February 2022 The Profit Picture

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FEATURES 10. THE COMPETITION BETWEEN SCIENCE & EMOTION 12. DEFINING SUSTAINABILITY ON THE RANCH 14. SUSTAINABILITY BY THE NUMBERS 24. CAPITALIZING ON CARBON MARKET OPPORTUNITIES 33. WINTER SUPPLEMENTATION OF BEEF CALVES 45. WELCOMING A NEW PRESIDENT 48. BIG PICTURE GENOMICS 53. THE MATERNAL BREED OF CHOICE

Kim Stackhouse-Lawson kicks off Cattlemen’s Profit Roundup symposium focused on sustainability

Steve Wooten identifies what sustainability means on the ranch level

Dustin Aherin presents on AGA’s involvement in sustainability efforts

Feature sponsored by Agoro Carbon Alliance

Feature by Karla H. Wilke, UNL Cow-Calf Systems and Stocker Management

Klint Sickler begins his term as AGA president

Leoma Wells, Neogen, presents on genomics at AGA annual convention

AGA’s feature on American Rancher highlights Gelbvieh’s superior maternal traits

EDITORIAL

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05. GELBVIEH SHOW MODERATE MATURE COW SIZE 07. GELBVIEH’S COMPETITIVE POSITION 19. LOCATING ANIMALS IN THE REGISTRY 20. OVER THE FENCE WITH RIPPEY FARMS 29. PUTTING THE BEST FEET FORWARD 35. JUNIOR CONNECTION From the Corner Office by Megan Slater, AGA Executive Director

View from the Board by Klint Sickler, AGA President

Registry Tips ‘N Tricks by Jake Renner, M.S., AGA Member & Youth Activities Coordinator

Gale Rippey shares his Gelbvieh & Balancer® story

Data Bulletin by Lindsay Upperman, Ph.D., AGA Performance Programs Coordinator

Junior Connection by Jaylea Pope, AGJA Director

NEWS 38. FAST FACTS ABOUT AGA 43. AGA ELECTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS GELBVIEH FOUNDATION 57. AMERICAN CARCASS CONTEST RESULTS INDUCTED INTO AGA 61. BOEHLER HALL OF FAME T BAR S CATTLE COMPANY NAMED 63. AGA BREEDER OF THE YEAR POWLES RANCH PARTNERSHIP NAMED 65. COMMERCIAL PRODUCER OF THE YEAR 68. UPCOMING EVENTS

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GELBVIEH SHOW MODERATE MATURE COW SIZE FROM THE CORNER OFFICE BY MEGAN SLATER

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ecently, new research from scientists at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC) was published on breed and heterotic effects for mature weight in beef cattle.

This research was conducted using over 5,000 crossbred cows from the USMARC’s Germplasm Evaluation Program and 108,957 weight records collected from weaning up to six years of age. The Germplasm Evaluation Program provides a comprehensive comparison for various traits of the most economically important breeds within the United States.

In the study, “Breed and heterotic effects for mature weight in beef cattle” released in the August 2021 Journal of Animal Science, Volume 99, Issue 8, the estimate of heritability for mature weight from the data was 0.56, meaning a response will be seen when selection pressure is applied to the trait. Looking at the breed differences, there were 16 different beef breeds evaluated in the study and the results were expressed as deviations from Angus. When comparing the seven major beef breeds in the United States, Gelbvieh showed the most moderate

mature cow weight at -145.4 lbs when compared to Angus.

Looking at the breed differences of other highly used breeds, Angus were the heaviest cows in the population.

Following Angus, Charolais weighed in at -19.6 lbs; followed by Hereford at -38.5 lbs; Simmental at -73.5; Limousin at -95.3 lbs; Red Angus at -98.6 lbs; and Shorthorn at -132.4 lbs, respectively.

When compared to all 16 breeds in the study, Gelbvieh showed the third most moderate size, only behind Braunvieh (-300.7 lbs) and Beefmaster (-151.4).

Mature weight has an impact on the costs and efficiencies of an operation.

Of course, there is no “one size fits all” when it comes to mature cow weight; the ideal size of cow can be variable depending on the type of environment and production system. That being said, according to this study, the average weight of cows at slaughter increased from 1,047 pounds in 1975 to 1,369 pounds in 2005, meaning average cow weights increased by roughly 322 pounds in those 30 years. Increasing cow weights can be attributed to increased selection pressure on growth

traits. Producing heavier, faster gaining feeder cattle can come with trade-offs when we look at mature cow weights.

Heavier cows require more feed resources to maintain, and with feed costs typically being the largest line item on any operation’s budget, extra pounds of calf often doesn’t offset the extra feeding costs of a heavier cow.

This study is not the first time Gelbvieh has been noted for a moderate mature cow size. According to the USMARC Progress Report #22, released in 2004, Gelbvieh were shown to have the most moderate mature cow size of the seven major beef breeds listed earlier in this article.

Although these studies only focused on cow size, Gelbvieh cattle are also known for growth and heavy weaning calves. Having more moderate cows that consume less while still weaning heavier calves creates efficiency on an operation and optimizes resources. As we are at a time where input costs continue to rise and resources are decreasing, moderate females will be in even greater demand.

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Megan Slater is executive director of the American Gelbvieh Association and has served in that role since 2019. Megan is responsible for overseeing the AGA office and works closely with the board of directors to successfully guide the association into the future. She is originally from Colorado and a graduate of Colorado State University, where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in animal science and minor in business administration. She began with AGA as communications intern, which eventually lead into a full-time position and advancement within the organization.

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GELBVIEH’S

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reetings to everyone from balmy southwest North Dakota!

As I write this it’s a cool -20 degrees Fahrenheit outside, with windchill at -46. It’s been a busy couple of months for the American Gelbvieh Association (AGA) and the Gelbvieh breed, with our annual convention held in late 2021.

Last year marked the 50th anniversary of Gelbvieh in the United States, a milestone that is truly amazing when you look back. This breed has weathered numerous trends and fads in the cattle industry over the past 50 years. We have been through the pendulum swings in frame size and the preferences of gold, red or black cattle. The breed has even taken a historically horned animal and made them homozygous polled. As a breed, we have taken monumental strides to become, and remain, a relevant part of the beef industry—but our work is far from over.

We had an excellent group of speakers join us in Oklahoma City for our national convention. Additionally, the AGA board of directors and staff unveiled our strategic plan for the next

five years. The central theme of these sessions and roundtables was to establish Gelbvieh-influenced females as the efficiency standard in the beef industry.

It doesn’t matter which direction you turn today, there is talk about sustainability and efficiency. The word “sustainability” tends to trigger many different thoughts and opinions. When we say “sustainability,” we’re not talking about lemongrass or trading in your SuperDuty for a Prius.

For me, it all boils down to a simple concept – how do we position our commercial and seedstock customers to remain profitable into the future, while feeding an increasing global population on acres that are reduced every year? How do we ensure that future generations will have a ranch to return to? Most importantly, how do we integrate Gelbvieh-influenced cattle into the equation as the solution to reach those goals?

As a breed, we are in an enviable position. Gelbvieh-influenced cattle excel at a majority of the traits that contribute to beef sustainability. A

recent study has once again shown that as a breed, Gelbvieh show the most moderate mature weight of the seven major beef breeds in the United States.

Additionally, Gelbvieh females are known for weaning calves at a higher body weight percentage. This is the definition of doing ‘more with less.’

These are all things that we have done well for decades, and things that have gotten us to where we are today. We’ve come to a point where the demands of the market are aligning with the core strengths of our breed. The task before the AGA is to construct a plan to spread this message and cultivate the right partnerships to capitalize on these strengths.

As president of the board, and a seedstock producer, I’m excited for what we have in front of us. When our kids are sitting in Oklahoma City in 50 years, I hope they look at this period in time as one of the defining moments for the breed, and one that solidified the success of Gelbvieh and Balancer® genetics for years to come.

Klint Sickler is the newly-elected AGA president. Klint resides in Gladstone, North Dakota, where he and his wife, Maralee, carry on the 74 year legacy of Prairie Hills Gelbvieh. As president, Klint works with the executive director and additional directors to lead the association. Klint is currently in his sixth consecutive year on the board of directors, having previously served as secretary and vice president before his current term as president. To learn more about Klint and Prairie Hills Gelbvieh, read his feature on page 45.

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THE COMPETITION BETWEEN

SCIENCE & EMOTION FEATURE BY LAURA HANDKE

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im Stackhouse-Lawson, Ph.D., director of AgNext and professor in the department of animal science at Colorado State University, kicked off the Cattlemen’s Profit Roundup symposium at the American Gelbvieh Association national convention with a presentation around the emotional and scientific struggle that has become the platform for sustainability.

“First and foremost, we have to acknowledge that the space of sustainability is highly political; it’s polarizing,” Stackhouse-Lawson says.

“It’s also difficult to get your arms around, and some of that is because emotion and science are parallel in sustainability, and if you ever have a question of whether it’s science or emotion that wins, unfortunately, it’s always emotion,” she says.

Another challenging element of sustainability: everyone defines it differently. The most common way to define the group of principles is through a balanced approach of the measures of social, economic and environmental aspects, however, most impose their own parameters when arriving at a definition.

“In the last four or five years, we’ve really seen sustainability evolve into a science that works on eliminating risk from a business or supply chain – a corporate

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risk mitigation strategy,” she says, adding that to understand sustainability from this perspective, the conversation has to shift to climate change.

“I want to demonstrate what risk looks like through the lens of climate,” Stackhouse-Lawson says. “Risk exists in two forms in this conversation: reputation and access to capital.”

Showing a slide of protestors demonstrating outside of a European OSI Group beef patty plant, StackhouseLawson admonished the room, “It’s getting closer. The caption of this slide reads: ‘Protestors blocked four McDonald’s sites across England on Saturday, demanding the fast food chain to switch to plant-based products by 2025.’ OSI is one-step removed from McDonalds. These attacks are coming closer and closer to the supply chain,” she said.

If public reputation smears aren’t enough, the next slide presented an article clipping from prominent finance magazine, “The Guardian,” warning that European-based banks were confronting regulation to not invest in high greenhouse emitting industries, especially targeting animal agriculture.

“These regulations aren’t going to go away. Many of you may have read about COP26 and the Biden administration’s

commitment to reduce net emissions by 30 percent by 2030,” she says.

“Approximately 30 percent of methane emissions that we produce in the U.S. come from enteric emissions. We own a relatively large piece of this methane pie.”

The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that we can expect to see near one and a half to two degrees Celsius warming, with many scientists and climate experts reporting that our climate impacts are irreversible.

Additionally, the International Panel on Climate Change stated that if we are going to curb temperature, we have to stop emitting carbon into the atmosphere…zero emissions.

“This is one of those head shaking moments,” Stackhouse-Lawson says. “It doesn’t seem very feasible or practical, but that is where the climate scientists are at.”

There are three greenhouse gas emissions that are important in animal agriculture: carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, and each one of those molecules has a different ability to trap heat. CO2 has the least ability. Methane is 28 times more potent than CO2, and nitrous oxide is 298 times more potent than CO2 in trapping atmospheric heat.

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“EMOTION AND SCIENCE ARE PARALLEL IN SUSTAINABILITY. AND IF YOU EVER HAVE A QUESTION OF WHETHER IT’S SCIENCE OR EMOTION THAT WINS, UNFORTUNATELY, IT’S ALWAYS EMOTION.” — KIM STACKHOUSE-LAWSON, PH.D. COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY

Of the man-made greenhouse gases in the United States, carbon dioxide is responsible for approximately 80 percent of our emissions, methane is responsible for approximately 10 and nitrous oxide is responsible for approximately seven. Of those percentages, agriculture contributes 10 percent, and as a sector, animal agriculture contributes 3.8 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions. Both livestock and crop cultivation have increased in greenhouse gas emissions since 1990, 8.5 and 21 percent, respectively—numbers that make sense given the increased number of livestock animals and increased crop production.

FOOTPRINT IS DIFFERENT THAN ABSOLUTE EMISSIONS “Six months ago, I could have come up here and only talked about footprint, but because we’ve seen an increased focus on greenhouse gas emissions, we need to talk about total emissions and footprints,” Stackhouse-Lawson says.

Footprint is the entire system pulled together, divided by the output.

“The most efficient beef producing countries have the lowest carbon footprint, even though the total amount of greenhouse gases those systems produce are the highest,” she says, “We are producing more food with less of an impact. We have an important story to tell.”

Stackhouse-Lawson says that even though the beef industry has done an exceptional job of reducing the overall footprint, the industry needs to stay vigilant with total emissions.

“The cow-calf sector is responsible for 70 percent of the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire beef sector,” she says. “Why? Because of the enteric methane that cows produce. The longer the carbohydrate chains are that a cow eats, the more enteric methane she will produce. She’s also producing a calf every year. That complicates things pretty quickly. How do we reach all 750,000 cow-calf producers in the U.S. and figure out what we can do on each of those very, very different ranches to reduce those emissions?”

GWP* (star), a result of 2017 research from Oxford University, is a new way to measure the impact of a molecule of methane based on the fact that methane is a short-lived climate gluten; it breaks down the CO2 and water, leaving the CO2 to be consumed by plants. This new measurement method will reward an efficient beef system.

“This is good for the U.S. beef herd as long as our emissions stay the same. As an industry, we’re expecting our impact on temperature to decrease once the EPA accepts this new scoring model,” she says.

Adding that one thing that is never included in the emission models, however, is the fact that not only do our livestock graze marginal land, those rangelands also store 20 percent of soil organic carbon.

“The best thing that we can do right now is keep our grass right-side up,” Stackhouse-Lawson says. “Cattle can become an even greater part of the (climate change) solution by increasing soil carbon sequestration.”

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DEFINING

SUSTAINABILITY ON THE RANCH FEATURE BY LAURA HANDKE

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eatty Canyon Ranch coowner Steve Wooten’s rancher perspective of sustainability resonated with attendees of the 2021 American Gelbvieh Association National Convention.

“We have a consumer today that is more informed, more inquisitive and really wants to know where their food comes from,” he told attendees. “And they’re extremely loyal.”

Wooten presented a session at the Cattleman’s Profit Roundup that looked at the rancher’s definition of sustainability, sharing that his family made the decision to move toward becoming “low cost and high efficiency” through better management practices in 2001. Since that time, Wooten has shared what he continues to learn about efficiently producing beef with the rest of the industry. Today, Wooten is a member of the US Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (USRSB).

“Six years ago, 150 of us (cattle industry members) met in a meeting room at NCBA headquarters. We set out to

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identify the most important elements within our beef supply chain that need to be addressed when considering sustainability and climate issues for the future of the industry,” Wooten says.

Wooten says. “And if you stay engaged with USRSB, you’ll see how we are going to collect data and use it to help establish grazing management for carbon sequestration.”

When those members left that meeting room, animal health and wellbeing; greenhouse gas emissions; efficiency; yield; employee safety and wellbeing and land and water resources were the focuses of USRSB.

Wooten says that Beatty Canyon Ranch has had a grazing plan since the early nineties. The practice, he says, was added to the ranch’s management after attending a Ranching for Profit school.

The resulting grazing plan allowed for different pastures to be managed at different times.

THE DEFINITION OF SUSTAINABILITY “Our land is our lives. Everything starts from the soil and comes up, and being a sustainable industry that can do some good against climate, it really becomes true,” Wooten says.

Everything starts below the soil’s surface: the microbiology, carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling… everything. The soil is the production warehouse for the ranch and is an important driver of a ranch’s profitability.

“The soil is the tool we provide to the system to fight greenhouse gases,”

“We make sure that plants are getting almost a full season of rest before we bring a cow back,” he says, also noting the way the ranch monitors stocking density. “We don’t want to put the same density (of cows) in a pasture two or three years in a row. We’ll move our density up and down based on the amount of moisture we receive across the ranch in a given year. The breakdown of the old grass material left to cover the soil will become organic matter. Everything we do with our grass is a contribution to carbon sequestration and soil health.”

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“I CANNOT EMPHASIZE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR EVERY COW TO HAVE A CALF THAT GETS UP WITHIN 10 MINUTES AND GETS THAT FIRST COLOSTRUM TO JUMP START ITS IMMUNE SYSTEM. EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS RIGHT HERE AFFECTS THAT CALF’S PERFORMANCE FOR THE REST OF ITS LIFE.” — STEVE WOOTEN BEATTY CANYON RANCH

The ranch also focuses on plant diversity. The plants that develop and thrive as a result of these management practices are deeper rooted and work to break up clay and sandy soils.

Wooten says that stockmanship and stewardship also have an important place in the sustainability conversation.

“We’ve made a personal commitment to gentle cattle and true stockmanship and stewardship because we know how important it is to the guys that buy our calves and put them out on wheat. They can drive out to a wheat pasture and if a calf or two is on the wrong side of the electric fence, they can step toward them and the steers go back across the electric fence. They don’t throw their head in the air and take off running down the highway,” he says of the value gentle cattle provide.

Another tool that Wooten says is invaluable to Beatty Canyon Ranch operations is Beef Quality Assurance.

Once all animal caretakers and handlers are trained on the protocols, the consistency of practices adds efficiency

not only to the ranch, but to the entire value chain.

“There is no other tool that is more important to us. Everyone is trained and we take it seriously,” he says, asking the audience, “Do you know what happens when a broken needle is found on the line? It shuts the entire chain down and it adds expense to the industry.”

For Wooten, sustainability also means the ability to pass the ranch to the next generation, and having a succession plan in place is the key to making that happen.

“I was blessed with a mentor in my uncle, and by the time Joy, my wife, and I, came home from college, there was no need for us to think about land available for lease or trying to buy 5,000 acres in the next county,” Wooten says. “The succession plan was already there and working, and we’ve done the same thing with our children. They are already in full management control.”

THE CRITICAL ROLE OF THE BREED ASSOCIATION Wooten says that breed associations play a critical role in animal health and wellbeing. The genetics that move forward to influence future generations significantly impact efficiency.

“The determination of a breed association’s genetics moving forward makes a difference in what I can do.

This is an example of a first calf heifer of ours,” Wooten says, pointing to a slide of a newborn calf, “I was there when she pushed the calf out. This is three minutes after; that calf is already getting up on his feet. I cannot emphasize how important it is for every cow to have a calf that gets up within 10 minutes and gets that first colostrum to jump start its immune system. Everything that happens right here affects that calf ’s performance for the rest of its life. You can’t make up with all of the supplements in the world what that little guy is going to get in the next five minutes.”

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S U S TA I N A B I L I T Y

BY THE NUMBERS FEATURE BY LAURA HANDKE

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ounding out the Cattlemen’s Profit Roundup at the American Gelbvieh Association national convention, Dustin Aherin, AGA board member, and director of strategy for Tyson’s beef and pork business, shared his insights on market direction and the Gelbvieh and Balancer® position within that direction.

“I want to plant a seed for where incentives are coming from,” Aherin told attendees. “When we think about where the pressures have traditionally come from, we often point to consumers first. That isn’t anything new. When we think back to the push for quality, those dollars ultimately came from consumers and were passed down through the supply chain: through the packers, through marketing grids, to cattle producers who increased quality.”

Aherin says that a focus on sustainability is bringing new pressures.

Today, the pressure is coming from the government and exists all along the supply chain, with funding allocated by the current administration to

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ensure that those pressures catalyze beef industry production. Within this structure are other vested groups, many breed associations and nongovernmental organizations. There are also shareholders looking at the sustainability space as an investment opportunity; and those investors, Aherin says, are interested in directing their dollars toward environment, social and governance (ESG) opportunities.

“There’s a lot of institutional funds— think pensions, for instance—that have set guidelines that stipulate that they will only invest in companies that check the boxes around ESG,” he says.

Aherin also talked about the role lenders are playing in financing sustainability efforts, which he notes is an interest rate opportunity rather than a cutoff of funding, at this time.

“One way that the finance industry has started to offer some incentives on the food company side is called ‘sustainability linked financing.’

That’s where certain key performance

indicators are linked to better interest rates,” Aherin shares. “At the producer level, we are just starting to see this begin to develop with a push for operations to set a baseline and begin documenting changes and improvements.”

WILL IT PAY? “If we think about the consumer first, are they going to pay a premium for a product that’s stamped “sustainable?”

More importantly, is that premium going to be enough to pay for some of the costs and supply chain needed to get it to them? I don’t think we have a clear answer to those questions yet,” he told attendees.

A first of its kind USDA Process Verified Program (PVP), Low Carbon Beef, says that the answer is “yes.” Recent research by the group indicates that 71 percent of consumers expressed they are willing to pay a premium for beef certified as being produced with sustainable methods. The newly approved PVP will allow producers to differentiate and

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“RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLE OPPORTUNITY, AND TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT, WE NEED TO STEP UP OUR GAME AND REALLY FOCUS ON SOME OF THE TRAITS THAT HAVE SUSTAINABILITY IMPACTS SO WE CAN PROVE THROUGH NUMBERS WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW.” — DUSTIN AHERIN TYSON FRESH MEATS

market beef that is raised with reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

That’s an opportunity for beef producers.

The sheer fact that the USDA has approved a program of this type confirms that interest exists from all market stakeholders.

“We’re already good at a lot of these things,” he says. “Have you measured pounds weaned versus pounds exposed?

Do you have a breeding plan that is based on marketing goals? Are you BQA certified? So much of this is about just documenting things you are already doing, putting it in writing so there’s a record.”

“From January to August 2021, we saw sustainable linked financing reach more than $300 billion, globally,” Aherin says. “These dollars are growing fast; around 18 percent of cash inflows into investment funds were targeted towards funds that had some kind of sustainability metric built into them.”

Aherin predicts that many of the incentives for progress within the supply chain are going to come from the targets and goals set by major food companies—a trade-off of sorts, where the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and improved sustainability doesn’t necessarily come from the food company itself, but rather from the practices of supply chain partners those companies source ingredients from.

The majority of the resources used in the beef industry are consumed at the cow-calf level, with around 75% of the entire beef industry feed inputs consumed within that sector.

Aherin says that AGA and other breed associations are playing an important role in facilitating the documentation and quantification of many of these important metrics at the cow-calf level.

To really know and understand the total resource use per pound of calf weaned or per pound of beef produced, producers use many metrics, essentially

building a funnel of information for each cow in the herd. Those metrics are, more often than not, a story of sustainability.

“We are so good (as a sector) at collecting data—measuring and quantifying—and then using that data to improve cattle through EPDs. Right now, we have an incredible opportunity, and to take advantage of it, we need to step up our game and really focus on some of the traits that have sustainability impacts so we can prove through numbers what we already know,” he says.

Today, the Gelbvieh and Balancer® breed boasts the smallest mature cow size of all major breeds, unsurpassed fertility and a level of docility that makes the breed family friendly. The breed holds the pieces needed for both commercial and seedstock producers to put the sustainability puzzle together. If and how operations put that puzzle together is up to them…for now.

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12th Annual Production Sale Sunday, February 20, 2022, 2:00 (CT) at the Ranch, Clearbrook, MN Please join us Saturday, February 19 for our Open House and view the sale offering

85 Lots Sell

60 Gelbvieh, Balancer, Angus and Red Angus Bulls 25 Gelbvieh, Balancer and Red Angus Bred Heifers

LRSF DYNAMIC J164 Homo Black Homo Polled PB 84% Gelbvieh Bull Sire: DLW Frontrunner 2510F Dam: LRSF Jo-Leen D92 Tremendous PB 84% GV calving ease prospect (Top 1% CED) with breed leading MARB (Top 1%) backed by our most productive cow family.

LRSF Paul Bunyan J188 Homo Polled PB 94% Gelbvieh Bull Sire: MCCA Gunner 947G Dam: CMR Sunshine 94D Absolute powerhouse in terms of muscle shape and overall design. Moves like a cat, excellent feet and legs and is backed by our best red Gelbvieh donor who produced a $13,000 son on our 2021 sale.

LRSF Chevelle J112 Homo Polled PB 87% Gelbvieh Bull Sire: HDG Hillsdown Fennegan 4F Dam: LRSF Ruby B40 One of the soggiest middled purebred Gelbvieh bulls you’ll find with excellent EPD strength led by top 4% CED, 20% WW, 15% YW, 10% STAY, 20% MARB and 4% FPI.

LRSF Kirby J109 ET Homo Black, Homo Polled PB 94% Gelbvieh Bull Sire: MJBC Franchise F806 Dam: OSOF Jo-Leen 9801W Direct son of our 9801W matriarch who has produced many of our top selling individuals over the years. Top 25% CED, 25% STAY and 35% MARB all in one of the deepest bodied Gelbvieh bulls we have raised.

LRSF Nellie H259 PB 94% Gelbvieh Female Sire: DDGR Coach 57E Dam: LRSF Nellie C62 You’ll be hard pressed to find a red purebred GV female with as much depth, stoutness and femininity. Sells safe to LRSF Dynamic Red H20 with a purebred Gelbvieh calf with tremendous EPD strength.

LRSF Nellie H202 Homo Black, Homo Polled PB 84% Gelbvieh Female Sire: LRSF Spotter D73 ET Dam: LRSF Nellie D29 An absolutely stunning purebred female with excellent EPD strength lead by a top 1% MARB EPD of 0.63. Sells safe to JOB Danell Pay Pal 12H, making this pregnancy the only Pay Pal progeny to sell in 2022.

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LOCATING ANIMALS IN THE REGISTRY

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hether you purchased an animal during the recent sale season or you are scouring the upcoming sales listed on Gelbvieh. org, it is important to know where to find those animals on the AGA Online Registry Service. Before you start your search, you will want to make sure you have the animal(s) registration number, tattoo or name.

REGISTRY TIPS ‘N TRICKS BY JAKE RENNER, M.S.

SEARCHING THE REGISTRY 1.

Visit Gelbvieh.org and click Animal Search at the top of the page. This will take you to the AGA Online Registry Service.

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On the home screen, you’ll find three columns: Ranch Search, EPD Search and Animal Search. The Animal Search column offers the opportunity to search the AGA inventory for animals by sex and/or identification including registration number, tattoo, name or electronic identification (EID) number.

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Select the specific parameters of your search by clicking the button underneath each as shown in the screenshot on the left.

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Type the animal detail in the Search Value text box.

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Locate and click the “Search for Reg No” button at the bottom of the Animal Search column.

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This button will search the registry even if you prefer to search by tattoo, name or EID.

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Your search results will appear below the columns. Select the animals registration number to view their detail screen.

If you are an active member of the AGA, animals can be searched using the steps provided above or by logging into your account and selecting any of the tabs, explained below: • “All” lists all active animals (bulls and females) currently listed under your ownership.

• The tabs listed under “Bulls” and “Females” provide lists of your animals sorted by sex and age and status (breeding, yearling, weaned, pre-wean).

• “Legacy” lists all animals that have been disposed or transferred that were once in your active inventory.

Once you’ve selected the tab, the quickest way to search your inventory is to hold down the “Ctrl” and “F” buttons on your keyboard. This will generate a search bar on your screen where you can type in the animal’s details. If the data you entered is on the screen, it will appear highlighted. Keep in mind, if you type in “123” all animals with that sequence of numbers will be highlighted so be sure to enter the full registration number or tattoo to specify your search.

If you have any questions about locating a recent purchase of Gelbvieh or Balancer® genetics on the registry, please call the office at 303-465-2333 or email info@gelbvieh.org and we would be more than happy to assist you.

Jake Renner is the AGA member and youth activities coordinator. In this role, he guides the American Gelbvieh Junior Association and helps to develop the next generation of leaders in the beef industry. Jake is also tasked with enriching the membership experience for AGA members. He is originally from Kansas and graduated in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in animal science from Fort Hays State University. He received his master’s degree in agricultural education and communication in 2020 from Kansas State University.

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OVER THE FENCE

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or this month’s Over the Fence, AGA Commercial Marketing Director, Tom Strahm, caught up with Rippey Farms’ Gale Rippey of Galax, Virginia. Below, Tom and Gale discuss Rippey Farms and the choice to use Gelbvieh and Balancer® genetics.

TOM: Gale, tell us a little bit about Rippey Farms.

GALE: I operate Rippey Farms out of

Galax, Virginia, which is in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We’re about 2,5003,000 feet in elevation.

We grow a tremendous amount of cool season grasses here. Our whole commercial cow-calf and commercial replacement heifer program is based on grass, forage and hay. We don’t grow any corn and try to avoid feeding as much supplement grain as possible.

The unique part about this area is the temperatures; we don’t have extreme heat, we don’t have extreme cold and most years we have plenty of moisture to grow a really good grass crop.

We consider grass, in our country, a crop, like people consider corn a crop somewhere else. We’re really blessed to grow good grass.

TOM: Gale, talk about your commercial heifer program.

GALE: We’ve been able to establish

a good commercial cowherd and a demand for commercial replacement females. We’ve been able to advance our

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herd and our business plan through the commercial female business. At the end of the season, our heifers that are going into the breeding program are valued about $200 higher than our steer calves.

TOM: What kind of bulls are you using

in your commercial replacement heifer program?

GALE: We’ve put a lot of focus on

making sure the bulls we buy have adequate milk. We’ve also focused on bulls that don’t have massive birth weights, but still put enough growth on the calves that our steer performance doesn’t suffer.

When we get ready to sell steer calves, we’re selling calves that are in the top of the market in size for day of age. We’re still looking at our steer calves to help pay the bills, so we aren’t sacrificing any performance in our steers trying to make a better female.

Gelbvieh genetics grew from that point.

As my dad reached retirement age, we were expanding our cowherd. We replaced every other breed of bull with Gelbvieh before then, expanded our cow numbers and kept buying Gelbvieh bulls.

One of the advantages that we saw was when everything had to be black and we were buying black Gelbvieh bulls, it didn’t matter what cow we put them on, we had black calves to sell. That was a great marketing strategy for us. We were really satisfied with the growth we were getting out of our calves over other black breeds we had tried.

TOM: Was that when you began keeping more Balancer replacement females for your own herd?

GALE: Yes, we had been trying to replace

have been a part of your operation for a long time. Tell us about your experience with those genetics and why you continue to use them.

our cowherd with Balancer females. We received a letter from the AGA to attend a Maternal Edge sale that the association put together in Cross Plains, Tennessee.

We took some fall-calving heifers with calves by their side to that sale. In doing so, we realized that we could market those extra females that were good enough for breeding stock for a price advantage. We topped the sale every year but one with our heifers. It was an experience that made us realize the value and potential we had with these Balancer females and the value that they provided the beef cattle community.

GALE: We purchased our first Gelbvieh

TOM: How are you marketing those bred

We don’t need a terminal cross bull to make a big feeder calf. We’re able to use those same bulls that we’re keeping heifers out of to make steers that will be weighing 850 pounds at 12 months of age.

TOM: Gelbvieh and Balancer genetics

bull in the early nineties, and our use of

females and young cow-calf pairs today?

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GALE: A couple years before the

Maternal Edge sale stopped, our local cattlemen’s association had a spring calving sale, and they were looking to add numbers and versatility to that sale.

They decided to offer cow-calf pairs, and I consigned. As the Cross Plains sale went away, we were able to come back and market our cattle locally.

As we have built our reputation and people have bought these Balancer females, put them to work in their herd, come back to sales and bought them again, the word of mouth has spread.

We’ve been able to sell some females private treaty. We’re able to market every heifer we can produce that we feel is going to make a good momma cow.

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TOM: How are you marketing your steer calves and the heifer calves that don’t make the cut as replacement females?

GALE: We background those heifers

and steers at least 60 days. We start marketing trailer load lots of those calves as they reach 850 pounds.

Looking at birth dates and the way that they perform, by the time that they are 12-13 months of age, they are at that 850-pound mark.

The thing that helps us is backgrounding those calves and putting enough calves together that are the same breed, phenotype and weight to be able to fill a pot.

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CAPITALIZING ON

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FEATURE SPONSORED BY AGORO CARBON ALLIANCE

ne of the most overlooked opportunities to move the climate change needle in the right direction is the establishment and maintenance of soil health. As an industry, we hear about no-till practices, cover cropping and fertilizer management in row crop production.

But what about the carbon sequestration ability our grazing lands hold?

According to the National Resources Conservation Service, range and pasture lands are located in all 50 U.S. states, and make up over 27%—a whopping 528 million acres—of the total acreage of the contiguous 48 states, outnumbering both forest and crop lands.

The grasses, legumes and shrubs on grazing lands remove carbon dioxide from the air through photosynthesis and store it in the soil. Additional carbon

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sequestration occurs when an adequate carbon and nitrogen ratio is maintained via ground cover and residue. Both carbon sequestration processes rely on the microbes that inhabit healthy soils.

These microbes, the healthy soils they build and the carbon those healthy soils sequester hold opportunity for the ranchers that manage them.

CAPITALIZING ON THE CARBON RESERVOIR West Texas farmer and cattle rancher Greg Knezek is no stranger to agronomy and the benefits healthy soils deliver to an operation. As the fourth generation to farm his family’s land, Knezek fully took over operations in 2010 with his brother joining the venture in 2015.

“We run cattle on some of the wheat acres that we plant and take the rest of those acres to harvest,” Knezek says of his family’s farming model. “We also grow a few spring crops—mostly cotton and milo.”

Baylor county is located in northwest Texas, about 60 miles east of the Panhandle, in Red River country. It can get dry, very dry, and spring crops, aside from cotton and milo, can be a challenge to grow.

“We are running stockers now, but we’ve always had a herd of momma cows.

We had to sell them because of the bad drought that we were in,” he says, adding that when he and his brother took over the operation, they had a different idea of how they wanted things to look and no disillusions that the changes could happen overnight.

FEATURE | EDITORIAL | NEWS “When me and my brother took over the farm, we wanted to look at a different way of doing things,” Knezek says. “My dad always believed that if it could be plowed five times, it should be plowed six times. It’s just the way things were. My brother and I started having serious conversations about regenerative agriculture two years ago, and this year, we’ll be completely no-till except for some acres we’ll be running an inline ripper over.”

Changing the way they farmed wasn’t the only improvement the brothers were looking to make in their operation.

With the cows off of their pasture ground, they set to work putting an improvement plan in place. Tallying up the improvements they hoped to make, they quickly realized that much of what they wanted to do would not pencil into their budget.

Enter a grazing carbon market opportunity.

Knezek took a position with Agoro Carbon as an agronomist, and within a month of working for the company, was ready to enroll his own pasture acres.

“The range and pasture program from Agoro is great from a rancher

standpoint. Things that I want to do that are normally too cost prohibitive, like having a plane spray my acres, for instance, we don’t usually get a lot of return on that,” he says and notes that the program will also help to finance the introduction of new forages to shorten the number of days they feed hay. “We’re looking at overseeding with an annual rye that will give us some green grass in the fall and winter, and we’re going to put some green fertilizer down.

We’ve got native grass that’s never seen fertilizer; we’re in an area where we run one pair to 15 acres. We are looking at being able to cut that down to 8 to 8.5 acres, because we’re getting paid to improve our pastures with overseeding, weed control and fertilizer.”

OWNERSHIP NOT REQUIRED The opportunity isn’t exclusive to the operation’s deeded acres, either. Knezek says that he enrolled all of his leased pasture, as well, a practice regional sales manager Todd Carlton says makes sense.

“The number of times that ranch land would be picked up and turned into farmland is really pretty small, and, on ranch land, you only have to do the practices one time to qualify—unlike

row crop where you have to do it every year. If a rancher loses a place, we’ll visit with whomever takes it over to let them know what’s going on, but the improvement for the four-year contract period has already been made in year one,” he says.

Payment for enrollment and to initiate improvement practices is made within 60 days of a signed contract. Soil samples are taken in year one, before any improvements are made, to establish a baseline of carbon present in the soil.

Soil samples are also pulled in year five and the rancher is paid for the accumulated carbon.

“Getting started has been an easy process. The worst part was manually mapping fields, but most insurance companies have shape files that make it easy. In range and pasture, there’s not a lot of data required; it’s really just getting boundaries,” Knezek says. “If grass grows, they can contract it.”

For more information and to learn more about Agoro Carbon’s grazing and pasture land opportunities, contact Todd Carlton at 402-540-6366 or todd.carlton@agorocarbon.com.

This article is sponsored by Agoro Carbon Alliance, a sector of Agronomic Technology Corp. Agoro Carbon Alliance is creating a new solution to our planet’s carbon challenge that’s grounded in the soil. Guided by transparency, security and collaboration, Agoro Carbon creates incentive for farmers, ranchers, buyers and consumers to choose change from the ground up. Agoro Carbon leverages Yara International’s deep agronomic knowledge and credibility to make it possible for farmers and ranchers to transition to climate-smart practices, restoring carbon to the world’s soils, and making carbon cropping a practical, profitable choice for every farm and ranch. Join the journey at www.agorocarbonalliance.com.

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DATA BULLETIN BY LINDSAY UPPERMAN, PH.D.

he decision to cull an animal from the herd can be impacted by various factors, such as performance, reproduction and conformation. For years, quality foot and hoof structure have been recognized as important traits to consider by both seedstock and commercial beef cattle producers. Recently, recommendations for the assessment and genetic evaluation of feet and leg structure have been studied.

HOCK SET Hock set is the degree of angularity in the hind leg of an animal. A low score indicates an extremely straight angle or post-legged animal, while a higher score represents too much angle or set to the hock or a sickle-hocked animal.

FEET & LEG SCORES Hoof claw, hoof angle and hock set should be gathered using a subjective measurement from 1-9 scale, with the middle of the scale being the optimum values. The recommendation is to score the worst hoof or leg on the animal.

HOOF CLAW SHAPE Hoof claw shape is described as the relative size and curvature of the lateral and medial claw on the individual hoof, where the distance between the claws serves to indicate the level of divergence. A lower score indicates an open and divergent claw set, while a higher score indicates an extreme scissor or corkscrew claw with curling of one or both claws.

HOOF ANGLE Hoof angle is measured as the degree of angularity from the toe and the base of the hoof to the base of the coronary band.

Additionally, heel depth plays an important role in the scoring of hoof angle. A score on the low end represents a rigid pastern and hoof or extremely straight hoof, while a higher score represents an extremely shallow heel and long claw with weak pasterns.

EVALUATION At yearling age, bulls and heifers should have their scores collected with all animals in the contemporary group being evaluated. The contemporary group for foot and leg score is a group of yearling animals of the same sex, similar age and have been raised in the same management group. Mature cows and bulls can be evaluated annually when mature weights, mature heights, or body condition scores are collected. If you are collecting mature cow records, those can be recorded in the weaning queue on the online registry. If you have collected data that is ready for submission, please call the AGA office or send the data to lindsay@gelbvieh.org.

When evaluating your animals’ feet and leg scores, it is best to make sure the cattle are on hard, dry and level groundwork with good lighting. If hoof trimming practices are in place, the animals should be evaluated prior to any trimming. Also, the person making the scoring decisions should have a clear, unobstructed view of the animal. As the observer, try to make the scores based on the animal at a stand, while avoiding using a chute or other restraint during the evaluation process.

However, if a producer were to feel undertrained to provide a reliable evaluation of feet and leg scores, scoring guidelines (shown with the scoring descriptions) and online training modules are in development to share with producers.

The figures and information suggested above provide a framework to utilize scores as herd management tools for culling procedures. Ultimately, feet and leg scores can be used as indicator traits to improve structural soundness and increase longevity within the Gelbvieh and Balancer® breed.

Lindsay Upperman serves as AGA performance programs coordinator where she helps coordinate the association’s breed improvement and member education efforts. Originally from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Lindsay earned an associate of applied science in agriculture from Butler Community College, followed by a bachelor’s degree in animal science from Kansas State University and a master’s degree in animal biology from the University of California, Davis. In 2021, she received her doctorate in animal breeding and genetics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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FEATURE BY KARLA H. WILKE, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN COW-CALF SYSTEMS AND STOCKER MANAGEMENT

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pring born calves are often weaned in the fall, supplemented through the winter at a low rate of gain, and then graze summer grass, taking advantage of compensatory gain until feedlot entry. Many producers assume providing minimal protein supplementation to target approximately 1.0 pound/day gain during the winter is the most economical system. However, research data would suggest this assumption is not the most economical management system.

A study evaluating feeding 450 pound steers 0, 1.1, 2.3 or 3.4 pounds of dried distillers grains (DDGS)/day (dry matter basis) while the calves grazed dormant native range reported a linear gain response of 0.60, 1.06, 1.41 and 1.72 pounds/day, respectively.

However, when the calves were subsequently allowed to graze high quality growing forage, the calves that were not supplemented on dormant range experienced compensatory gain and had a similar ending body weight to the calves supplemented with 1.1 pound of DDGS (625 pounds for both

treatments). Those non-supplemented calves compensated 100% compared to the low supplementation level.

However, they only compensated 38% and 46% compared with the two higher levels of supplementation, and those calves maintained a weight advantage of 653 and 656 pounds, respectively.

Therefore, the producer who spent money to achieve only one pound/day gain on dormant range lost money after grazing better quality forage because those calves weighed the same as the group that did not incur supplement expense. Supplement expense was optimal when calves were supplemented 2.3 pounds of DDGS targeting 1.5 pounds/day gain, regardless if DDGS was priced high or low if calves were kept through a high quality forage grazing phase. If calves were sold after winter grazing, supplementing with 3.4 pounds of DDGS resulted in the best economic analysis.

In a meta-analysis of six studies, 500-pound calves were supplemented to target a winter rate of gain of 0.5 or 1.5 pounds/day. After summer grazing, the

calves supplemented to target the low rate of winter gain only compensated 37% (weighing 768 pounds) resulting in the calves targeted for a higher winter rate of gain being heavier at feedlot entry (weighing 840 pounds). Subsequently, the calves targeted for high gain in the winter were heavier at harvest (1307 pounds vs. 1230 pounds), successfully maintaining that weight advantage through all three phases of production.

The economic analysis determined that the most profitable steers were the ones gaining 1.5 pounds/day on dormant winter range regardless of whether DDGS was priced low or high.

These study results suggest that targeting winter gain of 1.5 pounds/day is most likely to result in added body weight that is maintained throughout subsequent phases including summer grazing and feedlot finishing and can be an economical practice. More importantly, these data suggest that spending money to supplement cattle at a low rate of gain and having that weight advantage lost in subsequent phases is costly to producers.

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COMMERCIAL CATTLEMEN JUNIOR CONNECTION BY JAYLEA POPE

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rowing up in the cattle industry and as a junior member of the American Gelbvieh Junior Association (AGJA), I quickly realized the true importance and impact commercial producers have on the cattle industry.

I was a little five-year-old girl who had started showing my first-ever bucket calf at my county fair, and for the first few years of my showing career, I only really thought of the cattle industry as show cattle and seedstock cattle, because that was all that I had been exposed to.

However, through opportunities available to young people in the beef industry, I gained awareness and learned more about the entirety of the cattle industry. I was better able to understand exactly how our industry operates. This was a vital turning point for me, because I was beginning to own several Gelbvieh and Balancer® cows of my own and I needed a way to market their offspring to other producers.

Being involved in a breed association like the American Gelbvieh Association, there’s no shortage of information on how important it is to reach the

commercial industry and get our genetics into their herds, because Gelbvieh cattle can provide many beneficial traits that can make their cattle more profitable.

As I started marketing the first bulls from my cows, I learned that there were way more marketing opportunities when you begin to focus on marketing genetics to commercial cattlemen.

Luckily, my dad has been selling private treaty bulls in our area for some time, so he helped me begin to make connections with commercial producers that were already interested in Gelbvieh cattle, as well as producers with herds influenced by other breeds that complemented what we had to offer.

It became more clear how some of the larger herds in the Gelbvieh breed were able to have such large sales and reach so many people.

Reaching a vast audience isn’t possible without being able to effectively communicate and build connections with those you desire to market your cattle to. Learning these skills from a young age can be very helpful in building

a great business foundation for juniors that plan to continue raising cattle.

Juniors in the AGJA have opportunities to participate in activities and contests at the junior national show in the summer.

Juniors can gain skills through activities such as our sales talk contest, which places them face to face with potential buyers and gives them a chance to learn how to begin building a connection with someone in a sales scenario. The event also gives junior members feedback to help them improve their skills.

In addition to this, there are also opportunities to explore other forms of advertisement, promotion and life skills that can help AGJA members in reaching commercial cattlemen. By helping our juniors learn what it takes to build necessary connections, the AGJA is helping to prepare its members for a future in the cattle industry.

As junior members, we need to realize the importance of connecting with commercial producers so we can continue to assist our association in expanding into the commercial industry.

Jaylea Pope is serving her first year on the AGJA board of directors. Jaylea is the daughter of Jeff and Jeanne Pope. Her family owns and operates Pope Farms Genetics, located near Ravenna, Nebraska. Jaylea is currently a senior at Shelton High School and plans to continue her education at a four-year college pursuing a degree in agricultural education.

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WHO WE ARE

WHAT IS A BALANCER ®?

The American Gelbvieh Association (AGA) is dedicated to recording and promotiong Gelbvieh, Balancer and Gelbvieh-influenced cattle, while providing members and their customers programs and services to advance the breed. The AGA consists of approximately 1,100 members with a registry database that contains over 1 million animals including approximately 40,000 currently active Gelbvieh, Balancer® and Gelbvieh-influenced cows.

Balancer cattle are registered hybrid seedstock that have documented pedigrees and expected progeny differences. The American Gelbvieh Association was the first beef cattle breed to recognize and include a hybrid animal as registered stock.

THE STRENGTHS OF GELBVIEH

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The Gelbvieh breed is well known throughout the industry for their maternal strengths and superior growth. With attributes such as more pounds of calf weaned, added fertility, greater cow herd longevity and heavier carcass weights, just to name a few, Gelbvieh and Balancer offer genetics that work for the commercial cattle business.

With the high costs associated with the development or purchase of replacement females, sustained production in a herd is essential. Gelbvieh females are proven to stay in the herd longer.

U.S. Meat Animal Research Center data shows Gelbvieh females have the most moderate mature cow size of the seven major beef breeds. This reduced mature cow size allows for puberty to be reached at an earlier age, which leads to calving earlier in the season and producing a heavier calf at a younger age.

Gelbvieh and Balancer cattle excel in traits such as growth, stayability, and productivity. Using Gelbvieh and Balancer genetics in a crossbreeding program can help increase profitability of an operation. See additional pounds and added profit through more efficiency and greater longevity of cows as well as heavier, faster gaining feeder cattle.

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Balancer animals are 25% to 75% Gelbvieh with the balance of Angus or Red Angus. Balancer cattle combine the Gelbvieh growth, muscle, leanness, fertility, longevity and low yield grading ability with the carcass qualities of Angus.

Balancer cattle offer a simple and powerful way to maintain hybrid vigor and a profitable blend of British and Continental genetics without a complicated crossbreeding system. These cattle fit well into all aspects of the beef industry, including commercial cow-calf operations and on the rail.

HOW DO GELBVIEH AND BALANCER ® CROSSBRED FEMALES PERFORM BETTER? It’s all in the heterosis, or hybrid vigor, described as the increase in performance of the crossbred animal compared to the average of the straight-bred parents.

Heterosis impacts traits with low heritability, e.g., reproduction. Producers with crossbred cows can see a higher percentage of their cowherd breed back on the first cycle due to maternal heterosis.

INDIVIDUAL HETEROSIS Individual heterosis is the improvement in performance by the individual crossbred animal above the average of its parents. Increased calf livability, weaning weight, yearling weight and carcass traits are examples of individual heterosis in crossbred calves.

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Maternal heterosis leads to the combined improvement in traits from the dam that cause increases in the performance of her and her progeny. Examples of maternal heterosis in a beef cow include younger age at puberty, increased calving rate, increased survival of her calf to weaning, longevity and pounds of calf produced in her lifetime.

LOOKING TO BUY BULLS THIS SPRING? If you’re a producer looking to purchase new genetics for your herd this spring, use Gelbvieh.org as your goto resource for Gelbvieh and Balancer sale information.

The upcoming events calendar can be found under the Marketing tab on the website. Also, don’t forget to check out the sale catalog page on the AGA website, also found under the marketing tab, to view upcoming sale catalogs.

WATCH “THE AMERICAN RANCHER” Mark your calendar for Monday, February 21, at 8:00 p.m. Central Time, to watch the premiere of the AGA’s new episode of “The American Rancher” on RFD-TV (Dish channel 231 and DirecTV channel 345).

FEEDER FINDER Feeder Finder is a free email service offered by AGA to promote and assist in marketing load lots of Gelbvieh and Balancer-influenced feeder cattle. Producers who have cattle to sell are encouraged to fill out the online form, or contact AGA staff to submit information about their cattle.

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MALERIE STRAHM Multimedia Coordinator malerie@gelbvieh.org

Balancer® Edge is a source and age verification program for feeder cattle sired by Gelbvieh and Balancer bulls.

Offered by the AGA in partnership with IMI Global, this program gives producers the opportunity to participate in a breed-identified feeder calf marketing program with the option to customize. Balancer® Edge customers can choose additional value-added programs, which open the doors to additional markets and the opportunity to generate even more value for their feeder calves.

COMMERCIAL MARKETING STAFF The American Gelbvieh Association has outstanding marketing staff that understands both the beef business and the Gelbvieh breed. They are available to help commercial cattlemen find Gelbvieh or Balancer genetics to fit your program or assist in marketing Gelbvieh-influenced breeding animals or feeder cattle.

To learn more about our commercial marketing services, contact Tom Strahm, AGA commercial marketing director, at 785-547-7999 or tom@gelbvieh.org.

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AMERICAN GELBVIEH ASSOCIATION

2022 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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embers of the American Gelbvieh Association (AGA) elected five candidates to the board of directors at the annual membership meeting held December 10, 2021, during the AGA National Convention and 50th Anniversary Celebration in Oklahoma City.

Newly elected board members are Zack Butler, Milton, Tennessee; Gary Felger, Lohman, Missouri; and Gregg Hartman, Pueblo, Colorado. Re-elected to serve a second term were Todd Bickett,

DVM, Chickamauga, Georgia, and Lori Maude, Hermosa, South Dakota.

The AGA board of directors also elected individuals to serve in leadership positions on the executive committee for 2022. Klint Sickler, Gladstone, North Dakota, was elected president. Lori Maude was elected vice president. John Carrel, Columbus, Montana, was elected secretary, and Derek Martin, Bucklin, Kansas, was elected treasurer.

Other members of the board include: Dustin Aherin, Jefferson, South Dakota;

Leland Clark, Barnard, Kansas; Mark Covington, Montrose, Colorado; Jeff Loveless, Spanish Fork, Utah; Dan McCarty, Rifle Colorado; William McIntosh, Georgetown, Kentucky; Tom Vehige, Billings, Missouri.

Retiring members of the 2021 AGA board of directors were Andrea Murray, Kingfisher, Oklahoma; Randy Sienknecht, Gladbrook, Iowa; and Jeff Swanson, Oxford, Nebraska. The AGA thanks those members for their years of service on the AGA board of directors.

Photo above: The American Gelbvieh Association elected directors and officers for 2022 during its national convention in Oklahoma City. Front row (left to right): Dustin Aherin, Jefferson, S.D.; Secretary John Carrel, Columbus, Mont.; President Klint Sickler, Gladstone, N.D.; Vice President Lori Maude, Hermosa, S.D.; Executive Director Megan Slater, Lincoln, Neb. Back row (left to right): Gary Felger, Lohman, Mo.; Jeff Loveless, Spanish Fork, Utah; William McIntosh, Georgetown, Ky.; Dan McCarty, Rifle, Colo.; Mark Covington, Montrose, Colo.; Gregg Hartman, Pueblo, Colo.; Zack Butler, Milton, Tenn.; Leland Clark, Barnard, Kan. Not pictured are Todd Bickett, DVM, Chickamauga, Ga.; Treasurer Derek Martin, Bucklin, Kan.; and Tom Vehige, Billings, Mo.

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t the 2021 American Gelbvieh Association (AGA) National Convention and 50th Anniversary Celebration, longtime AGA member Klint Sickler, of Prairie Hills Gelbvieh, was elected to serve as the association’s president.

Gladstone, North Dakota, has been home to Prairie Hills Gelbvieh since 1948, when Sickler’s grandfather homesteaded the ranch he and his family now call home.

“In the early eighties, Dad attended the Black Hills Stock Show, and that was when breeders like Phil VanDervoort and some of those guys in northern South Dakota were just starting to bring Gelbvieh into the area,” Sickler says of his family’s beginnings with the breed.

“Like most people in our breed, we started AI-ing what we had to Gelbvieh bulls. In 1985, Dad purchased our first two Gelbvieh females, and, as they say, the rest is history. We are getting ready to come into our 37th year in the breed.

Gelbvieh cattle are pretty much all I have ever known.”

Today, Prairie Hills Gelbvieh runs a herd of high percentage, 99.9%, purebred cows and a small herd of Red Angus cows.

Sickler and his wife, Maralee, are the third generation to operate Prairie Hills Gelbvieh. Sickler’s parents are also active in the management and operation of the ranch.

Sickler had the opportunity to attend his first junior nationals in 1991. Although he didn’t take cattle, the exposure to the experience sealed his interest in participating again.

“The first time I took cattle to junior nationals was 1993 in Kearney, Nebraska; and for any Gelbvieh history buffs out there, that was the year the tornado went through the parking lot and ripped a barn apart. Everyone came together, helped one another out and two days later we went on with business as usual,” he says. “When I look back, 30 years later, that sense of family that I and so many others feel with the Gelbvieh association has always been there. That sense of camaraderie is still here.”

The cattle are also special to Sickler.

He shares that the docility and the performance of the breed makes them hard not to appreciate and promote, and Sickler is no stranger to promotion and betterment of the breed.

To-date, Sickler is serving his sixth year on the board of directors, having previously served as secretary and vice president before beginning his term as president – an appointment and responsibilities he is excited to see get underway.

“We’ve got the framework for our next strategic plan, and we are excited to get that really hammered down into an operational, working plan for the association,” he says. “The time is perfect right now for the Gelbvieh and Balancer breed. We have a push both from industry and the consumer for efficiency and sustainability. Those are two things that we do really well, we just need to be able to communicate that.

We have to figure out how to get that message in front of people. My biggest goal is to work with our board to figure out how we do that.”

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80 PUREBRED & BALANCER YEARLING BULLS ◊ 45 BLACK ◊ 35 RED ◊ 25 SELECT BRED FEMALES

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DDGR Rock Solid 281J

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Sire: BAG Mr Gridtopper 147E %GV

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Sire: DDGR Nobleman 79B %GV

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DDGR General 264J

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DDGR Turbo 282J

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DDGR Dominance 194J

DDGR Pure Force 129J

Sire: DDGR Resilient 275D

CMR Dynasty 121J

Sire: JKGF Chief F810 %GV

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DDGR Prestige 408J

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BIG PICTURE GENOMICS FEATURE BY LAURA HANDKE

“W

hat does the big picture look like when it comes to genomics?”

That’s the question Neogen strategic account manager, Leoma Wells, asked attendees of the American Gelbvieh Association annual convention.

Wells kicked off her presentation by choosing members of the audience to participate in her fictitious golf team.

“I’m looking for athletes,” she joked as she scanned the room, pointing to her choices until her team was full.

“This is how we used to choose our herd sires,” Wells told attendees. “We would look through sale and semen catalogs and we would set goals for our herd based off phenotype. And we had this fantastic goal in mind, but when we mated those animals, what happened?” she asked. “Sometimes we hit the jackpot, but if you’ve ever been to Vegas, you know that hitting the jackpot doesn’t happen very often.”

Wells then asked the entire audience to raise their hands, deselecting members through a set of questions.

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“Put your hand down if you’ve never played golf…if your handicap is above 20…wave your hand if you can drive further than 200 yards,” she questioned until the team had been reestablished.

Only one of the original four remained on the team—a 25% accuracy.

“What we just did was take measurable, tangible metrics and put together a team based on whether those metrics were met or not. We used more information to do a better job of building our golf team,” she said.

Genomics is about using the tools at your disposal to make decisions that will influence your herd for the next decade.

Genomics is also a resource that is vastly underutilized in both the seedstock and commercial industries.

GENETICS VS. GENOMICS Wells says that there is a disconnect between genetics and genomics—a general misunderstanding that often muddies the waters for producers interested in learning more about the animals in their herd.

“Sometimes we’ll have an animal who performs really, really well and when

we look at their EPD, their performance doesn’t make sense. Those animals are outliers. They may perform incredibly well, but they don’t have the genes to connect together and pass on to their progeny,” she says.

Genomics is the study of the connection of an animal’s genes, how those genes interact and behave with one another and how they are expressed. Genetics is the study of inherited traits and genes.

Cattle have 30 pairs of chromosomes, which means there are a quintillion possibilities that arise when the sperm from that dynamite AI sire you chose meet the egg of your donor cow.

We need every tool we have access to in the beef industry.

Ask yourself: What is the value of getting closer to putting the right calf on the ground every time?

INVESTING IN GENOMICS In the beef business, there’s no such thing as a short-term plan, and the goals that steer an operation’s management plan should reflect that.

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“GENOMICS IS THE STUDY OF THE CONNECTION OF AN ANIMAL’S GENES, HOW THOSE GENES INTERACT AND BEHAVE WITH ONE ANOTHER AND HOW THEY ARE EXPRESSED. GENETICS IS THE STUDY OF INHERITED TRAITS AND GENES.” — LEOMA WELLS

Docility & Proven Performance

NEOGEN

“You have to be thinking about the fact that in 2037, bulls that are turned out this year will still have genetic influence in the herd,” Wells said.

“When you collect data and DNA test your herd, you add the confidence to deliver animals that benefit the industry. Seedstock producers add to their ability to make their commercial customers profit. Commercial producers add confidence in the efficiency of the animals they are finishing or sending on to the feedlot. And, as an industry, that data allows us to improve cattle and confidently deliver the message of how sustainable the beef industry is, because we have the hard numbers to do so.”

Genomics help take some of the assumptions or inferences out of animal breeding. In tune with the advancement artificial insemination and embryo transfer delivered to the industry more than half a century ago, genomics will drive progress forward for those who choose to use the technology.

“Using genomics, we can expect to see decreased generation interval and improved replacement animal selection accuracy,” Wells says. “It adds confidence that you are going to get to that point you want to get to faster.”

Our focus and dedication starts with docility and ends with performance. We offer Purebred Gelbvieh and Balancer® bulls and heifers private treaty year-round. We continue to do our homework in our breeding program, so you can buy with confidence.

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THE

MATERNAL BREED OF CHOICE

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t’s no secret that Gelbvieh-influenced cattle are the Continental breed of choice. The maternal traits, gentle temperament and fertility Gelbvieh cattle deliver also make them the maternal breed of choice.

In this recap of our October American Rancher episode, we hear from producers across the U.S., utilizing Gelbvieh and Balancer® genetics about how the breed is setting their operations up for long-term success.

For southwestern Colorado ranchers Kevin and Bunny McComb, the Gelbvieh breed offers the docility their operation is looking for in both their replacement heifers and mother cows.

The operation runs cattle through the summer on U.S. Forest Service land.

The terrain is rough, and cattle must be structurally well equipped to travel and breed back for the next season.

HERD-BUILDING GENETICS “For replacement heifers, it always goes back to that age old, ‘Do you buy ‘em or do you raise ‘em?’ We like the genetics, so we raise our own,” Kevin says. “We like the Gelbvieh cattle because of their docility and maternal traits. We try to keep a moderate cow size, running on public lands in big country.”

A little under 250 miles northeast, Sean Martin’s Martin Ranch is running cattle between 7,000 and 9,000 feet above sea

level in Carbondale, Colorado. Like the McCombs, one of the reasons Martin continues to invest in Gelbvieh and Gelbvieh-influenced genetics is because of the high quality replacement heifers that develop into long-term, profitable cows in the herd.

STAYABILITY THAT ADDS THE POUNDS

“When we select females in the fall, the first thing we are looking at is phenotype. They have to look the part of becoming a great mother cow,” he says. “In February, we PAP (pulmonary arterial pressure) test, set a limit and there’s a small fallout,” he says, noting that PAP testing and brisket are not a problem with the Gelbvieh-influenced cattle due to the Continental, mountain origin of the breed—a fact Martin finds reassuring.

In east-central Missouri, Loren Fischer agrees. Fischer has also built a herd centered on Gelbvieh-influenced and Balancer® genetics in his search for a breed that would produce replacement females that would remain in the herd for several years; cows that would breed back, shed off and handle the fescue most Missouri producers contend with.

“We have to know that we’re selling something our customers can take and run at any altitude with no fear of any issues,” he says, adding that no other tests matter if a cow doesn’t put a live calf on the ground every year. “The most important thing we do, and Gelbvieh heifers do a great job of, is a 30-day breed, and they have to make the cut.

There’s no getting around it.”

Both the McCombs and Martin agree that the maternal traits the Gelbvieh breed delivers put live, good-doing calves on the ground. And Gelbvieh mother cows with the milk, feet and disposition do an excellent job of taking care of them.

Martin says that another reason his operation has stayed with Gelbvieh is the added weight, especially on crossbred cattle.

Fischer found the advantages of Balancer genetics in both the females he is saving back and the calves he is sending to the feedlot. The Gelbvieh and Balancer breed delivers heavier weaning weights, gained from both genetics and excellent maternal milk production, and the performance genetics calves need to excel at the feedbunk.

“We had a pen of heifers harvested, and out of 121 head with an average weight of 1,248, we had 114 choice and seven prime,” Fischer says. “We had 100 percent choice or better and 94 percent grade three or below. With our females that we’ve been producing and our calf data that we’re getting back from the feedlot, we are hitting our goals.”

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LAZY TV DOWNPOUR J422 HB BALANCER DOWNPOUR/REVELATION/TEN X GE EPDs BW -3.1 WW 85 YW 141 MILK 23

LAZY TV PEBBLES J707 HB BALANCER PEBBLES/STUNNER/NATURAL GE EPDs BW 2.4 WW 100 YW 161 MILK 24

LAZY TV WHIRLWIND J660 HB BALANCER WHIRLWIND/IBULL/WATCHMAN GE EPDs BW -4.3 WW 82 YW 122 MILK 29

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LAZY TV HOMEMADE J408 RED BALANCER HOMEMADE/MERLIN/X FACTOR EPDs BW -0.3 WW 88 YW 131 MILK 33

LAZY TV HOMEMADE J476 RED BALANCER HOMEMADE/REBEL/RED ROCK EPDs BW -0.2 WW 83 YW 130 MILK 31

LAZY TV SNIPER J953 RED SIMANGUS SNIPER/BARKING IRON/HOLDEN 1000 EPDs BW -3.0 WW 66 YW 103 MILK 33

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T H E R E S U LT S A R E I N

AMERICAN GELBVIEH FOUNDATION CARCASS CONTEST RESULTS

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he American Gelbvieh Foundation Scale and Rail Contest and Steer Challenge results were presented during the awards banquet at the American Gelbvieh Association National Convention and 50th Anniversary Celebration in Oklahoma City on December 10, 2021.

The 2021 Scale and Rail Contest and Steer Challenge was hosted by Darr Feedlot near Cozad, Nebraska. This project was initiated by the American Gelbvieh Foundation to implement research for the improvement of the Gelbvieh and Balancer® breeds by increasing the volume of carcass data submitted to the registry.

The Scale and Rail Sire-Identified Steer Contest was introduced to increase the submission of sire qualified carcass data to the AGA. Sire qualified carcass data records allow for the improvement in accuracy of the sire’s carcass trait EPDs. Furthermore, as carcass records are one of the most difficult to collect, an increase in these records will significantly help to improve the selection of carcass traits for Gelbvieh and Balancer genetics.

The requirements for the Scale and Rail Contest entry are as follows: 1.

Animals must have one registered Gelbvieh or Balancer parent.

2.

Animals should weigh a minimum of 750 lbs. with a maximum weight of 900 lbs. by feedlot entry.

RESULTS BY LINDSAY UPPERMAN, PH.D. 3.

Animals are required to have a Genomic Option 3 (GGPuLD) DNA test and must be sire qualified.

4.

Tissue samples are taken at the feedlot and the cost of the test is the responsibility of the AGF.

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All animals will get an EID tag at the feedlot.

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All animals MUST be weaned at least 30 days prior to arrival at feedlot.

The owner may select any animals in the Scale and Rail Contest to be entered into the Steer Challenge, where the donated animals are eligible to win both contests.

The 2021 Scale and Rail Contest winners were Rippe Gelbvieh of Hubbell, Nebraska, Post Rock Cattle Company of Barnard, Kansas, and Stucky Beef Genetics of Salina, Kansas.

The champion purebred steer for both average daily gain and carcass value went to Rippe Gelbvieh with a steer sired by Dunn’s Destination 029E. This steer averaged 3.8 lbs/day with his carcass valuing $1,949.84.

Rippe Gelbvieh also raised the Champion Balancer steer for average daily gain sired by BTBR NEVADA 1170Y. The steer averaged 4.36 lbs/day.

The Champion Balancer steer for carcass value went to Post Rock Cattle Co. sired by C503 Young Gun, and received $2,092.71 in total carcass value.

The Scale and Rail Contest also includes a pen division, where animals sired by the same bull (three head) can compete for total carcass value.

This year, Post Rock Cattle Co. raised the Champion Pen of Balancer steers sired by VLK C503 Young Gun. The combined carcass value total for the group was $5,736.61.

The reserve champion pen of Balancer steers was raised by Stucky Beef Genetics. This group of steers were sired

by TTTT Mighty Hot ET and equated $5,099.83 in total carcass value. There were no purebred pens of Gelbvieh steers entered in this year’s contest.

Congratulations to all winners of the AGF Scale and Rail Contest.

The Steer Challenge allows for a producer to donate a steer in their name to the American Gelbvieh Foundation.

The requirements for Steer Challenge entry are the same as the Scale and Rail Contest. Proceeds from the contest go to AGF. Thank you to Stucky Beef Genetics for donating a steer to the AGF and participating in the AGF Steer Challenge Contest.

The 2022 Scale and Rail Contest and Steer Challenge has already begun and is being hosted by Kinsley Feeders located near Kinsley, Kansas. The animals arrived at Kinsley Feeders in midDecember.

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Est. 1972

BEASTROM RANCH 42nd Annual Geblvieh and Balancer Bull Sale

Feb. 28 95 Bulls Sell Black & Red

1:00 p.m.

BABR 2302J • Gelbvieh • 3/12/21

BABR 2352J ET • Balancer • 3/29/21

BABR 2317J • Balancer • 2/20/21

BABR 2320J • Balancer • 3/16/21

BABR 2300J • Balancer • 3/6/21

BEA 213J • Balancer • 3/1/21

Lunch at 11:00

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OPEN HOUSE PRIVATE TREATY KICK-OFF SALE Monday, March 7, 2022 • At the Ranch

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Ultrasound Tested • DNA Tested and have GE EPDs • Fertility Tested • Negative BVD-PI3 Test • Satisfaction Guaranteed Viewing at 11:00, Lunch at 12:00, Final Bids at 1:00

We have open heifers for sale private treaty anytime!

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Gelbvieh Sires – Franchise and Legacy Balancer Sires – Civil War, Wow Factor, Rebel Yell, Lifeline, Optimizer, Post Rock 106E8, MLM MR 912G Angus Sire – Mead Magnitude Red Angus Sires – Merlin 018A and ProfitmakerE7030

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Videos available mid-February www.gelbviehbulls.com

Directions: The Open House will be held at the ranch at Superior, NE. From the 14/136 junction north of Superior, go 6 miles west on 136, then 1-1/4 miles north.

13TH Annual Southwest Iowa Gelbvieh & Balancer Bull & Female Sale March 18, 2022 • Creston Livestock Auction, Creston, IA All bulls are feed efficiency tested and ultra sounded.

Heifers have GE EPDs. Michael Bauer MJBC Gelbvieh Audubon, IA 712-304-4320 Mjbauer4320@hotmail.com Roy Holste Clarinda, LA 712-303-1947 Gary Martens Martens Gelbvieh Walnut, IA 712-764-5007 (home) 712-249-5744 (cell) martensgl@yahoo.com

Call Cody Frey at Creston Livestock Auction (641-344-5082) at least 2 days before sale to qualify bid numbers.

Jim McCreary Mount Ayr , IA 641-464-3178 (Home) 641-234-0039 (Cell) Carl Reiste Rafter R Gelbvieh Adel, IA 515-490-3561 creiste.rafterr@yahoo.com Linda Reiste Bloomfield, LA 515-360-3106 For online bidding: www.cattle.usa and click on www.crestonlivestock.com

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JJ BOEHLER

202 2 HALL O F FAME INDU CTEE

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he American Gelbvieh Association recognized a dedicated member that has been an influential figure in the Gelbvieh breed during the 2021 AGA National Convention and 50th Anniversary Celebration. JJ Boehler of Orleans, Nebraska, was officially inducted into the AGA Hall of Fame at the convention awards banquet on December 10, 2021.

An AGA member since 1986, Boehler is a member of the Gelbvieh Association in Nebraska (GAIN), having served on the board of directors and several committees. He has helped organize several state tours and was instrumental in developing the first Balancer Bull Futurity. He also helped establish the first paid state breeder representative position and has been a sale committee member for the GAIN Fall Female Festival.

In addition to his contributions to the AGA, Boehler can boast several

accomplishments as a breeder. These include the Breeder’s Choice Gelbvieh Bull Futurity Champion in 2001, 2004 and 2006; People’s Choice Bull Futurity Champion in 2021; Nebraska Cattlemen’s Classic Supreme bull recipient two years in a row and many state and national champion awards.

“JJ has one of the most unique cow herds in the breed, winning national titles across the country and raising influential livestock,” Lori Brown of Dwight, Kansas, says. “Titles mean little to the humble breeder though. One drive through the pastures with him, you can see the spark and pride in his eye.”

“We have found that JJ has been a leader in utilizing new genetics of the Gelbvieh breed,” Robert Anderson of Jamestown, Kansas, says. “We have purchased several herd bulls from him over the past years. Those genetics have produced top quality replacement females, breeding bulls and high-quality steers for both the registered and commercial herds.”

These accomplishments are significant, but what sets Boehler apart is his integrity and passion. A man of not many words, his drive to grow the Gelbvieh breed with friends, family and future breeders, as well as his work behind the scenes, speaks volumes.

Beyond the recognition Boehler has received for the quality of cattle he raises, he is widely recognized for his passion for the industry and the breed.

“He is honest, hardworking and unselfish,” Jeff Swanson of Oxford, Nebraska, says. “But most of all, he is a good friend and an excellent choice for the American Gelbvieh Association’s Hall of Fame.”

The American Gelbvieh Association’s 2022 Hall of Fame Inductee is JJ Boehler, Orleans, Nebraska.

Pictured above (left to right): Stuart Jarvis; Joe Boehler; JJ Boehler; Jack, Kerry and Brandon Spence.

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T B A R S C AT T L E C O M PA N Y

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Bar S Cattle Company is the recipient of this year’s Breeder of the Year award. The honor was presented to the Vehige family at the AGA National Convention and 50th Anniversary Celebration on Wednesday, December 8, 2021, in Oklahoma City.

T Bar S is located in Billings, Missouri, and is owned and operated by Tom and his wife, Stacy, along with their children, Justin, Kyle and Grace.

As long-time members, the Vehige family has been very active in the AGA and heavily involved in the American Gelbvieh Junior Association (AGJA), with all three children having served on the AGJA board of directors. The Vehiges are also members of the Heart of America Gelbvieh Association.

The honor came as a surprise to Tom who shared that the family’s passion for

Gelbvieh cattle has a foundation in the operation’s first breeding stock.

“I knew that I wouldn’t ever be able to have the number of cattle I wanted, so I set out to find the best,” Vehige says.

“I wanted to be a part of something bigger than me. I wanted to raise what I thought were the best cattle in the cow-calf industry and that led me to the maternal qualities of the Gelbvieh breed.”

Vehige says that he had always been attracted to the continental side of the cattle business because of their outstanding performance and was impressed by the disposition and fertility of Gelbvieh. What he really fell in love with, however, was the calf crop.

“At the time, I wasn’t sure if it was the base of my cowherd or the Gelbvieh bull I had purchased, so I went back and bought some purebred females,” he

says. “I quickly found out that it was the Gelbvieh I was attracted to. That was the foundation that I built the herd from.”

Today, the operation that got its start in 1993 is operated as a family endeavor in every sense of the word.

“We were going to downsize, my wife and I. We didn’t ever want to force this on our children, but they have all wanted to be a part of what we are doing, and, really, that is the greatest blessing,” Vehige says. “We all have our strengths and we play into them. Every decision is decided on collectively. It’s just how we operate.”

Congratulations to T Bar S Cattle Company on being honored as the 2021 Breeder of the Year.

The American Gelbvieh Association named T Bar S Cattle Company, Billings, Missouri, the AGA Breeder of the Year for 2021. Pictured above (left to right): Justin, Grace, Stacy, Tom and Kyle Vehige.

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2 021 C O MMERCIAL P R O DU C ER O F T H E Y E A R

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owles Ranch Partnership is the recipient of the 2021 AGA Commercial Producer of the Year award. Powles Ranch Partnership was presented with this honor during the awards banquet of the 2021 AGA National Convention and 50th Anniversary Celebration on December 10, 2021, in Oklahoma City.

Powles Ranch Partnership is a commercial cow-calf operation located in the Nebraska Sandhills near Bingham, Nebraska. Today, the ranch primarily utilizes Balancer® genetics to produce their own home-raised replacement females and markettopping steer calves. The Powles family has a long and rich history in the Gelbvieh breed.

Don Powles first used Gelbvieh genetics in the fall of 1972 in partnership with Phil VanDervoort. The Powles ranch was running purebred Hereford cows

and a crossbred commercial herd, but Phil convinced Don to use some Gelbvieh semen to breed his fall calving Hereford cows. This led to Powles Gelbvieh Ranch becoming AGA member #224.

Don envisioned black Gelbviehs and worked to make his vision a reality, breeding the first homozygous black, homozygous polled Gelbvieh bull, POW Black Imprint 386Z, in 1992. The family sold Gelbvieh bulls for 24 years.

Don loved selling bulls and talking to customers, especially when delivering bulls. Don was a true Gelbvieh advocate and always made time to talk cattle.

He is credited with giving several kids Gelbvieh heifers to start their cowherds.

In addition to the performance genetics the operation has become known for, a legacy of service is also credited to the Powles family name. Don’s wife, Gretchen, served as the American

Gelbvieh Gals president. Their daughter, Jana, and son, Bryon, both served on the American Gelbvieh Junior Association board of directors, and Jana served as the American Gelbvieh Ambassador. All were involved in GAIN, the Gelbvieh Association in Nebraska.

Today, the Powles Ranch Partnership includes Jana (Powles) Jensen, her husband, JC, their children Jada and Cameron, and Bryon and Audrey Powles.

The ranching operation is a family affair.

Bryon takes care of the north half of the ranch and JC the south half. Jana does all the financials and bookkeeping, while Audrey keeps cow records.

The AGA Commercial Producer of the Year Award honors individuals who use Gelbvieh and Balancer® genetics in progressive commercial cattle operations and are proactive in their promotion of the breed.

The American Gelbvieh Association named Powles Ranch Partnership, Bingham, Nebraska, the 2021 Commercial Producer of the Year. Pictured above (left to right): Audrey and Bryon Powles, Jana Jensen, Scott Starr.

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Cowman’s Kind FEATURE | EDITORIAL | NEWS

BULL AND FEMALE SALE

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103J1 81% Gelbvieh Bull Homo Black Homo Polled Lead-off bull in our Reserve Champion Pen of Five purebreds.

Every so often, a bull comes along that’s uniquely different. If you’ve been searching for a bull to use on purebred cows that will stouten up, soften up, and moderate every mating, you’ve just found him.

CED BW WW YW MK 13 0.5 74 105 23 CED 12

BW 2.4

WW 77

YW 111

MK 15

TM 53

CEM YG CW 6 -0.10 50

REA MB FPI 0.81 0.12 73.59

409H8

TM CEM YG CW REA MB FPI EPI 60 6 -0.19 27 0.66 0.33 80.95 84.32

PB 99% Gelbvieh Bull Homo Black Homo Polled - Post Rock Crackerjack is destined to become a breed-leading sire. Unique herd bull build and herd bull EPDs combined with being homo-black and homo-polled make him a sale feature of the entire 2022 sale season.

323H8 34% Balancer Bull Black Homo Polled AI sired by LD Capitalist. One of many balancer bulls selling that’s heifer safe and performance stong with the EPDs and actual performance to back it up.

CED BW WW YW MK 16 -1.3 87 129 25

TM CEM YG CW REA MB FPI EPI 68 10 0.11 38 0.41 0.53 95.75 130.13

CED BW WW YW MK 9 1.4 92 153 18

86J2 PB 94% Gelbvieh Bull Homo Black Homo Polled Member of our Reserve Champion Pen of Five from OKC, he’s been the performance stand-out at every check point out of an outstanding young cow that has a 109 WW ratio on her first three calves. Note the spread in his growth numbers and outstanding marbling potential.

CED 11

BW 0.9

WW 79

YW 116

MK 30

TM 69

CEM YG CW 5 -0.18 38

37% Balancer Bull Homo Black Homo Polled - ET son of the popular Angus AI sire, Deer Valley Growth Fund, out of our featured donor 294Z8, a homo-polled homo-black herdsire prospect that brings together the best of the Angus and Gelbvieh breeds.

401H11

REA MB FPI 0.82 0.26 82.12 CED BW WW YW

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TM CEM YG CW REA MB FPI EPI 64 8 0.18 70 0.36 0.37 89.89 191.98

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13 -1.4 78 117 24 63 7 -0.03 35 0.49 0.35 86.05 88.19 3041 E. Hwy. 284, Barnard, KS 67418 63% Balancer Bull Black Homo Polled - Herdsire alert! A black, ¾ blood Power Leland Clark: 785.392.0888 Built son, his dam is used in embryo production and descends from the noted Darci cow that has written lots of Gelbvieh history.

Kyle Cavalli: 785.531.1947 Office: 785.792.6244 • Email: prcc@twinvalley.net www.postrockcattle.com “Where calving ease, performance and eye-appeal come together.”

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Post Rock Cattle Company Sale Facility • Barnard, Kansas

120 BULLS SELL • 80 FEMALES SELL

Gelbvieh and Balancer® • Including all six year old cows.

PB 84% Gelbvieh Cow Homo Black Homo Polled One of three flush sisters to the ABS sire Armstrong. If your needs include a homo-black, homo-polled donor that ranks in the top 15% for marbling and backed by a proved pedigree, look up these outstanding females.

258D8

CED BW WW YW MK 13 0.5 74 105 23

TM CEM YG CW REA MB FPI EPI 60 6 -0.19 27 0.66 0.33 80.95 84.32

44D8

CED BW WW YW MK 10 1.5 71 102 6

74% Balancer Cow Homo Black Homo Polled Extremely impressive 75% female that, properly mated, can do some terrific things. Generations deep in proven matings of power cows with perfect udders.

TM CEM YG CW REA MB FPI EPI 41 3 -0.05 25 0.32 0.45 77.73 72.54

47% Balancer Cow Double Black Double Polled Balancer 47% that has been a heck of a producer with her last daughter being sold in the KGA Pick of the Herd Sale. She comes from a proven cow and cow family, and her dam was the high seller in the 2019 sale.

101D8

CED 10

BW 1.7

WW 69

YW 96

MK 10

TM 44

CEM YG CW 8 -0.09 17

REA MB FPI 0.32 0.38 74.61

POST ROCK BUILT RIGHT 96H8

CED 16

BW -1.2

WW 74

YW 116

MK 25

TM 62

CEM YG 7 0.00

CW 47

75% Balancer Bull Black Homo Polled Black flush brother to Post Rock Powerbuilt, he’s the new featured Post Rock herdsire, and several females sell carrying his valuable service.

REA MB FPI 0.45 0.61 90.65

34% Balancer Cow Homo Black Homo Polled 2-time AGA Dam of Merit and an own daughter of the noted 7309T donor. She owns a 97 BW ratio and a 110 WW ratio on her progeny. She sells only because we annually sell every sound six-year-old female as a sale feature.

CED BW WW YW 11 -0.2 74 107

MK 14

TM CEM YG CW REA MB FPI EPI 60 3 -0.08 32 0.53 0.40 82.56 94.49

COWMAN’S KIND SALE FEATURES • • • •

All bulls have genomic enhanced EPD’s and are sire verified and tested for Homo Black and Homo Polled All bulls have complete ultrasound data and complete performance data 95% of all bulls are Homo Polled and 80% are Homo Black as well All bulls developed in large open lots on a high roughage ration

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Video of entire offering available on line after February 1 First breeding season death and injury guarantee Customer Service and Customer Satisfaction have kept us in the seed stock business for more than 55 years Every sound 6 year old female sells as our annual dispersal to assure you of 1st chance at our best genetics

THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH... Eat Beef, because there’s no such thing as a chicken knife.

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FEBRUARY 2022 FEB. 7

Taubenheim Gelbvieh 32nd Annual Production Sale, Amherst, Neb.

FEB. 11

Lemke Cattle 16th Annual Bull and Heifer Sale, Lawrence, Neb.

FEB. 12

J&K Gelbvieh Farm and Prairie Breeze Ranch Genetic Power Bull Sale, Springfield, Mo.

EVENTS OF INTEREST

FEB. 12

Prairie Hills Gelbvieh Annual Bull Sale, Dickinson, N.D.

FEB. 26

Seedstock Plus North Missouri Bull Sale, Kingsville, Mo.

FEB. 26

Squeakin’ By LK Farms Online Sale

FEB. 28

Beastrom Ranch 42nd Annual Gelbvieh and Balancer Bull Sale, Pierre, S.D.

MARCH 2022 MARCH 1 Swanson Cattle Company 36th Annual Bull Sale, Oxford, Neb.

MARCH 2 Warner Beef Genetics Genetic

Investment Bull Sale, Arapahoe, Neb.

FEB. 13

Gelbvieh Gold Sale, Des Moines, Iowa

FEB. 15

Cedar Top Ranch Maternal Empire Bull Sale, Burwell, Neb.

MARCH 3 Chimney Butte Ranch Annual

FEB. 15

Draft Picks Bull Sale, Red Deer County, Alberta, Canada

MARCH 4 Davidson Gelbvieh and Lonesome Dove

FEB. 17

Gustin’s Diamond D Gelbvieh 2022 Production Sale, Medina, N.D.

MARCH 4 Handel Farms Gelbvieh & Red Angus

Locust Hill Cattle Company Inaugural Bull & Female Sale

MARCH 5 C-Cross Cattle Company Bull & Female

FEB. 19

Overmiller Gelbvieh and Red Angus Production Sale, Smith Center, Kan.

MARCH 5 Cib’s Gelbvieh and Balancer Annual

FEB. 20

Larson’s Lost River Livestock 12th Annual Production Sale, Clearbrook, Minn.

MARCH 5 Flying H Genetics Sale, Arapahoe, Neb.

FEB. 19

FEB. 23

Grund Beef Genetics Cattleman’s Choice Bull Sale, Sharon Springs, Kan.

Production Sale, Mandan, N.D. Ranch 33rd Annual Bull Sale, Ponteix, Saskatchewan Canada Bull Sale, Platte, S.D.

Sale, Snow Camp, N.C.

Production Sale, Clutier, Iowa

MARCH 5 Hilltop Farms Bull & Female Sale, Carthage, Mo.

MARCH 5 Judd Ranch 44th Annual Bull Sale, Pomona, Kan.

FEB. 24

Plateau Gelbvieh Bull Sale, Brush, Colo.

FEB. 25

31st Annual “Pot of Gold” Gelbvieh and Balancer Bull Sale, Montrose, Colo.

MARCH 5 Lazy TV Ranch 41st Annual Bull Sale,

FEB. 26

37th Annual Schafer Farms Inc. Bull Sale, Goodhue, Minn.

MARCH 5 Seedstock Plus Arkansas Bull Sale,

FEB. 26

Black Gold Genetics Bull Sale

MARCH 5 SEGA Gelbvieh Pound-Makin’ Genetics

FEB. 26

Post Rock Cattle Company Cowman’s Kind Bull and Female Sale, Barnard, Kan.

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Selby, S.D.

Hope, Ark.

Bull Sale, Pierce, Colo.

Balancer Production Sale, Lake Preston, S.D.

MARCH 7 MLM Gelbvieh Open House and Private Treaty Kickoff Sale, Superior, Neb.

MARCH 8 Bar Arrow Cattle Company 32nd Annual Production Sale

MARCH 9 Raile Gelbvieh Annual Production Sale MARCH 11 Quest of the West Sale, Spanish Fork, Utah

MARCH 12 Feist Gelbvieh 35th Annual Production

MARCH 17 Kicking Horse Ranch Annual Production Sale, Great Falls, Mont.

MARCH 18 13th Annual Southwest Iowa Bull & Female Sale, Creston, Iowa

MARCH 19 Lone Oak Cattle 10th Annual Bull Sale MARCH 26 Bluegrass Gelbvieh Alliance 1st Annual Joint Production Sale, Lexington, Ky.

MARCH 26 Cranview Gelbvieh 18th Annual Genetic Progress Sale, Rugby, N.D.

MARCH 26 Seedstock Plus South Missouri Bull & Female Sale, Carthage, Mo.

Bull Sale, Bowman, N.D.

MARCH 12 Midwest Beef Cattle Consultants 19th Annual Spring Bull and Female Sale, Carthage, Ind.

MARCH 12 Seedstock Plus Red Reward Bull & Female Sale, Osceola, Mo.

MARCH 16 Chambers Gelbvieh Cattle The Select Cut Online Sale

SEGA GELBVIEH invites you to attend our upcoming Bull sale

Pound-Makin’ Genetics Bull sale – March 5, 2022

APRIL 2022 APRIL 2

B/F Cattle Co. Maternal Integrity Balancer Bull Sale

APRIL 9

Knoll Crest Farm Spring Bull & Female Sale

APRIL 10 TJB Gelbvieh Online Embryo Sale

JUNE 2022 JUNE 20

TJB Gelbvieh Online Bred Heifer Sale

EVENTS OF INTEREST

MARCH 7 Hojer Ranch 30th Annual Gelbvieh &

NOVEMBER 2022 NOV. 5

B/F Cattle Co. Maternal Integrity Balancer Bull Sale

NOV. 5

TJB Gelbvieh Annual Bull Sale

Visit the online version of Upcoming Events at Gelbvieh.org for additional dates of upcoming sales and more information on each event.

Put Pounds on the truck! and Quality carcass on the rail

Bulls available to view at 10:30 AM • Lunch at Noon • Sale at 1 PM

BID IN PERSON or ONLINE AT WWW.LIVEAUCTIONWORLD.COM! STEVE & GAIL FIOLKOSKI

16509 WCR 86 • Pierce, CO 80650 | Gail’s Cell: 970/590-4862 | Steve’s Cell: 970/381-0600 Email: gafiolk@aol.com • www.segagelbvieh.com | Like us on Facebook @segagelbvieh

EDITOR’S NOTE: If you have a sale or event information for this listing, please email the information to malerie@ gelbvieh.org. This includes tours, expos, field days and other Gelbvieh events.

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PERFORMANCE • EXCELLENCE • PROFESSIONAL At Kinsley Feeders we pride ourselves on: • • • •

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High performance environment Partnership opportunity Cattle and feed financing Risk management

DEREK MARTIN, MANAGER

dmartin@kinsleyfeeders.com | www.kinsleyfeeders.com

31st ANNUAL

100 GELBVIEH & BALANCER BULLS LOOK FOR ADDED VALUE WHEN BUYING “POT OF GOLD” BULLS CALVING EASE GROWTHY CALVES DISPOSTION PAP TESTED PROVEN HIGH ALTITUDE CATTLE

Februar y 25, 2022 12:00 NOON

Montrose, Colorado

“Providing dependable genetics to commercial and purebred cattlemen for over 31 years.”

Mark Covington (970) 209-1956 Dave Bowman (970) 323-6833

For online catalog and videos visit:

www.gelbviehbulls.net

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BREEDERS CORNER 3 G Ranch

Gelbvieh Cattle For Sale

ALABAMA

Carl, Rebecca & Emily Griffiths

COLORADO

1577 N 600 E • Kendallville, Ind. 46755 260/897-2160 • ggge3g@embarqmail.com

Your call or visit is Always Welcome

IOWA

Dave & Dawn Bowman 55784 Holly Rd. • Olathe, CO 81425 (970) 323-6833 • www.bowkranch.com

ARIZONA

Jim Roelle 38330 CR 49 Peetz, CO 80747

(C): 970-520-1224 jr.plateau@hotmail.com www.plateaugelbvieh.com

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Ridge Top Ranch

Gelbvieh-Angus-Balancer

Neola, Iowa

Black & Polled Private Treaty Sales

Breed-leading Performance from Quality Genetics

Kevin: 402-510-8103 Al: 402-676-5292

LONE OAK C AT T L E

The Prosser Family

Eric Ehresman 20963 30th St.

hornsandthorns@netins.net

(319) 480-1564

Mechanicsville, Iowa 52306

Martens Gelbvieh

Gary Martens 2126 500th St • Walnut, Iowa 51577 712.764.5007 (H) • 712.249.5744 (C) martensgl@yahoo.com

928-289-2619 • 928-380-5149 cell Winslow, AZ www.bartbar.com • info@bartbar.com

RFI Tested Balancer®, Gelbvieh & Angus Bulls Sell Annually in April at the Ranch

ARKANSAS

Annual Bull and Female Sale March 18, 2022 with the Southwest Iowa Gelbvieh Group

ILLINOIS

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Roy & Nancy Holste 3113 260th Street Clarinda, Iowa 51632 712-303-0263 • 712-303-1947 tripleh1@unitedwb.coop

Bulls and Heifers for sale Private Treaty

H ODGES R ANCH

Neal

(870) 426-4469 or (870) 704-9450

15702 Hodges Rd., Omaha, Ark. 72662 Hodgesranch@live.com

Quality Gelbvieh & Balancer Genetics Available Private Treaty Sales

J & K GELBVIEH FARM, INC. Jerry & Karen Wilson 335 Gelbvieh Lane, Ava, IL 62907 618-521-8620 • jkgf88@frontier.com

REGISTERED GELBVIEH AND BALANCER®

Martin Cattle Company David & Rita Martin

256 Boyce Road Judsonia, Ar 72081 C: 501.278.7614 www.martincattleco.com

Private Treaty Sales Available Year Round

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INDIANA

KANSAS

NOWACK

Cattle Company Owensville, MO

Registered Gelbvieh & Balancer Cattle

Bar Arrow Cattle Company

Jared, Caisie, Brooke & Cameron 573.280.4633

Red Ridge gelbvieh

26 E. Limestone Rd. • Phillipsburg, Kan. 67661

Kevin Ireland Docility 237 SW 30th Ave. & Trenton, MO 64683 Proven Cell (660) 635-1433 Performance ksi1987@grundyec.net

e-mail: bararrow@ruraltel.net • 785-543-5177

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“Where workin’ cattle and eye appeal come full circle” John & Carla Shearer 2815 Navajo Rd. • Canton, Kan. 67428 circle_s@hometelco.net 620.628.4621

620.654.6507 (John Cell) • 620.654.6731 (Johnny Cell)

Annual Production Sale 1st Saturday in April

573.646.3477

Bulls and Females for Sale by private treaty year round.

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Gilbert & Debra

MINNESOTA Swenson Gelbvieh

Dean Swenson

17513 Hwy 10 Little Falls, MN 56345 swen@centurylink.net

Rogers Valley Farm Gelbvieh Breed for Tomorrow’s Cattle Today!

A Breed Leader in Tenderness & Marbling

www.rogersvfg.com P.O. Box 51 Mendon, Mo. 64660 660-375-7266 (C) Ronald Rogers

(h) 320.632.5848 • (c) 320.630-5536

Polled • Purebred • Red • Black

MISSOURI Timothy Mulroy • 785-640-6401 Mayetta, Kan. • tim@blackgoldinc.biz

email: rogers_valley_farm_feedlot@hotmail.com

RUMFELT

Gelbvieh Bre

CONTACT:

BRAD, Amy OR KARLEY RUMFELT 417-664-6936 brumfelt7556@gmail.com PHILLIPSBURG, MO.

POST ROCK CATTLE COMPANY 3041 E. Hwy. 284, Barnard, KS 67418 Bill Clark: 785.792.6244 Leland Clark: 785.392.0888 Office: 785.792.6244 Leland Clark: 785.792.6208 Fax: 785.792.6250 Email: prcc@twinvalley.net

Billings, MO Focused on the Future Bull and Female Sale held each October.

Tom, Stacy, Justin, Kyle & Grace Vehige (573) 690-3813 | tbarscattle@gmail.com Follow @tbars1993 on Facebook and Instagram!

Consistent Genetics Adding Pounds & Profit

Myron & Valerie Bahm

Purebred A.I. Seedstock Bulls and Heifers Available.

Al & Mary Knapp Cell: (913) 219-6613 18291 158th Street H: (913) 724-4105 Basehor, Kan. 66007 www.triplekgelbvieh.com e-mail: knappa@swbell.net

Committed to raising quality seedstock Registered Gelbvieh and Balancer® Cattle Elmer, Brenda, Brad & Benny McWilliams Asbury, Mo. 64832 • 417-842-3225 • 417-529-0081(cell)

21640 Lawrence 2192 Aurora, MO 65605 417-576-0687(c)

email: whiteoakfarms@live.com

Registered Gelbvieh & Balancer®

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BREEDERS CORNER Quality Gelbvieh, Angus & Balancer Cattle

Mark & Patty Goes 39414 SW 75th Rd. Odell, Neb. 68415 (402) 766-3627

CATTLE

L.D. Witt, Owner Cell (479) 806-6511

El Dorado Springs, MO

ref65.lw@gmail.com

DUANE & WENDY STRIDER, OWNERS

(336) 964-6277

ccrosscattle@yahoo.com • ccrosscattle.com

Bulls For The BeeF Business Gelbvieh F Balancer F Red Angus F Angus F Angus Hybrids Randy & Leslie Lemke 1757 Road 2500, (H) 402-756-7090 Lawrence, NE 68957 (C) 402-469-2284 rllemke@gtmc.net www.lemkecattle.com

MONTANA

Quality Livestock that Work for You Quarter Horses Want to Please Strong Bone Intelligent Athletic

Gelbvieh Carcass Quality Calving Ease Tenderness Docility

1496 Goose Creek Rd. • Raynesford, MT 59469 Ranch Phone: 406.738.4220 • BarJRGelbvieh@3rivers.net BarJRGelbvieh.com

Squeakin’ By-LK Farms Gelbvieh Bulls Black

Kyle & Lori Kuker Shubert, NE

CCRO CAROLINA EXCLUSIVE 1230Y

CCRO CAROLINA LEVERAGE 3214A

THE HERD THAT CONSISTENTLY PRODUCES CATTLE WITH PERFORMANCE, CARCASS AND EYE APPEAL.

ANNUAL BULL & FEMALE SALE 2ND SATURDAY IN NOV. Private Treaty Sales Available Year Round.

Producing Black, Polled Genetics for Today & Tomorrow.

Balancer Females Red

402-883-7246

402-883-2366 402-245-7512 sqblkfarms.com Facebook.com/sqblkfarms sqblkfarms@gmail.com

“Gelbvieh since 1973” Kathleen Rankin Jim Bjorkman 1285 Nine Mile Rd. 406-937-4815 Oilmont, MT 59466 krankin@northerntel.net 406-460-0535 www.kickinghorseranch.com

Walter & Lee Teeter 1380 French Belk Rd. • Mt. Ulla, N.C. 28125 (704) 664-5784

NEBRASKA NORTH D AKOTA

Scott Wolf Travis Wolf 308.537.3588 308.529.3733 Gothenburg, Neb. • wolfgelbvieh@gmail.com www.facebook/wolfgelbvieh.com

NEVADA GELBVIEHV BALANCERV ANGUS

Private Treaty Bull & Heifer Sales • Orchard, Neb. Val Livingston • www.88ranch.com • 402-655-2288 6700 County Rd. 19 S. Minot, N.D. 58701

Cedar Top Ranch Scott & Raberta Starr 212 Starr Drive • Stapleton, NE 69163 (H): 308-587-2293 • (C): 308-530-3900 cedartopranch@gpcom.net Eldon Starr: 1-800-535-6173 or Rich Johnson: 402-368-2209

Dick & Jean Williams

(701) 624-2051 (H) (701) 720-8823 (C)

P.O. Box 156 Orovada, NV 89425 775•272•3442

“Pounds Make Profit in Your Pocket” Bulls & Heifers Private Treaty

Rob Arnold

Registered Gelbvieh & Balancers®

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Email: RLAGelbvieh@aol.com

Dennis & Sherry Gustin Family Al and Peggy Gustin Mandan, N.D. • 701-663-7266

u Richie & Sarah Heinrich 701-320-6484 (cell) email: gustindd@wildblue.net www.gustinsdiamondd.com

LAZY TV S e l by, S D

12980 Cedar Rd. Vaughn & Wendy 605-848-0421 Gina 605-850-9390

VIRGINIA

vwthor@sbtc.net www.Balancerbulls.com

REGISTERED POLLED GELBVIEH C.H. Morris & Sons, LLC

Roger Morris • C.W. Moss 928 Morris Road Appomattox, VA 24522 434.574.6592 Roger Morris C.W. Moss 434.315.4294 434.391.4458

OKLAHOMA LeGRAND

Keith, Janice, Dustin & Britney

Ed & Alberta LeGrand

809 S. Redlands Rd. • Stillwater, Okla. 74074

605-852-2131

405-747-6950 • alane@c21global.com

kvolek@venturecomm.net

Homo. Black, Homo. Polled • Breeding Stock Available

Koehn Cattle Co. Patrick Koehn

73243 Carter Rd., Goltry, Okla.

580-541-2633 koehncattlecompany@gmail.com

Gelbvieh Genetics at Work

TENNESSEE CAVE CREEK CATTLE JEFF PROCTOR

CHARLOTTE, TN | 931.801.5787 WWW.CAVECREEKCATTLE.COM CAVECREEKCATTLE@GMAIL.COM

SOUTH DAKOTA lori.maude@gmail.com

Lori Maude 303.809.3789 (C) Ranch 605.255.4448 Hermosa, S.D.

Annual Bull Sale 3rd Saturday in December.

Quality Gelbvieh & Balancer® Cattle

ClinCh Mountain Gelbvieh

John & Liz Loy (865) 687-1968 (865) 235-8869 (C)

7611 Dyer Rd. Luttrell, TN 37779 j.b.loy@att.net

Bulls & Heifers for Sale

www.knollcrestfarm.com knollcrest@knollcrestfarm.com Office James D. Bennett Paul S. Bennett Jim G. Bennett Brian R. Bennett Dalton G. Bennett

(434) (434) (434) (434) (434) (434)

376-3567 376-7299 941-8245 664-7935 664-8309 664-7946

PO Box 117 • Red House, VA • 23963

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Doug & Sue Hughes 6916 Peppers Ferry Road Max Meadows, VA 24360 C 276/620-4271 lwhf@wiredog.com

Gale Rippey Farms SPECIALIZING IN COMMERCIAL BALANCER® FEMALES

Galax, Virginia

276.233.0999 • grippey@embarqmail.com

“Superior Gelbvieh and Balancer Cattle”

Chris & Jordan Hampton • Charles & Sue Hampton 839 Davistown Rd. Celina, Tenn. 38551 931-243-3213 H 931-510-3213 C hamptoncattlecompany@gmail.com

Registered Bulls & Replacement Females

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WYOMING

Nine Bar Nine Gelbvieh Wesley Brown

3794 Rd. 215 • Cheyenne, WY 82009 307-351-6453 • ninebar9@hotmail.com Purebred Bulls, Heifers & Select Embryos Performance BRED in, Not FED in!

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BREEDERS CORNER Ronn Cunningham

SERVICE CENTER

AUCTIONEER P.O. Box 146 • Rose, Okla.

74364 918-629-9382 cellular

All your A.I. needs!!

Bull Barn Genetics 35 Years in business

• Gelbvieh • Sheaths • Gloves • Angus • Red Angus • Cito Thaw Units • Simmental • Tanks • Club Calf • A.I. Kits • Arm Service • Salers • Shorthorn Eldon & Kathy Starr • Dairy 210 Starr Dr • Stapleton, Neb. 69163 • Charolais bullbarn@bullbarn.com • Hereford 800-535-6173 • www.bullbarn.com

Cattlemen’s Connection

Dan McCarty • Auctioneer • • Professional Ring Service • 970-481-5217

Specializing in

• Gelbvieh Semen Sales • Consulting • Order Buying (all purchases guaranteed)

Roger & Peg Gatz (785) 742-3163

Call Toll-Free: 1-800-743-0026

Visit our website: www.cattlemensconnection.com

TO PURCHASE A BREEDER BLOCK, CONTACT KATIE HARBERT AT KATIE@GELBVIEH.ORG OR 303-465-2333.

2021 Beef Expo Champions

Gelbvieh/Balancer® Show 1:00 PM ET, Friday, March 4, 2022

Gelbvieh/Balancer® Sale

Grand Champion Gelbvieh Bull

Mr. Powerbuilt 4G exhibited by Gill Farms and purchased by Mockingbird Hill Farm.

Grand Champion Gelbvieh Female Ms. Ditka 3H exhibited by Padon Farms and purchased by K Lazy S Ranch.

11:30 AM ET, Saturday, March 5, 2022

Junior Heifer & Steer Show

8:00 AM ET, Sunday, March 6, 2022

Selling 24 Lots: Lots:

Bulls • Bred Heifers • Open Heifers Semen and Embryo Packages

Grand Champion Balancer Bull

Fireball G905 exhibited by Green Hills Gelbvieh and purchased by T-P Gelbvieh Farm.

Sale co-sponsored by: Kentucky Gelbvieh Association and Kentucky Department of Agriculture

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Grand Champion Balancer Female

Rumfelt’s Trina H96F exhibited by Rumfelt Gelbvieh and purchased by Robert Brooks.

Sale Managed by Slaughter Sale Management David Slaughter 270-556-4259 162 Hasting Lane, Fredonia, KY 42411

Like us on Facebook at Slaughter Sale Management

Annual Production Sale

Saturday, March 19, 2022, 5:30 (CT) Kirksville Livestock Market Kirksville, Missouri

60 Lots Sell

40 Gelbvieh and Balancer Bulls 20 Gelbvieh and Balancer Influenced Heifers

ERTL 445J Mr CW Mahoyu Homo Black Homo Polled 38% Balancer Bull Sire: JKGF Civil War E92 Dam: ERTL D445 Sam’s 6I6 132 WW ratio. Ranks in the top 1% for WW, YW, TM and FPI, 2% CW, 25% Marbling and Milk.

ERTL 107J Mr 30G4 Leverage 807 Homo Black Homo Polled 44% Balancer Bull Sire: ERTL Niagara 30G4 ET Dam: ERTL 807F Leverage Earline Performance bull that ranks in the top 1% for WW, YW, TM and FPI, 2% CW, 4% Marbling and 10% Milk

ERTL 837J Unique Windy Homo Black Homo Polled 38% Balancer Bull Sire: Deer Valley Unique 5636 Dam: ERTL 837F Samantha Sells in the 2022 Gelbvieh Gold Sale at Iowa Beef Expo. Top 1% FPI, 4% CE, 10% YW, 2% BW and WW

ERTL J21 Mr Harvest Gracen Y21 Double Black Homo Polled 40% Balancer Bull Sire: CCRO Carolina Big Harvest 6012D Dam: ERTL Gracie Y21 104 WW ratio. 15 EPD traits in the top 30%.

ERTL 1163J CW Junebug Homo Black Homo Polled 50% Balancer Heifer Sire: JKGF Civil War E92 Dam: MBCC Jen 63Z ET Sells in the 2022 Gelbvieh Gold Sale at Iowa Beef Expo. Top 5% YW, 10% WW, TM and FPI, 20% Marbling.

Ginger Ertel 660-234-5265 26694 Anchor Way Greentop, MO 63546 gertel@ertelcattle.com www.ertelcattle.com

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REMINDER ONLINE HEIFER SALE MARCH 25 CCI.LIVE

GENETIC opportunities.

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Give us a call with questions.

SEMEN AVAILABLE ON THESE HERD SIRES AND MORE FLUSH OPPORTUNITIES AND EMBRYOS ARE FOR SALE AT ALL TIMES

T BAR S ARAPAHOE 1050H AMGV1516869

T BAR S ALLIANCE 116G AMGV1452157

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THE VEHIGE FAMILY (573) 690-3813 or (573) 645-8819 | tbarscattle@gmail.com Find us on Facebook!

SUPREME CICC 12 AMAR4019496

KATIE HARBERT GELBVIEH MEDIA PRODUCTIONS COORDINATOR katie@gelbvieh.org | 303-465-2333

3 G Ranch............................................ 72 Agoro Carbon Alliance...................... 24 B/F Cattle Co................................22, 73 Bar Arrow Cattle Co.......................... 42 Bar Arrow Cattle Company.............. 73 Bar JR Gelbvieh.............................. 4, 74 Bar T Bar Ranches............................. 72 Beastrom Ranch................................58 Black Gold Genetics.......................... 32 Bluegrass Gelbvieh Alliance............ 62 Boehler Gelbvieh................................31 Bow K Ranch.................................21, 72 Bull Barn Genetics.......................22, 76 C-Cross Cattle Company............. 17, 74 C.H. Morris & Sons, LLC..................... 75 Canadian Gelbvieh Association....... 76 Cattlemen’s Connection................1, 76 Cave Creek Cattle............................. 75 Cedar Top Ranch.........................BC, 74 Chimney Butte Ranch.................36, 74 Circle S Ranch.................................... 73 CJ&L Livestock................................... 75 Clinch Mountain Gelbvieh................ 75 Cranview Gelbvieh......................34, 74 Dan McCarty, Auctioneer................. 76 Davidson Gelbvieh............................... 9 Diamond L Farms.............................. 75 Doak Lambert, Auctioneer.............. 76 Dobson Ranch.....................................51 Ertel Cattle Co.................................... 77 Flying H Genetics...............................30 Gelbvieh Auction .............................. 56 Grand Valley Gelbvieh/Balancer....... 4 Green Hills Gelbvieh...........................74 Grund Beef Genetics......................... 22 GS Ridge Top Ranch......................4, 72

Gustin’s Diamond D Gelbvieh.....46, 74 Hampton Cattle Company............... 75 Handel Farms..................................... 32 Hart Farm Gelbvieh........................... 72 High Bar Cattle Company................. 28 Hilltop Farms................................ 37, 73 Hodges Ranch.................................... 72 Hojer Ranch....................................4, 75 J & K Gelbvieh Farm, Inc................... 72 Judd Ranch.........................................40 Kentucky Beef Expo......................... 76 Kicking Horse Ranch.................4, 8, 74 Kinsley Feeders................................. 70 Knoll Crest Farm................................ 75 Koehn Cattle Co................................. 75 Larson’s Lost River Livestock..........16 Lazy TV Ranch...............................6, 75 Lemke Cattle.................................18, 74 Little Windy Hill Farms...................... 75 Locust Hill Cattle Co..........................60 Lone Oak Cattle.............................8, 72 Loveless Cattle.................................. 26 M&P Gelbvieh......................................74 Martens Gelbvieh..........................4, 72 Martin Cattle Company................4, 72 McIntosh Brothers............................ 27 McMahan Cove Gelbvieh.................. 72 Merck Animal Health........................44 Mitchell Marketing Services............ 76 MLM Gelbvieh...........................4, 59, 74 Mulroy Farms, LLC............................. 73 Nine Bar Nine Gelbvieh..................... 75 Nowack Cattle Company................. 73 Overmiller Gelbvieh........................... 55 Plateau Gelbvieh...................... 4, 51, 72 Plus One Cattle Co............................. 73

Post Rock Cattle Company........66, 73 Pot of Gold Bull Sale.......................4, 71 Prairie Breeze Ranch........................ 73 Prairie Hills Gelbvieh...................23, 75 ProHart Seedstock............................ 72 Raile Gelbvieh......................................51 Red Ridge Gelbvieh.....................49, 73 Rippe Gelbvieh..................................... 4 Rippey Farms..................................... 75 Rogers Valley Farm Gelbvieh........... 73 Royal Western Gelbvieh................... 47 Rumfelt Gelbvieh............................... 73 S.J. Cattle Co...................................... 75 Sawtooth Gelbvieh Cattle & Hay......74 Seedstock Plus..................................50 SEGA Gelbvieh....................................69 Southwest Iowa Gelbvieh & Balancer Sale...................................................... 59 Squeakin’ By-LK Farms..............64, 74 Stuecken Bros...................................54 Swanson Cattle Co............................80 Swenson Gelbvieh.........................4, 73 T Bar S Cattle Co..........................73, 78 Taubenheim Gelbvieh........................74 The 88 Ranch......................................74 Thull Gelbvieh Farm.......................... 75 TJB Gelbvieh ......................................IFC Triple H Farms.................................... 72 Triple K Gelbvieh................................ 73 Volek Ranch....................................... 75 Warner Beef Genetics..................... IBC White Oak Farms............................... 73 Wilkinson Gelbvieh............................ 72 Witt Cattle...........................................74 Wolf Gelbvieh......................................74

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GeneticINVESTMENT WARNER BEEF GENETICS

Bull Sale

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 • 1:00 PM ( CST ) At the Ranch, Arapahoe, NE

CED BW WW YW MILK YG 14 -1.4

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CW REA

MB

FPI

17 0.01 31 0.38 0.49 87.71

CED BW WW YW MILK YG 11 0.7

DLW 8710 46% Balancer® Bull

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113

CW REA

124

CW REA

MB

CED BW WW YW MILK YG

FPI

15 -0.08 52 0.74 0.34 84.72

12 1.1

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FPI

DLW 4544H 37% Balancer® Bull

CED BW WW YW MILK YG 14 -2.4

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105

CW REA

MB

CW REA

MB

FPI

22 -0.06 34 0.46 0.56 86.19

CED BW WW YW MILK YG

FPI

19 -0.02 32 0.33 0.61 88.90

DLW 960J 37% Balancer® Bull

DLW TPG Dedication 7120D ET son

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DLW Sam ET son

DLW TPG E-Trade 1032F ET son

24 -0.05 33 0.43 0.45 81.23

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DLW 4551H 50% Balancer® Bull

DLW 6514H 46% Balancer® Bull

DLW Fox News 020F son

CED BW WW YW MILK YG

83

BTBR Durant 6296D son

GELBVIEH, BALANCER® AND ANGUS BULLS Sales broadcast live online at www.dvauction.com Broadcasting Real-Time Auctions

TWO PROGRAMS. TWO SALES.

14 -1.1

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CW REA

MB

FPI

18 -0.07 40 0.58 0.62 89.68

DLW 8708 50% Balancer® Bull KCF Bennett D922 son

Selling 145 lots.

TOGETHER, WITH SWANSON CATTLE CO.

WE ARE YOUR NEBRASKA BULL SOURCE

Unbelievable Opportunity.

SWANSON CATTLE COMPANY

OVER 250 BULLS SELL IN TWO DAYS

• • 36 th Annual Bull Sale • Tuesday, March 1, 2022 • 1:00 PM ( CST ) • At the Ranch, near Oxford, NE •

Age-Advantanged 18 month old and spring yearlings Gelbvieh, Balancer®, Angus and Red Angus Sight Unseen Guarantee || Full Guarantee Volume Discounts Coordinated Delivery Options Sons of breed-leading Sires Sell || Large Sire Groups

Dan and Kate Warner 42198 Road 721, Arapahoe, NE 68922 Dan Warner: 308.962.6511 Monte Warner: 308.962.6136 Darren Warner: 308.824.2950

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44 TH ANNUAL

Maternal Empire BULL SALE

SELLING 175 COMING 2-YEAR-OLD BULLS & 55 ET BULLS FROM AGE & PRODUCTION-PROVEN DAMS

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 12:30 PM | BURWELL, NE ALL BULLS FEED EFFICIENCY & GRASS TESTED

CTR JACKPOT 8660F 2020 HIGH-SELLING BULL

Scott Starr•212 Starr Drive•Stapleton, NE 69163 308-530-3900 (Scott)•308-530-2720 (Austin) cedartopranch@yahoo.com•Facebook: Cedar Top Ranch

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