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SOARING EAGLE OF THE OZARKS

Second Annual

SPRING FEMALE SALE

Saturday •May 22, 2021 • 1pm Springfield, Missouri

sire: GAR Momentum dam: GAR Destination 33

CED +15; BW +.3; WW +65; YW +120 MILK +33; CW +53; MARB +1.54 RE +1.03; FAT -.021; $M +67 $W +79; $F +102; $G +101; $B +203; $C +330 Selling half interest in Momentum N607 the powerful combination daughter of the $45,000 top-selling female of the 2018 Hillhouse Angus Sale selected by Riverbend Ranch, Destination 33 sired by the proven Marb. source, Momentum.

sire: GAR Momentum dam: EWA 3128 of 9O67 Weigh Up

CED +13; BW +.9; WW +68; YW +123 MILK +23; CW +52; MARB +1.62 RE +.93; FAT +.019; $M +58 $W +69; $F +97; $G +100; $B +198; $C +315 Featuring half interest in 7301, the multi-trait daughter of the $100,000 record-selling female ever produced in the Edgewood Angus program, 3128 the now-deceased matriarch of the DeSu Angus program sired by the proven Marb. sire, Momentum.

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sire: GAR Progress • dam: Chair Rock 5050 GAR 9057 CED +15; BW +.9; WW +57; YW ++106; MILK +37; CW +53; MARB +1.24 RE +1.20; FAT -.038; $M +48; $W +70; $F ++112; $G +91; $B +204; $C +313 The dam of SEO Ultra Provider. Selling a Set Apart and a Maverick heifer calf out of this donor.

sire: GAR Prophet K263 • dam: Goode Sunrise 7805 CED +13; BW +1.2; WW +83; YW +156; MILK +23; CW +74; MARB +1.19 RE +.90; FAT -.016; $M +65; $W +80; $F +116; $G +83; $B +199; $C +323

sire: GAR Ashland • dam: Bridges Prophet 5404 CED ++13; BW +1.0; WW +77; YW +132; MILK +28; CW +53; MARB +1.51 RE +.95; FAT +.005; $M +87; $W +90; $F +89; $G +97; $B +186; $C +328 Bred to Connealy Clarity.

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sire: EWA Peyton 642 • dam: Powell Erica 7065 CED +10; BW ++1.3; WW +97; YW +165; MILK +28; CW +89; MARB +1.20 RE +.80; FAT +.025; $M +76; $W +102; $F +130; $G +79; $B +209; $C +347 Due 9/3/2021 to Connealy Clarity.

sire: Plattemere Weigh Up K360 • dam: Chair Rock Early Bird 6073

CED +8; BW +1.8; WW +77; YW +142; MILK +28; CW +70; MARB +1.27 RE +1.05; FAT -.038; $M +48; $W +78; $F +120; $G +91; $B +211; $C +322 Selling one-half interest.

sire: GAR Quantum • dam: Daltons Rita 7240 CED +10; BW +1.2; WW +84; YW +142; MILK +33; CW +58; MARB +1.15 RE +1.12; FAT -.018; $M +73; $W +97; $F +91; $G +84; $B +176; $C +301 Bred to GAR Greater Good.

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INSIDE OUR MAY/JUNE 2021 ISSUE 8 Opinion Opinion:: “T “ T i m e t o I m p l e m e n t S i n g l e Tr a i t S e l e c t i o n ”

- by Chip Kemp, American Simmental Association 10 WTF WTF:: “US “ US Beef Industry is the most Sustainable in the World”

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123 Years of Producing Registered Angus Cattle

44th Annual Production Sale

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Lanesboro Sales Commission • Lanesboro, MN Previewing Sunday, June 6 at the farm

SINCE 1898

Selling bulls and heifers by sires with $Values in the top 10% of the breed!!

S S Enforcer E812 19274932

The 2019 top-selling bull at ORIgen!

$M +80 4% $W +95 1% $F +130 1% $G +72 5% $B +202 1% $C +342 1%

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S S Enterprise E84 19274918

• Co-owned by Valley View Angus

$M +79 5% $W +86 3% $F +143 1% $G +78 3% $B +222 1% $C +367 1%

The 2019 2nd high-selling bull at ORIgen!

S S Odyssey H71 18944850 The 2018 top-selling bull!

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Sale cattle sired by: S S Enforcer E812, S S Enterprise E84, S S Odyssey H71, S S Absolute B66, SydGen Enhance, GB Fireball, S S Hoover Dam H27, Byergo Black Magic, S S Great Northern, G A R Scale House and Thomas Edison.

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All animals in this sale have had genomic and ultrasound tests with all bulls having a breeding soundness exam.

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OPINION “Time to Implement Single Trait Selection”

by Chip Kemp, Director, ASA & IGS Commercial and Industry Operations, American Simmental Association

Sometimes the obvious hides in plain sight.

It is obvious that our beloved bovine is often at the core of plain truths.

Meat, of which we are confident beef is the most appealing version, has clearly impacted the development of the human brain, physical well-being, psychological health, and the economic stability of various societies. You don’t need to take my word for these things.

Do your own homework. I’d encourage you to explore voices who operate in other arenas and may not be fully in philosophical alignment with us on every issue.

But we can find commonality on this topic. Explore the works of anthropologist Dr. Leslie Aiello to consider the relationship between animal protein consumption and brain size and function. Or consider Dr. Drew Ramsey’s article “Do Happy, Healthy Brains Need Meat?”.

Parts of this short essay will enrage you, but those can’t take away from the fact that he still states with certainty that people need to consume meat. Or check out the meat consumption vs.

Gross Domestic Product chart at ourworldindata. org. All confirm what you and I know. Beef is overwhelmingly a positive for individuals and societies.

Another example of the cow’s influence on modern society is in a word we hear all too 8

often today — “vaccine”. The rise and fal of personalities, policies, parties, and people seem to hinge on this simple little word. Vaccine is derived from the Latin “vacca”or “vacci”. Meaning cow.

Vaccination translates roughly to “pertaining to the cow”. All this derives from the work of Dr. Edward Jenner who, in the 18th century, used exposure to cowpox to provide immunity for smallpox.

Or maybe we should discuss the most plain of truths.

You and I need the cow to be profitable. To generate more revenue than she costs to acquire, raise, and maintain. Again, this is obvious and in plain sight. But is it really?

Efficient growth performance is crucial to a profitable beef complex. Cost-effective feedlot gain is a major decider of a terminal animal’s profitability.

I can recall, as an undergrad, having a certain professor drive home the reality that was quite evident in the beef business in the early 90s. Single trait selection was dangerous. He could back this up with facts, charts, and various glimpses of profit and loss within beef operations.

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He could drive this home with basic visual appraisal as we studied the physical implications of solely focusing on a leaner, larger animal. Or he could take us to a feedlot and listen to the “colorful” commentary by yard leadership and their local cattle buyer.

This professor, you’ve probably heard of him — Dr. Jerry Lipsey, essentially had the full arsenal of tools to highlight to his students why this model of animal agriculture simply couldn’t sustain itself. The long and short of it – it was not profitable.

You probably even remember ads from the day. I bet a printed pachyderm still resides in the memory bank of some.

And yet . . .

We all know the story.

Carcass weights have increased aggressively for many years.

Packers have incentivized this progression as they continue to move the heavy weight and yield grade discounts to allow for this trend to garner higher and higher grading percentages. Neither good nor bad. Just an observation of what is.

As the genetics have been developed to allow for this shift, one would then assume with confidence we’ve also seen May/June 2021

a significant uptick in weaning weights. But, ironically, that hasn’t come to pass. Dr. Dave Lalman’s work at Oklahoma State University has shown this time and again. We’ve seen essentially no measurable increase in industry-wide average weaning weights over the last three decades. Many have speculated this is a result of management and nutritional factors limiting on-ranch genetic expression.

Many believe that weaning weight and yearling weight EPDs are amongst the most important selection criteria for a bull buyer and hence, amongst the most important factors when identifying sale-day value of a bull. For those commercial customers retaining ownership on their terminal calves, this would make perfect sense. If you sell at weaning, is it as clear-cut? You need to generate a calf that has market appeal to the next owner.

But cow size. But feed costs.

Some might make this same line of argument regarding the modern-day emphasis on marbling. Though it should be said, it doesn’t appear that the antagonisms (or negative impacts) associated with heavy selection pressure for marbling are very dramatic. Maybe not even negative at all. Certainly not as obvious as the antagonisms associated with heavy pressure for growth traits.

Regardless, many would state growth and marbling EPDs have been the most heavily selected for in recent years. And this clearly seems to be the case.

So, have we devolved or reverted back to the 90s? Are we single trait selecting again? In some cases, likely so. As a commercial May/June 2021

bull buyer what to do? Clearly, you need growth. And marbling.

And cow longevity. And lower feed costs.

The answer lies in plain sight. You need a tool that can appropriately balance the various revenue streams and expense centers within your business. If such a tool existed, it would allow you to appropriately allocate your selection pressure for terminal merit AND cow longevity. It would allow you to avoid sacrificing all growth, as some would suggest, to get the ultimately low input cow (and the resulting calf that offers very little to the industry at large). Again, such a tool would be less about maximizing one trait while hemorrhaging cash to cover up the deficiencies in another. And believe it or not, this tool would actually single trait select for the only metric worthy of single trait selection – PROFIT.

These tools do exist. And fortunately, they are readily available. You know them as INDEXES. And they appear all the rage.

And as a result, can be confusing if one isn’t careful. Every week it appears a new index gets crafted to appease another segment of the industry. It seems the more indexes there are the more folks can find a way to rationalize what they are already doing and avoid considering the tough questions that might require change. I like simple. The older I get the more I realize the importance of simple, thoughtful, well-crafted tools.

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points, or falling glitter. No fast talk or wordy definitions. They just work.

As I see it, two tools address almost every approach in the business. You either 1) buy your replacement females or 2) make your replacements. If you do the first, then you are buying maternal merit and hence you can focus your breeding decisions to bring as much terminal merit to the table as possible. In this case, you need the Terminal Index ($TI) which focuses on the genetics that is profitable in the feedyard and on the chain, while still accounting for the appropriate on-farm economically relevant traits. If you are making your replacements, you have a more sensitive dance. With AI and sexed semen, this conversation can get a bit more complex.

But, the long and the short of it is you need an all-around, all-purpose genetic package. The All Purpose Index ($API) provides the clearer path to pursuing profit.

One strategy that works for some is to use $API or $TI as an initial gate cut. Know how your potential bull targets fall in the index that best aligns with your management approach and operational style. Then, emphasize those particular EPDs and physical traits that are of great importance at this time within your herd. Keep profit at the forefront of your decision process and it will help you find the plain and obvious truth — that maybe there is a place for single trait selection when appropriately applied.

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“Study Confirms US Beef Industry IS “yeah, we know...but...

Washington - April 2021 - NCBA

A research paper released today confirmed U.S. beef production is the most sustainable production system in the world, a fact long understood by America’s cattle producers, who between the 1960s and 2018, reduced the carbon footprint of the industry by 40 percent while producing 66 percent more beef.

“We already know a growing global population will require and demand high-quality food, which means we need ruminant animals, like beef cattle, to help make more protein with fewer resources,” said NCBA president and Kansas cattleman, Jerry Bohn. “Cattle generate more protein for the human food supply than would exist without them because their unique digestive system allows them to 10

convert human-inedible plants, like grass, into high-quality protein.”

Although the study’s abstract disingenuously advocates for decreased beef consumption, the paper itself repeatedly points out that the advantages of the U.S. cattle and beef production model far outweigh the impacts. The U.S. has been a global leader with the lowest emissions intensity in the world for the past 25 years, producing just 2 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, or 0.5 percent of global GHG emissions.

The study examined livestock lifecycle assessments (LCAs) from across the globe to reach its conclusions and pointed out that there is significant room for improvement of global livestock production practices. While it laid out many opportunities for improvement, it also recognized

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the Most Sustainable in the World” what is this paragraph below?”

We called everybody in Washington for a comment. The response was “no comment”.

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the work already done by the U.S. cattle industry to become the leader in sustainable beef production. Thanks to early adoption of innovative grazing practices combined with advances in cattle breeding and nutrition, U.S. producers have already employed many of the suggested practices that the study suggests employing around the world.

Cattle production protects open space, guards against catastrophic wildfire, and protects wildlife habitat across the country. Those benefits, and the practices that underpin them in the United States, further confirm the country’s role as a global leader.

“Beef and cattle production is a critical part of our country’s identity as a global leader in sustainable beef production, but also in our

While the content of the study repeat- long-held principle that economic, environedly confirms the U.S. as the leader in susmental, and community-based sustainability tainable beef and cattle production, NCBA will result in widespread benefits,” said Bohn. *was disappointed to see a statement in the “U.S. farmers and ranchers are the best in the abstract that advocated for a reduction in beef world when it comes to producing safe, wholeconsumption. This statement is not only unsome and sustainable high-quality beef for founded but is inappropriate to include in a American families, and doing it with summary of work that consistently validates the smallest possible footprint and we’re American conservation and management practices.* (ABP is very upset about this inex- committed to continuing on that path of cusable and disrespectful statement...) improvement.”

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Sale Calendar 1-May

OD Butler Texas A&M Research Center College Stn, TX

8-May

Western States Angus Ass’n Sale

Galt, CA

1-May Bridges Angus Lexington, GA

10-May Gardiner Angus Ranch Bull Sale

Ashland, KS

1-May

Cowboy Heritage Beefmaster

Oklahoma City, OK

10-May Missing S Angus Online

Brownstown, IL

1-May

Coyote Hills Ranch

Chattanooga, OK

10-May Wendel Livestock

LaMoure, ND

1-May Elk Angus Buffalo, WY

11-May Premier Angus Group Online

Johnson City, TN

1-May

Flying W Ranch 46th Production sale Pequot Lakes, MN

13-May Kentucky Hereford-Influenced Feeder Calf Stanford, KY

1-May

Genomic Gems Female Sale

Giddings, TX

14-May Switzerland of Ohio Polled Hereford Old Washington, OH

1-May

Karr Farms

Gallipolis, OH

15-May Byergo Angus Farm

Savannah, MO Blackville, SC

1-May

KJD Cattle Co. Private Treaty

Fairfield, PA

15-May Edisto Heifer Development Program

1-May

MS Angus Assn. Sale

Raymond, MS

15-May Locust Level Farms

Vernon Hill, VA Shelbyville, TN

1-May

PCR Polled Herefords Sale

Fremont, MI

15-May Pleasant Valley Farms

1-May

SE Angus Classic

Opelika, AL

15-May Swinging B And Friends Sale

Salado, TX

15-May Woodside Farm Spring Fever

Waynesburg, PA

1-May

South Carolina Hereford Assn. Sale

Clemson, SC

1-May

Stars and Stripes

Hershey, PA

1-May

Tennessee River Music

Ft. Payne, AL

1-May

Trowbridge Farms

Ghent, NY

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Spickler Ranch South

4-May

Phillip Livestock LLC’s Bull Day

Phillip, SD

5-May

Bulls Of The Badlands

Bowman, ND

6-May

44 Farms Online Female Sale

Cameron, TX

6-May

Cactus Cattle Co.

Plevna, MT

15-May Timberland Cattle

Glasgow, AL

15-May Westwind Angus Galt, CA

6-May

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16-May Heuchert Willow Creek Angus

6-May Paint Rock Angus Hyattville, WY

18-May Carlson Cattle Co. Complete Dispersion Columbus, NE

7-May

Glen Ullin, ND

18-May TPC Angus Online sale

Duppong’s Willow Creek

Hensel, ND Canton, MS

7-May

Glendennings J Bar J Limousin

Lebanon, MO

19-May Innisfail Farm/Mead Cattle Enterprises Madison, GA

7-May

Hillhouse Angus Female Sale

Schulenburg, TX

20-May Big Timber Cattle Co.

Lithia, FL Madill, OK Chinook, MT

8-May

A Bar Ranch Commercial Female Sale Claremore, OK

21-May Buck Cattle Co. Frozen Genetics

8-May

Banners and Beyond Simmental

Jefferson, GA

21-May I Like It Like That Red Angus

8-May

Burns Farms Female Event

Pikeville, TN

22-May Buck Cattle Co. Sharing The Tradition Madill, OK

8-May

Central States BBA Sale

Locust Grove, OK

22-May Heritage Farm Production Sale

Shelbyville, KY Shreveport, LA

8-May

Hillhouse Angus Female Sale

Schulenburg, TX

22-May LA Angus Assoc Female Sale

8-May

Maternal Gems Sale

Union Springs, AL

22-May MO/KS/AR/OK Angus Sale

Ozark, AR Springfield, MO

8-May

Mead Farms Female Sale

Versailles, MO

22-May Soaring Eagle Farms

8-May

Pride of Dixie MS Charolais Assoc

Raymond. MS

22-May Spur Ranch Female Sale

Louisburg, NC

23-May Bridge View Angus Frankfort, KY

8-May

Springfield Angus

Vinita, OK

8-May Totton Angus Chamberlain, SD

24-May FB Genetics Online Sale

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25-May Carlson Cattle Co. Complete Dispersion Columbus, NE

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Sale Calendar 25-May Ludvigson Stock Farms

Shepherd, MT

27-May McClun’s Lazy JM Ranch

Veteran, WY

29-May High Roller Angus Center, TX 29-May Innisfail Farm/ Mead Cattle

Madison, GA

29-May R&R Farms Dispersal

Cullman, AL

1-Jun

Christensen Genetics

Weston, ID

2-Jun

Calhoun Herd Sale

Calhoun, GA

5-Jun

Appalachian Classic Sale

Knoxville, TN

6-Jun

Hawkeye Country Angus Sale

Bloomfield, IA

7-Jun

Bruner Angus Ranch

Drake, ND

7-Jun

Sunnyslope Angus Bull & Female Sale Lanesboro, MN

11-Jun

All American Angus Breeders Futurity Louisville, KY

12-Jun

Wallen Prairie Ranch Production Sale Lockwood, MO

14-Jun

Moon Creek Farms (Rock Rapids, IA) Mitchell, SD

16-Jun

Superior Livestock Corn Belt Classic S. Sioux City, NE

18-Jun

Iowa Angus Assn Preview Show

Oskaloosa, IA

19-Jun

Lone Star BBA Female Sale

Sulphur Springs, TX

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Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course College Station, TX

7-Aug

Edisto Pines

Leesville, SC

7-Aug

J & T Farms 7Th Production Sale

Lexington, TN

9-Aug

Indiana State Fair Jr. Steer Show

Indianapolis, IN

10-Aug Cattle Industry Convention & NCBA Nashville, TN 12-Aug MO State Fair 4-H & FFA Angus Show Sedalia, MO 13-Aug MO State Fair Open Angus Show

Sedalia, MO

14-Aug Spruce Mountain Ranch

Larkspur, CO

16-Aug Superior Livestock Big Horn Classic Sheridan, WY

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24-Jun

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Baldridge Female Sale

North Platte, NE

26-Jun

Clark Jones & Cottage Farm

Savannah, TN

2-Jul

Junior National Hereford Expo (July 2-9) Madison, WI

8-Jul

Bar 7 Genetics Live Online Sale

28-Jul

Faces Of Leadership Conference (July 28-31) Columbus, OH

30-Jul

Mason-Dixon Polled Hereford Assn. Show

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28-Aug SEBBA Convention Sale

Lexington, TN

29-Aug Iowa Hereford Tour

Des Moines, IA

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Bradley Cattle & Hankins Farms

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Damascus, AR

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Salisbury, MO

11-Sep Lorenzen Farms

Chrisman, IL

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Ghent, NY

11-Sep Pearcy Angus Ranch Female Sale

Fairy, TX

11-Sep Pierce’s Hereford Haven Open House Baraboo, WI

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Point Pleasant Angus

Bland, VA

3-Oct

Badger Southern Select

Burlington, WI

4-Oct

Express Ranches

Yukon, OK

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Bar 7 Genetics

Scottsboro, AL

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Schulenburg, TX

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Black Grove

Newberry, SC

9-Oct

California / Nevada Hereford Classic Yuba City, CA

9-Oct

Clemson Edisto Forage Bull Test

Blackville, SC

9-Oct

East Central Angus Assoc. sale

Cuba, MO

9-Oct

Seldom Rest

Niles, MI

9-Oct

TX Angus Assoc, Breeders Select

Salado, TX

11-Sep Prairie Rose Cattle Co

Sherman, IL

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11-Sep Northeast Elite Hereford Sale 14-Sep Western Video @ Haythorn Ranch

Ghent, NY Ogallala, NE

10-Oct Ridgeview Farms Definitely Different Alto, MI 10-Oct Vintage Angus Ranch

Modesto, CA

18-Sep Burns Farms & Friends Female Sale

Pikeville, TN

11-Oct

Porterville, CA

EZ Ranch

Endeavor, WI

18-Sep Capitol Angus Whitehouse, TX

13-Oct R.A. Brown Ranch

Throckmorton, TX

18-Sep Ehlke Herefords Montana Made Sale Townsend, MT

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Oak Grove, MO

18-Sep Wild Indian Acres & Friends

DeSoto, MO

19-Sep Lowderman Cattle Co. Illini Top Cut Macomb, IL 21-Sep Thomas Angus Ranch California

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Arcadia, FL

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Modesto, CA

25-Sep 2S Angus Land & Cattle

Seneca, MO

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Poplar Bluffs, MO

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or the past several years I’ve sought escape from the long Minnesota winters to the warm tropical sunshine state.

Swapping out my snow-covered pines for sun bleached palm trees, white sandy beaches and Bermuda grass fairways. I was excited about this trip as I had made some plans to visit a few ranches and take advantage of some travel to visit some new locations.

Florida still surprises me, a 30 ft putt that went in after 5 days of missing them (first eagle on Clearwater’s #14), and the drive to Big Timber Cattle Company. I remarked to my chauffer (my cousin Richard) to let me know when we hit cattle country. He replied with an assuring “OK, but we’re here.”

As we pulled into Big Timber Cattle Company in Lithia, FL this past March I was struck by how suburban it was. It never did become rural at least to my midwestern definition of rural.

Yet there I was, staring at a herd of Angus cattle, not more than 25 miles from the city of Tampa. Hay rounds line the property adjacent to the busy street that brought me here, and I suspect also double as a way to reduce road noise.

The barn on my right displays the Certified Angus Beef logo which faces the road for all to see. It also houses the main office, where I find and meet owner Richie Longanecker.

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The name Big Timber branches from Richie’s other business as owner and operator of Southern Pine Timber Products.

They have been meeting construction needs since 1987, specializing in Lumber, Timber, Piling, Poles and custom work. Richie’s engineering degree helped with the construction of the main barn which also houses the sawmill for Southern Pine Timber. As well as another Timber frame barn on the property that really showcases Richie’s ability as an engineer, and perhaps his vision of the property for the future.

Richie started Big Timber Cattle Company in 2000 with registered Angus primarily from Long’s Angus Ranch. Prior to

that he had dabbled in a small commercial herd, some Red Angus as well but quickly realized that Registered Black Angus would be the only way he could reach his goals in what he had hoped to accomplish as a way of bringing more income into the land. In the years to come he added genetics from Gardiner’s, as well as taking full advantage of A.I. & embryo transfer.

Today, Richie has help with the cattle from his son Zac, who acts as herd manager & embryologist as well as an exceptional tour guide. They start calving in August and Zac explained to me that the problem they have is keeping the cattle adequately nourished with such low protein in the forage. Keeping the weight

on, with a constant battle of flies and heat is probably the biggest obstacle they must overcome.

Raising about 200 cows over 125 acres in 2 pastures is a chore in itself - Something I got to experience firsthand. I usually don’t cite traffic as a major obstacle when visiting ranches, especially going from one pasture to another, but there it was.

Big Timber’s goal was to produce functional cattle with efficient growth and Angus beef with off-the-chart carcass traits that would resist the hot Florida climate. One would say they hit that out of the park this year as owners of the #1 $C; B I G Home Run (Groundbreaking! 433$C) as well as TC Eastwood, B I G/ AH Home Town B109 & Green Garden Lady T276. Check out their sale ad on the back cover, their online sale May 20th, and the greener pasture on the front cover.

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For 100 Years Ritchie Industries Has Brought Fresh Water to the Ranch & Farm If you could transport a rancher in time from 1921 to 2021, there would certainly be a lot for them to marvel at – everything from new breeds of cattle that have added over 300 pounds of lean weight to using high-tech drones to check miles of fence lines. One thing over the past century that might be familiar? An automatic livestock waterer from Ritchie Industries.

Stagnant water, algae blooms in the summer and stock tanks full of ice in the winter were all problems that Thomas Ritchie was busy trying to solve. In 1921, Ritchie patented the first automatic waterer valve that solved many of the headaches that farmers faced in getting water to their livestock. His automatic float-controlled watering equipment was connected to underground running water and heated with a kerosene lamp to keep the water flowing during the bitter cold. Farmers liked the labor-saving qualities of Ritchie’s patented waterer, and a new business was born.

In 1929 Ritchie incorporated and moved to an old machine shed in Marshalltown, Iowa. Part of the manufacturing also took place in a small machine shed in Conrad, Iowa until 1943. That year, blacksmith C.D. Wilson purchased Ritchie, moved the business to Conrad, Iowa and operated the business out of a small blacksmith shop.

Shortly after the move, automatic electric heat was introduced to the watering equipment helping to establish Ritchie as the leader in the industry.

After his father’s death in 1979, C. D. Wilson Jr. took the reins of the business, and expanded its market and the technology of the product. To meet demands, the company had gone from making six models, to more than 40, giving it the distinction of being the largest manufacturer and distributor of the most complete line of animal and livestock watering equipment in North America.

“Today Ritchie Industries engineers, designs and manufacturers waterers to serve every type of livestock – from an individual horse to 500 beef cattle,” said Robert Amundson, President and CEO of Ritchie Industries. “All of our waterers are engineered to meet the demands of beef producers everywhere. Troughs can be emptied, cleaned and refilled in a fraction of the time it takes other waterers just to empty. Just like other technological advancements such as nutrigenomics and RFID tags have helped improve the efficiency of beef operations, we are constantly striving to improve your bottom line. If you haven’t thought about upgrading your watering systems, now is the time to look at what new innovations are on the market. Our WaterMaster series require 75% less energy in the winter than concrete units and they won’t pit or cause cleaning problems. Our newest generation of the CattleMaster series blends the best of both worlds – the technology from traditional stainless-steel units and the newest poly units combined to make a premier waterer. The unit has thermostatically controlled heat for ice-free operation with a fast refill valve to give your cattle clean, fresh water in the toughest climates year-round.”

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- REQUIEM FOR A FOREST RANCHING LIFE AFTER THE BEAR FIRE OF 2020

by Dave Daley, California Rancher past President of California Cattlemen‘s Association (CCA) “Fire season approaches quickly. I hope 2021 is not a repeat performance.

But I am not optimistic.

Government: slow, cumbersome, and rarely effective, even when there is an effort to do the right thing! Discussion is rampant and impassioned. Action is limited.”

It has taken months to garner the courage to return to our summer cattle range in the Plumas National Forest. Six generations have taken cattle to the Sierra Nevada high country east of Oroville for over 150 years, on both public (U.S. Forest Service) and private timber company lands owned by Sierra Pacific Industries. The land was completely destroyed by the North Complex fire (Bear Fire) in early September. The devastation was indescribable. We lost close to 350 cows and their baby calves.

Burned alive, running from a raging inferno that destroyed all life. We found dead cows and small calves, and very few alive, in desperate conditions that I can never forget. I wish I could. www.calcattlemen.org/2020/09/23/legacy The horror that all living things must have experienced impacted me to the core. We saw dead and severely burnt bears and cubs, bucks, does and fawns, fox, squirrels, chipmunks, ….and the list goes on…and so many species of birds. One hopes they died quickly.

The watershed that fills Lake Oroville, 3.5-million-acre-feet and one of the largest manmade lakes in the world, is nothing but black rubble. Majestic pines and firs, towering black oak and madrone. Dead. Silent sentinels of the land that once was. The impact of this catastrophe is not just on me and my family, or those who work and recreate in the forest, or on tourism and business in the town of Oroville. This devastation impacts all Californians who value access to clean water and abundant food.

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tree on the outer edge of the fire complex, a tradition our family has enjoyed for years. In mid-December most of the ground was covered with snow and it was snowing hard. The palette of white and grey softened the harsh reality of “move-on, nothing left to see here.”

Nothing to see at all. Just death.

But it is April, and a time when life begins anew.

My Dad and his Dad before him always tried to take a trip “to the hills” in April or May to get a sense of what may lie ahead when we would trail our cattle to the mountains in early June. Washed out roads, downed trees, plugged culverts, places where you might not get a truck through. Always something. And was the range ready for the cows? Every year was different, from snowbanks blocking the roads in early July to a dry year with very little snow. But this time the trip would be more than difficult. A major drought with very little snowpack, likely not even covering scars from a catastrophic fire. I wonder what, if anything, is left? I dreaded the thought.

This time I saw nothing alive. Not even a bird.

And it wasn’t a dream. If only.

The night before I left, I debated whether to pick up my 90-year-old mother for a quick ride, not sure if she wanted a first-hand reminder of the place where

she spent her summer and fall over the past 72 years.

Side by side with my Dad, raising kids and grandkids, gathering cattle, and observing the beautiful cycle of nature. So I called and asked “do you want to take a quick trip to the mountains tomorrow morning?”

Without hesitation, “Of course. What time will you be here?” And by her not-so-subtle implication, “you ought to get here by daylight, that’s when your Dad and I always started!” Bright, sharp as a knife off a freshly used whetstone, and always ready to go. That is Mom. It is comforting to know that the routine of “leave before the sun rises” has not been dampened by time.

I had a few hours before I needed to get back to the valley to attend two funerals, so I made the decision to take a fast trip and at least cover the low end of the range. I quickly made it to the remnants of the town of Feather Falls, once a bustling community with a church, store, and school of eighty plus students and four teachers (two grades per classroom).

Feather Falls was a busy little place. A mill town for sure, mostly loggers, miners, and a few government employees. I remember our cow drive through the center of “town,” where everyone turned out to watch each spring. The village died when the mill left and

“In my dreams the mountains are sometimes green and lush with the thick canopy of conifers, sprinkled with hardwoods and browse. What I remember, long for, and will forever miss. Teeming with wildlife that are at home in this wildland, part of a mosaic of nature that transcends our brief time on the land. And other nights it is the nightmare of searching for cows in deep canyons choked with smoke. Only to find them in piles of decaying, charred flesh as they rushed to water desperate to escape.”

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you could see. It is not a scar yet. Not by a long shot.

Maybe it never will be healed? Small trickles of water form from springs covered with ash and debris. The gray-colored scum is the purge of nature’s horrid wound. Will it ever heal? You hunt for a green fir or pine among the blacks and greys. Few and far between, but you see them occasionally along a watercourse or where they escaped the devastating wind.

And you hope they make it. The scorched earth has yet to show signs of germination. The fire burned so intensely that I wonder when and if the rebirth will begin?

Unfortunately, it seems to take tragedy to generate change. Not just based on my experience but on similar fire devastation throughout the state – homes, businesses, and lives in the Camp Fire, the August Complex, the Creek Fire, the Tubbs fire, the Thomas Fire. The list of tragedies is endless. But I finally hear voices of reason and common sense being amplified in Sacramento and in Washington, DC. Why does it take tragedy first? People seem to recognize that there are tools that can reduce the intensity of wildfire – not stop them, but perhaps keep them from becoming catastrophic. I am finally hearing “put good fire on the ground as prescribed fire when conditions are right,” something our ancestors knew forever. And “reduce fuel loads with grazing or other management strategies; we must reduce fuel loads when we can.” moved to Oroville. After a 50-year hiatus, Feather Falls is a bustling logging camp again, with 60-plus camp trailers for loggers who have become the undertakers for this morgue. Good people. I talked to a few on the road.

They are part of the timber community and appreciate the work. But not like this. Black, charcoal bark and ash day after day, trying to salvage value from an inferno that man helped create. The “townsite” is simply a flat spot in the mountains with a water supply, right at the entrance to the cattle range. I remember all the homes, the lumber mill, shops, and railroad, gradually replaced by pine trees after the town died. Now it is barren, black with ash and desolate.

Funerals are hard and devastating to family and friends, especially when people were far too young like those I went to today. I saw that this afternoon. But in the back of our minds, we know the time will come for all of us. Tragic, unexpected, difficult, but a chance to reflect and bring closure and healing. This monstrous fire was a funeral of a different sort. No closure. No healing. No time to move on. Just a black encrusted, gaping wound in ridge after canyon after ridge as far as 26

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“As I see it, talk is cheap. Many of us have known solutions for decades but were not allowed to implement them. Regulations and fear have stopped any efforts to mitigate these disasters stone cold. We continue to make it worse. Can the sheer scope of these catastrophes create enough momentum to overcome the inertia that drags state and federal government into a morass of regulations and an unwillingness to do anything different?”

Well, what we are currently doing isn’t working!

Unfortunately, I am afraid we will form a study group with highly paid experts to discuss the problem. It is disappointing at best, criminal at worst. Fire season approaches quickly. I hope 2021 is not a repeat performance. But I am not optimistic. Government: slow, cumbersome, and rarely effective, even when there is an effort to do the right thing! Discussion is rampant and impassioned. Action is limited.

It is difficult to orient oneself to a place you have always known when everything you knew is gone.

“Is that Rogerville we passed or Old Lumpkin?” With all the trees gone, the world feels upside-down. Every landmark we knew has been burnt beyond recognition.

And it isn’t just me. My Mom, who has an incredible sense of place, was baffled as well. We would slow and look for some sign of the past. She learned the place names from my Dad, but also his Father and all the “old-timers.” People who loved this land from the late 1800s who were friends and family when my Dad and Mom were married in 1948. It will take careful stewardship to not let the names and the deep history they represent disappear forever.

Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is actively logging, removing all the dead timber as quickly as they can, hoping to salvage some value before the rot sets into the dead trees. There are literally 100s of loads of logs per day coming off the range, through the town of Oroville and to mills throughout the north state.

There is a massive amount of timber to be harvested.

Unfortunately, the closing of lumber mills has left few options. The loss of jobs and businesses has devastated so many communities. So now the logs must be hauled further. And SPI is already beginning to replant. I have heard them estimate planting over three million trees per year for the next three years. An ambitious and critically important project!

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are federal. In contrast to the rapid timber harvest on private ground, I see no activity by the Forest Service.

Bureaucracy cripples action. SPI has navigated the complex California timber harvest regulations and is moving quickly. The dense and dead forest of federal lands have not been touched as far as I can see. I’m sure there is an effort to move but layers of regulations make federal action next to impossible.

As we traveled up Lumpkin Ridge, it does not get better. Admittedly, April is a little early so I am hoping that more signs of life will be evident in the next couple of months. Past the Farnam Pitch, Dodge Camp, the Burma Road, and on towards Davis Creek.

We finally hit snow at about 5200 feet, just a light skiff on the sides of the road. It should be four feet deep in April. As we pass McNair Saddle the snow starts to deepen, and we moved from mostly private land of SPI on to the Plumas National Forest.

I must get back and I think the snow will stop me soon. Next time I will go higher, although I find myself dreading that already. I worry about my kids and their friends who grew up in this forest having to witness this again. It quite literally takes your breath away. This is incredibly hard for me and for my Mom but thinking about the next generations, especially my granddaughter Juni, and what they will miss is what haunts my sleep with a pit in my stomach. Sadness, anger, frustration, fear of the future, and a slim ray of hope for change all in a tightly wound ball of angst.

Right in my gut.

All we have for now are the memories and the stories and the strength of family and character that says “Don’t quit, never quit, it is too important to the fabric of who you are and who the generations to come will be. Work with nature. Understand and value your heritage and those who came before who loved the land as well.” And my Mom with her grit and gristle: “you have seen the worst, it will only get better.” That must be our touchstone as the year continues to unfold.

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HOT OFF THE PRESS

HOT OFF THE PRESS HC C White w ater 9 0 1 0 Excitement was in the air in St. Charles, MN on March 27th! A bull named Whitewater 9010 had gained national attention and was to be sold to the public that afternoon at Heim Cattle Co.‘s 7th Annual Production Sale. He is sired by Mill Brae Identified 4031 and out of a dam by Silveiras Conversion 8064. His dam is co-owned with Rock Creek Farms of Plano, IL. “He is a bull that can be used in numerous mating’s because of his outcross genetics” says Nathan Heim. Whitewater is a moderate framed bull that is very athletic in his movement and possesses tremendous rib shape.

He‘s a bull that also has amazing stats. His rib eye area EPD (expected progeny difference) is in the top 1% of the Angus breed along with his $ Grid EPD. To compliment this was his top 2% marbling EPD. Another plus is his +11 Calving Ease Direct EPD. When the dust had settled, he sold for a Minnesota record of $280,000! A group of 7 buyers included Ankony Angus, Leachman Cattle Co, Galaxy Beef, Thomas Angus Ranch, T/D Angus, Mogck and Sons and RA Brown Ranch.

Nathan Heim and fiancé Krista were pleasantly surprised with the sale of HCC Whitewater 9010.

There was some interest expressed a few days ahead of the sale as well as the morning of...

Heim retained 200 straws of the bull to use back in their own herd. Otherwise, 100% of the bull went to the new owners. Cattlemen from 7 states purchased bulls that day. They sold 47 bulls after Whitewater and averaged $3,911. Heim also donated a heifer to a young kid between the age of 6-17 who attended the sale. They were entered into a drawing and selected at the conclusion of the sale. What a great way to get young people involved!

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C OW B OY ZO N E We have received so many inquiries about the young man on the cover of our April issue. So we decided to ask him a few questions and here‘s what he had to say:

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Where are you from?

Rapid City, SD What grade are you in?

3rd. I am 8.

Did you buy a Bull at Topp Hereford‘s auction?

Yes. Why did you buy the Bull?

Because Ryan took the time to help me pick a bull and answer my questions. They have great cattle.

Did you feel you got a good price?

Yes. Was he delivered or did you take him home?

He will be delivered.

What did you name him?

I haven‘t named him yet.

Where will you keep him?

In the pasture.

Is this your first Bull?

Yes. What are your plans with him?

To expand my registered herd.

How many more would you like?

Quadrillions!

What did you think of the auction?

It was fun. I learned a lot and got to meet Ryan.

Do you work or live on a ranch?

Both.

Do you have friends with cattle?

Yes. Do your regular friends understand why you bought a bull?

Not really.

Do you find that people don‘t understand why you bought him?

People from the city don‘t know why I need a Bull.

What else can you tell me about owning a Bull?

I‘m excited to get him so I can turn him out with cows and grow the herd.

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+1.20

+78

+83

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Lee Nobmann, owner • Morgon Patrick, managing partner

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SELLING 41 LOTS WITH AN AVERAGE $C +333

SHE SELLS, PLUS 4 PROGENY WITH AN AVERAGE OF $C +373

T276 GREEN GARDEN LADY S I R E : G A R D E N S C A CH E | D A M: G R E E N G A R D E N L A DY Q 2 7 7 REG. 19123914 CED BW WW YW CW Marb $M $B $C

DAM OF THE HIGHEST $C ANIMAL IN E X I S T E N C E - BI G H O M E R U N

+6

+1.2

+63

+120

+63

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+95

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+377

PROGENY SELLING:

BIG EASTWOOD OF T276 B127

BIG HOME TOWN OF T276 B102 REG. 19947596

REG. 20001064

CED

BW

WW

Marb

$M

$B

$C

CED

BW

WW

YW

CW

Marb

$M

$B

$C

I+3

I+2.1

I+73 I+142 I+78 I+1.47

+81

+228

+377

+7

+2.3

+68

+134

+69

+1.80

+79

+237

+387

YW

CW

BIG HOME TOWN OF T276 B103 R E G 1 9 9 5 0 0 74

CED

BW

WW

YW

CW

Marb

$M

$B

$C

+11

+.5

+64

+122

+55

+1.83

+79

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