THE SIMMENTAL TRAIL
By JENNIE RUCKER Executive Secretary N.C. Simmental Association NCSA Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the North Carolina Simmental Association will be held on September 4 at 6:00 p.m. at Shuffler Sale Facility in Union Grove. We will be serving a beef dinner for only $10 a plate. Everyone is welcome to attend. You can come early and view the cattle for the Fall Harvest Sale, then stay for the dinner and meeting. We will hold a short business meeting, then we really have fun. This year we are holding a raffle for a Stihl MS 271 Farm Boss Chain Saw. This is a very popular model of chain saw that all the farmers want! Erin Beth and Preston Pinkston of Pinkston’s Lawn Mower in Wadesboro, N.C., are donating this chain saw, so this is a chance to really help out the N.C. Simmental Association and Junior Association! Your chance to own this chain saw is only a $2 raffle ticket or buy three chances for $5. You can contact any N.C. Simmental Association member or send a check for any amount
of tickets to N.C. Simmental Association, 1341 Highway 21, Hamptonville, NC 27020. You do not have to be present to win this great chain saw. We will make sure that the winner receives their chain saw. We also have our famous fundraising auction. Members bring items to donate to this auction, which helps build up our general treasury and the Jim Graham Scholarship Fund. Many great things have been sold in the past, including chickens, puppies, baskets full of handmade goodies, quilts, feed, minerals, and the list could go on and on. There will also be some great homemade cakes for your bidding (and eating!) pleasure. Teresa Swisher of Crescent Angus usually donates one of her wonderful cakes, usually the much requested German Chocolate Cake. It is worth the visit to our annual meeting just to see what cakes are available! It is always a lot of fun to see what everyone brings and what sells for the
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most money. Following the auction, we will draw for the winners of the raffle. We will also auction off the back cover ad of the next year’s Simmental Directory and the full page ad in the inside back cover of next year’s Fall Harvest Sale catalog. Make plans to attend this annual meeting. Both members and interested people can attend. NCSA Fall Harvest Sale. This year’s Fall Harvest Sale looks like it will be an excellent opportunity to purchase some quality females and bulls. There should be 70 lots of purebred Simmental and SimAngus cattle. Many of our regular consignors will be showcasing their best, such as Shuffler Farms Simmentals, JBB Simmentals, the Fred Smith Company Ranch, Silver Springs Angus, and TX Enterprises. We will also have some great out-ofstate consignors such as Smith Reasor, Virginia Tech, and Katie’s Simmentals of Virginia. Jim and Betty Bosley of Buena Vista Simmentals in West Virginia are bringing excellent females, as usual. We will also have several embryo lots from some of the country’s top Simmental producers. The sale will be held on September 6 at 12:00 noon at Shuffler Sale Facility at 444 Union Grove Road, Union Grove, North Carolina. The N.C. Junior Simmental Association will be selling ribeye steak
sandwiches, hamburgers, and hot dogs for lunch. Due to the COVID-19, there is a chance that the sale will be entirely online at www.DPonlinesales.com. If this happens, please check our Facebook page, the N.C. Cattlemen’s e-blast, and other places where we will try to notify the public. A small group of people can be inside the sale facility, and we can practice social distancing and still have a sale. For more information on this sale, please visit our Facebook page at N.C. Simmental or call 336-468-1679 for a sale catalog. You can also send an email to ncsa@yadtel.net to request a sale catalog. Make plans to be there! You can also visit the D.P. Sales Management website at www.parkelivestock.com for information on how to bid on the great cattle in this sale.
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