20th Annual Fall Bull Sale Catalog

Monday, Sept. 23, 2024 • 9 AM

Henry & Nan Gardiner Marketing Center At the ranch near Ashland, Kansas

FALL PRODUCTION SALE

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Sunday, September 22: 5:00 PM: Dinner served 6:00 PM: “A Conversation With Friends and Fellow Beef Producers,” hosted by Mark Gardiner and joined by our friends, Kevin Yon and Don Schiefelbein

Monday, September 23:

9:00 AM: 20th Annual Fall Production Sale 11:00 AM: Lunch will be served until the sale is concluded

If you are unable to join us in person and prefer to bid online at Superior or LiveAuctions.tv, please note, Superior Livestock has launched a new bidding platform. Users need to set up a new account prior to bidding. If you need assistance, please call (800) 422-2117.

If you need assistance to register to bid on LiveAuctions.tv, please call: (682) 816-4900 for technical assistance or contact TechSupport@LiveAuctions.tv.

AUCTIONEERS:

Col. Joel Birdwell (405) 368-1058

Col. Eddie Burks (270) 991-6398

LIVESTOCK PRESS REPRESENTATIVES

Matt Caldwell (913) 755-1105

(Matt has seen the cattle, can take your phone bids or provide information. He can be reached by phone or email: mattcaldwell75@gmail.com)

Jeff Mafi (816) 344-4266 ……………………………… Angus Journal

Guy Peverley (785) 456-4390 Stock Exchange

Stephen Russell (785) 458-2650

Colton Pratz (405) 385-1054

Dakota Ferguson (785) 893-1604

Kansas Stockman

Oklahoma Cowman

Special Assignment

Doug Paul (405) 820-3982 ……………………… Special Assignment

Chuck Grove (816) 390-6600

Chisolm Kinder (405) 747-4683 …………………

Special Assignment

Special Assignment

Josh Worthington (417) 844-2601 ……………… Special Assignment

Matt Myers (405) 315-7258

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

AI Barn: (620) 635-2156

Mark: (620) 635-5095 • gar@gardinerangus.com

Greg: (620) 635-0233 • gar@gardinerangus.com

Grant: (620) 635-0382 • grant.c.gardiner@gmail.com

Cole: (620) 635-0727 • colegardiner1@gmail.com

Ransom: (620) 635-0283 • gardinerransom@gmail.com www.GardinerAngus.com

HOTEL INFORMATION:

Best Western Country Inn and Suites, Dodge City, KS …… (620) 225-7378 (mention Gardiner Angus Ranch for a special rate)

Hampton Inn and Suites, Dodge City, KS (620) 225-0000

LaQuinta, Dodge City, KS ………………………………… (620) 225-7373

Holiday Inn Express, Dodge City, KS ……………………… (620) 227-5000

Comfort Inn, Dodge City, KS (620) 338-8700

Daltons Bedpost, Meade, KS (620) 873-2131

Holiday Inn Express, Woodward, OK ……………………… (580) 256-5200

The Bunk House, Ashland, KS …………………………… (620) 635-5207

Super 54 Motel, Minneola, KS (620) 885-4885

Best Western Plus, Greensburg, KS (620) 723-2244

Special Assignment

GAR DESIGNATED SALE REPRESENTATIVES:

If you are unable to attend the sale but are interested in placing a bid on any of the cattle, we encourage you to contact one of our designated representatives or Matt Caldwell. These representatives can respond to your request for visual information and bid for you during the sale.

Don Graham, Cattle Broker Mobile: (918) 706-8875

Crossroads Cattle Company

Don works daily with every production sector to buy and sell cattle. We appreciate Don’s willingness to work with us as well as our customers to capture more value. If you do not plan on retaining ownership and would like to access the best market for your calves, we highly recommend Don Graham.

Will Yeager Mobile: (979) 219-0483

Yeager Cattle Co.

Will Yeager works with many GAR customers selling their cattle on Superior. Will recognizes the value-added opportunities for beef producers buying or selling cattle. If you need assistance, please give Will a call.

Smitty Lamb Josh Worthington Mark Spare (229) 646-4785 (417) 844-2601 (620) 635-0541

Dear Friends & Fellow Beef Producers,

Gardiner Angus Ranch

It doesn’t seem possible to be welcoming you to our 20th Fall Production Sale. Much has changed since 2005, when we catalogued the first offering of fall sale cattle. As we think about drought, market volatility, wildfires, politics and life, we are simply grateful. We believe there is more opportunity than ever in our history to continue to improve beef IF we stay disciplined and focused on multi-trait selection for the traits of economic importance.

As I write this letter, the Certified Angus Beef Feeding Quality Forum has just wrapped up in Dodge City. I proudly profess to be a “cattle nerd,” and the CAB event brought many of the beef industry’s brightest minds to discuss the state of the beef industry from the best to our greatest challenges. The overwhelming take home message is the extraordinary advantage, from producer to consumer, of producing high quality, Certified Angus and Prime beef.

The possibility for new technology to capture and help manage data, the genomic tools available today and continually improving animal husbandry gives us even more incentives to stay laser focused on efficiency, health and quality.

Our industry seems determined to send a message cow-calf producers must “choose a lane.” At Gardiner Angus Ranch, we chose a lane in 1964 when Henry announced to Greg and me that we were going to become a total AI program, using ONLY progeny proven AI sires for all the traits of economic importance. We made very little progress until 1980, when the first American Angus Association Sire Summary was published. From that day forward, our program has selected for multi-trait excellence for ALL traits of economic importance.

Fertility, as always, is the Number One trait. Our conception rates per service are the same today as they were for Henry. Time restricted breeding is a reproductive management tool in our total AI program. Reproduction is nutrition. Without adequate nutrition, a female cannot reproduce. Angus cattle do very well with enough to eat!

Today, we purchase several thousand commercial steers and heifers from our customers. These commercial cow-calf customers, many purchasing seedstock from GAR for decades, have made continued improvements in their cow herds by keeping replacements fitting their individual breeding seasons, genetic benchmarks and environments. The heifers we purchase we breed to the best AI sires in the Angus breed—the same sires we breed our registered cattle to.

The steers are developed on wheat pasture during the winter and early spring or native grass in the summer and early fall before moving to the feedyard to finish on feed. The steers are sold through U.S. Premium Beef and the individual data returned to us. Since 2017, we have charted the results of our home-raised and customer steers and fed heifers. To date, we have charted 22,174 head. The eight-year results are remarkable and document the continued improvement across all traits. More than 98.5% have graded Choice or higher, 35.53% graded Prime, 34.21% qualified for CAB. In total, the cattle have earned more than $3.358 million above the base, resulting in $151.45 per head premium.

This sale will feature approximately 550 bred commercial replacement heifers, selling with complete Method Genetics EPDs and indexes for maternal (MPI), carcass quality (QPI) and retained ownership (ROI). Retained ownership income (ROI) is a complete production system approach from conception through carcass endpoint, tying reproduction, calving ease, maternal genetic merit, and growth through the calf’s lifetime, and quality-based carcass merit in an Angus-based cow herd. The females will sell in groups. Buyers must take a minimum of 10 head but may take more within a category or may take them all with the winning bid. As always, we offer free delivery.

They trust the process and have invested in genetics designed for multi-trait excellence. Their proof is our proof. They communicate with us. From genetic improvements in their replacements, conception rates, and final closeouts on their steers, we have proven decade after decade that multi-trait selection enables continued improvement in calving ease, early growth, stature, milk, and carcass quality.

Our 20th sale will feature 428 18-month-old bulls, 147 14-month-old bulls and 106 AI bred registered females. The 575 bulls average in the top 2% of the breed for marbling, $G and $B, top 15% ribeye and calving ease, top 20% for weaning and yearling growth and carcass weight. The bulls rank in the top 6% for Method Genetics QPI and 8% ROI.

The young females rank in the top 10% of the breed for calving ease, top 20% for weaning and yearling weight, top 25% for carcass weight, top 10% for marbling and ribeye, and top 4% for $B. The females rank in the top 23% for Method Genetics MPI, top 9% QPI and top 11% ROI.

The majority of the offering is sired by Transcendent, Home Town, Home Free, Incentive, Kansas, Dual Threat, Grass Roots, and Fireball.

We encourage our customers to continue their discipline, discard the noise and focus on what makes money in the beef business. Investing in genetics that provide birth to harvest opportunity to add quality and value to make money.

Plan to join us Sunday evening, September 22, at 5:00 PM, for dinner, immediately followed by our pre-sale educational discussion. Family-owned beef operations are essential to agriculture and food production in America. Kevin Yon, Yon Family Farms, Ridge Spring, South Carolina, and Don Schiefelbein, Schiefelbein Farms, Kimball, Minnesota, will join us in a thoughtful conversation about sustaining generational family farms and ranches today.

We hope you can join us for our 20th Fall Production Sale. We look forward to seeing you all. We are experiencing record setting demand for quality beef, supported by one of the most bullish markets in my lifetime. Let’s embrace the challenge to continue to make beef better!

We are truly thankful for your business. Our collective curiousity to learn, share and improve makes beef better!

Grant Gardiner

Eva Gardiner, DVM

Greg Gardiner

Cole Gardiner

Debra Gardiner

Mark Gardiner

Ransom Gardiner Quanah Gardiner

Megan Gardiner

Kayla Dewey Gardiner

Greta Gardiner

What’s Inside

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PAGE8 The Bulls that Sell

PAGE 10 18-Month-Old Bulls —Lots 1-150

PAGE16 Lot 10—Henry Gardiner Scholarship Lot 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the Henry Gardiner Scholarship & Lecture Series

PAGE44 14-Month-Old Bulls —Lots 151-297

PAGE76 18-Month-Old Bulls—Lots 298-575

PAGE 110 Following up on a story of 240 head of steers from Switch House Ranch to the Dunne pastures and ultimately, the meat case. See the closeout results.

PAGE 127 AngusLink GMS Scorecard is recognized on the USPB grid earing $5 per head with GMS 100 or above.

PAGE128 56 groups of elite bred commercial females.

PAGE146 The registered females that sell: Lots 576-681

PAGE 169 Reference sires

PAGE 173 A Career of Clipping by Paige Nelson

PAGE 177 5232 Miles and Quality is still Quality by Grant Gardiner

The Team…

Words can’t adequately describe our appreciation for the hard work and loyalty of our small but mighty staff. Each staff member accomplishes the work of multiple people, all in an effort to get the job done. Whether it’s planting, harvesting, working several thousand head of cattle multiple times a year, breeding, feeding, processing, calving, repairing equipment—there is NO job this crew can’t do. While we all appreciate our educations, life lessons of hard work, honesty, responsibility and integrity are learned outside the classroom.

Jeff Golden began with GAR as a student at K-State. Following graduation in 1984, Jeff began working full time. Jeff’s main responsibilities include managing herd health as well as overseeing calving of the two year old heifers, and freeze branding thousands of GAR cattle each year. Jeff is as good of cowboy as we know. His ability to see the condition of the cattle and the country is valuable to us. Jeff and his wife, Sheryl, have two children, Zane and Grace. Jeff and his family live just east of GAR on their own operation.

Scott Tune has been with GAR since June, 2002. Prior to joining the GAR team, Scott worked for Bar Six Dirt Construction. Scott oversees much of our farming during the summer. During the winter, Scott is an ace heat checker and assists in herd health at the GAR AI barn. Scott has delivered many GAR cattle all over the U.S. He does it proficiently and with a smile. Scott and his wife, Connie, live on the Gabbert Ranch at GAR.

Kurt Borgelt, native Nebraskan, moved to Clark County in 2004. Kurt has a degree in Animal Science from Univ. of Nebraska and is an allaround good hand in the GAR operation. Whether it’s heat detection, feed bunk management or herd heath, Kurt knows cattle! Kurt’s excellent feed bunk management has enabled GAR to consolidate bull development back on the ranch. Kurt and his wife, Aimee, have three children, Austin, Nicole and Landon, and reside just east of the GAR AI barn.

Eric Campbell came to GAR in August, 2004, with extensive feedlot and ranch experience. Eric assists with heat detecting and winter feeding at the AI barn. During the summer, Eric also shares much of the farming responsibilities. Eric never met a job that was too big or too small and has a great attitude! Eric and his wife, Emilie, have two children, Mahala and Mykelti, and live on the Dunne Ranch.

Landon Borgelt grew up on Gardiner Angus Ranch and is the son of Kurt and Aimee Borgelt.

Landon graduated from Ashland High School and attended Pratt Community College. Landon is keenly aware of the demands of our diverse ranching and farming operation. He assists in our minimum till farming operation and is responsible for much of the equipment maintenance. During fall calving, he assists in tattooing and data collection. We are grateful Landon decided to return to the Ashland community and Gardiner Angus Ranch.

Calen Bailey was a fall 2020 intern at GAR. As a full-time team member, Calen is someone we depend on to “do it all!” When Calen takes responsibility for any task, there is no detail left to chance. We appreciate Calen’s curiosity and determination to tackle any job, from farming to working cattle. Her demeanor is engaging and positive. Her willingness to problem solve is priceless.

Todd Paisley was one of our spring 2024 interns. After graduating from the University of Wyoming in May, Todd has joined the GAR team and is applying to vet school. He is involved in all aspects of the operation, gaining valuable experience in the skills he will need as a practicing veterinarian. We are certain Todd’s intellect, calm demeanor, empathy and work ethic will help him to become an outstanding large animal practitioner in the future.

Jeff Golden Scott Tune

Eric Campbell

Kurt Borgelt

Todd Paisley Calen Bailey

Landon Borgelt

Since 2012, The Gardiner Angus Ranch structured internship program has hosted 72 students from universities across the U.S. and internationally.

Three students have joined the GAR Team for their fall internships.

William Jicks, from LSU, has experience growing up on his family’s Angus and Arabian horse operation. He was a collegiate wrestler and has been wrestling since the age of six years old. William, like many of our interns, goals are somewhat undecided, but are certain to want to pursue a career in agriculture and the beef industry.

Joelle Herbert has experience on the Univ. of Florida’s Horse Judging Team and is currently an undergraduate research assistant

FALL 2024 INTERNS

studying ruminant nutrition. Joelle’s future interests include expanding her knowledge and experience in the areas of genetics, sire selections, breeding programs and day-today management.

Maris Shipley’s interest in beef cattle was piqued at Olathe High School when she participated in an animal science and research program as well as her participation in FFA. Dodge City Community College has enabled Maris to become fully immersed in animal science and ranch management.

She has completed BQA certification for cow-calf, feedyard, stocker/backgrounder and transportation.

The students arrive with lots of goals, aspirations and hopes to continue to gain useful experience and eventually become professionals in agriculture. While experience is helpful, it has never been a prerequisite for an internship. Curiosity and a willingness to learn, however, are.

The fall interns arrive just days before we begin ultrasounding thousands of cattle and embryo transfer on over 100 donors. From day one, interns learn low-stress handling, horsemanship, reproduction, data collection and basic animal husbandry skills.

In addition to our “day jobs” at GAR, the interns have an opportunity to travel with Mark to visit other seedstock operations, feedlots and GAR commercial cow-calf operations. They also are invited to accompany him to speaking and presentation events. A few nuggets of Great Plains history are always included!

Each intern cohort is unique. We are grateful that students from all across the country, and internationally, applied and made the commitment to advance their education at Gardiner Angus Ranch. It is rewarding and reassuring to know these bright, young students are preparing themselves for careers in food animal production and will continue to pay it forward. Welcome to Our 2024 Fall Interns!

Joelle Herbert Univ. of Florida

Maris Shipley Dodge City Comm. College

William Jicks Louisiana State Univ.

ELITE SIRES REPRESENTED

THE BULLS THAT SELL

There are 575 bulls featured in our 20th Annual Fall Production Sale. These bulls are sired by what we consider the best bulls of the breed. The highest use sires of the bulls in the sale are our most trusted herd sires. Sixty percent of the bulls selling are sired by the sires listed below:

GAR Transcendent …………… 119 sons

GAR Home Town ……………… 68 sons

GAR Home Free ……………… 57 sons

GAR Dual Threat …………………… 29 sons

GAR Freedom ……………………… 27 sons

GB Fireball …………………………… 25 sons

GAR Incentive ……………………… 25 sons

GAR Dual Force …………………… 23 sons

These are the proven sires we trust to deliver reproductive efficiency, calving ease, docility, post-weaning growth, feedlot performance and carcass value. Sons of each of these trusted sires bring many different attributes to the business of beef. The averages of the bulls’ genetic predictions are listed below:

Simply put, ROI benchmarks our cattle against a population of cattle that do “what we do best.” We encourage you to use ROI as your “go to” selection tool.

Average Method Genetic Predictions For The 2024 Fall Sale Bulls

RESULTS THAT MATTER TO OUR CUSTOMERS

We feed a lot of our own home raised cattle and purchased customer cattle. This “skin in the game” keeps us in tune with what makes money in the beef business. Below are the results of these cattle. Our “genetic hedge” has allowed us and our customers to be profitable.

Since 2017, Gardiner Angus Ranch and GAR customers have earned $151.45 per head, totaling $3,358,338 in premiums above the base price.

In 2024, Gardiner Angus Ranch and GAR customers have earned $138.31 per head, totaling $289,482.56 in premiums above the base price.

Birth to harvest beef production in a value-based market means breeding cattle with genetic potential to be profitable, regardless of market volatility, for the cow-calf producer, the cattle feeder and the packer. Our decades of breeding discipline and consistent presence in all sectors of the marketplace provide real time, accurate information to our customers. GAR commercial cow-calf producers anticipate value in replacements or for those heifers not meeting replacement criteria, having equal value as their steer mates.

G A R Fireball G3416

G3416 is one of the most powerful Fireball sons to date. He is a leader in the entire Angus breed for his indexes and he is dominant in the elite traits of economic importance. Every calf crop we have the opportunity to improve. This Lot 1 bull and his genetics will make a difference in our industry. He is a true power bull in the correct package. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

Gardiner Angus Ranch

G A R Fireball G3430

Fireball x Prophet K263 just works so well. The enhancement of breeding the best to the best never fails. John Crouch used to use the quote “Like begets like.” G3450 will beget offspring of unparalleled magnitude! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Fireball G3440

G A R Fireball G3441

A few short years ago, a bull like G3441 would not have possible to create. When we create these bigger populations of elite cattle, we than have the ability to select from these calf crops the next generation of leaders that allow for breed improvement. That to me is exciting (and necessary)!! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent G3460

G3460 is the Number 2 ROI bull of this fall sale. He is truly special considering his top 1% ranking for CED, $B, $C, QPI, ROI and top 4% MPI AND bottom 20% YH. His 2.55 marbling is not only unique, it is breed leading and allows you to make a directional change in 1 mating. We truly believe this multiple trait merit allows the flexibility for simultaneous breed improvement for so many traits! Take a gander at his ultrasound results… BAM!! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent N5283

G A R Transcendent 112

These Transcendent sons are reaching over +2 for marbling and over +1 for REA, routinely. Our USPB closeouts confirm that he is exactly what his data tells us. Marbling adds value, taste and tenderness and is a critical component to changing populations of Angus cattle. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

Why is it important to be over 1 for marbling and muscle? Marbling differentiates beef by the pound, and RE/cwt is crucial in having cattle hit the targets of value without having YG 4 & 5 discounts. Marbling is the most important component in beef to deliver taste. Marbling is the trait that is worth more money for all! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent N5543

Special bull with a pedigree we cherish. It is exciting to offer cattle like this that can make so much change in a cowherd in the 1st mating by adding genetics of economic VALUE! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Incentive N5143

N5143 is an amazing illustration of “you can have it

offers breed leading genetics for the traits of economic magnitude. Today, with genomics we are able to identify seedstock that need to be multiplied to make Beef BETTER, so much faster and with much more accuracy then the past. N5143 truly deserves to be sampled, validated and multiplied to make the next generation even better! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

We were fortunate to experience the Northern Lights phenomenon on May 13. According to scientists, the event to cause the Northern Lights originates over 93 million miles away on the surface of the sun. By the time it reached the skies over Southwest Kansas, it was stunning.

100% of the proceeds from the sale of Lot 10 will be donated to the Henry Gardiner Scholarship & Lecture Series

Henry Gardiner’s belief was to “pay it forward” and leave everything better than you found it. Due to the generosity of our friends and customers The Henry C. Gardiner Scholarship has awarded $250,500 in scholarship money to 54 students at Kansas State University. 100% of the proceeds go to the scholarship and lecture series. Thank you all very much!

A R Grass Roots E213

A R Grass Roots

Multi-trait

G A R Dual Force E43

G A R Captain 5549

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Gather around one and all… you truly may have multi-trait excellence. May we present E43?! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

GAR Captain 4778

G A R Captain 5121

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 481 days of age. This Captain son is one of the high growth bulls of the Angus breed. Note the single digit Index rankings including top 1% ROI! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Captain 5423

hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 467 days of age. Amazing growth with top 4%

G A R Freedom N5573

Birth Date: 1/20/23

G A R Jameson 5560

G A R Home Town 3001

Basin Advance 3134

Basin Deposit 6249 Basin Lucy 4288

Basin Jameson 1076 EXAR Monumental 6056B 20071781 Basin Joy 9140 Basin Joy 5367 Gardens Cache

Gardens Opus Green Garden Emma P120 EXAR Blackcap 1663 SydGen Express 3487B 19971895 SydGen II Blackcap 5385 SydGen Blackcap 1625

Power up dude! Amazing growth, marbling and RE. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town M3028

Birth Date: 1/11/23

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” —Dolly Parton. The tried and true genetics of Home Town will lead you to the correct path of beef cattle excellence! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town J3134

“A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” —Sonia Sotomayor. The efforts of so many before us have made our industry better today. Thank you to our visionary predecessors! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town K643

G A R Transcendent 13J

G A R Transcendent G3170

Trust 6228 20089143 Goode Trust 3314 Goode Objective 7811

Extraordinary bull! Quite simply one of the best bulls in the sale to add value to the beef industry! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent T1053

G A R Transcendent T353

G A R Transcendent T313

“Resilience is when you address uncertainty with flexibility.” —Unknown. This flexibility is the very basis of multi-trait excellence. These genetics allow you to utilize your forage and hit the targets of value when you have the weight you want to sell. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent T283

“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” —Warren Buffet. We are so thankful for Henry Gardiner, Roy Wallace, John Crouch, Richard Willham for planting the trees that leads to the opportunities available today! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent E153

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G A R Transcendent AG762

G A R Transcendent P573

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CAM Sunrise A6018

Rita A2004

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 510 days of age. Spectacular indexes! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent P543

The question of would you prefer a pound of gold or a pound of lead is easy to answer, go for the GOLD!! Great balls of fire look at the breed leading marbling on P573! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent 183B

Ambush 3051

“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.” —Maria Edgeworth. Be where your feet are, right here right now to be the best you can be today! Elite Transcendent x Sure Fire will work well in most operations! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

REVENUE SHARING AND SEMEN INTEREST

You will notice we are selling revenue sharing and semen interests on all bulls. This means the bull is totally in your control in how you want to handle him and you get 100% of the salvage value of the bull. Simply, we are reserving the right to a share of semen sales revenue from the bull if, at some time in the future, semen sales become a possibility. If you sell the bull to another breeder, Gardiner Angus Ranch retains the semen interest.

It is unlikely that large amounts of semen will be sold from many bulls. However, bulls are often “discovered” later in life, after proving themselves in the breeding pasture. It is for this reason we keep a semen interest in all bulls sold in our production sale.

Even bulls sold to commercial herds may become popular at a later time, as more carcass data is collected on their calves.

If you purchase a bull that we retain an interest in and you choose to collect semen from that bull as an “insurance policy” for your own use, that semen is 100% yours. Gardiner Angus Ranch may also wish to collect semen from the bull, either for in-herd use or to build a jointlyowned semen bank for sale purposes.

If you are not interested in collecting semen on the bull, GAR has the right to collect the bull, at their own expense, for their own use. Semen collection will be arranged at the convenience of the owner of the possession interest.

G A R Transcendent N5533

G A R Transcendent E703

Amazing QPI, Marbling and value! Breed this bull to heifers, calve easily and enjoy the value of these progeny! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent J3020

Wow, yet another +2 for marbling! This level of marbling assures incredible quality grade in beef cattle. Yet top 5% ROI tells us that E703 genetics are valuable for multiple traits! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent 23B

Actual ultrasound at 447 days of age. Look at the golden marbling genetics here! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent N5413

hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 448 days of age. 23B is the highest mar-

G A R Transcendent 233B

Birth Date: 2/20/23

G A R Transcendent 43G

G A R Transcendent G3459

G A R Momentum

G A R Transcendent

G A R Big Eye 1770

G A R Prophet 19570738 G A R Prophet 2685

G A R Daybreak 2842

G A R Ashland

G A R Home Town Chair Rock Sure Fire 6095 Ogeechee Home Town 13

G A R Momentum 19958484 Ogeechee Momentum 838 Ogeechee Prophet 5035

You carry the passport to your own happiness.” —Diane Von Furstenberg. Let this calving ease son of Transcendent help you be happy with live calves and Prime premiums! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent B302

Lot 42 Transcendent G3459 bull says “show me the money!” with his elite ROI! Great balls of fire, look and his marbling and muscle! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent G3165

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand. No one can stop us if we focus and keep working. Transcendent sons offer genetics that

Birth Date:

G A R Transcendent G3134

G A R Transcendent N5063

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G A R Early Bird N915

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G A R 28 Ambush 3051

“Hustle beats talent when talent doesn’t hustle.” —Ross Simmonds. We like the hustle of the Beef industry to get better. Single digit Method Genetics Indexes! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent 333L

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe. We enjoy doing all we can to make better cattle and we enjoy seeing our customers succeed! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent G3462

USPB DELIVERY RIGHTS

Many of our customers realize the value of access to GAR USPB delivery rights. Today, the demand exceeds our supply. Due to the increased demand, we are requiring prior authorization. If you are a GAR customer, retaining ownership, and would like to use GAR delivery rights, please contact Mark Gardiner (620) 635-5095 for prior authorization.

From 1998 through 2023, GAR customers marketed 140,000 head through U.S. Premium Beef, earning an average of $101.82 per head above the base price, totaling $14,254,840

G A R Transcendent T453

Birth Date: 2/21/23

G A R Transcendent

RCC 100X L497

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G A R Daybreak 842

Outstanding CED, ROI, Marbling & RE. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Breakthrough T603

G A R Breakthrough T1013

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” —Confucius. Cattlemen bred cattle for centuries without so much as a hint of beef cattle improvement. Well our industry has taken off now! Incredible Beef BULL! I remember when a bull that was over 1 for Marbling and RE was unusual. Today “over 2 & 1” is doable! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Breakthrough T43

Birth Date: 2/4/23 Bull

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford. Don’t be afraid to go against the “norm” to do what is right! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Turbo N5253

G A R Turbo is owned by the Grizzle & Wink families. He has proven himself the old fashioned way up against the best of the breed in structured sire evaluation. He is an elite bull that you will see more of at GAR! Special Method Genetics Index Rankings! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Force E663

G A R Dual Force P523

G A R Fireball T483

Why is it important to be over a 1 for marbling and muscle? Due to the fact that marbling differentiates beef by the pound, and RE/cwt is crucial in having cattle hit the targets of value without having YG 4 & 5 discounts. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat G2664

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Confucius. We work to keep improving! Amazing marbling genetics! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Fireball T1793

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 549 days of age. “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” —Wayne Dyer. The genetics inside G2664 are special for growth, marbling and muscle! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Holy Fire 319L

“If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” —Erica Jong. Henry Gardiner used to state that good genetics don’t cost they pay, yet inferior genetics are too costly. We agree Dad! Selling

possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Fireball G3411

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G A R Fireball G3116

G A R Fireball 3J

K263 Prophet 0612 SydGen Trust 6228 20054168 Goode Trust 3314 Goode Objective 7811

Actual ultrasound at 441 days of age. “I will not lose, for even in defeat, there’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me.” —Jay-Z. I always believe every action was an opportunity to learn. Bulls like G3116 who are over 2 for marbling and over 1 RE allow you to win on the grid! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Fireball G3432

“I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.” —Edna Mode. Learn from history, but don’t waste energy on what you can’t change. Outstanding Fireball son with typically special marbling genetics! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Force 328L

As we recall the Starbuck Fire of 2017 we remember that there is not greater teacher than experience. Our experience tells us that bulls like G3432 will improve your bottom line. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Fireball T1703

“Worry is a misuse of imagination.” —Unknown. Charge on without fear, mistakes will happen and we all learn from

G A R Dual Force E173

Birth Date: 12/21/22

G A R Holy Fire 236M

G A R Holy Fire

G A R Home Town U2158

G A R Sure Fire

G A R Bonfire Chair Rock Prophet 3054

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R Momentum 19727545 PPA Momentum P937

G A R Daybreak R02

G A R Ashland

G A R Home Town Chair Rock Sure Fire 6095 Mason Home Town 061

G A R Prophet 20020595 G A R Prophet N1185

G A R Daybreak 1521

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 463 days of age. “If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.” ―Clayton M. Christensen. The Beef business has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. It is worth it. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town 103G

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 469 days of age. Home Town is a tremendous sire of marbling, muscle and moderation. Extremely good cattle in a cool physical package! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town T83

Actual ultrasound at 452 days of age. Jumping junipers! We truly enjoy the versatility of Home Town progeny! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town 83G

G A R Home Town K623

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G A R Home Town J3133

G A R Home Town T763

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G A R Daybreak C80

G A R Objective 277L

One of my favorite coaches of all time was Kansas State’s Bill Snyder. His mantra is to do all you can to get better every day. If we improve 1% every day, look at the possibilities 100 days later. I like that! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town J3038

Birth Date: 1/17/23

G A R Home Town 73G

Actual ultrasound at 435 days of age. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” —Mary Anne Radmacher. We all will get up and work to get better every day. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

Actual ultrasound at 451 days of age. “When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened and now here I am in the middle of one!” —Alice in Wonderland. What a great life we get to live! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

A WORD ABOUT FREE DELIVERY

Gardiner Angus Ranch offers its customers free delivery anywhere in the lower 48 states. As a part of that delivery we work with reputable livestock transportation companies that we feel comfortable with in the handling of your cattle in both a professional and conscientious way. GAR will do everything possible to deliver your cattle to a point that is convenient for both you and the trucking company. In some cases where there are cattle from multiple owners loaded on the same truck, it is necessary for the buyer to meet the truck at a centaral location such as a livestock auction or veterinary clinic relatively close to them. We also encourage the drivers to be as flexible as possible and request that they not deliver your cattle in the middle of the night if avoidable. If you would like to insure your cattle, you can do so on sale day. Most of the cattle to be delivered from the sale are delivered within 45 days after the sale. If, for any reason, you desire an expedited delivery, please notify Grant Gardiner at (620) 635-0382 or email grant.c.gardiner@gmail.com and we will make arrangements for quicker delivery.

G A R Home Free 93J

“The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.” ―Epicurus. There is a true opportunity with cattle like 93J that allow you success for a multitude of traits! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free 4876

“Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage.”

Unknown. Life is our time to live it. Let’s go! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free 163J

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 445 days of age. 4876 will ring the bell with his progeny on US Premium Beef’s value added grid! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free E453

G A R Clutch 5044

G A R Clutch 5509

Birth Date: 1/5/23

G A R Renegade 5194

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HR Acclaim 8694 of 6291 44 Rita 6291

Jindra Acclaim

Actual ultrasound at 447 days of age. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” ―Jim Rohn. Let’s find a way to create the best cattle we are able to! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Clutch 4825

Actual ultrasound at 450 days of age. 2.25 Marbling will create a grand beef eating experience! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Renegade 5405

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 465 days of age. “If you can’t yet do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill. 4825 will achieve incredible value with his progeny! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

On December 18, 2023, 371 steers from GAR customer, the Merrill Ranch, were turned out on wheat pasture. The steers averaged 560 pounds at turn out and weighed 960 pounds upon arrival at Shaw feedyard on April 16, 2024.

G A R Renegade 4862

H P C A Renegade G A R Sure Fire 20004431 CAM Sure Fire A749 G A R Prophet A5040

P120 EXAR Blackcap 1663

Express 3487B 19971895 SydGen II Blackcap 5385 SydGen Blackcap 1625

G A R Paragon J3128

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 448 days of age. Pound of lead or a pound of gold is often the question. We recommend going for the golden pounds! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Renegade 4851

Astounding growth, marbling and muscle. Breed leading Index rankings. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Jameson 5429

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 452 days of age. To achieve your goals we encourage ourselves and you to set them. Then go after them with great gusto! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

On April 16, 2024, the steers were moved 4 miles to Shaw feed yard and weighed 900 . The group gained 400 pounds or 3.33 pounds per day over the 120 day grazing period. All will sell with AngusLinkTM GMS Scorecard eligible for an addition $5 per head premium. We look forward to sharing the final closeout information!

G A R Iron Horse 280L

EXAR Stallion 7986

EXAR Stud 4658B

EXAR Blackcap 3385

Bigk/WSC Iron Horse 025F SandPoint Butkus X797 19415015 EXAR Henrietta Pride 5702 Sitz Henrietta Pride 643T MCC Daybreak

Quaker Hill Rampage 0A36 QHF Blackcap 6E2 of4V16 4355 FF Rita 5R70 of 3R30 Rampage Rito Revenue 5M2 of 2536 Pre 18355135

G A R Wildcat J3031

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 499 days of age. Incredible growth! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Iconic 282L

Birth Date: 11/24/22 Bull +20635794

Actual ultrasound at 439 days of age. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson. Let your actions be purpose driven to make cattle and family better! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Wildcat J3147

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 489 days of age. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” —Mark Twain. I received a great education at Kansas State. I received a better education in the journey of life! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Wildcat J3016

& B Wildcat is one of the great bulls in Angus history. Thanks to the Benoit family of Kansas that bred and brought his genetics to the industry. Pretty cool name too which represents a family, culture and attitude that we are proud

A R Wildcat 562G

G A R Wildcat 602G

Birth Date: 9/28/22

G A R Peyton AD892

E & B Wildcat 9402

Connealy Confidence Plus 19810163 E&B Lady Plus 643

E&b Lady Credence 190

SydGen Exceed 3223

SydGen Enhance

SydGen Rita 2618 Ogeechee Enhance 931

Connealy In Sure 8524 19734881 G A R In Sure 654 G A R Complete 3011

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 547 days of age. Power up dude! Amazing growth, marbling and RE. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Wildcat 241M

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 565 days of age. Purposeful genetics are a part of our plan. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Prime Time D543

G A R Captain 4798

G A R Classic A422

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GAR Combustion 301P

G A R Dual Threat T2542

A truly fantastic bull. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

GAR Turbo L22 JG

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 475 days of age. Every decision you make is your identity for what you hope to achieve. When we breed cattle we hope to identify cattle that are profitable and problem free for you. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat A1132

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 475 days of age. Amazing genetic prediction for CED, QPI, ROI and marbling. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat T2742

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 537 days of age. Every decision you make is your identity for what you hope to achieve. When we breed cattle we hope to identify cattle that are profitable and problem free for you. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat T2852

G A R Dual Threat N5523

G A R Dual Threat T2952

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” —Lucille Ball. No regrets with N5523 help your ribeye/cwt with his outstanding top 1% Ribeye! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat U291

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 505 days of age. Databased selection is a system of choice that you design. This opportunity is not only exciting for all of us, it is necessary for success. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Freedom N5373

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 573 days of age. The genetics that we all enjoy today were but a dream when we were younger. Tomorrow’s reality will be to make these genetics even more prepotent for profit! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

Our family had an exciting and wonderful trip to Washington to meet our granddaughter, Abilene Elizabeth Gardiner. She enjoyed her ride on one of the many nature trails in the area with Ransom, Eva, her mom, Greta, and Kayla.

G A R Freedom N5473

G A R Freedom 882G

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein. N5473 offers a balance of many traits of economic merit! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Freedom M3017

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 509 days of age. Databased selection systems give you the power to become the active explorers of what works in your herd! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Freedom 512G

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 461 days of age. Set goals that you believe are valuable to you, when you achieve those, go farther. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Freedom N5083

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 552 days of age. I think the glorious thing about life is that the one constant is change. Adapting to changes is the beauty of what we are able to do! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Freedom 582G

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G A R Freedom N5393

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G A R Momentum N1158

G A R All In N1486

“Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.” —Mia Hamm. Our victory is in the journey. N5393 is elite for MPI, QPI, ROI, WW, YW, RADG! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Grass Roots N5043

G A R Greater Good AG802

G A R Greater Good 223J

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 465 days of age. I used to think all I wanted to do was be with cattle, yet I learned that all cattle are connected to people. If we work to be sure the people succeed then the cattle will too. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

Libby Falkiner, one the Australian scholars and spring interns, had the opportunity of a lifetime while visiting a premier equine veterinary clinic this summer. Libby is with American Pharoah, only the 12th Triple Crown winner in the history of Thoroughbred racing! American Pharoah stands at stud at Ashford Stud in Kentucky.

G A R Greater Good 213J

We are fortunate that we get to do what we do. Having a purpose and pursuing it is rewarding. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R High Ground D583

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 442 days of age. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” —Colin R. Davis. I believe we don’t fail, but that we learn from what doesn’t work! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

We appreciate fellow beef producers stopping by. Art Butler, Spring Cove Ranch, Bliss, Idaho, and AAA board member, and Dakota Townsend, Sylvan Lake, Alberta, recently toured GAR while in Southwest Kansas.

G A R Holy Fire 453J

“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.” ―Mortimer J. Adler. Discipline to use the traits of economic merit is the key to our program. We will not compromise breed improvement for any one trait. Elite Holy Fire son! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free 3971

G A R Home Free 4326

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G A R Home Free W13

G A R Home Free N5603

My goodness 310 ROI, when you see this top 1% Ranking from Method Genetics it leads to value. Incredible opportunity for calving ease, growth, marbling, muscle, MPI, etc.… truly a bull of VALUE! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free 4638

One of the exciting things about the search for multi-trait is discovering what other things are possible. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free 4341

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 499 days of age. “When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.” —Melissa McCarthy. Let’s pursue our passion with the gusto of a dog with a bone! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free 4725

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 499 days of age. Recognizing what matters to your operation, your business and your family is as important to us as anything we do.

G A R Home Free 4712

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G A R Home Free N5263

G A R Home Free 4528

I find footnotes repetitive, so I enjoy trying to design them to have meaning, purpose and fun! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free 4542

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 497 days of age. “The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die.” —Alice in Wonderland. Planned genetics help you LIVE! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free 4568

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 488 days of age. History is often unbelievable, yet it is what it is, that is why what we once deemed unattainable can now be achieved! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free 4552

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 475 days of age. It is fascinating to see people choose to be the best they can be with their cattle! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and

G A R Home Free 4949

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G A R Home Free 4635

G A R Home Free 4922

BarW 5185 Black Magic 8139 Maplecrest Eva 5185

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 500 days of age. Success is often an elusive destination, yet the journey in itself is what actually makes success. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free 4450

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 477 days of age. “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. What a great time to live and to do what is right! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town A1102

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 466 days of age. “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.” —David Hurley. Let’s choose the absolute best possible standards for our cattle and people! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 538 days of age. “The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen.” —Jessica Ennis. Don’t let anyone tell you what you can or can’t do. You have the ability to be your very best as a person and to create the very best cattle for your family! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

DEDUCT $100 FROM YOUR PURCHASE

Any buyer of any lot or group in the sale will have $100 deducted from the purchase price of that lot or group if he provides for the transportation from GAR within two weeks after the sale.

G A R Home Town G3451

Birth Date: 2/26/23

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“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” —Vince Lombardi. I have often mentioned I would like to name a bull G A R Nirvana, but we won’t because we will never reach this imagined perfection, but we will keep trying! Amazing bull for marbling and calving ease. No surprises with Home Town x Prophet K263! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town T3042

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 510 days of age. “He that can have patience can have what he will.” ―Benjamin Franklin. Henry Gardiner bred cattle for more than 40 years before he made ANY progress. Once he had the tools he used discipline and determination to make cattle better. We use Dad’s system to this very day. We invite you to use these amazing tools too! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town U296

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 499 days of age. “Small is not just a stepping stone. Small is a great destination itself.” ―Jason Fried. One step at a time, one day at a time, one cow at a time. Let’s get better! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town W233

The Retained Ownership Income Index is a complete production system approach from conception through carcass end-point. This index ties together reproduction, calving ease, maternal genetic merit and growth throughout the animal’s lifetime, and the quality based carcass merit in an Angus based herd. This is truly a “Profit” index, that is why we select the elite ROI females to use as donors. W233 ranks in the top 1% of the Method Genetics Database for ROI! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

GAR fall interns, Joelle Herbert and Maris Shipley are assisting

Birth Date: 1/20/23

G A R Home Town W313

+20603900 Tattoo: W313

G A R Incentive N5123

G A R Early Bird

G A R Ashland Chair Rock Ambush 1018

G A R Home Town

G A R Sure Fire 19266718 Chair Rock Sure Fire 6095 Chair Rock Progress 3005

G A R Sure Fire

G A R Phoenix

G A R Prophet N744 RWA Phoenix W2269

G A R Momentum 19631912 RWA Momentum W1087 RWA Daybreak W303

“Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” ―Anne Lamott. We are thankful for the “dance” we are able to do in this business with our families! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town U2111

Birth Date: 11/20/22

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 494 days of age. “If you believe something needs to exist, if it’s something you want to use yourself, don’t let anyone ever stop you from doing it.” —Tobias Lütke. I believe that our only limits are ourselves. We have the tools to make cattle better. Let’s do it! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

Incentive is a sire that offers two generation outcross from most of our sires. Mill Brae Identified and Gardens Cache are two of the great bulls in Angus History. N5123 is an outstanding multi trait prospect. It is true, you can excel simultaneously for the traits of economic importance! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Incentive M3201

hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 478 days of age. Elite growth bull with

pedigree that will excel in forage environments. Incentive x Combustion will make

bodied brood cows that will convert forage and raise great calves! Selling 100% possession and

Kenny Hinkle and his family are truly a family business that epitomizes the American dream. HPCA Veracious is a sire bred by the Hinkle family who was created with discipline and the tried and true methods of Henry Gardiner. 10132 is a son of Veracious and he represents one of the most powerful bulls to ever sell at Gardiner Angus Ranch. He has the “you can have it all multi trait excellence.” This bull will make a difference in our industry. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

“You can have it all “multi-trait

A R Prime Time 5953

Fireball 672

Enhance V A R SEO Value Added 8428 Sandpoint Blackbird 8809 FB Lucy 8601 Value Added 116 Jindra Acclaim 19890564 FWY Lucy 8601 EXAR Lucy 5803

G A R Prime Time 5729

Fireball 672

Creek Land Grant Connealy Clarity Breshie of Conanga 6988 FB 9169 Clarity 763

Enhance 20218272 HR Evergreen 9169 HR Evergreen 7655

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 459 days of age. 5729 is special for calving ease, growth and marbling. His indexes are top 1% in the Angus breed. This is a great candidate for multi trait superiority! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent W693

A R Transcendent W913

G A R Transcendent W3343

G A R Transcendent W1553

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Cool bull, cool scan! Note the top 1% $Beef and $Combined

We ultrasound several thousand head per year. Why in the age of genomics do all of this work? Quite frankly because phenotypes matter and help genetic predictions be more accurate. W1553’s marbling and RE are validated with his outstanding scan. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent W3333

Birth Date: 8/7/23

G A R Transcendent 303B

G A R Momentum

G A R Transcendent

G A R Big Eye 1770

G A R Prophet 19570738 G A R Prophet 2685

G A R Daybreak 2842 Connealy In Sure 8524

G A R Fail Safe

G A R Progress 830 BCC Fail Safe 825

G A R Fruition 19242490 RWA Fruition W2025

G A R Daybreak 2610

Henry Gardiner would be thrilled with the magnitude of genetic improvement that has been made in the 9 years since he has been gone. We press on to honor his system in an effort to create genetics that are more profitable! W3333 is a perfect example of incredible genetic opportunity! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

Gar Transcendent 322P

Bulls that are over 2 for marbling should scan exceptionally well. 303B scans exceptionally well. Great bull for calving ease and growth too! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent W1143

Why is Marbling so important? This wonderful trait differentiates beef by the pound. RE/ cwt is crucial in having cattle hit the targets of value without having YG 4 & 5 discounts. Marbling is the most important component in beef to deliver taste. It is the trait that is worth more money for all! 322P will deliver results that producers, packers, and consumers will be very thankful for! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent W673

Birth Date: 8/5/23 Bull 20754037 Tattoo:

G A R Transcendent W1123

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G A R Transcendent W703

G A R Veracious T1223

As we round up the usual candidates for value, Transcendent progeny rise to the top! 2.2 marbling! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcedent 10253

“Get good, get better, be the best!” —Brian Tracy. HPCA Veracious is one of the best sires in Angus history! T1223 is a do it all prospect with Goldie Locks genetics where all traits are “just right!” 2.18 Marbling! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Veracious 593G

REPEAT BUYER POLICY

Once again we are offering our “repeat buyer credit policy.” This policy is the same as in previous years. If you purchased an animal in our Fall 2023, January 2024, April 2024 or May 2024 sales, you will receive 5% off your purchases in this sale. If you have not made a GAR purchase in the last 12 months, but make a purchase in this sale, you will become a repeat-buyer and receive 5% off of any future purchase you make in the next 12 months. This 5% discount is determined after all credits have been subtracted from the gross purchase price.

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G A R Veracious 10202

G A R Tar Heel

753 Byergo Black Magic 3348 20218264 PCC Blackbird 202 Spruce Mtn Blackbird 5514

I used to think all I wanted to do was be with cattle, yet I learned that all cattle are connected to people. If we work to be sure the people succeed then the cattle will too. 10202 will help you succeed in your operation. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Veracious A113

Birth Date: 8/30/23

Holy bananas, hold down the monkeys folks, 11294 is special for so many traits! Truly elite! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Tar Heel 10710

“Do

G A R Captain 10018

you can with all you have, wherever

are.” – Theodore Roosevelt. We have such great tools to achieve anything we choose to. What an amazing opportunity!

Marbling will be golden! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Tar Heel 10041

G A R Tar Heel 10049

Birth Date: 8/9/23 Bull +20723844 Tattoo: 10049 EPDs

G A R Tar Heel 4497

Spring Cove Crossbow Yon Hartwell G930 Yon Sarah D668

FB Tar Heel

G A R Prophet K263 20218244 Goode K263 Prophet 0323 Goode Sunrise 7805 Baldridge Alternative E125

SG Salvation MGR JP Rita 7037 Belle Isabel 8624 K91 Connealy Confidence Plus 20233361 Spruce Mtn Isabel 8624 Baldridge Isabel C270

Amazing bull for so many traits. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Tar Heel 10039

Birth Date: 8/6/23

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this—you haven’t.” ―Thomas Edison. There is nothing that can’t be achieved if we keep trying! Top 1% Marbling! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

“Life is trying things to see if they work.” —Ray Bradbury. We believe that Henry Gardiner’s playbook works extremely well! Amazing marbling genetics for 4497. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Tar Heel 4496

“If

pulls you.” —Steve Jobs. The vision of Henry Gardiner, Roy

and John Crouch has helped pulls us to where we are today! Amazing

calving ease, marbling and muscle. You can have it all! Selling

and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and

Birth

G A R Tar Heel 10046

Muscle helps cattle meet the RE/CWT required for better Yield Grades on the rail. +1.63 marbling will get you more Prime cattle too! Special bull for RE! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Tar Heel 10380

“The

Cunningham. Non believers move out of the way while we make more profitable cattle! My goodness these cattle have the ability to hit the targets of value! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Tar Heel

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt. No doubt, we go forward with elite genetics like 10095. Did you see his EPD for Marbling?! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Tar Heel 4492

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” —Thomas Paine. We

the CHOICE to do whatever we choose. This Tar Heel son will give you the choice of less calving difficulty with elite calves! Look at his +2.06 Marbling! Boo

Jack and Eva enjoy spending time together.

Jack Wilder likes animals and his toys!

G A R Tar Heel 10033

Birth Date: 8/4/23 Bull +20978528 Tattoo: 10033

G A R Tar Heel 10080

Spring Cove Crossbow Yon Hartwell G930 Yon Sarah D668

FB Tar Heel

G A R Prophet K263 20218244 Goode K263 Prophet 0323 Goode Sunrise 7805

G A R Ashland

G A R Greater Good

G A R Sure Fire A5008 Circle G Blackcap 1271 Basin Payweight 1682 20171191 ACC Blackcap 7605

G A R Protege M532

Throughout Angus history, when we identify populations of cattle that will defy the correlated traits, this has proven to be true opportunity. Top 25% CED, top 1% YW. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Tar Heel 10010

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.” —Winston Churchill. We cherish optimism! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Tar Heel 10708

We believe that science has allowed the human race to thrive/survive. We thank God for the Sally Northcutt’s of the world that help us solve our problems! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Tar Heel 10036

G A R Tar Heel 10703

Birth Date:

G A R Grid Maker 10081

G A R Grid Maker 10023

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20218257 EPF Rita 9512 EXAR Rita 4754

What a cool pedigree. With the reproductive technologies of today the “acceleration & multiplication” of the very best genetics is FAST. Genetic opportunity is real and needed. Grid Maker L1071 is a son of Home Town’s dam and a full brother to Fireproof. He is a special sire from an important cow family to us and the industry. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Grid Maker 10712

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”

Thomas Jefferson. I have observed the most successful people are the hardest workers. Our industry is filled with so many people who are amazing workers! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Wildcat J3191

Do you feel the need for speed on this top 1% YW son of Grid Maker L1071. Oh, and he is top 1% Marbling. 10712 will sire a lot of valuable pounds! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Grid Maker 10029

G A R wildcat A553

Birth Date: 8/14/23

G A R Grid Maker 10062

G A R Grid Maker L1071

685 Transcendent 794

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R Jet Black 5063 20218294 DCF Rita 0685 44 Rita 6297

“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” —John Wooden. Top genetics help make life better! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Plate 10266

Birth Date: 6/21/23

+20978542 Tattoo: 10266

G A R Home Plate 10427

I often think we are living in the greatest time in history for

Things once thought unimaginable are possible. Beef cattle genetics are the same! My goodness this is a special bull for marbling, muscle, and growth! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Plate 10261

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” —Emerson. Our life lessons have taught us the value of bulls like 10266! Have it all genetics! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Plate 10136

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt. Don’t doubt the power of this information to make a living. If Henry Gardiner did not recognize that these systems work and implement them into action we would not be here today. We are so thankful for Henry’s vision and tenacity to keep sawing wood! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

R Home Plate

Birth

G A R Home Plate 10135

D&W N171 Adel

Daybreak 1402

Connealy Legendary 644L 20210749 At Ease Madame Pride N171 Heathcote Madame Pride 827B

G A R Renegade 10290

Another candidate to use on heifers and enhance end product merit and add growth. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Plate 10235

Holy guacamole, look at the marbling that will add valuable pounds to the beef industry! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Clutch 10714

G A R Home Grown 10302

G A R Clutch 10717

Today, we purchase several thousand commercial steers and heifers from our customers. These commercial cow-calf customers have purchased seedstock from GAR for decades, have made continued improvements in their cow herds by keeping replacements that fit their individual breeding seasons, genetic benchmarks and environments. The heifers we purchase we breed to the best A.I. sires in the Angus breed—the same sires we breed our registered cattle to.

G A R Home Town 308M

Henry Gardiner purchased his first registered females in 1947. We are pleased to continue to build on Henry’s original plan to improve beef cattle! My goodness look at the combination of marbling, muscle and growth in this amazing Home Town son! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town W1293

GAR Home Town 390F [DDC]

G A R Home Town L323

G A R Home Town M3511

A R Daybreak C80

G A R Objective 277L

Every mating matters. When you look at the next generation out of these bulls we can’t help but be very excited for the future! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town M3801

We love Home Town progeny. Why? Well because they are incredible for all the traits that matter! All traits matter, and M3511 excels for all traits, WOW! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town L083

Home Town is a sire that is one of the good bulls in the history of our family. Calving ease, early growth, superior end product merit combined with maternal function. That has been Henry’s game plan since the beginning. We stay disciplined to keep with the plan! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town W5013

Birth Date: 7/31/23

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.” —Amelia Earhart. Let’s act on our decision to get better! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town L193

Birth Date:

GAR Home Town 306F

G A R Home Free

Breeding cattle of excellence is a decision requires discipline applied for decades. We are thankful for the opportunity to be disciplined. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Team W1353

Remarkable rankings for all of these multi trait decision making Indexes. Selling

possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free Z213

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers. We can learn from yesterday, but we need to stay focused on becoming better today! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free W1263

G A R Home Free 10296

Birth

G A R Home Free W2093

Incredible combination of calving ease, growth and marbling and ribeye. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free M3502

Dedication to the task at hand allows us all the opportunity to get

The

with our beef cattle family is the joy we find in working to be the best we can be. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free R703

G A R Home Free P773

Actual ultrasound at 358 days of age. Discipline is simple, yet it becomes very unusual in a

G A R Home Free W3383

taining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free R783

W2506

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar. Let’s go! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue

G A R Home Free M3510

G A R Home Free W843

G A R Home Free W3413

Birth Date: 9/4/23

G A R Top Cut 3219

Rampage 0A36 19631858 PAR Rita 7073 ACC Rita 3039

We define successful cattle as those that are born alive, grow fast and efficiently to the end point with a valuable carcass, and for the females that are retained to replicate the process year after year in their environment. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Top Cut S693

G A R Jameson 10237

“Talent is nothing without persistence.” —Dean Crawford. We are thankful for the persistent effort of so many in this business—especially, our customers. G730 is a tremendous bull for growth. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Top Cut 2023G

G A R Jameson 10207

Birth

G A R Jameson 5736

Basin Advance 3134

Basin Deposit 6249 Basin Lucy 4288

Basin Jameson 1076

20071781 Basin Joy 9140 Basin Joy 5367

G A R Home Town

EXAR Monumental 6056B

G A R Ashland

Chair Rock Sure Fire 6095

FB 9662 Home Town 617 Jindra Acclaim 20104922 HR Queenie 9662 Angus Hill Queenie 2AX

G A R Jameson 10220

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 455 days of age. We go into each mating with our eyes wide open as to what we can do to make the next generation superior! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Jameson 5980

Check out this sleep all night candidate. He will make your banker, your wife and your cows happy! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Captain 10278

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 453 days of age. Jameson son with outstanding growth predictions. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Jameson 5999

We purposely work to design genetics that impact

We believe 10278 is a good illustration. Incredible growth genetics. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Captain 10318

Birth

G A R Prime Time 10221

G A R Dual Force U306

Fireball 672 GB Anticipation 432

EAR

Time 0002 SydGen Exceed 3223 19733707 ACC Barbara 8038 ACC Barbara 4066

Connealy Confidence Plus Woodhill Relevance Woodhill Blackbird X197-Z7

Audley Henrietta Pride H255 V A R Discovery 2240 19963024 Vintage Henrietta Pride 5010

PF CC&7 Henrietta Pride 1044

Designed breeding programs have a plan. We are thankful for Henry Gardiner’s plan that worked so well in the past and will continue to lead us the right way in the future! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Beal Breakthrough Z343

Success is often an elusive destination, yet the journey in itself is what actually makes success. Amazing multi-trait excellence for U306! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Force R633

Actual ultrasound at 286 days of age. We all know pounds pay the bills. Quality pounds pay more bills. Note the Marbling on Z343! Special calving ease and muscle too!

G A R Dual Force 10241

G A R Dual Force 10205

G A R Dual Force 623G

G A R Dual Force W2003

Ogeechee Home Town 144 G A R Iner tia 20340700 Ogeeechee Inertia 905 Ogeechee Sunrise 6023

We all went to school to get some basic principles of education. We all live life to get a deeper education, but yet still search for understanding. Like many things we won’t ever learn all of the answers, but let’s keep living and learning. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Force 307M

Birth

To achieve your goals we encourage ourselves and you to set them. Then go after them with great gusto! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Force W4043

Actual ultrasound at 318 days of age. The sires that make up the pedigree for 532G are the bulls that have allowed our family to stay in this business. We are pleased with what these cattle have done for the industry! Fantastic bull to add Ribeye! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Force 633G

G A R Dual Force 63E

G A R Dual Force W3373

G A R Grass Roots M3701

The quest for success will never be achieved, but the journey will be the enjoyable part of the search! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Force R733

“I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” —Mia Hamm. Shoot for the moon with amazing power and muscle on this Grass Roots son! Sweet ultrasound results! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Grass Roots W2053

The genetics that we all enjoy today were but a dream when we were younger. Tomorrow’s reality will be to make these

G A R Freedom W3463

G A R Grass Roots R643

G A R Incentive W2813

G A R Incentive L483

We are motivated to use the absolute best Angus bulls of the breed, every mating we look to make the best mating possible! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Incentive W2833

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.” —Louis Pasteur. Let’s be tenacious in our pursuit for excellence! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Incentive L113

G A R Incentive W1433

G A R Veracious 143E

“A little more persistence, a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” —Elbert Hubbard. Outcross pedigree to most GAR sires. Excellent growth, end product merit and milk. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Cisco T3353

Birth Date: 7/15/23

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” —John D. Rockefeller Jr. Use discipline and genetics to achieve your goals uncommonly well! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Veracious T1273

“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.” —Banksy. Outcross pedigree to many GAR pedigrees. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Momentum L213 [DDC]

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” —Jane Goodall. Veracious x Momentum makes cattle that will excel on grass, in the feedyard and on the rail for the steers and the females will replicate the process. This will make a difference! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Veracious J3195

G A R Veracious 2013G

G A R Transcendent 301M

“You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.” — Oprah Winfrey. Write your own script for success! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent W1343

Birth Date: 8/1/23 Bull +20753935 Tattoo: W1343

Databased selection systems give you the power to become the active explorers of what works in your herd! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent 303M

Driving towards goals of cattle breeding is the freedom to learn what works. What a great adventure it is to seek the most successful

G A R Transcendent W1363

G A R Transcendent Z53

Birth Date:

G A R Transcendent 302M

G A R Tanscendent W1173

There is something stirring about seeking the answers to the equation of profit! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent W563

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” —Walter Elliot. Let’s be a part of the race with cattle that give a greater chance at making money! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent R583

G A R Transcendent W873

G A R Transcendent 304M

Birth Date:

G A R Transcendent W4003

G A R Tanscendent W1213

Legacy C80 L136

G A R Daybreak C80

The question of would you prefer a pound of gold or a pound of lead is easy to answer, go for the GOLD!! Great balls of fire look at the breed leading marbling on W4003! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent W3323

Birth Date: 8/10/23 Bull +20803992 Tattoo: W3323

“Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.” —Winston Churchill. I am a grinder, and I know no other way to do things than to continue on. W1213 will help you on your continuous path for beef cattle improvement! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent W1103

Cattle are sold by the pound, yet the pounds are worth significantly more when they are Prime. Top 1%

G A R Transcendent 305M

G A R Transcendent 333B

Birth Date:

G A R Transcendent W1203

A R 100X 19727011 Chair Rock 100X 6047 Chair Rock Prophet 3054

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” —Confucius. Keep going! We can make such great strides with bulls like W1203 that have “Prime” genetics! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent W943

Birth Date: 9/5/23

G A R Fireball Z133

“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success.” —Dwayne Johnson. Discipline is consistent and persistent. Using bulls like Z133 allow success in so many ways with predictable genetics and time tested mating! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Fireball Z153

Why is it important to be over 1 for marbling and muscle? Due to the fact that marbling differentiates beef by the pound, and RE/cwt is crucial in having cattle hit the targets of value without having YG 4 & 5 discounts. Marbling is the most important component in Beef to deliver taste and it is the trait that is worth more money for all! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent W3313

Birth Date: 8/1/23 Bull +20803993 Tattoo: W3313

G A R Fireball W1653

Birth Date: 9/3/23

G A R Fireball 223G

+20934660 Tattoo: 223G

G A R Fireball Z203

G A R Sure Fire 6404

GB Fireball 672

G A R Sure Fire

G A R Complete N281

G A R Anticipation 18690054 GB Anticipation 432

G A R Set Apart

Ogeechee Set Apart 145

GB Ambush 269

G A R Sure Fire

Ogeechee Sunrise 5049

G A R Ashland 20338161 Ogeechee Ashland 91 Ogeechee CAM Prophet 554

“The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress.” —Dan Waldschmidt. Breed improvement marches on with this great Fireball some that excels for so many traits! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Fireball 10099

Fireball son with top 10% CED and top 1% marbling!

Why is it important to be over 1 for marbling and muscle? Due to the fact that marbling differentiates beef by the pound, and RE/cwt is crucial in having cattle hit the targets of value without having YG 4 & 5 discounts. Marbling is the most important component in Beef to deliver taste and it is the trait that is worth more money for all! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Fireball T1843 [DDP]

G A R Heisman 10212

575

CED

Growth

Marbling

Ribeye

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ROI Top 8%

G A R Veracious V42

G A R Kansas MW23

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 583 days of age. Veracious is one of the great bulls in Angus History. Thank you Hinkle family! My oh my, look at the this top 4% Marbling and top 2% calving ease bull! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Veracious V62

G A R K263 Prophet G3407

G A R Kansas MW93

G A R Quantum Leap W103

Birth Date: 12/2/22

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G A R Quantum Leap

G A R Fail Safe

+20631235 Tattoo: W103

G A R Transcendent J3029

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G A R Progress 830 BCC Fail Safe 825

RWA Fruition W2025

G A R Fruition

G A R Daybreak 2610

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 482 days of age. Quantum Leap is a sire that was selected for his multi-trait excellence combined with amazing phenotype. Pretty is as pretty does… W103 has top 4% CED to go with his top 2% ROI! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Sunbeam D292

Actual ultrasound at 443 days of age. “Mondays offer new beginnings 52 times a year!” —David Dweck. Monday September 23 offers opportunity with these bulls! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent G3102

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 498 days of age. Sunbeam cattle are noted for their agility, good foot structure, and high volume cows with picture perfect udders. Those attributes are welcome and the excellence for the economic traits make D292 a winner! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent 892G

Birth Date: 11/8/22

Transcendent N5243

G A R Transcendent G3458

Birth Date: 3/3/23

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” —Marcus Aurelius. What a privilege it is to live the life we “get to live!” G3458 has amazing growth and marbling! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent N5493

G A R Transcendent T2622

“You

G A R Transcendent A502

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 522 days of

“One of the differences between some successful and unsuccessful people is

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 471 days of age. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” —William James. We are what we choose to be! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent 3973

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 472 days of age. Calving ease, early growth, end-product merit. Multi-trait excellence! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

A R Transcendent D553

Birth

G A R Transcendent T173

G A R Transcendent A872

RCC 100X L497

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G A R Daybreak 842

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ―Theodore Roosevelt. T173 will allow you to make better beef cattle. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent G3456

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 525 days of age. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” —Henry Ford We appreciate getting to work together with our customers. Let A872 work for you and he will sire more cattle with the ability to hit the Prime Quality Grade! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent M3016

The Retained Ownership Income Index is a complete production system approach from conception through carcass end-point. This index ties reproduction, calving ease, maternal genetic merit and growth throughout the animal’s lifetime, and the quality based carcass merit in an Angus based herd. This is a “Profit” index, and why we select elite ROI females to use as donors. G3456 ranks in the top 1% of the Method Genetics Database for ROI! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent 183J

Birth Date: 2/13/23

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 462 days of age. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” —George Eliot. Beef cattle value begins with disciplined selection. M3016 will improve your bottom-line. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent 73B

G A R Transcendent V02

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G A R Prophet 19706635 G A R Prophet 545

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R 5050 New Design 1442

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 466 days of age. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.” —Chris Grosser. Transcendent offspring offer the genetics of opportunity! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent TA512

G A R Transcendent 4938

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 492 days of age. Sometimes our business is like a “bad hair day.” That is okay, just put your head down and go on. That way there is no stopping along the way. TA512 will be great to use on heifers and create Prime grading offspring! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Fireball G3422

Birth Date: 2/25/23 Bull +20796334 Tattoo: G3422

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 475 days of age. I was asked this spring what is the one Beef cattle trait that there is “no diminishing return?” The easy answer is MARBLING! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent W163

“They” said that +2 Marbling wasn’t

G A R Ares 4806

Birth Date: 3/15/23

G A R Deadwood V43

Basin Payweight 1682 Poss Maverick Poss Pride 5163 Poss Deadwood

Poss Easy Impact 0119 19597261 Poss Ellunamere 399 Poss Ellunmere 0170 MCC Daybreak Quaker Hill Rampage 0A36 QHF Blackcap 6E2 of4V16 4355 Banner Queenie 1743 B/ R Future Direction 4268 18741389 Dean’s Queenie X104 Roden RL Queenie 70527

G A R Ultra Provider

Nice combination of marbling, muscle, and growth. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Deadwood V23

G A R Ultra 5067

G A R Deadwood V13

ultrasound at 445 days of age. Actual hip

and ultrasound at 445 days of age. “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” —Helen Keller. We are so thankful to our loyal customers. We are all in this together! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Ultra 4931

Birth Date: 1/22/23

G A R Salvation 305L

Baldridge Alternative E125

Poss Easy Impact 0119

SG Salvation Basin Payweight 1682

Baldridge Blackbird A030

19559741 MGR JP Rita 7037 MGR Rita 2145

C R A Bextor 872 5205 608

G A R Prophet

G A R Prophet 2984 MCC Daybreak 17965352 G A R Daybreak 1521

G A R Objective 1885

G A R 5050 New Design 1039

The Retained Ownership Income Index is a complete production system approach from conception through carcass end-point. This index ties together reproduction, calving ease, maternal genetic merit and growth throughout the animal’s lifetime, and the quality based carcass merit in an Angus based herd. This is truly a “Profit” index, that is why we select the elite ROI females to use as donors. 305L ranks in the top 1% of the Method Genetics Database for ROI! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Salvation 306L

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” —Lily Tomlin. We are specific in our goals for beef cattle excellence. We aren’t always right, but we are always working and learning to get better. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

Birth Date: 1/14/23

G A R Jameson 4896

Basin Advance 3134 Basin Deposit 6249 Basin Lucy 4288

Basin Jameson 1076

EXAR Monumental 6056B 20071781 Basin Joy 9140 Basin Joy 5367 G A R Ashland

A R Home Town Chair Rock Sure Fire 6095 FB Rita 170 Home Town

Bar R Jet Black 5063 19980694 Dean’s Rita F170

4896 is truly special for growth and end product merit. Stellar marbling! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Ashland T1583

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” —Helen Keller. We have hope and confidence in the Beef Business!! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

Fertility, as always, is the Number One trait. Our conception rates per service are the same today as they were for Henry. Time restricted breeding is a reproductive management tool in our total A.I. program. Reproduction is nutrition. Without adequate nutrition, a female cannot reproduce. Our registered and commercial females graze 10 months out of the year and calve in our native pastures.

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G A R Breakthrough T163

G A R Wildcat 772G

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ―Winston Churchill. I have found that some of my biggest failures were my best lessons for the future. Let 305L solve problems for you with out fail! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Breakthrough T293

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 506 days of age. Special ranking for Maternal Production Index! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Wildcat J3123

“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.” —David Hurley. We do not need to settle for average in our industry or life. It costs the same to run value added cattle as it does to run “commodity cattle.” Don’t settle. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Wildcat A542

G A R Wildcat J3130

G A R Wildcat J3124

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R 8086 Maplecrest Rita 8091

G A R Freedom 173G

Special bull for growth. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Wildcat J3131

Actual ultrasound at 448 days of age. Remarkable rankings for all of these multi trait decision making Indexes. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Freedom N5673

G A R Freedom N5583

A R Freedom N5703

G A R Freedom N5593

19862713 G A R 100X 2196

G A R 5050 New Design 913

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” —Augustine Og Mandino. Let’s learn and work together to take our family’s and cattle to new levels of excellence! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Freedom 253B

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“Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.” —Albert Einstein. Let’s do all we can to be the best people possible making the best beef cattle to feed the world! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Grass Roots N5613

G A R Grass Roots N5733

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” —Tony Robbins. We truly enjoy seeing the progress the beef business has made the past 40 years! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Grass Roots K543

“You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin.” ―Gordon B. Hinckley. Begin with this elite top 1% Marbling & RE bull with top 3% ROI. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2

G A R Grass Roots N5173

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G A R Grass Roots N5723

G A R Dual Threat 852G

G A R Momentum 1417

G A R Prophet F605

Top 1% ROI who is also an elite bull for Maternal Production Index. This is the best index we have to make cows better for our operation and our customers. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Force 318L

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 511 days of age. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs, one step at a time.” —Joe Girard. Press on towards your goals with this top single digit Indexes Dual Threat x Ashland! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat T813

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.” ―Vernon Sanders Law. We are fortunate to have had a lot of skin in the game which has been a great teacher! Our experience tells us that this is a special bull for MPI, ROI & RE! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat 163G

The Retained Ownership Income Index is a complete production system approach from conception through carcass end-point. This index ties reproduction, calving ease, maternal genetic merit and growth throughout the animal’s lifetime, and the quality based carcass merit in an Angus based herd. This is a “Profit” index, and why we select elite ROI females to use as donors. T813 ranks in the top 1% of the Method Genetics Database for ROI! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

Dual Threat AG822

G A R Dual Threat 33B

Ogeechee Home Town 041

S S Niagara Z29 20008106 Ogeechee Niagara 717 G A R Sunrise 2922

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 442 days of age. “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” —Colin R. Davis. Top 10% CED for this Dual Threat son. Good candidate to breed virgin heifers. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat AG812

G A R Dual Threat T2682

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 465 days of age. Tremendous candidate to breed heifers and his genetics are packed with all of the needed goodies for profit!

G A R Dual Threat T2732

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 481 days of age. “When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to the happiness that you can give out.” —Eleanor Roosevelt. We take great pride in our customers succeeding! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat AG792

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 466 days of age. “Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow.” —Gandi. It is exciting to take all that we have learned and work to get better. Top 10% Marbling with top 2% RE! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat G3467

G A R Dual Threat N5443

G A R Jameson 5427

“We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.” —Albert Einstein. Let’s open our minds to all that we can achieve in life and cattle. Elite ROI for N5443 Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Paragon J3037

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G A R Paragon J3045

“There is nothing impossible to they who will try.” —Alexander the Great. Incredible single digit Method Genetics Indexes! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Breakthrough J3165

G A R Breakthrough J3054

G A R Home Free

“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” —Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Start making your enduring changes with your cattle genetically! My goodness look at the top 10% YW. This bull will sire valuable pounds! Look at his Marbling & RE combination with top 3% CED! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Breakthrough J3071

“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”—Brian Tracy. Top percentile indexes! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free 5245

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 443 days of age. Home Free was selected for his traits of magnitude like his sire, calving ease, adequate and valuable composition of growth with his marbling and muscle. His additional RE helps his progeny stay in the yield grades of merit on the rail. Cool bull with Goldilocks genetics because everything is “just right.” Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Ashland T473

G A R Home Free 240M

G A R Home Free N5223

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 464 days of age. We love to awaken to the possibilities of beef cattle excellence. We are so fortunate that these ruminant animals can take cellulose that humans can’t consume and convert it to the best tasting protein in the world! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free M3011

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis. Breeding these cattle to help feed the world is a dream come true for me! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free 1013J

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 463 days of age. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” —Thomas Jefferson. I have observed the most successful people are the hardest workers. Our industry is filled with so many people who are amazing workers! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free N5203

Birth Date: 1/31/23 Bull +20866429 Tattoo: N5203

We have a focused passion for American agriculture, due to our predecessors we are able to achieve amazing and necessary

G A R Home Free W93

G A R Home Free N5273

The most successful cattlemen I know are thirsty for knowledge and enjoy the

search it requires to acquire it. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free

G A R Home Town

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G A R Home Town H22

G A R Home Town N5643

G A R Early Bird

G A R Ashland Chair Rock Ambush 1018

G A R Home Town

G A R Sure Fire 19266718 Chair Rock Sure Fire 6095 Chair Rock Progress 3005

G A R Sure Fire

G A R Phoenix

G A R Prophet N744 CAM Phoenix T59 Deer Valley All In 19707838 Hillside All In T88 Hillside Complete 1115

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 476 days of age. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis. Bulls like H22 can make your beef cattle dreams a reality. Astounding marbling, muscle, and growth. Upper percentile MPI! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town J3149

Goldilocks genetics in our opinion when you look at Home Town progeny, everything is “just right!” Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town 932G

Some say that monotony is the law of nature, yet consistency is the fundamental that repetition actually allows for us to change! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town T2502

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 507 days of age. “A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.” —Thomas Edison. I have known a few geniuses, but I have known even more hard working Ag people that keep after it day after day! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

A R Home Town H62

Birth Date: 9/7/22

G A R Home Town K992

G A R Renegade 5532

G A R Home Town

G A R Quantum

G A R Quantum 489 K C F Bennett Absolute 19568378

G A R Absolute N1776 Goode Prophet 2902

“If you don’t know where you are going any road can take you there.” —Alice in Wonderland. Choose the road of excellence! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town 113J

“Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.”  —Lindsey Vonn. Cattle designed with the end in mind have the

Actual ultrasound at 442 days of age. Top 2% $B, $C, and Marbling! Nice trend! Selling 100%

and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Clutch 5069

Actual ultrasound at 445 days of age. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” ― Thomas A. Edison. Our failed plans lead to new ones that help us learn and get better! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Kansas N5023

Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat! Dr. Bob Smith, Dr. Randall Spare, Jerome Tang, K-State Men’s Basketball coach, Tom Jones, HPFY, and Mark Gardiner at the BQA workshop at Hy-Plains Feedyard.

G A R Kansas J3140

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G A R Sunbeam 812G

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Prophet 18974786 Chair Rock Prophet 3071 Chair Rock 5050 G A R 1131

Sweet pedigree! Genetic predictions that make money! Single digit Method Indices! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Kansas TA063

Actual ultrasound at 500 days of age. “Lost time is never found again.” —Ben Franklin. We only get so many matings in our life breeding count. All traits matter, and every mating counts! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Incentive 73W

There is never a one size fits all recipe for success, but there is a diligent pursuit of purpose to be the most successful on the most traits for the majority of producers. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Sunbeam W273

G A R Incentive TA273

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G A R Incentive TA153

G A R Paragon J3129

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.” We know we will never “arrive” but we will have a blast on our journey trying to! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Incentive 443J

We only get so many chances to make good decisions in our cattle

J3129 would be a good choice. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Paragon J3158

“Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise.”

G A R Incentive TA323

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” —Abe Lincoln. We are happy we get to be in this business!

G A R Bonfire 33M

G A R Dual Threat E93

G A R Dual Threat V03

The sires that make up the pedigree for E93 are the bulls that have allowed our family and many others to stay in this business. We are pleased with what these cattle have done for the industry! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat E413

I have been asked “how many more Dual Threats will you have?” He is winding down as his sons Dual Force and Apex replace him. Dual Threat has brought calving ease, growth, function, great feet with durability and genetic excellence for the traits of significance. Yes, DT may not have the “rear flank depth” to win Denver, but these traits help him win the range, feedyard, and rail with profitable cattle! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Freedom N5033

Dual Threat is a sire that is elite in the population for Marbling and Muscle. He is also notable for his excellent growth, agility, feet and progeny that are adept at living! Dual Threat has made a difference for many. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat N5423

When you consider what makes money in the business of beef N5033 is dominant! Note his ROI of 320! Incredible $B, $C, & MPI with top 1% YW! Boo yah!! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Freedom W193

Birth Date: 1/8/23

G A R Freedom 23G

G A R Proactive

G A R Freedom

G A R Daybreak 1521

G A R Fruition 19404851 RWA Fruition W2025

G A R Daybreak 2610

G A R Ashland

G A R Home Town Chair Rock Sure Fire 6095 Ogeechee Home Town 29B G A R Sure Fire 20008097 Ogeechee Sure Fire 737 Bridges Ten X 4109

G A R Freedom 492G

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 444 days of age. You are a Daisey if you do select this elite Freedom son! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Freedom N5383

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 556 days of age. “The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.” ―Paulo Coelho. 492G is and example of what we can have with calving ease, marbling, muscle and growth! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Grass Roots N5153

As long as we are learning, we are living. We continue to learn with each stack of genetics what the next generation is able to achieve! Selling 100% possession

G A R Freedom N5313

The Retained Ownership Income Index is a complete production system approach from conception through carcass end-point. This index ties reproduction, calving ease, maternal genetic merit and growth throughout the animal’s lifetime, and the quality based carcass merit in an Angus based herd. This is a “Profit” index, and why we select elite ROI females to use as donors. N5153 ranks in the top 2% of the Method Genetics Database for ROI! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

Grass Roots

G A R Grass Roots N5053

G A R Breakthrough T3032

A R Method N1038

G A R All In N416

Sensational bull for Maternal Production Index. Calving ease, growth, muscle, = the “M” word… multi-trait excellence! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

Jack Wilder Gardiner celebrates his FIRST BIRTHDAY!

G A R Incentive 153J

G A R Incentive E463

“You do not find the happy life. You make it.” — Camilla Eyring Kimball. Make your business happier by choosing this elite Incentive son! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Incentive E513

sion and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Incentive TA033

Don’t be boxed in with constrictions that others place on us, use these genetics to achieve goals that in the past were viewed as unattainable. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Incentive TA103

In the age of constant acceleration often there is nothing as fast as slowing down. Pragmatic genetic decisions pay dividends for the future. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2

G A R Sunbeam E133

G A R Sunbeam 842G

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Deer Valley All In 19707686 Hillside All In T88 Hillside Complete 1115

Great pedigree for cattle that do well on grass, wheat or at the feedlot. Top 15% RADG. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R K263 Prophet G3135

G A R Kansas J3135

Amazing ROI=outstanding cattle! Note the single digit index rankings. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Kansas N5013

people even more! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Kansas TA073

“Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.” —Robert H. Schuller. Henry Gardiner and Roy Wallace would marvel about the Angus genetics of today. These cattle were not deemed possible a few short years ago. Breed improvement marches on! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free E243

G A R Home Free E193

G A R Home Free

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” —Dr. Seuss. Let E193 take you in the right direction! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free 143J

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1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free K613

G A R Home Free N5183

G A R Home Town N5753

G A R Home Town G3445

Birth Date: 2/28/23

GB Now Look 56 Hpca 5050 4202

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” —Mae West. G3445 is a special bull that will help you do it right! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town J3161

Birth Date: 3/13/23 Bull +20751516 Tattoo: J3161

G A R Home Town G3446

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R 28 Ambush N340

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town T123

We love to awaken to the possibilities of beef cattle excellence. We are so fortunate that these ruminant animals can take cellulose that humans can’t consume and convert it to the best tasting protein in the world! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town T433

“Not all who wander are

—Alice in Wonderland. Designed genetics help you achieve your plan. Selling 100% possession and retaining

G A R Home Town U2109

G A R Home Town G3449

Birth Date: 2/28/23

+20813706 Tattoo: G3449

G A R Home Town E113

G A R Ashland

G A R Home Town G

R Sure Fire 19266718 Chair Rock Sure Fire 6095

Fireball 672

Anticipation 432 Goode Fireball 9067 G A R 100X 19697192 Goode 100X 6381

G A R Daybreak 842

Don’t be afraid to challenge your cowherd and yourself to get better. We hope to work on this every day of the year. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town G3452

Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town U2151

Agriculture is a purpose driven life that we are fortunate to

Cattle are the most enjoyable ruminant animal in all of Ag. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town R513

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 472 days of age. Taking action to

G A R Home Town T2292

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G A R Home Town N5623

G A R Home Town MW83

Full steam ahead, look to the future for all that you are able to achieve! Elite RE! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town N5003

“Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift

—Leo Buscaglia We are so thankful for this gift to do what we love! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Hometown

G A R Home Town U291

G A R Transcendent 193B

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G A R Transcendent AG772

G A R Transcendent G3457

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Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 509 days of age. “If there is no wind, row.” ―Latin Proverb. Let’s keep paddling our boats towards our goals! Amazing calving ease and marbling! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent N5333

Birth Date: 2/3/23

“Great moments are born from great opportunities.” —Herb Brooks. We have such amazing opportunity with these cattle! Top 1% Marbling allows your cattle to help you pay more bills. It allows our industry the “taste” to build demand for Beef! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent N5433

“If

G A R Transcendent G3144

As we strive, stumble, and go forward, we realize that this is all part of the process. N5433 offers unique value that we were told ten years ago wasn’t possible. That is progress!

G A R Transcendent 103B

G A R Transcendent 213B

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G A R Daybreak N542

“Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.” —Walt Disney. We believe diligent selection of the best bulls of the Angus breed will lead to cattle that have a greater chance at profitability! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent 3970

G A R Transcendent MW73

4 Sons/Gabriel Patricia 2H93 Connealy Confidence Plus 19909885 Woodhill Patricia A213-E127 Woodhill Patricia W185-A213

Driving towards goals of cattle breeding is the freedom to learn what works. What a great adventure it is to seek the most successful genetics! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent K513

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 474 days of age. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” —Henry David Thoreau. 3970 will take you towards your dreams! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent G3455

Birth Date: 2/27/23

“Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” ―Anne Lamott. Let’s dance with this elite calving ease Transcendent son that will bring mouth watering beef to our consumers! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent B301

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G A R Transcendent AG752

G A R Transcendent

G A R Proactive

Proactive A826

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G A R Daybreak 2842

G A R Prophet

G A R Daybreak 1521

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Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 513 days of age. Be bullish in your desire about making cattle better. We have never had more or better tools. The economic signals are clear and real! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent T833

G A R transcendent 153G

Actual ultrasound at 448 days of age. If life were predictable it wouldn’t be life, but genetic predictions help us become more likely to be able to achieve our targets! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent V52

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re

G A R Transcendent K503

G A R Transcendent G3466

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G A R Transcendent A1142

G A R Transcendent E503

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Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 535 days of age. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” —Rabindranath Tagore. Let’s row our boat towards the traits that make us money! Top 1% Marbling. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent R573

Birth Date: 2/9/23

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 451 days of age. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James. Top 1% Retained Ownership Income Index! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Fireball 303J

Use R573 as a candidate to use on your virgin heifers to sire valuable steers and females with amazing marbling genetics! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent 30M

“The only one who can tell you ‘you can’t win’ is you, and you don’t have to listen.” —Jessica Ennis. You can win in the beef business with the elite marbling and growth of a bull like 303J! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Fireball G3114

Our goal to make beef better is a message to ourselves reminding us to stay focused on every aspect of beef production. From selecting elite donors each year, designing matings, maximizing our forage resources to more efficiently add quality pounds, feeding and processing through U.S. Premium Beef—every decision we make is intentional to make beef better from birth to beef.

Today, we bid, buy and feed several thousand head of home-raised and customer cattle. The performance of each group is documented. The steers are fed and finished in some of the finest, most professional cattle feeding operations in the country. It’s important to note that, with every purchase or, in the case of our home-raised steers, their heifer mates become replacements in their respective cow herds.

The feedlot relationships we rely on to manage elite genetics have been built over two

generations. These professional cattle feeders understand the nutritional requirements of elite, higher performing Angus feeder cattle.

Early in the summer, we took delivery on a group of 300 steers weighing 600 pounds. The steers were purchased from a longtime GAR customer, Joe Howard and Bobbie Williamson, Wichita Falls, Texas.

The steers were worked and turned out in a large

GAR pasture of native grass to do what they do best—convert cellulose to beef… ALMOST FREE!

November 21, the steers were gathered in the pasture, loaded on trucks, and delivered to Shaw Feedyard. Within an hour after arriving the steers were moved to a dry pen with a full bunk of rations designed to maximize their genetic potential to gain four pounds or more per day.

Joe Howard & Bobbie Williamson Switch House Ranch steers unloaded at Shaw Feedyard 11/21/23

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The steers will be marketed on the U.S. Premium Beef grid and delivered to National Beef in the Spring of 2024.

Joe Howard & Bobbie Williamson, Switch House Ranch, have used Gardiner Angus Ranch bulls for decades. We have purchased and fed these cattle for many years.

CARCASS PERFORMANCE ON WILLIAMSON STEERS & HEIFERS PROCESSED IN 2023

The genetic progress in Williamson’s Switch House Ranch begins with their selection of bulls with upper percentile rankings for all the traits of economic importance, from calving ease to end product value. Heifer mates to the steers are retained as replacements.

The steers were harvested in five groups from late April to early June 2024 at National Beef, Dodge City, Kansas. Average of the entire groups’ feedlot and carcass performance is listed below. SWITCH HOUSE STEERS FEEDLOT RESULTS

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G A R Fireball G3427

R Sure Fire 20092975 Goode Sure FIre 7853 Goode Sunrise 5670

“Remember you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine.” ―Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. G3427 will bring your cowherd sunshine with exceptional genetic merit! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Fireball T703

G A R Deadwood V33

“A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” ―Sonia Sotomayor. American Agriculture specializes in effort, just like this great Fireball son specializes in multi-trait excellence! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Ares 5231

G A R Deadwood 5088

G A R Cisco T1913

Birth Date: 1/27/23

G A R Cisco T1953

G A R Anticipation N6157

RCC Cisco L1829

RCC Sure Fire L977

G A R Proactive

RCC Proactive L1009

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G A R All In F215

G A R Prophet

G A R Daybreak 1521

G A R Momentum 19813613 RCC Momentum L587

G A R Daybreak 842

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman. Amazing marbling top 2% RE, top 25% YW. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Cisco T363

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson. We believe that the well established path of using data, logic, and common sense is the best way to go forward in our business and all business. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R McClintok T53

Breeding cattle of excellence is a decision requires discipline applied for decades. We are thankful for the opportunity to be disciplined. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Ultra 5589

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” —Paulo Coelho. We

G A R Iconic J3119

G A R Wildcat 43B

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G A R Dual Force 325L

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G A R Prophet 19537989 G A R Prophet 374 G A R Daybreak 1201

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 443 days of age. One of the highest Retained Ownership Income bulls of the entire sale. That means VALUE! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Wildcat J3171

Birth Date: 3/4/23

“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” —Unknown. 325L will make you thankful due to his amazing calves of value. Have it all genetics of the very highest caliber! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Force P563

G A R Breakthrough T1963

G A R Dual Force E53

G A R Dual Threat K663

G A R Dual Threat 113G

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” —Colin Powell. As a cattle breeder my greatest lessons were in the mistakes I have made. K663 will help you limit your failures. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat E163

Actual ultrasound at 445 days of age. Keep your vision and trust the process. These systems of genetic selection work so well to create cattle of value, who in turn give you a greater chance at profitability! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat J3167

“People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” —Unknown. I like that, let’s replenish our genetics with the next

G A R Dual Threat TA303

G A R Holy Fire 303L

G A R Freedom 314L

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G A R Grass Roots N5163

“When we get to the end of the story, you will know more than you do now.” —Hans Christian Anderson. Let’s pursue the end of our story with the conviction of making better cattle! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Freedom E373

Birth Date: 3/14/23 Bull +20687901

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” —John D. Rockefeller Jr. Use discipline and genetics to achieve your goals uncommonly well! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Greater Good TA133

Throughout Angus history, when we identify populations of cattle that will defy the correlated traits, this has proven to be true opportunity. Top 4% CED, top 5% YW. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Freedom N5653

Birth Date: 2/3/23 Bull

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on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.” ―Sheryl Sandberg. TA133 possesses the growth traits to “rocket”

G A R Home Free E203

Birth Date: 1/2/23

G A R Home Free 63B

G A R Home Free 143G

G A R Ashland

G A R Home Free

G A R Home Town

G A R Momentum 19862808 G A R Momentum F266

G A R Daybreak 342

G A R Progress

G A R Momentum

G A R Big Eye 1770 Ogeechee Momentum 812

G A R Prophet 19479632 Ogeechee Prophet 5035

G A R Daybreak A3010

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 450 days of age. “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” ―Vincent Van Gogh. One day at a time we all work to improve. Top percentile MPI with top 10% YW! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free E633

Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town J3813

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” —Vince Lombardi. Pursue the very best! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Free E263

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 451 days of age. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” ―Albert Einstein. The Starbuck fire was actually one of the great blessings in my life. Seeing so many of God’s people rushing to help our community! Special bull for CED, Marbling and the indices of merit. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

A R Home Town K523

G A R Home Town J3041

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Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 429 days of age. “Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” ―Unknown. I truly believe there are no limits to what we can achieve as we continue to refine and redefine beef cattle improvement! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town 123G

Bottom 10% for stature with calving ease and marbling that will allow so much flexibility! Time tested pedigree that will fit most environments. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town U2106

Actual ultrasound at 447 days of age. “It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.” — Queen Elizabeth II. One day at a time work to get better. Herb Brooks drilled the U.S. Hockey team over and over on their “straight lines” to be the best that they could be. One step at a time, one good decision at a time and you will succeed! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

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G A R Incentive E603

G A R Incentive E393

Amazing prospect to use on your heifers with fantastic growth, marbling, RE and MPI! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Incentive N5133

“The only limits you have are the limits you believe.” —Wayne Dyer. The only limits we have is what we place on ourselves. Set the goal and go after it! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Veracious 390L

“You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” ―Martin Luther King Jr.. This cool Incentive son has all the goodies needed for success. CED, Marbling, Muscle, RE, growth! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Incentive E593

G A R Cisco T1883

Birth Date: 2/5/23

G A R Paragon J3053

G A R Combustion

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G A R Momentum 1724

G A R Early Bird 19719477 G A R Early Bird N985

G A R Ingenuity

G A R Ingenuity 3132

G A R Complete N281

G A R New Design 5050

G A R Objective 1067

B/ R Ambush 28 17353925

G A R 28 Ambush N340

G A R Predestined 2786

Actual ultrasound at 416 days of age. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt. No doubt, we go forward! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Paragon J3046

Birth Date: 1/31/23

Actual ultrasound at 445 days of age. Don’t listen to all of the chatter of the Social Media experts. Put your boots on, go to work, observe what works & multiply the ones that excel! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Freedom E383

Actual ultrasound at 421 days of age. Truly special bull for muscle. This half brother to G A R Sunbeam will be valuable siring cattle that excel for so many traits of merit. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Supersonic 321L

“Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.” ―“Unwritten,” Natasha Bedingfield. Let’s write our story today to make things better for our cowherd and family! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Grass Roots E573

G A R Dual Force E363

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Dual Force is a sire that has elevated Angus genetics to a new level of Ribeye. RE/ CWT is so important to keep cattle out of the yield grade 4 category. E363 is a elite bull for growth and RE! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Force E683

G A R Home Town E123

“Life is trying things to see if they work.” —Ray Bradbury. We believe that Henry Gardiner’s playbook works extremely well! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Dual Threat J3170

G A R Home Town E423

G A R Home Town 23W

G A R Buster 329L

G A R Daybreak 792

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“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” —Steve Jobs. The vision of Henry Gardiner, Roy Wallace and John Crouch has helped pull us to where we are today! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Home Town E493

“Always be careful when you follow the masses. Sometimes the “m” is silent.” ―Unknown. That quote makes me smile. We are thankful so many of our customers are such great people. Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Deadwood P513

“Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.” —Isabel Allende. E493 will give his a greater chance to show up for more value! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Kansas 113

G A R Fireball M3204

G A R Fireball T1713

G A R Ingenuity 18463550 RCC Ingenuity R8663 Goode Big Eye 0242

“The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why.” ―Mark Twain. Let’s purposely pursue the “why!” Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Incentive E583

Birth Date: 3/25/23

G A R Incentive N5503

G A R Sunbeam E73

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” —Mark Twain. Elite bull for $B, $C, and QPI. Cool pedigree bringing the best together of elite sires Incentive x Home Town! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Incentive E143

G A R Sunbeam E183

G A R Transcendent T983

G A R Early Bird N915

G A R 28 Ambush 3051

“It’s not about having enough time, it’s about making enough time.” ―Rachael Bermingham. Let’s make time for our family, our work, and to enjoy a steak from the progeny of T983! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent E673

G A R Transcendent E653

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” —Jim Rohn. We are thankful for our formal education, and even more thankful for our “skin in the game” education! Elite marbling genetics as expected with this Transcendent son! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent T183

Transcendent is one of the great sires in our family’s history. I relish the 43 years as I remember all of the sires and dam’s in the pedigree, back to the PBC F0203 cow #51 born in 1981. The sires in this march to excellence were: F0203, Scotch Cap, Ext, Precision, Rito 6i6, New Design 1407, New Design 5050, Daybreak, Prophet, and Momentum. The famous brands of the cows were 867, 2536, 201, 2842 & 2685. Quite a journey! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” ―Robin Williams. Dr. Richard Willham’s amazing brain charted the course for the best linear unbiased prediction that changed our industry. His work is carried on today by his students including in my opinion his very best student… Dr. Sally Northcutt. Our family and industry says THANK YOU BOTH! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest

G A R Transcendent 3B

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 450 days of age. “Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.” ―Unknown. We and you aren’t close to being “done.” Let’s go! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent 63G

G A R Transcendent 121

G A R Transcendent E443

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“It might not be easy, but it’ll be worth it.” ―Unknown. Very true for business, work, and life. This journey is a blast isn’t it? Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent AG782

Transcendent cattle excel for so many traits of merit. Are you a pleasure seeker or a profit seeker? Life is more pleasurable when you are able to be profitable. E443 is a good candidate to help your bottom-line! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent 3G

Actual hip height, scrotal and ultrasound at 495 days of age. Modest

G A R Transcendent R563

G A R Transcendent T593

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G A R Transcendent E523

G A R K263 Prophet G3128

Transcendent is the #1 proven bull in the Angus Breed for Marbling. They make outstanding females that replicate the process in range/forage environments. Top 3% MPI with top 1% QPI and ROI!! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Transcendent T903

Whoa Nellie! Look at the CED and Marbling on G3128! Elite MPI with top 1% QPI & ROI. We have found that the better the ROI ranking the greater the opportunity there is for value for everyone in the Beef value chain! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Salvation P583

Go for the gold with T903’s amazing marbling. Breed your heifers, calve easily, grow like crazy to the end point, hang up a Prime Carcass on the offspring. The heifers you choose to breed will be multi-trait specialist for the traits of economic value! Selling 100% possession and retaining 1/2 revenue sharing and semen interest.

G A R Wildcat 113B

Birth Date: 1/6/23

The American Angus Association®; National Beef Packing Co., LLC; IMI Global; and U.S. Premium Beef, LLC announces new grid premiums based on genetic merit data.

The first load of steers selling with AngusLink GMS Scorecard on the grid were harvested 8/14/24.

50.16% Graded Prime

97.22% Graded Choice or Higher Earned $221.49 per head premium

QUALIFIED FOR $5 PER HEAD GMS PREMIUM!

SUPERIOR’S WEEK IN THE ROCKIES SALE • JULY 8-12

613 Head of GAR-Influenced steers and heifers sold with GENETIC MERIT Scorecard.

613 Head • 617 lb. avg wt. • Sold for $294.63/cwt avg. WILL QUALIFY FOR $5 PER HEAD PREMIUM!

For the first time, cattlemen can earn grid premiums based on the genetic merit of their cattle, stemming from their investment in superior genetics. National Beef Packing Co., LLC (NBP) announces the addition of new premiums on their U.S. Premium Beef, LLC (USPB) grid for qualified cattle based on their AngusLinkSM Genetic Merit ScorecardSM (GMS). AngusLinkSM value-added programs are administered by the American Angus Association in partnership with IMI Global.

Effective for cattle harvested Aug. 5, a grid premium of $5 per head will be paid for cattle with a Beef Score of 100 or greater on the AngusLinkSM GMS. This will be exclusively available for cattle marketed through USPB and delivered to NBP plant locations in Liberal and Dodge City, Kansas.

On Dec. 1, a second grid premium, $10 per head for cattle with a GMS Beef Score of 150 or greater, will take effect. Those scoring 100149 will continue to receive the $5/head premium. These premiums will be in addition to all other premiums and discounts available based on grading and carcass performance.

“National Beef is pleased to offer U.S. Premium Beef members this grid premium and new program in cooperation with the American Angus Association,” said Chad Barker, vice president of cattle procurement with NBP. “We’re excited to be adding another chapter to our history of creating innovative ways to reward producers for high-quality cattle.”

GAR Commercial Females

This offering of 552 GAR-Influenced bred cows and heifers represent both volume and value. Group 1 is a group of AI bred cows. Groups 1 through 51 cows and heifers are AI bred to elite GAR sires. Groups 52 through 56 heifers are bull bred to five Home Town sons. The females sell with complete Method Genetics EPDs and Indexes. As always, the winning bidder can select the groups he or she would like, taking one group or more groups within a category. The bidder is bidding on the group.

The beef business is good and the forecast for the future is exciting. Our commercial cow-calf

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customers are using GAR genetics and Method test results with extraordinary success regardless of their chosen end-point. We often talk about the importance of producing “a pound of gold” rather than “a pound of lead.” Our customers agree.

This volume offering of genetically superior commercial females is unique in the beef business and truly a buyer’s opportunity.

Remember, freight is on us as we will deliver these heifers free of charge just like the registered cattle.

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Service Sires of Bull Bred Heifers • Groups 52-56

G A R Home Town 81E

G A R Home Town J1008

G A R Home Town E21

G A R Home Town 111B

G A R Home Town E871

The Method Advantage

Method Genetics Benefits for Commercial Producers

You buy good bulls with key genetic values for herd improvement. You know that EPDs are a selection tool to assist in focusing your production goals. You target an industry-focused high quality carcass value as part of your breeding goals.

Yet, when it comes to the cow herd and replacement heifer choices or selection strategies, the access to commercial genetic selection tools aligned with your goals and in the language of our industry (EPDs, indexes) is limited.

Method Genetics® results may just be what you need. In nearly six years (that’s about a generation interval in a commercial cow calf operation), Method customers in over 20 states now have access to EPDs and index values for their females to fine tune their selection strategies. This is a progressive step beyond just placing genetic pressure on the sire side of the equation.

What is the goal of Method Genetics?

Method Genetics provides a flexible, analytical opportunity for Angus-based cattle producers by using DNA technology and incorporating it into a genetic evaluation system.

Who is the target audience of Method?

Method selection tools are geared toward commercial Angus cow herds interested in characterizing potential replacement heifers and foundation females.

Why is Method Genetics different?

Established in 2014, Method Genetics LLC provides genetic selection tools and decision-making assistance related to commercial cattle production. Through the Method single-step multi-trait genetic evaluation, commercial cow-calf operators can access EPDs and indexes on their cow herd for use in genetic selection. DNA technology makes this selection advantage available to commercial herds, large and small, that in the past could only use EPDs in sire selection.

How do I use Method Genetics results?

Method results are typically used to rank replacement females for selection and culling. Producers review Method results when purchasing potential herd sires and use the Method rankings to match their herd goals. Emphasis is placed on the Method indexes for maternal, growth, and retained ownership.

How do I begin participating in Method Genetics?

Most producers begin by collecting DNA samples for genotyping. Blood cards and tissue sampling units are acceptable. There are no enrollment fees. Many producers have historical data from their herds (weaning weights, carcass data) that they have not ever really been able to fully utilize to aide in selection for their herds. This information can also

be incorporated into the genetic evaluation to give producers even more informative selection tools.

How are Method indexes (MPI, QPI, and ROI) computed?

Your genotyping results on tested animals go through our complete genetic evaluation that generates key Method Genetics EPDs and indexes. Method has a database of performance trait records, pedigrees, and DNA genotypes used in a single-step genetic evaluation to derive EPDs for use in the Method indexes. Method does not use breed organization EPDs are part of this process. Because of what we know about EPDs and their derivation, Method results are comparable to other Method results, but they are not comparable to breed organization EPDs.

Can this testing identify parentage?

Method Genetics has a large database of AI and natural service sires for use in sire assignment. Participants with tested females on file have the opportunity to generate pedigrees from this parentage benefit, adding increase accuracy to their Method results. Parentage work is included in the Method DNA testing at no cost.

What details are needed on commercial Angus samples for DNA testing?

Samples are sent directly to Method Genetics personnel. The minimum inputs needed for commercial cattle DNA samples are a unique herd ID, approximate age, and gender for each sample. We can incorporate any pedigree you know, also.

What is Method ROI that I keep hearing about and seeing in catalogs?

Cattle producers interested in a complete production system approach from conception through carcass end-point would typically use the Retained Ownership Income (ROI) index as a tool. ROI ties together reproduction, calving ease, maternal genetic merit, growth throughout the calf’s lifetime, and quality-based carcass merit in an Angus-based herd. The ROI is reported in dollars per calf produced in the herd, and it consolidates the sub-indexes of MPI and QPI.

What results are received after testing is completed?

Most producers receive the Method EPDs for calving ease, carcass traits, and docility. Of primary interest are the three Method Genetic index (MPI, QPI, ROI) solutions that accompany the EPDs. Results are returned in a sortable spreadsheet for use at the operation in breeding, selection and culling decisions.

How do my Method results compare to cow herds with similar goals?

Method customers receive summary statistics to compare their herd results to a database of similar commercial cow herds with goals focused on maternal and retained ownership traits for a high-quality carcass product. This benchmark data helps Method customers characterize and understand where their current herd’s genetic level is and provides specific selection direction to reach goals for consistent, high-quality production of USDA Prime and Premium Choice product.

What is the Method Genetics Marketing Advantage?

Beyond the use of Method results for selection decisions by a commercial cow-calf producer, this information has become a reliable means to characterize the genetic merit of replacement females, providing confidence for buyers purchasing replacements. Selecting commercial replacement females with the Method Genetics results allow a producer to jump-start their program with known genetics based on a proven track record.

MPI: Maternal Production

QPI: Quality Pounds

ROI: Retained Ownership Income

Where do the percentile ranks on young sires and AI sires seen in catalogs come from?

Method has seedstock participants using the Method Prime test and they receive more detailed EPDs and percentiles based upon the Method Genetic population. They have made a commitment to their customers using the Method Genetics system by testing and providing the Method indexes on the bulls they offer. The bulls they sell provide a great opportunity as they have Method EPDs and indexes which are comparable to other Method Genetics-generated solutions, regardless of the testing points.

How do I choose a level of testing at Method?

Most commercial Angus herds go with the Method Choice ($35). Method Prime runs $45 as of today and is used mostly by seedstock participants. What age do I pull DNA samples on my animals?

DNA samples can be collected at any age. Advanced customers in the Method system have begun to use tissue sampling units on calves after birth. We encourage customers to conservatively approach testing and focus on the newest generations of their cattle.

I am already testing with Method Genetics, so how can I learn more about my cattle?

If details are provided from the customer, we use existing pedigree information (for example on registered Angus bulls owned or AI sires being used or females of known genetics) to fill in relationship gaps, as well as incorporating this pedigree information into the genetic evaluation tools created. From a performance record standpoint, we can also incorporate these data (contemporary group weaning weights for example) into a genetic evaluation and key EPDs and index values include this information.

Do Method Genetics results ever change?

We continue to add performance records, pedigree, and genotypes to the Method genetic evaluation. An EPD is a prediction of an animal’s true genetic merit that has an associated possible change, or standard error of prediction. EPDs are not static values and can change as more is information is incorporated into the system from one evaluation to the next. Customers actively participating in the Method Genetics program can request cow herd updates as needed to better prepare for bull selection and breeding herd management.

How can I learn more about Method Genetics benefits?

Method Genetics, LLC provides genetic selection tools that enhance decision making for commercial Angus cow-calf producers. Using genetic evaluation methodology with performance records, pedigree, and genomic information, Method Genetics® indexes provide customized solutions to assist producers in capturing and implementing genetic values into their individual breeding programs. For more information, contact Bill Bowman (bbowman@ methodgenetics.com 816-752-0079) or Dr. Sally Northcutt (snorthcutt@methodgenetics.com 816-244-0969). General information is available on www.methodgenetics.com or follow us on Facebook.

Method Genetics® Choice Solutions

THE FALL 2024 REGISTERED FEMALES THAT SELL

We are pleased to offer 106 registered Angus females in our 20th Annual Fall Sale. These are elite and offer our most current genetics at GAR. We will begin the female portion of the sale with a special donor opportunity. GAR Transcendent K133 is a tremendous Transcendent daughter out of an outstanding Home Town donor, carrying a GAR Powercat calf. We often talk about stacking generations of pedigrees to identify the outliers and ultimate replacements for

GAR BRED HEIFERS

This is where our most “current” genetics are located. The outstanding average values and %ranks in this group (see table) represent the “balanced” genetic superiority of the 54 heifers to be sold. These heifers rank in the Top 5% for $C & top 4% for $B. They rank an impressive top 10% for ROI.

If you are looking for a future donor to use after these heifers calve next spring, there are lots of prospects here. Donor prospects are easy to identify in this bred heifer sale offering.

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FALL BRED HEIFER AVERAGE EPDS, $VALUES & ROI

legendary sires.

A majority of the females in the offering are sired by Home Town, Transcendent, Dual Threat and Home Free. Bred heifers and cows will be sold individually. These young females are bred to the next generation of super stars, GAR Fireproof, GAR Powercat, GAR Home Free and GAR Transcendent. As special as these females are, their calves will be even more valuable!

GAR BRED COWS

This is a select group of young cows. Despite being a generation older, the average EPDs, $Values and ROI of the bred cow group are very similar to those of the bred heifer group (see table). The value of the bred, registered cows and their pregnancies is enhanced when you notice that most of the cows in this group are bred to our best young sires: Transcendent, Fireproof, Powercat and Home Run.

LOT 576 • GAR Transcendent K133

G A R Transcendent K133

Transcendent and Home Town have been transformational sires for our family. We are so thankful for these genetics that allow the beef business to design the food the world desires. K133 displays true multi-trait excellence. Henry Gardiner-101.

LOT 577 • GAR Home Town K113

G A R Home Town K113

Enjoy all of the benefits of Angus cattle with K113. Amazing genetics for so many traits. FSH needed?

LOT 578 • GAR Dual Force B336

G A R Dual Force B336

Outcross pedigree on this elite Dual Force daughter. Identified 781S is one of the all time high valued donors in our history. B336 offers magnificent possibilities with her genetic predictions!

Elite outcross Dual Force daughter!

G A R Home Town K3

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20051726 G A R Absolute N1526

G A R Sunbeam F143

G A R Early Bird

G A R Daybreak 342

Bred 4/30/2024 to G A R Transcendent. Embryo sexed as a heifer. We are so thankful for the many attributes of Home Town cattle. Goldilocks genetics that are truly “John Grimes eye appealing” with the traits of merit that make money. K3 is a cool female that puts so many attributes together so well.

G A R Home Free F93

Bred 6/6/2024 to G A R Fireproof. G A R Sunbeam might be the best kept secret among the sires from Gardiner Angus Ranch. He brings the magnificent attributes of his sire in a better package with the genetics of his 12 year old mother who is still serving as a donor for Maplecrest Farms and is still competitive with her genetic predictions. F143 puts all of this together in wonderful fashion!

G A R Sunbeam K73

Bred 4/29/2024 to G A R Fireproof. Check out F93’s elite ROI of 309, top 1%! The ROI Index is the greatest tool we have that is correlated with profitability! We love the moderation of the Home Free cattle with their calving ease, marbling and muscle. These modest sized cattle have tremendous value to their composition!

USPB DELIVERY RIGHTS

Many of our customers realize the value of access to GAR USPB delivery rights. Today, the demand exceeds our supply. Due to the increased demand, we are requiring prior authorization. If you are a GAR customer, retaining ownership, and would like to use GAR delivery rights, please contact Mark Gardiner (620) 635-5095 for prior authorization.

From 1998 through 2023, GAR customers marketed 140,000 head through U.S. Premium Beef, earning an average of $101.82 per head above the base price, totaling $14,254,840

G A R Sunbeam N413

586

G A R Freedom N383

Bred 5/1/2024 to G A R Transcendent. Embryo sexed as a bull. We truly enjoy the Sunbeam cattle. They have the versatility to hit so many targets. Elite female for QPI, Marbling, Muscle and growth!

G A R Freedom N213

G A R Freedom N443

Bred 5/2/2024 to G A R Fireproof. Embryo sexed as a bull. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” —Marilyn Monroe. N443’s genetics make me smile!

G A R Freedom N273

G A R Freedom F373

Bred 5/2/2024 to G A R Powercat. Embryo sexed as a heifer. The name Powercat was saved for a very special bull that resembled what we know of our Alma Mater. Excellence, perseverance, dedication, effort, humility, and accessible to all… that is the Land Grant mission of Kansas State University. G A R Powercat wears this name so very well! The heifer out of F373 will carry the banner high!

G A R Freedom N503

A R Dual Force F153

G A R Dual Force F463

A R Dual Force

G A R Dual Force F363

598

G A R Incentive F13

G A R Dual Force F43

599

G A R Incentive F173

Bred 5/24/2024 to G A R Powercat. Embryo

G A R Incentive F433

Bred 5/21/2024 to G A R Powercat. Embryo sexed as a heifer. The phenotype crowd (me included, as I appreciate good looking cattle) will love the Powercat offspring! Many astute livestock judges have approved of his special “look!”

G A R Incentive F73

G A R Incentive F593

604

G A R Grass Roots F33

Bred 5/23/2024 to G A R Powercat. Embryo sexed as a bull. Whoa! Look at the

G A R Grass Roots N173

605

Bred 4/29/2024 to G A R Transcendent. Embryo sexed as a heifer. When you think of the goodies that make beef cattle the special ruminant animals that they are… taste of Beef rises to the top of what our consumers desire. F33 will elevate any program with her multi-trait excellence!

G A R Grass Roots N223

Bred 4/30/2024 to G A R Home Run. Embryo sexed as a heifer. I often think we are

G A R Grass Roots F323

Bred 6/22/2024 to G A R Powercat. Breed

Grass Roots

606

G A R Grass Roots F23

G A R Transcendent F393

Bred 6/25/2024 to G A R Powercat. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” —Willie Nelson. You know Willie is correct! F23 has amazing possibilities with her top percentile excellence!

Goode-RCC Transcendent 3104

Bred 5/1/2024 to G A R Powercat. Embryo sexed as a heifer. These genetics will allow the industry to have more Prime Beef. As Henry said in 1998, soon we will have cattle that grade Prime at the level we have achieving CAB now (1998). That has happened. We now say soon we will see cattle hitting greater than 50% Prime (our clients today are at 50%) we will turn vegetarians into beef advocates and consumers!

G A R Dual Threat K23

Goode-RCC Transcendent 3106

G A R Dual Threat F333

612

G A R Dual Threat N103

616

G A R Kansas N13

Bred 4/30/2024 to G A R Transcendent. Embryo sexed as a bull. Cattle are sold by the pound, yet the pounds are worth significantly more when they are Prime. The Transcendent bull on the way will have great marbling genetics!

G A R Dual Threat N293

617

work hard towards our goals in this business. This is a choice that we are fortunate to have!

G A R Kansas N233

A R Dual Threat F123

G A R Home Town K53

618

G A R Home Free N523

622

G A R Home Free F03

Bred 4/28/2024 to G A R Fireproof. Embryo sexed as a bull. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.” —Dr. Suess. N523 will help you live in the moment with elite beef cattle genetics to make tomorrow even better!

G A R Home Free F263

G A R Home Free F213

623

Bred 4/29/2024 to G A R Powercat. Embryo sexed as a heifer. Oh my! Look at the

A R Home Free N393

G A R Home Town F513

G A R Home Free K123

627

Bred 4/30/2024 to G A R Powercat. Embryo sexed as a bull. “That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.” —Abe Lincoln. We will never reach our goal of “success,” but we will keep trying!

G A R Home Free F253

628

Bred 4/30/2024 to G A R Transcendent. Top 1% Ribeye. Muscle helps cattle meet the RE/CWT required for better Yield Grades on the rail.

Bred 6/10/2024 to B&B Preeminent. If we get involved with skin in the game, we understand the rules of the game so much better. The skin (and abrasions) have been a great joy in our journey.

629

Bred 5/24/2024 to G A R Transcendent. Embryo sexed as a bull. Cool package for moderate sized cattle. Top 10% CED, marbling, RE, with top 25% YW, AND breed average for Yearling Height! Life is short, embrace multi-trait excellence!

A R Home Free N123

G A R Dual Threat 2622

G A R Dual Threat 1582

631

Bred 6/24/2024 to G A R Transcendent. Actual ultrasound at 315 days of age. Amazing power for 2622. Elite female for marbling, muscle, growth, $B and $C.

Bred 4/29/2024 to G A R Powercat. Embryo sexed as a heifer. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln. 1582 will bring your Beef cattle dreams to life!

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE VALUE OF YOUTH

The value of this select group of young registered cows and their pregnancies are enhanced when one recognizes the females are bred to our best young sires. Never underestimate the value of youth!

G A R Home Town K472

G A R Home Town K262

635

A R Absolute 1446 G A R Progess N983

Bred 6/10/2024 to G A R Powercat. Actual hip height and ultrasound at 574 days of age. Special female for $B, $C, QPI, ROI, Marbling and RE with breed average YH. Great opportunity!

G A R Home Town N1032

636

Bred 6/2/2024 to B&B Preeminent. Embryo sexed as a heifer. Actual hip height and ultrasound at 570 days of age. Beef cattle genetics is “elementary” when we stick to the fundamentals of profitably!

G A R Kansas F12

Bred 5/29/2024 to B&B Preeminent. Embryo sexed as a bull. When you consider what makes money in the business of beef N1032 is dominant! Note her single digit ranking for

Incredible marbling top 1%! Boo yah!!

G A R Home Town 2142

of the Method Genetics Database for ROI!

637

G A R Kansas N742

Bred 5/22/2024 to G A R Home Run. Embryo sexed as a bull. Single digit Method Genetics Indexes! Great indicator of multi-trait superiority!

TPC Kansas 140

641

G A R Kansas 262

Bred 6/12/2024 to G A R Home Run. “Our capacity to deny brutal facts is immense.” —Jim Collins. So the possibility to EMBRACE the facts is immense too! I think you should embrace 140’s amazing marbling and ribeye genetics!

G A R Kansas N822

G A R Transcendent 1092

642

Bred 5/4/2024 to G A R Home Run.

G A R Kansas N41

G A R Transcendent N842

RAYL Transcendent 207P

646

Bred 4/27/2024 to G A R Fireproof. Embryo sexed as a heifer. Incredible possibility to add value when you think of N842’s Fireproof heifer calf. The future is bright!

G A R Transcendent 1772

G A R Grass Roots 1962

647

Bred 5/30/2024 to G A R Home Run. Embryo sexed as a bull. The Home Run bull calf to come will have immense value. He will be over 2 for Marbling and over 1 for RE, with the other traits in order. Planned breeding works!

Bred 5/15/2024 to G A R Home Run. Embryo sexed as a heifer. Home Run

on the way. My goodness Batman that will be fun!

REPEAT BUYER POLICY

Once again we are offering our “repeat buyer credit policy.” This policy is the same as in previous years. If you purchased an animal in our Fall 2023, January 2024, April 2024 or May 2024 sales, you will receive 5% off your purchases in this sale. If you have not made a GAR purchase in the last 12 months, but make a purchase in this sale, you will become a repeat-buyer and receive 5% off of any future purchase you make in the next 12 months. This 5% discount is determined after all credits have been subtracted from the gross purchase price.

G A R Grass Roots 2372

G A R Home Town 1022

651

Bred 6/12/2024 to B&B Preeminent. Embryo sexed as a bull. Incredible combination of calving ease, modest stature and end product merit! Pedigree outcross opens up the mating possibilities for 2372!

G A R Grass Roots 612

Bred 5/29/2024 to B&B Preeminent. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your

-Einstein.

G A R Home Town N722

Bred 6/9/2024 to G A R Powercat. Embryo sexed as a bull. The name Powercat was saved for a very special bull that resembled what we know of our Alma Mater. Excellence, perseverance, dedication, effort, humility, and accessible to all… that is the Land Grant mission of Kansas State University. G A R Powercat wears this name so very well!

G A R Home Town N532

G A R Home Town N452

G A R Home Town 1332

G A R Home Town N542

657

Bred 6/18/2024 to B&B Preeminent. Don’t wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them happen. Elite Home Town daughter with the genetics that are able to change beef cattle populations!

G A R Home Town 1982

G A R Bragging Rights

Home Town N502

Bred 6/22/2024 to B&B Preeminent. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” —Thoreau

RWA Combustion W31

G A R Dual Threat 2852

G A R Dual Threat 1902

G A R Dual Threat 342

664

6/7/2024 to B&B Preeminent. B&B Preeminent was bred by Benjamin Soto of Texas by breeding the best to the best! Preeminent will take Angus genetics to new levels of end product merit!

G A R Dual Threat 1952

A R Dual Threat 802

G A R Dual Threat N2

G A R Grass Roots 222

669

Hometown 273D

Bred 4/25/2024 to G A R Apex. Embryo sexed as a heifer. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” —Zig Ziglar. We can make our cattle better for the traits of merit!

G A R Home Town 2602

G A R Home Town N1212

Bred 6/28/2024 to G A R Powercat. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” —Albert Einstein. Sometimes are greatest adversity is our biggest opportunity!

Hometown 133D

671

Bred 4/25/2024 to G A R Powercat. Embryo sexed as a heifer. There is a method to our family’s breeding program. This pursuit of the target provides clarity to our goals.

G A R Home Town N1202

G A R Kansas N1312

674

G A R Kansas N792

Bred 6/10/2024 to G A R Powercat. Embryo sexed as a bull. Every decision you make is your identity for what you hope to achieve. When we breed cattle we hope to identify cattle that are profitable and problem free for you.

G A R Kansas N772

675

G A R Kansas N262

Bred 5/31/2024 to G A R Fireproof. Embryo sexed as a bull. Purposeful genetics are a part of our plan.

Bred 6/12/2024 to G A R Fireproof. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” —Nelson Mandela. Let’s use our information and knowledge to make the changes we want to make!

DEDUCT $100 FROM YOUR PURCHASE

Any buyer of any lot or group in the sale will have $100 deducted from the purchase price of that lot or group if he provides for the transportation from GAR within two weeks after the sale.

TPC Prophet K263 Z222

G A R Transcendent N92

679

Bred 6/3/2024 to G A R Home Run. Amazing growth, outstanding Marbling and Yearling growth. Power up dude!

G A R Sunbeam 782

G A R Transcendent F422

Bred 4/25/2024 to G A R Transcendent. Embryo sexed as a bull. “Believe you can and you’re

—Teddy

G A R Transcendent N122

A R Transcendent 92

REFERENCE SIRES

G A R Transcendent

REF

G A R Incentive

G A R Home Town

REF

G A R Home Free

G A R Dual Threat

G A R Dual Force

G A R Freedom

G A R Kansas

G A R Grass Roots

GB Fireball 672

FB Tar Heel

REFERENCE SIRES

E&B Wildcat 9402

G A R Fireproof

HPCA Veracious

G A R Home Run

G A R Sunbeam

G A R Acceleration

B&B Preeminent

GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

Expected Progeny Differences (EPD), is the prediction of how future progeny of each animal are expected to perform relative to the progeny of other animals listed in the database. EPDs are expressed in units of measure for the trait, plus or minus. Interim EPDs may appear on young animals when their performance has yet to be incorporated into the American Angus Association National Cattle Evaluation (NCE) procedures. This EPD will be preceded by an “I”, and may or may not include the animal’s own performance record for a particular trait, depending on its availability, appropriate contemporary grouping, or data edits needed for NCE.

GROWTH

Calving Ease Direct (CED), is expressed as a difference in percentage of unassisted births, with a higher value indicating greater calving ease in first-calf heifers. It predicts the average difference in ease with which a sire’s calves will be born when he is bred to first-calf heifers.

Birth Weight EPD (BW), expressed in pounds, is a predictor of a sire’s ability to transmit birth weight to his progeny compared to that of other sires.

Weaning Weight EPD (WW), expressed in pounds, is a predictor of a sire’s ability to transmit weaning growth to his progeny compared to that of other sires.

Yearling Weight EPD (YW), expressed in pounds, is a predictor of a sire’s ability to transmit yearling growth to his progeny compared to that of other sires.

Residual Average Daily Gain (RADG), expressed in pounds per day, is a predictor of a sire’s genetic ability for postweaning gain in future progeny compared to that of other sires, given a constant amount of feed consumed.

Dry Matter Intake (DMI), expressed in pounds per day, is a predictor of difference transmitting ability for feed intake during the postweaning phase, compared to that of other sires.

Yearling Height EPD (YH), is a predictor of a sire’s ability to transmit yearling height, expressed in inches, compared to that of other sires.

Scrotal Circumference EPD (SC), expressed in centimeters, is a predictor of the difference in transmitting ability for scrotal size compared to that of other sires.

Docility (DOC), is expressed as a difference in yearling cattle temperament, with a higher value indicating more favorable docility. It predicts the average difference of progeny from a sire in comparison with another sire’s calves. In herds where temperament problems are not an issue, this expected difference would not be realized.

MATERNAL

Heifer Pregnancy (HP), the heifer pregnancy EPDs are designed to characterize differences among sires in the Angus breed for daughter’s heifer pregnancy. When comparing two sires based on their heifer pregnancy EPDs (reported in units of percentage), a higher EPD sire would be expected to have daughters with a greater probability or chance of becoming pregnant than a sire with the lower EPD.

Calving Ease Maternal (CEM), is expressed as a difference in percentage of unassisted births with a higher value indicating greater calving ease in first-calf daughters. It predicts the average ease with which a sire’s daughters will calve as first-calf heifers when compared to daughters of other sires.

Maternal Milk EPD (Milk), is a predictor of a sire’s genetic merit for milk and mothering ability as expressed in his daughters compared to daughters of other sires. In other words, it is that part of a calf’s weaning weight attributed to milk and mothering ability.

Mature Weight EPD (MW), expressed in pounds, is a predictor of the difference in mature weight of daughters of a sire compared to the daughters of other sires.

Mature Height EPD (MH), expressed in inches, is a predictor of

the difference in mature height of a sire’s daughters compared to daughters of other sires.

Cow Energy Value ($EN), expressed in dollar savings per cow per year, assesses differences in cow energy requirements as an expected dollar savings difference in daughters of sires. A larger value is more favorable when comparing two animals (more dollars saved on feed energy expenses). Components for computing the cow $EN savings difference include lactation energy requirements and energy costs associated with differences in mature cow size.

CARCASS

Carcass Weight EPD (CW), expressed in pounds, is a predictor of the differences in hot carcass weight of a sire’s progeny compared to progeny of other sires.

Marbling EPD (Marb), expressed as a fraction of the difference in USDA marbling score of a sire’s progeny compared to progeny of other sires.

Ribeye Area EPD (RE), expressed in square inches, is a predictor of the difference in ribeye area of a sire’s progeny compared to progeny of other sires.

Fat Thickness EPD (Fat), expressed in inches, is a predictor of the differences in external fat thickness at the 12th rib (as measured between the 12th and 13th ribs) of a sire’s progeny compared to progeny of other sires.

YEARLING AND ULTRASOUND ADJUSTED MEASUREMENTS

Adj. Yrlg. Scrotal Circ: Adjusted yearling scrotal circumference, the bull’s scrotal circumference measured in centimeters adjusted to one year of age.

Adj. Yrlg. Hip Ht.: Each bull’s hip height measured in inches and adjusted to one year of age.

Adj. %IMF: The percent intramuscular fat (marbling) adjusted to 365 days of age. Heritability for marbling is in the moderate range.

%IMF Ratio: The percent above or below average (100 = average) a bull or female is for its marbling scan within its contemporary group.

Adj. Yrlg. Ribeye Area: Each bull’s ribeye area measured in square inches and adjusted to one year of age.

REA Ratio: The percent above or below average (100 = average) a bull is for his adjusted ribeye area.

Adj. Rib Fat: This is the off-test backfat measured in inches adjusted to 365 days of age.

Rib Fat Ratio: The percent above or below average (100 = average) a bull or female is for its backfat scan within its contemporary group.

Adj. Rump Fat: This is the off-test rump fat measured in inches adjusted to 365 days of age.

Rump Fat Ratio: The percent above or below average (100= average) a bull or female is for its rump fat scan within its contemporary group.

$VALUE INDEXES

$Maternal ($M), an index, expressed in dollars per head, predicts profitability differences from conception to weaning with the underlying breeding objective assuming that individuals retain their own replacement females within herd and sell the rest of the cull females and all male progeny as feeder calves. The model assumes commercial producers will replace 25% of their breeding females in the first generation and 20% of their breeding females in each subsequent generation. Traits included are as follows: calving ease direct, calving ease maternal, weaning weight, milk, heifer pregnancy, docility, mature cow weight, claw set and foot angle.

Weaned Calf Value ($W), an index value expressed in dollars per head, is the expected average difference in future progeny performance for pre-weaning merit. $W includes both revenue and cost adjustments associated with differences in birth weight, weaning direct growth, maternal milk, and mature cow size.

Feedlot Value ($F), an index value expressed in dollars per head, is the expected average difference in future progeny performance for post-weaning merit compared to progeny of other sires.

Grid Value ($G), an index value expressed in dollars per head, is the expected average difference in future progeny performance for carcass grid merit compared to progeny of other sires.

Beef Value ($B), an index value expressed in dollars per head, is the expected average difference in future progeny performance for post-weaning and carcass value compared to progeny of other sires.

Combined Value ($C), an index, expressed in dollars per head, which includes all traits that make up both Maternal Weaned Calf Value ($M) and Beef Value ($B) with the objective that commercial producers will replace 20% of their breeding females per year with replacement heifers retained within their own herd. The remaining cull heifer and steer progeny are then assumed to be sent to the feedlot where the producers retain ownership of those cattle and sell them on a quality-based carcass merit grid. Expected progeny differences (EPDs) directly influencing a combined index: calving ease direct (CED) and maternal (CEM), weaning weight (WW), yearling weight (YW), maternal milk (Milk), heifer pregnancy (HP), docility (DOC), mature cow weight (MW), foot angle (Angle), claw set (Claw), dry matter intake (DMI), marbling (Marb), carcass weight (CW), ribeye area (RE) and fat thickness (Fat).

DAM’S PRODUCTION RECORD:

Act.BW — Actual Birth Weight: The number of calves each dam has had and the average actual birth weight of those calves. Example: 3-81 means the dam has had 3 calves with an average actual birth weight of 81 pounds.

BWR — Birth Weight Ratio: The number of calves a dam has had and their average birth weight ratio. Example: 2-98 means the dam has had 2 calves with an average BWR of 98.

WWR — Weaning Weight Ratio: The number of calves a dam has had and their average weaning weight ratio. Example: 2-102 means the dam has had 2 calves with an average WWR of 102. YWR — Yearling Weight Ratio: The number of calves a dam has had and their average yearling weight ratio. Example: 2-103 means the dam has had 2 calves with an average YWR of 103.

DAM’S ULTRASOUND PRODUCTION RECORD

%IMF: The number of calves that each dam has had, and the average %IMF ratio on those calves. Example: 11-112 means that the dam of this animal has had 11 progeny ultrasounded for IMF with an average ratio of 112.

REA: The number of calves that each dam has had, and the average ribeye area ratio on those calves. Example: 11-112 means that the dam of this animal has had 11 progeny ultrasounded for REA with an average ratio of 112.

Fat: The number of calves that each dam has had, and the average rib fat ratio on those calves. Example: 11-112 means that the dam of this animal has had 11 progeny ultrasounded for rib fat with an average ratio of 112. A ratio above 100 would mean that this animal has above average rib fat (more fat) and a ratio of less than 100 means that the animal has less rib fat (less fat) within the animal’s contemporary group.

RU Fat: The number of calves that each dam has had, and the average rump fat ratio on those calves. Example: 11-112 means that the dam of this animal has had 11 progeny ultrasounded for rump fat with an average ratio of 112. A ratio above 100 would mean that this animal has above average rump fat (more fat) and a ratio of less than 100 means that the animal has less rump fat (less fat) within the animal’s contemporary group.

BW — Birth Weight: The actual weight in pounds at birth.

Calving-Ease Score: 1 = unassisted; 2 = some assistance; 3 = mechanical assistance.

METHOD GENETICS® CHOICE EPD AND SELECTION INDEX KEY

CARCASS WEIGHT (CW): The carcass weight EPD is reported in pounds of harvest carcass weight. As with other weight traits, selection for weight genetics is moderately to highly heritable and will lead to increased directional genetic change in pounds. The CW EPD has contributions not only from the genotyped calves, but harvest carcass records, ultrasound indicator trait results, and available pedigree.

MARBLING (MARB): Marbling EPDs are reported in harvest marbling score units, with a higher value being more favorable.

RIBEYE AREA (REA): The ribeye area EPD, with a higher value as the typical desired direction, can be used to place selection pressure on this trait to impact red meat yield.

CALVING EASE DIRECT (CED): Reported as a percentage of unassisted calvings, this EPD is used to select favorable calving ease genetics for use in matings to first calf heifers. The value is more noted for sire selection. In Angus-influenced herds that have heavily emphasized calving ease genetics, selection pressure for this trait may or may not be a priority. A higher value is more favorable. For example if there was a 5 percentage point difference between to animals (+10 vs +5), one would expect 5 more calves out of 100 to be born unassisted in future progeny, to favor choosing the animal with the CED of +10.

DOCILITY (DOC): Docility is reported as a convenience trait with a higher value favoring more docile temperament. Reported in percentage units, these EPDs can be used as an accessory sorting tool as needed.

CALVING EASE MATERNAL (CEM): This EPD is applicable to calves out of daughters of first-calf heifers and their unassisted calving percentage difference relative to other individuals. Again, as with CED, a higher value is more favorable and reported in units of percent.

MATERNAL PRODUCTION INDEX (MPI): The Maternal Production Index is reported in dollars per calf produced from the breeding herd with Angus-based genetics. It encompasses direct and maternal calving ease, heifer pregnancy, weaning growth, maternal milk, and mature size differences in a scenario where replacement females are retained and calves are marketed at weaning.

QUALITY POUNDS INDEX (QPI): The Quality Pounds Index is reported in dollars per calf for herds with Angus-based genetics. It focuses on the terminal side of the herd’s business for feedlot gain and carcass merit genetic differences. There are no provisions for calving ease or maternal traits, with the assumption that all calves are under a retained ownership scenario fed out and marketed on a premium quality-based grid.

RETAINED OWNERSHIP INCOME (ROI): Cattle producers interested in a complete production system approach from conception through carcass end-point should use the Retained Ownership Income index ties together reproduction, calving ease, maternal genetic merit, growth throughout the calf’s lifetime, and quality based carcass merit in an Angus-based herd. The ROI is reported in dollars per calf produced in the herd, and consolidates the sub-indexes of MPI and QPI.

METHOD GENETICS EPD AND INDEX PERCENTILE RANKS (%) are a numeric ranking of the animal’s EPD and Index values on a 1% to 100% scale. For most traits a lower numeric value is considered more favorable, such as for CED EPD. For example, a 25% presented with an EPD indicates that animal is in the upper 25 percent of the animals in the Method Genetics evaluation for calves born in the last five years.

THE GARDINER ANGUS RANCH BREEDING GUARANTEE

We guarantee that all breeding cattle sold by Gardiner Angus Ranch, both bulls and females, are fertile to the best of our knowledge. If a bull is injured at any time in the 12 months following the sale so as to make them functionally infertile, we will provide you with a satisfactory replacement, if available, or issue you a credit equal to the bull’s purchase price minus the salvage value received for that bull. If a female is determined to be a non-breeder, then we would ask you to sell her and would offer you the difference of her purchase price minus the salvage value as a credit in any future GAR sale. This guarantee is in addition to the Sale Terms and Conditions of the American Angus Association which also apply.

A WORD ABOUT FREE DELIVERY

Gardiner Angus Ranch offers its customers free delivery anywhere in the lower 48 states. As a part of that delivery we work with reputable livestock transportation companies that we feel comfortable with in the handling of your cattle in both a professional and conscientious way. GAR will do everything possible to deliver your cattle to a point that is convenient for both you and the trucking company. In some cases where there are cattle from multiple owners loaded on the same truck, it is necessary for the buyer to meet the truck at a central location such as a livestock auction or veterinary clinic relatively close to them. We also encourage the drivers to be as flexible as possible and request that they not deliver your cattle in the middle of the night if avoidable. If you would like to insure your cattle, you can do so on sale day. Most of the cattle to be delivered from the sale are delivered within 45 days after the sale. If, for any reason, you desire an expedited delivery, please notify Grant Gardiner at (620) 635-0382 or email grant.c.gardiner@gmail.com and we will make arrangements for quicker delivery.

GARDINER ANGUS RANCH VACCINATION PROGRAM

Two Month Calves—Endovac-Bovi (Immvac)

Vision 7 (Merck Animal Health)

VistaOnce (Merck Animal Health)

Calves at 205 day Pre-weaning

Vision 7 20/20 (Merck Animal Health)

Vista Once (Merck Animal Health)

Weaning (June)

Vista 5 (Merck Animal Health)

Yearling Heifers (>30 day Pre-Breeding)

Vista 3 V/L5 (Merck Animal Health)

Ivomec Pour-On (Merial)

Cows at Synchronization

Virashield 6V/L5 (Novartis)

Ivomec Pour-On (Merial)

Bulls (Pre-Sale)

Anaplasmosis vaccination (1 dose)

All animals have been tested for PI BVD are found to be free of this disease. The goal of this vaccination program is to decrease the risk for diseases that are prevalent in our area and our management scheme.

ASHLAND VETERINARY CENTER, INC.

Dr. Randall K. Spare • Dr. John L. Kellenberger

Dr. Kelly M. Deewall • Dr. Mark Spare

Dr. Josh Dowdy • Dr. Eva Gardiner

P.O. Box 869, W. Hwy. 160 • Ashland, KS 67831 • (620) 635-2641

A Career of Clipping Cattle

By Paige Nelson

There are certain bills in life that are a pain.

I dislike paying for parking. In my mind, walking an extra block or two to avoid that pesky $5/hour charge is totally worth it. My husband will pay for parking but thinks bank checks should be free.

For other products or services, however, I am happy to pay. The differences really come down to what we value as individuals. My farrier’s services are essential, and I am happy to pay him every six weeks. I don’t consider it a cost. I see it as an essential ingredient to fill my cup.

Gardiners feel the same about paying Howard Fehlman to clip 1,400+ head of sale cattle every year.

“You don’t come to Ashland, Kansas, because you were headed there, that’s part of putting on a professional production — putting on the show. Those cattle need to look their very best, so that’s been the cost of doing business,” states Mark Gardiner.

Greg Gardiner recalls the days he and Mark did all the clipping.

“Whatever set of clothes you start in, plan on burning them when you’re done!

“We don’t do anything to them ahead of sale day after he’s finished them,” explains Greg. “They’re just ready to go.”

Giving customers all the information they can on each animal (genotype- and phenotype-wise) is always a Gardiner goal, so it’s only fitting that nothing is hidden under long hair. “There’s a bare bones animal. You evaluate what you like or don’t like,” states Greg.

CLIPPING AS A CAREER

As a teenager and even as a young man, Howard didn’t foresee himself making a life out of clipping show and sale cattle. But being skilled at a necessary, yet labor intensive task, often means the work finds you.

After working on a few purebred operations throughout Kansas and in a saddle shop, Howard and his wife, Deb, moved to Junction City, Kansas, in 1985. They started a custom cattle fitting business.

“Over time, you know, you’d end up clipping a few sale cattle here or there, or somebody needed a handful clipped. Then as time progressed, you did one (operation), and then pretty soon you were doing two,” Howard explains.

Howard’s Life Hacks

What’s the trick to clipping cattle?

“Make every move count! Have a process and do the same thing every time, in the same order.”

“You never thought you could be so sore in so many different places. And I’m talking about when I was in my twenties and thirties. Today, there’s no way. I’m not going to do it. [Paying someone else,] that’s good money well spent. Thank you very much!”

Howard and his crew pull in to the Gardiner Angus Ranch (GAR) around Jan. 1 and start prepping cattle for the January sale. Then just a few short months later they are back in Ashland clipping for the April and May sales.

“He’s steadfast, loyal. He’s very quiet, but he knows how to do it —he knows cattle,” says Mark of Howard’s character and skill.

Greg describes Howard as having a perfectly waxed handlebar mustache and someone who can transition from an “intricate cattle barber” on show cattle to a man that rolls into GAR and completely shears sale cattle down to their “bare bones.”

He says it’s not a full-time job year-round, but during sale season, he doesn’t spend much time at home either. From basically the first of the year until the first of April, Howard is either clipping cattle, sitting in a motel watching it rain or snow, or he is driving to the next job.

Growing a business by word of mouth, means you have to be flexible.

“We traveled a seven- or eight-state area, and actually, as we got busier, we drove less miles just because you didn’t have to travel so far between jobs,” he recounts.

Like Howard says, “nothing is ever wrought in stone,” and in 2017 a wildfire destroyed much of GAR’s working facilities, killed cattle and burned others. Mark recalls a tough phone call to Howard that year. “The hardest call that I ever made was after the fire. Everything was in disarray. I called Howard and said, ‘We can’t clip them. It’s just too big a mess. We don’t have time. We’ve got to save the survivors, and the sales got to go on,’ and he said, ‘I understand.’”

But what rose from the ashes of the fire would make Howard’s job

easier in the future. “Originally up at the old AI barn, we came out of the side of the tub, and we had to basically build our own facility with panels, you know, which was fun!” Howard smirks.

Today, his crew have their own alley in the processing barn, complete with a roof and a solid north wall to try to keep winter weather away. Howard brings his own “iron” — blocking chutes — that are backed up to a split alley. GAR crew members, oftentimes the interns, keep the stock coming. “We never have to leave the chutes. They’re very accommodating,” he notes. With good facilities and an even better crew, Howard’s team averages 100 head a day.

While the idea of shearing anywhere from 1,300 head to 1,500 head would be intimidating to anyone, Howard says it’s actually a relief to arrive at Gardiner’s in the spring because he knows he’ll be there for a while (two weeks) instead of working all day and tearing down that night.

Howard’s daughter, Kati Richardson, started helping with clipping jobs when she was in high school. After graduation, she transitioned from tagging along to a full-time employee in the business. It was a natural choice for her. She’s been her daddy’s shadow her whole life.

“He’s kind of somebody with a tough exterior, but deep down, he’s just a really great guy and somebody that you can really lean on if you need to,” Kati beams.

“He’s been that for me, and I couldn’t have asked for a better dad, and he’s helped me a lot, and basically made me the person I am today.”

Looking up to him the way she does, Kati can recall the day he asked if she was ready to go to Gardiner’s with him. “He said, ‘Honey, would you like to go to Gardiner’s?’ It kind of took me by surprise, and I guess, I never thought that I would get the opportunity to do that one,” she admits. Kati says once she overcame the shock and awe of the size and scale of GAR and the massive task that lay before the two clipping crews, she found herself enjoying the job.

“You get in there and shear cows, and you shear cows until you’re done. Having the two crews there, my dad, and then Luke Fowler and Chuck Holder, it just made it fun!”

Kati says there was always a little competition between the two shearing teams when they came to Gardiner’s. There are enough total cattle, so we can compete a little with each other and see who can do more a day or who can get done faster.

In such labor-intensive work, it’s the small things that count; like how many steps you have to take in a day or making sure you and your partner are working on different parts of the animal to stay out of each other’s way, explains Howard. Once each team and partners get in sync, this cattle clipping crew is a quiet, albeit, well-oiled machine.

In some ways, the crew and especially Howard, have become machinists themselves. Sharpening blades at least once, sometimes twice, a day and replacing a set a clippers every two years makes a person familiar with their metals of choice. Howard and now Kati, too, like the shine of silver.

SILVERSMITHING ON THE SIDE

During his tenure in the saddle shop, Howard spent time learning the silversmithing trade. “They had an old bit and spur shop that nobody was working in. I always liked to weld and stuff

like that, so I got to playing around in that on weekends and at night. There really wasn’t anybody around to tell you how to do it. Just one guy said, ‘I think the guy did this... this way.’

And somebody else said, ‘Well, I think they did this kind of this way.’ And there was a lot of trial and errors,” says Howard.

Eventually Howard left the saddle shop to start clipping show cattle and no longer had access to the tools. He started collecting what he needed here and there. Making a pair of spurs now and then and playing around. In the early 90s he attended a month-long silversmithing course from Miller Bit and Spur. He learned more silver work techniques along with silver inlay, engraving and more.

Not much for words, Howard is a man of action. To show his appreciation to Nan Gardiner, he set his silver skills to work. Nan, known for her cooking, recognized the value of a hearty noon meal and knew how to fuel hard workers. Howard recalls eating lunch in Nan and Henry’s home every day during clipping.

“I made her this pendant with her brand on it, just as kind of an appreciation, you know, for lunches, just to thank you,” says Howard. “I don’t know what else I could have done that would have meant more to her, just the way she acted when she got it.” The sterling silver pendant would become an heirloom the for the entire family to treasure.

“She wore it quite often, and we actually thought it looked so good on her that we buried her with that pendant. She got to take Howard’s work with her,” Greg says.

Mark counts Howard as a true silver artist. He believes the feelings that weren’t shared verbally were shared through acts of kindness and regard.

“With that pin, that meant a lot to her, and it meant a lot to us,” says Mark. “We knew how much he cared.” While the actual pendant rests with Nan, a portrait of she and Henry hangs in the Marketing Center at GAR. In the painting, none other than a genuine Howard Fehlman piece graces her necklace.

“I walk past that portrait every day,” says Greg.

WHAT’S NEXT

Katie is 26 years old, married and living in Texas. Howard is 68 years old and starting to admit that clipping sale cattle for six or more months out of the year is more of a young man’s game.

He’s not calling it quits, just yet. The love of the game is still very alive. “I’m not saying 100 percent I’ll go back to Gardiner’s this spring. But I’m not saying I won’t just yet,” he makes clear.

Kati has a flourishing silversmithing business called KT Silver Works. It’s pretty easy to figure out how she got started down that path.

Howard is ready to do some more smithing himself. If you’re in the market for some genuine silver spurs, you may want to check out Howard’s Skull Spur Company.

Deb manages around 200 head of ewes. “She’s a sheep lady,” smiles Howard. Between the silver and the sheep, there’s plenty of work at home to keep Howard company.

A 30+ year relationship is something to be admired. Howard’s way of doing his job will never be matched. Mark describes Howard as a quiet producer. One who is steadfast and loyal. One who is efficient with his words.

“He just didn’t need a lot of guidance. He knew what to do, and so, he went and did it. We trusted him, and he helped us.

“It’s been a great relationship, a mutual relationship, but based on need and trust, and we want to honor him,” says Mark.

Howard’s Life Hacks

Howard Fehlman has been clipping Gardiner Angus Ranch cattle for more than 30 years. He was clipping other sale and show cattle before that. Here are some of his hacks to make a tough job a little easier:

What’s the trick to clipping cattle?

“Make every move count! Have a process and do the same thing every time, in the same order.”

What’s your favorite thing about clipping cattle?

“Of course, we get to see lots of different kinds of country. We get to see a lot of really good people around the country. You know, it’s actually the people not so much the job that you enjoy doing.”

What do you dislike most about clipping cattle?

“Wind.”

“Nobody likes hair in their mouth and their eyes and their nose. Although, sometimes when the weather’s kind of nasty and the wind’s blowing pretty bad, you get more done just because everybody keeps their head down and their mouth shut.”

What differences do you notice between different breeds?

“Black hair is finer. Hereford hair is all heavier and coarser, and white hair is harder to cut than red hair.”

How often do you sharpen your blades?

“It just depends on where you’re at and how many head you’re doing a day. We sharpen our own blades, sometimes twice a day, sometimes once.”

How often do you buy a new pair of clippers?

“I buy a new pair every year before Gardiner’ s, and keep 5-6 sets running as well.”

5,232 Miles and Beef Quality is STILL in Demand

—By Grant Gardiner

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At Gardiner Angus Ranch, we receive visitors from a wide range of places. While most of the folks who visit come from within the United States, it's not uncommon for groups from Mexico, Canada, South America or even Australia to stop in; however, guests from Europe are much rarer.

In the summer of 2023, a group of cattle breeders from Germany and Switzerland spent the day with Greg touring the ranch. Amongst these guests was a German cattleman by the name of Bernhard Delle. So, when Megan and I visited Germany this summer, it seemed only right to pay Herr Delle a visit in return!

Bernhard Delle, along with his two sons Michael and Martin, own and operate Donaumoos Angus and Hotel Gasthof Sonne in the village of Gundelfingen an der Donau. Each member of the family plays an important part in this fully farm-to-table business. When he’s not away visiting customers, Bernhard can be found on the farm, charting the mating decisions, tagging calves and feeding the herd. Martin starts his days well before sunrise in the butcher shop, preparing the meats that they use in the hotel restaurant or sell in local famer’s markets. If he’s not in the shop in Gundelfingen, you can expect to find Martin manning one of the mobile stores. Michael, a chef who has spent time in the kitchens of two and three Michelin Star restaurants across Europe, oversees the hotel restaurant. It’s here that the hard work and

discipline of the Delle family is on full display for the customers.

Gundelfingen an der Donau is a small village of roughly 8,000 people. It rests almost directly between the larger cities of Munich and Stuttgart in southern Germany. With several industrial hubs nearby, and Legoland just a short 20-minute drive to the south, the Delle family’s hotel and restaurant has become a destination for holiday travelers and industrial executives alike. Everything served is produced locally, either by the Delle family themselves or by other local farmers and businesses. Whether it’s the vegetables that can be seen growing in the fields on the drive in, the cheese from local dairies, or the beer that is produced in the brewery only a mile away from the restaurant, it all comes from Gundelfingen an der Donau. But the thing that keeps people coming through the doors day after day is the beef.

Decades ago, Bernhard set out to create the type of cattle that would deliver a consistently exceptional experience for his guests. With this direct-toconsumer mindset, he has set himself apart from other cattle producers in the area. For nearly 30 years, he has been collecting carcass ultrasounds on his

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cattle, something very few other cattle producers in Germany do. Since the European Union (EU) and Germany have no central association to handle such things, Bernhard relied on the AberdeenAngus Association of the UK to interpret the data. After Brexit, this became a challenge, and Bernhard pressured the German Angus Association (whose database only tracks measurements for birth weight, weaning weight, and yearling weight) to expand to a more complete data set. Alas, to no avail, he now works with the Irish Aberdeen-Angus Association in Ireland. He uses the data he collects from ultrasounds (and in more

recent years from genomic testing) to choose which bulls and females to keep and which to harvest for the restaurant. With his progressive breeding selection, he has created a herd full of quality that his neighbors have taken notice of. Bernhard’s discipline and focus on quality and endproduct merit has enabled him to sell bulls and semen across Europe and supply his family-owned food service businesses with high quality beef.

It’s no secret the EU is very restrictive in regulating cattle imports, making it a challenge for breeders like Bernhard to access the right

genetics. Bernhard has been able to navigate these obstacles, and currently has two Gardiner Angus Ranch bulls in service: one a son of GAR Transcendent and one a son of GAR Kansas. These bulls, along with a pool of females sired by GAR Kansas, are keeping Bernhard’s program moving in the right direction.

Demand for quality beef is universal. Customers like Bernhard Delle reinforce our commitment to making beef better by continuing to focus on multi-trait excellence for all the traits of economic importance.

GAR Transcendent

GAR Kansas

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Cattle disease traceability is an important component in the overall biosecurity of the U.S. beef cattle industry, playing a significant role in resuming and maintaining commerce in the event of a disease outbreak. The development of a cattle disease traceability system has risen to one of the top priorities in the industry throughout multiple segments of the beef value chain as we witnessed other proteins deeply impacted by disease outbreaks and market disruption.

To address this industry-wide priority, U.S. CattleTrace was established from a collaborative effort of traceability programs across the U.S.

The system for individual animal disease traceability is complex and must be implemented prior to a disease outbreak to be effective. To be successful, the process for cattle producers must be simple, fast and affordable. Proactive participation in U.S. CattleTrace enables producers to be at the forefront of this industry-driven initiative and influence the future of an expanded traceability system in the U.S. beef cattle industry. The purpose-built infrastructure of this system has the potential to open doors to new value-added opportunities in the beef supply chain, including but not limited to: inventory management, animal health management, operational efficiencies, and enhanced domestic and international trade.

In order to protect the U.S. share of the protein market from the potential impact of a disease event, cattle identification and traceability needs to be enacted, enhanced and further developed using electronic I.D. and electronic transfer of data. U.S. CattleTrace is focused on developing a voluntary national traceability system to include all cattle and complement the current USDA regulation s. For this to be successful it will require all stakeholders, which includes producers, suppliers, service providers, packers, retailers, along with state and federal animal health officials to collectively collaborate and support disease traceability.

The goal is to build a system that is recognized as the nationally significant animal disease traceability system by all domestic and foreign markets. The U.S. CattleTrace disease traceability system strives to be equitable to all industry segments and must be industry-driven and managed by a producer board of directors to ensure data privacy and protection.

OUR MISSION

To develop and manage a nationally significant, robust and globally accepted voluntary animal disea se traceability system for all cattle entering commerce through an industry led, sustainable, non-profit private enterprise in order to protect the nation’s herd and U.S. share of the protein market with as little disruption to day- to-day operations as possible.

OUR VISION

To be a producer-driven and national leader in animal disease traceability, providing a data management system for rapid animal disease response that is fully accepted by U.S producers and global consumers.

Rest in peace, friend.

Recently, we lost a great personal friend, a great industry leader and an example to us all about what it means to be a compassionate, empathetic, intelligent, fair and curious human being. Greg never stopped doing. To his friends, he was always there. To the industry, he was always there. To his family, he was always there. We will miss our friend and colleague, Greg Henderson.