October 13 oaa newsletter

Ohio Angus Newsletter October 2013

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2013 North American International Livestock Expo American Angus Association Annual Meeting Schedule SATURDAY, NOV. 16 8 - 10 a.m.

Angus Cattle Check in KFEC 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Angus Registration Desk Open

Crowne Plaza – Carroll Room 1 - 6 p.m.

Holiday Room Open

Crowne Plaza – Elliott 3 p.m.

American Angus Auxiliary

Annual Meeting

Crowne Plaza –Coronet B 5:45 p.m.

Angus Foundation Donor

Recognition Event Crowne Plaza – Crowne A SUNDAY, NOV. 17 7 a.m. - 6 p.m.

8 a.m.

8 a.m.

10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

1:30 p.m.

4:30 - 6 p.m.

4:30 - 6 p.m.

5 - 6 p.m.

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6 - 8 p.m.

6 p.m.

Angus Registration Desk Open Crowne Plaza - Carroll Room Junior Heifer Show KFEC Freedom Hall (Breed order to be announced) American Angus Auxiliary Breakfast KFEC Room TBA Holiday Room Open Crowne Plaza – Elliott Board Candidates Forum KFEC South Wing C - Room 202, 203, 204 AIMS Workshop Crowne Plaza – Perry Miss American Angus Contestant Speeches – open to public Crowne Plaza – Coronet A Past Directors’ Reception Crowne Plaza – Taylor/ Whitley BLI Alumni Reception Crowne Plaza – Exhibit Hall Angus Reception Crowne Plaza – Crowne A Saddle & Sirloin Induction –

Dr. David Hawkins – Ticketed

Event KFEC South Wing C –

Room 205 MONDAY, NOV. 18 7 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Angus Registration Desk Open

Crowne Plaza – Carroll Room 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Holiday Room Open

Crowne Plaza – Elliott 8 a.m.

ROV Angus Bull Show

KFEC Freedom Hall 1:30 p.m.

130th Annual Meeting of

Delegates KFEC South Wing C,

Rooms 201-204 6 - 7 p.m.

Social, Crowne Plaza –

Crowne Hall 7 p.m.

Angus Awards Banquet

Featuring Certified Angus

Beef® Crowne Plaza – Crowne

Ballroom TUESDAY, NOV. 19 8 a.m.

ROV Angus Females & Cow-

Calf Pairs KFEC Freedom Hall Ohio Delegate List for Angus An. Mtg. Delegate John F. Grimes, Hillsboro Paul H. Hill, Bidwell Henry Bergfeld, Moreland Hills Daniel P. Wells, Chillicothe Fred N. Penick, Hebron David A. Felumlee, Newark James M. Rentz, Coldwater Alternate Keith D. Burgett, Carrollton Lindsey C. Grimes, Hillsboro Tim Harsh, Radnor Brent L. English, Elida William C. Strayer, Elida John W. King, Tiffin Jay S. Clutter, Wapakoneta

Secretary’s Corner

In This Issue...

Ohio Angus Breeders,

The fall sale season is well underway here in Ohio. The Maplecrest Farms production sale was held on September 22nd. John & Joanie drew a great crowd and the cattle were very well presented. Congratulations to them and their crew for a great sale. A sale report can be found on page 3 of this issue.

If you are in the market for Angus females, there will be plenty of options in the months of October and November to purchase females. October sales include: The Partners in Performance Sale ,October 19th, in Newark, OH; The Meadow Lane Angus Dispersal, October 20th, in Wooster, OH; The Champion Hill Production Sale, October 21st, in Bidwell, OH; and Eastern Ohio Angus Sale, October 26th, in Zanesville,

November sales will include the Buckeye Best of Both Worlds Sale, November 23rd, in Newark, OH. I plan to attend these sales and will be available to assist you in selecting and purchasing animals. If you are interested in my assistance, please contact me at 740-505-3843 or danwells@ohioangus.org.

Again this year we will be holding a Directory Cover Photo Contest for the 2014 Ohio Angus Directory Cover. A vote will be held at the 2014 Ohio Angus Annual Meeting and the winning photo will be featured on the Directory cover. More details including entry instructions can be found on the back cover of this issue.

Thanks,

NAILE & AAA Annual Meeting Schedules Secretary’s Corner Sale Reports Industry News & Notes Partners in Performance Sale Ad Eastern Ohio Angus Fall Sale Ad Industry News & Notes Meadow Lane Angus Dispersal Sale Ad Top 10 Ohio Angus Breeders Buckeye Best of Both Worlds Sale Ad Calendar of Events

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Meadow Lane Angus

2013 Ohio Angus Association Officers

Promoting Trait Excellence Through Years of Select Breeding and Genetic Testing

President: Kelvin Egner (419) 295-6089

kjegner@hotmail.com Vice President: Tim Harsh (740) 595-3543

hfsangus@hotmail.com Chairman: Dave Felumlee (740) 763-4616

dfelumlee@windstream.net Treasurer: Allen Gahler (419) 360-2091

gahler2@yahoo.com Secretary/Fieldman: Dan Wells (740) 505- 3843

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Performance • Carcass • Maternal

Terry & Becky Howland (330) 635-1621 Visitors always welcome.

12494 Friendsville Road Burbank, OH 44214 meadowlaneangus@gmail.com

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Sale Reports Maplecrest Farms Production Sale

Sale Date: September 22, 2012 Auctioneer: Steve Dorran High Selling Open Heifers Lot: Price: DOB: Sire: 1B $26,500 1/19/13 Connealy Confidence 0100 14 $15,000 8/4/12 G A R Prophet 7A $5,500 8/19/12 Summitcrest Complete 1P55 High Selling Bred Heifers 37 $13,000 2/16/12 Connealy Confidence 0100 7 $11,000 2/22/12 G A R Ingenuity 33 $8,250 1/2/12 G A R Prophet 23B $6,250 2/20/12 Summitcrest Complete 1P55 High Selling Bred Cow 64 $5,000 9/4/10 Connealy Sullivan 83A High Selling Fall Pair 74 $7,750 12/30/09 G A R Predestined High Selling Heifer Pregnancy 7B $7,500 Baldridge Waylon W34 8A $6,250 EXAR Denver 2002B Lots: 65 Total Sale Lots

Gross:

Sale Location: The Farm, Hillsboro, OH Sale Manager: Parker Friedrich Buyer: French River Cattle CO Noelville, ON CN Crazy K Ranch, TN & Raines Farm, OH Rimrock Ranches, Giddings, TX Wilks Ranch, Eastland, TX Diane McDonald, Hillsboro, OH Stallion Ranch, Bertran, TX Wilks Ranch, Eastland, TX Christian Cummings, Hillsboro, OH Warner Beef Genetics & Trans Pacific Genetics, NE Hill House Angus, Lagrange, TX Hill House Angus, Lagrange, TX

Average: $302,650

$4,656 Cattle sold into 13 states and Canada.

9 Simmental Lots Avg. $2,411

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Putting Profits on the Table

Jim, Sharon, Christina, & Caroline Winter 5839 Ashville-Fairfield Road Ashville, Ohio 43103 (740) 983-2755 jswinter1@verizon.net

• Angus Cattle • Freezer Beef • 4-H Boar Goats

Herd Certified and Accredited Johne’s Testing

Derek & Jennifer Bankey 7411 Milton Rd., Custar, OH 43511 Derek (C): 419-308-8627 djbankey@hotmail.com www.bankeyregisteredangus.com

Cows & Heifers FOR SALE

Sires in use: 16286088, 16233833, 15552303

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Industry News & Notes

Beef Industry’s Path Charted

Demand for higher quality can support more cattle in coordinated supply chains

Prosperity for any industry depends on consumer demand, a Western Kentucky University animal scientist points out. Of course, that includes the beef industry or cattle community.

Nevil Speer, in a new white paper, “Consumers, Business and Breeding Systems: Charting the Beef Industry’s Path,” says the implications are clear.

“All business decisions on the ranch, as everywhere along the beef supply chain, should be made with an eye on consumer demand for beef,” he says.

Following a 2011 work that explored why crossbreeding is not more widely used, the latest paper details shifting market signals and a sometimes-volatile relationship between consumer demand and industry output since 1960. It suggests what emerging dynamics mean for an integrated business environment and outlook for the beef industry’s value chain.

Those expectations and fluctuations have always been tied to the consumer, the animal scientist points out.

“Traditional thinking leads commodity businesses to constantly face the same question: ‘What’s the market going to do?’” Speers says. “That paradigm implies a price-taker mentality and fails to truly connect to the signals consumers send that establish those prices.”

In the face of increased demand for higher quality beef, tight supplies and tighter margins, being a “price taker” risks being left behind.

Within a new mindset, success means delivering “quality, consistency, efficiency and volume across a whole realm of products and attributes,” Speer says. That requires moving from a “commodity-sorting system to growing adoption of more specialized production.”

There are 6 million fewer beef cows in the U.S. compared to 17 years ago, and the feeder cattle supply at 35.6 million head represents less than 2.5 times current feedyard capacity.

“That’s barely sufficient to provide normal turns of cattle, let alone provide opportunities for extended grazing or heifer retention,” Speer says. The shortage brings more focus on the opportunity to capture the “new dollars” derived only from consumers.

Following the retail grocer example of keeping costs low and profits high by stocking shelves and meat cases only with what’s selling, the beef industry ramped up alliances and certified beef programs. It took 20 years after the Certified Angus Beef ® brand first became USDAcertified in 1978 for 10 more programs to come along. In the 13 years since then, 129 new programs have been introduced, nearly 80% of which are Angus-based (See Fig. 12 from the white paper, below).

“This points to ever-growing market differentiation,” Speers says, noting it has come in the face of a financial

crisis.

USDA quality grades are associated with higher levels of marbling, which generally leads to an increased likelihood of a favorable eating experience. In particular, higher degrees of marbling are positively tied to USDA “A-stamp” percentages, with those cattle showing a higher probability of grading Choice or better.

“The effect of establishing positive demand spells prosperity: more consumers buying more beef at higher prices,” Speer notes in the research paper.

Growth in that market speaks for itself: the value of weekly combined sales for USDA Prime and branded products (a function of both volume and price) has increased nearly 400% since 2003 and now represents nearly $4 billion per year.

“Given the outlook for ever-tightening supply, this emphasis and its influence upon the supply chain will likely be amplified,” Speers says. “Whatever the targets that evolve over time, there will be growing pressure to maintain genetics and breeding systems capable of delivering highquality beef products coupled with synchronized supply chains that facilitate those attributes, including ‘product story.’”

With research and market data proving that consumers identify with brands when shopping for beef, he says, those are the programs best poised to take advantage of integrated supply chains that can sway the industry away from that “price taker” mentality.

The virtuous loop is a kind of self-fulfilling prophesy, he says: “The production of higher quality, more desirable products establishes better consumer demand, and in turn, better consumer demand creates the need for even more high-quality beef.”

That means holding on to theoretical advantages without discipline can eat your lunch in terms of lost profit. To read Speer’s research paper, visit http://www. cabpartners.com/news/research.

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

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District Sales Manager 4313 Mechanicsburg Rd. Wooster, OH 44691 330.345.1328 * Cell 330.465.1515

Miami Valley Angus Association

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Dave Long, Pres. 513-383-4077 Dan Brosey, V.P. 513-315-6894 Christy Campbell, Sec./Tres. 937-533-7051 John Hall, State Director 740-815-4337

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

Ad Sponsored by:

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Steve Roberts

Owner and Managing Partner

ROBERTS ANGUS FARM 8632 North State Route 376 NW McConnelsville, Ohio 43756 740-962-3860

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Female Sale

October 19th, 2013 • 1

Saturday • Claylick Run Sale Facility • Newark, OH

p.m.

Selling 90 lots of high quality Angus females!

Shamrock Vale 0T26 8083

Connealy Uptown 098E

Fink Donna 5636 1344 24J

A daughter by Connealy Capitalist 028 and a flush to bull of buyer’s choice will sell!

The up and coming Way-View & Claylick Run herd sire and Select Sires roster member.

His first progeny will sell!

Selling choice of daughters by Sitz Upward 307R and Connealy Consensus 7229!

This February 11, 2013 Connealy Consensus 7229 daughter of Thomas Miss Jet 0315 will highlight the open heifers selling!

This 4 year old daughter of the carcass great Objective will head an elite set of young brood cows!

An April 18, 2013 daughter of Full Proof that will sell along with her dam by High Prime!

Performance Based Programs • Like Minded Approaches Friends Working Together • Similar Industry-Based Goals

WELLS

Livestock

Dan & Ray Wells Chillicothe, OH • 740-505-3843

Way-View Cattle Co. LLC Fred Penick & Family Hebron, OH • 740-404-1832

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Claylick Run

Angus Genetics

Dave Felumlee & Family Newark, OH • 740-404-3594

11 a.m. • Monday • October 21, 2013 • Bidwell, Ohio

CHAMPION HILL GEORGINA 8353 - Lot 1

CHAMPION HILL GEORGINA 8343 - Lot 44

CHAMPION HILL GEORGINA 8388 - Lot 27

Paul H. Hill 11503 State Rd. 554 • Bidwell, OH 45614 (740) 367-7021 • Fax (740) 367-7937 Jon Davis (740) 446-2127 Jay Stout (740) 367-7021 www.championhillangus.com E-mail: champion@championhillangus.com

For your free reference sale booklet, contact anyone in the office of the Sale Managers.

TOM BURKE, KURT SCHAFF, JEREMY HAAG, AMERICAN ANGUS HALL OF FAME, at the WORLD ANGUS HEADQUARTERS, Box 660, Smithville, MO 64089-0660.

Phone: (816) 532-0811. Fax: (816) 532-0851.

E-Mail angushall@earthlink.net.

America’s Number One Source of Champions – Where Winning is Only the Beginning

Industry News & Notes The Replacement Beef Female Sale: A Win-Win Situation

- John F. Grimes, OSU Extension Beef Coordinator

There is little doubt that there is plenty to be excited about in the beef cattle industry.

Nearly every class of beef animals is receiving historically high prices. The portion of the country experiencing drought has reduced significantly over the past 12 months. Forage production has been good this year as the USDA forecast for hay production, excluding alfalfa, is for the largest production since 2004. Feed costs are trending downward on the expectations of a large corn crop that is starting to be harvested.

Nearly all the market signals are in place for cattle producers to expand their herds. Yet, the U.S. beef cow producer fully realizes that expanding the herd is a long-term investment and commitment. This fact has translated to a fairly conservative approach to expanding the nation’s cow herd. There are many factors that have contributed to a slow rate of rebuilding which include strong feeder calf prices, high feed costs, drought, and the advancing age of the average cow-calf producer to name a few.

CattleFax reports that demand for bred and/or open females is as good as it has been in several years. In some locations, there are reports that above average quality heifer calves are selling equal to above their steer mates at similar weights. As always, there is debate as to whether one should raise or buy replacement females. Some believe they cannot buy genetics as good as they can raise while others need to buy outside genetics to improve their herd. Financial considerations usually dictate the approach taken as ultimately, one must decide if it is more costeffective to produce their own replacements or to purchase them.

One must also consider the long-term nature of cow-calf production when making the decision of how to add females to the herd. If you breed a cow today with the intention of raising a

replacement female to add to the herd, it will take over 1,200 days for that heifer calf to be born, developed as a replacement heifer, bred, calved out and wean her first calf. Will you be able to capitalize on the strong prices received for feeder calves today and forecast for the near term? The purchase of bred replacement females may create a larger window of opportunity to sell calves in a favorable supply-demand situation.

Conversely, there are real opportunities for those producers wanting to sell females in these times of strong demand. Industry figures show that the nation’s cow herd numbers are at 60 year lows. Prices for bred females continue to improve as supplies tighten. A savvy marketer may want to take advantage of the current market.

I want to remind you that the Ohio Cattlemen’s Association (OCA) is sponsoring an event of potential interest for both the buyers and sellers of beef breeding cattle. On Friday evening, November 29, the OCA will be hosting their first Replacement Female Sale. The sale will be held at the Muskingum Livestock facility in Zanesville and will begin at 7:00 p.m.

The 2013 Ohio Cattlemen’s Association Replacement Female Sale will provide an opportunity for both buyers and sellers to meet the need for quality replacements in the state.

Consignments may include cow-calf pairs, bred cows and bred heifers. Females must be under the age of five as of January 1, 2014 and may be of registered or commercial background. Bred females must be bred to a bull with known EPD’s and calves at side of cows must be sired by a bull with known EPD’s. Pregnancy status must be verified by an accredited veterinarian through traditional palpation or ultrasound or by blood testing through a professional laboratory. Analysis must be performed within 60 days of sale.

Consignments will also be fulfilling specific health requirements.

Eastern Ohio Angus Association 2013 FALL SALE Saturday • 6 p.m.

October 26th, 2013 Muskingum Livestock Zanesville, OH

SALE DAY PHONES: 740-505-3843 • 740-452-9984 AuctiONEEr: Ron Kreis, Adamsville, OH 740-683-3235 tO rEQuESt cAtALOG: Ohio Angus Association Dan Wells, Sec./Fieldman 625 Cattail Rd. • Chillicothe, OH 45601 740-505-3843 • danwells@ohioangus.org cAtALOG ONLiNE: www.ohioangus.org

CONSIGNORS:

Black Acres Angus Black Destiny Angus Carl Murphy Davis Show Cattle Elkview Farm Ken Johnson Nobleland Farm Paradise Cattle Company S&J Angus TerrAqua Farm Wells Livestock Woodview Angus

Selling: Bred Cows • Open Heifers • Bred Heifers • Herd Bulls • Angus Steers

Don’t miss this opportunity to purchase high quality Angus cattle sired by & bred to the leading A.I. Sires!

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Industry News & Notes Made In the Shade?

Early results suggest carcass value enhanced by finishing out of the sun

On a hot day, cattle prefer shade. Observing the obvious led to research on the benefits of providing shade in open pens, even before the era of large-scale cattle feeding.

That research continues, ongoing today at Pratt, Kan. Feeders, a 40,000-head, quality-focused feedyard managed by Jerry Bohn. He noted in last year’s profile on winning a Certified Angus Beef® Quality Focus Award that shades were added to some pens to assess the cost/benefit on cattle already stressed by widespread drought.

More recently, Bohn addressed the Feeding Quality Forum Aug. 22 in Garden City, Kan.

“We had a little death loss each of the last three years due to heat,” Bohn said. Last year was the worst, and prompted him to hire an Iowa contractor to build five shades straddling 10 pens, at the cost of $15,000 each. The 50- by 48-foot steel frames have canvas covers with a heat escape vent in the center, all supported by three 24-inch steel poles.

Up to 150 cattle found relief under each structure during the hottest days. Last winter a 17inch snowfall did not cause problems, but there was significant storm damage this summer from 110-mph

winds.

A research project with Kansas State University this year included a veterinary student working at the yard all summer, and that study is in its summary stage now. Preliminary results were shared on groups of cattle that were sorted a month to six weeks before marketing.

“Sorting the cattle as equally and randomly as we could, we put one group under the shade and one in the regular feedlot pens,” Bohn said. “We then measured feed intake, average daily gain and feed conversion, and later gathered carcass data from National Beef.”

In highlighting basic results, the cattle feeder said he was surprised there was not much difference in feedlot performance with or without shade.

“What we did see in four of the six groups was a pretty good difference in packing plant performance,” Bohn reported. “That generally favored the cattle in the shade and it came from hot yield as well as quality grade [see table].”

From an animal welfare standpoint, he added, “I think we have to continue to look at these kinds of things as an industry. Sometimes I think we’ll be forced to do things in the future that might not have good economic reasons, but you’ve got to do it the right way.”

Table 1: Pratt Feeders Shade Study Feed and Carcass Performance Summary, Cattle Harvested July 2013

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Net Grid

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Premiums

No Shade

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65.05

885.1

66.9

$43.01

Shade

7

693

65.41

889.7

72.2

$58.48

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complete & total dispersal Sunday • October 20, 2013 at the Farm, Near Wooster, OhiO Equipment Sells at 10 a.m.

130 Angus Sell at 12:30 p.m.

Meadow Lane Ann W114

Lot 2

A multi-trait, prolific donor that is a daughter of Ann T812, pictured at the right.

Ann W114 sells due 3/16/14 to EXAR Upshot 0562B.

Meadow Lane Ann T812 AMF-NHF

Lot 1

Sire: SS Objective T510 0T26 • Dam: Meadow Lane Ann T812

Meadow Ln New Frontier Z118

Sire: CA Future Direction 5321 • Dam: Mercer Ann 234

A balanced trait son of New Frontier 095 from a dam combining 1I2 with Alliance 6595.

MeadowLane Forever Lady X315

Lot 31B

A feature of the Forever Lady family that sells bred to AAR Ten X 7008 SA.

Lot 7C

Sire: B/R New Frontier 095 • Dam: Meadow Lane Ark Pride 203

Sire: SS Objective T510 0T26 • Dam: Meadow Lane Forever Lady 227

Ai Sires:

Featuring: • Bred Cows w/ calves • Bred Cows • Bred Heifers • 2013 Spring Calves

This proven and powerful Meadow Lane donor and her progeny are featured in this dispersal. Ann T812 sells due 3/7/14 to EXAR Upshot 0562B.

• Fall 2012 Open Heifers • Two-Year-Old Bulls • Pregnancies • Embryos

• EXAR Upshot • New Design 5050 • AAR Ten X • Rito 9M25

Complimentary Lunch at 11 a.m.

Meadow Lane angus RegisteRed Angus CAttle

Terry & Becky Howland 12494 Friendsville Road • Burbank, OH 44214 (330) 635-1621 • meadowlaneangus@gmail.com

• Upward 307R • Final Answer • Bismarck • Hoover Dam

SALE 131 Robin Ct. MANAGED Howell, MI 48855 BY: 517-546-6374 www.cotton-associates.com

http://www.LiveAuctions.tv call Brad Fahrmeier for details: (816) 392-9241

Consultant: Henry Bergfeld • 330-223-1872

Live audio and live video will allow buyers to bid on animals just as if they were present at the sale. Buyers must create an account and request a buyer number.

Instructions are available to walk you through the account set-up process.

Look for the sale book in the September Angus Journal ® or online at http://angus.to/meadowlane

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experience counts

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

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

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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

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

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

Fred M. Penick

3264 Refugee Rd. Hebron, OH 43025

AMERICAN ANGUS ASSN. ANNOUNCES THE TEN OHIO BREEDERS WHO REGISTERED THE MOST ANGUS

PAUL H. HILL

The 10 producers who registered the most Angus beef cattle in the state of Ohio recorded a total of 1437 Angus with the American Angus Association® during fiscal year 2013, which ended Sept. 30, according to Bryce Schumann, Association chief executive officer.

The 10 top recorders in Ohio are: James Coffelt, Cadiz, 257-head; Way View Cattle Co LLC, Hebron, 244; Champion Hill, Bidwell, 230; Chippewa Valley Angus Farms LLC, Rittman, 155; Lauren A Grimes, Hillsboro, 137-head; Ohio Dept Rehab & Corr, Mansfield, 107; The Stanleyville Cattle Company, Whipple, 86; Kent Douglas Bauman, Otway, 76; Burgett Angus Farm LLC, Carrollton, 75-head; Beverly Wagner, Hamilton, 70.

Angus breeders across the nation in 2013 registered 288,822 head of Angus cattle.

“Our year-end statistics continue to demonstrate strong demand for Angus genetics and solidify our long-held position as a leader in the beef

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

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

Jon Davis * 740-446-2127

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

cattle industry,” Schumann says. “These results underscore our members’ commitment to providing genetic solutions to the beef cattle industry.”

ANGUS MEANS BUSINESS. The American Angus Association is the nation’s largest beef breed organization, serving more than 25,000 members across the United States, Canada and several other countries. The Association provides programs and services to farmers, ranchers and others who rely on Angus to produce quality genetics for the beef industry and quality beef for consumers. For more information about Angus cattle and the Association, visit www.ANGUS.org.

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The Buckeye

Best of Both Worlds

Sale

DVSF Patsy 016

SCC Queen Beyonce 824

AAA Reg#: Pending • DOB: February 2013 A top dual purpose heifer prospect sired by SAV Brilliance.

She will sell on November 23rd!

AAA Reg#: 16147066 • DOB: 2/12/08 An elite bred heifer by OSU Currency 8178 and this top donor will headline a top set of bred heifers!

Saturday • 12 Noon

November 23rd, 2013 Claylick Run Sale Facility • Newark, OH

For more sale info, go to: www.buckeyebbw.com Selling 90 Lots:

Spring Cow/Calf Pairs • Bred Heifers • Show Heifer Prospects Fall Calving Pairs • Embryos • Pregnancies • Open Heifers - 11 -

October 19 October 20 October 21 October 26 Nov. 16-18 November 23 January 10

Ohio Angus Calender of Events

Partners in Performance Sale, Newark, OH Meadow Lane Angus Dispersal Sale, Wooster, OH Champion Hill Fall Production Sale, Bidwell, OH Eastern Ohio Angus Fall Sale, Zanesville, OH American Angus Assoc. An. Mtgs., Louisville, KY Buckeye Best of Both Worlds Sale, Newark, OH OAA Directory Photo Contest Deadline

Ohio Angus Association Dan Wells, Secretary/Fieldman 625 Cattail Rd. Chillicothe, OH 45601

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• ENTRY DEADLINE: January 10, 2014

• Entries must be submitted via email to danwells@ohioangus.org • Entries must be high resolution electronic photos of at least 300 dpi.

• All entries will be on display at the 2014 Ohio Angus Annual Meeting.

• Each attendee of the 2014 Annual Meeting will get to vote for their favorite “Cover Photo”. The winning photo will be used as the cover of the 2014 Ohio Angus Directory. The submitter of the winning photo will be recognized on page 3 of the directory.