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Beef Talk Volume IV
September 22, 2003

Fall Sale Season Starts

The start of the fall sale season in the Angus breed has followed the lead of the fed and feeder cattle market to new and record highs. Starting in August with several very successful dispersal sales, the season hit stride at Express Ranches as more than 1,200 people packed the beautiful Express sale barn to make selections from the sale offering that generated a gross of more than $2,450,000 with a production sale record of 40 individual sales of $10,000 or more. The progeny of the EXAR herd sires Bon View New Design 1407, B R Midland, and Summitcrest High Prime 0H29 were in great demand and the featured female, Brost Miss Traveler 703, a breed leader for IMF EPD sold for $80,000 to Three Trees Ranch in Georgia with she, her eight daughters, and four frozen embryos generating $286,500 while the Leachman Blackcap 8261 female topped the entire event when she sold for $135,000.

Five days later, the annual fall production sale at Anderson Circle Farm set new records for the program and compiled what could well be the highest average of the fall sale season with 42 lots selling for $693,050 to average $16,501. ACF Queen 8192, the cow that has been called the ACF "Carcass Queen" started the day at $62,000 for half interest to McWilliams Ranches in Oklahoma and ACF Blackbird 0250 maintained the pace when half interest of her also sold for $62,000 to Three Trees Ranch in Georgia. This New Design 036 daughter of the Blackbird 558H cow that rose to breed prominence at Anderson Circle Farm is a flush sister to the ACF Blackbird 0308 who sold to Big K Ranch in Texas for $55,000 after producing the top-selling fall yearling female, ACF Blackbird 2211, the High Prime daughter that sold to the Express Genetics partners for $52,500. Sidney Riggs and Andy Voytus of Pennsylvania joined forces to bid $25,000 for the Exacto daughter of the ACF "Carcass Queen" and her first natural daughter by High Prime sold for $18,000 to Paul Ray’s Ray Cattle Company in Alabama.

One of only seven living cows in the breed with an average of +.60 on both IMF EPD and UREA EPD was the Lot 1 female of the start of the third decade at Whitestone Krebs in Nebraska. Limestone LLC in Oklahoma chose her for $77,500 and her outstanding natural heifer calf by the WK herd sire Bon View New Design 1407 sold for $21,000 to Anderson Circle Farm in Kentucky. The added sale feature of the day was a one-third semen interest of KG Dakota, the son of Future Direction from a Pathfinder Dam by V D A R New Trend 315 that records the number one UREA EPD among all non-parent Angus bulls in the Fall 2003 NSE. Three Trees Ranch in Georgia, purchased the semen interest for $100,000 to continue the tradition of their Marbling EPD leader Summitcrest High Prime 0H29. With great demand for daughters of the WK herd sire Bon View New Design 1407, the 97 lots in the Whitestone Krebs sale generated a gross of $762,250 for an average of $7,858.

At the last roundup for Leachman Cattle Company near Billings, Montana, the dam of Bon View New Design 208 and her descendants set the pace for the day with the cow selling to Quail Valley in Oregon for $77,500 to start the Angus portion of the sale with her natural bull calf by Bon View New Design 1407 selling for $9,500. Monarch Farms in Louisiana bid $2,000 each for the 45 frozen embryos from her to give Lot 974 a $177,000 gross. The second cow of the day was her daughter Lot 906 by Bon View Bando 1394 that sold for $60,000 on the bid of Eldon Krebs of Whitestone Krebs in Nebraska and frozen embryos from her sold for $1,500 each. Three Trees Ranch from Georgia selected two daughters of the Erica cow by Bon View New Design 1407 and two by J L B Exacto 416 to contribute to the more than $275,000 in progeny sales for Bon View Erica 443 while her daughter generated more than $55,000 in progeny sales to give the Erica family over $400,000 in sales in less than one half hour.

The 10th Annual Vintage "Carcass Maker" Bull Sale was another outstanding event for Jim Coleman and his family with California’s top commercial cattlemen generating a $2,908 average on 130 Angus bulls with a top price of only $4,600. As industry leaders in the adoption and use of technology, the Vintage bull sale was the first sale offering ever in the industry where every bull sold had been DNA evaluated using the GeneStar test for tenderness. All the females that sell in the Vintage Angus Ranch 2003 Female Sale have also been tested for the GeneStar DNA marker for tenderness. Half interest of the New Design 036 daughter with the 14th highest UREA among active Angus dams will sell at Vintage Angus Ranch on October 12, 2003, along with the rights to the first embryo flush at Vintage from the $170,000 female that was the second high-seller of the record-setting 2003 sale at Gardiner Angus Ranch and records the 16th highest IMF EPD among active dams. The dam of these two females records the highest average of her IMF EPD and UREA EPD of any living Angus female.

Basin Forever Lady 7310, the cow with the 18th highest IMF EPD value among active dams will sell on October 14, 2003, at Stevenson Basin while BT Forever Lady 103K the cow with the 17th highest IMF EPD value will sell the next day on October 15, 2003 at Beartooth Ranch. In the process of collecting more than 5,000 ultrasound records from their 2001 and 2002 calf crops, the Stevenson family has identified several of their foundation cow families and sire groups that excel on the basis of ultrasound evaluation of body composition. In the American Angus Association database, the now-deceased Stevenson Basin herd sire Dalebanks Bando A 2166 has the 15th highest IMF among all active sires and his dam has the 19th highest value among all active Angus dams. There are 64 daughters of 2166 in the database that have generated 167 progeny weaning records and 48 of those daughters have either an individual scan record or progeny scan data. The buyer’s choice females featured as Lot 3 in the Stevenson Basin Female Sale on October 14, 2003, Basin Trojan Erica F607 and Basin Trojan Erica F842, have the 8th highest and 23rd highest IMF EPD values among all active dams with a now-deceased flush sister to them recording the 21st highest IMF EPD. There are currently seven daughters of 2166 working in the Basin herd, seven working in the Stevenson herd and one in production at Diamond Dot and all fifteen are among the top 10% of active dams for IMF EPD and they compute an awesome average IMF EPD of +.32. Stevenson Enchantress 661H, the Pathfinder Dam who sells as Lot 9 on October 14, 2003, records the 9th highest IMF among all 2166 daughters and the 5th highest among his daughters still in production in America’s largest Angus seedstock operation. Since their number is very few, the Stevenson and Basin herds will each share only one daughter of Dalebanks Bando A 2166 as very special features of this 2003 Stevenson Basin Female Sale.

In the American Angus Association database, there are only 149 daughters of Basin Rainmaker 654X that have generated 544 progeny weaning records that have earned 654X the 3rd highest Milk EPD among proven sires in the Fall 2003 NSE. With his sale for export to Argentina at a young age, daughters of Basin Rainmaker 654X have become both rare and valuable and there are 118 daughters of him that have either an individual scan record or progeny scan data from which IMF EPD values can be calculated. Stevenson Rosebud J716, the cow who sells as Lot 1 in the Stevenson Basin Female Sale on October 14, 2003, has the highest IMF EPD of any living daughter of Basin Rainmaker 654X and her dam is a daughter of the IMF leader Dalebanks Bando A 2166.

In a guest consignment to the sale at Jorgensen Angus Ranch on October 13, 2003, Sinclair Cattle Company will sell Ideal 4465 of 6807 4286. Quite possibly the most powerful and complete daughter of DHD Traveler 6807, she ranks among the top 1% of active Angus dams for both WEPD and YEPD with a BEPD among the lowest 25% of the population, ranking among the top 10% for IMF EPD and among the top 15% for UREA EPD. Her maternal brother, Ideal 1418, ranks among the top 2% of proven sires for YEPD, among the top 3% for WEPD and among the top 10% for Milk EPD. Sired by a bull who records minus values for both IMF EPD and UREA EPD, her genetic power allows her most famous son, the ABS Global AI sire, Ideal 7451, to rank among the top 25% of proven sires for IMF EPD and among the top 35% for UREA EPD with data from 128 progeny scanned in addition to ranking among the top 2% of proven sires for YEPD and among the top 10% for WEPD. Poised on the cutting edge of the next advance in the evolution of performance evaluation, each and every time that a son of this cow has been evaluated using the Cornell University protocol to measure feed efficiency at Jorgensen Ranches, he has dominated the contemporary group.

As we analyze more data and identify other breed leaders that will be offered for sale, we will update and expand this informational review…

Written by Dick Beck

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Anderson Circle 2003 Sale
Smith Brothers Angus & Hereford 2003 sale
Clifton 2001 Sale
Clifton 2002 Sale
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