Red Angus Bulls

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~ Donnell Brown

Sale Lot Number

All bulls and registered females sell in catalog order.

Sale Pen

Sale Day Pen along the normal location in case you come prior to sale day.

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 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

$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 multibreed 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.

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

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 this symbol indicates genomic data obtained through $Profit/Zoetis DNA testing have been incorporated into the above EPDs / Indices to ensure the highest possible accuracy for non-parent bulls. Most bulls are also DNA tested at the breed association.

$P EPDs:

CW - Carcass Weight

IMF - Intramuscular Fat REA - Ribeye Area

*** We try to present the most concise job of accurately describing these animals for their genetic worth. We have spreadsheets full of more epds and data on the website. Also the registration number of the Association is included to make it easy to look up any possible changes from the time this information was sent to the printer.

What

Is the Ideal Set of EPDs? For over three decades, we’ve been refining our EPD targets to produce the most profitable cattle in the business. Along the way, we developed a simple color-coding system that makes it easy to see how closely each EPD or Index lines up with our targets. Our #1 goal is to improve your profitability and sustainability by optimizing all economically relevant traits. In short, we believe success comes from producing Cows That Stay & Steers That Pay. This system has been the secret to our success, helping us quickly identify strengths and weaknesses to make better selection and mating decisions. Think of it like a traffic light: green means go, red means stop. It’s a simple but powerful way to produce cattle that put more profits in your pocket. Go to our website to find out more about the different color coding charts that we have for Calving Ease, Terminal, and All Purpose targets for each breed: www.RABrownRanch.com

COLORED TARGETS

This Now?

Why Share

For years, we kept this system as a competitive advantage. But we’ve realized the beef industry will be stronger if more people use it. You can even adjust our targets to fit your environment and market. One key reminder: the top 1% for every trait is not always best. For example, our targets for Milk, DMI, and Fat are closer to average, because extremes in either direction can be costly. Likewise, we target belowaverage Mature Weight and Height to pursue “Goldilocks” cows—just the right size to thrive in pasture environments.

How We Use the System

In the table above, we applied our color-coding system to: 1) The top 10 Red Angus sires (by progeny registered in the past year), 2) Sires we are using, and those that females in this sale are bred to, 3) Bulls in this sale, 4) Females in this sale.

RED ANGUS

This is a rare opportunity to own the #1 active sire in the breed for any trait—especially for the most economically relevant one: $Profit. Sure Thing excels across the board, combining Calving Ease, Carcass Weight, Fertility, and Marbling as well as any bull in the industry—all while offering outstanding eye appeal.

We are using him heavily, as are our partners and many of our cooperators, so you can expect his offspring to be featured in our future sales for years to come. Females in this sale are bred to him, and his sons will highlight our upcoming March sale.

We will continue marketing semen on this outstanding genetic masterpiece with our partners, Schuster Farms and Leachman Cattle. We are selling full possession, full salvage value, and in-herd semen use (at cost).

It is truly a treasure to have one of the best A.I. sires in the business walking your pastures and breeding your cows. He is an attraction that draws folks to see your herd—and some of the best advertising we’ve ever had. Simplify your system: no semen to buy, no synchronization to set up—just buy Sure Thing and let him go to work for you.

RED ANGUS

This is one of the best semen selling prospects we have ever had in our sale. It is unique to find a bull with top 1% Calving ease and have this bull’s impressive phenotypically. He is a hoss on the hoof and on paper. He ranks in the top 1% for Calving Ease Direct, ProS & Calving Ease Maternal. Combine that with his outstanding growth, Marbling and Stayability and you will find no other animal in the entire Red Angus database that can match his amazing EPD profile. Plus, he has tremendous mating flexibility with his unique pedigree.

Cow / Calf producers are enjoying the most profitable time in history, and the fundamentals say it should last for quite some time. The US cowherd inventory is at the lowest it has been in many decades, and heifer retention is just starting to show signs of rebuilding. That means lots of heifers to breed and in today’s economics, AI breeding commercial heifers is a “no brainer.” I anticipate we will see an explosion in the amount of semen needed to breed commercial heifers. The big question is who will own this bull and best capitalize on this opportunity to own one of the best, if not the best Red Angus bull to breed heifers and sell semen. Are you going to buy this bull and sell semen or are you going to let someone else own this bull and you buy semen?

RED ANGUS

WOW! Take a look at the absolutely tremendous FERT that this moderate and easy fleshing dude offers. He is the highest $FERT bull in the sale or highest Angus bull in the sale or highest Red Angus bull in the sale, in fact he is one of the highest $FERT bulls in the entire $P system. I would wager that this stud’s daughters can just about get settled from just looking at a bull. Pretty easy to see how he gets that impressive $Ranch and his 5 star ranking for cowherd. I would recommend building an entire herd around this dude. Imagine the mating flexibility and increased bang for you buck when you throw in his 5 star combination of CE and Growth. For those of you keeping track that’s 24 out of 25 stars on our exclusive Star ranking system, which ranks him as one of the all-time Star earners to come through our system.

This stud can help get your end product program where it needs to be in a hurry. He earns an impressive 5 out of 5 stars in our exclusive star rating system. It’s pretty easy to see why, when you study his outstanding carcass EPD package, that ranks at the very top of the chart for IMF combined with single digit rankings for FAT, REA and YG. Notice also he posts one of the top $Feeder numbers for the Red Angus bulls as well. It’s bulls like this guy that produce steers that pay. Speaking of profit, come to our Oct. 7th program to learn how we are striving to improve your profits through our calf buy back program.

RED ANGUS

Our mantra is “Cows that stay and steers that pay.” To achieve this goal, we all need to be investing in bulls like this that are a member of the $100/$200 club, that is a bull that is over $100 for $Ranch and $200 for $Feeder. There are record levels of profitability for cow/calf producers and this is forecasted to remain for the foreseeable future. The only maximum we chase at R.A. Brown is profitability. The way to achieve this is genetics. NOW IS THE TIME TO INVEST IN SUPERIOR

YOUR PROFITABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY! We also suggest to DNA your commercial heifers to get EPDs to help select them the same way you do our bulls. Learn how at our OCT. 7th program.

This guy’s performance figures read like a dream with outstanding ratios of 106 weaning and 109 yearling combined with only a 65 pound actual birthweight and 95 ratio. This is reflected in his excellent EPD set and the fact that he earns 9 out of 10 stars for CE and Growth. Marbling pays and this stud has it in spades with his outstanding 120 IMF ratio that helps to give him a MB EPD that ranks in the single digits to go along with a 5 star carcass ranking. Pretty easy to see how he scores 5 complete stars.

Market your calves by the pound? This stud brings outstanding profit potential with his scale crushing growth figures and 5 star Growth rating. Market your calves on a grid? He has you covered there as well with his prime potential IMF ratio of 151. This guy blows apart the antagonisms between marbling and muscling by also posting an exceptional 109 REA ratio. Easy to see how he earns that 5 star carcass rating and top of the chart $Feeder. Keep those daughters as well with that $Ranch.

It’s been said the only free meal in the cattle business is Prime. If you want to be setting at the head of the table when it’s time to collect those carcass premiums, you need to be investing in bulls like this. His 108 IMF ratio combined with his elite top of the chart ranking for IMF and $Feeder can get your end product program where it needs to be in a hurry. Imagine the daughters with his top ranked FERT and $Ranch.

RED ANGUS

MY, OH, MY! This stud is the cowboy kind. Check out his type combined with exceptional muscling and loads and loads and loads of volume! I’m positive that he will have loads of fans around him out in the pens on sale day. He will have loads of admirers that find him in the catalog as well with his growth that ranks completely off the chart for WW, YW and ADG. Expect those pounds to be premium and profitable with his out-of-this-world 167 IMF ratio combined with top of the chart MB. Little wonder he blows the top of GMI and has such an impressive $Feeder.

This stud resembles the milky way he has so many stars with an amazing 23 out of 25 total stars. With the mountains of data that we use to evaluate our bulls we developed a simplified star system for our customers to utilize. Check out page 12 for more details. Get into the weeds with this guy’s EPDs and you have to be impressed how he combines off the chart performance with exceptional calving ease that ranks in the elite single digits.

When it comes to performance this dude is loaded for bear. Just imagine the extra profitability that he offers just from the extra pounds that he can produce from his growth EPDs that rank completely off the chart. Expect his daughters to breed up on time and then go out and calve unassisted with his HPG and CEM that rank right at the top of the chart. These daughters can do it year in and year out with his exceptional $FERT and $Ranch.

If you or your customers market cattle on a grid, you had better be loading up on bulls like this stud. Check out his outstanding 115 IMF ratio that helps to give him a chart-topping MB EPD. Throw in his elite single digit rankings for growth and you can see why he scores such impressive GridMaster Index and $Feeder numbers as well. Use bulls like this to help produce progeny for our lucrative calf buy back program. If you are interested be sure to attend our program Tuesday evening for more info on this and DNA testing for your commercial heifers.

RED ANGUS

Here comes another really good bull with a very balanced EPD profile. He does a lot of things right with his combination of growth that ranks in the single digits with high-ranking calving ease. Expect his daughters to settle on time and calve unassisted with his HPG and CEM that both rank near the top of the chart. Need marbling and muscling? He has you covered there as well. That’s 11 traits in the top 26% or better. You can see why he has a myriad amount of stars.

If you have a mature set of cows and you want to produce abundant pounds and profit, this stud can sure enough get it done for you. As I sit here writing this, 5 weights were bringing over $459 at OKC so you can certainly see how those extra pounds add up in a hurry. Retain interest in his calves to make those pounds even more profitable with his 5 star carcass. I’d also advise you to keep as many daughters as possible out of this guy with the tremendous fertility and $Ranch that he offers. And can we talk about his outstanding dam? She is a phenomenal cow that produced one of the best black reds in our history, IDEAL!

Those $2,500 steers are really nice, but let’s keep our eye on the prize and that is increasing the sustainability of our cowherd. The best way to achieve this is through fertility. More pregnant cows=more calves=more profitability=improved sustainability. The best way to achieve this fertility is through using bulls like this that blow the top off the chart for FERT. And yes, he’ll put out the pounds as well with those growth EPDs!

Looking for a great bull that offers five-star calving ease in a really moderate made package? If so, you are in the correct spot my friend. This stud will have a lot of admirers on sale day, especially when you throw in his outstanding combination of top-ranked herd building traits and fantastic end product merit. Throw all this together and you can see how he achieves such a phenomenal $Profit ranking.

RED ANGUS

This guy can do a lot of good for a group of heifers. First off, his 5 star CE ranking that comes from his top of the chart rankings for CED and BW combined with only a 68 pound actual birthweight should put a smile on both your face and your heifers. Keep those daughters and grid his steers with his top-ranked $Ranch and $Feeder. In the fairly recent past, we were excited to get a bona fide heifer bull to top $13,000 $P. By rapidly stacking and improving top genetics we are now able to offer bulls like this that offer sleep all night calving ease with over $24,000 $P. We work hard to improve your profitability and sustainability.

If you want to inject a big dose of fertility into your next heifer crop you need to be investing in bulls like this guy with his incredible FERT. I would also advise you to DNA your commercial heifers to find your most fertile and profitable daughters so you can really turn the crank on genetic advancement. Come to our meeting Tuesday evening the 7th to learn more about this exciting technology as well as our innovative calf buy back program.

Get reacquainted with your pillow next calving season with this guy’s calving ease EPDs that rank in the single digits and his 58 pound actual birthweight that help to give him a 5 star ranking for CE in our exclusive ranking system. This unique piece of germplasm blows apart the antagonisms between calving ease and growth with his single digit rankings for both WW and YW. Keep those daughters as they should breed up on time and then go out and calve unassisted with his top ranked HPG and CEM.

Commercial bull buyers study your lesson and be ready to act with these “upfront” bulls. Every year there are bulls that sell in the commercial buyer’s budget in this first run of bulls, so be ready! Purebred or commercial, this stud can do a lot for your program with his great combination of performance and end product merit in a moderate package that offers sleep all night calving ease from his single digit rankings for CEM and BW.

This stud knocks it out of the park when it comes to carcass quality. He posts an incredible 144 IMF ratio that helps him earn one of the top MB EPDs in the sale. This guy can turn your carcass program around in one generation. He’s much more than a one trick pony though, check out the fantastic calving ease that he offers with his 61 pound actual birthweight with only an 89 ratio that helps to give him his top of the chart CEM and BW that ranks in the single digits.

OH, MY! This stud should have a crowd gathered out in the pens. He is extremely easy on the eyes and is loaded to the hilt with muscling and quality. You will want to stick this guy down by the ranch sign when you get him home. This guy’s genotype is just as good as his impressive phenotype. Check out the impressive end product merit that he offers with his top of the chart MB combined with a great REA. Pretty handy that he also earns 5 CE stars. $

RED ANGUS

I can already see the smiles on your heifers’ faces when they find out about this stud’s 65 pound actual birthweight and his off the chart ranking for BW. It’s certainly easy to see how he earns those 5 out of 5 CE stars. Also, I’m very conservative on my star rankings. Especially CE. You have to appreciate the performance that this guy offers as well. We believe that producing these bulls with first calf heifer calving ease and main cowherd growth let you get the most out of your hard earned bull buying dollars.

Efficiency is the next frontier of cattle production. We have invested large sums of capital to find the most efficient bulls for you in order to increase your profitability and sustainability. To stay ahead of the efficiency curve you need to be investing in bulls like this guy that offer tremendous F:G. Speaking of gain, notice we feed a high roughage, corn free diet to help ensure sound footed, functional and athletic bulls for our customers.

You sure might want to build an entire herd around this guy as his daughters should be loaded with fertility, calving ease and profitability. When you study all of this it’s readily apparent how he earns such and impressive $Ranch and an elite 5 star ranking for cowherd stars. You sure have to like that he offers all of this while also being your heifers’ best friend with his 62 pound actual birthweight, top of the chart CED and BW EPDs and 5 star CE ranking.

Take this stud home and let him use his top of the chart F:G to install whole new levels of efficiency to your next calf crop. When you market this guy’s calves be sure to let those buyers know the efficient genetics they offer. I sure like how he puts a big bend in that growth curve as well with his elite 5 star heifer genetics combined with main cowherd type growth. Keep those daughters with his 4 star Cowherd.

RED ANGUS

Great heifer calving ease with this guy. Take him home and let him help you sleep all night and make every basketball game during calving season. We’ve worked hard to produce curve bending bulls that allow you to extend your bull buying dollars by enabling you to use bulls on your heifers then transition to the main cowherd as they mature.

When’s the last time that you’ve seen a sure fire heifer bull offer this much end product merit? Take a look at how he destroys the antagonisms between marbling and muscling with MB and REA EPDs that both rank in the single digit. With his exceptional calving ease you can breed him to your freshest genetics to really turn the crank on producing genetic lead time for your herd.

Here comes another member of the elite $100/$200 club which is a bull that posts over $100 $Ranch and $200 $Feeder. When you see figures like this you know that you should be keeping every daughter and marketing every steer on a grid. Bulls like this can really increase the profitability and sustainability of your herd in a hurry, especially when you DNA your commercial heifers. Come to our meeting Tuesday afternoon to learn more about this exciting technology.

This stud’s progeny will sure enough mash down the scales. Think of how fast this guy can pay for himself just from the extra pounds that he produces. Especially when you consider that the record levels of profitability for cow/calf producers is forecasted to remain for the foreseeable future. He can also produce profitable premium pounds with his exceptional $Feeder and 5 star carcass ranking.

RED ANGUS

WOW! You should really like what you see when you find this stud out in the pens as he is loaded to the hilt with muscle, length, volume and tremendous quality. His exceptional EPD line is just as easy on the eyes as he is with fantastic calving ease, performance, fertility, maternal calving ease and end product merit. Also, expect him to produce those premium pounds efficiently with his outstanding F:G EPD.

Here we go into a new pen of bulls that is one of the most powerful sets in the entire sale, regardless of breed. We start off with a bull that is loaded with potential to produce prime pounds and lots of them with his off the chart growth and elite combination of marbling and muscling.

This stud offers big time profit potential with his ability to create profit all along the line from weaning all the way through to consumption with his 5 star ratings for growth and carcass.

Expect this guy to produce plentiful profitable prime pounds with his tremendous $Feeder that ranks 2nd among all the Red Angus bulls. You can expect those pounds to be produced efficiently with one of the top F:G EPDs in the

RED ANGUS

We are heading into a new pen of bulls that offer a great combination of calving ease, performance and efficiency. If you market on a grid you need to take this guy back to the ranch with his excellent F:G and top ranked $Feeder.

OH, MY! This stud offers one of the top combinations of fertility and efficiency in the entire sale. Expect this guy to produce females that breed up on time and go out and convert low quality forage efficiently with his off the chart rankings for FERT and F:G. He’s pretty easy on the eyes as well being one of the most stylish bulls in the sale. I’d wager you like what you see when you put the eye on this guy.

RED ANGUS

New pen of bulls here that are loaded to the hilt with performance. If you market by the pound you need to be loading up on

RED ANGUS

WOW! This guy posts one of the highest $Profit figures amongst the Red Angus bulls in the sale. That is quite a feat in itself, even more so when you notice that he earns 5 out of 5 stars for heifer CE.

RED ANGUS

If you really want to turn the genetic generational crank, take this stud home, breed as many of your heifers as possible to him and then keep their daughters. They should be absolutely loaded to the hilt with fertility, profitability and sustainability from his tremendous FERT and $Ranch.

Here we go into a new pen of bulls that offer good calving ease and great profitability. I’d advise you to keep as many daughters as possible out of this guy with his 5 star rating for cowherd.

Impressive specimen of a bull right here. This hoss will likely have quite a crowd gathered around him on sale day. His outstanding F:G EPD might be even more impressive than his phenotype.

RED ANGUS

Here we go into one of the largest pen of bulls selling today. This pen is loaded with “cowboy” bulls that are designed to cover lots of country, breed lots of cows and produce calves that put profit in your pocket when they absolutely crush the scales at payweight.

RED ANGUS

Keep the daughters as they should be loaded with fertility and be profit centers in your herd for years to come with his top of the chart rankings for $Ranch and FERT. He will put out the pounds as well with his 5 star rating for growth.

RED ANGUS

Small pen of bulls that really balance calving ease and performance with all four bulls being at least 8 out of 10 stars for CE and Growth.

RED ANGUS

Another large pen of bulls that are loaded with performance. This stud that we are starting off with is a member of the exclusive $100/$200 club which is a bull that posts at least $100 $Ranch and $200 $Feeder. Notice he also posts one of the top F:G EPDs in the sale.

Keep every female with his exceptional FERT. Take this stud home and let him inject even more fertility and profitability into your cowherd.

RED ANGUS

Here comes another large group of heifer plus bulls, as in these bulls can breed all your heifers, plus the rest of the cowherd. If you have a big group of heifers to breed, load up on these guys.

RED ANGUS

This stud posts one of the top $Profit figures amongst the Red Angus bulls selling today. How does being a member of the $100/$200 club, posting a great FERT EPD and offering good efficiency sound? The fact that he offers 5 star calving ease is just icing on the cake.

RED ANGUS

We head into another group of bulls that offer tons of performance for the cow/calf man that markets at weaning. Take these bulls home and take advantage of the immense profitability they offer from producing extra pounds in the outstanding market that is forecasted to remain for the foreseeable future.

RED ANGUS

More bulls that are loaded with performance and profitability. We start offf with a bull that I would recommend keeping as many daughters as possible as they should be jam packed with fertility and be profit centers for your outfit for years to come with his combination of FERT and $Ranch.

RED ANGUS

Starting a new pen of bulls that are focused on performance and profitability. If you market your calves on a grid take note of this guy’s 5 star growth and carcass along with top ranked $Feeder. Come to our meeting Tuesday evening to learn about our exciting new customer buy back program that helps realize even more profit from the elite genetics in which they have invested.

RED ANGUS

Last pen of Red Angus bulls to sell today. If you’ve yet to get your heifer bull, now is your chance. Your heifers should really be happy to see this guy with his 65 pound actual birthweight and CED that ranks right at the top of the chart.

OH, MY! Here is a special reward for those that have done their homework and studied their catalog. Veterans of this sale know that there are elite bulls scattered throughout the sale and are prepared to act when the opportunity arises. Now is your chance to act and bring even more fertility, profitability and sustainability with his elite top FERT, $Ranch and $Profit.

RED ANGUS

Last chance at a Red Angus bull today. We are certainly going out on a high note with a bull that you can build a cowherd around with his excellent $Ranch, elite FERT, great F:G EPD and a top 5 star cowherd. Simmi buyers get ready, up next is a great set of SimAngus bulls.