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HERNDON FARMS BLACK AND WHITE SALE LYONS, GEORGIA | OCTOBER 24, 2020 Lots Gross Average 45 Charolais $209,660 $4,660 Coming 2-Year-Old Bulls 41 Brangus & Ultra $153,300 $3,739 Coming 2-Year-Old Bulls 5 Yearling Charolais Bulls $15,600 $3,120 5 Yearling Brangus Bulls $18,750 $3,750 96 Total Bulls $397,950 $4,139 33 Commercial Brangus $72,500 $2,197 Fall Bred/Pairs 64 Commercial Spring $112,450 $1,757 Bred Heifers 10 Commercial $12,750 $1,275 Open Heifers The inaugural Best of the South Black and White Sale was a resounding success at Herndon Farms, Lyons, Georgia. Ninetyone registered buyers from nine states participated in the sale and snapped up the nicely conditioned bull and commercial female offering at a torrid pace. Lot 4, Cold Creek Final Cut 240G3 was the day’s top selling Brangus bull at $6,500. He sold to Mack McGee, Glenwood, Georgia. This calving ease specialist boasts big growth and carcass as well. Selling for $6,250 was lot 6. This Brangus bull, HF Success 468G13 boasted 10 EPD traits ranking in the breed’s top 35% and sold to the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Okeechobee, Florida. The commercial females were topped by a set of three black baldie pairs. They sold for $2,400 each to Bret Williams, Uvalda, Georgia.
brothers to work in a ranch setting was available throughout the day. The high selling bull was lot 50, QVF Never Surrender 30G16. He sold for $40,000 to Pennridge Ranch, Paige, Texas. This coming two-year-old Brangus bull put phenotype and numerical superiority together in an unmatched combination in the Brangus breed. He is sired by Never Surrender and his dam is the $65,000, 30D donor sold earlier this year in Houston. Lot 52, QVF Never Surrender 30G17, a full brother to lot 50, sold to KL Bar, Okeechobee, Florida for $13,500. This bigtime herd sire prospect featured a world of rib and depth with a mild demeanor. A third full brother, lot 51, QVF Never Surrender 30G9, sired by the $50,000 Never Surrender and out of the $65,000 30D donor was the third high seller at $13,000. Richard Cashio, Wilsonville, Alabama was the purchaser. Sabal Ridge Brangus, Clewiston, Florida was the purchaser of the next high selling bull, lot 59, QVF Never Surrender 23G4. He is sired by Never Surrender and out of an R532 daughter, 23Y45. In the embryo sale Michael Hunter, Crosby, Texas topped the offering when he paid $1,550 each for lot 32. They are Santa Gertrudis embryos sired by Red Doc ET 7457 and out of Red Doc 5369. The next high selling set of embryos was lot 161. They are Brangus embryos sired by BWCC Cross Fit 541B28 and out of QVF MS 468G2, a Never Surrender daughter.
SPITZER RANCH, LLC BRANGUS AND ULTRABLACK BULL SALE PRESTON, KANSAS | OCTOBER 1-3, 2020 Lots Gross Average 15.5 bulls $72,400 $4,671 The 2020 version of the Spitzer Ranch, LLC Profit Maker QUAIL VALLEY FARMS Online Bull Sale is now in the history books. The Spitzer families BLOUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA | OCTOBER 31, 2020 celebrated 2020 as a new beginning since this sale marked three Lots Gross Average firsts. Their first bull sale since 2016 following dispersal of 88 Coming 2-Year-Old Bulls $422,795 $4,795 their entire mature cow herd; their first sale since moving their 40 Yearling Bulls $140,500 $3,513 operation across the country from Fair Play, South Carolina to 128 Total Bulls $562,500 $4,395 Preston, Kansas; and their first ever totally online sale. 76 Spring Bred $108,750 $1,430 Small in numbers but large on powerful genetic performance Commercial Females that touched all the bases for economically relevant traits 39 Open Commercial Females $43,300 $1,110 important to the beef industry, the sale grossed $72,400 on 15 931 Embryos $309,515 $332 and one-half bulls for an average of $4,671. The top selling bull Total Gross $1,048,815 went to a progressive Brangus seedstock producer when Binford Quail Valley Farms hosted their first ever bull, commercial Farms, Castroville, Texas invested $10,000 for the half interest in female, and open tank embryo auction at the sale facility in SR Pawnee Warrior G920 to make him the high seller. G920 is Blountsville, Alabama, October 31st. Quality was evident an MC Playbook 468Y3 son going back to CB Final Cut 942X throughout as the Santa Gertrudis and Brangus breed’s premier and then Catawba Warrior R532 on the dam side of the tree. donors and herd sires’ progeny were on display and for sale. A super nice look combined with top 25% or better ranking in One hundred and fifteen registered buyers from 12 states and eight traits, leading off with a top 5% rank for BW and top 15% Mexico showed their appreciation of the offering through rank for YW made him a standout. their participation. The opportunity to purchase groups of full 34
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