National Livestock Exhibitor Oct. 2016

Selling • 40 • 25 • 55

Sunday, October 16th, 2016 | Dunlap, Iowa | 12:00 PM

For catalog call or email Summer Pieper at 712-269-5925 or summer@sullivansupply.com. View catalog and videos online at at www.maternallegends.com.

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330 HEAD

Many Dual Registered

Shorthorn Open Heifers ShorthornPlus Open Heifers Shorthorn, ShorthornPlus, Hereford & Bred Heifers Shorthorn Cows Chi Open Heifers Lim-Flex Open Heifers Maine-Anjou/ MaineTainer Open Heifers PB Simmental Open Heifer % Simmental Open Heifers

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Hereford Donor Cows Hereford Preganacies Hereford Frozen Embryos Hereford Open Heifers Club Calf Influenced Cows Angus Open Heifers Charolais Open Heifer Composite Charolais Open Heifers Semen and embryos

Lot 45...Chianina, May, Who Da Man x SSUL Sultry 6640 Lot 52...Maine-Anjou, February, Daddy’s Money x HAA Countess 399W

Lot 95...Monopoly x 105 Bred to I-80.

105’s Best Daughter yet.

Lot 93...Irish Whiskey Cow Bred to Daddy’s Money

Lot 92..Irish Wishkey cow and dam of 2016 MO State Fair Grand Champion Steer

Lot 7a...ShorthornPlus, May, SULL Red Knight x SULL Lucky Stock 8411

Maternal Legends

Lot 145...TCC Miss Shelby 82T National Champion and Dam of National Champions

farms John, Dede, Sara & Sage • James • Nick

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Season Finale December 17, 2016 Hillsboro Ohio

100 Head of fancy females bred to the industry’s leading sires.

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For several years, The Season Finale has offered top bred cattle at affordable prices! We hear every year stories of great returns for our customers and would love to have our cattle making money for you!

If you’ve never been, this is the year to make the trip to Hillsboro and see for yourself!

Kopp Land & Livestock Tim Schwab, Manager 812-569-8536

Campbellco Dave & Jody Campbell Opie 937-206-5303

Plan now to attend and be sure to request a catalog at www.stockoptionsmarketing.com or call sale manager, Kevin Mears 937.533.0169

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Silveiras Style (Angus)

Gamble’s Safe Bet (Angus)

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Colburn Primo (Angus)

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Bush’s Unbelievable (Angus)

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GQ ( Angus)

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TH Victor 43Y (Hereford)

Titan (Angus)

Firestorm (Red Angus)

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Detour (Red Angus)

Fire Water (Charolais)

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H Excel (Hereford)

Custom Made (Hereford) Purple Womanizer (Hereford)

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Damn Proud (Shorthorn)

PCC Witten (Angus)

Deception (SH)

Catapult (Hereford)

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Bearcat (Shorthorn)

SULL Payday (Shorthorn) FSF Starburst (Shorthorn)

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All That Matters (Maine)

Maternal Made (% Maine)

NAGE Ante Up (Maine)

GVC Suh (Maine)

Daddy’s Money (3/4 Maine)

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Hard Whiskey (Maine)

Affliction (%Maine)

Jose Ali/I-80 Outcross (Maine)

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GCC Unwound (%Maine)

Comfort Zone (Maine)

THF

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Solid Gold (Club Calf)

Hi Ho Silver (Club Calf)

Safe N Sound (Club Calf)

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Daddy Of ‘Em All (12.6% Chi)

I Da Man (13% Chi)

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Total Improvement (13% Chi) Classic Doc Holiday (16% Chi) I-67 (50% Maine 12%Chi)

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Smilin Bob (ClubCalf)

I Believe (ClubCalf)

Dakota Gold (ClubCalf)

Gold Dust (ClubCalf)

THF

The Creature (ClubCalf)

Eye Candy (ClubCalf)

Smokin’ Bob (ClubCalf)

Amen (ClubCalf)

Italian Stallion (ClubCalf)

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Afterhours (ClubCalf)

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Yellow Jacket (ClubCalf)

Here I Am (Club Calf)

Surround Sound (ClubCalf)

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No Worries (ClubCalf)

Yellowstone (ClubCalf)

Rodger That (ClubCalf)

Fu Man Chu (ClubCalf)

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Master of Puppets (ClubCalf) Unstoppable (ClubCalf)

Tiger Woods (ClubCalf)

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Second 2 None (Club Calf) Choppin Wood (Club Calf) Maternal Perfection (Club Calf)

A Step Up (Simmy)

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Walk This Way (Club Calf) One In The Chamber (Club Calf)

Doctor Who (Club Calf)

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For a quarter of a century, Long Hall Cattle ( formerly known by Kelly Long and Clint Hall / Wolfridge Cattle) have been diligently breeding club calves and have produced hundreds of champions thought the Midwest. Producing champions on all levels from local county fairs to the North American and American Royal.

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Enough's Enough

It’s the Pitts

by Lee Pitts

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." - Bertrand Russell Is it just me or are there getting to be far too many people on this patch of earth we call home? Don't get me wrong, I like people, at least some of them some of the time, but there's getting to be far too many of us. The signs are everywhere. The population in this country is now over three hundred million and every 13 seconds we add another resident. And that's just in my town, or at least it seems like it.

It took 1,000 years for the U.S. to reach one hundred million people, 52 years to reach the second hundred million and 39 years to reach three hundred million. At this rate we'll reach four hundred million by 2040 and I sure hope I'm not around to see it.

Potholes and traffic jams are signs we've already overrun our infrastructure and yet another immigrant arrives every 30 seconds and another baby is born every eight seconds. The number of cars and trucks on our highways has doubled since 1970 and every one of them is on the road whenever I try to go some place.

It seems everyone wants more growth because no one is satisfied with what they already have. Everybody wants a bigger house and a bigger car and every company wants more stores and a bigger bottom line. The motto of the baby boomers is "more, more, more," and yet our cities are already so overcrowded about the safest place you can be is in a prison these days. And they are stuffed too.

Any rancher worth his salt understands the concept of carrying capacity. I once rented a ranch from an owner who said the place would run 100 cows. I figured he was fudging and so I only stocked it with 85 and they darn near starved to death or got trampled running to the feed truck. In the very best year all I was ever able to run on that ranch was 65 head. Oh sure, I could have stocked the ranch with 200 cows and carried feed and water to them every day. Perhaps when my pastures were grazed down to dirt I could have cut the fences and let my cows over on to my 14 | NLE - OC T 2016

neighbors, but pretty soon we'd both be in the same sad shape.

It seems to me we've reached the carrying capacity in this country. Sure, we could grow our already overgrazed cities so that we were all living like steers in a feedlot, chickens in a cage or hogs in a hot house. Then we really are going to need more people: janitors and police mostly.

I ask you, when faced with an overflowing bathtub what would you reach for first: a mop or the faucet? Well this place we call home is like that overflowing bathtub and so far all we're doing is trying to mop up the mess with a stringy old mop. I hate to admit this but once in awhile the occasional environmentalist might be right about the state of this earth. But their answers are all wrong. If they really were sincere the greenies would be more worried about population control and less about fund raising.

They'd talk more about restricting immigration and less about endangered fairy shrimp, three legged frogs and redheaded woodpeckers.

If we really want a higher quality of life in this country for the people, as well as the woodpeckers, we should learn from ranchers that growth is not always good. Any cowboy knows this. Oh sure, there was a time in the cow business when all the emphasis was put on growth. Some ranchers ended up with 1,800 pound cows trying to survive on sagebrush and mesquite beans. Those big cows used up all the energy for themselves and became so ugly and emaciated the bulls wanted nothing to do with them.

Naturally, many of those cows failed to conceive. In the end, Mother Nature punishes ecosystems that grow too fast.

Perhaps that's the answer? Maybe all we need to reduce the number of babies is more ugly people.

I know I am doing my part. www.LeePittsbooks.com

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All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate – school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned.

Share evening. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess.

Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Lead a balanced life –learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the styrofoam cup – they all die. So do we. And then remember the Dick and Jane books and the first word you learned – LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those themes and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all – the whole world – had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

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OCTOBER

INDEX

Apex Cattle........................32-33

It’s the Pitts..........................14

Black Hereford Ranch.Back Cover

Kopp Land & Livestock...........3

6-9, 13, 19, 24, 25, 28-30, 34-35

Campbellco........................3

Linde’s Livestock Photos...... 19

Safety Zone Calf Catchers.....32

Cattle Visions...................4-5

Long-Hall Cattle Co..........Cover

Showsteers.com.......................31

Editorial..............................11, 21

Minnesota State Fair Results.22

Subscription..............................26

Gateway Genetics..........27

Missouri State Fair Results.23

Sullivan Farms...................2

Illinois State Fair Results.12

NLE Semen Offer............15, 21

Wisconsin State Fair Results.17

Indiana State Fair Results.20

Ohio State Fair Results.....18

Iowa State Fair Results....16-17

Pro-Fit Show Supply........ 10

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Questing Hills Land & Cattle......

Gana Farms and Gateway Genetics are proud to announce an amazing offering for our 2016 Production Sale.

The offering includes several donor prospects, junior projects, a large number of hand selected bred females and a group of our top producing cows from the heart of our herd.

Selling full sib pregnancies to GANA Ameer 288B (SAV Angus Valley). This natural born calf, who was purchased for $20,000, is now a leading herd bull for Benoit Angus. Also selling are females from this outstanding donor.

GANA Miss Katie 1C out of our 110z percentage Simmental, sold for $102,000 at the 2015 HCC Fall Sale. We are offering a full sister to GANA Miss Katie 1C (Broker - August 2015) in this year’s Sale. Also selling will be full sib pregnancies to the great GANA Miss Katie 1C. Look for GANA Miss Katie 1C at the major shows this fall.

The Sale you can’T afford To miSS!

In addition to our young Heifers and Bred Heifers, we will be selling a select group of Powerful Mature Bred Cows from the heart of our herd on November 20, 2016

Craig & Lori Gana

2200 West Panama Road, Martell, NE Craig 402.430.2526 www.gana-farms.com

Kevin & Laura Benes

Kevin 402.741.1419

Mark & Aliscia Benes

Mark 402.741.0380 www.gatewaygenetics.com

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HIGH CALIBRE

556B

THANKS TO HERBSTER’S FOR THEIR

$400,000 PURCHASE!

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BW

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10.0 40%

0.5 25%

65.7 40%

100.9 25%

MLK MARB 21.8 45%

0.31 20%

REA

API

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1.09 10%

136.4 20%

76.6 15%

Special thanks goes to Mike Hartman for negotiating this ‘record sale’ to the visionary, Herbster Angus of Falls City, NE. This ‘breed great’ joins their ‘elite’ SAV dominated Angus herd sire battery!

PB Simmental #2891465

Both genetically and phenotypically, he is a unique individual whom few of any breed can compare. The only progeny sired by him were calved at APEX Cattle this past spring, and as expected, they are OUTSTANDING!

Homozygous Polled & Black

SIRE: MCM TOP GRADE 018X

MGS: WELSHS DEW IT RIGHT 067T

A select group of his daughters plus females bred to him will be for sale this fall at private treaty. CALL FOR DETAILS!

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ra New EGENETIC POWER. CCR

MASTERLINK

9053C

W/C

GRANDSTAND

6B

SimAngus #3026360

PB Simmental #2911603

Homozygous Polled & Black

SIRE: CCR PHENOM 8008A CE

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6.2

2.2

77.9 4%

122.1 5%

MGS: HTP SVF IN DEW TIME MLK MARB 29.6 4%

0.69 10%

FLINT HILLS

SIRE: W/C WIDE TRACK 694Y

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1.12 2%

142.1 25%

89.0 2%

10.9 30%

1.4 45%

61.8

91.5 50%

Masterlink was the $38,500 feature of the 2016 Cow Camp Ranch Sale from the legendary ‘Apple’ donor. Tremendous power, mass and structure!

CCR

Homozygous Polled & Black

2092B

MGS: WAGR DREAM CATCHER 03R MLK MARB 27.1 10%

0.16 50%

GOLD STRIKE

SimAngus #2882607

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0.5 50%

71.7 15%

115.2 10%

MLK MARB 20.6

0.77 3%

70.3 40%

SimAngus #3000381

Homozygous Polled & Black

SIRE: HOOKS TRINITY 9T

REA

API

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0.96 10%

155.3 10%

86.7 3%

18.6 3%

-1.6 20%

73.1 10%

115.3 10%

Extraordinary power, arithmetic and quality. Flint Hills’ first calves came 100% unassisted that are truly awesome at weaning time!

TI

129.4 35%

512C

Homozygous Polled & Black

11.7 45%

API

1.09 10%

Considered the finest son of the renowned ‘8543’ Werning donor, who is approaching $2 million in progeny sales. Incredibly powerful!

ROUSEY

SIRE: CCR FRONTIER 0053Z MGS: TRIPLE C SINGLETARY S3H

REA

MGS: O C C PAXTON 730P MLK MARB 23.6 25%

0.52 25%

REA

API

TI

1.16 2%

160.9 10%

85.9 4%

Gold Strike is one of the breed’s best ever with amazing numbers and phenotype! Record selling bull of the 2016 Herdmaster Sale!

CALL NOW! SEMEN: $30/UNIT DAN LEO: 308-750-0200

CATTLE VISIONS: 866-356-4565

APEX Cattle 1146 7th Avenue Dannebrog, NE 68831

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Your SimAngus and Simmental Genetic Source!

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KrisBlacks Annual

of the - From the program that produced Yellow Jacket, Troubadour & Made Right -

Bull Sale in Crawford, Oklahoma Monday

OCTOBER 24TH AT THE RANCH 1:00 P.M.

100 HEAD OF CLUB CALF PRODUCING HERD SIRES & AI PROSPECTS 15-20 MONTHS FHT - 5102 29 toL 30-40 HEAD OF SPRING BRED HEIFERS INCLUDING DONOR PROSPECTS ONLINE SALE PAGE | VIDEO CATALOG | CATALOG | SALE INFO www.blackherefordranch.com

Live at the ranch and onSuperior Register for Superior Bidding with us at 516-366-0734 and Watch on Chanel 232.

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ONLINE SALE PAGE | VIDEO CATALOG | CATALOG | SALE INFO www.ccollinsinc.com www.facebook.com/ccollinsinc

Bulls like these past standouts will be selling!

YELLO REPO

BLACK HIPPO

Kris and Gay Black Tyler and Phylli Roberts | Crawford, OK 73638 (580) 309-0711 Kris’s Cell (580) 309-0774 Tyler Roberts | (580) 480-2015 Phylli Roberts

www.blackherefordranch.com

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