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August 2011; Vol. 102, No. 3

Hereford Adds Feed Efficiency and Carcass Merit DCJ Ranch uses Hereford bulls to produce F1 tiger-stripe females. by Troy Smith

BIF Symposium Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . 24

n the South the F1 tiger-stripe female reigns queen, and key to producing those valuable females are Hereford bulls. Founded just six years ago, DCJ Ranch, near Opelika, Ala., is owned by brothers Dick and Jimmy Starr and managed by Cal Whatley. In a short time, DCJ is becoming a wellknown source of F1 tiger-stripes, the result of breeding Hereford bulls to Brahman cows. Cal says the Hereford breed contributes feed efficiency and carcass merit to the cross. He says a major factor in the decision to use Hereford bulls was the popularity of F1 tiger-stripe females. A native of the Auburn area, Cal rides herd on 200 Brahman and 100 Brangus cows, all of which are bred to Hereford bulls. The ranch also has a commercial herd of 700 F1 tiger-stripes, which are mated with Brangus bulls. According to Cal, there’s nothing more genetically divergent than purebred Bos taurus (Hereford) bulls and purebred Bos indicus (Brahman) cows. The cross delivers maximum heterosis in a brindle-colored female that suits many production environments in the Deep South. “In this climate, it’s hard to ignore the heat and insect tolerance that Brahman cattle offer,” Cal says. “With the Brahman influence, producers can avoid a lot of eye and foot problems and other health issues. By crossing with Hereford, we add bone, muscle and carcass merit — qualities that add market appeal.”

Heterosis value

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Heterosis has often been called a powerful tool and the nearest thing to a free lunch that exists in the cattle business. Heterosis is the performance

Photo s by Reid Blossom, Alabama Cattlemen's Association

The All-Around Cattleman . . . . . . . . . . . 21

DCJ Ranch manages a battery of 15 Hereford bulls.

advantage that hybrid or crossbred progeny exhibit when compared to the average of their purebred parents. Beef cattle geneticists cite ample evidence, collected through decades of research, showing how well-planned crossbreeding benefits a variety of desirable characteristics, and particularly lowly heritable traits such as adaptability, fertility and longevity. They talk about how F1 females (first generation cross between two breeds) generally breed back quicker and stay in the herd longer, while producing heavier calves. Data from the U.S. Meat Animal

Research Center (USMARC) in Clay Center, Neb., indicate that, over their lifetimes, those crossbred cows are 25% more productive than straightbred cows. Commercial cow-calf producers in the Gulf States have taken the message to heart. They want crossbreds and especially F1 females — the first generation cross between genetically divergent breeds that delivers maximum hybrid vigor. However, when trying to raise their own F1 replacements, producers may learn the lunch really isn’t free. continued on page 18...

Churchill’s Pick of the Pasture Sale Friday, September 16, 2011

• EVERY bred heifer solely owned by Churchill sells Sept. 16. Daughters of the breed’s best sires! Yankee, Outcross, 8203U, Rancher, 3027 and Harland. Most bred AI to Churchill Sensation 028X! • The heifers sell in pairs. The buyer gets their choice and the other heifer stays at Churchill. • Over 90-head to choose from! • This is the best group of females ever offered by Churchill! Several donor prospects are in this group! Churchill Sensation 028X

BW 0.5; WW 57; YW 94; MM 30; REA 0.68; MARB 0.25 This extremely popular young sire with “the look” and incredible numbers is the AI service sire on the heifers selling!

Churchill Lady 6109S ET {IEF,DLF}

BW 2.8; WW 59; YW 96; MM 19; REA 0.59; MARB 0.44 One-half interest sells in this powerful donor with the most incredible balanced EPDs! Dam of herd bulls! Four other donors sell Sept. 16!

H H Perfect Timing 0150 ET

BW 1.0; WW 47; YW 77; MM 20; REA 0.58; MARB 0.20 The Bull We All Need! The polled bull with the ability to lead our breed forward! An ownership interest sells Sept. 16! The investment potential is huge!

Churchill Lady 100Y ET

BW 3.3; WW 49; YW 77; MM 21; REA 0.47; MARB 0.17 She sells! Selling 10 of our best show heifers sired by Outcross, Helton, 955 and Ram!

The sale will be held at the ranch in our new sale facility. We are excited! We are easy to get to through the Bozeman airport and I-90!

We pay one-half of the delivery cost anywhere in the U.S. Dale and Nancy Venhuizen 1862 Yadon Rd. • Manhattan, MT 59741 Cell 406-580-6421 • Home 406-284-6421 dale@churchillcattle.com • www.churchillcattle.com

See Outcross, Helton and Perfect Timing on display!

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Heartland Genetic Blend Hereford Sale October 15, 2011 11 a.m. Held at Mueller Polled Herefords, Perryville, Mo.

August 2011 • Vol. 102 • No. 3

Cover Hereford Adds Feed Efficiency and Carcass Merit

DCJ Ranch uses Hereford bulls to produce F1 tiger-stripe females.

21 The All-Around Cattleman

20-Year Look at Hereford Success Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

24 BIF Symposium Highlights

Sustained Cow Fertility Research Released . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Herefords play an integral role in Bill Goehring’s multifaceted cattle and auction enterprise. Progressive beef producers and academia attended the 2011 Beef Improvement Federation (BIF) Research Symposium.

Heifer calves, bull calves, 15- to 18-month-old bulls, bred heifers, fall and spring pairs. Also selling 15-head of black and black baldie heifers bred for spring calving.

Join us at 6 p.m. on Friday evening, Oct. 14, for an evening social at Mueller Polled Herefords. For more information and

catalog requests, contact Darrell Aufdenberg 573-270-6755

What’s New?

Association News and Events . . . . 14

BQA Stock Trailer Transportation of Cattle guidelines can ensure your cattle make the trip safely.

Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 New Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Aufdenberg Polled Herefords, Perryville, Mo. 573-517-0395 Mueller Polled Herefords, Perryville, Mo. 573-788-2522

40 Lots of Registered Herefords

Performance Matters

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Consignors:

Lizzie Polled Herefords, Jackson, Mo. 573-243-7298 Apple Ridge Herefords, Salem, Ill. 618-548-4314 Alex Roth Herefords, Altenburg, Mo. 573-824-5945 Mouser Farms, Marquand, Mo. 573-238-2209 Welker Farms, Patton, Mo. 573-866-2750

Breed Focus

From the Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 National Show and Sale Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Advertisers’ Index . . . . . . . . 52

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Field Staff

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Vice president of food service sales Mick Welch, mwelch@herefordbeef.org Vice president of customer service Brad Ellefson, bellefson@herefordbeef.org Account analyst Cheryl Monson, cmonson@herefordbeef.org Hereford Verified and Hereford Marketplace specialist Heidi Tribbett, hktribbett@hereford.org 970-580-4503 For information about Hereford Marketplace, visit www.herefordmarketplace.com or call 970-580-4503. For mail order steaks, visit www.herefordbeef.net and click on ”Where to Buy.”

Western Region – Mark Holt Ariz., Calif., Idaho, Nev., Ore., Utah and Wash. 2300 Bishop Rd., Emmett, ID 83617 208-369-7425, mholt@hereford.org Mountain Region – Ben Brillhart Colo., Mont., Wyo. and western Canadian provinces P.O. Box 181, Musselshell, MT 59059 406-947-2222, bbrillhart@hereford.org North Central Region – Levi Landers Kan., Minn., Neb., N.D. and S.D. 19870 Poole Rd., Gibbon, NE 68840 308-730-1396, llanders@hereford.org Upper Midwest Region – John Meents Ill., Ind., Ky., Md., Mich., Ohio, Pa., W.Va. and Wis. 21555 S.R. 698, Jenera, OH 45841 419-306-7480, jmeents@hereford.org Southwest Region – Dustin Layton Ark., La., N.M., Okla. and Texas 16400 Seminole Dr., Edmond, OK 73013 405-464-2455, laytond@yahoo.com Eastern Region – Tommy Coley Ala., Fla., Ga., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn. and Va. 1284 Stage Coach Rd., Sewanee, TN 37375 815-988-7051, tcoley@hereford.org Central Region – Contact the AHA Iowa and Mo. Northeast Region – Contact the AHA Conn., Del., D.C., Maine, Mass., N.H., N.J., N.Y., R.I., Vt. and eastern Canadian provinces

AHA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President John Woolfolk, Jackson, Tenn. Vice president David Breiner, Alma, Kan. Directors Term expires 2011 Jerry Huth, Oakfield, Wis. James Milligan, Kings, Ill. Term expires 2012 Paul “Butch” Funk, Copperas Cove, Texas Jimmy Johnson, Clinton, Okla. Term expires 2013 Cliff Copeland, Nara Visa, N.M. Marty Lueck, Mountain Grove, Mo. Dale Micheli, Ft. Bridger, Wyo. Term expires 2014 Keith Fawcett, Ree Heights, S.D. Steve Lambert, Oroville, Calif. Dale Venhuizen, Manhattan, Mont.

SENIOR OFFICE STAFF

Executive vice president Craig Huffhines, chuffhin@hereford.org Chief operating officer and director of breed improvement Jack Ward, jward@hereford.org Chief financial officer Leslie Mathews, lmathews@hereford.org Director of communications Angie Stump Denton, adenton@hereford.org 785-363-7263 Director of records department Stacy Sanders, ssanders@hereford.org Director of youth activities Amy Cowan, acowan@hereford.org Records supervisor Cindy Coleman, ccoleman@hereford.org

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by Craig Huffhines, executive vice president

20-Year Look at Hereford Success Drivers The recent growth of Hereford bull market share in the commercial cow-calf industry is an interesting phenomenon with historic importance. Going back to the breed’s earliest importation, the old iconic Hereford beef breed has maintained its historic genetic traits with a few retooled modifications due to modern science and selection. Hardiness, range toughness, mother ability, sustainability and feed efficiency

are all traits that the breed has been recognized for now going on three centuries. History has documented that the Hereford breed has always been a cost reducer. The beef industry, however, has not always required that cost reduction be a necessary component to profitability when, for a long time, inputs were so cheap. Today, times have changed dramatically from the $2 corn days, and with the times, the Hereford breed, along

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with the people who have maintained these pedigrees, have also adapted. A review of recent history outlines key events that have attributed to the resurrected popularity of the Hereford breed. Going back 20 years, there were key Association decisions, industry trends and economic pressures that have brought back a rise in the demand and necessity of the Hereford breed of cattle. We have identified 12 events that have shaped and influenced both the direction and current market share of

the Hereford breed and the American Hereford Association (AHA). 1) 1990 Colorado State University(CSU)/Montfort Hereford study – Led by world renowned meat scientist Gary Smith, this three-year study, known at the time as the largest beef breed study of its kind, defined the Hereford breed in terms of consumer acceptance and overall quality of Hereford beef. It documented the performance and feed efficiency of the breed and led to the eventual specification development of Certified Hereford Beef (CHB®). 2) 1993 North American Cattle Evaluation (NACE) established – The combining of performance databases from both the American and Canadian Hereford Associations led to a single North American evaluation where cattle from each country could compare with one another for genetic merit. Having similar expected progeny difference (EPD) benchmarks opened trade and enhanced the reliability of North American EPDs. Eventually NACE led to the recent development of the Pan-American Cattle Evaluation, bringing in two additional populations of Hereford cattle from Uruguay and Argentina, making the Hereford genetic evaluation a global effort. 3) 1993 Genetic Outreach Program – The Genetic Outreach Program (GOP) was established immediately following the results of the CSU Hereford study, allowing breeders to follow cattle through the feeding and packing phase and assessing the economic value of their cattle through to the end product. This program marked a renewed interest and commitment in improving the end product quality and feedlot profitability of Hereford genetics and was a true eye-opener into the strengths and weaknesses of the breed at the time. 4) 1994 adoption of carcass ultrasound technology – AHA’s adoption of ultrasound technology and carcass EPDs utilizing carcass ultrasound measurements in an effort to better meet market signals in the commercial sector sparked a renewed commitment toward end product quality. 5) 1995 merger of American Hereford Association and American Polled Hereford Association (APHA) – After decades of separation, AHA Executive Secretary H.H. “Hop” Dickenson and APHA Executive Secretary Ed Bible rallied their respective boards and membership continued on page 8...

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to approve the amalgamation of the two organizations, building the synergy required to make joint improvements in the breed and in the associations’ membership programs. Although a very difficult task, the combining of the associations eventually led to the crossing of the horned and polled lines and other strategic decisions to position the breed in a more commercial direction and to take advantage of a much larger combined population of genetics. 6) 1995 Certified Hereford Beef launched – The biggest complaint of Hereford breeders in the mid1990s was the indiscriminant discounting of straight Hereford feeder cattle in much of the country. Packer signals for larger exotic cattle or straight black cattle dampened the market picture for Hereford feeders. The start-up of CHB under Red Oak Farms, then later the licensing of both Greater Omaha Packing Co. LLC and National Beef Packing Co. positioned the AHA squarely in the commercial beef industry. Field service personnel were redirected to work with feedlots and commercial bull buyers. Today, more than 3 million Hereford cattle have been harvested through the program, and Hereford feeder cattle now command top bidding.

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7) 1998 National Reference Sire Program established – As a collaborator with the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Carcass Merit Project, the AHA established breeding test herds that later became the National Reference Sire Program (NRSP), also known as the Young Sire Test program. In the last decade, the NRSP has evolved into a dynamic program characterizing the economically relevant traits of the top sires in the country. Furthermore, by utilizing the data from the structured evaluation, the AHA is now positioned as a leader in genomic discovery, which shows real promise in the future. 8) 2000 commitment to whole herd reporting – The commitment of reporting the production, defect rate, fertility and disposal of every registered female in the Hereford breed has created one of the world’s largest databases of economic importance within the seedstock industry. Today, more than 3.5 million cow records are utilized to develop EPDs in areas of novel importance and to correct stereotypic defects that once negatively affected the perception of the breed. 9) State sanctioned special feeder calf sales – Due to the relationships with feeders across the Midwest as a result of CHB,

Hereford breeders, beginning in Kansas and then expanding to other areas of the country including Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, South Dakota, Montana and Missouri, have taken matters into their own hands to package Hereford feeder cattle and began planning state sanctioned special feeder calf sales. This endeavor has had an enormous impact on the value perception and true feedlot value discovery of Hereford feeder cattle in real world commercial conditions. 10) Increased use of AI and ET – Beginning at the 2002 Hereford Direction Summit in Stillwater, Okla., Hereford breeders were encouraged to utilize highly proven bulls in artificial insemination (AI) programs in an effort to build consistency in the breed and a reliable breed trend. Today the breed has moved from 12% of registrations being AI or embryo transfer (ET) calves to nearly 25% of the population utilizing the technology, a 100% increase. The commitment toward proven genetics has had a radical impact on the genetic trends of the breed, and now bull studs are aggressively purchasing and merchandising Hereford semen within the commercial sector. 11) Radical escalation of input cost – The recent explosion of the grain

market, in particular the cost of corn now at more than $7 per bushel, is creating a new mindset among American cattlemen and cattle feeders. Driven by global fuel demands, the rising cost of oil and gas and the subsequent U.S. renewable fuel policy have driven upward of 45% of the nation’s corn crop to the ethanol industry. These volatile inputs costs have forced cattlemen to utilize every tool in their arsenal including Hereford efficiency traits in combination with planned crossbreeding. 12) Increased demand for Hereford bulls on Angus cows – The overwhelming popularity of Angus genetics in the nation’s cow herd due to packer marketing programs has created a cow herd base made up primarily of Angus genetics. Because of the Hereford breed’s complementarity and the proven heterosis advantages that Hereford bulls breed into their progeny, black baldie calves are becoming the standard bearer of quality within the industry. For more information regarding the power of Hereford genetics in crossbreeding programs or if you are looking for Hereford range bulls, contact your local Hereford breeder or AHA field representative to steer you in the right direction. The time is now for taking advantage of the tried and true Hereford breed. HW

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Sire: THM Durango 4037 MGS: CL 1 Domino 9126J 1ET

Durango blends Calving Ease, Carcass and Cow Power with good looks, muscle and shape. This high-capacity wide body is a great choice for modern, high production cattle. From Ned and Jan Ward, Wyo. Spring 2011 AHA Sire Summary CE BW WW YW MM M&G MCE SC FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$ EPD 6.7 -0.8 45 73 29 51 3.3 0.8 -0.02 0.42 0.11 20 21 15 26 Acc .15 .56 .44 .42 .16 .13 .29 .23 .24 .21 % Rank 1 5 5 10 10 25 10 15 10 10 1 5

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Bennett 774 R413

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Sire: Feltons Domino 774 MGS: KCF Bennett 759 H142

Bennett R413 offers great data for low birth and ample growth. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thick, moderate in size, extremely free moving and backed up by a strong cow family from Knoll Crest. From Knoll Crest Farm, Va. and Iron Lake Ranch, Texas Spring 2011 AHA Sire Summary

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CE BW WW YW MM M&G MCE SC FAT REA MARB BMI$ CEZ$ BII$ CHB$ 2.4 1.7 53 78 26 52 1.3 1.7 0.08 0.23 0.13 24 18 23 21 .25 .77 .68 .69 .24 .19 .55 .48 .48 .45 20 15 15 10 5 1 20 5 10 5

Traditions Legend 463S

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Sire: Feltons Legend 242 MGS: BAR JZ Tradition 434V

A standout in heifer AI programs, Tradition is moderate for size with a low BW EPD and comes from a proven pedigree. He is high for Marbling and excels for high $Profit Indexes.

Spring 2011 AHA Sire Summary

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by Jack Ward, chief operating officer and director of breed improvement jward@hereford.org

Sustained Cow Fertility Research Released Fertility is certainly one of the key factors in determining profitability in cow herds by increasing production efficiency. In 2000 the American Hereford Association (AHA) instituted a mandatory Whole Herd Reporting Total Performance Reporting (TPR™) system, and many breeders had been collecting

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whole herd information prior to this time. TPR has added strength and consistency to genetic evaluation and is the recommended system of the Beef Improvement Federation (BIF). As we continue to collect data at all levels of production, we are given the opportunity to develop

traits that can directly affect the profitability of producers. Recently, the AHA set out to conduct a research project with Mike MacNeil, research geneticist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDAARS) Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory, Miles City, Mont., to look at selection practices that could improve fertility of daughters of Hereford sires. This research is only possible through the Whole Herd Reporting of AHA breeders.

Annual Production Sale Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011 • 1 p.m. (EDT)

WCC WOF Ironman U302

• Ironman was the 2010 and 2009 National Champion Bull and 2008 Reserve National Champion Bull at the North American International Livestock Show, Louisville, Ky. Progeny and service sell. A full sister and flush from his dam also sell.

WCC Miss N236

• This top cow sired by DR Achiever 8403 sells bred to WCC WOF Ironman U302 alongside her calf.

WCC WOF Hope Y305

WCC Miss Y303

• This April show prospect is a full sister to WCC WOF Ironman U302. She sells September 11, 2011.

• This March show heifer prospect is sired by WCC Slam Dunk R26 ET, the 2007 Dixie National and 2007 and 2006 Indiana State Fair Grand Champion Bull. She sells September 11, 2011.

WCC Dixie X332

WCC Hope S304

• An extremely competitive October show heifer prospect sired by HH Advance 5212R whose dam is a full sister to WCC Dixie R28, a past Denver champion.

• Selling a flush to bull of buyer’s choice on this donor dam of WCC WOF Ironman U302. She was Grand Champion Cow-Calf Pair at the 2008 Indiana State Fair, 2008 Indiana State Preview; 2008 Junior National Hereford Expo Reserve Grand Champion Pair and other many-times champion.

Selling: 6 top show heifer/donor prospects, 5 cows examined safe in calf, 1 flush, 4 frozen embryo packages, 5 show steer prospects and 1 yearling bull. Also selling around 80-head of Angus, ChiAngus, ChiMaine and Lim-Flex.

WCC Dixie U320 ET

• This powerful donor who sold for $15,000 for one-half interest in our 2008 sale was the 2008 Indiana State Fair Grand Champion Heifer, Champion Hereford Heifer at the Kentucky Beef Expo and the Rebel Show Down and division winner at the NAILE. A show heifer prospect sired by WCC Dow Jones W300 ET, the 2010 Indiana Hereford Preview Show Grand Champion Bull, sells.

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For a free sale catalog, contact:

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Bill, Priscilla and Chad Wilson 8911 S. Meridian Line Rd., Cloverdale, IN 46120 Office 765-653-2402 • Cell 765-720-2715 • Chad cell 765-719-0730 View our catalog at www.angusjournal.com

Sustained Cow Fertility (SCF) is the trait that is evaluated, and it is a sire model. Females were required to be in groups of at least three and calve within 60 days. Then reproductive success was achieved by a calving interval of 425 days or less. You can read all about it in the online version of the article written by MacNeil at http://jas.fass.org/content/89/6/1712. SCF will be different from some other fertility traits such as stayability because a sire will get credit each time a daughter calves beginning at 2 years of age instead of waiting to see if a sire’s daughters make it to 5 or 6 years of age. In addition, SCF will account for censored records. For example, if a female goes into an embryo transfer (ET) program or is sold to another registered breeder, then that female will not be considered a failure, but the record will be censored with no credit. The heritability of SCF is less than .10. This is in line with research and literature. Obviously, as we continue to gather additional records through TPR, then this may increase. In addition, remember that the various research projects conducted at AHA over the past few years have shown fertility in a commercial cow herd can be significantly increased by heterosis. You will be able to see the results of this evaluation on the AHA website, Hereford.org. The results can be presented on alternative scales, but for this research report, you will find it presented as a risk ratio (RR). As you look through the sires, average will have a RR=1 with a sire with more fertile daughters having a RR less than 1 (i.e., they are sires of low risk daughters; daughters that are less likely to be open). Because fertility has a tremendous bearing on economic importance in the beef cattle industry, the results of this evaluation along with Heifer Calving Rate (HCR) will be used to revise the Baldy Maternal Index (BMI$) and Brahman Influence Index (BII$).

HRF donation As a staff we are looking forward to “The Harvest” fund-raiser event for the Hereford Youth Foundation of America (HYFA) this month in Sonoma, Calif. Lot 24 in the auction is a pheasant hunting trip donated by Rausch Herefords, Hoven, S.D. The Rausch family will provide the property and guide for three days and five hunters during the 2011 season. Normally the season is the fourth week of October through mid-December. This opportunity is priceless, and all proceeds will benefit the Hereford Research Foundation (HRF). HRF was established in 2009 as a division of HYFA to support breed improvement projects outside the scope of the AHA budget. HW

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by Angie Stump Denton, editor adenton@hereford.org

“What’s New?” is a column designed to keep you in-the-know about Hereford happenings. You can also sign up for Hereford eNews, a weekly electronic newsletter from the American Hereford Association (AHA). Send an e-mail to eNews@hereford.org to subscribe. Archived issues are posted at Hereford.org.

“The Harvest” fundraiser to be online Hereford enthusiasts who can’t be in Sonoma, Calif., this month can still participate in “The Harvest” fund-raiser by logging onto Liveauctions.tv. The event will be at Kunde Family Estate Aug. 20. The auction will feature embryos from the breed’s most prominent donors, flushes and heifer calf pregnancies and will also offer some one-of-a-kind silent and live auction items including vacation getaways, a 2012 National Finals Rodeo

package, exquisite artwork and something special for everyone. A catalog of the offering is available on Hereford.org and was included with the July Hereford World. For more information about the event, visit Hereford.org.

Note Annual Meeting schedule changes Make plans now to attend the 2011 American Hereford Association (AHA) Annual Meeting weekend in Kansas City. Several changes are planned for this year’s event. First the location for this year’s event will be the Hyatt Regency

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Crown Center, located at 2345 McGee St., Kansas City, Mo. The hotel is conveniently connected via a glassenclosed skywalk to the Crown Center Complex, which is home to more than 60 shops and restaurants. Another change is the schedule of events. Activities will begin Friday with educational forums. Saturday will be the Annual Meeting, followed by the Ladies of the Royal Sale. Sunday will be the National Hereford Show and a question-and-answer session with the AHA Board. Watch for a complete schedule and more information in the September and October Hereford World and in Hereford eNews.

Order JNHE pictures online To view and purchase Junior National Hereford Expo (JNHE) photos taken by AHA and Hereford Publications Inc. staff, visit the Hereford Photo Shop website, HerefordPhotoShop.com. Here you’ll find pictures of show and award winners taken at JNHE events throughout the week. For more information, contact Angie Denton at adenton@hereford.org or 785-363-7263.

HYFA scholarship applications due Sept. 1 Applications for Hereford Youth Foundation of America (HYFA) scholarships are due Sept. 1. A total of $28,000 in scholarships will be awarded to members of the National Junior Hereford Association (NJHA) to assist in financing their college educations. These scholarships are made possible by the late Bill and Jo Ellard, EE Ranches Inc.; Bob and Dolores Call, CBY Polled Herefords; Lloyd Whitehead, Whitehead Ranches; Bob Kube, Fauquier Farms; the Vanier family of CK Ranch; the Blin family and Randy and Kelly Owen. New this year is the Edmond F. and Virginia B. Ball/Cottonwood Springs Scholarship. Gary Bishop Memorial Scholarship applications are also due Sept. 1. It is a $1,000 scholarship for NJHA members. Scholarship applications can be downloaded at JrHereford.org.

Fall 2011 data online The fall 2011 Hereford expected progeny differences (EPDs) were scheduled to be released in late July. HW

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Complete dispersal of all the 2, 3 and 4-year-old spring calving females with calves. A number of these are donor females. Plus a select group of ET heifers and proven herd bulls.

KJ 207S Devon 599U

3027 daughter sells with her Redeem bull calf. CE 5.0 (.13); BW 2.0 (.38); WW 50 (.30); YW 83 (.29); MM 27 (.19); M&G 52; MCE 1.9 (.11); SC 0.7 (.16); FAT 0.00 (.18); REA 0.44 (.19); MARB 0.05 (.17); BMI$ 17; CEZ$ 18; BII$ 13; CHB$ 25

KJ 440L Victoria 021W

M326 2-year-old sells with Thor heifer calf.

CE 2.4 (.14); BW 2.8 (.38); WW 48 (.31); YW 79 (.33); MM 20 (.20); M&G 44; MCE 2.8 (.12); SC 1.1 (.15); FAT -0.01 (.24); REA 0.45 (.23); MARB 0.11 (.22); BMI$ 22; CEZ$ 18; BII$ 20; CHB$ 26

KJ 988R Renae 982W Redeem 2-year-old sells.

KJ HVH 33N Redeem 485T

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Our leading herd bull sells along with his proven CE 0.5 (.07); BW 3.0 (.37); WW 57 (.29); YW 84 (.31); daughters. Redeem's full sister is the mother to MM 19 (.10); M&G 48; MCE 2.1 (.06); SC 0.6 (.10); Loewen ABS Foundation bull. FAT 0.04 (.20); REA 0.48 (.19); MARB 0.05 (.17); Also selling two full sisters to Redeem. BMI$ 16; CEZ$ 14; BII$ 12; CHB$ 24

CE -1.5 (.18); BW 3.8 (.65); WW 73 (.55); YW 106 (.52); MM 16 (.18); M&G 53; MCE 2.4 (.13); SC 0.9 (.28); FAT 0.05 (.35); REA 0.59 (.36); MARB 0.21 (.32); BMI$ 21; CEZ$ 13; BII$ 16; CHB$ 34

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Jensen Bros. Kevin Jensen 785-374-4372

P.O. Box 197, Courtland, KS 66939

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Sires of Females Selling

Redeem 485T, Expo 981R ET, Investor 532M, Vincent 463T, Manhattan 262S, Recruit 966R, Marksman 045R (high performance 8020 son), Rib Eye R117, Progress P20, Domino 3027 www.hereford.org

Genetic Designs VI

Join us Friday, September 16, 2011 • 5:30 p.m. Two hours from Syracuse, N.Y. airport

Offering: Cow-Calf Pairs, Bred Heifers, Heifer Calves, Embryos and Donor Cows

4Y Calved: Jan. 1, 2011 Sire: RVP Star 533P Can-Am ET 57U Sire of dam: Remitall Online 122L

35W Calved: Jan. 17, 2009 Sire: Remitall Online 122L Sire of dam: CS Boomer 29F

28U Calved: Feb. 23, 2008 Sire: ANL 36N Shilo 86S Sire of dam: RU Tracker 2E

1U Calved: Jan. 3, 2008 Sire: Wilgor 55K Northeastern OL 2N Sire of dam: GHC Chunk 113L

45U Calved: March 7, 2008 Sire: Blair-Athol 13K Major 101N Sire of dam: Blair-Athol 60D Western 25L

62U Calved: Jan. 20, 2008 Sire: LCI Kahlua 82H Sire of dam: SVPH 25C Storm 739H

Featured Service Sires:

13T NJW 73S M326 Trust 100W ET

2010 National Western Res. Jr. Calf Champion Bull

RVP STAR 533P Can-Am ET 57U

Calved: Jan. 17, 2007 Sire: FHF 8403 Starbuck 19H Sire of dam: Haroldson’s GLF 122L 201N

2010 National Western Champion Yearling Bull

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River Valley Polled Herefords Elwyn, Donald and Pauline Embury 240 Embury Rd., R.R. 1 Newburgh, ON K0K 2S0 Main Office 613-378-6632 • Cattle Office 613-378-2701 Fax 613-378-1646 • Res. 613-378-2224 rivervalleyherefords@kos.net www.rivervalleyherefords.com www.hereford.org

Auctioneer: Dale Stith 918-760-1550

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Each year approximately 200 Brahman cows are bred to Hereford bulls to produce the popular tigerstripe calves.

They must maintain a herd of straightbred cows that are bred to bulls of a different breed to produce the sought-after F1 heifers. That usually means they must manage two cow herds and the necessary separate breeding pastures. It can get complicated, and it’s not without cost. Buying F1 replacements can simplify matters. DCJ Ranch has sought to serve that market, as well as produce F1 females for its own commercial herd.

DCJ program

traits. He is a stickler for structural correctness, wanting bulls to be able to travel. He also looks for bulls displaying plenty of red pigment around their eyes. DCJ Ranch usually maintains 15 Herefords in its bull battery. On average, two new bulls are introduced each year. Older bulls are replaced after reaching six or seven years of age, making room for the fresh genetics. Cal says the Hereford bulls have been easily maintained under a system emphasizing grazed forages and minimal supplemental feed. Calving on DCJ Ranch starts in November and concludes in January, while cows are grazing winter grass. Generally, pairs are rotated through pastures of standing, stockpiled forage until the summer grass becomes available. Calves are weaned in early June. They are old enough by then, says Cal, to put early

summer’s lush, high-quality forage to good use. To hasten growth, calves are supplemented with a self-fed, controlled-intake ration (Purina Accuration®). Steers weigh 750 to 800 lb. by August, when they are marketed through a regional feeder cattle marketing alliance. For the most part, heifers are sold on the ranch at private treaty. “We push the steers a little bit, but we like the heifers to grow slower,” Cal offers. “I put more limiter in the heifer ration to hold down consumption. Heifers run in bigger pastures with the water at one end and the feed at the other. It encourages them to get out and move — to travel.” Cal says the Pfizer SelectVAC® preconditioning program is applied to all calves, and all are tested for persistent infection with bovine virus diarrhea (BVD). Heifers are calfhood vaccinated against brucellosis. It all contributes to the calves’ marketability, as does the application of electronic identification (EID) tags and enrollment in an age- and sourceverification program. “We’re trying to get these cattle as ready for the customer as we can, paying attention to genetics, nutrition and health. And then we market them,” emphasizes Cal. “We’ve built some good relationships with buyers — the kind that result in repeat sales. For example, our F1 steers usually sell through the same order buyer, sending load lots directly to Texas feedlots.”

“We run mostly tiger-stripes ourselves,” Cal explains. “We think the F1 cows really fit this environment and a production system based primarily on grazed forages. For us that’s mostly improved pastures of Bermuda grass or Bahia grass.” He also notes how Bermuda grass has the potential to produce a greater volume of forage, but Bahia grass’ longer growing season usually provides for more calendar days of grazing. “We raise a little hay and buy some too, but we emphasize grazing with as little supplemental feed as possible,” Cal adds. “Because of drought, we’ve fed more hay this year. But that’s not typical.” Picky about the bulls he buys, Cal uses expected progeny differences (EPDs) to select bulls with balanced Cal Whatley (right) and his Hereford bull supplier Perry Debter.

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Marketing plan Cal is working now on securing feedlot performance and carcass data on calves. Knowing how they have done — how calves feed and how they grade — will help guide genetic selection for the future. It should further enhance marketability of DCJ Ranch feeder cattle and replacement females too. Buyers of replacement females often like to know, and even see, where the heifers were raised. Selling females privately

at the ranch allows Cal to foster some lasting relationships with customers that visit the ranch. Hereford-sired heifers out of Brangus cows provide an alternative for those customers favoring black-baldie females with less Brahman influence, but the F1 tiger-stripe heifers are particularly popular. Marketing a select set of heifers through the Debter Hereford Farms bull sale has introduced even more buyers to the DCJ kind of female. The Debter family’s seedstock operation near Horton, Ala., serves as a source of Hereford bulls for DCJ Ranch. According to Perry Debter, Cal takes bull selection seriously and makes his choices carefully. He says Cal’s careful bull selection shows in DCJ females, and they provide favorable advertisement for Debter bulls. “Cal often comes here ahead of the sale and spends time going over the offering,” Perry explains. “He looks for growth and a strong maternal background. He picks bulls out of good mothers, paying close attention to milk and udder quality. And he wants bulls with a lot of dark pigment around the eyes. He’s trying to produce quality cattle that are as trouble-free as you can make them.” Cal says there is a strong demand for the mature bulls replaced by DCJ each year. So the older bulls are often sold as guest consigments to Debter sales, and go back to work in other commercial herds. Debter’s son, John Ross, has started a commercial herd of F1 tiger-stripes which are bred back to Hereford bulls. Cal says some of his customers are doing the same thing. Others choose bulls of different breeds as a terminal cross on the F1 females. “The Hereford-Brahman cow is useful just about anywhere in the Southeast,” offers Cal. “She can be crossed on good bulls of just about any breed to produce a quality product. And she’s generally going to keep doing it longer. Her longevity is a real advantage to the commercial producer.” HW

The ranch also manages a herd of 700 tiger-stripe females. www.hereford.org

1st Annual

Production Sale September 11, 2011 • Noon At our farm

Excel Heifer

• 2010 NAILE Grand Champion Bred-and-Owned • 2010 KILE Division Champion • 2010 KILE Junior Show Reserve Division Champion • 2010 NAILE Junior Show Division Champion

Powerload Heifer

• 2010 KILE Junior Show Reserve Grand Champion • 2011 NWSS Junior Show Reserve Division Champion • 2011 Grand Champion at the Indiana Preview Junior and Open Shows

Powerload Heifer

• 2010 Junior National Grand Champion

• 2010 Junior National Reserve Grand Champion • 2010 KILE Grand Champion

Selling over 40 lots

An elite selection of show heifers, steers, bred heifers and bred cows.

Excel Heifer

Enuff Heifer

Powerload Heifer

Guest consignors:

R amsey’s Herefords, J Ten Cattle Co. and Culy Farms

Jeff Koch and Jill Blake 7780 E. C.R. 450 N., Mooreland, IN 47360 317-446-8589 Visit our website for more pictures and video — www.showtimecattle.com www.hereford.org

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Debter's 39th Annual Bull Sale Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011 • Noon Selling: 80 2-year-old Hereford bulls 100 Commercial bred females

4134 Co. Hwy. 30 • Horton, AL 35980 Glynn Debter 205-429-2040 Perry Debter 205-429-4415 John Ross Debter • debterfarm@otelco.net

Farm located 50 miles north of Birmingham, 50 miles south of Huntsville, 25 miles east of Cullman and 25 miles west of Gadsden. Look for farm signs on Hwy. 278, mile marker 104.

2011 Nebraska Hereford Tour September 10 and 11, 2011 Sponsored by the Nebraska Hereford Association

Saturday, Sept. 10 Stops:

Ridder Hereford Ranch, Callaway Estergard Ranch, Callaway Cain Land and Cattle, Broken Bow Double Heart Diamond Cattle Co., Berwyn Holm’s Herefords, Mason City Kucera’s Beaver Creek Ranch, Litchfield Painted Wolf Ranch, Miller Linton Polled Herefords, Miller Zero Hereford Ranch, Miller

Headquarters for the tour is the EconoLodge Motel in Lexington.

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Sunday, Sept. 11 Stops:

Helms Polled Herefords, Holbrook Schroeder Brothers Polled Herefords, Arapahoe Nebraska Bull Service, McCook Estermann Herefords, Wellfleet Lapp Ranch, Hays Center John Sukraw, North Platte Gibson Herefords, Wallace

A bus is available for those not wishing to drive. Ride for $30/day or $50/both days. The bus will leave and return to the motel both days. For bus reservations, more info and a tour program, contact Joe Brockman, NHA Secretary, at 402-756-7127 or brockman@gtmc.net

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The All-Around

Cattleman Herefords play an integral role in Bill Goehring’s multifaceted cattle and auction enterprise. by Sara Gugelmeyer

ew people have their finger on the pulse of the cattle industry like local sale barn managers. Bill Goehring of southeastern Iowa is no exception. He and his wife, Becky, and their four sons run the local auction barn in Keosauqua, Iowa, and they own and do most of the caring for a purebred Hereford cow herd, a commercial cow herd and yearlings in backgrounding yards and, in their spare time, receive and process and/or ship several hundred head of cattle a week.

Hometown cattleman Bill and Becky’s cattle operation is right where Bill grew up near Libertyville, Iowa. Bill’s family raised Quarter Horses and commercial cattle when Bill was a child. Then in 1975 Bill got his first registered Hereford females as a 4-H project. He became active in the junior Hereford association through showing his home-raised heifers and served on National Junior Polled Hereford

Council in 1984. He’s remained in the business ever since. He graduated from Iowa State University with an animal science degree in 1986, the same year his parents bought Keosauqua Sales Co. He and Becky worked at the sale barn and grew their interest in it and the family cattle operation, and by 2003 they had sole ownership. Through the years Bill’s Hereford operation continued to progress and evolve. “I’ve had some good success with Hereford cattle,” Bill says. His herd consists of about 90 Hereford cows, and Bill says he’ll sell around 30 bulls a year, almost exclusively to commercial cattlemen. He usually sells seven or eight show heifers and retains about 18 heifers for replacements. The rest are sold as feeder cattle. He complements his purebred business with an Angus-based commercial cow herd of about 200 head, which are bred to homeraised Hereford bulls to produce sale-topping black baldies.

Bill is also always on the lookout for calves he can upgrade through his backgrounding program. He buys them, preferably around 400 to 600 lb., and backgrounds them on a total mixed ration until they weigh around 800 to 850 lb. Then they are sold or finished in a local confinement feeding facility or at a yard in Nebraska. Bill admits he has a lot of irons in the fire as far as the cattle business goes, but with the help of Becky and their sons, Curtis, Luke, Ted and Colby, all between ages 24 and 19, everything works together well.

Commercial focus The Goehring Hereford operation uses the latest genetics through artificial insemination to produce the best bull possible

Bill strives to produce the best possible bull for his commercial cattlemen customers. It starts with plenty of nice, even calves like these to choose from. www.hereford.org

for the commercial breeder. Bill says the Hereford bull market has improved greatly in the last three years. “The need for some genetic change away from an allAngus sire group is the reason mostly,” Bill explains. “The research and information that came from Circle A a couple years ago also really helped. Truly, though, Hereford cattle have gotten better. All that’s allowed us to sell bulls better.” Bill points out that raising bulls with the commercial producer in mind is key. “You have to have good bulls to compete with other bulls in our area. If you’ve got good bulls, it doesn’t necessarily matter what color they are. We have and need to continue to make Hereford cattle better as a breed, especially those of us that are focused on selling bulls to commercial people.” Bill admits his part of the world is not really big ranch country. While there are some big producers in the area, he says the average cow herd is 27 head, so he sells one or two bulls to a lot of customers. His customers want problem-free, low-maintenance calves because most are farmers or people who work in town and have some acres they aren’t utilizing in other ways that can be grazed. It’s on these types of customers that the Goehring family must focus, Bill says, because most calves are sold at weaning. “The majority (of my customers) are interested in increasing pounds of weaning weight. But they don’t want to pull calves. Birth weight is very important. Honestly, I think first, when they come looking for a Hereford bull, it’s for weight. They want pounds. But they will sacrifice a little birth weight over those little black calves if they’re going to wean more pounds. But they don’t continued on page 22...

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Disposition is also important, Bill says, and his customers appreciate a gentle bull. “They don’t like bulls that are growly or ornery, and their retained females are quiet.”

Family effort

Bill says the sale barn business and the other family cattle dealings complement each other well.

want a dead calf. It has to be a balance of birth and weaning.” For these reasons, Bill has been focusing on lowering birth weight slightly in his purebred herd. Lately, he’s had more and more customers wanting to use Hereford bulls on heifers. Bill says, “I don’t want to shrink weaning weights but I don’t mind taking a pound or two off the birth weight if they’re still growing really good.” Bill finds that the Hereford seedstock business complements running the auction barn, in his situation. There are few purebred Hereford producers in his area, so if a sale barn customer calls him looking for a Hereford bull, he’s not stepping on someone’s toes by suggesting

his own. In the last three years, many new customers are in the market for Hereford bulls, and Bill says he helps connect seedstock producers from across the country with bull buyers. It has worked out well for those buyers switching from Angus to Hereford bulls, Bill says. “There’s a gentleman just down the road here that was pretty much just Angus. He was using Angus bulls year after year on a set of originally Hereford-cross cows. He kept seeing weights go down. His calves were weighing 450 to 500 in January and (since he started using Hereford bulls) they weigh 550 to 600. We increased heterosis by putting another breed in there, but because our bulls were better quality, it really helped too.”

Disposition is important to the Goehrings as well, because they’re busy people. Besides all their cattle ventures, they raise cow-bred Quarter Horses. It’s a family tradition. “My granddad is supposed to be one of two guys that had the first Quarter Horses in the state of Iowa,” Bill explains. Although they don’t have as many mares as when Bill was a kid, he raises six to eight colts each spring. Most are sent elsewhere for training, but Bill’s sons use the colts on the ranch for various jobs. Bill stresses his sons are invaluable to the whole operation. “They are all involved here, either as partners on cows or drawing wages. I am definitely glad to have them. They do 95% of the work, chores and moving cows and all that. They are a terrific asset. I couldn’t begin to do what we do without them.” Because Saturday is sale day for the Goehrings, their sons didn’t have the opportunity to show cattle at weekend shows. Therefore, Goehring Herefords haven’t spent much time in the showring. But, their youngest son, Colby, in particular, has taken to showing and finds a way to get in the ring. Last summer, family friend Tommy

Coley took Colby along with him to the Junior National Hereford Expo in Indianapolis. “That piqued his interest,” Bill says. “So he got a bull and heifer ready for the Iowa Beef Expo (in February) and they both sold well. We just can’t do all that, but he has an interest and took care of them and got them ready to go.” On Saturday in Keosauqua, not just cattle are trading hands. The Goehrings offer a place to buy and sell anything and everything including hogs, sheep, goats, even hay and fence posts, and of course all classes of cattle. One of Bill’s favorite things is to see calves out of his bulls come through the sale ring. It gives him an idea of what he needs to adjust in his own program and what buyers are looking for in the calves. “I get to sell a lot of calves out of my bulls and nothing aggravates me worse than having a sorry set of cattle come through the ring,” Bill says. It’s also great news when he hears about his bulls siring calves that top other auction markets. “One of the biggest strings of calves that went through a competitor’s market a couple weeks ago was out of my bulls and they were the high selling calves in the auction. That’s important to me,” Bill says. Bill says as long as bull producers keep the commercial cattleman in mind, the Hereford breed will continue to see success. “Barring a special interest group doing something that would jeopardize the whole industry, we could never be put in a better place to stay profitable in the cattle business than we are right now. High corn has made for high cattle because of lower numbers, market weights are less and we are in the driver’s seat for being able to sell one at a good value to the public. The generation interval is so slow in building cow herd numbers we are four to seven years away from numbers catching up and honestly population will outrun what we can produce for beef cattle for a while,” Bill says. But, he stresses that quality is more important than quantity when it comes to the seedstock business. “Hereford cattle will be strong; where we could get in trouble is if we keep bulls that aren’t quality animals, if we try to sell numbers just because they’re red with a white face. We need to keep them good so that the cattle that our Hereford bulls are producing are competitive. As long as we can outpace the competition with quality, we can sell Hereford bulls definitely.” HW

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HIGHLIGHTS Progressive beef producers and academia attended the 2011 Beef Improvement Federation (BIF) Research Symposium. by Troy Smith

t’s been hinted at, diplomatically suggested and occasionally declared in bold accusations. It’s been said that genetic evaluation for beef cattle and the application of tools for genetic selection have too long emphasized traits related to increasing revenue from production, while paying too little attention to traits important to controlling costs of production. Rising input costs have forced the issue; however, and there is evidence of a shift in thinking. It showed in many of the presentations delivered during the 2011 Beef Improvement Federation (BIF) Research Symposium, hosted June 1-4 in Bozeman, Mont. Much of the discussion about recent, current and planned research focused on the incorporation of DNA technology into national cattle evaluation. Ultimately, geneticists want to develop genomic-enhanced expected progeny difference (EPD) values affording increased accuracy prediction for a variety of important traits, including traits important to controlling production costs. Researchers have devoted considerable effort to the study of animal health and feed efficiency traits. Plans call for more.

Genetics and health In his presentation, Colorado State University geneticist Mark Enns said the industry has focused on managing for increased performance in a given environment. Vaccination, early disease detection and treatment, and, more recently, low-stress Mark Enns cattle handling methods have been emphasized, but little serious thought has been given to genetic improvement of health. Enns said genetic selection for health traits will benefit producers through reduced cost

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of production, lower treatment and mortality rates, and reduction in the incidence of poor performance associated with sickness in cattle. According to Enns, opportunity for improvement through genetic selection likely exists for three “types” of diseases. These include: 1) diseases resulting from a defect in genetic composition, 2) diseases resulting from non-transmittable environmental challenges and 3) vector-related diseases. The industry has enjoyed considerable success in selection against genetic defects, Enns said. He also noted success in dealing with certain environmental diseases, including the highaltitude problem of “brisket disease.” Enns described the Colorado State University research that determined variation and heritability of pulmonary arterial pressure and its use in predicting whether an animal is likely to develop brisket disease in a highaltitude environment. Unfortunately, progress with regard to vector-related diseases remains elusive. As reasons, Enns listed the absence of genetic tools and a lack of knowledge about hard-to-evaluate traits such as health. A general lack of focus may be another reason. “I wonder,” asked Enns, “if we’ve tried hard enough?” The existence of genetic variation means that disease resistance is a heritable trait, according to Alison Van Eenennaam. In comments made during the BIF conference, the University of California-Davis genomics and biotechnology specialist talked about efforts to develop tools for selecting for increased resistance to bovine respiratory disease (BRD). She said the concept certainly isn’t new, explaining how the dairy industry selects for mastitis resistance and poultry breeders select for resistance to specific diseases. Van Eenennaam said recent research has revealed a genetic

Alison Van Eenennaam

“If disease-resistance traits are to become a crucial decision-maker for the seedstock producer or commercial cattleman, there needs to be a price signal moving back to those producers to help pay for these traits.”

link between animals with higher resistance to BRD. The link is rather weak, but it exists. Van Eenennaam said there exists another challenge to application of selection for BRD resistance. It is primarily a feedlot disease and typically does not pose problems for the cow-calf sector. The question is whether there will be economic incentives for seedstock and commercial breeders to select for resistance to a disease that may not directly affect their herds. “Producers will need to ask themselves how to compare the value of a disease-resistance trait with all the other EPDs available, like marbling, weaning weight, birth weight, etc.,” she said. “If disease-resistance traits are to become a crucial decision-maker for the seedstock producer or commercial cattleman, there needs to be a price signal moving back to those producers to help pay for these traits.”

and a polymorphism in the leptin gene. It has already been determined that leptin plays multiple roles. It has been associated with regulation of feed intake, energy expenditure and body weight, as well as reproduction. According to Gonda, it is also believed to play a role in immune function. The objective was to determine whether producers might have inadvertently selected for lower disease immunity when making selections based on this leptin polymorphism. However, results suggest there is no association with BVD vaccine response. Gonda said the study represents a first step toward development of a DNA test for vaccine response, but there are questions still unanswered. “One question is whether measurement of antibodies explains all of the vaccine response. My guess is that it does not and other factors are involved,” Gonda said. South Dakota “I want to build a State University resource population geneticist Michael to collect phenotypes Gonda talked about that can be used for studies of individual DNA testing.” animal response to Gonda also wants vaccination against to determine the bovine viral diarrhea genetic correlation (BVD), as measured between vaccine by blood antibody response and disease levels. Gonda’s susceptibility, as well Michael Gonda research has also as the correlation to investigated vaccine other economically response differences among important traits. After discovery calves by different sires. Results of DNA markers associated suggest a link between sire with vaccine response, these and calf vaccination response associations will need to be — strong evidence that the confirmed in an independent response was at least partially gene mapping population. The controlled by genetics. next task, Gonda said, will be to Gonda has also investigated develop a selection tool based on a link between vaccine response DNA markers.

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which identified 23 gene markers associated with RFI. Also heard during “We believe they the BIF conference explain about 18% was Texas A&M of the phenotypic University animal variation (for RFI) in scientist Gordon the discovery herd, Carstens’ report on and validation is under studies of animal way in a different feeding behavior as cattle population,” indicator traits for Moore said. genetic evaluation A factor common of feed intake. to previous studies Carstens explained Gordon Carstens is that markers how measurement generally performed of residual feed better in the discovery herd intake (RFI) is used to identify than in other populations used cattle capable of converting feed to validate the markers. more efficiently — cattle that “We have validated about perform as well or better than half of the markers, but we still others but with less feed. expect a much lower size of effect The advantage of selection (in validation herds),” Moore for feed efficiency based on RFI, admitted. “We should know in six rather than traditional feed-tomonths or so.” gain ratio, is that selection for According to Moore, the improved RFI is not accompanied availability of higher-density by increased mature size. marker panels for genotyping Selection on this basis could help cattle will aid in finding markers producers control feed costs. for traits such as RFI and should increase University of the potential for Alberta research application across geneticist Stephen breeds as well as for Moore talked evaluating cattle of a about efforts to given breed. develop markerassisted selection for Development of feed efficiency as DNA-based technology measured by RFI. for predicting genetic Moore said frequent merit for feed efficiency measurement of Stephen Moore in beef cattle will be individual animal the focus of a new feed intake and multidisciplinary research project. weight has become easier with According to Iowa State University application of recent technology. geneticist Dorian Garrick, a However, season of testing $5 million U.S. Department of and animal maturity have Agriculture (USDA) Agriculture been shown to influence RFI and Food Research Initiative estimates. Time and equipment grant will fund the collaborative costs also make phenotypic project involving researchers from measurement for RFI expensive. eight land-grant universities and The lower cost of a DNA testing USDA, including scientists at and the ability to make RFI the U.S. Meat Animal Research estimates while animals are Center at Clay Center, Neb. very young has spurred interest “We’ll look for reasons why in developing marker-assisted some animals are more efficient selection tools for RFI. by sampling animals that are Moore said a number of superior as well as [those that studies have attempted to develop are] inferior for feed efficiency,” marker panels for feed efficiency, Garrick explained. including Canadian research

Feed efficiency research

Researchers will focus on identification of factors influencing feed efficiency and development of tools for selecting cattle that require less feed to deliver acceptable levels of performance. Garrick said reducing the feed resources required per unit of beef produced offers benefits beyond reduction of production costs. It would reduce competition with humans for feed grains and could also reduce the beef industry’s environmental impact. Research will involve collection of phenotypic data on 8,000 animals representing eight breeds. Feed intake will be measured in addition to performance and carcass merit. Researchers will evaluate differences in feed efficiency relative to different diets, whether grain-based or foragebased. Animal DNA samples will be collected for gene mapping and the search for DNA markers associated with feed efficiency. “Animals will be genotyped with the high-density 700,000 [marker] chip to identify genomic regions accounting for variation in feed efficiency,” Garrick added. He explained how, after sufficient data is collected and markers are validated, the next step is development of genomic EPD values that cattle breeders can apply to selection for more efficient cattle. “It’s a five-year project, national in scope, involving multiple institutions, which undertakes basic and applied research to identify factors that impact feed efficiency,” Garrick stated. “It represents a shift from being output-based to being efficiency-based.”

Weight Trait Project The Weight Trait Project, started in 2009, will continue as part of the national research effort, and research leader Matt Spangler of the University of Nebraska will continue his involvement. Spangler told a BIF committee audience about the Weight Trait

Project’s investigation of the reliability of marker-based predictions across beef breeds. The project also provides a data resource helpful for determining methodology for incorporation of genomic information Matt Spangler into national cattle evaluation calculations with marker-assisted EPD values as the goal. Spangler said marker-assisted EPDs promise increased accuracy of prediction for young animals – animals for which there is little or no phenotypic data. “Genomic information holds the promise to not only increase the accuracy of EPDs but also add new and novel traits to our suite of traits included in national cattle evaluations,” Spangler explained. According to Robert Williams, American International Charolais Association director of breed improvement, there is no doubt that genomic information will be incorporated into genetic evaluation. The question, he said, is how to use Robert Williams it most efficiently. Williams lamented the many and separate “islands of data” which exist, respective to breed. Various industry entities are researching genetic improvement in search of the same things, but they do not share resources. Williams suggested cooperation in creating an information infrastructure to support research, technology development and partnerships, which will help improve the beef industry as a whole. That approach, he said, fits the mission of BIF. HW

Reducing the feed resources required per unit of beef produced offers benefits beyond reduction of production costs. It would reduce competition with humans for feed grains and could also reduce the beef industry’s environmental impact. Dorian Garrick

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THE BULL PEN BEEF RESOURCES PARTNERSHIP David Trowbridge P.O. Box 60, Tabor, IA 51653 402-740-7033 • david_trowbridge@msn.com

Offering 16 Hereford Bulls

1 Fall 18 mo. and 15 Spring Yearlings 3 Horned and 13 Polled

Sires: KCF Bennett 774 R73, Innisfail 440 1P, Sparks Trend 2007, KCF Benett 255M T121 ET Information Available: EPDs, Scrotal, Semen Tested, ADG, WDA, Ultrasound info, Delivery available, Low BW heifer bulls and Breeding Season Guarantee

LEFORCE HEREFORDS Henry LeForce 84999 Garvin Rd., Pond Creek, OK 73766 580-532-6100 info@leforce.com • www.leforce.com

Offering 33 Horned Hereford Bulls

Sires: Churchill Yankee ET, CJH Harland 408, CL 1 Domino 789T, Churchill Slugger 800U, Churchill Babe Ruth 714T, HH Advance 7083T Information Available: EPDs, Semen Tested, WDA, Ultrasound info, Delivery available, Low BW heifer bulls and Breeding Season Guarantee

Private Treaty

DOUBLE J FARM LLC John Wheeler 134 Thorncliff Dr., Fayetteville, NC 28303 910-483-6713 jm3k2d@earthlink.net

Offering 6 18-Month-Old and Yearling Hereford Bulls

Sires: PBF Buckshoot Charlie R16, BJF World Class Red Raider Information Available: EPDs, Scrotal, ADG, WDA and Low BW heifer bulls

Bulls and Females for Sale Private Treaty

BAY BROOK FARM

Rodney Phillips 4277 Factory Mill Rd., Dabneys, VA 23102 804-556-3810 • rodney@baybrookherefords.com • www.baybrookherefords.com

Offering 10 yearling and 18-month-old Polled Hereford Bulls

Bulls evaluated in the VHA Bull Development Program using standards of the Virginia Dept. of Agriculture and Customer Services “Virginia’s Finest” Program. Sires: Huth Prospector K085, TH 122 71I Victor 719, MSU Revolution 4R, EF BEEF Schular Proficient N093, EF BEEF Foremost U208, Huth The Babe W903 ET Information Available: EPDs, Scrotal, Semen Tested, ADG, WDA, Ultrasound info and Low BW heifer bulls

VHA Sales, New River Valley Assoc. Sale, Private Treaty Sales Reservations are being taken for bulls coming of test in October.

DEER TRACK FARM

FAUQUIER FARM

Bob Schaffer 3320 Deer Track Rd., Spotsylvania, VA 22551 540-582-9234 • bob@deertrackfarm.com • www.deertrackfarm.com

Robert Kube 6470 Beverly Mill Rd., Broad Run, VA 20137 540-347-4343 • rfkube@verizon.net • wwww.fauquierfarmva.com

Bulls evaluated in the VHA Bull Development Program using standards of the Virginia Dept. of Agriculture and Customer Services “Virginia’s Finest” Program. Sires: DTF Bellisarus 24F 426, STAR OBF Bogart 5L, DTF Heavyload 2013 0X51, MSU Revolution 4R, TH 71U Mr Hereford 11X Information Available: EPDs, Scrotal, Semen Tested, ADG, WDA, Ultrasound info and Low BW heifer bulls

Bulls evaluated in the VHA Bull Development Program using standards of the Virginia Dept. of Agriculture and Customer Services “Virginia’s Finest” Program. Sires: DRC 61T Prince 139W, FFV Rib Eye X1, CRR About Time 743, MSU TCF Revolution 4R Information Available: EPDs, Scrotal, Semen Tested, ADG, WDA, Ultrasound info and Low BW heifer bulls

KNOLL CREST FARM INC.

MEADOW RIDGE FARMS INC.

Offering 7 yearling Polled Hereford Bulls

VHA Sales, New River Valley Assoc. Sale, Private Treaty Sales Reservations are being taken for bulls coming of test in October.

Paul Bennett 17659 Red House Rd., Red House, VA 23963 434-376-3567 knollcrest@hughes.net

Offering 325 Yearling Hereford Bulls 100 Polled

Information Available: EPDs, Scrotal, Semen Tested, ADG, WDA, Ultrasound info, Low BW heifer bulls and Breeding Season Guarantee

Bull Sales: Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 and Saturday, April 7, 2012

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Offering 18-Month-Old and Yearling Hereford Bulls

VHA Sales: November 12, 2011 and April 2012

Douglas and Melissa Harrison 2184 Hillyard Dr., Broadway, VA 22815 540-896-5004 • Cell 540-810-0071 HarrisonMeadow@aol.com

Offering Yearling Bulls

Bulls evaluated in the VHA Bull Development Program using standards of the Virginia Dept. of Agriculture and Customer Services “Virginia’s Finest” Program. Sires: DR MRF Complete 774, World Wide Resolution, TH 122 71I Victor 719T, NJW FHF 9710 Tank 45P Information available: EPDs, ADG, Scrotal, WDA, Semen Tested, Ultrasound info and Low BW heifer bulls www.hereford.org

THE BULL PEN NORVUE FARM

Jack and Kathy Sheehan 4442 Factory Mill Rd., Dabneys, VA 23102 804-556-4947 • Cell 804-347-2415 norvuejack@gmail.com Bulls evaluated in the VHA Bull Development Program using standards of the Virginia Dept. of Agriculture and Customer Services “Virginia’s Finest” Program. Sires: BBF Heza Legend 53, BBF Heza Jumper N9, World Class, KCF Bennett 774 R413, Proficient N093, DTF Bellisarus 24F 426

POTTS CREEK FARM Jasper Persinger 2917 Potts Creek Rd., Covington, VA 24426 540-747-3261 • pottscreekfarm@ntelos.net

Offering 5 Bulls

Bulls evaluated in the VHA Bull Development Program using standards of the Virginia Dept. of Agriculture and Customer Services “Virginia’s Finest” Program. Sires: PCF S2 Enhancer 2D U7, PCF U18 Progress X1 (Va. Finest), PCF L4 Rib Eye X10, MSU Revolution 4R, SHF Rib Eye M326 R117, Feltons Matthew 855, DR PRC 3008 VR03 ET, RRH Mr Felt 3008

Private Treaty Sales

WINTERFIELD FARM Harry A. Knabe Jr. 2074 Gravel Hill Rd., Dillwyn, VA 23936 434-983-3110

Offering 10 Bulls

Sires: PW Victor Boomer P606, HK Choice Domino 52, HK Emperor Boomer W12

Cattle for Sale Private Treaty

POPLAR RIDGE FARM LLC Willis, Mary Ellen, Lucky and Becky Emory 4140 Planters Hall Dr., King George, VA 22485 540-775-2511 • Office 540-75-1475 luckyandbecky@gmail.com

Offering Four 2-Year-Old Polled Bulls Sires: MWM Prospector 508 Joe H1, DTF Bruno 24F 607, KEB Buck Boomer 29FU ET Information available: EPDs and Semen Tested

Private Treaty Sales. Call for prices.

ROLLING HILLS FARM

Sid Rogers 420 N. Hayfield Rd., Winchester, VA 22603 540-888-3134 • Cell 540-539-3352 • sidsrollinghills@hughes.net

Offering 10 Polled Bulls, 18-Month-Olds and Yearlings

Bulls evaluated in the VHA Bull Development Program using standards of the Virginia Dept. of Agriculture and Customer Services “Virginia’s Finest” Program. Sires: Churchill America 483, RH 774 America 483 S14, THM Durango 4037 Information available: EPDs, ADG, Scrotal, WDA, Semen Tested, Ultrasound info and Low BW heifer bulls.

Sales by Private Treaty, VHA Sales and Breeders Classic

Don't miss your chance to be a part of this section! For more information, please contact your field representative. Mark Holt 208-369-7425 Western Region Ben Brillhart 406-947-2222 Mountain Region Levi Landers 308-730-1396 North Central Region John Meents 419-306-7480 Upper Midwest Region Dustin Layton 405-464-2455 Southwest Region Tommy Coley 815-988-7051 Eastern Region Joe Rickabaugh 816-842-3757 Missouri and Iowa Northeast Region, contact the office 816-842-3757

This is a new feature that first appeared in our February 2011 issue of Hereford World. These blocks are designed specifically for the tabloid issues, which many progressive commerical operations receive four times a year. The demand for Hereford bulls is growing and we are discovering many commercial operations are returning a whiteface to their cow herd for numerous beneficial reasons. This section in the tabloid is designed to assist in locating operations that have a good selection of Hereford bulls. Plans are to continue this new section in our upcoming tabloid issues. Thank you to all who utilitze the Bull Pen. — Joe Rickabaugh

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capacity, equipment selections, and driving and weather considerations.

Haul Responsibly

Maintain your trailer Gill says trailer maintenance is a critical component of the stock trailer guidelines. “The main thing, to me, is trailer inspection, because we use trailers so seldom in most operations that we don’t regularly inspect the flooring,” he says. “In addition, we don’t clean out the wood-bottomed floors like we should, and they can break through, injuring cattle.” He says many cattlemen struggle with the concept of trailer inspection. “It’s a change in thought processes to inspect tires, wiring, flooring and gate latches routinely,” he says. “Most of us don’t inspect until they’re broken.” The guide also encourages producers to inspect tires, wheels and brakes routinely; to ensure a jack capable of lifting a loaded trailer is available; and to clean the trailer after each use for the safety of animals.

BQA Stock Trailer Transportation of Cattle guidelines can ensure your cattle make the trip safely. by Christy Couch Lee

Photo by Justin Moser

Load logically

t’s no secret. Proper handling of cattle can lead to fewer injuries and, ultimately, a higher quality product and increased revenue for your bottom line. And that’s exactly why the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) has released the Beef Quality AssuranceSM (BQA) Stock Trailer Transportation of Cattle guidelines. Ronald Gill, professor and Extension livestock specialist with Texas AgriLife Extension, helped to develop the program

guidelines. He says this program serves as a followup to the BQA Master Cattle Transporting program. “A few years ago, the Master Cattle Transporting program was designed to stress the importance of proper handling and loading procedures for semitruck drivers handling livestock,” Gill says. “We then realized the shortcomings with the lack of transportation information for transporting cattle to the auction facilities — overloaded trailers and poor flooring.

Recommended maximum number of cattle* for trailers of different lengths.**

Cattle weight, lbs. 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 1,400 1,600

Trailer size

Number of head

(inside dimension)

Total weight ***

16 ft. × 6 ft.

<7,400 lb.

18 ft. × 6 ft.

<8,400 lb.

20 ft. × 6 ft.

<9,300 lb.

24 ft. × 6 ft.

<11,100 lb.

20 ft. × 7 ft.

<10,800 lb.

24 ft. × 7 ft.

<13,000 lb.

32 ft. × 7 ft.

<17,300 lb.

* This chart represents the maximum number of polled/dehorned cattle for cattle for trailers of different lengths; when hauling horned/tipped cattle reduce the number of cattle by 5%. ** The number of cattle loaded during hot conditions should be reduced. *** The maximum weight of cattle for each trailer size with these calculations. Do not exceed the Gross Vehicle Weight Rating for your truck and stock trailer.

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We decided to concentrate on the stock trailer aspect.” Jim Turner, assistant professor and western area Extension livestock specialist with North Carolina State University, was also involved with the development of the program. “The majority of cattle are, at some point, on a stock trailer — from farm to market, or farm to farm,” Turner says. “We needed to think about how we could impact our industry by creating guidelines.” Turner says the guide contains common-sense guidelines for the industry. “None of this is really rocket science,” he says. “We, as cattlemen, just need to think about how we haul our cattle. We need to think about temperatures — not hauling during the hottest parts of the day in the summer or in extreme cold. We need to not overload our trailers. We need to do routine maintenance on our trailers. We need to take steps to be proactive and keep ourselves in a good light. When we have a mishap, it gives the industry a black eye.” Officially launched last year, the stock trailer guidelines were developed to encourage cattlemen to practice proper trailer safety procedures, including trailer maintenance, loading and unloading procedures, loading

Load density is also a critical component to stock trailer safety, Gill says. “Everyone tries to get at least one more on the trailer than they should,” he says. “Squeezing one more animal on the trailer is not good for the cattle, the trailers or the people.” Turner says the cost of an extra trip isn’t as great as the cost of losing an animal due to overloading. “If a cow goes down and can’t get up, how much money have you lost?” he says. “In addition, you get decreased fuel mileage when your truck is overloaded and you’re putting excess strain on your vehicle.” And, a cattlemen must also take care in loading the cattle onto the trailer. Gill says loading and unloading procedures are a critical issue that is often overlooked. “If we force cattle onto a truck with hot shots or yelling, they won’t want to be on that trailer,” he says. “They’re always trying to get off. But, by using the proper facility design and handling techniques, the cattle will walk onto the trailer quietly and will haul much more calmly.” And, lower stress leads to fewer problems with quality, Turner says. “As stress increases, immune function is reduced,” he says. “This can lead to more illness and carcass defects, and result in lower profitability. If cattle are calm after loading, there will be fewer injuries and less bruising.” Turner says it’s also critical to sort animals based on their age, size and horn presence. “Don’t put a calf in with mature cattle, or it’s likely to get www.hereford.org

hurt,” he says. “In addition, don’t put horned animals in the same trailer compartment with dehorned cattle, as they’ll use their horns to ensure they have plenty of room, crowding the rest.” Turner also recommends only hauling bulls together if they have been in the same pasture — not only for their safety but also for the longevity of the trailer. “I’d like to keep my trailer after hauling a load of bulls,” he says. And, hauling a cow in the late stages of pregnancy is not recommended, Turner says. “That’s not the best place to have a calf,” he says.

Fit to load? The following is a checklist included in the Beef Quality AssuranceSM Stock Trailer Transportation of Cattle guide, for assessing cattle to be in proper condition for hauling.

• Are cattle physically able to be loaded and unloaded several times?

• Can cattle walk normally, bearing weight on all four legs? • Are any cattle suffering from advanced stages of health disorders such as cancer eye, open wounds, mastitis, emaciation, malnutrition, exhaustion or deformity?

• Can each animal keep up with the rest of the group? • If cattle have been treated, has the withdrawal time passed? • Are cattle completely blind? • Do not haul female cattle that are in the late stages of pregnancy. HW

Easy to adopt Gill says no concept in the guide is difficult for cattlemen to adopt — the guidelines simply require a change in mindset. “Nothing is really difficult to do,” he says. “It all just requires a change of behavior. If you’re used to hauling 12 cows on your trailer and you really should only be hauling 11, it can be difficult to not squeeze that last one on there.” However, by following these guidelines, Gill says, quality of product should be maintained. “By properly using these procedures, we can manage the shrink on these cattle,” Gill says. “If there’s stress on the trailer, or if you have trouble with loading or handling, the cattle will shrink more, and that’s money out of your pocket. It’s hard to see, but it’s a significant, hidden loss in our industry.” And, obviously, injury during hauling can lead to even greater losses, he says. “Proper handling can also prevent the loss and crippling of livestock and the rejection of down cattle,” Gill says. To view or download the BQA Stock Trailer Transportation of Cattle training video, visit bqa.org/ bqastocktrailertransportation.aspx. HW

CL 1 DOMINO 860U {DLF,IEF} 42897554 — Calved: Jan. 10, 2008 — Tattoo: LE 860

L1 DOMINO 03396 {CHB}{IEF,DLF} CL 1 DOMINO 637S 1ET 42692477 CL1 DOMINETTE 118L

L1 DOMINO 00552 L1 DOMINETTE 96893 {DOD} CL 1 DOMINO 888H 1ET CL 1 DOMINETTE 903J

CL1 DOMINO 1172L CL 1 DOMINETTE 5142R {DOD} 42571150 CL 1 DOMINETTE 810H

HH ADVANCE 767G 1ET {SOD,CHB}{IEF,DLF} CL 1 DOMINETTE 7192G {DOD} CL 1 DOMINO 640F CL 1 DOMINETTE 6117F

• CE 2.6; BW 4.1; WW 67; YW 115; MM 26; M&G 59; MCE -0.4; SC 1.6; FAT 0.07; REA 0.43; MARB 0.11; BMI$ 22; CEZ$ 16; BII$ 18; CHB$ 30

150 BULLS FOR SALE ANNUALLY BY PRIVATE TREATY. Bill King 505-832-4330 • 505-220-9909 Tom and Becky Spindle 505-832-0926 P.O. Box 564 • Stanley, NM 87056

Located five miles north of Moriarty on Hwy. 41, then 1.5 miles east.

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N M The Hereford World welcomes new members who joined the American Hereford Association May 1, 2011, through June 30, 2011. 2J Farm Jennifer Jordan P.O. Box 35 Saltillo, TX 75478 2JT Ranch Jeff and Jo Thompson 11040 29th St. S.W. Dickinson, ND 58601 Ace Livestock Danny, Lila and Justin Fanning 21245 Hawthorn Rd. Joplin, MO 64801 Arrowhead Farm David Snead P.O. Box 187 Partlow, VA 22534-0187 Roy Barnes 447 Whitlock Ave. Marietta, GA 30064-2329 Barnett Farms Patti Barnett 2251 Caney Creek Rd. Chappell Hill, TX 77426-5281 Jack Barton 3709 N. Moorefield Rd. Mission, TX 78574 Bell Livestock Dan Bell 5055 Mountain View Winnemucca, NV 89445-7734 Jason or Jill Beltz P.O. Box 657 Galva, KS 67443-0657 Terry Bittner P.O. Box 31 Chenoa, IL 61726-0031 Timothy Blocher 14567 Lisbon St. N.E. Paris, OH 44669-9725 Broken Circle Ranch Kelly Day Levandoske 2551 Home Acres Rd. Stevensville, MT 59870 Pat Brown P.O. Box 814 Shoals, IN 47581-9728 Rick Budzinski 1921 13th Rd. Central City, NE 68826-8076 Buhler Family Cattle Co. 1563 E. St. Rd. 44 Rushville, IN 46173 Charlescote Farm Andrew Tucker 183 Farm Rd. Sherborn, MA 01770-1623 Christen/Phillips Cattle Co. Colter Christen 30016 Old Lincoln Hwy. Wanship, UT 84017 Circle T Family Farm Michael Taylor 3607 Hopson Mill Rd. Blythe, GA 30805-3622 Circle T Farm Jennifer Keplinger 2718 Rossville Blvd. Chattanooga, TN 37404 Cottonwood Cattle Seth Flower 350 Hwy. 29 S.W. Benson, MN 56215 County Line Farms Jimmy Sink 3249 Redman Rd. Yadkinville, NC 27055 Dailey Farm James and Kristy Dailey 2224 Dunns Eddy Rd. Youngsville, PA 16371-9801

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Davis Farms Tracy Davis P.O. Box 47 Ecru, MS 38841-0047 Deere Track Farm II Darrell and Stephanie Westmoreland 1245 Middleton Loop Walnut Cove, NC 27052 DJ's Cattle Co. Brett Carter 24332 Philson Rd. Bartlesville, OK 74006 Cheyenne Durham 1409 N. Ave. F Denver City, TX 79323-2126 Kimberly Eick 53447 Co. Rd. C Soldiers Grove, WI 54655-8548 James Elrod 268 Jenkins Ferry Rd. Martin, GA 30557-4412 Francois Herefords Richard Francois 1323 Creamery Rd. Afton, IA 50830-8139 Nathan Frost 12735 Market Ave. Tallula, IL 62688 Jody and Lisa Gilroy P.O. Box 21 Morris, OK 74445 Grace Herefords Tim and Clara Grace 211 S. Main St. Humboldt, SD 57035 Jeffrey Grudosky 3524 State Rt. 183 Rootstown, OH 44272 H&W Angus Farms LLC Maurice Holmes and Neil Wayne P.O. Box 187 Campbellsville, KY 42719 Half Mile Acres John and Barbara Hammarlund 130 Crooked Hill Rd. N. Guilford, CT 06437 Harosia Farm 4651 Rome New London Rd. Rome, NY 13440 Haugens Haven Chris Demaris 26376 Durant St. N.E. Isanti, MN 55040 James Hickey 8755 Purvis Rd. Lithia, FL 33547 Hidden Hill Farms LLC Chuck Cathcart 11954 Old Skipton Rd. Cordova, MD 21625 Horseshoe B Cattle Deayne Bronikowshi 35310 Bell Rd. Waller, TX 77484 J&K Cattle Co. John and Karen Thomas 509 N. Main St. Spring City, UT 84662-0321 JC Farm Jerry Clapper 199 Cave Rd. New Enterprise, PA 16664 JD Farms Donald Johnson 3009 Vale Rd. Russell, IA 50238 Jus-Lin Farms Fred Dykeman 1461 Rt. 163 Canajoharie, NY 13317

Katlee Cattle Ranch Lee Smith 15020 Lenze Dr., Tavares, FL 32778 Leaning Cedar Herefords Herman and Lauren Nunley P.O. Box 415 Iuka, MS 38852 Leli Farms 1240 Co. Hwy. 5 Otego, NY 13825 Livin Dream Ranch Daniel and Beatrice Jensen 46036 Riverbrooks Rd. Polson, MT 59860 Locust Grove Farm John Moran, DVM 217 Traverse Way Flemingsburg, KY 41041-0127 MacFarlane Livestock Bob, B.J. and Melissa MacFarlane 17410 Big Bear Ln. Cottonwood, CA 96022 Martin Boys Ranch Paul or Tammy Martin 17204 FM 56 Kopperl, TX 76652-4632 Dan May 1212 N. Country Club Rd. Stillwater, OK 74075-9574 McCullers Hereford Farm Scarlett McCullers 1000 Hwy. 630 W. Frostproof, FL 33843 McDowell Farm Josh McDowell 50 McDowell Dr. Dallastown, PA 17313 McKinney Miniatures Randy McKinney 3734 W. 350 S. Kokomo, IN 46902-9110 McMini Herefords Bryan McCutcheon 6389 W. Kansas Church Rd. Fredericksburg IN 47120 The Mini Fur Patch Josh Collins 2605 Certain Rd. W. Terre Haute, IN 47885-8805 Moir Moir Moir Country Farm Adam Moir 215 Macomber Rd. Chehalis, WA 98532-8672 R.J. Moyers 21701 Pleasant Park Rd. Conifer, CO 80433-6802 Murrow Farms Charles Murrow 1712 Cherry St. Alva, OK 73717 Bonnie and Rick Niese 2475 Rd. 13 Leipsic, OH 45856-9292 Larry Karrh North 317 Wollschlaeger Rd. Boerne, TX 78006-5933 Otis Ranch P.O. Box 164 Emigrant, MT 59027 Michael Pease P.O. Box 807 Custer, SD 57730 Morgan Pence & Son 4140 Kentucky Hwy. 78 Stanford, KY 40484-9305 Ross and Karol Pusateri 11040 Farmers Ln. N.E. Greenville, IN 47124 Rancho Loco Roland Enz 5115 Claribel Rd. Modesto, CA 97357

Rich Ranch Delbert and Michelle Rich 3568 N. U.S. Hwy. 251 La Salle, IL 61301 Kara Schafer 1452 Freeman Rd. Spencer, IN 47460 Richard Scheckel 114 Grove St. Ridgeway, WI 53582 Scheldt Farm Donna Scheldt 1080 Old Blacktop Rd. Emewen, TN 37101 Greg Schlickau 14601 S. McNew Rd. Hutchinson, KS 67501-8514 Jerald and Carolyn Seymour 1056 C.R. 4770 Winnsboro, TX 75494-6456 Randall Siers 832 Nebo School Rd. Nebo, WV 25141 Stangeland Farms Don Stangeland 679 41th St. Pipestone, MN 56164 That Farm Kenny Crawford 323 Ridge Rd. Camp, AR 72520 Triple H Farm Jason Hand 98 Lavinia St. #3 Bristol, VA 24201 Triple H Livestock Steve and Connie Henderson 13123 N. Co. Hwy. 9 Lewistown, IL 61542 T Walker Polled Herefords 169 VZ CR 2607 Mabank, TX 75147-5996 Twelve Stones Farm D.J. Sheppard 21344 Hwy. 15 White Plains, GA 30678-2024 Jonathan Van Dyke 53 Heaphy Ln. Salem, NY 12865-4208 Vision Farms Inc. Rondal Turner 760 R. Turner Rd. Tompkinsville, KY 42167 Christine Walpole 10 Cemetery Ln., Box 257 McLean, NY 13102-0257 Westhills Ranch Robert Horton 2512 Ross Ln. Central Point, OR 97502 Whispering Pines Farm 68 Leonard Ln. Reading, PA 19608-8726 Philip Williams 6029 Brackin Rd. Donalsonville, GA 39845 Wilson Farms Timothy and Kristi Wilson Rt. 1 Box 67D Petroleum, WV 26161 David Wolfe and Family 4967 E. 400 N. Monticello, IN 47960-7223 Wooden Trailer Cattle Co. Mike and Nancy Earick 1835 Co. Rd. 1035 Ashland, OH 44805 Ycross Ranch David and Mary Herman Jr. 6043 Pleasent Hollow Trail Shepherd, MT 59079 HW www.hereford.org

New Arrivals Cole and Jill Harvie of Harvie Ranching, Olds, Alberta, Canada, announce the birth of their daughter, Tinley Tinley Harvie Mary. Born May 25, Tinley weighed 6 lb., 11 oz. Sara and Jeremy Gugelmeyer, Dalhart, Texas, announce the birth of their son, Calvin Earl. Born June 22, Calvin weighed 7 Calvin lb., 6 oz., and was 20 Gugelmeyer inches long. Sara serves as Hereford World assistant editor.

In Passing Anna Katharina Redlin, 93, Summit, S.D., passed away April 9. Katharina was born in Straubing, Germany. She married and had a son, Gunter Alfred Grimm, by her first husband. In 1953 she married Alfred Redlin. Within a few years of their marriage, at Katharina’s insistence, they started raising registered Hereford cattle. She was a tireless promoter of the Hereford breed, and Redlin Herefords attained national prominence. Katharina was a member of the American Hereford Association and the

South Dakota Hereford Association. As a regular caller on a local talk radio program, she often shared her reasons for immigrating to America and her love for the country she chose to make her home after World War II. Katharina became a U.S. citizen in 1986. Katharina continued to live on the farm after Alfred died in 1999 and worked daily with the cattle until her health became too frail. She moved to Golden Living Center, Lake Norden, in the fall of 2006. She is survived by her daughter, Kathryn Gustafson; son, Frank Redlin; six granddaughters; and five greatgrandchildren. Milton John Costa, 66, Nampa, Idaho, passed away May 9 after a long battle with cancer. Born in Hanford, Milton Costa Calif., Milton lived most of his life in Paso Robles, Calif. Milton had been a cattle rancher since 1958 and was a well-known auctioneer. He was inducted into the California Auctioneers Hall of Fame and honored at the American Polled Hereford Association Standard of Perfection (SOP) show at the California State Fair, and he exhibited the first and only polled Hereford bull to win the Super Bull award at

the Cow Palace in San Francisco. He owned and managed the Central Coast Auction, a farm and construction company, in Paso Robles from 1976 until 2000. Through this time, he started an antique and draft horse auction throughout the state of California, later bringing his auctions to the state of Idaho. Milton is survived by his wife, Bonnie; three sons, Brian, Sean and Tyler; and a granddaughter, Caitlynn.

education in 1960. While at OSU, she met Wayne Haygood, and they wed on July 16, 1960. They lived in Virginia while Wayne served in the U.S. Army and then moved to Nebraska and Kansas. They settled for 17 years in New Harmony, Ind., where Wayne was a managing partner at Indian Mound Farm. Gayle taught several years before her children were born and then became a devoted wife and mother. She taught Sunday school and was a Girl Thomas Randall Wyman, Scouts and 4-H leader. 57, Posen, Mich., passed In 1981 the family moved away June 7. to Canadian, where Gayle was Thomas graduated from raised, and established Indian college with a mechanical Mound Ranch. Gayle worked very engineering degree and had hard with both Wayne and son Thomas Wyman worked at Shell Oil before Lee, running the office for the working as an engineer at Alpena ranch business. Combat Readiness Training Center. Gayle was a member of Canadian Thomas enjoyed farming and raising First United Methodist Church, Hereford cattle. a charter member of American Survivors include his wife, Sharon; Hereford Auxiliary and a past two stepchildren, Brian and Russell First; president of Hemphill County and his mother, Tracy Wyman. Historical Society. She owned and operated Canadian River Gayle George Haygood, Originals and created many 72, Canadian, Texas, passed beautiful clothing items and away June 13. original graphic designs, cards She graduated from and invitations. high school in Canadian Survivors include two and then from Oklahoma daughters, Leslie Osborn and Gayle Haygood State University (OSU) with Mary Myers; a son, Lee Haygood; a bachelor’s degree in elementary and five grandchildren. HW

“We have a very small Hereford operation for our family. College Fund, the bull we sold on BuyHereford in the March sale, was our initial involvement with BuyHereford. It was a huge success to start my son’s college fund. A great marketing service for our small Hereford operation.” Cory Thomsen, Mitchell, S.D. — Manager, Bushy Park Cattle Co.

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Entry Deadline August 16 September 13 October 11 November 15 December 13

Sale Date August 30 September 27 October 25 November 29 December 27

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C The “Calendar” is a listing of Hereford sales and events known to our staff. Italicized dates denote shows and events. Non-italicized dates denote sales. To make the “Calendar” concise we have used the following abbreviations: association, assn.; international, int'l; junior, jr.; mountain, mtn.; national, nat’l; northeast, NE; northwest, NW; performance tested, PT; southeast, SE; southwest, SW; and university, Un.

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2 Ozark Empire Fair Jr. Hereford Show, Springfield, Mo. 3 Ozark Empire Fair Hereford Show, Springfield, Mo. 3 Sonoma County Fair & Expo Jr. Hereford Show, Santa Rosa, Calif. 5 Sonoma County Fair & Expo Hereford Show, Santa Rosa, Calif. 6-7 Kentucky Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Bowling Green 6 New Jersey State Fair Hereford Show, Augusta 7-8 Indiana State Fair Jr. Hereford Show, Indianapolis 9 Wisconsin State Fair Jr. Hereford Show, W. Allis 11 Indiana State Fair Hereford Show, Indianapolis 12 Illinois State Fair Jr. Hereford Heifer Show, Springfield 13-14 Baker County Hereford Tour, Baker City/Halfway, Ore. 13 Illinois State Fair Hereford Shows, Springfield 13 Missouri State Fair Jr. Hereford Show, Sedalia 13 Montgomery County Agricultural Fair Hereford Show, Gaithersburg, Md. 13 Wisconsin State Fair Hereford Show, W. Allis 14 Missouri State Fair Hereford Show, Sedalia 14 MontanaFair Open and Jr. Hereford Shows, Billings 15 Iowa State Fair Hereford Show, Des Moines 18 Upper Peninsula State Fair Hereford Show, Escanaba, Mich. 18 Wyoming State Fair & Rodeo Hereford Show, Douglas 19-20 HYFA “The Harvest” Fund-raiser for Hereford Youth, Sonoma, Calif. 20 East Tennessee Polled Hereford Assn., White Pine 20 State Fair of West Virginia Hereford Show, Lewisburg 23 Appalachian Fair Hereford Show, Gray, Tenn. 25 New York State Fair Jr. Hereford Show, Syracuse 26 Western Idaho Fair Open and Jr. Shows, Boise 27-28 Kansas Hereford Tour, WaKeeney 27 Kentucky State Fair Hereford Show, Louisville 27 New York State Fair Hereford Show, Syracuse 27 Oregon State Fair Hereford Show, Salem 28 Iowa Hereford Breeders Tour, southeast 28 Maryland State Fair Hereford Show, Timonium 29 Colorado State Fair Jr. Hereford Show, Pueblo 30 BuyHereford.com Internet Auction 30-31 Colorado State Fair Hereford Show, Pueblo

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2 Nebraska State Fair Hereford Show, Grand Island 3 Boyd Beef Cattle and Guests, Mays Lick, Ky. 3-4 Illinois Hereford Tour, Central 3 Minnesota State Fair Hereford Show, St. Paul 3 South Dakota State Fair Hereford Show, Huron 4 Minnesota State Fair Jr. Hereford Show, St. Paul 4 Evergreen State Fair Hereford Show, Monroe, Wash. 5 Walker Polled Hereford Farm, Morrison, Tenn. 9-11 Kansas State Fair Jr. Hereford Show, Hutchinson 9 West Texas Fair and Rodeo Hereford Show, Abilene 10 Albin Farms and Lorenzen Farms, Newman, Ill. 10 Delaney/Atkins Open House and Private Treaty Sale, Lake Benton, Minn. 10 Idaho Hereford Tour, Idaho Falls 10 Minnesota Hereford Breeders Tour, Lake Benton 10 Missouri Hereford Assn. Field Day, Perryville 10-11 Nebraska Hereford Tour, south central 11 Showtime Cattle Co., Mooreland, Ind. 11 Wilson Cattle Co., Cloverdale, Ind. 13 Utah State Fair Open and Jr. Shows, Salt Lake City 15 Oklahoma State Fair Hereford Show, Oklahoma City 16 Churchill Cattle Co., Manhattan, Mont. 16 Kansas State Fair Hereford Show, Hutchinson 16 River Valley Polled Herefords, Newburgh, Ont. 16 Tennessee Valley Fair Hereford Show, Knoxville 16 Western Washington Fair Horned and Jr. Hereford Shows, Puyallup

SULLIVAN SUPPLY

Sullivan Supply South Hillsboro, Texas 800-588-7096 Fax 254-582-7114

Sullivan Supply Inc. Dunlap, Iowa 800-475-5902 Fax 712-643-5154

www.sullivansupply.com Check us out on Facebook

Proven Results BW 3.4 WW 63 97 YW MM 22 M&G 54 FAT 0.02 REA 0.64 MARB 0.31

C&L Advantage M326 22S ET

Sire: KCF BENNETT 3008 M326 • Dam: HH MS ADVANCE 8037H

HEREFORD RANCH

920-474-7403 • 262-617-6346 Cell www.cnlfarm.com • cnlfarm@execpc.com

/ August 2011

17 Central Missouri Polled Hereford Breeders Assn., Eldon 17 DeLHawk Cattle Co., Earlville, Ill. 17 Elmlodge Polled Herefords, Indian River, Ont. 17 Southern Circle Polled Hereford Assn., Martin, Tenn. 17 Western Washington Fair Polled Hereford Show, Puyallup 18 Lowderman Cattle Co. and Guests, Macomb, Ill. 18 Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords, Orillia, Ont. 18 New Mexico State Fair Hereford Show, Albuquerque 23 Baker Herefords Dispersion, Rapid City, S.D. 23 Eastern States Exposition Jr. Hereford Show, W. Springfield, Mass. 23 East Texas State Fair Jr. Hereford Show, Tyler 23 World Beef Expo Hereford Show, W. Allis, Wis. 24 Eastern States Exposition Hereford Show, W. Springfield, Mass. 24 White Column Farms/Forrest Polled Herefords, N. Augusta, S.C. 24 World Beef Expo Hereford Sale, W. Allis, Wis. 25 Hoffman/Topp/W4, Thedford, Neb. 26-Oct. 1 Colyer Internet Heifer Sale, Bruneau, Idaho 27 BuyHereford.com Internet Auction 29 Mohican West and Guests, Laurel, Mont. 30 Central Washington State Fair Hereford Show, Yakima

October __________________________________

1 Nelson Land and Cattle Co., Marietta, Okla. 1 Breeders Classic Sale at Stoneridge Manor, Gettysburg, Pa. 1 Curtis Polled Herefords Dispersion, Virgil, S.D. 1-2 Mud Creek Farms, German Valley, Ill. 1-2 Ohio Hereford Futurity Show, Dayton 2 East Texas State Fair Hereford Show, Tyler 2 Genetic Selection VIII, Spring Valley, Wis. 2 Tulsa State Fair Hereford Show, Tulsa, Okla. 5 Fryeburg Fair Hereford Show, Fryeburg, Maine 7 Dixie Classic Fair Hereford Show, Winston-Salem, N.C. 7 Keystone Nat’l Hereford Show, Harrisburg, Pa. 8 Georgia Nat’l Fair Jr. Show, Perry, Ga. 8 Harvie Ranching, Remitall West and Friends, Olds, Alberta 8 Journagan Ranch/Missouri State Un., Springfield, Mo.

8 Maryland Hereford Assn., Frederick 8 North Dakota Hereford Assn. Tour, Dickinson 8 Stallings and Guests, Eugene, Ore. 8 Tulsa State Fair Jr. Hereford Show, Tulsa, Okla. 9 Ridgeview Farms, Alto, Mich. 10 Baldy Maker Bull Sale, McArthur, Calif. 11 Powell Herefords, Ft. McKavett, Texas 11 Switzerland of Ohio Polled Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Belle Valley 12-16 Cow Palace Grand Nat’l Stock Show Hereford Show, San Francisco, Calif. 12 Sonoma Mountain Herefords/Lambert Ranch Bull Sale, Kenwood, Calif. 13 Dudley Bros. Bull Sale, Comanche, Texas 14 Alabama National Fair Open and Jr. Hereford Shows, Montgomery 14 State Fair of Texas Hereford Show, Dallas 15 A. Goff & Sons, Harrisville, W.Va. 15 Arkansas State Fair Jr. Hereford Show, Little Rock 15-23 Cow Palace Jr. Grand Nat’l Hereford Show, San Francisco, Calif. 15 Heartland Genetic Blend Hereford Sale, Jackson, Mo. 15 Jensen Bros., Courtland, Kan. 16 Arkansas State Fair Hereford Show, Little Rock 16 California Bullfest, Galt 16 Circle D Energy & Cattle, and Hill & Hollow Farm, Vincent, Ohio 16 Star Lake Cattle Ranch, Skiatook, Okla. 16 Langford Herefords/Perks Ranch, Okmulgee, Okla. 19 North Carolina State Fair Hereford Show, Raleigh 19 Texas Hereford Fall Classic, Buffalo 20-21 South Carolina State Fair Hereford Show, Columbia 21-22 South Carolina State Fair Jr. Hereford Show, Columbia 21 Tennessee Hereford Marketing Program Feeder Calf Sale, Columbia, Tenn. 21 W4 Ranch, Morgan, Texas 21-22 West River Livestock Show Open and Jr. Hereford Shows, Dickinson, N.D. 22 J&L Cattle Services and Guests, Jeromesville, Ohio 22 Debter Hereford Farms Bull Sale, Horton, Ala. 22 Northern Int’l Livestock Expo Hereford Show, Billings, Mont. 22 Washington “Select” Sale, Moses Lake

23 TLR Herefords, Canfield, Ohio 24 Hill Vue Farm, Blairsville, Ga. 25 BuyHereford.com Internet Auction 25 Kentucky Hereford Assn. State Sale, Stanford 25 Kentucky Hereford-Influenced Feeder Calf Sale, Stanford 25 Strang Herefords, Meeker, Colo. 26 Wooden Show Farms, Blackfoot, Idaho 27 State Fair of Louisiana Open and Jr. Hereford Shows, Shreveport 29 American Hereford Association Annual Membership Meeting, Kansas City, Mo. 29 Deana Jak Farms, New Enterprise, Pa. 29 Ladies of the Royal Sale, Kansas City, Mo. 30 American Royal Nat’l Hereford Show, Kansas City, Mo. 30 Hausner Cattle Co., Thomasville, Pa. 30 Red Carpet Sale, Wilton, Calif.

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4 Innisfail Farm Bull Sale, Madison, Ga. 4 Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Assn., El Reno 5 Burns Farms Bull Sale, Pikeville, Tenn. 5 Fallfest 2011, Michigan State Un., E. Lansing 5 Reynolds Herefords, Huntsville, Mo. 6 Beck-Powell Polled Herefords, Bainbridge, Ind. 6 Shades of Red & White Show Calf Sale, Clay Center, Kan. 9 Barber Ranch Bull Sale, San Saba, Texas 9 Westwind Ranch Bull Sale, Valier, Mont. 12 Grandview CMR, Como, Miss. 12 Mid-Atlantic Fall Round-Up Jr. Show, Harrisonburg, Va. 12 Pride of the Pasture Sale, Freeport, Ill. 12 South Dakota Hereford Assn., Brookings 12 Virginia Hereford Assn., Harrisonburg 13 North American Int’l Livestock Exposition Jr. Heifer Show, Louisville, Ky. 15 Montana Hereford Assn. Annual Meeting, Three Forks 16 Bluegrass Stakes Heifer Sale, Louisville, Ky. 16 Montana Hereford Assn. Hereford Influenced Feeder Calf Sale, Three Forks 17 North American Int’l Livestock Exposition Nat’l Hereford Show, Louisville, Ky. HW

Genetic Selection Sale VIII

October 2, 2011 Offering the Best of Five, Time-Tested Programs Boettcher’s Brookview Acres, J&J Herefords, Larson Hereford Farms, MGM East and Wildcat Cattle Co. New Location: Larson Hereford Farms, Spring Valley, Wis.

NORTHFORK COWS WORK

NORTHFORK RANCH Galen Krieg

1795 E. C.R. 1000 • Basco, IL 62313 217-743-5382 • gkrieg@frontiernet.net

Southern Circle Polled Hereford Association

September 17, 2011 Smith Livestock Center Martin, Tenn. Contact Ray Pierce 731-695-6888 or 731-422-2333 www.hereford.org

Genetically Yours XIX

sale tion loca . Darr

The Tradition of Quality Continues

Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011

BW 5.3 WW 49 YW 81 MM 24 M&G 49 FAT 0.01 REA 0.44 MARB 0.10

11 a.m. • Springfield, Mo.

140 Head Sell

am H er Willi ure Cent ult . Agric ingfield, Mo Spr

BW -1.2 WW 39 YW 61 MM 15 M&G 35 FAT 0.03 REA 0.19 MARB 0.09

LJR MSU Silvia 19Y

A deep bodied daughter of LJR P606 Smith 114S. This is a powerful female. The Smith daughters are making outstanding cows. BW 2.1 WW 33 YW 51 MM 18 M&G 35 FAT 0.03 REA 0.08 MARB -0.01

BW 4.6 WW 43 YW 67 MM 22 M&G 43 FAT 0.01 REA 0.23 MARB -0.01

LJR Winona 170U

One of the very best of our Frontier daughters. What cows they are! A great female to look at with a Dam of Distinction grandmother and a superb heifer calf by C&L Mr Beef 2F 27P.

See this catalog online at www.reedent.com. Video catalog online at www.buyhereford.com

Jim and Linda Reed • P.O. Box 126 Green Ridge, MO 65332 660-527-3507 • Fax 660-527-3379 reedent@iland.net • www.reedent.com

Brian, Samara and Terrell Reed 416 North Drive Abernathy, TX 79311 Craig, Natalie, Macy and Mallory Reed 11621 Kenwood Ave. Kansas City, MO 64131

Jim D Bellis Family

Jim D. and Carla Bellis Joanna and Jonathan Jamie and Kevin Johansen 17246 Hwy. K Aurora, MO 65605 417-678-5467 JimBellis@missouristate.edu www.hereford.org

A herd bull prospect that is from the heart of the LJR program, built on 32 years of performance testing. His dam has two Dams of Distinction in her pedigree.

Our first daughter of Whitmore, the top selling bull in our 2009 sale. We think she is one of the elite young females in the sale. Great numbers with a Dam of Distinction grandmother. She can’t miss being a great cow.

32 Years Continuously Breeding Quality Performance Polled Herefords Herd Certified and Accredited

Auctioneer: Eddie Burks

Journagan Ranch

Sale Managed by:

Jim and Linda Reed P.O. Box 126 Green Ridge, MO 65332 660-527-3507 • Fax 660-527-3379 reedent@iland.net • www.reedent.com

LJR 277T Rushmore 4Y

LJR MSU Whitney 1Y

Rt. 1 Box 85G • Mountain Grove, MO 65711 • Leo and Jean Journagan, Marty Lueck, manager 417-948-2669 • Cell 417-838-1482 • mvlueck@centurytel.net Missouri State University Educating future leaders in agriculture Justin Sissel 417-818-8714

Malone Hereford Farm Breeding Stock, Polled Hereford and Cross Steers Alton and Marie Malone

1371 Rd. F Emporia, KS 66801 Phone/Fax 620-342-7538 malone@maloneherefordfarm.com www.maloneherefordfarm.com

McMillens Toothacre Ranch J.L. and Fonda Trent and Mary 9128 W. Farm Rd. 30 Walnut Grove, MO 65770 417-788-2787 Cell 417-830-7257 Fax 417-863-6884

Glengrove Farm Bob and Gretchen Thompson 12905 C.R. 4010 Rolla, MO 65401 573-341-3820 bandgthompson@earthlink.net

www.glengrovefarms.com

Supplying the Hereford industry with value-added genetics for 35 years!

CA Cattle Ranch

Charles and Eleanor Aikens Owners HCR 61, Box 3865 W. Plains, MO 65775 417-764-3025 Chuck Aikens, Ranch Manager 417-764-3717 Trip Aikens, Herdsman 417-270-7051

Roth Hereford Journagan Ranch Farm Leo and Jean Journagan Home of RHF THM Supreme 2026 1146 N.E. Hwy. J Windsor, MO 65360 Ed and Carol 660-694-2569 • 660-694-0000 Fax Eddie, Mary, Lane and Levi 660-647-9907 croth745@earthlink.net

Rt. 1, Box 85G Mountain Grove, MO 65711 Marty Lueck, Manager 417-948-2669 or 417-838-1482 Fax 417-948-0509

AbraKadabra

Biglieni

Mark, Terry, Sabrina and Brianne Abramovitz 6969 Bass Ln. Columbia, MO 65201 573-864-6475 Cell 573-441-9951 Home/Fax Andy Curtz 660-287-3338

Farms

Tom and Belle Biglieni 4125 St. Hwy. P Republic, MO 65738 417-827-8482 tgbig@sbcglobal.net Shane and Brooke Bailey Stella, Mo. 417-793-0512 Hereford Breeder Since 1962 August 2011 /

ALABAMA Campbell Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Debter Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 54 ARIZONA Las Vegas Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Mountain View Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Nine Cross Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 ARKANSAS Crooked Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 James Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Winningham Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 CALIFORNIA Alto Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Five H Farms/J-B Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jess Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lambert Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McDougald Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Morrell Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mrnak Herefords West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nyland Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oak Knoll Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pedretti Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Perrin Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R&R Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sonoma Mountain Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tripp Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valentine Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weimer Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilbourn Cattle Co., Aaron & W6 Herefords . . . . . . . .

33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33

COLORADO Campbell, James T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coleman Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coyote Ridge Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ernst Family, Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hall Herefords, Doug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hanging W Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Indian Cave Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kubin Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robb & Sons, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roderick Leach Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sidwell Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Strang Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33 33

DELAWARE SV Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FLORIDA Crooked Lake Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GEORGIA CES Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CSR Polled Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dillard Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greenview Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hill-Vue Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leonard Polled Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mead Cattle Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nunnally Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Predestined Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thompson Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Whaley Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . White Hawk Ranch Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

54 53 53 33 33 54 56 54 54 33 54 54

IDAHO Canyon Gem Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Circle C Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Circle S West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colyer Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elkington Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fern Ridge Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harrison & Sons, Hawley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heritage Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JBB/AL Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johnson Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moonlight Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shaw Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Split Butte Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wooden Shoe Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

33 33 33 33 33 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34 34

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ILLINOIS Apple Ridge Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Baker Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Behrends Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Benedict Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Bickelhaupt Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Bob-O-Lou Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Burns Polled Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Crane Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 DeLHawk Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Ellis Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Eubank Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Fleisher Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Harbison and Sons, Ray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Knott Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Loehr Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Lorenzen Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Lowderman Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 McCaskill Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Miller Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Milligan Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Newbold Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Northfork Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Oak Hill Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Perks Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 49 Plainview Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Prairie Meadow Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Purple Reign Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Riddell Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 River Ridge Ranch & Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Sayre Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Stephens Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Sweatman Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

/ August 2011

INDIANA Able Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Beck-Powell Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 42 CDF Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Clinkenbeard Farms & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 DAD’s Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 DaVee Enterprises, R.W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Everhart Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Ferguson Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Gray Family Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Green Meadow Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Greives Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Hayhurst Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Hunt Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 J&K Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Kesling Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Kottkamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Miller Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Show Time Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Stuckey Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Wilson Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 IOWA Amos Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Beef Resources Partnership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 43 GAR-NANC Cattle/Rau Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Jackson Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 K7 Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Landt Herefords, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Ohnemus Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Rosenberg, James N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Sladek Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Sorensen Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 St. Clair Hay & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Stream Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 43 Wiese & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Woodland View Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 KANSAS 4V Douthit Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Alexander Farms Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Davis Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Douthit Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Herbel Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Jamison Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Jensen Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 35 M-M Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Malone Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Meitler, Gene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Oleen Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Oleen Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Sandhill Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Schu-Lar Herefords LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Springhill Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Towner Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Umberger Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 VJS Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 KENTUCKY BBL Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Botkin Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Boyd Beef Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chambliss Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dogwood Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JMS Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peyton Well Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Popplewell Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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LOUISIANA 5C’s Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Smith Land & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 MAINE Maplewood Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARYLAND All Seasons Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Church View Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . East Side Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emerson’s Short Bridge Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foggy Bottom Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R&T Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Randall Land & Cattle Co., LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Red Oak Point Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SCH Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tamsey Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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MICHIGAN Behnke’s Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cottonwood Springs Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grand Meadows Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hanson’s Double G Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McDonald Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parks Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RLB Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rottman, Phil and Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sugar Sweet Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Templeton Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Veeser’s Triple E Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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MINNESOTA DaKitch Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Delaney Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frederickson Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lawrence Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oxley Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Schafer Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Springwater Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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MISSISSIPPI Broadlawn Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Caldwell Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Grandview CMR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

MISSOURI Abra Kadabra Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Bellis Family, Jim D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Biglieni Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Bonebrake Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 CA Cattle Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Falling Timber Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Findley Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Glengrove Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Harding Bros. Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Heartland Genetic Blend Hereford Sale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Journagan Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36, 51 McMillens Toothacre Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Missouri State University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Reed Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Roth Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36, 51 Schneider Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 MONTANA Brillhart Ranch Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Broken Pick Land & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Churchill Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Cooper Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Curlew Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Dutton Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Ehlke Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Feddes & Sons, Marvin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Holden Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 J Bar E Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 McMurry Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Mohican West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Thomas Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Westwind Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 NEBRASKA 7 Mill Iron Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blueberry Hill Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fisher, Lowell and Carol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frenzen Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gibson Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hoffman Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JB Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linton Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monahan Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nebraska Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Niedermeyer Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ridder Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Schutte & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spencer Herefords Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Upstream Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Van Newkirk Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 36 20 36 36 36 36 36 36

NEVADA Bell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Brumley Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Genoa Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36, 55 Hutchens Herefords, Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 NEW HAMPSHIRE Overlook Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 NEW JERSEY Grass Pond Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 NEW MEXICO C&M Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Copeland & Sons Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Cornerstone Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 King Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29, 36 West Star Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 NEW YORK SK Herefords LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 NORTH CAROLINA Double J Farm LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 36 Kove Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Myers Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37, 53 Terrace Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Triplett Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 W&A Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Will-Via Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 NORTH DAKOTA Boehnke Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Carter’s Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Friedt Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Friesz Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Mrnak Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37, 44 North Dakota Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Olson Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Pelton Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Rockeman Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 OHIO Banks Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Berg Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Buckeye Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Farno Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Grandview Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Helsinger Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Herman Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Hively’s Hereford Lane Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 J&L Cattle Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Mohican Polled Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37, 48 Morrison Stock Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 NS Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Oakridge Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Sunny Side Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Ullman & Son, Ralph E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 OKLAHOMA Beacon Hill Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CBY Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CNB Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dennis Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dufur Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Durham Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Flying G Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Fullerton Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Graft-Britton Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Gray Land & Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Jacobs Ranch LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Langford Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 LeForce Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 37 Loewen Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Moss Herefords, Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Nelson Land & Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13, 37 P&R Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Star Lake Cattle Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

OREGON Bar One Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bird Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chandler Herefords Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . England Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harrell Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . High Desert Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oregon Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Quick Mill Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stallings Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Y Cross Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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PENNSYLVANIA Bar-H Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creekside Hollow Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deana Jak Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flat Stone Lick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glenview Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hausner Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heritage Hill Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slayton’s BearDance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stone Ridge Manor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vogel Valley Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

37 37 37 56 56 46 46 37 46 37

SOUTH CAROLINA Forrest Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fowken Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Keese Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . White Column Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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SOUTH DAKOTA Baker Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bar JZ Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bischoff’s Ravine Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blume Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Courtney Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cranston Herefords, Roy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Curtis Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eggers Southview Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fawcett’s Elm Creek Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hoffman Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JBN Livestock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K&B Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LaGrand Angus and Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rausch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thorstenson Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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TENNESSEE Burns Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Coley Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 DLL Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 East Tennessee Polled Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Four L Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Jackson Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Kerr Polled Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Mud Creek Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 54 Parker Bros. Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 River Circle Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Southern Circle Polled Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . 32, 50 Triple L Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Walker Polled Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23, 54 Woodard Hereford Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 TEXAS Alpha Equine Breeding Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 B&C Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Barber Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Case Ranch Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Dauer Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Doyle Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Dudley Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 38 Fuston Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 G3 Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 GKB Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Glaze Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 H2 Ranch and Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Indian Mound Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Kinnear Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 41 Larsons’ Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Lone Star Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Massey Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 McInnis Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 McMullin Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Metch Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 ML Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Neel Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Noack Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Nolan Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Powell Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 39 Rockin’ W Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Rocking Chair Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Sanders Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Schmidt Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Skrivanek Ranches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Spearhead Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 41 Still River Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Sunny Hill Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Texas Hereford Assn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Williams/Ferguson Ranch L.P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Willis Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

UTAH Allen & Son, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cache Cattle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Circle BJ Polled Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ekker Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johansen Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pallesen Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rell Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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VIRGINIA Bay Brook Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Deer Track Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Fauquier Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 46 JPS Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Knabe Jr., Harry A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Knoll Crest Farm Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 46 Meadow Ridge Farms Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Norvue Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Poplar Ridge Farm LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Potts Creek Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Rolling Hills Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 39, 46 Thistle Tree Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Winterfield Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 WASHINGTON CX Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diamond M Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dusty Coyote Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ottley Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yoricka Farm Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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WEST VIRGINIA Cottage Hill Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Goff & Sons, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 39 Grandview Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Grassy Run Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Haught Bros. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Hickory Springs Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Law & Sons, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 McDonald Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Sapp Valley View Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Westfall Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 WISCONSIN BBC Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Boettcher’s Brookview Acres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 C&L Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 39, 50 DeLHawk Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Genetic Selection Sale VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 50 Huth Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 47 Kegley Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Koens Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Lietzau Hereford Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Lininger Farms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 MGM East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 MGM West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Owego Stock Farm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Pierce’s Hereford Haven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Starr Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Wildcat Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Wiswell Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 WYOMING Berry’s, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Holmes Herefords/Drake Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Largent & Sons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McClun’s Lazy JM Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Micheli Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Middleswarth Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ochsner Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Perkes Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ward, Ned and Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wyoming Hereford Ranch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CANADA Elmlodge Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 40 Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 40 River Valley Polled Herefords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 SERVICES Barnes, Tommy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Bessler Inc., James F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 T/Big Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Biozyme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Birdwell, James M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Birdwell, Joel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Booker, C.D. “Butch” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Breeders Insurance LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Burks, Eddie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Buyhereford.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 CattleMax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Conover, Al . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Fine Time Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Gay Livestock Insurance, Jerry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Genex Cooperative Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Hoffman AI Breeders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Jensen Live Stock Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Layton, Dustin N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Lowderman, Cody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Lowderman, Monte W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 McClintock, Mark and Teresa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 MCS Auction LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Midwest Cattle Service Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 National Cattle Services Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 National CUP Lab & Tech Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Purina Accuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Reed Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Schacher Auction Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Select Sires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Stith, Dale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Sullivan Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 T Bar C Cattle Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Weishaar, Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Wendt, Kevin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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Flat Stone Lick is going to the “Breeders Cup” Sale

at Boyd Beef Cattle, Mays Lick, Ky. • Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011

Selling five cows with heifer calves.

27Y

19Y Sire: MSU TCF Revolution 4R • Calved: Jan. 17, 2011 BW 4.8; WW 67; YW 109; MM 19; M&G 53; FAT 0.00; REA 0.69; MARB 0.16

Sire: MSU TCF Revolution 4R • Calved: Jan. 28, 2011 BW 1.5; WW 55; YW 88; MM 20; M&G 47; FAT -0.01; REA 0.49; MARB 0.20

37Y Sire: MSU TCF Revolution 4R • Calved: Feb. 8, 2011 BW 2.9; WW 55; YW 88; MM 19; M&G 47; FAT 0.01; REA 0.54; MARB 0.08

FSL

Les and Nancy Midla & Family

Flat Stone Lick

39Y Sire: SHF Rib Eye M326 R117 • Calved: Feb. 10, 2011 BW 1.5; WW 51; YW 79; MM 20; M&G 46; FAT -0.01; REA 0.37; MARB 0.28

Dale Stith, Auctioneer/Sale Manager 918-760-1550 Sale catalog mailed with August Hereford World

34 Cranberry Marsh, Marianna, PA 15345 • 724-267-3325 • nmidla@pulsenet.com • Don Riggin, herdsman Documented cattle that are right for today’s industry.

Pro Performance Breeders

FSL

Flat Stone Lick

Cattle Enterprises Tommy, Robin and Tommie Lynne 1230 Reeves Rd. • Midville, GA 30441 706-554-6107 • Cell 706-339-0201 www.meadcattle.com tommy@meadcattle.com

Les and Nancy Midla & Family

P.O. Box 3398, Lake Wales, FL 33859 Pat Wilson Inc., Owner 863-679-6700 Office crookedlakeranch@verizon.net David McCullers, Manager 863-635-3821 Home

W. Massey Booth Jr. and Curtis H. Booth 711 Kings Run Rd. Shinglehouse, PA 16748 814-697-6339 masseyb@frontier.com

34 Cranberry Marsh Marianna, PA 15345 724-267-3325 nmidla@pulsenet.com Don Riggin, herdsman Documented cattle that are right for today’s industry.