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Ohio Angus Newsletter May 2016

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2016 Ohio Preview Show June 10-12, 2016

Union Co. Fairgrounds • Marysville, OH 845 North Main Street, Marysville, Ohio 43040

SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2016

8:00 a.m..............Fairgrounds Open for stalling 3:00- 5:00 pm.... Early arrival check-in 7:00 pm...............Ohio Junior Angus meeting

SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2016

8:00-10:00 am... Continued check-in & arrival deadline 12:00 pm............Jr. Showmanship followed by Ohio Junior Angus Show Bred- and-Owned Bulls * Bred-andOwned Heifiers * Cow-Calf pairs * Owned Heifers * Registered Angus Steers * Jackpot Steers Judge: Aaron Arnett, Galena,

OH

4:00 pm ..... Ohio Angus Board Meeting

Jr. Nationals Contest Work Session 6:00 pm..... Dinner at Fairgrounds

Hosted by West Central Angus Association

SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 2016

9:00 am ..........Ohio Angus Preview Show

Angus Heifers * Angus Cow- Calf Pairs * Angus Bulls

Judge: Emily Griffiths, Kendallville, IN

Entries must be Postmarked by May 20th!

• Cattle may arrive after 8:00 a.m. Friday, June 10 • Barn bedding will be in place.

• Tie-outs in designated areas, provide own bedding • Show supplies will be available

Sponsorship Opportunities For a $50, sponsorship will include: * Business card ad in the Preview Show program * Listing in the Ohio Angus Newsletter * Listing in the Ohio Angus Directory * Show day announcements about your farm / business * Award banner sponsors also available Deadline to submit business card or other information for sponsorships is June 5th.

Contact Dan Wells at danwells@ohioangus.org or call 740-505-3843 to discuss details.

Lodging information SHOW HEADQUARTERS: Comfort Inn 16420 Allenby Drive Marysville, Ohio 43040 937-644-0400 • Ask for the Ohio Angus room block.

• Rate is $84.99/night plus tax • Room block and rate good until 5/27/16

FAIRGROUNDS CAMPSITES: • More details call Union Co. Fair 937-644-8736 OTHER AREA HOTELS: Holiday Inn Express, 937-738-7710 Hampton Inn, 937-642-3777 Super 8, 937-644-8821

Secretary’s Corner

In This Issue...

2016 Ohio Angus Preview Show Secretary’s Corner COBA/Select Sires Ad Ohio Jr. Angus Assoc. News & Notes Ohio Jr. Angus Assoc. News & Notes Eastern Ohio Angus Assoc. Sale Report Champion Hill Angus Sale Report Industry News and Notes Calendar of Events Eastern Ohio Jr. Show Info Ohio State Fair Show Dates

Ohio Angus Breeders,

I’m sure like many of you I’m starting to wonder if this cooler weather will ever give up! The warmer and drier weather in March had me thinking it would be an early spring. However April has been unusually damp and cool, delaying planting and spring turnout for many.

But the forecast is looking more favorable. I hope you all are having a safe spring in the fields and are getting ready for hay season just around the bend.

Despite the softer fat cattle and feeder cattle prices the demand for Angus genetics held strong through the spring. With most all of the spring Angus sales in Ohio and surrounding states seeing steady averages and grosses compared to recent years. I anticipate the demand for Angus based cows to hold through the fall. If you are interested in marketing females privately or through a fall consignment sale, give me a call to see how Ohio Angus can help you.

Just around the corner will be the Ohio Angus Preview Show. The show will be held on June 10-12th at the Union Co. Fairgrounds. More details are included on the front page as well on the website at www.ohioangus. org. If you are interested in supporting the Preview Shows by purchasing a sponsorship, contact me to discuss options that are available. The Preview Show entry deadline is May 20th. The Saturday evening dinner will be held at the fairgrounds and will be sponsored by West Central Angus Association.

Looking ahead, the Ohio State Fair Angus shows will be held on July 26-28. To enter cattle into the shows, go to the Ohio State Fair website at www.ohiostatefair. com.

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2016 Ohio Angus Association Officers President: Tim Harsh (740) 595-3543 hfsangus@hotmail.com Vice President: Joe Sanders (419) 648-3233 sanders_skylight_farm@hotmail.com Chairman: Kelvin Egner (419) 295-6089 kjegner@hotmail.com Treasurer: Allen Gahler (419) 360-2091 gahler2@yahoo.com Secretary/Fieldman: Dan Wells (740) 505- 3843 danwells@ohioangus.org Jim, Sharon, Christina, & Caroline Winter 5839 Ashville-Fairfield Road Ashville, Ohio 43103 (740) 983-2755 jswinter1@frontier.com

Thanks,

Herd Certified and Accredited Johne’s Testing

Dan Wells, Secretary / Fieldman

Cows & Heifers FOR SALE

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DOUBLE J FARM

Kelvin & Jackie Egner Kelvin, Jackie, Christina Egner Shawn Howell Howell Christina & Shawn

JOE AND JO ANN MURTHA

Bulls and Heifers

4555 Hazelbrush Rd. Bulls, Heifers, Embryos Shelby OH 44875 Registered Red and Black Border Collies (419) 347-7123 (419) 295-6089 kjegner@acquired-sight.com kjegner@hotmail.com

Registered Angus

14075 State Route 374 Rockbridge, Ohio 43149

740-385-5483 740-603-0234 swimur63@yahoo.com

Sires in use: 16286088, 16233833, 15552303 PAUL H. HILL

11503 State Rd. 554 Bidwell, OH 45614 740-367-7021

Don & Mida Peterson Phone (304) 269-3877 E-mail: rockingp@shentel.net

Jon Davis * 740-446-2127

FAX: 740-367-7937 * www.championhillangus.com Email: champion@championhillangus.com

Way-View Cattle Co. LLC Performance Tested Angus Bulls For SAle

Registered Angus Cattle Hay & Straw - Large and small squares Freezer beef

Allen Gahler 641 N. Elliston Trowbridge Rd. Graytown, OH 43432 (419) 350-2091 gahler2@yahoo.com

Fred M. Penick

3264 Refugee Rd. Hebron, OH 43025

Home (740) 404-1832 Fax (740) 928-3912

experience counts

Brice Gahler 1618 N. Elliston Trowbridge Rd. Graytown, OH 43432 (419) 552-0169 abcgahlers@live.com

Registered

Angus

Pine hill far M Managing Partner Three Oaks Farm, 33009 Yellow Creek Road Summitville, OH 43962 330.223.1872 fax: 330.223.2215 e-mail: donahankb@hotmail.com donahankb@yahoo.com

h e n r y b e rg f e l d

Partner 38100 Jackson Road Moreland Hills, OH 44022 daytime: 216.445.4836 home: 440.247.7916 e-mail: bergfej@ccf.org

j o h n b e rg f e l d

Tiffin, Ohio

John King & Family

JAB / PH

3735 N. Twp Rd. 111 Home (419) 937-1864 Tiffin, Ohio 44883-9353 John Cell (419) 937-4148 kingswayangus@gmail.com

Quality Seed Stock Angus

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Ohio Junior Angus Association News & Notes 2016 Ohio Jr. Angus Association Officers President: Lydia Dance Vice President: Keri Felumlee Secretary: Kinsey Crowe Treasurer: Kerrie Miller Reporter: Jacob LeBrun Advisors: Jamie King 614-202-7998 jamieking_826@hotmail.com Barb Dance 937-393-4766 dfalivestockhealth@gmail.com

2016 Angus Show Dates: Ohio Angus Preview Show: June 10-12, 2016 Union County Fairgrounds Marysville, OH Eastern Regional Junior Angus Show June 17-19, 2016 PA Farm Show Complex Harrisburg, PA National Junior Angus Show July 3-9, 2016 Nebraska State Fairgrounds Grand Island, Nebraska Ohio State Fair: July 26-28 (First Rotation) Ohio State Fairgrounds Columbus, OH

This summer there will be many fun activities and events for junior Angus members. This includes shows like the National Jr Angus Show, Ohio Angus Preview, Eastern Regionals, Ohio State Fair, and American Angus Breeder’s Futurity and events like the LEAD conference for older juniors. These shows and events have upcoming deadlines, juniors need to make sure they take notice so no one misses an event!

For the National Jr Angus Show, May 15th is the ownership and entry deadline to show and is also the deadline for the Creative Writing, Photography and Graphic Design contests. May 25th is the deadline for the Public Speaking outlines and the Career Development Contest. It will be held July 3¬-9 in Grand Island, Nebraska at the Nebraska State Fair. June 1st is the deadline for t-shirt size submissions to Shows Committee Chair McKayla Raines for the NJAS.

For the Ohio Angus Preview, the ownership and entry deadline is May 20th.

There has been a slight schedule change for the show. You can either check in on Friday evening or you can come up on Saturday morning. The preview show will be held on June 10-¬12 at the Union County Fairgrounds in Marysville, Ohio.

The Eastern Regional Junior Angus Show will be held on June 17¬-19 in Harrisburg, PA at the PA Farm Show Complex. Many of our members are planning to go to PA this year. Juniors have the option to participate in the skillathon which will be held the 18th from 10 am to 2pm.

For The Ohio State Fair, the ownership and entry deadline is June 20th. The Angus will be on the Ohio State Fairgrounds during the first session which is July 26th¬-28th.

The 2016 LEAD conference is going to be held on August 6-9 in Phoenix, Arizona for Juniors 14 years and older. The deadline for registration is June 15th.

Ohio’s own Lauren Grimes, NJAA Leadership Director, is planning this year’s conference and she says it will be an event you don’t want to miss!

So as you can see, we Angus juniors have many fun and exciting shows approaching us. There are many deadlines for these shows. We hope to see everyone this coming summer, it is going to be really fun!

Jacob LeBrun OJAA Reporter Juniors – be sure to attend this year’s Ohio Preview Show in Marysville. The schedule will be a little different than in year’s past. Check-in for the junior show will be Friday afternoon as well as Saturday morning. We will begin the Junior Show at noon on Saturday with Dr. Aaron Arnett from Galena, Ohio judging our showmanship classes first. We will be having our junior meeting on Friday evening at 7 p.m. This is an important meeting to attend to get all the details on the show for the next day as well as plan for our trips to Pennsylvania for the Eastern Regional and Nebraska for the National Jr Angus Show.

Kacey Felumlee OJAA Preview Show Chairman

Join the OJAA Group!

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OJAANews & Notes (cont’d)

The preview show is going to have some fun action from the juniors this year. One activity will be a member auction. The member auction will take place on Saturday night at dinner. The member will be sold for one hour of service. The farm or family that buys the member can use them for fitting, washing cattle, preparing stalls or tie outs.

The other event that will take place is adult showmanship. This was done last year and was very successful and fun. Members/Individuals will pay $10 to put an adult in the showmanship class. The only way the adult can get out of the class is to pay $20. After the adult pays to get out the member can pay $10 to put them back in. The adult must pay $20 to get out again. Hope to see you at The Preview Show this year.

Miami Valley Angus Association

Samantha Wallace OJAA Fundraising Chairman

Dave Long, Pres. 513-383-4077 Dan Brosey, V.P. 513-315-6894 Christy Campbell, Sec./Tres. 937-533-7051 Steve Crowe, State Director 937-603-4352

Ad Sponsored by: Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. Michael Wilcheck II; Director-Investments 5905 E. Galbraith Road, Suite 6200 Cincinnati, OH 45236 Phone 513-723-9200 Fax 513723-9224 michael.wilcheck@opco.com

Eastern Ohio Angus Spring Sale Report

Sale Date: April 9, 2016 Sale Location: Muskingum Livestock Company Auctioneer: Ron Kries Sale Manager: Ohio Angus Association High Selling Cows Lot: Price: DOB: Sire: Buyer: 29 & A $5,400 5/21/13 Eastfield Sugar Creek 866W Hill Farms - Senecaville, OH 30 & A $5,400 5/2/13 Davis’ Quarter Master 215 Hill Farms - Senecaville, OH 34 & A $3,300 2/8/13 Connealy Shrek 4242 Gary Frame - Quaker City, OH 33 & A $3,100 3/9/13 44 Conveyance OX52 Thomas Clark - Marengo, OH High Selling Open Hiefers 5/2/15 SAV Brilliance 8077 David Troyer - Sugarcreek, OH 27 $2,850 28 $2,200 1/17/15 SCC First-N-Goal 114 Matt McCauley- Cambridge, OH High Selling Bulls 14 $4,300 1/9/15 Connealy Confidence 0100 Randy Morris - Vincent, OH 8 $3,900 10/12/14 SAV Final Answer 003511 Myron Dawson - New Concord, OH 15 $3,850 1/10/15 Connealy Courage 25L John Wells - Whipple, OH 2 $3,600 3/12/14 Connealy Confidence 0100 Otto Luburgh - Zanesville, OH Lots: 21 Bulls 3 Open Heifers 17 Registered Cows 5 Commerical lots 46 Lots

Gross:

$56,300 $7,050 $50,450 $13,900 $127,700

Average:

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$2,680 $2,350 $2,967 $2,780 $2,776

Industry News & Notes

Managing the Spring Flush

Chris Penrose, OSU Extension Educator, Morgan County

For most of us, forage growth is here and we are in the spring “flush” of growth. For pasture and hay fields that are primarily grass based, we may get up to 70% of our growth in the next month or so. One reason we have so much growth now is that we generally have ideal growing conditions and our forages are in the reproductive stage of growth. The priority for our perennial grasses and legumes in this stage of growth are to make seed heads. For most of our grasses, this month will likely be the only time seed heads are made. As forage managers, we have two tasks to improve our grazing during this time of the year.

First, if we can remove the seed heads, the forages will move from the reproductive stage into the vegetative stage. This will stimulate new leaf growth and encourage the plants to start storing energy in the roots to help them through the summer stress and into the winter. A mature plant with a seed head on it will not grow as well and be of lower quality from being mature and having lower feed quality stems.

How do we remove seed heads? There are two options: have the animals remove them or cut them. Unfortunately, many grasses set seed all at once and that becomes a challenge for livestock to graze off. If the plant is starting to develop the stem that has the seed head in it, livestock may graze the tender seed head within the young stem. Some animals like goats may enjoy grazing the seed heads, but cattle may not graze the stems and seed heads in favor of the leaves at the base of the plant. Forcing animals to graze mature forages can adversely affect animal performance. If pastures get too mature, a good alternative is to simply clip them after seed heads have emerged. Another option if forages are growing too fast may be to not graze the field now and remove the crop for hay.

What is the other way to improve our grazing this time of the year? Try to stretch out this flush of growth. If your pastures are healthy enough after last year’s drought and growing well, you can do a rapid grazing through the paddocks and slow down slightly the rapid growth. Another option may be to set stock (giving the animals the run of some to all of the paddocks). Then as the rapid growth slows, initiate a rotation, possibly leaving some paddocks for hay removal if you anticipate excess pasture but need hay.

It is likely too late this year, but in future years if you are

short on pasture and have available hay fields, a light grazing over some of those fields, especially predominantly grass fields may be an option. I have grazed grass hay fields for over twenty years early in the spring and as long as I get livestock out prior to stem elongation, I still get a decent hay crop. Another advantage to this is the hay will likely mature a little later providing a better quality hay crop. If you do this, do not overgraze, and if cattle are grazing on the hay fields, avoid keeping on too long during wet weather to avoid “pugging” of the field.

A third option, which is more long term, would be to use different cultivars of the same species in in different paddocks as you reseed fields. As you can see in the picture of orchard grass, different cultivars can have different maturity dates which can stretch out the flush of new growth. In addition, new and improved varieties have improved quality, persistence, and insect and disease resistance. If you are considering a new planting, I highly recommend purchasing the best seed available. The additional cost is minimal when you consider the total cost of the seeding and how many years the forage should be in a stand. This will allow different maturing dates and lengthen the spring flush of new growth.

Each of us is in a different situation. Some may be very short on hay ground and have plenty of pasture, some may be just the opposite. One of the most important aspects of Managed intensive Grazing is to be flexible and try to anticipate what the forage needs and availability will be over the course of the season. Hopefully a few of these options will allow you to have a more successful grazing season.

Herman & Kathleen Howell 4200 Twp. Hwy 289, Hammondsville, OH 43930 Phone / Fax: (740) 544-5861 ridgeviewangus@yahoo.com

Champion Hill SaleSale Report Champion HillAngus Production

Sale Date: April 10, 2016 Auctioneer: Mike Jones High Selling Open Heifers Lot: Price: DOB: Sire: 30 $33,000 11/1/15 SAV Classified 3427 4 $18,500 11/3/15 SAV Classified 3427 5 $18,500 11/5/15 SAV Classified 3427 13 $17,000 11/11/15 SAV Classified 3427 15 $15,500 7/4/15 SAV Bismarck 5682 29 $13,000 11/1/15 SAV Classified 3427 1 $11,000 7/10/15 SAV Bismarck 5682 20 $10,000 9/6/15 SAV Classified 3427 Lots: 60 Open Heifer 60 Total Lots

Gross:

$352,100 $352,100

Sale Location: At the Farm, Bidwell, OH Sale Manager: Angus Hall of Fame Buyer: Premier Angus Breeders Group, KY Premier Angus Breeders Group, KY Premier Angus Breeders Group, KY Ron Bouziden, OK Bandura Ranch, Duchess, AB, CN Catherine Work, PA Lydia Dance, OH Lucky Lane Farm, OH

Average:

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$5,868 $5,868

May 20 May 26-29 June 10-12 June 17-19 July 3-9 July 26-28

Ohio Angus Calender of Events

Ohio Angus Preview Entry Deadline Atlantic National Angus Show, Timonium, Maryland Ohio Angus Preview Show, Eaton, OH Eastern Regional Junior Angus Show, Harrisburg, PA National Junior Angus Show, Grand Island, Nebraska Ohio State Fair Angus Shows, Columbus, OH

Ohio Angus Association Dan Wells, Secretary/Fieldman 12620 Westfall Rd. Frankfort, OH 45628

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Eastern Ohio Angus Jr. & Open District Angus Show Saturday • June 4th Muskingum County Fairgrounds Zanesville, OH 10:00 a.m.

Contact Gail Deitrick for entry forms: 740-674-4610 ghdeitrick@yahoo.com

ANGUS SHOWS: July 26 - 28 (1st Rotation) Entry Form Online: www.ohiostatefair.com Entry Deadline: June 20th