R.A. Brown Ranch 50th Annual Golden Opportunity Sale

50 th Annual

October 8-9, 2024

Brown Ranch.

Come help us celebrate the past 50 years of Bull, Female and Quarter Horse Sales. We know it’s a rarity in this business and we are extremely grateful to all that have played a part on the stage....long time customers, family, employees, interns, and friends of the ranch. We are driven by a passion for the beef industry but allowed the opportunity because of you. Thank you. We couldn’t be more excited to share the next 50 with you as well. Our mission continues.

We are continually striving to improve the sustainability and efficiency of converting God’s forage into safe, nutritious, and great tasting beef to better feed His people.

Sale Week Schedule

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

9:00 am: 10:00 am: 10:00 am: 12:00 pm: 1:00 pm: 1:00 pm: 4:00 pm: 5:00 pm: 6:00 pm: 6:30 pm: 6:30 pm:

Cowpuncher Coffee / Breakfast (provided by Vytelle & Cowpuncher Coffee)

Sale Horses & Cattle available for viewing

Cattle Handling Demonstration - Dr. Tom Noffsinger - NCBA/ BQA Educator of the Year

Lunch (Provided by Vence)

Virtual Fencing Demonstration by Vence

FerAppease & Cattle Handling Demonstration continues at the Horse Arena

Afternoon Sweet Treats (provided by ADM Animal Nutrition)

Registered Angus Female Sale ( in a separate sale book and streamed live on CCI.Live)

Quarter Horse Weanling Sale (streamed live on CCI.Live)

Dinner & Fellowship (provided by Livestock Nutrition Center)

Live Entertainment by Cole Snider (sponsored by Nutrien Ag Solutions)

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

8:00 am: 8:00 am: 10:00 am: 11:30 am: 12:30 pm: 1:00 pm: 3:00 pm: 3:45 pm: 4:00 pm: 4:30 pm: 6:00 pm:

Cowpuncher Coffee / Breakfast (provided by Vytelle & Cowpuncher Coffee)

Ferappease & Cattle Handling Seminar with Dr. Tom Noffsinger

50th Annual Sale Introductions (streamed live on DVAuction.com)

Angus & Black Red Angus Bulls

Lunch (provided by Spitzer Animal Health)

Commercial Females

Red Angus Bulls

Afternoon Sweet Treats (provided by ADM Animal Nutrition) SimAngus Bulls

Pizza Party (provided by Tucker Ag Products & Oligrow)

Registered Red Angus & Blk Red Angus Females

The End

Mark Your Calendars

3/10/2025: 3/11/2025: 3/12/2025

10/7-8/2025

4th Annual Ranch Horse Competition

2nd Annual RAB Family & Friends Horse Sale

10th Annual March Sale

51st Annual October Sale

REFLECTING BACK ON 50 SALES

ARE YOU STILL DOING WHAT GRANDAD DID?

Tucker came home from a conference a while back where a speaker challenged the audience with this question, “Are you still doing what Granddad did?” As the 5th generation to own and manage the R.A. Brown Ranch, I wish I could have met my grandad, R.A. Brown, as well as his father & Grandfather, R.A. Brown.

My Grandfather was attending TX A&M when his father died, and he came home to run the ranch. My dad was the first to graduate from college with a degree at his beloved Texas Tech in Animal Husbandry (with the help of Mom to get through college with severe Dyslexia.) Dad came home to the ranch with lots of ideas and motivation to make it better using the science he learned in college. But his dad, my granddad, was very traditional and risk averse like so many people that grew up during the Great Depression. The ideas and visions of my father were squelched for many years until 1964 when my parents spent time with my grandparents at our ranch in Colorado. During that time, Dad & Grandad agreed on more things than they had ever agreed on in their life. a clear vision to start implementing Dad’s vision for the future of the ranch. The day my parents headed back home, my grandad had a massive heart attack and died. Dad was 28 years old when he assumed the responsibility of running this ranch.

I am confident that our ranch has achieved so much success because my dad received his father’s blessing to go forth and make progress.

R.A. Brown Sr.

Sorting pairs on his favorite horse Whiteman

Cover of The Cattleman Magazine & The Hereford World in 1928

DETAILS for Wednesday

LOCATION: R.A. Brown Ranch Headquarters; 204 Brown Ranch Road; Throckmorton, TX 76483. It is located 4 miles west of Throckmorton on HWY 380. Then turn at the ranch sign and go 1 mile north on County Rd 112. Cross the cattleguard into the ranch and then 1 mile north and follow signs west to the new Marketing Center.

SALE ORDER & CHUCKWAGON: The sale begins promptly at 10 a.m. with cattle selling in catalog order. Our complimentary meals for two full days are courtesy of our PARTNERS. See list on page 17. We highly recommend these folks and encourage you to visit with them about their outstanding services.

AUCTIONEERS:

Doak Lambert – 972-839-6485

Trent Stewart – 541-325-3662

Eddie Burks – 270-991-6398

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENATIVES:

Donnell Brown – R.A. Brown Ranch, 940-256-1406

Greg Comstock – Gro-op, 804-647-0127

Tucker Brown – R.A. Brown Ranch, 940-256-1848

ASSOC.

/ PUBLICATION

REPS / RINGMEN:

Radale Tiner – Angus Journal, 979-492-2663

Micheal Sturgess – Southern Livestock, 210-867-6863

Ralph Means – Weekly Livestock Reporter, 817-235-9708

Cas Salley – Special Assignment, 918-855-3152

Colton Pratz – Oklahoma Cowman, 405-385-1054

Josh Taylor – Red Angus, 918-605-5139

Charlie Wood – Gulf Coast Cattleman, 210-602-1006

Scott Farmer – Special Assignment, 817-597-1731

Doug Paul - The Stock Exchange, 405-820-3982

SALE DAY VETERINARIAN:

Janey Powe DVM – 806-752-0999

AIR TRANSPORTATION: Wichita Falls: 75 miles, Abilene: 75 miles, Dallas/Ft Worth: 150 miles. For those with private planes, Olney, TX is 30 miles away and has three 5100’ runways. The N/S is lighted. They also have E/W and fuel availability 24 hours. Please call us well in advance if you need us to pick you up. The Throckmorton Airport recently closed.

HEALTH: 1) To insure that our cattle are healthy and to provide you with healthy cattle, we have a strict vaccination, herd health and biosecurity protocol. 2) All cattle have been VACCINATED to prevent Blackleg, IBR, PI3, BVD, BRSV, Vibrio, Lepto and Pinkeye. 3) All bulls in this catalog are CERTIFIED AS VIRGINS unless otherwised marked. 4) INTERSTATE HEALTH PAPERS will be provided for animals going to states that only require the specifications listed above. Any additional testing (i.e. Brucellosis or TB) will begin after the sale and those interstate health papers will be ready after all testing is completed. If you plan to haul your own cattle after the sale across the state line, please check with your state veterinarian to make sure your state will receive cattle from us without additional testing.

FERTILITY GUARANTEE:

All bulls and females are guaranteed breeders as described in the “Terms & Conditions” at the back of this catalog. All of these bulls passed a breeding soundness exam (BSE) by one of our Veterinarians. None of us can afford a bull not doing his job. Bulls can become temporarily infertile due to fever, excessive heat, injury, diet (whole cottonseed or poor diet), etc. We have experienced this with bulls we purchased with breeding soundness exams and took for granted that they were still ready to breed cows. We recommend that you fertility test all your bulls 30 days prior to each breeding season every year. If you find a bull infertile prior to or during his first 60 days with cows, please contact us immediately. After a second failed test, at least two weeks after the first, we will replace the bull or give you credit, according to the “Terms & Conditions” in the back of this catalog. Getting your cows pregnant is a high priority for us.

DELIVERY of BULLS and FEMALES:

Please see the detailed information on our Delivery Service, pages 12-13.

INSURANCE: Mortality Insurance will be available for purchase on sale day from Ag Defense Risk Management / Shari Holloway (pg 216).

FUTURE CARE:

We appreciate your investment in R.A. Brown Ranch genetics and want to make some recommendations to help you protect your investment. These bulls are ready to go straight in with your cows; however, the stress of the sale, hauling, and relocating these animals can weaken their immune system; therefore, we recommend that you check them daily for a couple of weeks. If you don’t put your bull in with cows right away, we recommend that you put your bull with another animal so that he is not by himself. Cattle are herd instinct animals and feel more comfortable with a friend. If you plan to mix your new purchase with other bulls, we recommend that you do not do it in a small pen, but rather the larger the pasture the better so that they have room to get away from each other. If you have to mix bulls, it is better to mix several at one time that have not been together, than to just put one or 2 into a large group. We recommend vaccinating for Vibrio/Lepto and fertility testing your bulls 30 days prior to the breeding season each year. 18 month old bulls can be used very effectively when turned out with one cow per month of age (18 months - breed 18 females). Remember they are still growing and losing their baby teeth so they may need some extra care after their first breeding season.

BUYING OPTIONS:

BUYING OPTIONS: Obviously we prefer for you to be with us on sale day but, if you are unable to make it you have three options: 1. Log on to DV Auction & bid on the internet (see info at top of next page). 2. Personalized Bull Shopper. We will be glad to find you the bulls you need, within your budget. To utilize this option, like about many of our long-time customers, please call Donnell Brown as soon as possible so that we can discuss how we can help you. 3. Customer Service Representatives. These men will be here and have studied the bulls. They can also put their eyes on specific cattle for you.

MORE INFORMATION: We want you to have all of the info you need to make the best decisions. To view more information, you can visit our website at www.RABrownRanch.com to sort the animals and/or view their data in spreadsheet form. Also, we have included registration numbers on the registered animals so that you can look them up on the internet. If you want more information about these bulls and/or females than what is in this catalog or on the web, please call and ask prior to Sale Day. In an effort to simplify the process, we have included the information in this catalog that we believe to be the most useful tools in describing genetic merit of each animal for economically relevant traits. To contact Donnell or Kelli Brown, you may call the ranch at 940-849-0611 or email us at kelli@rabrownranch. com.

CATALOG DESIGN & LAYOUT: Kelli Brown

CATALOG PICTURES: Kelli Brown, Morghan Ruggles, NRS, Ag Gear & R.A.Brown Ranch Cowboys

CATTLE PICTURES: Erick Schmidt

FOOTNOTES: Donnell Brown, Mike Wood, & Greg Comstock

PROOF READING: the whole Coop team, it takes a village

VIDEOS: Ideal Video Productions (Wade Fisher)

CLERKING SERVICES: Ranch Hand Analytics (Brad Wright)

SALE DAY DECORATIONS: Morghan Ruggles & Michelle Mathiews

CATALOG PRINTING: Slate Group, Lubbock, TX

20 QUARTER HORSES

160

SIMANGUS BULLS

30 AN & BLK RED ANGUS BULLS

184 REGISTERED RED ANGUS FEMALES

92 COMMERCIAL HEIFERS

212 SEMEN SPECIAL

104 RED ANGUS BULLS

221

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Online Bidding

HERD HEALTH PROTOCOL

RAB Fall Herd Vaccination Protocol

Branding/Tattoo (April)

Bull and Heifer Babies

Dectomax Injectable – de-wormer

Bovishield Gold L5 FP

Covexin 8

Cows

Long Range Injectable – de-wormer

Bovishield Gold VL5 FP

Spirovac

Covexin 8

Herd Bulls

Dectomax Injectable – de-wormer

Bovishield Gold L5 FP

Vibrin

Covexin 8

Preg-Check/Pre-weaning (July)

Cows

Long Range de-wormer

Heifers

Long Range de-wormer

Bovishield Gold L5 FP

Tri-View Pinkeye

Spirovac (Heifers Only)

Bulls

Bovishield Gold L5 FP

Tri-View Pinkeye

Dectomax Injectable

Weaning (August)

Bulls and Heifers

Bovishield Gold L5 FP

Covexin 8

Yearling Ultrasound-Prebreeding (February)

Heifers

Long Range Injectable – de-wormer

Bovishield Gold VL5 FP

Spirovac

Endovac

Bulls

Dectomax Injectable – de-wormer

Bovishield Gold L5 FP

Endovac

Armor-Wart Vaccine

18 Month old October Sale Bulls (September)

Dectomax Injectable – de-wormer

Vibrio/Lepto 5 SQ

Covexin 8

Breeding Soundness Exam

*** No Fly Zone *** by Clarify as a part of our ration pre-mix and as a topical for the horses.

Ratings Guide

Our exclusive Star Rating System is designed to help summarize all of the data and simplify your selection process. It takes into account all information available, along with some “cowboy common sense” to rate each bull for the 5 most economically relevant traits: Calving Ease, Growth, Carcass, Cow Herd and Efficiency. These ratings are consistent throughout the catalog so that you can compare all bulls across breeds. EPDs and Indexes are the most precise tools for selection within a breed and now can be used to compare Red Angus, Black Red Angus & SimAngus, however, EPDs are not comparable across all breeds yet. Angus are different.

The more stars a bull has, the better he is for that trait. Each bull is rated from 0 to 5 stars in each trait. Our Five-Star rating is the same as it has been in the past and designates elite bulls in

each category. For Growth, Carcass, Cow Herd & Efficiency, a bull has to be in the top half of the industry to even get 1 star. A Five-Star rating is only given to the cream of the crop, the most ultimate. Others have tried to emulate our system, but most imitations simply use some stars as a marketing tool to help them sell what they have rather then helping you buy what you need.

Use the individual EPDs and their respective percentile ranks to most accurately determine which bulls can help you best meet your specific needs. For example when looking at the Growth Rating, if you sell your calves at weaning time then you should look more specifically at WW EPD. For Carcass, if you need more quality grade then put more emphasis on Marbling EPD.

You may notice that our Calving Ease ratings are much more conservative than what many breeders and breed associations may recommend for use on heifers. We believe it is better to be safe than sorry. This doesn’t mean that you never have to assist one at calving, because sometimes calves are born backwards or have a leg turned back. Even the best and most proven Calving Ease sires in the industry will get a big calf every once in a while. Our goal is to help eliminate calving difficulty to the best of our ability and therefore help you manage risk.

OWNERSHIP - We are selling full possession, full salvage value and 1/2 revenue-sharing semen interest in every bull in this sale. This means the bull is totally in your control in how you want to handle him plus you get 100% of the salvage value of the bull. We are retaining 1/2 revenue-sharing semen interest in every bull in this sale. This simply gives us the right to half of the semen sales revenue from the bull if at some time in the future, semen sales become a reality.

If you choose to sell the bull to anyone else, R.A. Brown Ranch (and Cooperators) retain our semen interest in the bull. If you wish to buy a bull in this sale and would prefer that we did not retain a semen interest, then please talk with us about it prior to the sale and we will consider selling the bull(s) to you without us retaining an interest and make that agreement in writing prior to the sale. The buyer may elect to purchase as much additional semen interest as you desire by paying the additional pro-rated amount. For example you can purchase 2/3 or 3/4 semen interest by paying an additional 33% or 50% of the final bid price respectively.

If a buyer is not interested in marketing the semen

COMPLETE Stars is a new category that we implemented this year to help identify the bulls that do the most things right for all economically relevant traits. The more stars in this category means they are the MVP- Most Valuable Producer. We calculate this star category with a formula that combines all other star categories plus all of the selection indexes like $Profit, $Ranch, $Combined, API, TI, GM etc. It could also be called All-Purpose, Comprehensive or Total Merit.

Our Cow Herd stars are designed to help you select bulls that will produce better replacement females that are easier keeping, medium to smaller sized and have a medium milk production with better fertility and Stayability. Research and experience tell us that these females are more likely to stay producing calves in your herd for many years and therefore improve your profitability.

This Star Rating System is simply a tool to help you quickly find the bulls that fit your needs. Then you can take more time studying the details to find the bulls that best fit your more specific needs.

from a bull then R.A. Brown Ranch reserves the right to collect a semen bank on the bull at our cost and the buyer’s convenience. That semen would be 100% owned by the R.A. Brown Ranch for our use or marketing.

EXCLUSIVE SEMEN MARKETING RIGHTS - The buyer may elect to purchase exclusive semen marketing rights on any bull in this sale by paying double the final bid price on the bull at the time of the sale. In the event that the buyer elects to purchase exclusive semen marketing rights, then R.A. Brown Ranch retains the right of first refusal on the purchase of natural service rights of the bull if the original buyer decides to sell the natural service rights and or possession of the bull anytime during his lifetime.

REALISTICALLY SPEAKING - It is unlikely that large amounts of semen will be sold from very many bulls. However, the reason we are keeping an interest in every bull, is that we want to keep it simple and we have great bulls scattered throughout the sale. The bulls that do develop a market for large amounts of semen can be very financially rewarding; therefore, as a breeder of some of the best seedstock in the industry, we want to share with you in these bulls. Even bulls sold to commercial herds may become popular at a later time, especially if carcass data is collected on their calves. We want to be a great partner with you.

SEMEN RIGHTS - Buyers receive semen rights proportional to the interest purchased. Therefore if you purchase a 1/2 revenue-sharing semen interest then you are entitled to 1/2 of the semen collections at cost provided that you indicate that you want semen prior to collection. If you choose to collect semen from one of these bulls as an “insurance policy” for your own use, that semen is 100% yours, but before any semen is collected on any bull in this sale, R. A Brown Ranch must be notified.

FURTHER TERMS IN THIS REGARD - See Sale Terms and Conditions at the end of the catalog.

Carcass Rating

Heifer Calving Ease Rating

5

3

2

1

BRX

Growth Rating

Complete Rating

DELIVERY

We can deliver the bulls at least 80% of the distance to your ranch. We may not drop at your ranch except on purchases totaling over $40,000. Preferred delivery drop points are not guaranteed and are subject to change depending on load routes. We try hard to get the cattle to everyone as safely, timely and cost effectively as possible.

FREE DELIVERY

We are offering free delivery to our “preferred delivery points” within the continental US for each buyer that purchases at least $18,000 in bulls or $30,000 for any combination of bulls and registered females. For purchases totaling less than these amounts, we will provide delivery service to a “preferred delivery points” at the costs outlined on the next page. Please inform us when you check out if you are hauling your own or that you would like us to coordinate the delivery of your cattle. If you want us to deliver the cattle, we need you to fill out a Delivery Information Sheet in the sale day supplement and give it to the clerk when you pay out. Please

Delivery Service

note the cost of delivery associated with each delivery point. These charges will be reflected on your invoice on a per head basis.

LOAD-OUT SERVICE (for all registered cattle)

Many people prefer to haul their own cattle, and we are glad to help make this process as quick and easy as possible. If you choose to haul your own cattle, we can load them any time during the day on Wednesday through Saturday. We can load your cattle during the sale but you must first pay out and then bring the extra copy of your bill of sale (that you will receive at check out). Cattle will only be loaded when you present the extra copy of the paid Bill Of Sale. All animals that are to be hauled by the customer will be cared for at no cost through noon Saturday (3 days after the sale). Starting at noon Saturday there will be a charge of $6/head/ day for all remaining animals that were to be picked up by the buyer. There will be no charge for feed and care of animals that are designated for us to deliver when you check out unless the delivery is delayed

for any reason by the buyer. We can have Interstate Health Certificates for all animals that are going to states that accept cattle without additional testing. However, if your state requires additional testing like TB or Brucellosis, then that will be done the week after the sale and we can provide Interstate Health Certificates as soon as vet has all of the requirements met including permits from the buyer’s state.

TAKING DELIVERY ON COMMERCIAL FEMALES

All commercial females sell FOB the ranch they sell from as described in the catalog. The buyer is to coordinate directly with the seller of the heifers to coordinate picking up the heifers.

PREFERRED DELIVERY POINTS

The destinations on the chart have been selected as “Preferred Delivery Points.” Please select the two delivery points that are most convenient for you. Drop points may be adjusted after the sale time depending on the location and purchases of each buyer. Please keep in mind that this is a guide for “Preferred Delivery Points,” not guaranteed delivery points. We will be glad to calculate the cost to additional delivery points after the sale. Please give us your home, office and mobile phone numbers so that we can contact you (and anyone else that may be involved in receiving your cattle) in regard to the delivery of your cattle.

RISK and INSURANCE

As outlined in the Terms and Conditions in the back of this catalog, all cattle become the risk of the purchaser as soon as they are sold. To protect your interests, insurance will be offered & can be purchased at settlement time. The cost of this insurance is minimal and we encourage all buyers to consider buying it to cover the potential mortality of your investments.

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TELL RUGGLES | RANCH CHOREOGRAPHER

Hometown: Novinger, MO

Favorite Ranch Horse: July

Soda Shop Order: large strawberry banana smoothie

Biggest Impact Next 50 Years: Gene Editing

Favorite Donnell Brown Quote: “Let’s put a Vence around it.”

MORGHAN RUGGLES SOCIAL STRATEGIST

Hometown: Round Rock, TX

Favorite Ranch Horse: Bear

Oci’s Taco Truck Order: Asada Torta

Favorite Donnell Brown Quote: “Let’s make this a teachable moment.”

Soda Shop Order: 2 scoops of Salted Caramel Brownie on Waffle Cone

MICHELLE MATHIEWS BIG CHIEF BEAN COUNTER

Hometown: Rolla, KS

Favorite Saddle: my old Coats barrel saddle

Biggest Impact The Last 50 Years: DNA to increase the accuracy in selection

Favorite Ranch Horse: Peanut

Oci’s Taco Truck Order: Keto bowl

TUCKER BROWN MANAGER OF WILD

ANIMALS & STORYTELLER

Hometown: Throckmorton, TX

Favorite Horse: Snapchat of course

Biggest Impact the Last 50 Years in Industry: Value Based Marketing

ForRiding The Brand

Favorite Donnell Brown Quote: “Don’t let what you want cause you to use bad judgement.”

ELGA RAY SMITH OUTSTANDING OPERATOR

Hometown: Woodson, TX

Motto to Live By: Be good to my wife

Favorite Memory of the RAB: All things related to the Brown Lake

Fishing Hole

Favorite Equipment to Drive: the Loader

TRAV GOBER MASTER CHEF

Hometown: Throckmorton, TX

Favorite Horse: Pogos Honky Tonk “Bud”

Biggest Impact Next 50 Years: Elections

Oci’s Taco Truck Order: the spiciest thing she has Boot Maker: James Leddy

GRACE OYER GATOR PATROL

Hometown: Fort Meyers, FL

Favorite Ranch Horse: Mr. George

Biggest Impact Next 50 Years: Artificial Intelligence

Boot Maker: Olathe

Oci’s Taco Truck Order: 1 picadillo taco with onion cilantro cheese and guac, 1 pepper

WILLIE WARDLE ASSISTANT TO THE STORYTELLER

Hometown: Bel Air, MD

Boot Maker: Fenoglio

Biggest Impact The Last 50 Years: Ferappease because it’s amazing

Favorite Saddle: a Robert Mitchell

Favorite Ranch Horse: anything with Take A Pick in it

MEET THE R.A. BROWN RANCH CREW!

DONNELL BROWN | HEAD HONCHO

Hometown: Throckmorton, TX

Boots: Leddys Legacy

Favorite Horse: Take A Pick

Biggest Impact Next 50 Years: DNA testing Commercial Females

LANHAM BROWN WRANGLER

Hometown: Throckmorton, TX

Favorite Ranch Horse: Casino

Favorite Saddle: a Robert Mitchell

Oci’s Taco Truck Order: Lunatic Torta

Soda Shop Order: butter crunch in a sugar cone

BRILEY BECK INTERN TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY

Hometown: Lamesa, TX

Favorite Boots: RC Customs in Lubbock

Oci’s Taco Truck Order: Large order of lunatic quesadillas

Favorite Ranch Horse: Tee

Favorite Donnell Brown Quote: “The ag industry has never moved this fast and will never move this slow again.”

EASON REECE THE BULL MAN

Hometown: Spring Garden, AL

Favorite Ranch Horse: Pickles

Biggest Impact the Last 50 Years in Industry: advancements in breeding tech such as ET and AI

Favorite Boots: Anderson Bean

EMMA THRASHER INTERN TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

Hometown: Wahoo, NE

Favorite Ranch Horse: Cal

Soda Shop Order: 2 scoops vanilla on a sugar cone

Biggest Impact Next 50 Years: Being more efficient with less Favorite Donnell Brown Quote: “Did we wart vax these?”

KELLI BROWN HANDLER OF HEAD HONCHO

Hometown: Curtis, NE

Oci’s Taco Truck Order: Lunatic Keto Bowl with Guac

Favorite Ranch Horse: the one with an RAB on the left shoulder

Favorite Boots: R Watson

RYLAN SHOBE INTERN TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY

Hometown: Argyle, TX

Favorite Horse: Red Man

Favorite Saddle: Cactus

Oci’s Taco Truck Order: Piccadillo Burrito

Favorite Donnell Brown Quote: “Make the right thing easy and the wrong thing uncomfortable.”

“I have known Todd Spitzer since we were both in the 6th grade. He has been our Animal Health provider since 1988. Similarly, Tucker & Lanham grew up with Gus West who has worked for Spitzer since he was in high school and is now the one that delivers our products to us on time, at at the right price and with a smile just like

Donnell Brown

That’s what we call these special friends. All of them have one thing in common .... they provide and service an exceptional product. Please visit with them on sale day and you’ll see why we are pleased to have them working with us. They help us make sure you will have plenty to eat and drink on site for two full days along with extra special door prizes.

• Spitzer Animal Health (pg 16) – Providing & serving Wednesday’s lunch.

• Livestock Nutrition Center (pg 29) – Preparing & serving dinner on Tuesday.

• ADM Animal Nutrition (pg 105) – in charge of sweetening your afternoon on Tuesday / Wednesday.

• Vence (pg 45) – Preparing & serving lunch on Tuesday.

• Tucker Ag & Oligrow (pg 215) – Pizza Party hosts on Wednesday afternoon.

• Vytelle (pg 179) – Providing breakfast on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings.

• Nutrien Ag Solutions (pg 211) – Sponsoring the musical influence of Cole Snider on Tuesday evening.

• Morgan Livestock Equipment (pg 161) – Providing equipment and panels for the educational demonstrations on Tuesday.

• Ferappease (pg 101) – Providing a complimentary bottle of product to all buyers.

• Central Life Sciences (pg 61) – No Fly Zone and bottled water courtesy of these good folks.

• Bedrock Truck Beds (pg 89) – Furnishing a number of golf carts for you to utilize.

• Ag Gear (pg 49) – Providing sale day shirts for our hard working crew.

• Cowpuncher Coffee (pg 69) – Will make sure you have the best coffee in Texas to start your days.

• Ranch Fuel (pg 201) – Stay fueled up with this amazing drink available for the first time.

• Farmhouse Vineyard (pg 133) –– Collaborated with us on a commemorative bottle for the event and will be on hand to pour a sample for you.

• Ag Defense Risk Management (pg 216) –Talk to our friend Shari about insuring your purchases today!

• Repro-Scan (pg 91) – Stop by the Genetic Bank and visit with Ryan O’Connell about how helpful and easy this machine is to scan for pregnancies.

Our PARTNERS

“Our team is thankful for all of these partners. Their service and products help us build a better bull.”

Food, Fellowship & Fun

The TEAM Introducing

We are fortunate to have some of the most astute cattlemen as a part of this team. You will see that each lot in the sale shows which herd they originated in.

These cattle follow the same genetic plan that ours do. They have very high targets to meet to be considered for the program including weight per day of age, optimum epds, health protocol, verified parentage, genomically enhanced, structure standards, no creep feed and most importantly, integrity in the data.

The cooperator bulls are born and raised at their respective ranches and then delivered to Throckmorton after being weaned at least 45 days. Once here they are co-mingled,

branded, and developed for at least eight months. Under our care, they are evaluated multiple times for feet and leg structure and disposition. They are developed right along side our own and treated as such. We take all of the yearling measurements including ultrasound, yearling weight, yearling height, scrotal measurements, and most of them are feed efficiency tested. Finally, they must pass a fertility test to be included in the sale day offering.

Simply put, buy with confidence. Together we are proud to offer bulls that have not only met the highest standards but come to you with one goal in mind....to make you, our customer, more profit.

TEAM RAB

3K — 3K Land & Cattle Co., Judy Kay Ferguson, Kyley & Brenna DeVoe, Justin, TX (Red Angus)

6S — Gerald Shilling & Cody Maxwell, Ladonia, TX (Red Angus)

AA — Roddy Alexander, Roscoe, TX (Red Angus)

ABG — Advanced Beef Genetics, Rex Hoppes, Mike Henderson & Stan Pearson, Van Meter, IA (SimAngus)

BARW — Bar W Angus, Mark Worthington, Weatherford, TX (Angus)

BCC — Biar Cattle Co., Ted & Sherri Biar, Stephenville, TX (Angus)

BEL — Jody & Betsy Bellah & family, Throckmorton, TX (Angus, SimAngus & Red Angus)

BOLA — Lane Ladewig & Ken Bower Forestburg, TX (Red Angus)

BPL — Breckenridge Partnership, Lawton Heatley (Angus & Red Angus)

CCFP — C & C Family Partners, Eddie & Mary Curtis, Silsbee, TX (Red Angus & Angus)

CH — Cedar Hill Farms, Dan & Alicia Stickel, Jane Lew, WV (Red Angus)

CHAS — Chasah Ranch, Wichita Falls, TX (Red Angus)

CRSB — Cross B Cattle Co. — Tony, Allison & Carson Ballinger, Morgan Mill, TX (Red Angus)

CZR — Casey & Ashley Zboril, Caldwell, TX (Angus & Red Angus)

DBF — Diamond B Farms, Glen Brammer, Gordon, TX (Angus)

DDR — Ken Bower, Forestburg, TX (SimAngus)

DUR — Pat & Phoebe Durden, Quincy, FL (Red Angus)

GMM — Gary & Michelle Mathiews, Woodson,TX (Red Angus)

GTLS —Truett & Lila Spruill, Carbon, TX (Red Angus)

H2R — Henderson Red Angus, Toby & Frank Henderson, Seymour, TX (Red Angus)

J-L — Jim Riggins, Vernon, TX (Angus)

JR — Brad & Charlotte Jones, Telephone,TX (Angus & Red Angus)

JVCC — Jennings Ventures, Gabe & Kayla Jennings, Throckmorton, TX (Angus & Red Angus)

JYJ — Jim & Jessica Yance, Columbia, AL (Red Angus)

KCCF — Clover Creek Farms, Kleiboeker Family, Stotts City, MO (SimAngus)

LABR— Lanham & Josey Brown, Throckmorton, TX (Red Angus)

LEST — Toby & Trevyr Lester, Gentry, AR (Red Angus)

LIGHT — Lightning Creek Cattle Co, Jeff Smith, Girard, KS (Angus)

LR — Brady & Kyla Larson, Sharon Springs, KS (Angus)

LJR — Lynn Jones, Ardmore, OK (Red Angus)

M3C — M3 Cattle Company, Ian & Jess Miller, Henryetta, OK (Red Angus)

M5 — M5, Riley Malone Family, Mullin, TX (Red Angus)

MATH — Mathias Ranch, Sam Mathias, Gentry, AR (Red Angus)

MAY — Mayfield Angus Farm, Mike, Susan, Will & McKenzie Mayfield, Pulaski, TN (Angus)

MEW — Wood Red Angus, Mike & Kathryn Wood, Stilwell, OK (Red Angus)

M4CC & CLM — Chuck & Christi Miller, Olean, MO (SimAngus & Red Angus)

MCC — McIntire Cattle Company, Breckenridge, TX (Angus)

MXLK— MaxLock Cattle Company, Cody Maxwell & Clint Whitlock, Savoy, TX (Angus)

POAGE — Trey Poage, Marble Falls, TX (Angus)

PRA — Pelton Family, Burdett, KS (Red Angus & SimAngus)

PVC — Red American Cattle, Pedro Viana, Alachua, FL (Red Angus)

RAB — R A Brown Ranch, Throckmorton, TX

ROBA — Rob A. & Talley Brown & family, Stinnett, TX (Angus)

RGMR — Mike & Terri Morrison, Silsbee, TX (Red Angus)

RHOD — Rhodes Red Angus, Rhodes Family, Maize, KS (Red Angus)

RRR — Reflected R Ranch, Curtis & Susan Russell, Sugar City, CO (SimAngus)

SCHU — Taylor Schuster, San Juan, TX (Red Angus)

SLB — Shane Berend, Windthorst, TX (Angus, Red Angus)

SF — Curtis Schaefer, Clarendon, TX (Angus)

SNOW — Danny & Jan Snow, Savoy, TX (Angus)

STUMP — Ryan & Brit O’Connell, Platville, WI (Red Angus)

SW — Stephen Williams, Centerville, TX (Red Angus)

TCM — Todd & Marianne McCartney, Throckmorton, TX (Red Angus)

TDBR — Tucker, Karley Rayley & Brooklyn Brown, Throckmorton, TX (Red Angus)

THJH — Paraiso Escondido Ranch, Ted Hogan & Ryan Railsback, Cisco, TX (Red Angus)

TOLL — Williams Ranch, Mallory & Ross Tolleson and Paula Williams, Jacksboro, TX (Angus)

TPW — Tom & Pat Woodward, Decatur, TX (Red Angus)

XACT— Sue Ann Berend, Joy, TX (Angus, Red Angus)

2024 R.A. Brown Ranch Quarter Horse Sale

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 With

6:00 pm

As we have for 50 years, we will be offering Quarter Horse weanlings during this event. The weanlings will be on site but will sell via video immediately following the Registered Angus Female sale. CCI.Live will be streaming both the Angus females and the horses for your online viewing / bidding.

L7 Ranch - Chris Hardcastle

REFLECTING BACK ON 50 SALES

MOM AND DAD

I give thanks that I am still able to work with my entire family and side by side with my dad throughout my entire life. He started giving me lots of responsibility shortly after I came home to work with him. Now here I am almost twice as old as he was when he had to take the rains to this ranch by himself. Dad is approaching 90 years old and although he is not driving anymore, I go pick him up several days a week and together we make a circle around the ranch. He insists that he gets a gate (every once in a while) but I get most of them, like I did for all the many years when he was driving, and I was in the passenger seat. I have a renewed appreciation for opening those gates for my dad and am blessed to have his continual advisement and friendship. I am also very thankful for all the many years of council, suggestions and love from Mom. Dad received his father’s blessing, but lots of credit also needs to be given to Mom for helping carry the torch with Dad while also being an awesome wife, mom, grandmom and financially sound business partner. Every time I go to their house to pick up Dad for our drive, I always get a hug from Mom, questions about what is happening at the ranch and usually some words of wisdom.

THE TRANSITION

Mom & Dad did an amazing job of “KEEPING THE RANCH IN THE FAMILY AND THE FAMILY IN THE RANCH.” You may remember our complete dispersal in 2013 culminated the transfer of the family business from Mom & Dad to us 4 kids and our families all of whom are still ranching on our different parts of the ranch. Kelli and I have been running the seedstock business since the late 90’s but 11 years ago we became the sole owners of the RAB Headquarters unit including the Bull Business. For those of you that wonder about the whole family tree....we decided to diagram it for you! We’ll work on the “expanded version” next time as it is quickly multiplying. What a blessing.

Matt & Michelle Bellah

Brad Bellah

Layne & Laurie Strebeck

ROB & PEGGY BROWN

Jody & Betsy Bellah Rob A. & Talley Brown

Amy Brown

RA & Kristen Brown

Griffin & Kelli Brown

Myles & Jaylee Brown

Lydia Brown

Amanda Brown

Ike Brown

Nick & Emily Eiguren

Will & Clare McCartney

Ben & Jayla McCartney

Todd & Marianne McCartney Donnell & Kelli Brown

Tucker & Karley Brown

Lanham & Josey Brown

Caroline McCartney

Claire McCartney

R.A. “Rob” & Peggy Brown

Grand Champion pen of heifers at the 1959 Texas Hereford Stocker Feeder Show, Ft Worth Stockyards

CONGRATULATIONS BUZZ!

Joe N. “Buzz” Thorp to receive Ranching Heritage Association Working Cowboy Award

Joe N. “Buzz” Thorp, a cowboy who has worked on ranches from Tennessee to Montana and New Mexico to Texas, will be the sixth recipient of the Ranching Heritage Association (RHA) Working Cowboy Award presented during the annual National Golden Spur Award Honors on Saturday, October 5, at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center in Lubbock, Texas.“The RHA Working Cowboy Award is designed to recognize an outstanding individual who makes his living primarily horseback, caring for livestock on a daily basis,” said Jim Bret Campbell, executive director of the Ranching Heritage Association and the National Ranching Heritage Center. “Buzz Thorp represents all of the facets of the working cowboy award. He is a cowboy’s cowboy, a teacher and a true representative of our cow-country values.”

Sale Lot Number:

All bulls and registered females sell in catalog order.

RAB Exclusive Star Rating System

Compares bulls across breeds in five areas of economic relevance: Complete, Heifer Calving, Growth, Carcass Merit, and Cowherd. In general more stars indicate greater genetic improvement. There is a more detailed explanation of the RAB Star System in the front of the catalog.

Docility Score Every RAB bull is individually scored 1-5 for docility where 1 represents the most docile.

DOB:

Birthdate of Animal.

REG#

Registration number assigned by the American Angus Association (AAA).

Herd: Identifies cooperator (herd of origin). Go to RABrownRanch.com/ cooperators/ and meet our cooperator team.

Animal ID: Animal’s tattoo no.

Program Designations

Targeting the Brand indicates that this bull’s high genetic carcass values should sire calves should meet specs for CAB.

The Powered By Angus symbol means that you are buying a registered Angus Bull. We are proud to register and test every bull in this sale.

$PROFIT is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls’ impact on profitability over their productive life (100 calves).

$RANCH is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls impact on profitability per calf when keeping replacement females and selling calves at weaning time.

$FEEDER is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls’ value as a post weaning feeder calf. Growth, Feed Efficiency and Carcass Value are included.

% RANK compares an individual animal to all Angus that have been evaluated in $Profit multi-breed genetic evaluation of over 1 million head.

FERT

EPD Fertility predicts differences in females’ ability to get pregnant and and raise a calf every year. A higher FERT EPD predicts greater lifetime fertility, which will result in higher $Profit and $Ranch.

F:G EPD is a genetic prediction of relative differences in feed efficiency. Lower F:G EPDs indicate less feed will be consumed to produce one pound of gain. This EPD is calculated using Feed Intake data through the $Profit genetic evaluation.

Angus

Percentile Ranks: Percentile ranks indicate where this animal’s EPDs rank vs. other non-parent animals in the AAA database. A 10% rank indicates that animal is in the top ten percent of the over half a million non-parent animals in the AAA database.

$M: AAA Index predicting profitability for cattlemen who sell their calves at weaning time and retain their own replacement females.

$C: AAA Index is an “All Purpose Index” designed to help improve the long term profitability of producers that raise their own replacement heifers while feeding the rest of their calves and selling them on a value-based carcass grid.

Max Acc. The presence of these indicate Genomically Enhanced EPDs. The AGI symbol indicates genomic data obtained through DNA at AAA.

The Targeting the Brand™ logo highlights registered Angus bulls with greater genetic potential to produce calves that meet the most challenging specifications of the Certified Angus Beef ® brand.

Only 1 in 4 non-parent Angus bulls qualify.

Don’t buy an imposter.

Not all “Angus” bulls are REGISTERED Angus bulls.

If you see this logo in conjunction with an individual animal or group of animals, you know that that animal is registered with the American Angus Association and backed by the power of data , programs and pedigrees of the Association.

Invest wisely in those that carry the Powered By Angus logo.

Look for the REGISTRATION NUMBER. For more information on the Powered By Angus program, visit: Angus.org/PBA.

50th

We kickoff our 50th Annual Sale with this

even better carcass and cowherd traits. You will notice this year we added a

The more stars for this category, the more genetically superior he is for all traits combined. This bull earned the maximum 5 star rating because he is so COMPLETE.

Like lot 1, this bull is super COMPLETE. Notice his high rankings for all the $Profit metrics including $Ranch, $Feeder, Fertility & Feed Efficiency (F:G). Then take a look at the amazing combination of being >$100 for $M (Maternal), >$200 for $B (Beef) & >300 for $C (Combined). Thanks to Brad Jones for setting this target. You can find $B on all of these Angus bulls on the sortable spreadsheet on our website: RABRownRanch.com. This tool makes selection simple.

Making great cows that are highly fertile, super

is one of our strongest objective. Plus we love it when they have amazing marbling to earn you more

of their

beef. Like the bull above he is one of the rare animals that fits our goal of 1, 2, 3 for $M, $B & $C. That is >

200 & 300 or top 2%, 5% & 15% respectively. That is rare company. Only 9 active sires in the breed meet this achievement.

One of the best bulls in the business for making you money. Profit =Income - Expenses. $Profit, $Ranch & $Feeder are the best indexes in the business at describing genetics that make you the most money. This bull excels in all 3 of them. Use $Ranch if you sell calves at weaning and keep replacements. Use $Profit if you keep heifers and sell the rest on a value based grid. Use $Feeder if you feed all of your calves & sell them on a value based grid.

Take a look at this impressive bull that earned the maximum 5 star rating for both calving ease to use on heifers & for carcass. What is even more impressive is that his mother has been our top Angus donor for the past 2 years and she is the lot A1 female in our Registered Angus female sale on Tuesday Oct 8th at 5 pm. This bull is sure to produce conservatively sized daughters that we like to call Goldilocks cows because they are just right.

Here is another calving ease specialist. We are all enjoying record high calf

Take a look at this high growth powerhouse that has the

1/10th of 1

for

so that your steers & your heifers can do more with less.

(F:G). Plus he has outstanding feet. We are in the process of building a supply chain for the most Sustainable Angus genetics and genetics like this really fit the target of doing more with less.

Here is a paternal brother to the bull above that also earned the maximum 5 star rating for growth and carcass. If you are looking for bulls that make great feeder cattle that grow fast and hang up an amazing carcass that earn lots of premiums for tremendous marbling and muscle, then you should own this bull. He is the 2nd highest %B bull in the sale at 229. See & sort all of their EPDs on a spreadsheet on our website.

Wow!!! Take a look at this beast that is a

cialists. This bull’s calves have the genetics to grow fast, convert

is sure to ring the cash register for you. Plus he does all of this with an impressive, “front pasture” look that is sure to slow traffic with everyone that drives by your place.

Confidence

high for all of the $Profit indexes as well as all of the Angus indexes. This is the right kind.

Veracious is a new sire that we used heavily again this year because of the multi-trait genetic excellence that he produces in his offspring like you see in this son. This bull is medium sized, thick made and easy keeping with lots of volume.

50th Golden Opportunity

RAB Exclusive Star Rating System

Compares bulls across breeds in five areas of economic relevance: Complete, Heifer Calving, Growth, Carcass Merit, and Cowherd. In general more stars indicate greater genetic improvement. There is a more detailed explanation of the RAB Star System in the front of the catalog.

Sale Lot Number:

All bulls and registered females sell in catalog order.

Docility Score Every RAB bull is individually scored 1-5 for docility where 1 represents the most docile.

$PROFIT is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls’ impact on profitability over their productive life (100 calves).

$RANCH is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls impact on profitability per calf when keeping replacement females and selling calves at weaning time.

$FEEDER is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls’ value as a post weaning feeder calf. Growth, Feed Efficiency and Carcass Value are included.

% RANK compares an individual animal to all Red Angus that have been evaluated in $Profit multi-breed genetic evaluation of over 1 million head.

FERT EPD Fertility

predicts differences in females’ ability to get pregnant and and raise a calf every year. A higher FERT EPD predicts greater lifetime fertility, which will result in higher $Profit and $Ranch. F:G EPD is a genetic prediction of relative differences in feed efficiency. Lower F:G EPDs indicate less feed will be consumed to produce one pound of gain. This EPD is calculated using Feed Intake data through the $Profit genetic evaluation.

DOB:

Birthdate of Animal.

REG#

Registration number assigned by the Red Angus Association of America (RAAA).

Black

Red

CAT: All Red Angus and Black/Red Angus Bulls are registered with the RAAA. This indicates their respective registry category and percent Angus parentage.

Herd: Identifies cooperator (herd of origin). Go to RABrownRanch.com/ cooperators/ and meet our cooperator team.

Animal ID: Animal’s tattoo no.

GdM: RAAA GridMaster Index compares relative profitability per cow exposed when bulls are used on mature cows but no replacements are kept, and all progeny are fed and marketed on a value based grid.

Red Angus EPDs and Percentile Ranks: CED - Calving Ease Direct BW - Birth Weight WW - Weaning Weight YW - Yearling Weight Milk - Daughters Milk Production MARB - Marbling REA - Rib Eye Area

Percentile Ranks: Percentile ranks indicate where this animal’s EPDs rank vs. other non-parent animals in the RAAA database. A 1% rank indicates that animal is in the top one percent of the approximate 150,000 non-parent animals in the

Max Acc. The presence of these indicate Genomically Enhanced EPDs. The GenEE symbol indicates genomic data obtained through DNA at RAAA.

Angus Bulls

This may be the best Angus bull in the sale. He is by far the highest $Ranch Angus bull in this sale so if you are looking to make steers that pay & cows that stay then this bull is for you. His mother is a beautiful donor cow that sells as lot 548. Thanks to the Angus Association for opening the pathway to bring in fresh new superior Angus genetics from the Red Angus gene pool. This is registered with the AAA & the RAAA. These are his Red Angus EPDs.

This is a super bull and the only bull in the sale that earned the maximum 5 star rating for all 5 economically relevant categories. This is one of those All Around or all purpose bulls that looks great too. His name is SHADRACH, read more about why in the notes on his amazing mother who sells as lot 501. She endured the fire and has 8 outstanding sons in this sale that are all maternal brothers to our most used bull of 2024 - Brown GTLS Titus.

The EPDs on these black reds are from the Red Angus Association and are not directly comparable to Angus EPDs but I believe the % Ranks are a good proxy to make comparisons. The $Profit numbers are directly comparable across all breeds and so are my Star Ratings. So buy with confidence. Take a look at the amazing growth and carcass strength in this bull that scores high for all $Profit numbers from $Profit all the way to Feed Efficiency. This is the money making kind.

This bull is the 2nd highest $ $Ranch & 6th highest %Profit of all Angus & Black Red Angus bulls in this sale. His mother was an amazing cow that continues her dominance and the highest $Profit of all Red Angus or Black Red Angus animals in the entire database. I love the look of this bull, He is medium to conservative in his frame size but loaded with muscle. I love it when bulls do everything really well & look good doing it.

Total Completeness. This good looking bull earned 24 of the maximum 25 stars for excellence. High Security is a great sire who’s daughters are highly fertile and productive. You will see lots more of these in this sale & for the next few years to come. This is a bull you can breed to heifers and sleep all night through calving because they should come easy. Then they will grow like crazy, hit the jackpot on the grid & make great replacement females.

Here is the 4th highest $Ranch and 5th highest $Profit black Angus or Black Red Angus bull in the sale. He is a big time winner for FERTtility and feed efficiency (F:G). Most breeders don’t even measure these traits, but we go the extra mile to make sure our bulls do as many things right as possible to help improve your profitability and sustainability in the cattle business.

Angus Bulls

We have been blending the best of both colors of Angus together for 27 years and they continue to be some of the best bulls and females in our program every year. Buy these bulls with confidence and realize that if your cows are all (homozygous) black then all of your calves by these black Red Angus bulls should be black and eligible for Certified Angus Beef premiums.

Tahoe is another great cow making bull and this son is one of the most feed efficient bulls ranking better than the top 1% for F:G. Breed these black Red Angus bulls to cows with a red gene, like a black baldie and you still should get 75% black calves. The great news is that you get the best of both colors of Angus in your herd and therefore produce better steers that pay & cows that stay.

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Fertility is the most economically important trait in the cattle business and this bull has by far the highest Fertility metric in the entire sale. He is also the #1 $Ranch bull. Therefore he should make amazing daughters with excellent fertility and longevity. But more than that, he aloe earned 5 stars for both growth and carcass.

REFLECTING BACK ON 50 SALES

WHAT WE ARE DOING?

Are we still doing what Grandad did? Literally no, but strategically yes. We continue to remain customer focused and use all the tools we have available to make the best possible decisions. Since Grandad died in 1965 the tools have improved, the technology has advanced, and the pace of change has accelerated. The paradox of change is that change has never moved this fast, and it will never move this slow again. Moving forward we are committed to doing what is best for you, our customers, with a vision of improving your profitability and sustainability in the cattle business through sound science, technology and business principles. Personally, we are committed to our faith in the saving grace of Jesus Christ as well as the best interests of our family and the God given gifts and callings each are blessed with.

GENERATIONS 5, 6 & 7

Kelli and I have been married 33 years and she is such a blessing and essential part of our family and business. This catalog and many other things in our family and business are only possible because of her hard work and dedication. Like my mom, Kelli is the business and finance mind of the family and the glue that holds everything together. We are very thankful that both of our sons have come back to join us in our family business.

Tucker continues to grow his influence through social media, a You Tube channel and now his own podcast, Registered Ranching. He continues to make a big difference as a big advocate for agriculture, faith and family while continually making us laugh. He is also doing a great job of growing our R.A. Brown Ranch Beef business selling direct to consumers & through some retail stores. His wife Karley does a great job as the kindergarten teacher here in Throckmorton and they have been blessed with two wonderful little girls, Rayley & Brooklyn.

Lanham continues to grow the family business with his amazing success in training and showing our ranch horses. Big wins for him in the past year include winning the non-pro divisions of the Snaffle Bit Futurity and the World’s Greatest Horseman competition, plus many more. Josey is the first Dr. Brown of the family and works in a physical therapy clinic in Graham while also helping Lanham with the horses.

We are blessed and give thanks to each of you for the opportunity you have and continue to provide us through your investments in our genetics so that we have and continue to raise generation after generation of our family in this business.

Donnell Brown Family Lanham & Josey, Donnell & Kelli, Brooklyn Belle, Karley, Rayley & Tucker

heifers and his calves should grow and grade like crazy to ring the cash register regardless of how or where you sell them.

This bull is tied for the 2nd highest $Ranch Angus

We liked this bull so much that we selected him to naturally breed our registered heifers & cows after AI season. Notice he earned our maximum 5 Star rating for CE, Growth & Carcass. Don’t let his work clothes fool you, we had him out working so he is a little leaner than the rest. This bull & every bull have been trich tested free and are guaranteed sound functional breeders. Use this bull’s experience to your advantage.

High Security is one of my favorite sires because he does so many things right. There are a dozen of them in this sale and you will see many more in the yeas to come because he continues to be one of the highest use Angus Sires in our breeding program. Notice how this bull is so complete that he is one of the few in the entire sale that earned a total of 22 out of 25 total stars with excellent WW, Carcass, $B & $C.

We select for good feet because you deserve it.

Will you be keeping more heifers over the next three years? If so, here is a 4 star calving ease bull

Here we go into a group of bigger framed bulls with lots of

Every year we have about 20 bulls in this sale that our family has used to breed our cows during the past year. This is the

Like lot 12, this is Angus bull with Red Angus heritage with decades of selection pressure from both colors of Angus to produce Goldilocks sized cows that are deep bodied, easy keeping, thick made and high marbling. Thanks to a change at the Angus Association a couple of years ago we can now registered homozygous black bulls like this one with both Angus Associations. Both of them tell us this is an outstanding bull .

We love the Tahoe sire group and have used him heavily. In fact there are 16 Tahoe sons in this sale. Notice this one earns 4 stars in the new COMPLETE category because of his multi-trait excellence. Usually it’s the ones that do the most things right and the least things wrong that make you the most money. Like this bull.

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This is the first of 8 bulls in a row like lot 12. They are homozygous black and in the process of being registered with the Angus Association. These are their Red Angus EPDs. But remember you can compare $Profit numbers and the Stars across the breeds. Plus I like to compare the % Ranks of the EPDs and find that helpful in comparing Angus & Red Angus. This is also the 1st of 3 full brothers.

CONFIDENCE PLUS 1449L CONNEALY CONFIDENCE PLUS

Here is the 2nd full brother in a row and he earned one of the highest tabulations for $Profit, $Ranch, $Feeder, Fertility. The Gridmaster Index is comparable to $B in Angus & even though you can’t compare the number, you can compare the percentile rank. We will include their Angus EPDs on the spreadsheet on our website for you to search and sort prior to the sale.

CONFIDENCE PLUS

CONFIDENCE PLUS 1439L

This is the 3rd of 3 full brothers and I love this mating of Confidence Plus and Sure Fire. Their mother is one of my favorite cows of all time and still the highest $Profit of all Red Angus & Black Red Angus animals in the $Profit database that includes data on over 1.5 million cattle. It is a great genetic evaluation that helps us compare animals within and across breed for both income and expenses ; therefore best describing profit.

$ PROFIT $

Need more growth? Want to sell more pounds in the right package? Take a look at this bull that ranks in the top 1% for Weaning Weight, Yearling Weight, Average Daily Gain and the Gridmaster Index (Similar to $B in Angus) and $Feeder. This is the money making kind and he looks amazing also.

Angus Bulls

Remember, we are in the middle of 8 Angus bulls that will be registered with the American Angus Association by sale time. Yes, these are Red Angus EPDs, but we will have their Angus EPDs in the sortable spreadsheet on our website. They will produce all black calves, no reds. Well I guess they can produce smokey colored calves out of Charolais cross cows just like every other Angus bull registered with the American Angus Association.

We love the Confidence Plus sire group because they do so many things right. We love his daughters because they make great cows. This is a full brother to the next bull & they are 3/4 brothers to lots 33, 34 & 35 all being out of outstanding Sure Fire daughters.

Confidence Plus is the largest sire group in this sale with 23 sons selling. This bull has had a huge impact on our program and will for years to come through his daughters. Sadly he is no longer with us and his semen is rare. In fact the semen to make these cost 6.5 times the average semen price. But it was worth it to make outstanding bulls like this in volume. A full brother sells as lot 103.

This deep bodied, easy keeping, thick made bull boasts the highest Gridmaster Index in the sale. Gridmaster is comparable to $Beef as both identify cattle that are best at producing cattle that make the most money after they leave the ranch and go to the feedyard and sell on a value based grid.

Five stars for the new COMPLETE category. This stout made beast is a paternal brother to lots 2 & 3. They are really good for growth, carcass and cowherd traits. Look him up on the sortable spreadsheet on our website and notice that his daughters will make highly fertile and efficient mommas that are the right size - like Goldilocks. Notice how this bull ranks high for $M & $C as well as $B & $Feeder. Plus this bull is a leader for feed efficiency.

Brown Bel JVCC Surpass 8648L / Lot

Brown JR Remington 8428L / Lot 41

BROWN MS FRANCHISE F942

BROWN CONFIDENT L1423 BROWN CONFIDENT J1263 CONNEALY CONFIDENCE PLUS

BROWN ECLIPSE F1338

BROWN MS ECLIPSE H1758

BROWN MS 10X D1534

This bull leads us back into a super set of All Purpose bulls that are safe to use on heifers while also producing calves that grow fast, with great carcass merit and make super momma cows. They are black Angus bulls that are registered with a different Angus Association The are a blend of the best Angus & Red Angus genetics and are what we call our Black Red Angus.

This is a full brother to lot 13 and their mother is the lead off cow in our sale today as lot 501. You will enjoy reading the story about her. Thankfully she is very prolific and has 8 total sons in this sale. Notice the overall genetic excellence of hits bull. He is one of the best. I can’t think of a good reason not to buy these black Red Angus bulls - When bred to straight Angus cows their calves will all be black and eligible for Certified Angus Beef.

This bull leads us into a group of more conservatively sized bulls that are stout made and easy keeping with less overall feed needs for them and their mature daughters, but still producing fast growing calves with strong carcass merit. These bulls will be great at making Goldilocks sized cows that are not too big, not too small, but just right.

Are you tired of your cows that have gotten too big and they are eating you out of house & home? Take a look at this outstanding bull that will make amazing replacement females that are more conservative in their size and have added efficiency so that they stay fat on not much more than scenery.

Angus Bulls

This bull can help you produce highly fertile, super calf raising momma cows with added growth and carcass value. Some may ask why he only has 3 stars for CE when he has such good EPDs. The genomically enhanced EPDs are by far the best indicator of what to expect in his offspring. But because he weighed 81 pounds at birth, he did not meet my criteria to earn 4 or 5 stars for Calving Ease. I am conservative and hedge on the side of safety.

We have been blending the best of both colors of Angus together for 27 years and they continue to be some of the best bulls and females in our program every year. Buy these bulls with confidence and realize that if your cows are all (homozygous) black then all of your calves by these black Red Angus bulls should be black and eligible for Certified Angus Beef premiums.

You are sure to like this calving ease specialist. He is the front pasture kind that all of your neighbors will be stopping along side the road to look at him. Notice his super marbling as well. Making better beef helps please the consumers who continue to show they are willing to pay significantly more for Prime beef.

Talk about calving ease, this bull is a super choice for breeding heifers. Your help, your wife and your heifers will thank you for buying this bull because they will spit those babies out like watermelon seeds.

This is one of the 16 Complete sons in the sale & Complete describes them very well.

Here is a paternal brother to lot 1 and this one has even better calving ease and a $Maternal index over 100 putting him in

this sale has had a clean Trich test regardless of whether we used them or if they are virgin bulls like 95% of the bulls in this sale are.

I love the Confidence Plus x Sure Fire matings.

Super Calving Ease. Why use a Longhorn, Corriente or Jersey on your heifers when you can get the same level of calving ease with these 5 star bulls. Plus you get so much more value in your calves because they are Angus that grow so much more, look better, and bring you more money. This is the same fantastic mating as the bull above and we used them both on our family’s heifers.

Be careful walking behind your heifers when they are calving if they are bred to this bull. If they cough, you might get hit by a flying calf. They should come out really easy. Plus the daughters should make great cows. Notice his 5 Star Cowherd rating and his $100 $Maternal Index. This is the kind you need & yes you should keep heifers out of your heifers when they are bred to bulls like this. Because your heifers

Use this bull for easy calving and the ability to make super momma cows. Check out the $Maternal at $100 (that is better than 99% of all other Angus cattle in the entire United States of America. Conservatively sized bulls like this is what you need to improve the fertility and efficiency of your cows to improve your profits by reducing costs & having fewer open cows to cull.

This is the 4th highest $Beef bull in the sale at $218. Notice he is also the #2 $Feeder Index bull in these Angus bulls. $B & $Feeder are very similar indexes. One is calculated by the Angus Association and the other by the $Profit team. We use both databases to give you and us more tools to help make better selections. Buy with confidence. This bull is sure to make amazing feeder cattle.

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We

Here is one of the best feed efficiency bulls in the sale and the first of 5 Tahoe sons in a row. We started feed efficiency testing almost a decade ago to help you produce more with less and improve your profits by decreasing your cost of production from conception to the rail. Get a jump on the competition by buying bulls that have been tested for feed efficiency so that you can do more with less.

Here is a 3/4 brother to the bull above. If you want to see his outstanding mother, she is selling in this sell as lot A27 on Tuesday evening and she will be on display.

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Here is the 1st of two full brothers and 3 Complete sons in a row. I love the type and kind of the Complete cattle and how their daughters make amazing replacement females with beautiful teats and udders that make it really easy for the calf to nurse.

I want to thank Certified Angus Beef for improving the value of black hided calves and I thank 44 Farms for improving the demand for and value of Angus cattle with strong genetics for carcass traits like this high marbling bull. Look at the stars on the next page - they are even better for growth and carcass and just like this bull - all the black ones will be eligible to receive Certified Angus Beef Premiums.

Holy Cow, or I guess I should say Holy Bull. Did you notice how we went from 3 & 4 star growth and carcass bulls to a whole group of bulls that earned 5 stars for both traits. You should buy them because they will produce great calves for you that have the genetics to make you more profits. When bred to straight black cows, every calf should be black and will be eligible for Certified Angus (CAB) Premiums. This is the highest Gridmaster Index Bull in the sale.

TEHAMA UPWARD Y238

TEHAMA TAHOE B767

TEHAMA MARY BLACKBIRD Y684

BROWN TAHOE L1414

SPUR FRANCHISE OF GARTON

BROWN MS FRANCHISE F942

BROWN MS REDEMPTION A7018

The depth of quality of this bull offering is amazing. Here we are 81 head into the sale with a bull that could be in the first 5 lots of most sales. He is a fabulous feeder calf maker, a big time carcass premium earner and remarkable replacement female maker. His dam was one of the highest selling females of all time in our program and is known as Goldilocks because she is just right & so is this son.

Here are 2 of the 16 Complete sons in this sale and they are loaded with growth and carcass excellence.

5 Star Growth & carcass with 4 star cowherd genetics to make super momma cows that stay & steers that pay. This is one of the top feed efficiency bulls in the sale also.

Angus Bulls

This is the 4ths highest $Profit bull in the entire sale. His mother is an awesome cow.

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Yes I realize that not everyone blends the best of both colors of Angus together like we have for the past 27 years. But you need to know that the people who have bought these bulls in the past keep coming back to buy more and we continue to make more because they are some of the best cattle we own and some of the best cattle in the business.

This is about the time in the sale when people look around and realize this Angus bull ranks in the top 1% for WW & YW. Even though the EPDs are on a different base & different scale , this bull has more growth than 99% of all other Angus bulls regardless of color. I see customers start to ask themselves why not. Why not buy a black Red Angus bull that has the genetic excellence I am looking for.

All the others register both colors of Angus & Black Red Angus.

More Angus bulls that excel for Growth & Carcass traits. Bulls like this bull make your calves more valuable because they grow faster and produce a better carcass.

Check out the amazing feed efficiency this bull has in his genes. We are building a supply chain focused on high quality Angus beef of both colors with a sustainability story. Feed Efficiency and the ability to do more with less is an important part of our sustainability story. You should buy feed efficiency tested bulls because better feed to gain (F:G) improves your profits every day of their life. Notice the next 6 Angus bulls also

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TEHAMA UPWARD Y238

TEHAMA TAHOE B767

TEHAMA MARY BLACKBIRD Y684

BROWN TAHOE L1433

WEDEL RANCHMASTER 9052G

BROWN MS RANCHMASTER J1828

TLSS MISS UNIVERSE F227

Feed Efficiency makes you money every day of an animals life because every day they perform more with relatively less nutrition (feed or grass). Buy this bull to produce more pounds more efficiently. Notice this bull leads us into a group of bulls that rank in the top 1% for the best Feed Efficiency and rank better than 90 to 99% for $Profit and $Feeder. These are the money making kind. You should buy some Black Reds and see for yourself.

The cool part about this group of bulls is how they excel for Growth and Cowherd traits to help you make more efficient and fertile replacement females while making calves that grow fast and press hard on the scales at market time.

This is about the time in the auction where I start to see the wheels turning in the minds of the buyers that have only been buying Angus bulls that are registered with the American Angus Association (which there is nothing wrong with that). They begin to look around again and consider buying one of these black Red Angus. When they do buy one they nod their head with a sense of accomplishment and pride.

Angus Bulls

This is the most feed efficient black Red Angus bull in the entire sale.

Here is a full brother to lot 38 & 39 that are both homozygous black & registered with the American Angus Association. The EPDs, Indexes, $Profit and Stars are pretty close to the same on all 3. Do you think your cows or the buyers of your calves will know the difference of what Angus Association the registration papers come from? Maybe you should buy all 3 of them.

great carcass and are sired by the most popular breed in America.

Calving Ease - notice this bull earns 4 out of 5 stars for our new COMPLETE category. These are multi-purpose bulls that

If you are raising roping steers, then use a Corriente or Longhorn, but if you are raising beef and you need to breed heifers, then buy a 4 or 5 star Heifer Calving Ease Angus, Black Red Angus or Red Angus bull.

Your

Sleep easy knowing your heifers are bred to one of our 4 or 5 star heifer calving ease bulls and know that the calves will sell for top dollar too. My friend Jim McAdams used to use Jersey bulls for calving ease & they do produce small calves, but they don’t grow and they can be really hard to sell unless you have a good market for roping calves. Jim affectionately referred to his Jersey’s as Bug-eyed Wheezers.

Many seedstock producers recommend Angus EPDs of double digit calving ease and negative birth weight EPD. I think that is a good place to start, but some of us are more risk averse than others. Bulls like this can work pretty well for lots of people. But we are committed to go above and beyond to identify varying levels of calving ease to make sure you get the calving ease bull you want.

BROWN CRSB 100 PROOF C5524

BROWN EVIDENCE F1296

BROWN MS INDEPENDENCE D677

BROWN AA EVIDENCE L7912

LSF RAB TRIUMPH Y7230

ALEXANDER MS TRIUMPH C112

ALEXANDER MS X008

Getting a live, healthy calf on the ground and up nursing is priority #1 in a calving ease bull for me. #2 is to add as much growth and value to the calves after they are born as possible. These Black Red Angus bulls are backed by generations of accurate birth weights and calving ease scores reported, genetically evaluated, DNA tested and pedigree validated just like the Angus bulls are in this catalog. You can compare the stars across breed & color.

This is one of the 16 Complete sons in the sale and Complete they are because they do so many things right. If you are looking for sleep all night and enjoy sweet dreams while calving heifers then you should use these 4 & 5 star bulls. Your heifers will thank you and I bet they will never know what association the papers of the bull came from.

Angus Bulls

Here we are at lot 122 & this outstanding bull is displayed on the front row and has the genetic excellence to match his amazing eye appeal. He has better Calving Ease and lighter Birth Weight than 95% of all cattle in the RAAA database with DNA enhanced EPDs that counts for about 25 calves worth of proof. However, we missed getting this calf weighed at birth. Therefore I moved him to 3 stars just to be safe.

This outstanding bull leads us into a group of 7 bulls that our family used this past year on our own cows. They

in front of them. Use their healthy breeding experience and added maturity to your advantage. These bulls work

to breed lots of cows and get it done quick. Notice the strength of this group for profit, $ Feeder, Fertility and Feed Efficiency.

This is one of the most complete bulls in the sale and here

All of our bulls are age advantage bulls. Some of them (like this group) also come with some healthy experience in the breeding pasture. Use these bulls with confidence. They are really good and ready to go to work. Every bull in this sale has been tested free of Trich.

Like lot 12, this bull is registered with the American Angus Association, is DNA validated homozygous black, but has dozens of generations of Red Angus selection to make cows that stay & steers that pay. Thanks to the progressive leadership of the Angus Association for allowing us to register these animals with the AAA.

down there and breed them all. Use the healthy advantage of these bulls through lot 129 to your advantage.

Use this bull with some breeding experience under his belt to your advantage. We selected him to breed cows within

Use

BROWN ORACLE B112

BROWN MS ABSOLUTE D1546

WOWW!! Here we go back into a group of bulls that produce fast growing calves that can earn amazing premiums on a value based grid. Notice that each one of the next 9 bulls is 5 star growth and 4 star carcass. We started blending the best of both colors of Angus together and wow how rewarding it is to continually produce better and better cattle.

This is the time in the auction where people that came planning to only buy Angus bulls come to the realization that these Black Red Angus will work great for them and they start buying them. Keep in mind that we are making more of these every year because they are some of the best cattle we have ever raised. Plus our customers that try the black Red Angus bulls come back for more.

Angus Bulls

REFLECTING BACK ON 50 SALES

THE 1ST 25

We hope you will enjoy a trip down memory lane as you flip through this catalog and see many pictures from the past 50 years of friends, cattle, horses and facilities that have all changed a little through the years.

I was 6 years old at our First Annual Sale that we held under a tent using portable panels. Some will remember the chickens I used to sell at the beginning of each auction to raise money for the West Texas Rehab Center. Later we upgraded to selling bird dogs as well as hunting and fishing trips to help raise money for those in need.

We built the big red barn to have a permanent structure to host our sale in 1983. I remember we were finishing the last welds just before the auction started. It was a 3-sided barn over the roping chute in our arena to make it as multi-purpose as possible. Kelli and I returned to the ranch after college in 1993 and started working from the ground up. We worked 16 years for a salary of $2,400 per month for the both of us. Dad & Mom always encouraged us to grow the business, so we started our Cooperator Program in 1997 which helped us grow from 250 bulls to 800 sold annually. It was 2000 when we broke ground on our new Bull Development Center and that sure helped us better develop bulls and grow to better serve the needs of you, our customers. From the beginning we have sold age-advantage bulls with more maturity that are grown out slower and safe on a high roughage diet that helps develop them for longevity while testing them for performance.

The First Catalog & Advertisement

In 1975 we didn’t have a catalog cover. This typed sheet of performance data said it all!

Here is the 1st of three Complete sons. There are a total of 16 Complete sons in the sale. We love them.

50th

Black Reds

These next two bulls are two of the best calving ease bulls in the entire sale.

Black Angus

Notice this bull ranks in the single digits at the top of the breed for many traits.

Angus Bulls

This bull is homozygous black and is being registered with the Angus Association. He is also dual registered in the Red Angus Association. These are his Red Angus EPDs. Take a look at our website and open the sortable spreadsheet to easily see his Angus EPDs and more data.

BROWN PREMIER X7876 BECKTON NEBULA P P707

BROWN MS DESTINATION T7664

BROWN PREMIER K1375

BALDRIDGE COLONEL C251

BROWN MS COLONEL G1723

BROWN MS TRILOGY D722

This is one of the best bulls in the sale. We selected him to use on our family’s own heifers. This bull is outstanding and you can use his healthy experience to your advantage.

Be careful walking behind your heifers when they are calving if they are bred to this bull. If they cough, you might get hit by a flying calf. They should come out really easy. Plus the daughters should make great cows. He has a royal pedigree being out of one of the most popular Angus sires in the business and the maternal brother to 3 major AI Sires: Oracle, Fantastic and End Zone.

This bull earns 4 out of the maximum of 5 stars for each economically relevant category. These genetics are outstanding. The depth of quality is deeeep.

Angus Bulls

Check out these next two big time growth and carcass bulls that are sure to add value to your calf crop that will grow fast and provide you the genetics to earn value based grid premiums.

Here is a sleep all night calving ease bull. If you plan to breed heifers and you want you, your family and your help and your heifers to enjoy calving, then you should buy this bull.

$9.97 Million...

4798 head of our customers’ cattle have sold through the R.A. Brown Ranch sale ring.

We Invest in our Customers’ Cowherds...

We invest in the science and technology necessary to deliver the most efficient and profitable cow herd building genetics to our customers. Then we provide cutting edge genetic selection tools and training so customers can make the best informed bull buying decisions possible. We understand those decisions are even more important when ranchers raise their own replacements because they’ll live with the results of their selection for a decade or more. These efforts ultimately enhance the genetic value of the replacement females they keep as well as those selected to sell through our bi-annual sales.

Our October, 2024 sale will feature a hand-picked offering from several of our long-time customers - each one backed with multiple generations of R.A. Brown Ranch genetics.

Red Angus heifers pictured during the summer of 2021 at Bellah Cattle Company.

R.A. Brown Ranch

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Commercial heifers will sell following the Black bulls and just before the Red Angus bulls.

Our Customers’ Best

Our customers represent a healthy mix of some of elite ranching operations across the southern plains as well as the beef industry’s rising generation of superstar cowmen and cattlewomen. They share a common appreciation for profitable beef genetics. Through the front-end bulls they purchase in our annual sales, and the balanced trait calving ease sires they use A.I., these ranchers have developed some of the most sought after, ranch-ready replacement females in the industry. And, they are willing to share their “keepers” in our annual bull sale.

How the Commercial Heifer Sale will work:

• Consignments will all be videoed prior to the sale and will be available at RABrownRanch.com along with the bull videos.

• Larger groups of heifers will be sold in “gate-cut” of approximately 10 head. The successful bidder will have the option of taking any/all consecutive 10 head sorts from the same lot and at the same bid price.

• The following pages contain general descriptions of each ranch’s entire consignment as well as delivery information. Our Sale Day Supplement will have any updated palpation/ultrasound information and how that impacts the exact head count for each lot.

• The Commercial heifer lots represented in this catalog will be sold FOB their respective consignor’s ranch.

Breeding Guarantee: All commercial females identified as “Bred” have been determined pregnant by a competent ultrasound or palpation technician. If prior to December 1, 2024 it is determined (by competent palpation/ultrasound technician) that one of the commercial females you purchased in this sale is not pregnant, then please call us and you will be reimbursed (by the seller ) the difference between her purchase price and the salvage value you receive for her.

Bellah Cattle Co. Jody & Matt Bellah PO Box 100 • Throckmorton, TX 76483 806-786-4468 • jmattbellah@gmail.com

- Black Calves expect 50:50

Prebreeding: Vista 5 VL5 SQ CFB, Spirovac, Dectomax, Cavalry 9

Pregcheck: Dectomax Pour on

Delivery Terms: Deliver as pairs - FOB Ranch- 4 miles NE Stamford, TX, Nov 11-15th

Sale Method: Will sell as one lot of 10 pairs (10 x bid price)

10/1 - 10/31, 2024 Deliver with a guaranteed Live Calf

Will sell with black and/or Red calves at side sired by High $Profit, elite Feed Efficiency RAB Red Angus Calving Ease Sires

These Black/Red Angus “Wet 2-year-old Pairs” have topped this sale on multiple occasions, and for good reason. The Bellah family has done all the work and removed any risk for the buyer. All you have to do is show up and take delivery of your 10 fancy Angus first calf heifers with their healthy live baby calves at side. These girls are as functional as they are fancy, which should be no surprise. They represent the culmination of 30+ years of buying the front-end Angus bulls from R.A. Brown Ranch.

C2a

Kaufman Ranch

Fall Calving

Red Angus

2yr-old Pairs

Bridwell Ranches

JSB Cattle Co. Kaufman, TX 79083

Trey Hudgins • 903-327-6080

trey.jsbcattle@gmail.com

Bridwell Ranches

West Ranch. Adrian, TX 79083

Jay Evans 512-694-1964 jay@jayevansco.com

Mark Bowles 806-654-5396 markwbowles@gmail.com

20 1100 Red Angus Solid Red Due 9/28/24

Protocol

Pre-Breeding: (3 Rounds)

Pyramid 5 + Presponse, Vision 8, De-Wormer Express FP5 VL5 (fetal protection) Pelvic Measured and Tract Scored

Preg Check: De-wormer and Multi-Min

Yes

Bred A.I. on 12/20/23 to Wedel Ranchmaster 9052G by Roger Wann from ABS.

Delivery Terms: FOB the ranch @ Kaufman, TX November 15-30th - Deliver with a guaranteed Live Calf

Sale Method: Sells as 2 “Gate Cuts” of 10 pairs each. Successful bidder has the option to take all 20 pairs.

C2b

West Ranch Fall Calving Red Angus 2yr-old Pairs

36 1100 Red Angus Red & Red Motley Faced Due 10/12/24

Bred AI on 1/05/24 to Brown GTLS Titus K6257 by Gary Mathiews same as Lot C2a

Delivery Terms: FOB the ranch, 10 miles west of Adrian, TX November 15-30th - Deliver with a guaranteed Live Calf

Sale Method: Sells as 2 “Gate Cuts” of 18 pairs each with option to take all 36 pairs. $400 freight allowance for each cut of 18 Pairs 20 Red 2-yr-old Pairs from the Bridwell - Kaufman Ranch and 36 Red Angus 2-yr-olds from the West Ranch. All built by Bridwell Ranches’ decades long committement to superior genetics. Pelvic Measured, Tract Scored, Cake Broke, worked a foot and horseback, and every one will deliver a live A.I. sired calf at side. The feeder heifers the year before off of these same cattle graded 61% prime. The steer-mates have been running @ 25-50% prime the last several years.

Wedel Ranchmaster 9052G

• Sire of calves on the Lot C2 pairs

• Service Sire of the Lot C3

• $80,000 high seller from the spring 2020 bull sale season

• 20 CED to 110 YW Spread with 80% Accuracy

• Top 2% Calving Ease

• Top 4% Maternal Calving Ease

• Top 30% YW and ADG

• Top 19% Marbling

2B Farms

Bo Robinson • 325-207-2794 • 325-593-4882 bobeck5354@yahoo.com9397 • CR 3114 • Snyder, TX 79459

C3

Spring Calving Red Angus

Bred Heifers

15 950 Red Angus

Protocol

Prebreeding: Vibrio/Lepto, Bovishield Gold, Vision, Multimin, Cydectin Inj. Yes A.I bred to the $80,000 calving ease specialist, Wedel Ranchmaster 9052G 8/1/24: Vibrio/Lepto, Cydectin pour on

Delivery Terms: FOB Ranch - 9397 CR 3114, Snyder, TX. As soon as practical after the sale but no later than 11-01-24

Sale Method: Sold in two “gate cuts” of 10 head each. Successful bidder has the option to take all 20.

A fancy set of 100% A.I. bred Red Angus heifers that begin paying dividends just 4 months after delivery. Safe in calf to the high accuracy, $80,000 calving ease specialist, Wedel Ranchmaster 9052G

Brown GTLS Titus K6257

• Service Sire of Lot C4

• Amazing 20 CED to 128 YW Spread

• Best 1% Calving Ease with best 5% ADG

• $28,381 $Profit (1/10 of 1%)

• $127 $Ranch (7/10 of 1%)

• Top 6% Marbling

• Top 2% Feed Efficiency

• Top 2% Fertility

Preg check in August - Dectomax, Vision 7, Ultra Saber pour-on, Vista 5 VL5, Spirovac

Yes A.I. bred to Brown GTLS Titus K6257 Pre Breeding - LongRange, Vision 7, Multimin, Utra Saber pour-on, Vista 5 VL5, Spirovac

Delivery Terms: FOB Throckmorton, TX. Delivery Dates: as soon as practical following sale.

Sale Method: Sell in 2 gate cuts of 8 head each

Once again, the McCartney family has brought an extra-fancy, docile, front pasture set of replacements. And this set is bred to Titus, one of the highest $Profit calving ease bulls in all of Red Angus. Expect these girls to be easy handling, easy fleshing, powerfully made, and genetically pre-disposed to improve profitability. Cattle were developed and videoed on native pastures with mineral and minimal supplementation through the drought - “What you see is what you get”. The herd is multi-generational RAB Black and Red Angus and annually shops at the front-end of the Red Angus bull offering. Buyer Satisfaction is Guaranteed!

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to put

by the ranch sign on the highway, because they look good enough to stop traffic. They are backed by multiple generations of R.A. Brown Ranch A.I. sires. White Bros. produced the yard record 63% PRIME at Cattlemen’s Choice Feedyard in Gage, Oklahoma. They all are safe in calf to the A.I. service of Brown JR Gratitude 9690J, who combines the lightest 10% for birth weight with heaviest 15% at weaning and yearling. He also ranks in the top 3% for $Maternal value and top 1% for $Weaning value.

Spring Calving

Angus Bred Heifers

Lightning S Livestock

Cas & Brenda Salley • beefforme66@gmail.com 13513 E 580 Road • Inola OK 74036 • 918-855-3152

2/15/25 to 4/15/25

(Brucellosis)

Stabred VL 5, Cydectin, Multimin 90, Ivomic Plus; Multimin 90 Yes

Vira Shield 6 + VL5; Dectomax Pour On Mineral: VITAFIRM Conserve/Amaferm at Preg Check

A.I. to Brown JR Gratitude 9690J Nat. Serv. to Brown JR Success 9702J and Brown DBF Boomer 9746L Both 4 star Calving Ease Sires!

Delivery Terms: FOB Ranch – Inola, OK (15 minutes east of Tulsa) as soon as practical following the sale

Sale Method: Sold in 5 “gate cuts” of 10 head each.

This is a Fancy Set of One ranch raised black Angus heifers A.I Bred to the Brown JR Gratitude 9690J which was the High-Selling Bull in the March 2023 sale. With Natural Service to Brown JR Success 9702J & Brown DBF Boomer 9746L which are both 4-star calving ease bulls. This is a great set of easy handling, easy doing heifers that ran on grass with minimal amount of feed.

Brown JR Gratitude 9690J (#20312729)

• Service Sire to Lots C5, C6 and C7

• 10 CED to 139 YW Spread

• Lowest 10% Birthweight

• Top 15% Payweight

• Top 3% $Weaning, Top 2% $Maternal

• $26,205 $Profit (2%)

• -.56 F:G (Feed Efficiency) 1/10 of 1%

• 2.43 Fertility (2%)

Chapman Ranch

Ian Chapman • 580-677-0180 • ichapman@bice4c.com 12805 S Russett Rd. • Madill, OK 73446

Prebreeding: (2 rounds) Vira shield 6 VL5, Endovac, Vision 20/20. Cydectin dewormer, Multi-Min

Bred A.I. on 5/8/24 to Brown JR Gratitude 9690J Preg Check: Vira Shield 6, Spirovac, Endovac, Cydectin pour-on, Multi-Min

Delivery Terms: FOB Ranch - Chapman Ranch, Avery, Texas - As soon as practical after the sale but no later than 10-31-24

Sale Method: Selling in two “gate cuts” of 10 head each. Successful bidder can take all 20.

Moderate framed, easy fleshing set of replacement females from the Chapman Ranch, who has been buying the front end of both the Black Angus and Black/Red Angus bulls at R.A. Brown Ranch. These heifers were synchronized prior to their natural service, so expect lots of calves at the front of their calving window which is already tightened down to just 30 days. Bred to Gratitude who combines superior calving ease with best 15% payweight and superior cow herd building traits.

C8

Winter Calving

Red Angus

Bred Heifers

Delivery Terms:

Schaffner Cattle LLC

Allan Schaffner • 940-636-1990 • aschaffner@sw.rr.com

4413 Taft Blvd • Wichita Falls, TX 76308

Pre-Breeding: Bangs vaccinated, VAC Precon.

Vision 7 with Somnus, Black Gold 5/ One Shot, Trich guard and Dectomax pour on

Preg Check: Fly tagged & Sonagram 6/7/2024

FOB Ranch 30 miles East of Wichita Falls, TX. (Petrolia, TX)

Yes

Delivery at buyers’ convenience between October 20 and November 1.

Due: December 14, 2024

Bred to RA Brown bull Ranchmaster

Sale Method: Sell as 3 “gate cuts” of 10 head each. Successful bidder has the option to take 20 or 30 head.

Cake broke and handled horseback - these heifers are gentle, will follow a feed truck anywhere and they are built from R.A. Brown Ranch genetics. AI bred to Ranchmaster, the $80,000 high-selling Red Angus bull of 2020, who has become the “Go-To” sire for large commercial heifer breeding projects given his 18 CED EPD and -6.2 BW EPD (best 2%)

White Bros Farms & Cattle

Gene White • 940-886-7122 Austen White • 940-839-8478 • austen.white89@gmail.com

Preg-Check: Virashield 6, Ultrabac 7 Prebreeding: Virashield 6, Ultrabac 7, Ivomec

Delivery Terms: FOB Ranch - Vernon, TX. - as soon as practical after the sale.

Sale Method: Sell in one lot of 10 head.

Bred A.I. on 5/1/24 to Wedel Ranchmaster 9052G

Here’s the red sisters to the good heifers that sold back at Lot C5. Again, they are backed by multiple generations of R.A. Brown Ranch A.I. sires. White Bros. produced the yard record 63% PRIME at Cattlemen’s Choice Feedyard in Gage, Oklahoma. They all are safe in calf to the A.I. service of Wedel Ranchmaster 9052G, who combines the lightest 10% for birth weight with heaviest 15% at weaning and yearling. He also ranks in the top 3% for $Maternal value and top 1% for $Weaning value.

Bellah Cattle Co. Jody & Matt Bellah PO Box 100 • Throckmorton, TX 76483 806-786-4468 • jmattbellah@gmail.com

Vista 5 VL5

Pregcheck: Dectomax Pour on

Decto-

Delivery Terms: FOB Ranch- 15 miles west of Throckmorton - Oct 15-17th

Sale Method: Sell as 2 “gate cuts” of 10 head then the final cut of 8 head. Successful bidder can take successive groups up to 28 head.

A.I. bred to the $80,000 high accuracy Calving Ease Specialist: Wedel Ranchmaster 9052G

A uniform, very fancy set of straight Red Angus heifers that were born on Los Paraisos Ranch Breckenridge, TX and developed as replacements by Bellah Cattle Co. These are the product of multiple generations of front-end R.A. Brown Ranch bull purchases. Each has a high value calf in their belly that begin hitting the ground just about 100 days after delivery.

C11

Spring Calving

Red Angus

Bred Heifers

65 950 Red Angus Solid Red

Prebreeding Vista 5 VL5 SQ CFB, Spirovac, Dectomax, Covexin 8

Pregcheck: Dectomax Pour on

Delivery Terms: FOB Ranch- 15 miles west of Throckmorton - Oct 15-17th

Sale Method:

Yes

40 - Head Due Jan 15 (AI Bred) 25 - Head Due Feb 5 - Mar 20, 2025

Date/Service Sires

AI to Wedel Ranchmaster 9052G, Nat. Service to RAB elite calving ease and high profit Red Angus bulls

Sell as 4 “gate cuts” of 10 head of the A.I. breds. Then 1 “gate cut” of 12 and another of 13 head of the Nat. Service breds. Successful bidder can take successive groups up to all 65 head.

A fancy, very uniform, set of Red Angus heifers that were born and raised on the Crawford Ranch in Strawn, Texas and developed and bred at Bellah Cattle Company in Throckmorton. 40 head are bred AI to Ranchmaster due in January, and the other 25 head are bred up to calve in a tight 6 week window in February and March.

C12

Prebreeding Vista 5 VL5 SQ CFB, Spirovac, Dectomax, Covexin 8

Pregcheck: Dectomax Pour on

Delivery Terms: FOB Ranch- 15 miles west of Throckmorton - Oct 15-17th

Head Due Jan 15 (AI Bred) 21 Head Due Feb 5-Mar 15, 2025

AI to Wedel Ranchmaster 9052G, Nat. Service to RAB elite calving ease and high profit Red Angus bulls

Sale Method: Sell as 3 “gate cuts” of 10 head of the A.I. breds. Then one cut of 10 head and another cut of 11 head on the Nat. Service breds. Successful bidder can take successive groups up to 51 head.

A very even set of functional females from the MT7 Ranch in Breckenridge, TX, and developed as bred heifers at Bellah Cattle Company. At Bellah Cattle Company we identify and eliminate any problems so that our customers never have the opportunity to own them. Then we maintain a nutritional program designed to best prepare these females for calving and rebreeding and a long career as profitable brood cows.

& Marianne McCartney P.O. Box 25 • Throckmorton, TX 76483 817-771-6013 • todd@mccartneyranch.com

check in August - Dectomax, Vision 7, Ultra Saber pour-on, Vista 5 VL5, Spirovac

service heifers sired by 2 young 5 STAR CE bulls from fall 2023 sale: K109 ($16K Lot 308 fall sale, 5 star CE, $ profit 23K, had 19 total stars) K6783 ($10K Lot 387 fall sale, 5 star CE, had total 19 stars) Pre Breeding - LongRange, Vision 7, Multimin, Utra Saber pour-on, Vista 5 VL5, Spirovac

Delivery Terms: FOB Throckmorton, TX. Delivery Dates: as soon as practical following sale. Sale Method: Sold in one group of 10 head and one set of 9 head

Expect these girls to be easy handling, easy fleshing, powerfully made, and genetically pre-disposed to improve profitability. Cattle were developed and videoed on native pastures with mineral and minimal supplementation through the drought. All 19 of these heifers are safe in calf to two 5-star calving ease bulls that averaged $13,000 at the Oct 2023 R.A. Brown Ranch Sale. The heifers are contemporaries to the good heifers that sold back at Lot C4. All of these heifers backed by multiple generations of “front of the sale” RAB Black and Red Angus genetics. Buyer Satisfaction is Guaranteed!

Preg check in August - Dectomax, Vision 7, Ultra Saber pour-on, Vista 5 VL5, Spirovac

Pre Breeding - LongRange, Vision 7, Multimin, Utra Saber pour-on, Vista 5 VL5, Spirovac

Yes

Delivery Terms: FOB Throckmorton, TX. Delivery Dates: as soon as practical following sale.

Sale Method: Sold in one group of 5 head

AI - Titus

Natural service heifers sired by 2 young 5 STAR CE bulls from fall 2023 sale: K109 ($16K Lot 308 fall sale, 5 star CE, $ profit 23K, had 19 total stars) K6783 ($10K Lot 387 fall sale, 5 star CE, had total 19 stars)

Here are the Black herdmates to the good Red heifers that sold at Lot C4 and C13. And just like them, these were developed and videoed on native pastures with mineral and minimal supplementation through the drought. These heifers are safe in calf to two 5-star calving ease bulls that averaged $13,000 at the Oct 2023

R.A. Brown Ranch Sale. All of these heifers backed by multiple generations of “front of the sale” RAB Black and Red Angus genetics. Buyer Satisfaction is Guaranteed

Schaffner Cattle LLC

Allan Schaffner • 940-636-1990 • aschaffner@sw.rr.com 4413 Taft Blvd • Wichita Falls, TX 76308

C15

Spring Calving

Red Angus

Bred Heifers

30 1000 Red Angus

Pre-Breeding: Bangs vaccinated, VAC Precon.

Vision 7 with Somnus, Black Gold 5/ One Shot, Trich guard and Dectomax pour on

12/1/24 through 1/31/25

Natural Service Bred to 2 R.A. Brown Ranch Calving Ease Red Angus Bulls Preg Check: Fly tagged & Sonagram 6/7/2024

Delivery Terms: FOB Ranch 30 miles East of Wichita Falls, TX. (Petrolia, TX) Delivery at buyers’ convenience between October 20 and November 1.

Sale Method: Sell as 3 “gate cuts” of 10 head each. Successful bidder has the option to take 20 or 30 head.

Cake broke and handled horseback - these heifers are gentle, will follow a feed truck anywhere and they are built from R.A. Brown Ranch genetics. Bred to 2 R.A. Brown Ranch Calving Ease Bulls with average EPDs of: 16.5 CED (10%) and -4.5 BW (9%)

2B Farms

Prebreeding: Vibrio/Lepto, Bovishield Gold, Vision, Multimin, Cydectin Inj.

Natural Service Bred to 4 & 5 Star Calving Ease bulls from R.A. Brown Ranch. 8/1/24: Vibrio/Lepto, Cydectin pour on

Delivery Terms: FOB Ranch - 9397 CR 3114, Snyder, TX. As soon as practical after the sale but no later than 11-01-24

Sale Method: Sold in two “gate cuts” of 10 head each. Successful bidder has the option to take all 20. These are the same heifers that just sold as Lot C6 - only these are for folks who would prefer

Spring Calving

SimAngus

Commercial

Bred Heifers

Curt

Reflected R Ranch

# Head Est. Wt (lbs) Genetic Makeup Color

54 950

SimAngus (48) Solid Black (6) Brockle-Face

A.I. breds due 2/4/25

Nat Service breds due: 2/8/25 through 3/25/25

Health Protocol OCV (Brucellosis) Breeding Date/Service Sires

Prebreeding: Ivomec pouron, Staybred VL5, Vista Once, Anthrax, Covexin 8

Yes

A.I. to: Brown RRR Emblem J3541. ASA# 3886910

Nat. Service to: Brown JR Tahoe 8204K, AAA# 20638184

Delivery Terms: Located 5 miles North of Argonia, KS -Seller will pay freight for first 500 miles if buyer takes all of the heifers. Ship as soon as practical following the sale.

Sale Method: Sell in 4 gate cuts of 10 head of solid Black, then one cut of 8 head solid black, then sell 6 brockle-faced heifers. Put Heterosis to work in your cow herd with this outstading load of moderate-framed easy keeping SimAngus heifers from a shortgrass range cowherd. Every heifer is from the same calf crop from a long term bull customer. They were bred A.I. to Brown RRR Emblem J3541, whose first calves look outstanding and ranks in the lowest 10% of SimAngus for low birthweight. Then they were cleaned up with Brown JR Tahoe 8204K who came out of March 2024 R.A. Brown Ranch sale with a best 10% calving ease and $20,000+ $Profit.

C19

Spring Calving Commercial

Bred Cows

R.A. Brown Ranch

P.O. Box 727 • Throckmorton, TX 76483 940-849-0611 • office@rabrownranch.com RABrownRanch.com

22 1350 Black Angus (9) Red (13) Black 3/01/25 - 4/30/25 Health Protocol

Pre-Breeding: Bovishield Gold L5 FP, Vibrin, Spirovac, Long Range Injectable

Preg-Check: Bovishield Gold L5 FP

Spirovac, Long Range de-wormer

Delivery Terms: FOB at the Ranch - as soon as practical following the sale.

Yes

Sale Method: Sell one group of 9 Red Angus cows then one group of 13 Black Angus cows

Safe in calf via Natural Service to High Performance and carcass merit R.A. Brown Ranch Angus bulls.

These Lot C18 females are sound, functional, productive, easy to handle and just in the prime of their productive lives. Safe in calf to bulls selected to maximize calf value, and due to calve just in time for green grass next spring.

C20

Spring Calving Commercial

Bred Cows

1250

- 5/30/25 Health Protocol

Pre-Breeding: Bovishield Gold L5 FP, Vibrin, Spirovac, Long Range Injectable

Preg-Check: Bovishield Gold L5 FP

Spirovac, Long Range de-wormer

Delivery Terms: FOB at the Ranch - as soon as practical following the sale.

(Brucellosis)

Yes

Sires

Safe in calf via Natural Service to High Performance and carcass merit R.A. Brown Ranch Angus & Red Angus bulls..

Sale Method: Sell (3) “gate cuts” of 10 head of Black Angus, then sell (1) cut of 10 head of Red Angus. Successful bidder mauy take 10, 20, 30 or all 40.

The females in lot C20 are a uniform, one-iron set of 3-6-year-old females that are moderate framed and built to optimally convert available forage into more pounds of highly marketable calves. 30 head are Black hided and the next 10 head are their Red contemporaries Safe in calf to bulls selected to maximize calf value, and due next spring.

ADDRESS THE STRESS

PROTECT YOUR BOTTOM LINE AGAINST REDUCED APPETITE AND WEIGHT LOSS.

EACH BUYER WILL RECEIVE A BOTTLE OF FERAPPEASE ® WITH THEIR BULL PURCHASE.

Stress happens every time cattle are handled, transported or commingled. Cortisol levels increase from stress impacting appetite, health and weight gain. Studies demonstrate FerAppease® reduces the impact of stress on calves treated:*

• Reduced cortisol levels

• Improved appetite

• Increased weight gain

• Improved immunocompetence

• Improved health response, better recovery

• Decreased mortality

*Conducted by Dr. Reinaldo F. Cooke, Texas A&M University

HEALTHIER & HEAVIER CALVES = MORE PROFIT

CONTACT YOUR VETERINARIAN OR ANIMAL HEALTH PROVIDER TODAY.

REFLECTING BACK ON 50 SALES

THE PAST 10 YEARS

We started feed efficiency testing in 2015 and built our new Marketing Center in 2019. Dad was shocked when he first saw the freshly poured foundation. He exclaimed, “Oh Son, you have really messed up. It is across the road from the pens, and you will have to block the only road to get the cattle in the barn.” I replied, “its OK Dad, we are not running them through the ring, we are showing videos of each animal instead.” The video transition had happened a few years prior, and people have appreciated the ability to look at the videos online prior to the sale and see the live animals in the pens. They have not missed getting manure and saw dust slung all over them and no one misses the ones that didn’t want to leave the sale ring. Just 6 months after the grand opening of our new marketing center – “social distancing” became the expectation, so we expanded the barn by 50%. In 2021 & 2023 we added more bull development pens.

Now we are planning another addition to the Marketing Center making room for more space to fellowship under cover during our events. We want our sales to be events where people want to come enjoy good fellowship, good food, good education and good livestock even if they don’t need to buy anything.

Celebrating The Quasquicentennial 125 years in the ranching business and a new Marketing Center 2020

Sale Lot Number:

All bulls and registered females sell in catalog order.

RAB Exclusive Star Rating System

Compares bulls across breeds in five areas of economic relevance: Complete, Heifer Calving, Growth, Carcass Merit, and Cowherd. In general more stars indicate greater genetic improvement. There is a more detailed explanation of the RAB Star System in the front of the catalog.

Docility Score Every RAB bull is individually scored 1-5 for docility where 1 represents the most docile.

$PROFIT is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls’ impact on profitability over their productive life (100 calves).

$RANCH is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls impact on profitability per calf when keeping replacement females and selling calves at weaning time.

$FEEDER is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls’ value as a post weaning feeder calf. Growth, Feed Efficiency and Carcass Value are included.

% RANK compares an individual animal to all Red Angus that have been evaluated in $Profit multi-breed genetic evaluation of over 1 million head.

FERT EPD Fertility predicts differences in females’ ability to get pregnant and raise a calf every year. A higher FERT EPD predicts greater lifetime fertility, which will result in higher $Profit and $Ranch.

F:G EPD is a genetic prediction of relative differences in feed efficiency. Lower F:G EPDs indicate less feed will be consumed to produce one pound of gain. This EPD is calculated using Feed Intake data through the $Profit genetic evaluation.

DOB:

Birthdate of Animal.

REG#

Registration number assigned by the Red Angus Association of America (RAAA).

CAT: All Red Angus and Black/Red Angus Bulls are registered with the RAAA. This indicates their respective registry category and percent Angus parentage.

Herd: Identifies cooperator (herd of origin). Go to RABrownRanch.com/ cooperators/ and meet our cooperator team.

Animal ID: Animal’s tattoo no.

GdM: RAAA GridMaster Index compares relative profitability per cow exposed when bulls are used on mature cows but no replacements are kept, and all progeny are fed and marketed on a value based grid.

Red Angus EPDs and Percentile Ranks:

CED - Calving Ease Direct BW - Birth Weight WW - Weaning Weight YW - Yearling Weight Milk - Daughters Milk Production MARB - Marbling REA - Rib Eye Area

Percentile Ranks: Percentile ranks indicate where this animal’s EPDs rank vs. other non-parent animals in the RAAA database. A 1% rank indicates that animal is in the top one percent of the approximate 150,000 non-parent animals in the RAAA database.

Max Acc. The presence of these indicate Genomically Enhanced EPDs. The GenEE symbol indicates genomic data obtained through DNA at RAAA.

(Montana

Red Angus

This 1st Red Angus bull is very special and so is his maternal brother, Lot 13 who is the 1st Black Red Angsus bull and their mother leads off our female sale (see her picrure & read her story as Lot 501.) No other animal can match his Red Angus EPD combination and his $Profit numbers are stunning as well. This bull has huge potential to be a big time sire in the breed. You should invest in this outstanding bull.

Here is an opportunity to tie into a maternal brother to the $120,000 Brown Authentic. The dam has knocked it out of the park again with an outstanding herd bull that is filled to the brim with performance. These pounds offer premium profitability with his top ranked MB, CW, REA, $Feeder and elite 4-star carcass rating. With credentials like these he can exceed his famous and valuable sibling.

203

CONFIDENCE PLUS

BROWN CONFIDENT L156 BROWN CONFIDENT J1263

MS FRANCHISE F942 BROWN MS ORACLE G542 BROWN ORACLE B112

BROWN MS EPIC C661

OH, MY! This herd bull combines phenotype and genotype as well as any bull in the offering. He will be easy to find in the pens with his moderate build and tremendous volume. His exciting EPD and index lines allows a multitude of mating flexibility. Especially when you consider his virgin heifer calving ease, combined mature cow performance, and end product merit. His outcross pedigree that hails from elite black genetics is icing on the cake.

WOW! This stud is one of the highest $Profit Red Angus in the sale. Check out the top of the chart ranking for $Feeder that he offers. If you or your customers market on a grid you had better be tying into bulls like this one. You can certainly see how he attains such a feat by how he blows apart the antagonisms of marbling and muscling with superior ratios of 111 IMF and 116 REA to along with off the chart MB and top ranked REA. Notice his balanced calving ease and performance as well.

it all. His most important trait? His profitability!

Here’s a chance to own a maternal brother to Brown Noble K6728, one of our

and incredible $Ranch and you might have the top cow maker to sell so far today.

What a performance line! This big-time herd bull absolutely destroys the antagonisms between birth and growth with ratios of 116 weaning and 108 yearling with a 94 birth ratio and only a 66 pound actual birthweight. You can certainly see why he scores an impressive 22 out of 25 stars. He also ranks right at the top of the chart for $Profit and $Feeder. Imagine a set of feeders out of this guy!

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If you or your customers get paid by the pound, this stud needs to be on your “buy” list. Imagine the extra profitability that he offers from just the extra pay weight that he can produce with his single digit rankings for WW and YW. Expect those pounds to be worth a premium as well with the tremendous end product merit he offers from a MB that is at the very top of the chart. He will put out the red meat as well with that CW and REA. Little wonder he gets 5 stars for growth and carcass.

Boy, I sure do like how this guy offers so many great traits and offers it all in a

keeping cattle that he can produce. FYI-Get these Genuine sons while you can, semen is in very short supply.

Feed efficiency is

quality that he offers with a top of the chart ranking for MB, as well as off the chart rankings for GridMaster Index and the aforementioned $Feeder. Use bulls like this to get those order buyer’s attention.

Imagine the set of steers that this dude can put out. Those order buyers might get in a fist fight to get a set of calves out of him with his frame, length, muscle and end product profit potential. You can certainly see why he blows the topoff the chart for GridMaster Index and $Feeder when you study his top of the chart rankings for WW, YW, ADG, MB and CW. I’d also like to give a shout out and congrats to Taylor Schuster and Lee Leachman for purchasing his dam as our high selling cow in our March ’22 sale.

When it comes to performance, this guy is loaded for bear. He absolutely crushed it on performance by earning incredible ratios of 117 weaning and 116 yearling! Little wonder that he ranks completely off the chart for WW and YW EPDs and earns 5 stars for growth on our exclusive rankings system. Expect those pounds to be premium with MB that ranks in the single digits.

If you’re looking to produce steers that pay and cows that stay you sure might want to tie into this this guy. It’s easy to see why he earns 5-out-of-5 stars for growth with his off the chart rankings for WW and YW. Notice also that he earns 4 stars (I’m very conservative handing out stars) for carcass and perhaps even more importantly(for many) 4 stars for Cow herd. Take advantage.

WOW! This is a maternal brother to Titus, who is our #1 semen seller in 2024. In addition to a famous brother, this stud also has one of the top EPD

If you missed out on Titus’s maternal brother that sold as the previous lot, here is a chance to own a full brother to Titus (who is one of the best bulls to come through our sale.) Tie into this bull and just imagine the genetic predictability that you are injecting into your herd. Maternal brothers are the lead off Red Angus and Black/Red Angus bulls. This guy is “hidden” a little further down the order, he could easily be the “buy” of the entire sale.

Imagine the fertility that you can inject into your cowherd if you take this stud back to the haciencda with his top ranked FERT. Throw in his top of the chart end product merit and he certainly gives you options on whether you want to keep ‘em and breed ‘em or feed ‘em and eat ‘em.

You know what makes money even in roller coaster market and weather cycles? Cows that get bred

REFLECTING BACK ON 50 SALES

THE CATTLE AND HORSES

The stock has changed a little through the years as we have bred and produced 17 different breeds and hybrids during my lifetime. The major breeds through the years include Hereford (starting in the1870’s on mom’s side of the family through 1975), Sim x Hereford (late 60’s & early 70’s), Simmental (1969), Simbrah (1979), Senepol (1987) to my Dad’s own invention of the Hotlander composite in the late 80’s and early 90’s. My great great grandfather had Angus cattle 129 years ago and then we got back in the Angus business in 1989 a year after we started raising Red Angus. We added SimAngus in the early 90’s and plan to continue providing what our customers want most. We have sold weaned Quarter Horses through all these many years as well and though the pedigrees have changed a little, the focus remains the same: Raise ranch horses with cow sense and common sense for the needs of our cowboys and customers.

CATALOGS & DATA

Through all 50 sales my mom, sister Betsy & wife Kelli have built every catalog from scratch. The accuracy of the data has always been paramount, and we are so proud of our customers that are very data savvy and demand the most accurate tools to make the best decisions. We have always been data hounds focused on accurately measuring every economically relevant trait possible. It was just BW & WW in the early days and now with automated weighing at the feed bunks and water troughs we capture over 10,000 datapoints on every animal annually. Thankfully we have powerful computers to process and analyze all the information. Our sales started well before EPDs and the tools to evaluate cattle have continually evolved with selection indexes, genomically enhanced EPDs, and now Star Ratings and sortable spreadsheets with the focus of helping our customers accurately select the cattle that make them the most money. Now we are incentivizing our customers to DNA test their commercial heifers to get EPDs on them so they can most accurately select their heifers that have the genetics to improve their profitability and sustainability the most.

Early Day Bull Sale

One of the more vivid images that hang in our office and reminds us of where we started.

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O F P R E M I U M L I V E S T O C K

The market highs & lows, pioneering, praying & innovating to this moment, an Anniversary Sale of 1/2 a century.

It’s our honor to collaborate with RAB for the Official 50th Anniversary Wine. A beautiful blend grown and made by our family in Meadow, Texas.

These commemorative Reds & Whites will be available during the sale and for a very limited time online only @ FarmhouseVineyards.com

$8,612

REFLECTING BACK ON 50 SALES

The TECHNOLOGY

Advancements in technology through the years have taken us from AI to AI. We started with: AI (Artificial Insemination) and palpation the year I was born in 1969, Embryo Transfer in the late 1980’s ultrasound for carcass merit in 1999 and then for fetal sexing in the early 2000’s. We started using Invitro Fertilization (IVF) in 2008, DNA testing every animal in the 2010’s and started broadcasting our sales on the internet. We put in a Grow Safe (now Vytelle Sense) system in 2016 to measure individual feed intake and feed efficiency, then added in-pen weighing systems in 2023 to automatically weigh each animal as they get a drink from the water trough. Now we are using AI (Artificial Intelligence) to monitor grazing using virtual fencing as well as millimeter radar to capture 3D images of our cattle every time they go through the chute (more details to come.)

Vence (Virtual Fence) One of the many technologies we have implemented on the ranch in the last few years.

50th Golden Opportunity

RAB Exclusive Star Rating System

How to read the data

Breed%:

Sale Lot Number:

All bulls and registered females sell in catalog order.

Compares bulls across breeds in five areas of economic relevance: Complete, Heifer Calving, Growth, Carcass Merit, and Cowherd.. In general more stars indicate greater genetic improvement. There is a more detailed explanation of the RAB Star System in the front of the catalog.

Docility Score Every RAB bull is individually scored 1-5 for docility where 1 represents the most docile.

$PROFIT is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls’ impact on profitability over their productive life (100 calves).

$RANCH is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls impact on profitability per calf when keeping replacement females and selling calves at weaning time.

$FEEDER is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls’ value as a post weaning feeder calf. Growth, Feed Efficiency and Carcass Value are included.

% RANK compares an individual animal to all Sim Hybrids that have been evaluated in $Profit multi-breed genetic evaluation of over 1 million head.

FERT EPD Fertility predicts differences in females’ ability to get pregnant and and raise a calf every year. A higher FERT EPD predicts greater lifetime fertility, which will result in higher $Profit and $Ranch.

F:G EPD is a genetic prediction of relative differences in feed efficiency. Lower F:G EPDs indicate less feed will be consumed to produce one pound of gain. This EPD is calculated using Feed Intake data through the $Profit genetic evaluation.

DOB:

Birthdate of Animal.

REG#

Registration number assigned by the American Simmental Association (ASA).

SimAngus EPDs and

Percentile Ranks:

CED - Hfr Calving Direct

BW - Birth Weight

WW - Weaning Weight

YW - Yearling Weight

Milk - Daughters Milk Production

STAY - Stayability

MARB - Marbling

REA - Rib Eye Area

Percentile Ranks:

Percentile ranks indicate where this animal’s EPDs rank vs. other non-parent animals in the ASA database. A 10% rank indicates that animal is in the top ten percent of the approximate 140,000 non-parent animals in the ASA database.

Describes the proportion of Simmental and Angus/ Red Angus for each SimAngus bull.

P/S: Polled Status

Color:

BB: Homozygous Black

Bb: Heterozygous Black

Black: not DNA’d for coat color, black hided. Red: Red Color

Herd: Identifies cooperator (herd of origin). Go to RABrownRanch.com/ cooperators/ and meet our cooperator team.

Animal ID: Animal’s tattoo no.

API: ASA All Purpose Index compares relative profitability per cow exposed when bulls are used on heifers and cows, replacements are kept, and all steers and cull heifers are fed and marketed on a value based grid.

TI: ASA Terminal Index compares relative profitability per cow exposed when bulls are used on mature cows but no replacements are kept, and all progeny are fed and marketed on a value based grid.

Max Acc. The presence of this GenEE (Genomically Enhanced Epds) symbol indicates genomic data obtained through Geneseek or $Profit/Zoetis DNA testing have been incorporated into the above EPDs / Indices to ensure the highest possible accuracy for non-parent bulls.

olden Opportunity

We kickoff our SimAngus bulls with a genetic masterpiece that ranks in the top 1% of the breed for $Profit, $Feeder, All Purpose &

Indexes while also ranking high for $Ranch. Notice all the stars he earns also. This is the kind of bull that is bred to improve your profits on the ranch, in the

and on the value based grid. Notice how our star rating system lights up like the milky way. He is safe to use on heifers & he is really good looking.

This POWERFULLY made big time growth bull is a 3/4 brother to the bull above. If you sell calves by the pound or on a value based grid, this bull is designed to improve your profits. Notice his color is BB meaning he is homozygous black, therefore won’t produce any red calves. PP means that he is homozygous polled and thus none of his calves will be horned. The data tells us they should be really good, black, polled and improve your profits.

This is a front pasture bull with amazing eye appeal combined with super data. Like the lead off bull, he ranks at the top of the breed for the bio-economic indexes that are constructed to identify the bulls that make you the most money with their genetics. He is the highest marbling SimAngus bull in the sale. If you put this bull along the highway, you may need to put a warning sign that says: watch for distracted drivers looking at impressive bull.

Galileo is a new sire for us this year. You can count on seeing more of them moving forward because they are outstanding. Notice that we added a new Star category this year called COMPLETE. This bull earned the maximum 5 stars for this category meaning that genetically he is very complete. He does so many things right like the MVP, most valuable player on a team does lots of things right.

BROWN KCCF GALILEO L4743

carcass traits. We designed our star rating system to summarize the data and make your selections simple.

Here is a great looking bull that is loaded with growth and carcass excellence. The Eagle sire group continues to be one of our favorites because they do so many things right. We designed our

Feeder calf buyers will love calves from this bull. He is the highest Growth & 2nd biggest Ribeye SImAngus bull in the sale. His calves are sure to grow fast, look great and press hard on the scales at market time. Notice that he also excels in feed efficiency. He can do more with less.

Wow! Take a look at this

Need a bull that you can use on heifers and make great replacement females, then look right here. The “circle of knowledge” at the local coffee shop commonly makes the mistake of not keeping heifers out of heifers. The reality is when you are buying better bulls every year, your heifers should be your best genetics. Plus when you use a “cow maker” bull like this on your heifers - you win!

Ultra

Here is a red SimAngus bull that should work great on both heifers & cows to give you calves that are born easy

This group of black SimAngus bulls are medium framed, long bodied and loaded with growth and carcass traits as well as the ability to produce, sound, functional and productive

Long as a freight train.

This bull is tied for the highest Yearling Weight red SimAngus bull in the sale. We recommend that you use this bull as a terminal sire where all calves become feeder cattle. They are bred to be the money making kind that grow fast, convert efficiently and produce a nice carcass. We don’t recommend keeping replacement heifers from this bull. See note on lot 432.

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Remember SimAngus make fast growing heavy weaning calves, but they

that bull.

Look at where we are with just 2 more black bulls after this one and take a look his single digit percentile ranks for $Profit, $Feeder and fertility.

by David Stoecklein

1998

THE MOST ACCESIBLE,

RELIABLE, AND PREDICTABLE

SOLUTION TO DRIVE SUSTAINABLE GENETIC PROGRESS.

Capture individual animal feed intake, growth, and behavior data

Turn data into knowledge by identifyng elite performing animals

Accelerate genetic progress with hormone-free IVF

“We use Vytelle to measure and select for more feed efficient cattle and use their in vitro fertilization services to fast forward our genetic progress.”

-Donnell Brown, R.A. Brown Ranch

50th Golden Opportunity

$PROFIT is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls’ impact on profitability over their productive life (100 calves).

$RANCH is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls’ impact on profitability per calf when keeping replacement females and selling calves at weaning time.

$FEEDER is an Economic Selection Index comparing bulls’ value as a post weaning feeder calf. Growth, Feed Efficiency and Carcass Value are included.

% RANK compares an individual animal to all other Red Angus that have been evaluated in $Profit multi-breed genetic evaluation of over 1 million head.

Sale Lot: All bulls and registered females sell in catalog order.

How to read the data

FERT EPD Fertility predicts differences in females’ ability to get pregnant and and raise a calf every year. A higher FERT EPD predicts greater lifetime fertility, which will result in higher $Profit and $Ranch.

F:G EPD is a genetic prediction of relative differences in feed efficiency. Lower F:G EPDs indicate less feed will be consumed to produce one pound of gain. This EPD is calculated using Feed Intake data through the $Profit genetic evaluation.

Color: Red or Blk. Both are registered in the Red Angus Association of America.

Category:

All Red Angus and Black/Red Angus Females are registered with the RAAA. This indicates their respective registry category and percent Red Angus parentage.

Docility: Scored on each animal at various times in their life.

REG#

Registration number assigned by the Red Angus Association of America (RAAA).

DOB: Birthdate of animal.

Red Angus EPDs:

GdM - Gridmaster Index

CED - Calving Ease Direct

BW - Birth Weight

WW - Weaning Weight

YW - Yearling Weight

Milk - Daughters Milk Production

MARB - Marbling

REA - Rib Eye Area

Percentile Ranks: Percentile ranks indicate where this animal’s EPDs rank vs. other non-parent animals in the RAAA database. A “1%” rank indicates that animal is in the top one percent of the approximate 150,000 non-parent animals in the RAAA database.

Herd: Identifies cooperator herd.

Max Acc. The presence of this GenEE (Genomically Enhanced EPDs) symbol indicates genomic data obtained through Geneseek and/or $Profit/Zoetis DNA testing have been incorporated into the above EPDs / Indices to ensure the highest possible

Animal ID: Animal’s tattoo number.

Red Angus Reference Sires

Brown He Does It All K118

Brown Ideal K1377

Brown GTLS Titus K6257

Brown Authentic K104

You only get one shot at a 50th Anniversary Sale, so we might as well lead-off with one of the most powerful and prolific Red Angus females we’ve ever had the good fortune to be involved with. GTLS Glorify G2701 is the dam to Brown GTLS Titus K6257, who was the 2nd Red Angus bull to sell in our 2023 October auction as the best buy of the day at $21,000 to Craig Roeder and his family at Chasah Ranch who are also members of our Cooperator Team. Titus is now one of the top $Profit bulls in the breed and is our #1 semen selling sire for this year. We are very proud of our long time Cooperators Truett & Lila Spruell who raised this outstanding female. Several years ago, Truett changed his Red Angus breeder code / prefix to GTLS standing for God, Truett & Lilla Spruill. They are an amazing couple of faith and are quick to share that when he got his priorities straight and put God first in his life that blessings started to abound for them. Truett lives near the town of Carbon, TX that was devastated by a massive wildfire in 2022. In that fire, the Spruill’s lost most of their pasture, all their hay, quite a few cattle, plus their home burned to the ground. Sadly, the same thing happened to Truett about 10 years prior in an earlier fire. But Truett reminds me of Job in the Bible. He keeps his head up and looks for the blessings and the great things that God has in store for them. One of those blessings is that this cow, Glorify, survived the fire. She has been a top donor for Truett since she raised her first calf, and she continues to be an outstanding embryo producer. Glorify has 8 sons selling in this sale, including the lead-off Black/Red Bull, “Shadrach”, and the lead-off Red Angus bull, “Meshach” and That’s something no other donor dam has ever accomplished in our history. The other 6 bulls are named after the Biblical story in the book of Daniel and how Shadrach, Meshackhand Abednigo stayed true to their faith in God. As a result, God spared them from the fiery furnace.It was not easy to convince Truett to sell this amazing donor. It took me two years to finally put her in our sale, but he finally made enough embryos from her that he was willing to share her with the rest of the industry. I am confident that her sons that are selling in this sale along with future progeny that are sure to be highlights in our future sales that Glorify’s notoriety will grow and benefit the new owners of this amazing cow. She is a blessing and I pray that she will continue to be a blessing to the Red Angus Breed and to whoever buys her.

We believe this deep-ribbed Genuine daughter will be the next step in one of the most genetically prepotent cow families that ever sold bulls through our sale. Her 113 MPPA dam has 51 progeny to her credit – including 5 in this year’s bull sale. Her 107 MPPA Maternal Grandam is the dam of Brown SW2W Noble K6728 who sold for $36,000 in our October 2023 sale and also has 5 sons in this 50th anniversary sale.

Phenotypically, lot 503 matches up beautifully with her two half-sisters that sell as lots 502 and 523. Mass producing her unique combination of elite marbling and feed efficiency will result in more PRIME premiums, but buying less corn to get it done. Add to that her spread from superior CED to single digit pay-weight and gain and she’ll be able to mass produce those high value bulls that can be used on heifers and still have plenty of horsepower for the cow herd as they mature.

If we wanted to draw a picture to describe the ideal phenotype for a young cow in our herd, we’d strongly consider using Lot 504 for a prototype. But, she’s more than a pretty face. She weaned her first calf with ratios of 105 weaning, 109 yearling, 116 IMF and 109 REA. Her dam is a 104 MPPA donor by Sure Fire, and already has 59 progeny to her credit. All that goodness must be heritable, just look at her daughter that sells as Lot 505.

Warning, you could wear out your computer running planned matings for Lot 506. She’s that good, and she’ll fix almost any sire’s shortcomings. She’s the highest $Profit of any Red female in the sale, and the highest GridMaster index of either flavor. Her highly fertile dam is rapidly becoming one of the most respected producers with a 333-day calving interval and a 105 MPPA.

Lot 507 was just a month old, when her big brother, Brown Authentic K104 became the $120,000 high-selling bull at our October 2023 sale. 5 months later, her dam was the second-high seller in our March 2024 sale. With her breed leading predictions for pay-weight, gain and marbling. Bull customers buying her sons are going to be getting paid for more pounds of PRIME.

UPWARD Y238

If you like them, long, deep, thick and easy on the eyes, you’ll need to own this Tahoe daughter. You won’t have to wait long for her to start paying dividends; just wait for her Titus bull calf she’s got in her belly. He projects $Profit and EPDs that are better than almost all the bulls we’re buying semen on today!

Here’s the slick haired, easy fleshing, black full-sister to Lot 505, and like her very easy on the eyes. Lot 510 is also one of the best combinations of $Profit and $Ranch in the entire offering. Selection for $Ranch over time will tend to moderate mature cow size to allow for more desirable stocking, improve fertility and wean more pounds per acre.

Being over $20,000 $Profit and $100 for $Ranch grants

Back into the Red hided females with this attractive, sound-footed daughter of X-Factor whose

EPD

puts 12

in the

18% of the breed. Three and a half months after this sale, Lot 512 starts paying you back with a Titus herd bull prospect.

513

The dam of Lot 513 maintained progeny ratios of: 103 weaning, 108 yearling, 108 IMF and 104 REA all

interval. She’s due 90 days after the sale to Titus. One of the highlights of this event is the strength of the service sires: the average service sire posts the following genetic predictions: $25,855 $Profit, $84 $Ranch, $243 $Feeder, 1.13 Marbling with a 17 CED top 135 YW spread.

Lot 515 is a maternal-sister to Lot 503 as well as three bulls in the sale. Her dam is one of the real “cover girls” to ever grace our sale ring, and continues to supply bulls to our sale through our cooperator, Mathias Ranch.

REFLECTING BACK ON 50 SALES

The People

Our favorite part of our sales is the people we get to know and the friendships that are built. We strive to make our sales like a big reunion of friends where people want to come with the family to enjoy more than just good food, friends, cattle & horses.

Smiles come to our faces as we think about the friends that have come to the most sales including Bob Samuel & the Bankhead family, Al & Vickie Wright, Bill Bay & Cole Price, Tom Blakeney with Craig & Sandra Bailey, Bobby, James Ray & Hillary Trant, Nel Rey Coker, TL, Gloria, Layne, Tom & Ben Griffin. Scott Riddle, Frank & Anne Green, Tom & Diane Risinger, David & Joanne Albus, Gary Shores, Jay Evans, Scott Moore, Don & Marilyn Smith, Mike Dickey & Tyler Oxford, Bob & Tom Moorhouse, Rick Ward, David Gurrola - TDCJ, John E McCarthy. There have been so many people help us work the sales including: George, Josie, George Calvin & Joe Self, Ruben Reyes, Larry Smith, Phil Stoll, Michael Sturgess, Terry Reagan, Tom Johnson, Jim Birdwell, Mark Gardiner, Shari Holloway, Mary Kane, Greg Comstock, Buzz Thorp, Todd Spitzer. There’s so many to thank and we know that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Cooperators that have been here the longest include Ken & Marja Bower, Lane Ladwig, Brad & Charlotte Jones, Dan & Alicia Stickel, Tom Woodward & Jim Riggins.

Valuable Friends

We love the generations of family friends that have a part of our lives.

R.A. Brown Ranch • 10/9/24—

We love the body and capacity of Lot 516, and she’s off to a great start with

Her 113 MPPA dam is one of the highest selling Black/Red females we’ve ever sold, and is a maternal-sister to the

Brown SW2W Noble K6728. A Full-sister sells as Lot 519, and three other maternal-sisters sell as open yearling heifers.

We start

BROWN MS SUCCESS J1821

If feed efficiency is a trait you’d like to add to your herd’s repertoire, check out this beautiful uddered daughter of Mill Brae Success 8017. Her mating to the $29,000 Brown He Does It All K118 will be among the first born outside of his ownership group. We used this sire in our carcass test as a yearling and came back and used him in our Red Angus seedstock cows this spring.

Lot 519 and her Black/Red full-sister that sold a few lots earlier both belong to one of our favorite cow families. Their dam is the beautiful 113 MPPA Sure Fire daughter, F1624 that sold to Stephen Williams back in 2021, and now has over 50 progeny to her credit. Their maternal grandam, is the 104 MPPA dam of the $36,000 Brown SW2W Noble K6728 who has become one of our top semen sales sires.

If you want your bull customers to be capturing those big

Problem is there aren’t too many like her, that are a

Titus could start lots of sales. – this one included!

Here’s a three-quarter sister to the leadoff black-red female. This one is not only the high $Feeder female in the entire sale, but she is also off to a fast start with progeny ratios of 106 weaning and 104 yearling on her first calf. No surprise, her prepotent Bourne dam, earned amazing progeny data with average ratios of: 109 weaning, 111 yearling, 123 IMF and 117 REA.

You’ll want to eat your Wheaties before this sale, because you’re going

These X-Factor daughters are good property, thanks to his ability to improve multiple traits simultaneously and that’s really starting to show as his daughters are getting 3-4 years old. Last year an X-factor daughter produced the lead-off and $120,00

selling Red Angus bull, Brown Authentic K104. Lot 524 lives up to her sire’s reputation with 12 traits in the Top 25% of Red Angus.

If your customers sell them by the pound, and get paid on a grid, they need to be buying sons of Lot 525. She dominates for pay-weight, gain, marbling and REA. And, how’s this for an added bonus, ultrasound determines she’ll drop a Genuine heifer calf three and a half months after the sale. Two donor dams for the price of one.

BROWN MS MERLIN J761

If you liked lot 525, you’re going to love her three-quarter sister. Lot 526 is loaded for pay-weight, gain and carcass weight plus she excels for feed efficiency and marbling. Her career is off to a great start with ratios of: 104 weaning, 110 yearling and 116 IMF.

An old timer once said that an inch of length is another 100 lbs. to sell but an inch of

is another round bale you need to

This powerhouse female is long as a well rope, has an outcross pedigree, maintains a 360 day calving

and

of $Ranch, Fertility and Feed Efficiency (F:G) in the entire offering.

When we said we were sharing some famous cow

Titus’s dam, the lead-off female in

If you ran second place on the outstanding Tahoe daughter that sold as the second Black/Red female in our 50th Anniversary sale, here’s your mulligan. And, she doesn’t give any ground to her big sister, in fact one could argue the younger version excels for Feed Efficiency, Fertility and Pay-weight.

Red

We start of a new pen of open yearling heifers with a super sweet daughter of Tahoe. Undoubtedly, her best of breed predictions for Feed Efficiency, gain, carcass weight and pounds will get her marked in your catalog, but when you study her amazing phenotype, rock-solid foot structure, slick hair coat and gentle nature that’s going to seal the deal.

If you have bull customers that have been getting docked with YG 4 discounts, here’s

If you missed out on either of the daughters of the 113 MPPA

Noble K6728 who became one of our top semen sales bulls during his first year on the market.

Lot 534 is the first of three outstanding Rawhide daughters in this 50th Anniversary Sale, and if it weren’t for an event of this magnitude, she would not be available. Especially given she bred first service AI and is due with a Veracious bull calf on her 2nd birthdate. Her dam got out of the gate fast, earning progeny records of: 110 weaning, 114 yearling, 128 IMF and 110 REA.

Three half-brothers to Lot 536 (Sure Thing, He Does It All and Noble)

need to improve calf value. Ian and Jess Miller of M3 Cattle Company purchased the 104 MPPA dam of Lot 537 in our March, 2022 sale.

538

Expect power and performance to result from this embryo mating. The sire, Complete 7000E was responsible for 4 sons that averaged over $30,000. The dam, SLB PRESSY 170J is the product of one of the most successful cow families we’ve ever been involved with at R.A. Brown Ranch. There were 10 daughters of the Absolute x W7996 mating and most of them were successful donors. Buyer pays three times the bid price and receives the fourth embryo in lieu of a guarantee.

539

This Energize two-year-old comes from the renown F942 cow that was purchased by Mathias Ranch in our October 2022 sale. Study this female’s combination of Calving Ease and Yearling weight. She’s the kind that can mass produce high value “spread” bulls that ranchers fight over.

February. Check out the fetal EPDs of that mating!

Here’s a long-bodied, sound footed Energize daughter that balances 8 traits in the top 20% and excels for calf value traits as indicated by both her GridMaster and $Feeder values.

We lead off a new pen of cattle with the only Prime Time daughter in the sale and she’s special. She’ll compete with any female in the sale when it comes to projecting Feed Efficiency and PRIME Carcass Quality. Maternal sisters sell as Lots 516, 519, 533 and 545.

You’ve got to be ready whenever you get the chance to buy into highly proven cow families, and Lot 545 represents such an opportunity. Her 113 MPPA dam is one of the highest selling Black/Red females

This bred heifer is loaded with the best of outcross Angus genetics and balances 12 traits in the top 25% of Red Angus. Her maternal-grandam is the dam of Lots: 515, 523 and 540.

If beauty really is in the eye of the beholder, you’ll want to make sure your hand’s in the air last for Lot 548. This is one of the most eye appealing females in the entire offering; she’s good footed, slick haired and sound uddered. Best yet, she’s 4 months away from giving you a Titus heifer calf that could be Red and will be really good.

Here we are 20 lots from the end of the sale and the

still out of dams with a proven track record. Lot 550’s dam has average progeny ratios of:

as Lot 535. Check out the projected $Profits on the Longmire heifer calf in her belly!

This young female is just in the prime of her productive life and her 113 MPPA dam is a maternal-sister to Brown SW2W Noble K6728. Lot 551 will start paying for herself just as soon as she drops her Authentic bull calf in January. This could be one of the first sons to sell by the $120,000 leadoff Red. Angus bull from our 2024 sale

If you have clients that retain ownership, they need to be buying sons out of this daughter of the $100,000 LSF SRR President 8177F. Check her amazing percentile ranks for GridMaster, Marbling, REA and Carcass Weight. Her dam is a 104 MPPA Sure Fire daughter, who was purchased by Mathias Ranch.

Red Angus

Yes, we made sure there were some gems deep in the sale order. That’s why we’re leading off this fancy set of Red Angus bred heifers with an own daughter of Della 502. She’s the dam of the $120,00 “High Voltage”, and one of the highest selling females of all time. To sweeten this deal, Lot 556 is due to have one of the first Titus daughters about 90 days after the sale.

The Y6648 cow family strikes again. This time with a well-balanced King Arthur daughter who has 10 traits in the top 25%. Her dam is a fullsister to Oracle that was purchased by Mathias Ranch after earning average progeny ratios of: 104 weaning, 106 yearling and 110 REA with a 374-day calving interval.

This high marbling heifer stacks Della 502 and Y6628, dam of Oracle and Fantastic, in the same pedigree. The Titus bull calf in her belly will be one of the early ones to market and could more than pay for the cow.

564

With single digit ranks for marbling, carcass weight, REA and growth, it’s no surprise Lot 564 is well above the top 1% for GridMaster. Her dam is a 106 MPPA Merlin daughter that sold to Greg Beatty in Pennsylvania during our March, 2022 sale.

Her Sire, Mill Brae Success 8017 has left good uddered

SRR DELLA C5269 E7235

Authentic was the $120,000 lead-off and high selling bull in our October 2023 sale, going to RC Cattle Company in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. The owners made the decision to keep this bull exclusive for 1 year, and open semen sales at our 50th Anniversary Sale. Authentic rivals his old man, Genuine for Marbling, but comes with even better spread from CED to Yearling. His beautiful dam is the lead-off Red Angus female in our 2024 sale.

#4641447 01-26-2022 RABR / K118

LEACHMAN PLEDGE A282Z KJL/CLZB COMPLETE 7000E HXC 507C G A R SURE FIRE BROWN

He

Really Does It All!

Plus, he’s a complete outcross for many of the most widely used Red Angus sire lines of the last few years. This is a calving ease bull that adds pounds, quality grade, calf value and fertility. His ownership group has decided to ooen semen sales beginning at the R.A. Brown Ranch Sale on October 8-9, 2024.

Brown GTLS Titus K6257

#4604779 12-29-2021 GTLS / K6257

BIEBER CL ATOMIC C218

BIEBER CL ENERGIZE F121

BIEBER CL ADELLE 575D

BROWN ORACLE B112

$25 per unit

$25 per unit

GTLS GLORIFY G2701

TLSS MISS JULIA C122

10% Discount • 50+ units 20% Discount • 100+ units

No other Energize son comes close! Titus crushes the traits that impact profitability with sleep all night calving ease and single-digit ranks for ADG, Pay-weight, Feed Efficiency, Fertility and Marbling. Better yet, all of those traits come in a moderate framed, deep ribbed, sound footed, slick haired package. We think Titus will be a Trait Leader for Profit.

$25 per unit

$25 per unit

#4658231 01-1-2022 SW2W / K6728

LEACHMAN PLEDGE A282Z

KJL/CLZB COMPLETE 7000E HXC 507C

GMRA TRILOGY 0226 BROWN MS TRILOGY D722

MS REDEMPTION A7015

10% Discount • 50+ units 20% Discount • 100+ units

Loaded with thickness, rib-shape and eye appeal, Noble was a phenotypic standout and the second high seller at our October 2023 Sale. Noble allows you to mash on the throttle for extra fertility, gain, quality grade and carcass weight in addition to adding muscle, fleshing ability, docility and soundness.

October 8-9,

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Registered Ranching

REFLECTING BACK ON 50 SALES

WHAT’S NEXT?

This year we will have jewelry for the ladies (or gifts that us guys can buy for those special occasions that we sometime forget). Get a hat or get yours cleaned & shaped by Capital Hatters, clothing from Ag Gear or a peace of history from our RAB Mercantile. The Happy Toy Maker will be here & the kids will have a huge sand pile to enjoy. Plus we will have lots of our allied partners that help us succeed in the ranching business serving you up an experience to remember. Come enjoy as we celebrate our 50th Annual Sale & plan for many more to come.

Editor’s Note: As we were preparing for this celebration, I asked many friends what we should do to make this year special. There were so many folks that chimed in but the text from Rachel Cutrer was too good not to ruminate on. I love her reminder that we can celebrate the last 50 years but it’s especially important to continue pressing forward for the next 50. We couldn’t agree more Rachel. If there’s one thing that this family has always held firm on, it is vision and innovation. That is the legacy of the not only the Brown Family but also of the many employees, interns, customers and friends that have gathered together for the last fifty years. As iron sharpens iron, may we keep each other accountable. Cheers for the next fifty!

Looking East

Although the view has changed a little over the years, our passion for the beef industry and the bright future of agriculture has not.

GUARANTEES

Sale terms. Conditions. Guarantees.

Except for those stated in the below terms and conditions, there are not warranties, either expressed or implied, as to merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose with respect to the cattle being sold at this auction. The warranties and guarantees are set forth in these Terms and Conditions are in lieu of all other warranties, either expressed or implied, and the remedies provided therein shall be the sole and exclusive remedy of the purchaser or any party claiming through purchaser, for any breach of warranty or guarantee therein provided, and all other obligations or liabilities.

BIDDING Each animal will be sold to the highest bidder. The auctioneer in charge will settle any disputes as to bids, and his decision on such matters shall be final.

TERMS of the sale are cash or check to the clerk at the conclusion of the auction. Animals are not to leave until paid for in full.

PURCHASER’S RISK

Each animal will be at the Purchaser’s risk as soon as sold, but it shall be the obligation of the seller to see that animals are fed and cared for free of charge to purchaser, until loaded for shipment or until the expiration of (72) hours after the sale for animals being picked up by the Purchaser. Animals being delivered will be cared for at no charge until delivered.

ANNOUNCEMENTS & SALE DAY SUPPLEMENT Printed information on the sale day supplement takes precedence over printed information in this catalog. Announcements from the auction block will take precedence over printed material in this catalog and on the sale day supplement. All animals will be sold by lot number as announced from the auction block. Every effort has been made to assure correctness of the catalog, and in most cases, information quoted concerning the animals is taken from the respective breed association’s official records.

PERSONAL LIABILITY

All persons who attend the sale do so at their own risk and the R.A. Brown Ranch, its employees, cooperators, consignors and all other person connected with the management of the sale, assume no liability, legal or otherwise.

IDENTIFICATION Seller offers each registered animal with a readable tattoo corresponding to its catalog designation and registration when applicable.

REGISTRATION TRANSFER If you want registration certificates transferred to you, this request must be made with the sale clerk at settlement on sale day or within twenty (20) days thereafter by written notification. After twenty (20) days, the transfer fees will be the responsibility of the Purchaser. All registration certificates will be withheld until the check clears the bank. Registration certificates will be mailed to you within ninety (90) days of date of sale. Inform the clerk when checking out if you need them sooner than ninety (90) days.

HEALTH CERTIFICATES will be furnished on all animals going outside of Texas as soon as all required testing is complete. Some states require testing that may take several days to receive the results before our veterinarian can complete the health certificate to send cattle to your state.

BULL BREEDING GUARANTEE 1. All animals are guaranteed to be breeders with the exception of: a) Injury or disease occurring to the animal after time of sale; b) Gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the purchaser; c) Animals shown competitively after being purchased in this sale. 2. Any bull which either a) settles 1/3 or more of the healthy cows he serves; b) is the sire of 20 or more animals; or c) settles cows by natural service and passes a fertility test made by a competent veterinarian during any 6 month trial (provided for in the section of these sale terms and conditions entitled “Options and Privileges of Return or Adjustment”) shall be considered a breeder. Any guarantees with respect to the ability to freeze semen shall be made by separate agreement between the Purchaser and Seller.

REGISTERED FEMALE BREEDING GUARANTEE 1) Safein-calf females have been examined by a competent ultrasound or palpation technician and are so guaranteed.

All females that have been diagnosed safe in calf, have a projected calving date or date range printed in this catalog or in the sale day supplement. All projected due dates and emGyo sexing are best estimates only and are not guaranteed. Please remember that it is normal for females to give birth throughout the two weeks either side of their projected due date. 2) AI or pasture exposed females have been exposed, but are not guaranteed safe in calf. They are guaranteed to be breeders. 3) Open females have been examined open and are so guaranteed. Open females are guaranteed to be breeders or produce viable embryos if the Purchaser chooses to put the cow into embryo transfer. 4) Donor Females a) A female which has been used in an embryo transfer program and sells open is not guaranteed to be a breeder after date of sale unless by separate agreement between the Purchaser and seller. b) A female is not guaranteed to be a breeder after date of sale when that female is to be used, or attempted to be used in an invitro fertilization (IVF) program or embryo transfer program, unless by separate agreement between the Purchaser and seller. c) There is no guarantee as to the suitability of any female for embryo transfer.

COMMERCIAL FEMALE BREEDING GUARANTEE

All Commercial Females that sell safe in calf have been determined pregnant by a competent ultrasound or palpation technician and are guaranteed to be pregnant through December 1st following this sale. Any commercial females that have a calf at side at the time of delivery (per delivery terms as stated in the catalog) shall be sold as open and ready to breed, and with no further guarantees. It is common for a small percentage of females to lose a pregnancy between palpation and calving. If you determine that one of the commercial females is not pregnant prior to May 1st, then please call us and you will be reimbursed by the seller of the heifers the difference between her purchase price and the salvage value you receive for her.

SELLER’S SEMEN RIGHTS 1) Seller retains a 50% revenue sharing semen interest and no possession, in every bull in this catalog unless otherwise noted in this catalog or in the sale day supplement. Future semen collections of the bull must be made known to all owners prior to collecting. These collections and costs will be divided according to each owner’s interest, unless otherwise agreed upon mutually by all owners prior to collection of said semen. 2) On any bull in the sale which is collected in the future, Seller reserves the right to 100 straws of semen with registration rights and will pay their portion of the collection costs. 3) Further official terms for this section are described at the front of this catalog entitled “Retained Interests in Bulls.”

OPTIONS & PRIVILEGES OF RETURN OR ADJUSTMENT

1) The following adjustments do not preclude the right of the Purchaser and seller to mutually agree upon other terms and conditions for settlement of any dispute. All claims for adjustment or refund must be made in writing either within six (6) months from the date of sale or no later than when the animal reaches 24 months of age, whichever occurs later, with the exception of claims involving parentage or defects. 2) All returns or refunds will be paid in the form of a replacement animal of similar quality or in credit for use on any products marketed by the seller. a) This credit will be limited to the purchase price less the salvage value of the animal. b) Salvage value = Market price x greater of “current weight” as taken in September prior to the sale or the animal’s current weight at the time of salvage, whichever is greater. 3) In the event an animal is claimed to be a non-breeder, the animal may be returned to the ranch of the Seller, at Purchaser’s expense, if in good physical condition, and the return is in compliance with the health requirements of the Seller’s state. The Seller shall be entitled to a six (6) month trial period following the return of the animal in which to prove that the animal is a breeder. If at the end of six (6) months the Seller is unable to prove the animal is a breeder, the seller shall, at the option of the Purchaser, replace the animal with another of similar value or grant the Purchaser a credit on any products marketed by Seller. Either of these options shall be deemed full satisfaction and settlement. If the Seller proves the animal to be a breeder, it shall be the obligation of the Purchaser to take delivery of the animal and pay all expense incurred for transportation. 4) If a registered female sold as “safe-in-calf” proves not to be in calf (by the projected due date listed in the catalog or

sale day supplement), the Purchaser may receive service from the bull previously used, if available or if the bull is not available the Seller shall be obligated to credit or refund the Purchaser $400. Any adjustment provided for herein shall absolve the Seller from further liability, except in case such female proves to be a non-breeder. If a female represented as “safe-in-calf” at time of sale to a certain bull proves to have been bred to a different bull, the Seller shall be obligated to reimburse the Purchaser up to $600 (adjustments shall not be considered to be a breeding fee or an allocation of the purchase price to any unborn calf). Any expenses incurred for transportation shall be the responsibility of the Purchaser. 5) If a female sold as “open” proves to be with calf, the Purchaser may return the animal to the farm of the Seller prior to calving for a credit of the full purchase price or for another animal of similar value, whichever is acceptable to the Purchaser. It shall be the obligation of the Seller to bear any expense incurred for transportation.

GENETIC CONDITION, DEFECT & PARENTAGE GUARANTEE 1) Technology is helping identify numerous genetic conditions that have been in the general cattle population for many years. Those known today include: Arthrogryposis Multiplex (AM), Double Muscling (DM), Dwarfism (DW), Hypotrichosis (HY), Alpha-Mannosidosis (MA), Neuropathic Hydrocephalus (NH), Osteopetrosis (OS), Protoporphyria (PR), Pulmonary Hypoplasia with Anasarca (PH), Syndactyly (SN) (Mule Foot), Tibial Hemimelia (TH), Neuropathic Hydrocephalus (NH), Contractural Arachnodactyly (CA) (Fawn Calf Syndrome), Parrot Mouth and Developmental Duplications Mutation (DD). Most of these are believed to be simple recessive in inheritance. These condition can be effectively managed by strategic DNA testing and avoidance of breeding carrier females to carrier bulls. All potential carriers of any of these defects will be tested with the results printed in this catalog or in the Sale Day Supplement. Animals tested as a carrier of one of these genes are noted with a (C) after the abbreviation. In the case that an animal is homozygous for that gene, then they will be listed with an (A) after the abbreviation.

The parentage of the animals bred by the Seller is guaranteed to the extent that the animal is by the Sire and out of the Dam indicated on its registration paper. These guarantees are effective for a period of two years from the date of sale only under the following conditions. a) The Purchaser shall notify the Seller in writing immediately upon the birth of a calf suspected of being defective or immediately after determination is made that such calf is defective, or if parentage is suspected or found to be in error. b) The Seller, at his expense, shall be permitted and provided, with reasonable opportunity, to obtain DNA samples of an alleged defective calf and its sire and dam for the purpose of DNA analysis to establish parenthood. In the case of suspect parentage, the Purchaser at his expense, shall be permitted and provided with reasonable opportunity to obtain DNA samples of the animal in question and its sire and dam for the purpose of blood type/DNA analysis to establish parenthood. If sire or dam is indicated on the animals registration paper is proven to be in error by such analysis, the Seller shall reimburse Purchaser for cost of such analysis. c) The animals will be returned by the Purchaser to the Seller at the Purchaser’s expense; provided the animal meets the health requirements for the Seller’s state. d) The replacement of an animal with another of similar value or the refund of the purchase price, in connection with a defect producing animal or an animal whose parentage is in error, shall be deemed full satisfaction and settlement.

2. In the event there is a dispute as to whether or not a calf is defective, or parentage is in error, “determination “referred to in Paragraph 1A above shall be made by a person or persons acceptable to both the Purchaser and Seller. In the event that the Purchaser and Seller cannot agree on the selection of such person or persons, then each of them shall appoint a representative to make the determination. In the event that such representatives fail to agree, a third person selected by the representatives of the Purchaser and Seller shall make the determination.

RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS The terms and conditions of sale shall constitute a contract between the Purchasers and Sellers of each animal and shall be equally binding upon both. Any subsequent sale or resale of an animal constitutes a separate transaction.

Accommodations

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There are a number of new places close to the ranch. Book online.

Throckmorton

The Lee House 817 West Chestnut & The Mustard Seed Guest House 211 South Minter 308-520-1058

Lazy T Lodge 202 College Street 325-669-3681

The Yellow Rose Lodge 207 W Chestnut St 469-995-5003

The Corral RV Ranch thecorralrvranch.com

Albany (35 Miles South)

Albany Inn & RV Campground 424 US Hwy 180 325-762-2224

Archer City (54 Miles NE)

The Spur Hotel www.thespurhotel.com 940-574-2501

Breckenridge (35 Miles SE) The Bell Mare Hotel thebellmarehotel.com 1822 West Walker St. 254-559-7247

Ridge Motel 2602 West Walker St. 254-559-2244

The ranch is located 5 miles west of Throckmorton. There are a number of great places to lay your head within a short drive and many “RV spots” locally.

Graham (45 Miles East)

Best Western Graham Inn 1707 Hwy. 16 South 940-521-0190

Holiday Inn Express 1581 Hwy 380 Bypass 940-521-9188

Middleton Hotel 509 4th St. hotelmiddleton.com 817-705-7403

Wildcatter Ranch 6062 Hwy 16 South wildcatterranch.com 940-549-3500

Ingleside Ranch 940-873-4481

Seymour (35 Miles N)

Glen & Myra’s Lodge & RV genaandmyrasloddgeandrv.com 1108 West California St. 940-889-4696

HH Creek Inn 400 S Main St. hhcreekinn.com 940-448-2001

Snyder’s Country Cottage snyderscountrycottage.com 940-888-1830 • 940-733-1867

2019 Fall Works

Thanks for being here and remember to always swing a big loop.

Mark your calendars now. March 10-12, 2025. A Rancher’s Rendezvous will be back and we’re planning for another banner event. Ranch Horse Competition, Educational Demonstration. Family and Friends Horse Sale (many of the 35 head will be under saddle). Bull and Female Sale. What more could you ask for? Bring your friends and we’ll make sure they are thoroughly entertained.

SOMETIMES DREAMS DO COME TRUE!

HESA TWISTED BET & LANHAM BROWN 2016 GELDING BY BET HESA CAT AND OUT OF RAB TWISTIN DODGER