OCA NEWS
REPLACEMENT FEMALE SALE A SUCCESS The Ohio Cattlemen’s Association (OCA) held their ninth annual Replacement Female Sale on Nov. 26 at the Muskingum Livestock Auction Company in Zanesville, Ohio. A large crowd was on hand to bid on 80 high-quality females. The sale represented an excellent opportunity for cow-calf producers to add quality females with documented breeding and health records to their herds. 56 lots of bred heifers averaged $1,701 and 24 lots of bred cows averaged $2,155. The 80 total lots grossed $152,875 for an overall average of $1,910. The females sold to buyers from Ohio and West Virginia. Col. Ron Kreis served as the auctioneer. Sale prices were slightly higher year over year as the 2021 sale represented a $66 per head price increase over the 2020 sale. Demand was strong for quality females as 10 bred cows and 25 bred heifers sold for over $2,000.
Erv-N-Del Farms of Louisville, Ohio consigned the top selling cow at $2,700. The Lot 22 commercial Angus cow sold to Clyde Compher of Scio, Ohio. Erv-N-Del farms also sold Lot 20, a commercial Simmental-Angus crossbred cow for $2,600 to John Burd of St Marys, Ohio. Haley Farms of West Salem, Ohio sold Lot 38, a registered Simmental cow, to Zach Guthrie of Frazeysburg, Ohio at $2,600. For the second year running, Van Horn Farms of Malta, Ohio consigned the top bred heifer, Lot 80, at $3,400. This registered 50% Simmental heifer sold to Kevin Scheiderer of Irwin, Ohio. Two bred heifers sold at $3,000 each consigned by Maplecrest Farms of Hillsboro, Ohio. These registered Angus heifers, Lots 60 and 61, sold to Barbara Guy of Quaker City, Ohio. MM Farm of Fredonia, PA sold Lot 67, a registered Angus heifer, to Robert Smeal of Jerusalem,
Ohio for $2,700. Locust Lane Farms of Ashland, Ohio also sold a $2,700 registered Simmental heifer to George Lahna of Newcomerstown, Ohio. Please contact Garth Ruff, OCA Replacement Female Sale manager at (740) 651-7140, or by e-mail at ruff.72@osu.edu with any questions. More information about the sale can be found at www.ohiocattle.org.
OCA MEMBERS INVITED TO CATTLEMEN AT THE CAPITOL EVENT JANUARY 18
Jan. 18, 2022 will bring the return of the Ohio Cattlemen’s Association’s (OCA) Cattlemen at the Capitol event that brings Ohio’s beef producers to Columbus to advocate for the beef industry. It will take place at the DoubleTree Suites in downtown Columbus located at 50 S. Front Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215. Attendees 16 | Ohio Cattleman | Winter Issue 2022
will visit the Ohio Statehouse, learn more about lobbying etiquette, meet with elected officials and more. This single day event is sponsored by Nationwide. Attire for the event will be business professional and will begin at 9:30 a.m. and conclude after the Cattle, Corn and Wheat Legislative Recep-
tion for members of the Ohio General Assembly from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Athletic Club in Columbus. Registration for the event is $20 per OCA member. For full program details and to register to attend visit ohiocattle.org. The deadline to register is Monday, January 10, 2022.
