Summer Feeder Calf Sale Recap By Tom Strahm and Will Fiske
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he 2019 summer run of feeder calf video auctions has been a success for the American Gelbvieh Association (AGA). The AGA traveling staff made it to the five Superior Livestock Auction sales: Corn Belt Classic in Council Bluffs, Iowa; The Big Sky Roundup in Billings, Montana; Week in the Rockies in Loveland, Colorado; Video Royale in Winnemucca, Nevada; and The Big Horn Classic in Sheridan, Wyoming. Staff also attended the Western Video Market sales in Reno, Nevada, and Cheyenne, Wyoming, and the Cattle Country Video sale in Gering, Nebraska.
NEWS
These sales are also a great opportunity to for seedstock producers to promote their operation and support customers who are selling on these videos. All the Gelbvieh and Balancer-influenced calves that were sold on these video sales were promoted on the AGA’s FREE Feeder Finder service. Feeder Finder is an email marketing tool used to promote load lots of Gelbvieh and Balancer-influenced feeder cattle feedyards all across the country. To sign up to review these emails or promote your load lot of Gelbvieh and Balancer-influence calves, please contact the AGA office at 303-465-2333 or email info@gelbvieh.org. FF
Balancer®-influenced calves sold at every sale and sold either at or above the average market price. Balancer recognition is quickly gaining more and more popularity; crossbred calves are in demand! At these events the AGA staff sets up a booth in the trade show to display promotional material and also take advantage of the opportunities to network and meet the producers raising the Balancer-influenced calves, the representatives selling calves, and also the people who feed these calves. Commercial producers from around the area where the sale is being held come watch their cattle sell, enjoy a nice steak dinner, and other various social events.
South Dakota & Minnesota Breeders SwenSon Gelbvieh Dean Swenson
17513 Hwy 10 Little Falls, MN 56345 swen@centurylink.net (h) 320.632.5848 • (c) 320.630-5536
Polled • Purebred Red • Black
Keith, Janice, Dustin & Britney
605-852-2131 kvolek@venturecomm.net www.volekranch.com
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