK

11-Sep Northeast Elite Hereford Sale

Ghent, NY

4-Sep

Sunrise Sunset Farms/ Cates Family

Modac, IN

11-Sep Pearcy Angus Ranch Female Sale

Fairy, TX

5-Sep

Brumfield Angus Farms

Three Oaks, MI

11-Sep Pierce’s Hereford Haven Open House Baraboo, WI

5-Sep

Cornerstone Farms

Winchester, IN

11-Sep Prairie Rose Cattle Co

Sherman, IL

5-Sep

Heritage Bull Sale

Wilton, CA

11-Sep Proud To Be American

Shidler, OK

5-Sep

Indiana Fall Angus Classic

Greenfield, IN

11-Sep Riley Bros. Angus Sale

Darlington, WI

5-Sep

Jensen Simmentals

Osawatomie, KS

11-Sep Shepherd Charolais

Stuart, IA

5-Sep

T/R Cattle Co Frozen Genetics

Glencoe, OK

11-Sep Northeast Elite Hereford Sale

Ghent, NY

5-Sep

Turner Shorthorns

Somerset, OH

11-Sep Wolff Cattle & Guest

Oakes, ND

6-Sep

Autumn in The Ozarks

Strafford, MO

12-Sep Gaffney Family Cattle

Barneveld, WI

6-Sep

Genoa Livestock

Minden, NV

12-Sep Happ Herefords

Mendota, IL

6-Sep

Meyer Family Shorthorn

Greensburg, IN

12-Sep Visalia Livestock Market Bull Sale

Visalia, CA

6-Sep

Parker Bros. Sale

Bradyville, TN

13-Sep Family Values online sale

Eastland, TX

6-Sep

T/R Cattle Co Mature Cow Sale

Glencoe, OK

13-Sep Montana Hereford Tour through 9/15 Kalispell, MT

7-Sep

East Side Farm Sale

Frederick, MD

13-Sep Smith Family Farms Shorthorn

Pendleton, IN

7-Sep

Genoa Livestock

Minden, NV

14-Sep Optum Angus Online

Seaman, OH

7-Sep

KL Lemmon Cattle Co. Blakey’s

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14-Sep Western Video @ Haythorn Ranch

Ogallala, NE

7-Sep

O’Neal Ranch Bull Sale

O’neals, CA

15-Sep Blackstone Cattle Co.

Mineral Point, WI

8-Sep

Highland Farms Shorthorn

Pittsfield, IL

15-Sep Bullseye Breeders Bull Sale

Modesto, CA

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15-Sep Knutson Farm Private Treaty

Volga, SD

16-Sep 44 Farms Online Female Sale

Cameron, TX

16-Sep Dal Porto Livestock / Rancho Casino Denair, CA 16-Sep Holden Herefords Female

Valier, MT

17-Sep Black Grove

Newberry, SC

17-Sep Churchill Cattle Co

Manhattan, MT

17-Sep Mid Valley Bull Sale

Oakdale, CA

17-Sep Northern Video Fall Premier

Billings, MT

18-Sep ACHH Limousin

Bowling Green, KY

18-Sep Arrow Crown Dispersion

Gering, NE

18-Sep Burns Farms & Friends Female Sale

Pikeville, TN

18-Sep Capitol Angus Whitehouse, TX 18-Sep Conley Cattle Fall Female Sale

Sulphur, OK

18-Sep Ehlke Herefords Montana Made Sale Townsend, MT 18-Sep Hereford Fall Classic

Taylorville, IL

18-Sep Kenco Fall Matters Simmental

Auburn, KY

18-Sep Logland Farms w/ Rugged R Cattle

Roland, OK

18-Sep Pollard Farms

Waukomis, OK

18-Sep Trowbridge Angus Ghent, NY 18-Sep Wild Indian Acres & Friends

DeSoto, MO

18-Sep Wisconsin Angus Breeders Futurity

Fennimore, WI

19-Sep Bar Star Cattle Beauties of the Big Sky Online 19-Sep Eyes On The Midwest

Newman, IL

19-Sep Lowderman Cattle Co. Illini Top Cut Macomb, IL 19-Sep Mohican West & Guests

Laurel, MT

20-Sep Jester Farms Shorthorn

Mooreland, IN

20-Sep SD Angus Tour Mitchell, SD 20-Sep Tadmore Farms Shorthorn

Caldwell, TX

21-Sep Baylor Cowden Shorthorn online

W. Middletown, PA

21-Sep Berg Shorthorns online

Osage, IA

21-Sep KLS Farms online 21-Sep McGinn Angus Online

Johnson City, TN

21-Sep SD Angus Tour Mitchell, SD 21-Sep Montana Angus Tour

Great Falls, MT

21-Sep Premier Angus Group Online Sale

Johnson City, TN

21-Sep Ridder Farms Online 21-Sep Thomas Angus Ranch California

Galt, CA

22-Sep Eagle Pass Ranch

Dos Palos, CA

23-Sep Blue Lake Online Sale

Lexington, KY

23-Sep Bruin Ranch/ Circle Ranch

Ione, CA

23-Sep Talon Crest Farms Online

Winterset, IA

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23-Sep Werning Cattle Company

Emery, SD

24-Sep Beef On Forage - Florida Bull Sale

Arcadia, FL

24-Sep 4Th Annual Flint Hills Classic Bull Sale Paxico, KS 24-Sep Jeffries Red Angus

Checotah, OK

24-Sep McCarty Cattle Co Female Sale

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24-Sep Sierra Ranches Western Treasures

Modesto, CA

24-Sep World Beef Expo Open Show

Milwaukee, WI

25-Sep Forrest Polled Herefords Production Sale

Saluda, SC

25-Sep Angus Celebration at Lindstrom Angus Woodville,AL 25-Sep Boyd Beef Cattle

Mays Lick, KY

25-Sep Delaney/ Atkins open house

Lake Benton, MN

25-Sep Double R Bar Ranch

Plymouth, IN

25-Sep Farrer Stock Farms

Royal Center, IN

25-Sep Gohr’s Crown Jewel Event

Madras, OR

25-Sep K Bar D Ranch

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Angus drinking from spring wells at Rhoades Angus Ranch, Cambria, CA

next month after bringing the cattle from their summer pasture near Wallowa (approximately 2 hours East) and Helix (about 40 minutes North). He had an opportunity to lease the 83 Ranch (about 13,000 acres) in 2002 and started picking up other ground near Pilot Rock (about 18,000 acres). Although the family spends most of their time in Helix, he lives about 3 months in Pilot Rock and another 3 months in Wallowa out of necessity. They usually bring everything back to Pilot Rock in November, though as dry as it is now, it’s hard to tell what will happen. “Thankfully, the pasture near Wallowa is really good, and still green”, we were told. Despite being in severe drought conditions they haven’t had to haul water yet. Ryan feels that one thing he thinks sets them apart from other registered breeders is that the cows are bred and weaned and required to survive in this terrain, rather than being born and live their lives on the same pasture. They must adapt and reproduce. The surrounding terrain is mountainous and vast and requires good horses. This applies to all of their locations. We continued touring the winter pasture, which is at about 3,600 ft, where the feed was minimal. However if they get an inch of rain by September, that could turn that around too. He has some long-term contracts on land he’s using because he treats it like it’s his own. Managing that much land in three different locations 16

requires not only his immediate family: wife Amy and their two boys Pace (16) and Colter (13). But also, a first cousin, Casey Evans and an extra full time man, Trevor Meyer. Ryan also stated during our visit that he “could use one more full time person.” However, the two boys really can do so much already since they both ride quite well, can unload trucks and move cattle. Driving back to the sale facility, Ryan had suggested another hotel for us that night in Pendleton if we were to be visiting Kessler’s that evening. Ryan also reached out to Kessler Angus and helped set up our next appointment. Seems like we are heading to go and meet Randy Kessler!

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Kessler Angus is a first generation seedstock Angus operation. Started in 1962 as a 4-H project. Concentrating on traits such as calving ease, disposition, mothering ability, reproduction, milk and carcass values. At only 9 years old, Randy Kessler’s parents bought him his first heifer. Being the son of crop farmers, he knew at a very early age that his passion for cattle was what he wanted to do in life. At age 11, he sold his first bull and by the time he was 18, his herd had grown to 50. Now, nearly 60 years later, with the help of his

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[late] wife Dawn and their 3 children Tierra, Cheyenne and Cody, that herd has grown to average 350 – 400 cows. In 2012, the American Angus Association recognized Kessler’s Angus as a Historic Angus Herd. This Labor Day weekend, he’ll be showing a portion of his cattle at the Walla Walla County fair, something he’s done consecutively for nearly 60 years. Kessler’s annual sale (3rd Tuesday in February) is held at their ranch in Umapine. Oregon. This is the same ranch that Randy worked on in his early years back when it was a polled Hereford ranch. He tells us that he would “work for them all day long. Then during lunch and after work, I’d tend to my own cows.” He continues “when the previous owners decided to get out of the business, I leased pastureland, and when they decided to sell off completely, they offered it to me for purchase”. That sounds easy, but there were some lean years ahead. Randy tells us that one of those years, they had partnered with someone for a sale that didn’t hold up their side of the deal. Randy ended up paying 100% of the bills though they didn’t have the money. He happened to have a prize-winning cow in his herd that year that was eventually sold to Eldon Krebs. It was that purchase that allowed him to pay off the bills and stay afloat. But they were still broke. He had given some turnips one day to a fellow that looked as if he were more destitute than they were. A few days later, that same fellow returned with 2 huge boxes of potatoes. “We survived on meat and potatoes that year, though we didn’t even have enough money to buy ketchup” he tells us, “or Pepsi”, another of his favorites. Eldon went on to show that cow in Denver the following January and won Grand Champion at the National Western. When Randy approached Eldon afterwards, he was grateful to him for helping him out when he needed it, and glad that Eldon had made money as well. Eldon ended up giving Randy the banner from that showing, which still hangs in his home office. Randy was diagnosed with throat cancer a few

years ago. It’s gone now, but it left him with some eating problems and an oxygen tank. As we noticed, that didn’t stop him and it certainly didn’t kill his spirits either. This year, he constructed a remote-controlled winch for his ATV that attaches to scales so he can weigh calves, which is something he used to do by himself just by lifting them. This winch gives Randy the ability to work by himself if needed. His daughter, Cheyenne, has moved away to California and is working as a nurse. Tierra & Cody are both still home on the ranch, although they were both out of town the day we had stopped. Randy still loves what he does. You can see it in his face as we’re touring his pastures looking over his herd. Sporting a giant smile, his demeanor changes back to a resemblance of a 9-year-old boy when he’s around his herd. Obviously that passion that was in him as a young boy has never left him. After touring the ranch, he invited into his home for some homemade pie and further conversation. We can tell that he doesn’t take anything for granted these days. He’s happy to share a slice of pie with some strangers and talk about his accomplishments as an Angus Breeder. Some of those are decorating his home office and living spaces. He’s proud and yet humble and so grateful. “It’s a Great Day to Be Alive!” Pendleton, Oregon is an area I hope to return to. It doesn’t look like much at first driving from the East over some grasslands, it appears as just a small town amidst the crops. But after some further investigation, it actually winds its way through some ravines into a small city that has some great restaurants, curiosities and a whole lot of character. The large display board at the Oxford hotel encourages visitors to spend their Saturdays in Pendleton for the wild west shows, wagon rides, live music, river walk and various underground tours. They promise covered wagons and peri-

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od time actors and actresses as you explore the downtown. Unfortunately, our schedule didn’t bring us here on a Saturday, so we missed out. The next day we traveled west for a bit alongside the Columbia River before heading south to our next destination. Derek decided I should drive for a bit (my first on this trip) and literally a few minutes later I received my souvenir from the state Highway Patrol. He didn’t seem to care where we were going, only that we were going too fast. After that unfortunate event, the road ahead started winding its way through the beautiful rolling hills and ravines of Central Oregon. I nearly missed our turn from the 2-lane highway we were on to the winding adventure that will eventually take us to Bar 6 Charolais. Almost immediately, we crossed a cattle guard and open range sign and then a few Angus calves feeding by the side of the road. For the next hour we traveled through ranch land with a few congregated mailboxes and zero, yes zero, townships. Madison (from Bar 6 Charolais) said something about teaching us a new meaning of remote. Lesson learned. The last part of her directions were once you leave pavement, it’s another 45 minutes on dirt. Then when you think you’re here, go another 7 miles to the house.

Bar 6 Charolais

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Left top and middle: Dixie Valley‘s Morgon Patrick with prize bull Baldridge Colonel and Hunter Wheeler weaning calves in Montague, CA. Left bottom: Wes Myers atop Haystack Mountain over Flying M Ranch, Le Grand, CA. Above: Justin Rhoades saddling up at Rhoades Angus, Ranch, Cambria, CA. Middle left: Highland heifer grazing in Oregon. Middle right: Hank Kershner of UC Ranch, McDermitt,Nevada. Below: Randy Kessler of Kessler Angus and his original Aberdeen Angus sign hanging in his sale barn

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Charolais that made it home @ Bar 6 Charolais, Mitchell, Oregon

that our cattle are providing a type of rugged sustainability that is unmatched in today’s cattle market. We hold our own herd to the same requirements with assurance that they carry their weight. Thriving on dry and rugged pastures, we need them to calve on their own and trail that calf down to winter feeding grounds. Bar 6 Charolais is operated primarily by Jim Anspach, his daughter Madison, and her husband Kale. Jim moved his operation here about 15 years ago from Washington. Madison & Kale moved in about 6 years ago to help out. It’s extremely remote. Both Derek and I exclaimed that they win the prize for the most remote ranch yet. We then sat down with Madison on a hot summer day and visited for a while, kind of like we were old friends. We’re not on a mission, we just like to get out and visit some folks. Seriously, we’re pretty laid back in that sense. So, after we arrived and introduced ourselves to each other, we sat some chairs around the fire pit and just had a conversation. We shared some stories of our journey so far, and she filled us in on some things going on around their ranch. Like the fact that her husband Kale runs a spraying company, so he’s off working elsewhere. Her dad, Jim, is working cattle somewhere else, and her mom is in the house taking care of Madison’s son who isn’t feeling well that day. She tells us a few stories about travelers through the area 20

that break down, need a tow or just tire’s fixed, get lost, etc. all sorts of crazy things. One poor lady came out with her 3 kids and thought the road had been washed out. She decided to drive down an embankment to the road below and got her car stuck. Permanently. It’s still sitting there, sans passengers. They try to be helpful to those unfortunates that don’t plan too well, such as being way out in the middle of nowhere without food or water. Speaking of food, since we left Pendleton this morning, we really didn’t think, nor were there really any options to stop for some lunch. Derek and I are just dumb boys who don’t pay attention to things like that. Madison put together a delicious salad for us. Ranchers to the rescue once again, but I guess that’s nothing out of the ordinary for them. We talk about the remoteness of the area quite a bit, how any major grocery shopping, or a parts run, are all-day adventures. It’s basically 3 hours to any kind of city large enough to sustain a Costco or similar stores for them to stock up. If she and the family want to go have dinner somewhere, it’s a 45-minute drive into Mitchell, which google tells me has a population of 130 as of 2010. So, yeah, we’re remote. After some lunch, it’s decided she will drive us up into the mountains a bit and perhaps we can find some cattle. It’s all open range, and approximately 196

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square miles of rugged rocky terrain. Actually, we might have better luck finding Bigfoot. I keep an eye out. The road that runs past the house is a public access road that cuts through their country. They get a fair amount of traffic with people exploring, camping and even bicycling, as this is part of a well-known ‘Bend to Boise’ bicycle trail. The forest road we’re traveling on is taking us up to some higher pastures where the cattle should be. But it’s a Stage-5 drought for them, and we did find a few cows already at lower elevation making their way home early. Their sale this past February offered 130 Bulls for sale. But truth be told, she has a rough estimate to how many are out here. They turn out their herd in March and won’t see them again until they come back home around 6 months later. Their herd is expected to calve, thrive, survive all on their own until they come back for winter. They breed for low birth weights to ease in that process and have assisted in only 1 or 2 every couple of years. We drove into the wild country for probably an hour before stopping and heading back down, out past an original homestead that was well built as it was still standing. We passed an old miner’s cabin and another old tiny house that an elderly couple used to live in with no modern amenities. The drive back down the mountain was just as entertaining as the drive up. We see more cattle on the way down, as the feed this year is scarce. They, like us, are heading for home. Madison was, eventually able to get rid of us, simply by suggesting we stop in Mitchell for some food. Tiger Town Brewing Company was highly recommended. Now I’m not a food critic at all, but the food was something I would expect out of a well-known establishment in Minneapolis, Chicago or even Portland. Not this small town of 130. I spoke with one of the owners, Eric Charpata who grew up on the family ranch just out of town. He also said that yes, they try and source their beef locally whenever possible. Last year there were some difficulties, but they are getting back to normal.

Plus, the place was well attended on a weekday afternoon. Pretty cool place. Check out their website and if you’re in the area, you have stop in. That evening we spent the night in Bend. I was hoping to get through there at least after watching a documentary on the last Blockbuster video store. Had to get a picture of that store, and Derek had to get coffee next door. Good start to the day. We had a couple of hours or driving before our next stop, and just enough extra time to check out a very smoky Crater Lake National Park on our way back into California. It’s after this stop that we decide whenever, wherever we’re traveling, there should be a National Park visit.

Dixie Valley Angus Montague, CA Our goal at Dixie Valley Angus is to produce great bulls for commercial cattlemen that will add pounds to the calf crop from the day the animal is born till the day they leave the ranch. We also concentrate on adding carcass weight and IMF to raise premiums in calf crops. We hope to bring phenotype, docility, fertility and fleshing ability to a cow herd. We also believe we can make breed leading females with our cow herd and an E.T. program that will fit the needs for seed stock suppliers to add to their herd and make a great product for them for generations to come. Morgon Patrick already had a busy day for himself, but he did manage to squeeze in an hour for us as we were traveling through. Thick smoke again filled the air in northern California. That coupled with the drought conditions and the day-to-day operations of a busy seedstock operation, we were just glad he had any time for us at all. But we did manage to talk a little about their operation there, the drought and the fires. Dealing with the drought is certainly nothing

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Above: Dixie Valley‘s handsome Diablo Deluxe in Montague, CA. Below: Bar 6 Charolais in Mitchell, Oregon. Right top: Justin Rhoades fixing a water source @ Rhoades Angus, Cambria, CA. Right bottom: Rick Blanchard @ Silveira Bros and his sale barn

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Cambria, CA written by Derek Sample

Rhoades Ranch seeks to produce and market the highest quality registered black Angus bulls. We strive to achieve genetically favorable characteristics with long lasting, high performance results. Our sustainable practices such as naturally grown without the use of grain and promoting natural muscle growth provided by rugged terrain is the formula for longevity! (cont‘d from page 21)

new to anyone this year. Morgon sent 65 fall cows off to feed at one of their commercial ranches, something that ranch was better able to handle than where he was, “even though they are dry as well” Morgon said. “We had a 6-day irrigation season this year and we just put water anywhere we could” Morgon said. Then you just hope the well water will maintain them. Of course, the hay crops are down too. Morgon says they’ll usually get 3 to 4 passes on alfalfa, or at least cut three and graze one. But they’ve only put up about 10% of normal this year. They’ve contracted some corn stalks out of the valley for supplement and will be using some liquid feed mixture in there too. Not surprisingly, they really focus on feed efficiency with carcass and growth, something that seems to be paying off. They currently have a few bulls at Cal Poly that scored really well and will more than likely win for low birth and multi trait again. Aside from looking at drought conditions and very smoky skies, they had a few of their stud bulls back after being pulled from cows just a few days before. Jindra Stonewall and Baldridge Elroy have both done very well for Dixie Valley’s program this year.

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I was referred to call Justin by a friend that owns the local art gallery in Mammoth Lakes, CA where I have been fortunate enough to sell my photos of the Eastern Sierra mountains where we have a 2nd home. Mountains as high as 13,000ft. surround this quaint town and it’s where I find peace. So, when she told me about an Angus Ranch that shares the same fence line with her boyfriend over in Cambria (on the Pacific coastline), I was a bit surprised. It turns out that her boyfriend, Dirk Winters, owns a few hotels and a Christmas village that is a real popular tourist destination. With that said, their neighbor, Justin Rhoades, owns a pure-bred and Commercial Angus ranch in the hills near Cambria. With amazing views of the ocean from atop their pastures, this is a quiet and serene place to be. As there are remnants of old equipment and a few barns and foundations here and there left over from previous generations of his celebrated ranching family, what you will notice the most is that these rolling hills are postcard perfect! Then put a few Angus on those hills and it’s an Instagram folly to enjoy After meeting Justin and his friend Jason Gagnon, I got a side-by-side tour of all the hills and pastures, most with springs as the main water source. It’s a major drought around most of the west but Justin has been lucky so far as his some of his springs are still flowing, though not like they used to. Jason just happened to be there that day as part of Justin’s partnership with JLG Enterprises to sell semen from his prize bulls. Justin has been working the ranch on his own since his father suddenly passed away in 2012. Justin’s Dad, Wade (known as Scooter), died of a heart attack while maneuvering his tractor to fight a brush fire. From what I can tell, Justin and his Dad were like brothers and their sense of humor kept them above the float where they could work together for hours on end and still have dinner together. Their family started this ranch as one of the early pioneers

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of this area and their multi-generational presence on this farm gets a lot of respect around here. Wade was a strong man with a quiet presence, though when he spoke people listened. He is surely missed. Since then, Justin has established a working routine turning the ranch into an even more successful Commercial operation while still maintaining his pure-bred Angus herd. Years ago he and his Dad would purchase ‘good bulls’ from multiple farms as they thought that was the thing to do. They’d bite the bullet and spend $100k on bulls. The first year, they saw a return on their investment, but the 2nd year and on it was just a push, they wouldn’t bounce back. They just looked at each other one day and his Dad was like “this ain’t working. That’s a huge investment and we don’t even get to use them a second year. Plus the first year they’re kind of hot and just fat and don’t move around too well anyway”. Eventually the conversation turned to “What if we raised our own bulls and made them a little tougher?”. Well, it will take some time to do but they both agreed. They started by loading up a semi-truck load of 35 pure-bred Angus and not long after that, people started inquiring about their bulls. The program was working and they would sell a few here and there. Now there’s quite a demand for his bulls. Rhoades Angus Ranch has transitioned into quite the presence on the regional and national front where Justin takes numerous calls inquiring about his cattle. In addition, Dirk Winters (remember the neighbors on the fenceline) asked if he could work something out where they could feature Justin’s cattle on their menu to help feed the large number of tourists staying at his hotels. As of now it’s too early to say, but I’m sure it will turn into a great co-venture for both of them. If so, I’ll be back to continue the story with Justin as there’s definitely more to be told.

Rick Blanchard giving us the low down @ Silveira Bros.

We’re back in Almond country. Finishing our stop at Silveira Bros. seems familiar. It should as we’re only about 40 miles straight south of Flying M ranches where we started. I can’t help but think I’m stuck in the 3rd season of Goliath. In more ways than one, if you’ve seen that show… We find Rick working on his squeeze chute when we arrive. He’s dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, which is apparently how he likes to work most of the time. I’m like minded as that is my preference as well. So, I suspect we’ll hit it off pretty good. Within a few minutes he’s driving us around the ranch and it feels more like we’re old buddies just driving around shooting the bull. Derek and I are easy going anyway, but it sure goes a long way when Rick’s making us laugh most of the time. Rick’s a crackpot, and he’s not afraid to be the butt of his own humor either. Don’t get me wrong, he’s serious about his business and other important matters, but he doesn’t take himself too seriously, or at least that’s what I’m getting anyway. Kind of like Billy McBride. We talked a little about his Almond empire (I may have exaggerated that last bit). Then about water. Silveira Bros. Since we are on a drought tour – we’ll talk about water. Madera, CA “If you go underground here, it’s probably the biggest Our mission at Silveira Bros is to produce multi-trait underground river there is in the state of California”, performance Black and Red Angus seedstock for the he tells us. “We’re always in a constant fight for wacommercial producer. We strive to produce Angus bulls ter. “It seems the government always thinks that they that can be used on heifers and cows, excel in weaning know better, but ever since they started taking over, it’s and yearling performance and transmit superior carcass gotten worse. A lot worse. Since we started conservtraits. At Silveira Bros, we emphasize CALVING EASE ing [water] the last 25 years, this is when our water genetics by utilizing artificial insemination and extensive problems have really started.” We are all in our 50’s embryo transfer to the nation‘s most highly proven sires by the way (Derek, Rick and me), so we’re all probaand from our highly proven donor cows. Silveira Bros. has bly capable or remembering what life was like in our two sales per year – Bull sale in September and Females early twenties…back when we knew everything. Rick in October. says “we used to flood everything. There was water 28

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going everywhere. If we did that, the ground charged back up. We had normal rainfall. When we started conserving is when that kind of changed.” Then he told us that the powers that be decided they will limit it even more starting next year by only allowing him a certain number of inches of water annually. He figures that if he doesn’t do any irrigation at all on his pastures, and about half the ranch is pasture and native grasses, he’ll still be about an inch short for his trees. This also means he’ll still have to take out an 80-acre section just to have enough water allotment to finish everything else. I think* I can solve California’s water problem in one word: Coyotes. Right? Here’s my plan: we take all the coyotes, and we strap canteens to them…. When the Silveira’s came to this land in the late 70’s, “Coyote’s were always a big big problem for us” Rick said. “They would attack the calves when they were born and when they were weak. Come to find out, they were just hungry, they didn‘t really care. They could kill anything to eat. So as time went on, what I started doing was we stopped shooting them. I went into kind of more of a conservatorship type thing. When we irrigate, we have gophers and squirrels and then those critters start popping up which would make the coyotes come in packs and follow the water and hunt. This way they‘re killing all the problems and they‘re leaving the cattle and the populations are huge now, just as long as they don‘t cross the barrier. It’s been very helpful. You know, just in the last seven or eight years, I‘ve really kind of gone with that plan and it‘s really, really helped.” So, stop shooting your Coyote’s and it’ll fix your Coyote problem. Stop rationing the water to the point that it eliminates the farmers ability to feed the world and your water problem may be solved. I won’t take full credit for that idea. It was really Rick’s, but I did put it in writing. I think Rick should run for Governor, hell maybe even President. But, he tells me that he stays home for months at a time and doesn’t leave the property. It’s the only safe way for everyone…

The Journey Home I stated at the beginning of this that Orange County was the beginning. Derek pointed out to me that LAX is in LA county, not Orange. I knew that. I was referring to our first stop on this trek: Flying M Ranches. Had it not been for my wife spending time there as a child, we wouldn’t have even known about the place. It was only fitting, well er manipulated (because I dislike LAX) that I fly out of Orange. Plus, I get to visit my mother-in-law, Kelli, whom I hadn’t been able to see since Christmas before the world went to hell. I was amazed when I got there how much her island home had changed since my last visit. She showed me her favorite house in Corona Del Mar. We visited the beach. I planted a seed about the possibilities of her visiting again at Christmas time and buying another ranch house…in Minnesota. We talked some more about her time at Flying M, which again took me back to the beginning. I thought about calling this the Big O because everything is circular. You always return home. But the OC is more fitting, and I didn’t think the majority would understand what I was eluding to with that. If anything, I believe life is full of circles. Even though Flying M was new to me personally, I’ve heard enough stories about the place that it felt like making a circle even if the start of it was with my mate. We made a big circle as we traveled, leaving from Derek’s house, and returning there briefly so I could say my goodbye to Val and their two Aussies that couldn’t come on this trip. The circles of life & the circles of family that I can see in Rollin’ Rock Angus & the futures for Kessler’s to the circle created by Rick Blanchard living in agreement with his Coyote buddies. “You’re Still Here? It’s Over. Go Home” -- Ferris Bueller

Hank Kershner runnin‘ his herd home across Hwy 95 for the evening @ UC Ranch, McDermitt, NV

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RANCH RAISED KIDS A series of photo books celebrating the heritage and future of Cattle Ranching in America

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Kerr boys Magdalena, New Mexico

Update: Seth Joel and Charlie Holland, the photographer and writer team for Ranch Raised Kids, are on the road again! They have started shooting New Mexico Ranch Raised Kids in partnership with New Mexico Cattle Growers‘ Association Foundation. They started shooting in June and will be back in New Mexico for the fall works on the Bidegain’s legendary T4 Ranch. Plans are in the works for Florida Ranch Raised Kids and they are hoping to produce a documentary film with an accompanying book for Montana Ranch Raised Kids. If you want to be a subject, or a sponsor, for this project please contact Derek@ABPmag.com or Charlie@SethJoel.com. 30

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As They See Themselves written by Charlie Holland and photography by Seth Joel, co-authors of the Ranch Raised Kids

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28-Sep Lylester Ranch Online

Martell, NE

28-Sep South Dakota Hereford Tour

North Central region

29-Sep Shoufler Shorthorns online

Fortville, IN

30-Sep Ankony Angus Online

Clarkesville, GA

30-Sep Davis Ranches online 30-Sep Deer Valley online Embro sale

Fayetteville, TN

30-Sep Marcy Cattle Co

Gordon, NE

30-Sep Meyer Farms Shorthorn online

Rushville, IN

30-Sep Vin Mar Cattle Co Hereford Dispersal Gordon, NE 1-Oct McKellar Angus Mount Pleasant, TX 1-Oct

Nebraska Angus Tour

Chadron, NE

1-Oct

Prairie View Farms

Gridley, IL

2-Oct

2 Bar/ Goode Angus Female

Hereford, TX

2-Oct

Beastrom Ranch Female Sale

Pierre, SD

2-Oct

Bradley Cattle & Hankins Farms

Springfield, MO

2-Oct

The Breeders Classic

Gettysburg, PA

2-Oct

California Breeders Bull Sale at TLAY Turlock, CA

2-Oct

Cattlemen’s Delight

Mausten, WI

2-Oct

Colyer Herefords & Angus

Bruneau, ID

2-Oct

Greenhorn Cattle Co.

Waynesville, OH

2-Oct

Horstman Cattle Co. Female Sale

West Lafayette, IN

25-Sep KL3 Farm

Poplar Bluffs, MO

2-Oct

Huwa Cattle Co

Roggen, CO

25-Sep Maplecrest Farms

Hillsboro, OH

2-Oct

Isa Beefmasters 60Th

San Angelo, TX

25-Sep McPhee Red Angus

Lodi, AL

2-Oct

Journagan Ranch/ MO State U

Springfield, MO

25-Sep NextGen Cattle Co.

Paxico, KS

2-Oct JAC’s Ranch Bentonville, AR

25-Sep Sankey’s 6N Ranch

Council Grove, KS

2-Oct

Leachman Topline California Sale

Aromas, CA

25-Sep Satterfield Charolais & Angus Female Evening Shade, AR

2-Oct

Mann Cattle Co. Production Sale

Caldwell, TX

25-Sep Shady Bottom Ranch

Crossville, TN

2-Oct

Point Pleasant Angus

Bland, VA

25-Sep Soaring Eagle Invitational Sale

Springfield, MO

2-Oct

Soaring Eagle of the Ozarks

Springfield, MO

25-Sep Stonewall Ridge Shelbyville, TN

2-Oct

Solid Rock Ranch Angus

Leona, TX

25-Sep The Great Shorthorn Revival

Beaverton, MI

2-Oct

World Class Angus Sale

Sullivan, WI

25-Sep The Seedstock Connection

Lyles, TN

3-Oct

Badger Southern Select

Darlington, WI

25-Sep Vorthmann Limousin

Treynor, IA

3-Oct

Cal Poly Bull Test Sale

San Luis Obispo, CA

25-Sep West Virginia Fall Spectacular

Weston, WV

3-Oct

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3-Oct

Matt Hutchin’s Mill Creek Angus

Zanesville, OH

7-Oct

Coleman Limousin Ranch

Charlo, MT

3-Oct

Purple Reign Cattle Co.

online

7-Oct

Dudley Bros. 60th Anniversary Sale

Comanche, TX

3-Oct

Trynham Ranches

Fort Klameth, OR

7-Oct

Williams Angus online

Johnson City, TN

4-Oct

Case Ranch Herefords

Eldorado, TX

8-Oct

Bowling Ranch Fall Production

Newkirk, OK

4-Oct

Express Ranches

Yukon, OK

8-Oct

Colorado Angus Tour

Holyoke, CO

4-Oct

FB Genetics Online

Dumas, TX

8-Oct

Deer Valley Farm Okeechobee

Okeechobee, FL

4-Oct

Harker Simmental Online

Hope, IN

8-Oct

Rockin W Polled Herefords

Schulenburg, TX

4-Oct

JCL Red Angus

Welch, OK

8-Oct

Sitz Angus Female Sale

Dillon/ Harrison, MT

4-Oct

ND Stockmen’s All Breed Tour

Devils Lake, ND

8-Oct Smith Valley Angus Salem, MO

5-Oct

Babcock Angus

Long Pine, NE

8-Oct

Teixeira Cattle Company

Pismo Beach, CA

5-Oct

Burns Angus Online

Oxford, IA

9-Oct

Abrakadabra Cattle Co Open House

Columbia, MO

5-Oct Capitol Angus Whitehouse, TX

9-Oct

Black Grove

Newberry, SC

5-Oct Copeland& Sons Online

9-Oct

Blackjack & Guests Female Sale

Seminole, OK

5-Oct

Magnum Farms

Johnson City, TN

9-Oct

Boyce – Bonebrake

Stratford, MO

5-Oct

Meyer Cattle Co

Curryville, MO

9-Oct Byergo Angus Savannah, MO

5-Oct Pieper Red Angus Buffalo, TX

9-Oct

C.A.T. Texas Proud Female Sale

5-Oct

Wilder Family Limousin

online

9-Oct

California / Nevada Hereford Classic Yuba City, CA

6-Oct

Halfmann-Beckton Red Angus

Miles, TX

9-Oct

Clemson Edisto Forage Bull Test

6-Oct

Mitchell Family Shorthorns

Creston, IA

9-Oct

Definitely Different sale at Ridgeview Farm Alto, MI

7-Oct

Bayou Creek Ranch

Jacksboro, TX

9-Oct

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TANGLETOWN HIGHLANDS apolis called Wise Acre Eatery as well as a nursery right across the street called Tangletown Gardens. Then there’s the farm in Plato, MN that supplies not As we were laying out plans for American only the beef and vegetables that support the resBeef Producer’s relaunch last summer, we were taurant, but also the plants that support the nursery. throwing around ideas and of course one of the They also wield both businesses to teach the locals items was business cards. The usual: name, title, logo, about where the food comes from, how to grow it yadda, yadda, yadda. But rather than sticking with better, the benefits of sustainable agriculture and the usual boring titles such as publisher, sales person, how to support your local producer. I wanted to have some fun with it. How about a play Scott Endres met Dean Engelmann at the on words? Derek Sample – Hereford, cuz it’s not a University of Minnesota in their horticulture class. It chevy. He does indeed, drive a Ford. So we laughed was there they decided they wanted to work togethabout that for a bit and it obviously stuck. Mine beer. Dean and his family reside in Plato, MN and take came Highlands – the best part of Scotland. Because, care of growing and supplying the restaurant, the well it is. The Highlands is where my ancestry comes garden center and of course the Highlands. Scott from. So…I now brake for Highlands. lives in Minneapolis and manages the day-to-day During the time between our Midwest trip operations of the garden center & restaurant. That, of in June (as seen in our August issue) and the Calicourse, is the condensed version. fornia/Oregon trip (in this issue, page xx), I had run I was looking forward to visiting Plato, to across a small herd of Scottish Highlands. I walked hear about some Scottish Highlands and learn how up to the farmhouse, introduced myself, and began this system worked for them. Scott explained to me asking some questions about their cattle and perhaps early on that they do things differently. As I pulled feature some Highlands in an upcoming issue. Linda up to Dean’s farm house, I noticed the trees and explained to me they weren’t really her cows, they shrubs that were in their nursery, as well as their belonged to her brother Scott and his partner Dean. landscape (the largest part of their business togethScott & Dean also run a restaurant in South Minneer.) I actually found myself paused for a minute to by Tim McCray Tim@ABPmag.com

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take it all in before getting out of my car. Dean came out to greet me and I told him that I will probably have a lot more questions than I had anticipated. “Of course” he replied and added that he would probably have more answers than I was looking for. We then spent the next hour and a half in his driveway where he educated me about dirt, microbes, soil health and grass. Dean & Scott both spend quite a bit of time educating their customers on the benefits of soil health, which produces healthier vegetables and healthier grass which feeds the cows. Dean had mentioned to me that he gives some talks entitled “You are what you eat eats.” With that said, I was really glad that I had convinced my wife Raven to accompany me on this trip since she suffers from some digestive issues where she has to be concerned with not only what she’s eating, but also whatever that animal has eaten as well. At the beginning, they wanted to mix biological farming and regenerative agriculture into their business model where everything they do supports everything else. Using the beehive method of farming as well as being employers, nothing is solitary as it all benefits the hive. So as Scott & Dean

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were laying out their plans for the restaurant, they had 2 things in mind. Whatever they put on a plate, it had to come from the farm. They also wanted the best, healthiest options available to them. The plains of the Midwest contain some of the best soil in the world, created by the bison that ate some grass, trampled more and moved on. Minnesota is blessed with an abundance of water already, but rest assured, we’re in a drought too, just not as bad as some other parts of the US this year. When Dean started farming his ground, he had his soil tested and found his organic matter to be around 3.5% - 4% in some areas. His professor had stated that at best, you might be able to change it .25% in a century’s time. Thankfully he found that to not be the case at all. In fact, he gets his soil tested every year and after about 12 years he’s found the soil conditions have improved to 6.5 & 7% since implementing his high stock density rotational grazing. “We can fix our soil much quicker than what we had previously thought,” Dean said. He has about 20 acres of pasture to utilize. Normally, without the rotation, he said he could handle about 20 pairs. He has double that and sections off about a quarter to half an acre for the cattle to be on

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that spot for 1 day, and then they rotate. Thus recreating the successful model of eat some, trample more and move on to the next section. Last year they didn’t even get through 2 rotations and the cows couldn’t eat it all. Rather than harming those microbes in traditional farming methods – everything they do now helps them. He’s never tilled more than 2 or 3 inches deep, and has a hay field on its 7th year, that continues to go up in tonnage every year. “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the higher our tractors get, and the deeper we try to plow our soil, the less we understand about the ground we use,” Dean said. He will ask his neighboring farmers, “When was the last time you went out to your field and dug a hole to look at the dirt? Probably never.” He pays a lot of attention to his soil make up and recently tested his compaction – “at 13 inches down we were at 70psi” in the hayfield. He tested a neighbor’s field on traditional methods and found 210 psi at only 7 inches down. As Dean was researching some different breeds, he decided on Highlands as they had everything he was looking for and more: leanness, 38

genetic quality on grass based system and especially the Omega 6 to 3 ratio. Scottish Highlands can have a 4 or 5 to 1 score when they’re raised on really good pasture. Starting with 4 to keep the grass down at his gravel pit, those 4 have ballooned to around 120 since the beginning. They’ve also recently started experimenting with belted Galloways and Herefords to try and cut down that finishing time. Dean also exclaimed that “the carcass quality they’re seeing on those crosses are unreal – unbelievable!” They also started a CSA and in it’s first year they had 331 members which is quite large for just starting out. Today that CSA has 950 members that receive portions of the 18,000 pounds of produce that leaves the farm each week. Having that CSA in place really helped them make a transition during 2020. They didn’t have to change a lot; they just changed the way they marketed their produce. They took out some tables in the restaurant and expanded into a fresh market. With the other events that unfolded last summer in Minneapolis they certainly felt the tension in the air. But surprisingly the garden center was busier than ever. It seemed like people in the area really embraced

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getting back to their gardens or starting some long-awaited landscaping projects to help relieve some of that stress from last year. Beef seems like it’s been on the proverbial chopping block for some time. But “beef isn’t the problem, its how we raise them that’s the problem,” Dean said. He added, “If you took all the beef cattle in this country and put them into a high stock density rotational system, you could sequester all of the carbon released by man since the start of the Industrial Revolution in 10 years.” So in fact, beef isn’t the problem, but it can offer a solution in the way it’s raised. We finished up with Dean a full 2 ½ hours later. Just enough time to get some lunch at Wise Acre and visit the garden center and introduce myself to Scott. Many customers at both locations, some eating, some shopping at the fresh market, some enjoying a relaxing drink on a hot summer day. Tangletown had an abundance of plants and items and even though its kind of off season for gardening, it was quite busy, a well spent afternoon and I think we both learned much more than we had anticipated. He did warn me…

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9-Oct

Evergreen Exclusive

Ellensburg, WA

14-Oct

9-Oct

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14-Oct Wilks Ranch Eastland, TX

9-Oct

Judd Ranch

Pomona, KS

15-Oct Bramlet Simmental

9-Oct

McCloud Farms & Guests

Jayess, MS

15-Oct Circle A Wangus Fall Private Treaty Sale

9-Oct

Perks Ranch

Rockford, IL

15-Oct Groendyke Ranch

Pond Creek, OK

9-Oct

Pleasant Hill Farms

Rockfield, KY

15-Oct Myers Angus Farm

Harrodsburg, KY

9-Oct

Schrag Shorthorn

Marion, SD

15-Oct W4 Ranch Morgan, TX

9-Oct

Seldom Rest

Niles, MI

15-Oct Wooden Shoe Farms Female Sale

Blackfoot, ID

9-Oct

Silveira Bros.

Firebaugh, CA

16-Oct 3C Cattle Co.

Carrollton, MO

9-Oct

Sloup Simmental New Direction

Seward, NE

16-Oct Angell-Thomas Charolais

Paris, MO

9-Oct

Southern Connection Charolais

Knoxville, TN

16-Oct Beef On Forage Bull Sale

Brenham, TX

9-Oct

Studer Family Shorthorns

Creston, IA

16-Oct Bill Carr & Others Fall Sale

Floresville, TX

Straightstone Angus

Long Island, VA Harrisburg, IL Iberia, MO

9-Oct Trinity Farms Ellensburg, WA

16-Oct Bradley Cattle Charolais & Red Angus Springfield, MO

9-Oct

Salado, TX

16-Oct Buck Cattle Co

Madill, OK

Endeavor, WI

16-Oct Byergo Beef Genetics

Dearborn, MO

10-Oct Ridgeview Farms Definitely Different Alto, MI

16-Oct Dixie Farms

Coushatta, LA

10-Oct Schu-Lar Herefords

Lecompton, KS

16-Oct Duck River Classic

Columbia, TN

10-Oct Vintage Angus Ranch

Modesto, CA

16-Oct Fink Beef Genetics

Randolph, KS

11-Oct

Bischoff’s Ravine Creek Ranch

online

16-Oct Gerloff Farms Bull Fest

Bland, MO

11-Oct

Burlap & Barbed Wire

Clay Center, KS

16-Oct

Campbellsburg, KY

11-Oct

Bollum Family Shorthorns online

Goodhue, MN

16-Oct Haught Farms Harrisville, WV

11-Oct

Deanajak Farms

New Enterprise, PA

16-Oct Heart of the Prairie

TX Angus Assoc, Breeders Select

10-Oct Next Generation Genetics / MGM

Great Meadows Angus Assoc

Rush Springs, OK

11-Oct Evans Farms Proctor, TX

16-Oct Heart Of The Ozarks Angus Assoc. Sale West Plains, MO

11-Oct

EZ Angus Ranch

Porterville, CA

16-Oct IBEP PT Bull Sale

Springville, IN

11-Oct

Greiman Family Angus

Garner, IA

16-Oct JMAR Genetics & Guests

online

11-Oct

Indian Mound Ranch

Canadian, TX

16-Oct Keystone Autumn Klassic

Waynesburg, PA

11-Oct Lazy JB Montrose, CO

16-Oct Lambert Ranch

Oroville, CA

11-Oct Rader Herefords Online

16-Oct McWherter Farm Dresden, TX

12-Oct 9 Peaks Angus Ranch

Fort Rock, OR

16-Oct Pembrook Cattle

Fairview, OK

12-Oct Abrakadabra Cattle Co

Online

16-Oct Rolling B Ranch

Yatesville, GA

12-Oct Checkerhill Angus Online

West Plains, MO

16-Oct Top Notch Angus Wheeler, TX

12-Oct Coleman Angus Female Sale

Charlo, MT

16-Oct Whitestone Farm Aldie, VA

12-Oct

Wills Point, TX

16-Oct Wolff Cattle & Guests

Valley City, ND

12-Oct Powell Herefords

Ft. Mckavett, TX

17-Oct Adcock Cattle & Crum Cattle Co

online

12-Oct R.A. Brown Ranch Female

Throckmorton, TX

17-Oct Bedwell Cattle Co Shorthorn

Isabella, OK

13-Oct Baumgarten Cattle CO

online

17-Oct Express Ranches

Yukon, OK

13-Oct R.A. Brown Ranch

Throckmorton, TX

17-Oct Frank/ Hazelrigg Cattle Co.

Fulton, MO

East Texas Angus Alliance Online

13-Oct Taylor View Farms online

17-Oct Kraus Angus Dyersburg, TN

13-Oct Valley Oaks Angus

Oak Grove, MO

17-Oct Ludvigson Stock Farms Ozark

Nevada, MO

14-Oct Bieber Fever in the Southeast

Swainsboro, GA

17-Oct Nowatzke Cattle

Michigan City, IN

14-Oct MN Beef Expo (Through Oct 17th)

St. Paul, MN

17-Oct Pennsylvania’s Finest Female Sale

Mercer, PA

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17-Oct Reynolds Herefords

Huntsville, MO

23-Oct Pennsylvania Fall Classic

Waynesburg, PA

17-Oct The Exclusive Fall Female Sale

online

23-Oct Pieper Red Angus

Hay Springs, NE

18-Oct Hinkle’s Prime Cut Angus Sale

Nevada, MO

23-Oct Perez Cattle Co.

Navasota, TX

18-Oct Delaney & Atkins Genetics

online

23-Oct Seedstock Plus Fall Bull & Female

Carthage, MO

18-Oct KL Lemmon Cattle Co.

online

23-Oct Square B Angus Open House

Warsaw, MO

18-Oct Nieman Cattle Co.

Belle Fourche, SD

23-Oct

Wytheville, VA

18-Oct Topp Angus Female Sale

Grace City, ND

24-Oct Baker Angus Butler, MO

18-Oct White Hawk Ranch

Buchanan, GA

24-Oct Marda Farms/ Spring Creeks

19-Oct American Made Angus Sale

Durant, IA

24-Oct Schroedar Angus Clarence, IA

SW VA Angus Assoc

Lodi, WI

19-Oct Edgewood Angus West Point, VA

25-Oct Audley online sale

Berryville, VA

20-Oct Thomas Charolais Inc.

Raymondville, TX

25-Oct Montana Angus Female Bonanza

Billings, MT

21-Oct Frank Herefords online

Roscoe, MT

25-Oct Oak Hollow

Smiths Grove, KY

21-Oct Kirkes Black Angus Ranch

Talihina, OK

25-Oct Perez Cattle Co

Navasota, TX

21-Oct Ladies of the Beartooth

Billings, MT

25-Oct Stone Gate Farms

Flemingsburg, KY

21-Oct Thomas Angus

Baker City, OR

25-Oct Tennessee River Music High Cotton

Ft. Payne, AL

21-Oct Jensen Bros.

Louisburg, KS

25-Oct Whispering Pine Farms

Lonepine, MT

21-Oct MN Beef Expo

St. Paul, MN

26-Oct Hoover Angus Ellston, IA

21-Oct Wilks Ranch Eastland, TX

26-Oct LK Bar complete dispersion

St. Ignatius, MT

22-Oct Hickory Grove Dispersal

Scottsville, KY

26-Oct Premier Angus Group online

Johnson City, TN

22-Oct L.G. Herndon, Jr. Farms Charolais

Lyons, GA

27-Oct Colburn Cattle Co online

Flat Rock, IL

22-Oct Spur Ranch

Vinita, OK

27-Oct Cox Ranch Peaster, TX

22-Oct T Bar S Cattle Co.

Billings, MT

27-Oct Micheli Ranch Bull Sale

Ft. Bridger, WY

23-Oct 44 Farms Bull Sale

Cameron, TX

27-Oct Soaring Eagle Farms

Springfield, MO

23-Oct Alden Farms Shorthorn

Hamilton, MO

27-Oct TX Hereford Assoc Fall Classic

Buffalo, TX

23-Oct Best Of The Bluegrass

Winchester, KY

27-Oct Valley Creek Ranch

online

23-Oct Coal Valley Angus Columbus, KS

28-Oct Shaw Cattle Co

Caldwell, ID

23-Oct Clearwater Farms Clear Choice Sale

Milan, IN

29-Oct CK Cattle Headquarter Sale

Hope Hull, AL

23-Oct Debter Hereford Farm

Hortan, AL

29-Oct VA Tech 27th Annual Hokie Harvest

Blacksburg, VA

23-Oct Decades Of Excellence

Unionville, TN

30-Oct 7P Ranch Tyler, TX

23-Oct Flying H Genetics

Butler, MO

30-Oct 12 Star Ranch

Amite, LA

23-Oct Great Lakes Invitational Angus

Shipshewana, IN

30-Oct Angus Breeders of Texas

Canton, TX

23-Oct KJ Cattle Co Complete Dispersion

Marietta, OK

30-Oct Appalachian Elite Hereford Sale

Gray, TN

23-Oct Jamison & Jamison

Beggs, OK

30-Oct Beckman Livestock

Idaho Falls, ID

23-Oct L.G. Herndon, Jr. Farms Charolais

Lyons, GA

30-Oct BT Cattle Co.

Crockett, TX

23-Oct Lacy’s Red Angus & MC Livestock

Drexel, MO

30-Oct C4 Ranch Perkins, OK

23-Oct Ladies of the Royal Sale

Kansas City, MO

30-Oct

23-Oct Linhart Limousin

Leon, IA

30-Oct Females of the Fall

Harrisonburg, VA

23-Oct Little Creek Cattle Magnolia Classic

Starkville, MS

30-Oct Fox Hollow Farms

Hulbert, OK

23-Oct Mead Farms Production Sale

Versailles, MO

30-Oct Gems of Idaho

Idaho Falls, ID

23-Oct NILE Angus Female Sale

Billings, MT

30-Oct Huwa Cattle

Roggen, CO

30-Oct J & L Cattle Services, Inc. & Guests

Jeromesville, OH

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30-Oct Leveldale Farms Shorthorn

Mason City, IL

30-Oct Ludvigson Stock Farms

Shepherd, MT

30-Oct Mercer Angus complete dispersion

Summitville, OH

30-Oct Nipp Charolais

Wilson, OK

30-Oct Pollingon Simmentals

Marion, MI

30-Oct Red Hill Farms

Lafayette, TN

30-Oct Red River Red Angus

Vernon, TX

30-Oct Sexton Genetics

Muskogee, OK

30-Oct S. Texas Hereford Assoc Fall Sale

Beeville, TX

30-Oct Wall Street Cattle Co

Lebanon, MO

30-Oct Yon Family Farms

Ridge Spring, SC

31-Oct Four Sons

Cynthiana, KY

31-Oct Owen Wade’s Neenah Creek Angus

Endeavor, WI

31-Oct P Bar S Ranch

Sand Springs, OK

31-Oct TK Cattle Co. Ladies of the Sandhills online 31-Oct WMC Cattle Co

Springfield, MO

1-Nov

Chatel Farms

Reidsville, GA

1-Nov

KL Lemmon Cattle Co.

online

1-Nov

P & R Herefords

Trail, OK

2-Nov

Cobb Charolais

Great Falls, MT

3-Nov

Solid Rock Ranch

Crockett, TX

4-Nov

5L Red Angus

Sheridan, MT

4-Nov

Kempfer Cattle Co

Deer Park, FL

4-Nov

McCabe Genetics

Elk City, KS

4-Nov

Stockrose Land & Livestock

Moses Lake, WA

5-Nov

Beefmaster E6 Commercial Female Sale McAlester, OK

5-Nov

Cornhusker Classic

Kearney, NE

5-Nov

Downey Ranch

Wamego, KS

5-Nov

Frank Turner & Sons

Hayneville, AL

5-Nov

Ward/ Ratliff

Lexington, KY

6-Nov

A Bar Ranch

El Reno, TX

6-Nov

Andras Stock Farm

Manchester, IL

6-Nov

Barnett Angus Ranch

Washington, GA

6-Nov

BF Cattle Co

Butler, MO

6-Nov Burns Farms Pikeville, TN 6-Nov

Christensen Genetics Year end

Weston, ID

6-Nov

Combined Excellence Sale

Mason, OH

6-Nov

High Roller Draft & Sale

Center, TX

6-Nov

Irvine Ranch

Manhattan, KS

6-Nov

Jungles Shorthorn Farm

Kathryn, ND

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American Beef Producer

September 2021

“PERFORMANCE, GROWTH & CARCASS GENETICS”

Top of the Class at Cal Poly Bull Test OCTOBER 3 | CAL POLY BULL TEST SALE | SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA

Lot 91 STERLING ENFORCER 0103 Sire: S S Enforcer E812 CED +3

BW +1.3

WW +96

YW +169

MILK +29

CW +69

MARB +0.82

LOT 92 STERLING ENFORCER 0111 Sire: S S Enforcer E812 CED +11

BW -0.1

WW +87

YW +167

AAA 19901476 DOB 8/2/20

MGS: Styles Upgrade J59 RE +1.08

$B +171

CW +77

MARB +0.75

ADG 5.44

AAA 19903093 DOB 8/5/20

MGS: Connealy Confidence Plus

MILK +27

$C +311

RE +0.97

$B +191

$C ADG +314 5.80 lbs

LOT 97 STERLING GARY 0106 Sire: Connealy Gary CED +6

BW +1.5

WW +105

YW +193

AAA 19903778 DOB 8/3/20

MGS: V A R Discovery 2240 MILK +26

CW +81

MARB +0.96

RE +0.91

LOT 98 STERLING ENFORCER 0124

Sire: S S Enforcer E812 CED +6

BW +2.1

WW +98

YW +168

CW +81

MARB +0.99

$C ADG +309 6.42 lbs

AAA 19901487 DOB 8/9/20

MGS: Styles Upgrade J59

MILK +37

$B +188

RE +0.69

$B +180

$C ADG +315 5.56 lbs

PLUS THESE ALL-AROUND PERFORMERS... LOT 103 STERLING NO DOUBT 0142 Sire: Hoover No Doubt CED +1

BW +2.7

WW +83

YW +153

MILK +31

AAA 19901495 DOB 8/22/20

MGS: Basin Payweight 1682

CW +82

MARB +0.35

RE +0.98

$B +185

$C +319

ADG 4.78

LOT 93 STERLING ALTERNATIVE 0137 AAA 19901494 DOB 8/15/20 Sire: Baldridge Alternative E125 CED +7

BW +1.3

WW +84

YW +150

MILK +14

MGS: V A R Discovery 2240 C251

CW +70

MARB +1.12

RE +1.05

$B +196

$C +291

ADG 5.38

indicates top 5% of the breed or better

LOT 95 STERLING PEYTON 0129

Sire: E W A Peyton 642 CED +17

BW -0.9

WW +76

YW +133

AAA 19901995 DOB 8/11/20

MGS: Yon Full Force C398

MILK +35

CW +62

MARB +1.33

RE +0.93

$B +193

$C +335

ADG 5.05

LOT 101 STERLING ALTERNATIVE 0121 AAA 19901486 DOB 8/8/20 Sire: Baldridge Alternative E125 CED +6

BW +1.6

WW +80

YW +145

MILK +18

MGS: GAR Sunrise

CW +69

MARB +1.29

RE +0.94

$B +198

$C +305

ADG 5.20

indicates top 20% of the breed or better

Lee Nobmann, owner | Morgon Patrick, managing partner

(530) 526-5920 • morgon@nobmanncattle.com www.dixievalleyangus.com • follow us on facebook! Private treaty bulls always available on the ranch. September 2021

Montague, CA

American Beef Producer

Monday, September 20

7:00 am Depart Ramada Inn, Mitchell 7:45–9:15 am Mogck & Sons (LaGrand, Roth) 10:00–10:45 am Moke Angus (Assmus) 11:00-11:45 am Lau Angus 12:25–1:55 pm Koupal Angus/Koupal’s B&B 2:40–3:40 pm Varilek Angus (Pfaff) 4:25–5:25 pm Mohnen Angus 6:15 pm Arrive at Ramada Inn 6:30 pm Social 7:00 pm Banquet & Live/Silent Auction

Tuesday, September 21

$100/person if Registered by Sept. 1

includes bus & meals

($125/person after Sept. 1)

No Bus $75 if Registered by Sept. 1 ($100 after Sept. 1)

includes meals

To register online for the tour go to sdangusevents.square.site Or send check and form below to Malynda Penner 605-929-7314 Name: __________________________________________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________________________________________ City, State Zip: __________________________________________________________________ Phone: __________________________________________________________________________ Email: ___________________________________________________________________________

Make checks payable to the Southeast Angus Association

Send above form to Malynda Penner, 402 E Klasi St., Freeman, SD 57029

American Beef Producer

7:00 am Depart Ramada Inn 7:15–8:30 am Blacktop Farms 9:20–10:15 am Moore Angus 10:45–11:30 am Callies Angus 12:00–1:15 pm Bruns Angus 1:50– 2:40 pm JK Angus (Buseman, Carter) 3:30–4:30 pm Custom Genetic Solutions 4:40–5:40 pm Rock Creek Livestock/Embryonics (Mogck Angus Farms, Red Rock Cattle Co.) 6:00 pm Arrive at Ramada Inn Tour based at the Ramada Inn, Mitchell, SD 1525 West Havens Ave., Mitchell, SD 57301 Reserve your hotel room at 605-996-6501 Book by Sept. 1 & ask for the SD Angus Tour Rate

September 2021

September 2021 - American Beef Producer Magazine

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Tangletown Highlands

Ranch Raised Kids- UPDATE

Drought Tour - West Coast