McMillen Ranching Ltd HerdBuilders 22 Female Production Sale

On behalf of everyone here at MRL, Welcome to our ’22 Herdbuilder’s Female Sale. Well, 2022 hasn’t been without its’ challenges (the back-to-back blizzards last spring come to mind) but overall in most areas of Western Canada feed supplies are plentiful, crops were average or better, commodity prices were strong and the calf market is hitting highs we’ve not seen in a long time and I don’t think we’ve seen the peak yet. With cull cattle prices where they’re at this fall it may be opportunity time to clean up on aged, free loaders in your herds and replace with young, quality females that will raise you the most beef over this upswing in the markets.

Our 2022 lineup is stacked in every division. We have kept our numbers down and quality way up! With over 800 females calving here at MRL annually and over 50 years of stacking cow families, our selection for our replacement heifer pen is the same as for our annual bull sale pen that is so well received each spring. With these numbers, there are absolutely no excuses or free passes- only the most elite stay here and make it to the breeding pen. Each and every heifer in this sale were sorted as replacement females to stay in our herd here at MRL. As usual, on offer will be elite front pasture females, donor prospects and top end home raised commercial females. In today’s market, many of these females present the opportunity to pay for themselves with the calf they are carrying!

In the early calving divisions, we feel the quality is deeper than we have ever offered before. Outcross, in many cases exclusive genetics in both the red and black Simmy divisions and AI service to the most exciting new calving ease bulls in the breed with no pasture exposure. They are bred to their feature, planned service with exact calving dates. No surprises after the fact, you get what you pay for. The Angus division features daughters of the popular Red Resource and Respect sires as well as the Proven U2 Retrospect sire.

The Commercial females are once again 100% home raised and are the heifers out of our spring calving herd and sisters to the Coming 2 Year old bulls come March. These females are identical in pedigree to the early calving females on offer and AI bred to the top Angus sires in the breed to start calving March 10. A must-see group that will be grouped and sold as groups of 2 or 3.

Once again for 2022 the sale will be conducted through DLMS Farmgate timed auctions with bidding commencing December 8th and closing out at 6:00 pm December 9th. The heifers are as usual available for viewing at any time and will be penned up by the sale barn the week prior to the sale. Everyone is invited and certainly welcome to join us at the Ranch Friday afternoon and evening for sale closeout for snacks and refreshments. For any questions on internet bidding, give Mark at DLMS a call or want to be on a phone at closeout, call Lee or Dave.

Most of us have become accustomed to this internet bidding but as I say if you would like to be here in person, on a phone or take advantage of our sight unseen program or order buyer’s expertise, we want to make it as easy as we can for you to participate. If bidding on multiple lots or just too darn busy to watch the computer for a couple hours that evening my personal experience is to take advantage of the proxy bid option and just let the computer in Edmonton due the work.

As in the past we rely on over 50 years in the business of providing elite seedstock to our customers with an honest old fashion approach. The quality of our offering for 2022 will be the same as it always has been! Over 50 years of stacking and multiplying elite cow families that rise to the top through production merit under our real-world ranch conditions. With 800 registered breeding females and limited manpower the cow families that work soon rise to the top. Over the years we have marketed thousands of breeding bulls and replacement females to literally hundreds of fellow breeders and commercial cattle operations. The majority have turned into many time repeat customers and more importantly, friends. The production of our offering is 100% hands on and our marketing strategy is based on an honest approach and cattle that are profitable for their new owners. This is what keeps the cowboys coming back year after year. We won’t overwhelm with fancy fitting, pictures, marketing schemes or pester you with phone calls. It’s simple, elite genetics presented in their working clothes and an old fashioned handshake guarantee.

Once again, the heifers are available for viewing anytime, will be penned December 8th and 9th by the sale barn and videos will be on DLMS Farmgate at least a week prior to sale day. As always, feel free to give us a call to discuss the offering. This really is a must see group for 2022.

Working for and with you in the livestock industry.

Scott Bohrson - 403.370.3010 Taylor Richards - 306.821.4169 Cody Haney - 403.845.8806

Darryl Snider - 780-385-5561

Welcome to McMillen Ranching Ltd.

Sale Day Phones

MRL Sales Barn 306.928.2011 Sales Barn 2nd Line 306.928.4820

Lee McMillen 306.483.8067

Jim McMillen 306.483.7986

Dave McMillen 306.483.8660

Bohrson Marketing Services

Scott Bohrson 403.370.3010

Taylor Richards 306.821.4169

Cody Haney 403.845.8806

Darryl Snider 780.385.5561

Bouchard Livestock International Brian Bouchard 403.813.7999

First Class Marketing Darnell Fornwald 403.795.8030

Pour Informations en Francais - Bi-lingual Agent Marc Boisvert 819.395.5502 819.314.0367

DLMS - Mark Shologan 780.699.5082

Terms & Conditions

Cattle sell under the standard CSA and CAA terms and conditions.

U.S. Buyers: We welcome our U.S. Customers once again!

Phone MRL for exchange rate. MRL will do necessary testing at cost for export on females and deliver to North Portal or Dunseith Port of Entries.

Delivery

MRL will assist in arranging trucking for your purchases to central points across Canada.

Sale Headquarters

Avonmore Hotel-Carnduff, SK 306.482.3655 Canalta Inn-Moosomin, SK 306.435.3034 Western Stars Suite, Carlyle, SK 306.452..2700 Perfect Inns & Suites-Estevan, SK 306.634.8585 Western Star Inns and Suites, Carnduff 306.482.1400 Call MRL if you need assistance with accommodation. Insurance

Alameda Agencies, Bonnie Thompson Ph: (306) 489-2250. We strongly urge you to insure your purchases. Identification

All sale lots will carry a CCIA tag with lot numbers Lunch & Refreshments

Served throughout the afternoon and evening of December 8 & 9.

Cattle Viewing

Cattle will be on display at the sale barn.

Catalogue Information

EPDs are current and up-to-date as of publication date. Information in this document is believed to be accurate but any updates from the auction block will take preference.

Catalog Design

Catalog design was done by Bohrson Marketing Services. The information in this catalog has been supplied by the seller and we believe it to be accurate. Updated supplement sheets and announcements from the block will take precedence over any printed material.

BOHRSON MARKETING WELCOME

For over 50 years, the McMillen Ranching name has become synonymous with high quality Simmental and Red Angus seedstock and is a household name within the industry to find elite red and black hided cattle fit for today’s industry. We, as always, are pleased to be working with Lee, Dave, Jim & families and are excited to welcome you to their fall ‘22 female sale. The large, impressive cowherd is one of the largest in North America and is home to one of the absolute highlight bull sales annually each spring. The MRL Herdbuilder sale is your chance to get sisters to the bulls and dams that make up one of the most successful bull sales in all the land that annually sees repeat customers and large volume purchasers step in to get a piece of the great MRL program. The consistent set of papered heifers on offer, both Angus and Simmental are built up from generation after generation of potent cow families. Only the very best and elite are laid as foundation females in each respective cow line at MRL and you can rest assured all the guess work is taken out of each of the lots on offer. As you study the pedigrees on the sale heifers, you will notice the deep lines of herd bulls either produced right here at MRL or purchased by MRL. The stout set of bulls that have called Carievale home is as impressive as anywhere else and we believe this is a true testament to the cow power that is the backbone to this successful operation. Here is your chance to get some of these cornerstone females of your own! The services alone by industry leading AI sires as well as proven walking bulls at MRL is slated to help make a quick ROI. The exciting set of commercial bred heifers are always an impressive group to lay eyes on and they are all either straight Simm, straight Angus or true F1 females that are a part of their spring calving group. We really hope you are able to make time to preview the sale cattle on site at MRL anytime before their December 9th DLMS Farm Gate close out. We highly encourage you to contact any of the crew at MRL to discuss your needs and the deep offering made available to you. If any of us listed from BMS can be of assistance to you on sale day, please don’t hesitate to reach out as we can give you a full appraisal of the stock and can gladly represent your bidding if need be.

SIGHT UNSEEN PROGRAM

For 2022 and our total online bidding format we don’t want to leave anybody out. If you have interest in any of the offering but are not comfortable with the computer or are busy at closing time of the auction by all means give us a call about our Sight Unseen Program or any of our sales staff. This program has worked very well for years at our Annual Bull Sales for busy cattle persons that are unable to make it Sale Day! Give us a call or come to the ranch prior to sale day to view the cattle. Describe to us what you’re looking for from the offering and you set the price. We will personally try and purchase the females on your bahalf as if you were sitting in the stands most times for less than you have bid! As with the bulls we live with these cattle 365 days a year and know the genetic strengths of each individual in the offering. We’re here to help our customers. Give us a call anytime any day.

Lee McMillen 306.483.8067 306.928.4820

Dave McMillen 306.483.8660

Jim McMillen 306.483.7986 306.928.4636

Sight Unseen Program

Best Regards, The Bohrson Marketing Team

MRL CERTIFIED 223E

• Lead off bull 2019 Bull Sale

• One of our finest breeding accomplishments

• Elite 477U donor dam

• Outcross pedigree

MRL 75F

• Outcross red performance sire

• Performance & maternal power

• Homo polled

• $36,000 red bull in 2019

MRL RIP ZONE 42J

• Outcross red CE genetics

• Huge maternal merit

• Most elite red cow family at MRL

• Top 5% CE & API

• Homo Polled.

MRLA RESOURCE 137E

• Powerful $90,000 bull that led off our 2018 sale

• Heifer calves at U2 dispersal highly sought after

• Outcross pedigree red genetics SAV Resource and SAV Harvestor

• Powerful phenotype, great feet

MRL UNTOUCHABLE 89G

• High selling lead off $48,000 black bull 2020

• Combination of 2 of our top breeding pieces

• Elite 55W donor dam

• Homo Polled Hetero Black

MRL PLAYMAKER 36G

• High selling $68,000 bull 2020 sale

• Top of breed performance #’s

• Herdbull producing dam

• Homo Polled

R PLUS FOCUS 7041E

• Exciting outcross pedigree

• Top 20% CE, BW, API

• Very complete head to toe

• Homo Polled; Hetro Black

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• $24000 Sale Highlight

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HART STATE OF

• Great footed athletic sons

• Curve bender

WAR

• Total outcross Calving Ease Sire

• Unmatched birth to weaning spread numbers in Canada and US

• Homo polled, Homo black

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SVS TYCOON

• $75,000 High seller at SVS

• Frame, length, hair & stout

• Elite Donor Dams top & bottom in pedigree including MRL 677Y

• Homo Polled

KWA FUTURE 3G

• Outcross calving ease sire

• Cherry red

• Top of breed CE, BW, API nos.

• Homo Polled

pole position in probably the

set of bred females we have ever offered. A powerhouse female with a look and unique and outcross pedigree. Sired by the US bred Witness sire and out of the MRL 7403 E cow who was a feature black blaze female in our 2018 Herdbuilder sale selected by Quinn Wilson of Wilson Stock Farms for his elite donor lineup. Just like her dam did, this powerhouse black-white muzzled ET matron will demand some attention in the pen ranking top 1% of the breed in both ww & yw and a true performance cow in the making. This combination of look and pure performance is hard to come by and her service to the outcross, big time numbered Hart State of War sire will be exciting. Homo polled.

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impressive

herdbull makin momma in the making. The MRL 75F progeny are impressive and loaded with maternal prowess. The dam is an MRL Crime Scene daughter we purchased at Shades from Downhill, definitely paying her way with a $10,000 heifer in our 2020 sale a feature high seller again last year and this may be her finest accomplishment yet. Service to the exclusive 5015C son and high seller in the 2019 sale R+ Focus. Homo polled.

Bred to R

Focus 7041E on April 29. This beauty Certified daughter is one that is hard to part with. Her pedigree is loaded with our top donor females and sires that has made us popular with the cowboys come bull sale time. Her powerful Capon dam raised a top son for Tim Schiestel in 2020 and a top female last year going to the good outfit of Fallen Timber Simmentals in BC. Once again, service to the exclusive Focus sire.

Bred to MRL Bender 25F on April 20. An absolute feature in this powerful group and for sure one of the most impressive black blaze females we have ever offered for sale. Sired by the $90,000 IPU Bentley sire and on the bottom side none other than a Missile x Power Sure combination. This pedigree can surely walk and talk and then add the exclusive rare service to MRL Bender. This one is certainly hard to part with as we think this one cookin could have big time potential.

Bred to MRL Bender 25F on April 3. An impressive black baldy female here again with donor potential. Once again, sired by the $90,000 IPU Bentley and her young dam is none other than a Missile out of the breed leading donor TSN 55W cow herself. This young female can crank em! On her first try she raised the $28,000 MRL Battle Cry sire going to Hoiby Simmentals, ND and BLI. The next year a feature Certified son going to Little Rainbow Ranch. This baldy thing is hot folks but to find one with this kind of cow family and predictability bred in doesn’t come along every day. Once again check out her service to MRL Bender. Homo polled.

extremely high on but have never had many progeny due to an injury as a yearling. His progeny are impressive with big time numbers and totally exclusive to MRL and Little Rainbow. Now on the bottom side is a maternal sister to the $35,000 MRL Powerplay bull to Bouchard Livestock in our 2021 sale and once again our lead off and high selling black bull in 2022 MRL Authenticator going to Fallen Timber Ranch for $31,000. This heifer is a sweetheart, awesome numbered and big time pedigreed. Homo polled.

This one

start the

is an absolute tank. Her sire, MRL Untouchable, was the standout black bull in our 2020 bull

going to Wilson Stock Farms for $47,500, his progeny are impressive! The dam is the FIYF Pocahontas female that is making a name for herself with a herdull to Ryan Knutson, ND in 2020 and the $40,000 MRL Walter bull in 2021 going to Maxwell Simmentals and Kathol Simmentals. His sons will lead the way in the 2023 bull sale with a couple of bell ringers. This female will raise some herdbulls guaranteed. Service to the new and exciting MRL Rip Zone bull will be exciting. Red donor prospect here boys.

Bred to U2 38 Special on April 4.

Exposed to MRLA 17J from Apr 29 - June 10. Seems like every year one of these Retrospect females is a feature! The Retrospect bull has become a dominant sire and of course the sire of the $130,000 MRLA Respect bull, but his absolute true strength is in his phenomenal productive daughters. Outstanding cow family here and bred to the exciting Lot 1 $40,000 U2Q 38 Special bull makes this one really hard to part with.

Pasture exposed to MRLA 17J from Apr 29- June 10. We hate to part with any of these Respect daughters. This one out of a beautiful female we purchased at Red Roundup from the Viske family that’s been productive with 9 registered progeny to date.

Bred to U2 38 Special on May 2. Exposed to MRLA 17J from Apr 29 - June 10. The Respect sons turned some heads last spring and can’t wait to get these daughters into production. This pedigree is loaded with our 4408B donor, 580U donor and the awesome 793R cow family. This one will raise some herdbulls.

Bred to U2 38 Special on April 9. Exposed to MRLA 17J from Apr 29 - June 10. A Retrospect out of a powerful Red Resource female here back to our awesome 129M cow family that has been phenomenal over the years. Early service to the totally exclusive U2Q 38 Special bull. Will be a quick ROI.

Bred to Red U2 Retrospect 29E on April 9. Exposed to MRLA 17J from Apr 29 - June 10. This one deserved her picture in the book. Her sire MRL Resource need no introduction and this young dam is quickly making a name for herself in our herd. A full brother was a $13,000 high seller last spring going to the Arthur family. Bred early to the Retrospect bull whose semen is almost gone.

Bred to Red U2 Retrospect 29E on April 8. Exposed to MRLA 17J from Apr 29 - June 10. The Red Resource progeny continue to rise to the top. In fact, south of the border again last spring and this fall both bulls and females demand record setting prices for Piper Angus and others. Bottom line is we would like to hog them all to ourselves but always dig deep to offer headliners in this sale. Dam is a powerful Renown daughter out of the 652Y cow that is an absolute model Angus cow and would rank as one of our most elite matrons. The resulting calf will boast a pretty saleable pedigree here!

Bred to Red U2 Retrospect 29E on April 9. Exposed to MRLA 17J from Apr 29 - June 10. A ¾ sister to the Lot 54 heifer once again by Red Resource and a direct daughter of the 652Y cow herself with 11 registered progeny to her credit. Once again, bred Retrospect! I’d keep these two together if you can swing it as we’ve not parted with a 652Y daughter yet. Opportunity knocks, boys answer the door!

Bred to MRLA 17J on April 25. Exposed to MRLA 17J from Apr 29 - June 10. Line bred SAV Resource and I’ll be damned, the 652Y cow family again here! This should not have happened but we simply sort the sale offering on true quality and look at the pedigrees at catalogue time. Service to the 17J bull will be exciting. He is a young bull that we are very, very high on and one of the coolest we have raised.

A powerful group of MRL home raised Simmental, Angus and Simm/Angus commercial heifers. These heifers are the females born in our spring calving herd and sisters to the most powerful set of coming 2 Year old bulls for the March bull sale we have ever offered . These heifers are almost entirely purebred Simmental, purebred Angus or true F1 Simm/Angus females and carry the same genetics, type and kind to the purebred heifers in the offering . The heifers are AI’d to industry leading Angus calving ease bulls to start calving in March.

*Reputation Females *Quality Genetics. *Total Herd Health Protocol - Females will be matched and sold in groups of 2 or 3. AI bred to top calving ease Angus sires June 1-21 and exposed to MRLA 156J. AI breeding information available upon request and posted on DLMS prior to sale day. Powerful herd building commercial bred females with pedigree. Over 50 years of breeding and total herd health protocol.

How to participate in the DLMS Farm Gate Timed Auction with Extended Bidding:

Thursday, December 8 - 9 AM CST - bidding begins

Friday, December 9 - 6 PM CST - auction closes farmgate style

DLMS - Mark Shologan - 780.699.5082 or DLMS - Whitney Bosovich - 780.991.3025

1. Visit https://farmgatetimedauctions.ca, click the LOGIN/REGISTRATION button. First time users will select the REGISTER button from this page. Fill out the registration form to sign up for a free user account and it allows you to select a user name and password for use on all Farm Gate Timed auctions. This program will send you text and email messages whenever there is activity on your favorite lots or someone challenges your proxy bid and this is why you will be asked for both your current email and cell phone number. If you are a past participant in the Farm Gate Timed auctions simply enter your user name and password to continue. This takes you to a list of both current and upcoming Farm Gate Auctions.

2. You can choose your favorite lots in this sale at this time and the program will allow you to open either all sale lots or just your favorite lots on your screen. Anytime there is active bidding on a lot you have identified on your favorite list you will get a text and/or an email noting this activity.

3. The program allows you to place a proxy bid on any sale lot. This in fact protects your interest in any lot of interest for you to a specified dollar value you set, when you may not be able to give 100% attention to the sale. If the lot has a $2000 bid on it and you place a proxy bid of $3500 into the system, the computer will bid $2100 for you but if someone else bids $2200, the computer will again bid for you, this time at $2300. The system will look after your interest to a maxiumum of $3500. If another bidder is on at $3600, your proxy will no longer be effective and you will not longer have the winning bid on this lot without once again logging in and bidding again or moving your attention to a second lot of interest.

4. At closing time of the sale the entire sale will extend bidding for 5 minutes if a bid is placed on any lot in the sale. Any bid received after 6 PM CST will extend the sale by 5 minutes from the time of that bid. When no bidding occurs for 5 min the computer will declare the sale finished.

5. Within 24 hours of the sale close the Sale Manager, Bohrson Marketing Services will contact all winning bidders to arrange payment, transfer of pedigrees and deliver/pickup of your lot.

If you require assistance with using the DLMS Farm Gate website, if you don’t understand how to create a favorites list, if you can’t figure out the proxy bid or you just plain want to bid via phone, please talk to any of the DLMS team, sales management, or MRL personnel.

WHAT IS RACEHORSE STYLE SALE CLOSE? Racehorse style sale close is when the entire sale stays open in extended bidding. This type of sale allows you as the bidder to change to a different lot within the same sale if the bidding has gone into extended bidding.

HOW WILL EXTENDED BIDDING WORK? When we get to the close out end time the clock for close extends with any bid placed with less than 5 min on the clock. This type of extended bidding turns the end time to more of a soft time. Extended bidding allows bidders to compete in lots like a real auction and gives all bidders the same time to make a decision. Always follow the clock to see how much time remains in the sale you are interested in.

If you require assistance with the Racehorse auction process or bidding via phone talk to any of the DLMS team, sale management, or MRL personnel and we can help you in purchasing the lot you are interested in.

Haman Farm & Simmental, ND*

Dusty Rose Cattle Co., SK*

Bitz Simmental, SK

Circle M Farms, MB*

Chris Roppel, SK*

Cornerstone Cattle, SK*

Underhill Simms, ON

Dylan Desrochers, MB*

Stoney Creek Simmental, SK*

Fallen Timber Farms, BC*

Get ‘em In Livestock Hauling, AB

L & L Cattle, SK*

Downhill Simmental, MB*

Johnson Farm Simmental, AB*

C & E Stephens Farm, SK*

Jack Cherowyk, SK*

Lawnview Simmental, MB*

Weisner Land Ltd., SK*

Corrie Martens, MB*

Kash Simmental, SK*

Triple R Simmental, MB*

Brueckner Eales Simmental, ND*

Goudy’s Prairie Acres, SK*

Circle G Simmental, AB*

Ashworth Farm & Ranch, SK*

Bonchuk Farms, MB*

Diamond K Ranch, SK*

LD Stock Farms, SK*

Jeff Maccrostie, ON*

Bar Over AJ Cattle, MB

Mustang Land & Cattle Corp, SK*

Dennis Mauthe, MB*

Diamond K Cattle Co., SK

Danny Bergeron, QC*

Dunn Farm & Ranch, MB*

Berndt Ranch, ND*

Glencoe Stock Farms, SK*

Elliott Farms Ltd., SK*

Bob Hull, SK*

Steeves Land & Cattle, SK*

Josh North, SK*

*repeat buyer