The Cattle Journal - Beef & Business, Winter 2020

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PURSUING A NEW HORIZON

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MILL BAR CODE BLACK 8554 VERMILLION SIRLOIN B587 CARLSON RESOURCE 6038 HA PAYWEIGHT 6449

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38th Annual Registered Angus Bull Sale

S Whitlock 639

Other Sires James Final Answer BT Heavy Duty Grandsons of Hoover No Doubt S129

SAV Real Performance 4876

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The

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SAV Elation 7899

- Built on reputation and trust from commercial cowmen

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SAV Quarterback 7933

Kelly & Martie Jo Schaff 6110 Co. Road 81 • St. Anthony, ND 58566 • 701-445-7465 www.schaffangusvalley.com • kelly@schaffangusvalley.com

th Production Sale 117February 8, 2020

Saturday •

• 10 am at the ranch

SAV Territory 7225

SELLING 475 REGISTERED ANGUS BULLS & 230 FEMALES Schaff Angus Valley has earned a worldwide reputation for producing Angus cattle that make a long-term positive contribution to the beef industry, focusing on performance, maternal quality and the fundamental traits that enhance productivity and profitability for the cowman...

• Pounds on the scale • Muscle dimension • Thickness • Natural fleshing-ability • Body capacity • Structural integrity • Feet quality • Disposition • Maternal emphasis • Udder quality • Fertility • Longevity • Femininity & masculinity • Calf vigor & calving-ease • True carcass quality Sires represented include President, Raindance, Rainfall, Elation, Territory, Quarterback, Supercharger, Abundance, Cut Above, Resource, Renown, Sensation, Seedstock, Powerpoint, 316 and more...

SAV Raindance 6848

✓ Volume selection ✓ Free delivery ✓ Affordable to the cowman

...Bulls you Believe in

SAV President 6847

SAV Rainfall 6846

SAV Renown 3439

200 PROGENY SELL!

SAV Resource 1441

SAV President 6847 is the record-selling bull of the 2017 SAV Sale where he was the heaviest 205-day weight bull of his calfcrop at 1077 lbs. and posted a 365-day weight of 1690 lbs. His progeny are extra long, thick, heavy-muscled and powerful in every dimension with scale-crushing performance and perfect feet.

His son, SAV America 8018, is the world record-selling bull from the 2019 SAV Sale. The 2020 SAV Sale will feature over 200 direct progeny!

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What gives your cattle more value at sale time?

Brand recognition Buying Bieber genetics identifies your cattle for top value in the market place. Brand recognition and loyalty drives purchasing decisions, encourages repeat purchases, and leads to an increase in market share and sales.

DON'T LEAVE MONEY ON THE TABLE Make Bieber Genetics part of your program.

BIEBER FEVER SPRING PRODUCTION SALE

Thursday, March 5 • 300 yearling Bulls

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30th Annual

Spring Performance LEADER SALE Friday, April 3, 2020

Pie Fullback 7005

Pie One of a Kind 352

MCD Spur 6111

9 Mile Franchise 6305

Pelton Wideload 78B

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SELLING

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SELLING SEVERAL SONS OF THESE PROVEN HERD BULLS

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Registered Red Angus Replacement Heifers

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Registered Red Angus Fall Calving Cows Ultrasounded for date & sex

Commercial Red Angus Replacement Heifers Fancy and developed to breed up

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Marc Wolf & Family (701) 579-4221 New England, ND

26TH ANNUAL

TOP CUT

BULL SALE

Saturday, January 25, 2020 at the Ranch in our heated facility • New England, ND Lunch starts at 11am MST • Sale at 1pm MST

Selling 150 Top Cut Bulls Many herd bull prospects in the offering!

He sells!

He sells!

He sells!

21AR LOGO 9003

21AR RENO 9332X

21AR POWERBALL 9372

Sitz Logo 12964 x S Chisum 255 x AAR Really Windy 1205

Spring Cove Reno 4021 x LT Bandwagon 3105 x Sitz Alliance 6595

Sitz Powerball 643D x Connealy Capitalist 028 x Connealy Packer 547

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Featuring these proven sires:

SITZ LOGO 12964 66 sons sell!

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SPRING COVE RENO 4021 43 sons sell!

SITZ POWERBALL 643D 33 sons sell!

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406.600.7514

01.25.2020

15th Annual Production Sale

SALE AT: 12:30 PM • LUNCH AT 11:30 WESTERN LIVESTOCK AUCTION – GREAT FALLS, MT SELLING: 180 BULLS

680 FEMALES

25 Eight Year Old Cows

• Big, high cacpacity heifers that will weigh between 1100 and 1200 pounds They are ready to calve and go to work for you • 400 of these are no-brand heifers • One group AI bred to Vermilion Spur B024 due to calve middle of February

• 90 Yearling Bulls • 40 Fall Bulls • 50 Coming Two Year Old Bulls

Sires represented: Bobcat Blue Sky

Great offerings from: • Mytty Natural • VAR Legend Pre-Register: 1-866-616-5035 Sale can be viewed at: www.cattleusa.com

Reg:18880272

$M $F $G $B

+79 +104 +60 +164

Musgrave Big Sky x EXAR Denver 2002B CED BW WW YW MK CW MB RE FAT +7 +3.4 +87 +146 +24 +64 +.82 +.67 +.035

Introducing our newest Herd Sire Purchased by ST Genetics in our 2017 sale.

Reg:17993084

$M $F $G $B

Sons sell!

+90 +125 +24 +150

S Chisum 6175 x HARB Pendleton 765 JH CED BW WW YW MK CW MB RE FAT +14 -1.8 +62 +102 +22 +63 +.14 +.70 +.069

Calved: 03/19/19 • Reg: 19526409 • Tattoo: G120 Musgrave Big Sky Bobcat Blue Sky

Reg:18508640

$M $F $G $B

+65 +108 +37 +145

Connealy Spur x CCA Hay Buster 846T CED BW WW YW MK CW MB RE FAT +10 +2.4 +81 +138 +18 +54 +.35 +.45 +.009

SAV Primrose 7861 EXAR Denver 2002B # Bobcat Lass 601

Lot 4 CW +68

MARB +.72

RE +.48

FAT +.025

$M +74

$F +103

$G +54

$B +157

RE +.76

FAT +.002

$M +67

$F +99

$G +39

$B +138

BOBCAT BLUE SKY G51 Calved: 03/19/19 • Reg: 19526478 • Tattoo: G51 Musgrave Big Sky Bobcat Blue Sky

Bobcat Consent

Sons sell!

Connealy Earnan 076E #

Connealy Consensus 7229 # Connealy Black Granite # Eura Elga of Conanga 9109 # Bobcat Queenall 363 Vermilion Special Order Bobcat Quenall 894 Vermilion Queenall 0875 # CED BW WW YW MILK +6 +3.1 +94 +154 +33

Bobcat Lass 411 #

Vermilion Re-Ride

• All ultrasounded for sex and date Vaccinated with Virashield 6 VL & Scour Bos 4

BOBCAT BLUE SKY G120

Bobcat Lass 411 #

Circle L Gus

• One group AI bred to Circle L Gus due to calve end of February to first of March

Connealy Earnan 076E # SAV Primrose 7861 EXAR Denver 2002B # Bobcat Lass 601 Connealy Consensus 7229

Bobcat Lass 513 Bobcat Miss Angus 510 WK Bobcat # Bobcat Miss Angus 2051 Vermilion Lily 0842 CED BW WW YW MILK +11 +.5 +75 +127 +23

Lot 5 CW +57

MARB +.29

Bryan Ratzburg: (406) 937-5858 Cell: (406) 788-3272

Ernie Ratzburg: Cell: (406) 788-3244

265 Bobcat Angus Loop, Galata, MT 59444 • Email: bobcatangus@northerntel.net

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146 RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY

148 STORMS EASIER TO WEATHER

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154 DON’T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN

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170 RANCH & FARM MANAGEMENT 172 DEWORMER DEBUNKING

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SATURDAY, FEB. 1, 2020

1 PM CT • At the Ranch • St. Anthony, ND

280 Powerful Bulls, 20 Elite Registered Heifers, 1 Pick of the Cowherd & 700 Fancy Commercial Angus Heifers ELLINGSON RAINMAKER 9144

Rainmaker 4404 x Remedy • BW: 75 • WW: 872 BW: 0, WW: +72, YW: +133, M: +26, MB: +.55, RE: +.51

ELLINGSON ROUGHRIDER 9444

Roughrider x Main Attraction • BW: 94 • WW: 908 BW: +2.5, WW: +77, YW: +145, M: +28, MB: +.66, RE: +.72

Free Delivery on Bulls & Free Bull Keep Until April 1 Feeder Calf Marketing Assistance

ELLINGSON HOMEGROWN 9122 Homegrown x Advance • BW: 68 • WW: 811 BW: -.4, WW: +61, YW: +111, M: +29, MB: +.41, RE: +.75

ELLINGSON HOMESTEAD 9016

Homestead x Scotsman • BW: 75 • WW: 808 BW: -1.5, WW: +61, YW: +115, M: +28, MB: +.50, RE: +.31

CHAD & JULIE ELLINGSON St. Anthony, ND

ELLINGSON AUTHORIZE 9030

Authorize x Commanche • BW: 79 • WW: 848 BW: +.5, WW: +72, YW: +127, M: +30, MB: +.48, RE: +.63

ELLINGSON CHAPS 9348

Chaps x In Focus • BW: 88 • WW: 992 BW: +2.2, WW: +77, YW: +119, M: +29, MB: +.31, RE: +.72

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Urlacher

Angus Bigger is better for Urlachers STORY AND PHOTOS BY CARRIE STADHEIM igger framed bulls might not be every Angus breeder’s goal, but Gregg Urlacher believes some cattlemen in the area are still looking to grow a larger calf.

In fact, the Regent, North Dakota breeder used semen from older bulls – some from the 1990s, to achieve just that.

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some capacity to make it.”

Good cows make good bulls, is Urlacher’s philosophy, and he develops his cowherd with maternal traits in mind.

“I like base with width and do-ability. My cows graze year in and year out until snow forces us to feed,” he said, explaining he doesn’t usually feed hay to the cows until January. “They don’t follow me around with a feed wagon, they are out grazing, so I find out which bloodlines work and which ones don’t.”

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bulls, his offering is naturally larger than that of fellow breeders selling yearling bulls.

Urlacher said selling older bulls gives a more developed bull and a better image of how he will mature.

The Urlachers appreciate several customers who have purchased bulls in every sale they have had since their first sale in 2003.

While Urlacher isn’t really committed to any particular bloodline, he has found Traveler, 878, 036, Upward and Freightliner

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Gregg, Stetson and Bailey Urlacher are three-fifths of the work force at Urlacher Angus.

to all add something useful to his herd. “Then I follow up with different genetics, like Whitestone Widespread bloodlines (an EXT son).”

Urlacher AIs all of his heifers to calve together and then splits the cows into two groups, then follows up with cleanup bulls with outcross bloodlines. “That way I’m safe for a couple of years. I can use any bull on any cow.”

He has recently bought bulls from Tokach in Mandan, Mohnen of White Lake, South Dakota and Mick Varilek,

Varilek Angus, Geddes, South Dakota.

The latest bull was purchased from Charles Mogck of Olivet, South Dakota.

“I’m one of the rare ones that likes cattle with frame. I don’t creep feed and I have cows that will milk and maintain flesh,” he said of his genetic preferences.

“I like to use more proven bulls for their dependability and knowing more of what their offspring will develop into. Sometimes I put more eggs in one basket than I’d like

because finding a bull with the frame I like isn’t as easy as it used to be,” he said.

“I’m not afraid to let people know I have size and frame if that’s what they are looking for,” Urlacher said.

Urlacher calves heifers beginning in March followed by his first group of cows, then a second group of cows. But last year he moved some cows to a much earlier calving date, and he will calve an even larger group in January of 2020.

Maybe it’s because he grew up milking cows that Urlacher

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isn’t afraid of work – and is considering adding another month or two of calving to his already busy operation. With many ranchers pushing their calving dates later into the spring, Urlacher has found a demand for bulls in the early summer. He’s hoping to meet that demand by adding an offering of 18-month-old bulls born in December or January.

The first round of 18-monthold bulls will be offered for sale private treaty this spring, and may eventually be added to the January sale, or sold in a separate sale in June.

The Urlacher family,

including Gregg’s wife Mary, sons Stetson (17) and Stockton (7) and daughter Bailey (13) comprises of the entire labor force for the operation. By breeding one group earlier, he can better utilize his limited labor and facility, and possibly add more cows to the operation. Plus, they don’t have the facility to calve any more cows during the spring timeframe he’s been calving in.

Mary currently manages the Job Service office in Dickinson during the week and helps out with the cattle and operations as much as possible. The kids attend school in New England,

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are involved in pretty much all sports activities as well as FFA and 4-H. Stetson and Bailey are able to help with crops and cattle where the Urlachers own and rent land, in addition to their ranch headquarters and Stockton is everyone’s right hand man.

With the ranch base being near Regent, Urlachers feed bulls as well as their oldest and youngest cows there at home. The rest of the cows are wintered on grass, crop residue and hay just north of New England. “We bought our home place in 2002. I got started at the right

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PRODUCER PROFILES time, it was pure luck. Land prices weren’t as crazy and I could afford to do what I’m doing. If I’d waited a year or two, I couldn’t have afforded it,” Urlacher said.

Urlacher grew up on a dairy farm near Regent and started buying registered cows when the family sold the milk cows.

The first cows he bought came from Bob and Larry White of Bowman, in the early ’90s, then he got some from Scranton breeder Elwood Anderson’s dispersal sale. The herd really grew when Urlacher bought a number of cows in Minnesota about 20 years ago.

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URLACHER ANGUS Urlachers sell around 75 twoyear-old bulls in a production sale in Bowman the third Friday in January. He offers free keep until May. He feeds and fertility tests them and delivers them in May or June.

While the “mating part of the cow game,” is something Urlacher enjoys, there are always some jobs that aren’t as fun. For him, like many seedstock producers, that includes dealing with post-sale bull issues. But in Urlacher’s case, insurance has helped bridge the gap between seller and buyer, on those unfortunate instances where there is a problem with a bull.

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An accident and mortality insurance program has provided good coverage on the bulls in recent years. The buyer is encouraged to pay half of the insurance premium, which covers the mortality of the bull.

If there is a health issue, injury or any other problem with the bull, the owner takes the bull to a veterinarian, to determine if his injury will keep him from being a sound breeder.

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the bull less the salvage value and the insurance premium.

The premium amounts to about 10 percent of the value of the bull on bull sale day.

“In the case of an injury or problem it is between the owner and his veterinarian and what they find and decide is what is reported, if the vet says he’s no good, that’s the final

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answer. It takes me out of the equation, which is nice,” said Urlacher.

The bull owner can’t salvage the bull without the go-ahead from the insurance company.

You can see their two- yearold bulls at their January 17, 2020 annual sale held at Bowman Livestock Auction in Bowman North Dakota.

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29th Annual Bull & Female Sale

400 Bulls Sell...

Saturday, February 15, 2020

at the farm near Kimball, MN

Plus

Schiefelbein Attractive Semen available from Semex or Peak Dot Ranch.

65 Registered Angus Bred Heifers Sell!

Angus A.I. Sires Include:

Colonel 38 Special Pedigree Cowboy Up Epic Fortress The Rock Remedy

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t is said that people buy from people. At Topp Herefords in Grace City, N.D., the customer service and value-added programs that go along with their superior genetics make these purebred breeders rise above the pack. Prominent sire groups in the Topp catalog include Pioneer, Start Me Up, Playbook and Due North – but it’s the people behind the great genetics of these red and white cattle that make the operation flourish.

Ryan Topp, owner of the business along with his wife, Prairie, is quick to point out that Topp Herefords “was not made by Ryan and Prairie – it’s a team effort.” Every person has their own responsibilities, including the Topps’ children: Lauren, Mariah and Logan, and longtime employees Keith Herberg and Riley Ehlers. Ryan grew up in the ranching business; his father started Topp Herefords in the 1960s. After he died the herd was dispersed in 1984.

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Topp Herefords base their business on three pillars: dependable genetics, improving profitability for clients, and a genuine connection with their customers.

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The genetic decisions at Topp Herefords are driven by real-world data, feedback from commercial cow-calf ranchers, feedlot operators and replacement heifer buyers.

career in international ag marketing, and runs the office and handles recordkeeping and customer service. “We are a really good team,” says Prairie. The kids all have their own cattle and between school activities are involved in the day-to-day work as well. “We JOBS LIKE THIS are very much a family-run REQUIRE THE operation,” say Ryan. “I don’t JOBS LIKE THIS ULTIMATE FARMHAND. believe in micromanaging, and REQUIRE THE we work together as a team to BOBCAT EQUIPMENT IS TOUGH ULTIMATE ENOUGHFARMHAND. TO TAKE IT ON.make it happen.”

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Scott Ruland (l) along with his family, who ranch near New Town, N.D., have enjoyed a great working relationship with Ryan Topp (r) for 15 years.

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“We keep our pulse on industry demands; our guide is what the commercial clients are wanting,” says Ryan. “We work to learn what makes them money, what costs them money, and help facilitate a product based on what their needs are.”

In many ways Topp Herefords run a calendar year like any other purebred breeders. “We calve ’em, we wean ’em, and we try and sell them for what we can,” says Ryan. They calve in January to February with a first season, and have added a second calving season in May and June with the goal of being half and half. Their 2020 sale will be their first offering of

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Amdahl Angus & Hereford Tim and Marcia Amdahl 21747 Coyote Lane Piedmont, SD 57769 605-929-3717 605-999-6487 Mary Beth Assman 28453 296th Ave. Winner, SD 57580 605-730-0423 Assmus Brothers Eric and Aaron Assmus 25875 386th Ave Plankinton, SD 57368 605-732-4501 Jim River Cattle Service LLC Gary and Julie Auch 43174 294th Ave Lesterville, SD 57040 605-660-5708

Buseman Angus Joel, Kim and DJ Buseman 44869 262 St Canistota, SD 57012 605-296-3361 Bush Angus James or Scott Bush 41785 109th St. Britton, SD 57430 605-448-5401 Bussmus Angus Gary and Cindy Bussmus 24973 404th Ave Mitchell, SD 57301 605-996-3265

Erdmann Angus Ranch Daniel and Anne Jo Erdmann 10891 361 Ave Leola, SD 57456 605-380-2195 605-439-3744 Forgey Angus Dan and Lyn Forgey 32766 301st St Dallas, SD 57529 605-835-8675 Fox’s Angus Farms Mark Fox 45894 US Hwy 212 Watertown, SD 57201

Callies Angus Greg Callies 43831 235th St. Howard, SD 57349 605-772-4888

Fuoss Angus Ranch David Fuoss 28137 229th St. Draper, SD 57531 605-669-2127

Baker Lemar Angus Ranch Mike and Sandra Baker 11440 Angus Lane Saint Onge, SD 57779 605-642-9785

Carter Angus Dustin and Kate Carter 4424 E Main St Vermillion SD, 57069 712-898-9972

Deep Creek Angus TJ and Jeanine Gabriel 23940 200 St Midland, SD 57552 605-567-3327

Baxter Angus Farm Mark Baxter 16984 368 Ave Rockham, SD 57470

Custom Genetic Solution Frank Jackson 40275 257th St. Mitchell, SD 57301 605-996-7883

Rock Creek Livestock Kevin and Helen Geppert, Weston and Britney Geppert, Sydney and Garrett Davis and Kylee Geppert 25525 406th Ave Mitchell, SD 57301 605-770-3544 605-993-1387

RBM Livestock Mike, Barb, Ryan or Kim Bergh 44115 155th St Florence, SD 57235 605-758-2470 605-758-2456 Dubo Land & Cattle Harlan Bohn 14918 471st Ave. Twin Brooks, SD 57269 (605) 880-7161 Bohn Bohn Livestock Gregory and Andrea 47162 US Hwy 12 Twin Brooks, SD 57269 605-237-2625

Turtle Creek Angus Tyrell and Kari Dieters 16803 Stoneville Rd Faith, SD 57626 605-359-3609 Edgar Brothers 36683 167 St Rockham, SD 57470 605-460-1807

Gimbel Family Cattle Delton and Shirley Gimbel 19390 350 Ave Ree Heights, SD 57371 605-943-5529 Gimbel Family Cattle Mandy Gimbel 19390 350th Ave Ree Heights, SD 57371 605-943-5650

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Angus Kevin, Rod and Derek Graesser 29933 329th Ave. Dallas SD 57529 605-830-1574

Bar J Bar Ranch David and Carla Julius 329 Line Rd. Box Elder, SD 57719 605-545-5860 JK Angus Jeff, Susan, John and Billy Kapperman 25831 454th Ave Montrose, SD 57048 605-363-3302

Hart Angus Farms Brad and Shawn, Alex and Tanae Hart 38704 107th St. Frederick, SD 57441 605-329-2645

Kammerer Livestock Matt and April Kammerer 22196 Elk Vale Rd Rapid City, SD 57701 605-923-6381

BonView Farms Howard and Jo Anne Hillman 5114 S Sunflower Trail Sioux Falls, SD 57108

Scott and Jayne Knochenmus 2001 N Powder House Rd Sioux Fallsm, SD 57110

Hilltop Angus PO Box 104 Bowdle, SD 57428 605-285-6741 Hurlbut Angus Rod, Mary, Dustin, Jeana Hurlbut 17175 416th Ave. Raymond, SD 57258 605-380-8052 605-233-0229 Hyland Angus Ricky Hyland 22337 455th Ave Ramona, SD 57054 605-586-1300 Ingalls Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Hugh and Eleanor Ingalls 16801 Stoneville Rd Faith, SD 57626 605-748-2277 Sleepy Hollow Farm Mark and Jeanne Johnson 46473 289th St Centerville, SD 57014 605-212-2387

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Dahl Angus Larry and Marietta Dahl 46940 189th St Estelline, SD 57234 605-873-2847

Darryl and Susan Goodroad 47634 187th St Brandt, SD 57218 605-874-2980

Kopriva Angus Lee Kopriva 41577 169th St Raymond, SD 57258 605-450-1546 Koupal B&B Angus Bud and Bernie Koupal, Joe and Sara Koupal, Dan and Aryn Koupal, Scott and Kim VanWinkle 40083 300th St Dante, SD 57329 605-491-2102 605-491-3202 Bar 69 Angus Craig and Debbie Kukuchka 18758 Bar 69 Ranch Lane Belle Fourche, SD 57717 605-892-2875 Kwasniewski Angus Troy and Mary Kwasniewski 47635 184th St. Clear Lake, SD 57226 605-874-2678

Lazy TV Ranch Vaughn and Wendy Thorstenson 12980 Cedar Rd Selby, SD 57472 605-649-6262 605-848-0421 Lau Angus Joel and Carolyn Lau 39765 277th St. Armour, SD 57313 Lehrkamp Livestock Mike and Jodie Lehrkamp 17280 E. Hwy 44 Caputa, SD 57725 605-993-6171 Grandview Angus Dan, Amy and Jamie Lewis 2601 Grandview Dr Rapid City ,SD 57701 605-391-7090 605-391-6399 Jesse or Kathy Lewis 5810 Peaceful Pines Rd. Black Hawk, SD 57718 605-787-5439 Lindskov Thiel Ranch PO Box 37 Isabel, SD 57633 605-466-2392 Littau Angus Ranch LeRoy Littau 29758 288th St Carter, SD 57580 605-557-3533 Marrs Ranch Dan and Matthew Marrs 12117 Weisman Rd Whitewood, SD 57793 605-269-2680 Mehlhaf Angus Dale and Nathan Mehlhaf 43465 283rd St Freeman, SD 57029 605-387-5411

Gerald Mettler 28884 480 Ave Canton, SD 57013 605-987-2114 Millar Angus Jon and Breezy Millar 20042 145th Ave Sturgis, SD 57785 605-347-2855 605-347-0553 Angus Farms Donald Miller Miller 18742 468th Ave. Estelline, SD 57234 605-873-2852 Angus of Draper Curt Miller Miller 28117 238th St Draper, SD 57531 605-669-2742 Mogck & Sons Angus Charles and LeAndra Mogck 42193 282nd St. Olivet, SD 57052 (605) 583-4385 (605) 661-4562 Mogck Angus Farms David and Candyce Mogck 1100 N Main St Tripp, SD 57376 Mohnen Angus Steve and Kathy Mohnen 25770 370th Ave. White Lake, SD 57383 605-249-2719 Moke Angus Glen or Brady Moke 27218 398th Ave. Corsica, SD 57328 605-928-3687 Moore Angus Jerry and Pam Moore 23317 412th Ave Artesian, SD 57314 605-527-2395 Morse Angus Martin and Eleanor Morse 23036 449th Ave Madison, SD 57042 605-256-3449 Ma & Pa Angus Steven and Deb Mowry 25340 River Rd. Presho, SD 57568 605-895-2203 Nold Angus Chuck and Katie Nold 15207 331st Ave Onaka SD, 57466

Newsam Angus Ranch Levi or Meghan Newsam 26902 SD Hwy 248 Murdo SD, 57559 605-530-3115 Ogren Angus Donnell and Roy Ogren 12302 425th Ave Langford, SD 57454 605-470-0258 Nathan Palm Angus Nathan Palm 18725 472nd Ave Estelline, SD 57234 605-690-2019 Clayton or Kathleen Palmquist 14004 465th Ave Wilmot, SD 57279 605-938-4461 LaGrand Angus Ranch Lance Pankratz 44130 279th St Freeman, SD 57029 605-925-7611 605-359-9221 Raven Angus Rod, RJ and Reed Petersek 32450 284th St. Colome SD 57528 605-842-2153 Pfaff Angus Rex and Tracy Pfaff 35616 302nd St Bonesteel, SD 57317 605-654-2443 Cameron and Amy Puepke 40452 250th St. Mitchell, SD 57301 Raml Cattle Phil, Adam and Grant Raml 46626 170th St Goodwin, SD 57238 605-881-0700 Ravellette Cattle Donald and Tamara Ravellette PO Box 633 Philip, SD 57567 605-859-2969

Rekow Angus Keith Rekow 41811 124th St Langford, SD 57401 605-380-5507

Dakota Acres Angus Kurt Schultz PO Box 149 Baltic, SD 57003 (605) 310-4054

RPM Angus LLC PO Box 156 Britton, SD 57430

Sletten Angus LLC John and Tammy Sletten PO Box 615 Faith, SD 57626 605-967-2238

Blacktop Farms Steve and Lori Repenning 41366 258th St Mitchell, SD 57301 605-996-0196 Retzlaff Angus Rick Retzlaff 46293 Robert Penn Ln. Vermillion, SD 57069 712-251-9339 Rogen Angus Dick and Shally Rogen 48274 258th St Brandon, SD 57005 605-582-3630 Rossow Angus Ranch Tim and Shari Rossow 11136 US Hwy 83 Herreid, SD 57632 605-437-2486 Roth Angus Craig and Heidi Roth 42879 277th St. Freeman, SD 57029 605-925-4650 Rounds Angus Todd and Sarah Rounds 16614 Old Stoneville Rd Union Center, SD 57787 605-985-5469 Schelske Angus Aaron, Adam and Mark Schelske 38519 217th St Virgil, SD 57379 605-849-3505 Scholtz Cattle Company Andrew and Lainie Scholtz 34560 178th St. Orient, SD 57467 (605) 228-8163

Bo Slovek 20892 Slovek Rd Philip, SD 57567 605-457-2003 Solsaa Angus Eric Solsaa 45417 186 St Hayti, SD 57241 605-237-0984 Rafter RS Cattle Reed & Stacy Stanburg 14085 Dunn Rd Buffalo, SD 57720 Riverside Angus 715 Taylor Dr. Aberdeen, SD 57401 Stark Angus Jason and Christina Stark PO Box 21 Uticam, SD 57067 605-760-3823 Styles Angus Chris and Erica Styles PO Box 56 Brentford, SD 57429 Tesch & Sons Angus Roger Tesch (605) 881-8334 Thomas Ranch Troy and VeaBea Thomas 18475 Capri Pl Harrold, SD 57536 605-973-2448

Thyen Farms Dan, Nathan and Jim Thyen 46220 165th St Watertown, SD 57201 605-886-8159 605-520-5120 C & M Cattle Charles and Matthew Tollefson 42034 165th St Clark, SD 57225 605-532-3917 Totton Angus Charles and Tanya Totton 34655 240th St Chamberlain, SD 57325 605-234-0349 605-730-1493 Todd and Samra Trask Varilek Angus Mick and Lynn Varilek 29208 374th Ave Geddes, SD 57342 605-337-2261 Mount Rushmore Angus Ranch Eddie Rypkema David Uhrig 1212 W. Main Street Rapid City, SD 57701 605-484-6731 605-342-2449 Whitney Vos CS Angus Craig and Shelby Weirather 18941 Schild Rd Newell, SD 57760 406-552-3177 605-892-5684 Pine Creek Angus Ranch Lyle and Miriam Weiss 17013 Maurine Rd Faith, SD 57626 605-748-2217 605-748-2408

Wicks Angus Scott and Sharon Wicks 41639 186th St Carpenter, SD 57322 605-352-9802 Wilken Ranch Inc. Gary and Lori Wilken 18867 Happy Hill Rd Meadow, SD 57644 605-788-2855 Wilkinson Ranch Inc. Bill and Mary Wilkinson 20143 440th Ave Lake Preston, SD 57249 605-847-4102 Crook Mt Angus Ranch James F. Willson 20444 Crook Mt Rd Whitewood, SD 57793 605-641-6906 Maxwell Hutterian Dwayne Wipf 42805 Maxwell Rd Scotland, SD 57059 605-660-9762 Wolf Angus LLC Nick and Staci Wolf 30315 406th Ave. Avon, SD 57315 (605) 840-1715

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RCA Valley Angus Rick and Cindy Pigors, Brandon and Ashley Smith 41123 139th St Andover, SD 57422 605-380-4426

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Topp Herefords is located in central North Dakota on the ranch where Ryan Topp was raised.

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TOPP HEREFORDS 20-month bulls, along with their traditional yearling bulls.

Topp’s production sale is the second Friday in February, held on the ranch. Last year they sold 150 bulls, 25 open heifers and 10 bred heifers. The night before the sale the Topps hold a Cattlemen’s Banquet to offer informational sessions and roundtable discussion on their customer service programs – an

extra opportunity to add value to a genetics purchase.

However, the sale is just one day out of the year for the Topps. “I like to say that for 364 days we work for you and on day 365 you buy your bull,” says Ryan.

Those other 364 days include intensive investment in their clients through two value-added programs: facilitating feedlot

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“I don’ t believe in micromanaging, and we work together as a team to make it happen.”

Left: Keith Herberg (top) and Riley Ehlers are longtime and valued employees of Topp Herefords.

“We couldn’t do what we do without them,” says Ryan Topp.

calf sales through an alliance of feedlots, and selling Angus replacement heifers with partner Ellingson Angus of Mandan, N.D..

The Topps work with four feedlots to help place their calves.

“We take a business approach to marketing their product, and help them take control of their profitability by providing options to sell their feeder cattle,” says Ryan. He says some of their clients contract calves before they’re even born, and when the calves are weaned and ready to ship, the 44

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"I like to say that for 364 days we work for you and on day 365 you buy your bull."

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“This marketing plan opens up so many options for our clients, and allows them to capitalize at a market they feel profitable at,” he says. The Topps also work closely with a packing company to facilitate the sale of the cattle on the meat end, allowing them to add value to their genetics through the entire chain.

The heifer program Topp Herefords offers gives clients the opportunity to sell their F1 baldy calves and buy back purebred heifers the next fall.

Topp Herefords partners with buyers to provide premium bids for replacement quality open heifer calves in the fall, and facilitates the sale of the top 60 to 70 percent of their customers’ calf crop. The next fall the customer can buy purebred Angus heifers bred to Hereford bulls, due within 10 days of

Ryan Topp says he has had a goal of promoting the benefits of Hereford genetics in the beef industry since he was 16. He says his competitive nature drives him to cull until only the best are left, leading to improved profitability for his customers.

when they want to calve.

“Providing the purebred female replacement option allows our customers to crossbreed 100 percent of their cattle and also receive steer prices for their heifer calves,” says Ryan. “It’s an added advantage of marketing through Topp Herefords.”

Scott Ruland ranches with his wife and son near New

The added value behind the purchase of Topp Hereford genetics is their customer service through feeder calf placement and heifer replacement programs.

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Town, N.D., and has been a bull customer of Topp Herefords for 15 years. He also works with Ryan to source black females to create F1 baldy calves, which he has had repeat success selling as replacement heifers and to feeder customers for years.

“I just keep coming back – there really is a difference in working with Topps,” says Ruland. “Their genetics have

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Topp Herefords says they focus on a cow herd that touches on all the bases of maternal profitability without sacrificing feedlot performance.

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excelled for our operation, but their customer service is above and beyond.” Ruland says they have seen a 50-60 pound increase in calf weaning weights through the F1 cross.

He adds that in addition to offering the heifer programs, Ryan comes out to evaluate his cow herd with him and makes recommendations on which bulls he think will work. “Some people you only hear from two weeks before the sale. With these guys – and it really is all of them in a true family operation – they really work to build a relationship, not just make a sale,” says Ruland.

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PRODUCER PROFILES: TOPP HEREFORDS “Ryan builds trust, but he also works hard to maintain that trust.”

The attitude of maintaining exclusive customer relations and working to improve every day overflows into everything the Topps do.

“We do not take for granted what we have established, nor are we content with what we have,” says Ryan. “We will make our programs better, we

will make our cattle better – and we will do that through our clients.”

When the entire team is pulling in the same direction, you have to look at the drivers to see the reason behind the success. For Ryan and Prairie, it’s evident that family is the driving factor, serving clients is their work, and Hereford genetics are their tools.

“This isn’t about just the

business, it’s about our family,” says Prairie. “From so many perspectives – spiritual, holistic, work ethic, fun, health … it’s one of the best ways to raise kids. It just produces good human beings.”

The Topps have helped other cattle producers fulfill their goals – and they’ve also produced some very good Hereford cattle along the way.

Family is everything to the Topps. Left to right, son Logan, Prairie, Ryan, Mariah and Lauren.

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BY DEANNA NELSON-LICKING n 2017 Trey and Dayna Wasserburger hosted their first bull sale. The North Platte, Nebraska couple may be new to the Angus seedstock game, but they picked up a legacy to carry on.

Thanks to Bill and Barb Rishel, they were given a head start and have been able to build from a solid reputation herd.

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Greg Wilke from First National Bank about wanting to sell it as a turnkey opportunity to a young family. Greg brought the idea to the attention of Trey and Dayna Wasserburger, a young couple with a year old son Westyn and a daughter on the way. “We weren’t looking to get into the registered business,” Dayna said. “But it’s been a blessing.”

“It’s very rare; these types of cows aren’t for sale. Bill gave us the opportunity for us to buy everything from the scoop shovel to the herd bulls. They were worth more together for us and for the industry, Bill walked away from a lot of money by selling the way he

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did,” Trey said. “I feel there will be a lot of opportunities for young people in the coming years as older producers are ready to retire but want young people to succeed.”

This was in the fall of 2016 and they closed on the purchase the first of January, holding their first sale in March. Bill has stayed on in a mentorship positon as the Wasserburgers learn the business. “It’s been a big learning curve, with embryo flushing and transplants, we have had really good mentorship with Bill and several others,” Trey said.

The Rishels relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska and the Wasserburgers moved into the

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house three days before their daughter Gentry was born in June. In November 2018 they welcomed another daughter Gwyn. Trey and his team handle the daily operation of the ranch while Dayna in addition to being a full time mom to three kids all under four, takes care of all the registration paperwork and the bookwork for the ranch.

Many times she has to burn the midnight oil so things are done without interruptions and mistakes. Her grandfather Andy Olson built Lazy U Quarter Horses in Hershey, Nebraska so Dayna is no stranger to annual

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Above: Westyn, Gwyn and Gentry Wasserburger, the young faces of TD Angus. JESSICA BRAITHWAIT PHOTOGRAPHY Right: The bulls of TD Angus enjoying a cold winter day. A big change Trey and Dayna made was backgrounding and developing all the bulls at home. DAYNA WASSERBURGER PHOTO

production sales. Trey was raised in northern Wyoming and they met at college. Their children are learning the business first hand and are always eager to help care for the stock and ride along.

“I don’t want to just sell them a bull; we stand behind them 100 percent. I am always available to our customers.

We offer full scale breeding services to our customers for free, so they can AI to our top genetics. I like to deliver bulls during branding season.

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buyers and track our progress,” Trey said. “We have sold bulls all over the nation and they have never let me down yet.”

“Cow business is the same where ever I go, she still has to be a cow. We are working for one with less maintenance, good genetics, and carcass merit. We run our registered cows just like commercial cows.

I had to earn the right to sell bulls to ranches like Bootheel 7 from Wyoming. I consider it a flat honor to sell them bulls,” Trey said.

Trey and Dayna own the land around the home place but do lease summer pasture.

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size, running close to 500 mother cows now split between spring and fall calving herds.

Another change they made was keeping all the young bulls at home, Bill use to send them off to be developed but the Wasserburgers wanted to have control over their entire life.

Trey and Dayna also made a big investment and built a calving barn. “As a seedstock producer we can’t have nipped ears.”

Dayna said.

Their 2019 sale was challenging, held on March 15, the entire state of Nebraska was in the aftermath of winter storm Ulmer and over half the

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But the Wasserburger’s felt that postponing the sale wasn’t an option since some customers had already flown in. So the show went on and was very successful, with 193 live lots sold to 16 different states to both live and internet/phone buyers.

TD Angus at Rishel Ranch Next Generation Herd Sire and Foundation Female Sale will be held March 20, 2020 at the ranch. They will be offering 250 premium bulls and females which will be their largest offering, carrying on the goal of producing Angus bulls and females that excel in docility, fertility, growth, structural soundness, maternal traits and carcass merit. TD Angus also

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sells a few ranch geldings on the sale every year, these are horses that they themselves have ranched on and will be assets to anyone.

They have been offering a feeder calf buyback program for their bull customers for a few years now. The calves are put into feedlots owned by Dayna’s family the Olson’s of North Platte. “We believe in what we are doing and want our customers to see the data from the kill sheets. We know ranchers that have raised cattle for over 100 years but have never seen a kill sheet on their cattle.” Trey said.

An added incentive for their customers TD Angus has started a feed test program for their customers’ calves.

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Running for a full year from March 21, 2019 to March 19, 2020, cattle are consigned in loads of 50 or more and are sired by TD Angus bulls.

Producers can retain whole or partial ownership or sell the calves to TD Angus/Olson Farms. The cattle are fed and finished in the Cow Camp Feedlot at Olson Farms in Hershey, Nebraska, and taken to Tyson Meats in Lexington, Nebraska. The harvest data will be collected and ranchers will be able to see it all. There is 25,000 dollars in the offering with 5,000 dollars awarded to each category: average daily gain, feed conversionefficiency, highest yield, highest prime percentage and highest CAB percentage.

TD ANGUS Certified Angus Beef (CAB) has partnered with TD Angus for this feedtest and will be on hand the night before the bull sale when the prizes are awarded. They are planning to offer this program every year. “We wanted to make it competitive and prove that the bulls are predictable,” Trey

said.

Trey and Dayna Wasserburger are committed to raising the best bulls for their customers and having outstanding customer service, they might be new to it all but TD Angus bulls are making them a household name across the country.

Above: Dayna and Gentry Wasserburger getting a little quality horseback time together.

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July 24-25 SD Summer Spotlight Show Barber Farms Herb & Julie Barber 23173 373rd Ave Wess. Springs, SD 57382 Bergeland Stock Farm Karl Bergeland 46377 217th Street Volga, SD 57071 Bieber Red Angus Ranch Craig & Peggy Bieber 11459 353rd Avenue Leola, SD 57456 Broken Heart Ranch Gary & Chad Pederson 12523 245th Avenue Firesteel, SD 57633 Campbell Red Angus Robert Campbell 5096 95th Street SW McIntosh, SD 57641 Caraway Red Angus Ranch Jon & Blair Caraway 1525 200th Street Lake Benton, MN 56149 Carruthers Brothers Ranch Barb Carruthers 47165 253rd Street Baltic, SD 57003 Double S Farms Neil Stuefen 226 County Road 15 Arco, MN 56113 Driscoll Cattle Company Brian Driscoll 21359 427th Avenue De Smet, SD 57231 Eagle Pass Ranch AJ Munger 34261 200th Street Highmore, SD 57345

Eichacker Red Angus Steve & Cathy Eichacker 25466 445th Avenue Salem, SD 57058 Eichler Livestock Keith Eichler 1642 Melody Lane Aberdeen, SD 57401 Fleming/Flagstad James Fleming Lois Flagstad 1312 E. Woodland Dr. Spearfish, SD 57783 Garrigan Land and Cattle Riley and Justin Garrigan 16699 216th Ave Dupree, SD 57623 Grussing Red Angus Mark Grussing 35331 264th Street Platte, SD 57369 Handel Red Angus Bruce & Mary Handel 28574 435th Avenue Menno, SD 57045 Haneke Ranch Jim & Jessica Haneke 46328 257th St Hartford, SD 57033 Hanson Red Angus Ranch Ben Hanson 221 181st Street Jasper, MN 56144 Hanson's Red Angus Joel & Pam Singrey 18155 440th Avenue Hazel, SD 57242 Homestake Ranch Keith & Amanda Larsen 38393 US Hwy 14 Wolsey, SD 57384

Jung Cattle Company Alex & Shelby Jung 561 N Sunset Drive Mina, SD 57451 Kappes Red Angus Nathan Kappes 402 S Commercial Street Clark, SD 57225 Kemen Farms Red Angus Dave Kemen 1995 261st Avenue Madison, MN 56256 Koedam Cattle Co Steve & Christina Koedam 10168 Ahlers Avenue Edgerton, MN 56128 Lazy J Bar Ranch John & Stephanie Jung 36813 131st Street Mina, SD 57451 Leddy Red Angus Gene & Wade Leddy 47296 153rd Street Twin Brooks, SD 57269 Lone Tree Red Angus Brad Schecher 18164 135th Street Bison, SD 57620 M & M Acres Mark & MaryKay Lacek 3580 County Road 105 Canby, MN 56220 Mitchell Red Angus Brandon & Belinda Mitchell 23950 South Creek Road Kadoka, SD 57543 Namken Red Angus Jared & Lacey Namken 45536 189th Street Lake Norden, SD 57248

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Odden Cattle Company Dean Odden & Sons 20361 Green Valley Rd Ree Heights, SD 57371 P4 Cattle Company Scott, Chance & Clay Popham 18297 447th Avenue Hayti, SD 57241 Pladsen Red Angus Chase Pladsen 1310 Lansing Harpers Road Harpers Ferry, IA 52146 Raml Cattle Phillip, Adam & Grant Raml 46626 170th Street Goodwin, SD 57238 Reisdorfer Red Angus Jeremy & Tyler Reisdorfer 23059 Birkett Avenue Magnolia, MN 56158 Ressler Land and Cattle Mark & Bryan Ressler 803 1st St NW Cooperstown, ND 58425 Rocking Tree Ranch LLC Randy Hallock 1745 Davenport Street Sturgis, SD 57785 S Bar U Red Angus Cal & Tracy Swanson 26233 Main Street Hamill, SD 57534 Sanderson Red Angus Bruce & Carolyn Sanderson 11997 410th Avenue Claremont, SD 57432 Sandy Willow Red Angus Glenn and Paul Gaikowski 13933 450th Avenue Waubay, SD 57273

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Shaggy Meadows Red Angus Jared & Michelle Dick 27634 443rd Avenue Marion, SD 57403 Sinkie Ranch Matt Sinkie 22313 361st Ave Gann Valley, SD 57341 Thomas Ranch Troy & Veabea Thomas 18475 Capri Place Harrold, SD 57536 TLC Livestock Services Colby & Tracy Lind 617 Hanover Court Rushford, MN 55971 TSN Lucky Red Angus Thor Nelson 533 North 6th Street Montevideo, MN 56265 Valnes Ranch Red Angus Emit & Jayme Valnes 12310 447th Avenue Eden, SD 57232 VanderWal Red Angus Kent & Shawn VanderWal 20513 465th Avenue Bruce, SD 57220 Weber Red Angus Jason Weber 102 S Depot Parkston, SD 57366

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BY DEANNA NELSON-LICKING PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE WASSERBURGER FAMILY

he Wasserburger family emigrated from Germany in the 1800s; they lived in Wisconsin for a while before coming to the GermanCatholic community near Ardmore, South Dakota, near the state line north of Harrison and Crawford, Nebraska. The family was large, with twelve children, nine girls and three boys including three sets of twins. The oldest son, Henry Lewis, left home and went to work for an Uncle Christ Ruffing on Old Woman Creek, thirty miles north of Lusk Wyoming.

Henry worked for his uncle until his 21st birthday in 1916 when he was finally old enough to file his own homestead claim. He worked hard and was able to buy up the surrounding claims when his neighbors had enough and called it quits.

He raised cattle and sheep; he would trail his stock to Ardmore, South Dakota where they were loaded on the train for Fort Robinson. In 1928 he married a school teacher, Ann. The couple was blessed with two boys and a girl. Their 64

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son Henry II came back in 1950 and with his wife Lorraine raised five children: Jerry, Jolene, J.D, Tom and Jeff.

Henry Lewis’ grandson J.D remembers his grandfather. “He told me, ‘Don’t worry about going broke, I’ve been broke three times.’”

The family was going into default on their loan in the 1930s when their bank in Harrison, Nebraska went broke. But thanks to the Federal Government’s emergency acts under President Franklin D. Roosevelt to help farmers, Henry was able to obtain a new loan that saved the ranch.

“Grandpa lived in a soddy and I can’t imagine, I wonder how they survived the heat

Left: Trailing Bootheel 7 cattle, the family has ranched in the Lusk, Wyoming area for over 100 years.

Above: The Wasserburgers are now raising the fifth generation of Wyoming ranchers.

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Andrew and Anne Wasserburger with son Henry and daughter Grace.

and the cold and no running water. He built a house by the time he married Grandma.

Every generation has it easier than the last. Grandpa lost 1,000 head of sheep in a flood but he and my dad always believed that there was going to be another day. He only had like a third or fourth grade education but he was really good with numbers, he did everything long hand all on a piece of paper 66

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with a pencil. I wish I had saved some of those envelopes he wrote on,� J.D said. “Years ago a guy who worked for us was going to dig a well by hand. My dad and grandpa went up to see how it was going. His wife was running the windlass bringing up dirt and the hired man was in the hole. He came up for a drink of water and while he was on top the well caved in. Dad says he can still remember the

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look on grandpa’s face, it would have killed the man.”

“A guy west of us raised watermelons and cantaloupes, in the fall my grandpa would get some. He said it would make his mouth water just thinking about it. My dad was a senior in high school in 1949 and stayed in town like all the country kids did. He caught a ride home on a snow blower and he was stuck there a long while. But we never lost any stock. In 1967 we put up 13,000 of those little round bales. They were all picked up by hand loaded on the truck, unloaded and fed by hand,” J.D said.

The Wasserburgers ran Hereford cattle for years but are now raising Black Angus. They also raised sheep until about 15 years ago when the coyote population grew too bad. J.D came back to the family ranch in 1978 and in 1979 Henry II and Lorraine partnered with him to form Bootheel 7 Livestock, named for Henry Lewis’ brand.

J.D married Laurie, a school teacher from Denver in 1980.

They have three sons, with two ranching beside them and raising the next generation of Wasserburgers. Henry II is 88.

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J.D Wasserburger teaching his grandson Henry Wasserburger.

Casper, Wyoming.

Laurie Wasserburger taught school for 30 years before retiring and she does all the bookwork for the ranch. She and J.D also started an oil field business that their son Eric now is in charge of, his girlfriend Hannah Swanbon is the local extension agent. J.D’s oldest son Jason is an oil and gas attorney in Cheyenne and is raising two sons with his wife Hilary. The

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youngest son Andrew runs the ranch, his wife Anne is the County Attorney in Lusk and they have a son Henry and daughter Grace.

The brothers help each other when needed and J.D is active in both businesses. Eric and Andrew also enjoy competing in ranch rodeos and having a good time. They partner with two brothers from Fort Laramie and have made the WRCH

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J.D and Laurie Wasserburger and their family.

Finals, Western States Finals, NILE Finals and the Wyoming Finals.

A few years ago Andrew and Anne partnered with her brother Jake Kugler and his wife Kelly to form Bootheel 7 Ranch, a direct marketing beef company based in Colorado. They offer pasture to plate Black Angus Beef. The family utilizes carcass ultrasound to test how the animals will grade.

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fast enough, we and this year we will feed 100. It’s been a fun little deal, and we are able to tell people where the meat comes from and help people understand.

• Wyola, MT 59089 Consumers have aP.O. lotBox of148 misconceptions.”

P.O. Box 148 • Wyola, MT 59089 Darrell & Ginny Kurt Darrell & Ginny Kurt animal Consumers are able to buy the whole Rathkamp Rathkamp Rathkamp Rathkamp (406) 343-2551 (406) 620-7165 or monthly subscription boxes delivered to drop (406) 343-2551 (406) 620-7165 www.PassCreekAngus.com www.PassCreekAngus.com points along thepasscreekangus@hotmail.com Colorado Front Range and passcreekangus@hotmail.com shipping across the nation. The cattle never leave the ranch until they are ready for processing; they are fed an all-natural ration, never receive hormones and are given antibiotics only when sick and then only if it’s more than 365 days before butchering.

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improve and also knowing what to look for when buying bulls.

The family has used genetics from Rishel Angus for years, but are now buying from another bull producer who used those lines. In 2017 Andrew’s cousin Trey and Dayna Wasserburger purchased Rishel Angus and as TD Angus are continuing to raise the quality cattle that Bill Rishel developed. Bootheel 7 now buy their new bulls from

TD Angus are very happy with the quality of calves and the carcasses quality. Andrew also rides a few ranch geldings for his cousin, and those horses are sold on the bull sale every year.

This year Bootheel 7 Livestock sorted through 700 heifers, they did the first sort on paper according to traits, then honed down again the traditional way.

“Ones we just didn’t like or want to breed. We ultrasounded

Bootheel 7 pairs on summer pasture. The Wasserburgers use carcass ultrasound to help them raise the best beef possible.

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them and sent a pen of heifers to participate in the first annual TD Angus Feed Test in North Platte, Nebraska. The feed test is a way for ranchers with calves out of TD Angus bulls to put them in the feedyard and follow their progress all the way to the rail.

The Wasserburgers are raising the fifth generation of Wyoming ranchers and are committed to producing the highest quality beef possible.

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Registered Heifers For Sale

Sensibly bred cattle without extremes

Koupals B & B Black Out 9123

Koupal Czech 922

Koupals D&K PayRaise 91

Reg # 19553720 Sire: Jindra Blackout MGS: Koupals B & B Dante 2069 CED BW WW YW MILK +7 +1.2 +65 +124 +36

Reg #19559840 Sire: Koupal Czech 158 MGS: Koupal Missing Link 836 CED BW WW YW MILK +2 +3.1 +57 +107 +27

Reg #19573982 Sire: ICC Pay Raise 4886 MGS: E&B Final Answer 3126 CED BW WW YW MILK +6 +1.2 +70 +118 +24

Koupals B & B Detail 9012

Koupal Sunrise 988

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Reg #19549083 Sire: Koupals B & B Detail 7070 MGS: S Titlest 1145 CED BW WW YW MILK +3 +2.0 +81 +134 +24

Reg #19559868 Sire: Koupal Sunrise 715 MGS: OCC Unmistakabull 896U CED BW WW YW MILK -4 +5.1 +74 +126 +29

Reg #19550315 Sire: Koupals B & B Detail 7070 MGS: Koupals B & B Titan 3013 CED BW WW YW MILK +1 +2.4 +77 +128 +22

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BY KAYCEE MONNENS PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE SPICKLER FAMILY

amily, efficiency, and faith are central to Spickler Ranch North Registered Angus near Glenfield, North Dakota.

Justin and Sara Spickler, along with their four children, combine passion and technology to produce the best possible cattle for their customers.

Angus seedstock production is the main focus as Spicklers carefully refine their herd to produce top-of-the-line bulls. The production of quality Angus females naturally follows suit. Justin has several goals in mind with each generation. He says, “It’s to try to make these cows as good as we can: keeping track of hoof and foot quality, 76

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tightening up udders, shortening up teats, making these cows so that when they raise bulls those bulls will make daughters that will last till they are 10, 12, 14.”

“We’ve always gravitated towards cattle that were middle-of-the-road as far as frame size but had extra depth and muscle. I feel like we’ve always wanted to have cattle that were really easy keeping. The cow herd represents that. They can handle changes and adapt,” he says. From 30 below to 90 degrees and humidity, the branded S Moon cattle maintain weight and function in all weather, much to the satisfaction of customers, according to Justin.

The family’s year-round work culminates at the Spickler Ranch North Annual Production Sale, which heavily emphasizes their bull crop. As the catalog says, “Our business is coming two-

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year-old Angus bulls!” The sale was historically held in December but this year has been moved to Wednesday, November 20th due to weekend conflicts.

In preparation for this year’s production sale, they dealt with distressing weather conditions. Spickler said, “We’ve had like 45 days of rain. I think we’ve had somewhere around 12 inches.

Conditions in the feedlot just deteriorated.” The ranch sits on the James River, which flooded in 2009 and 2011 and caused evacuations. A dyke has since been installed, but the excess moisture still raised concern. Sale bulls were turned out in hopes that they might find drier ground and had to be trailed home on flooded roads. Yet, Justin remains upbeat. “It’s really humorous. We have cow pictures that were taken THE CATTLE JOURNAL BEEF & BUSINESS 2020

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at the end of September where it’s green and our bull and heifer pictures are snowy. Part of the allure of the fall sale was no snow, but I’ve worn my ear flapper plenty already.”

The October snow and rain were challenging, but the family persevered in their Christian faith. “We wouldn’t be able to do what we’re doing without God’s blessing in what we do. His hand is in everything. There's been countless things throughout life

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that our faith in Him, and what Jesus did on the cross, it’s kept us going. We’re in the midst of one of those things right now.

We’re trying to have a bull sale with a flooded ranch and yet have peace and know that it’s going to work,” he said.

On the female side of things, Spickler Ranch North partners with McCumber Angus and Spickler Ranch South for the Angus Partners Female Sale in January. Their customer base is roughly 95 percent local. “It’s a

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sale that has been established as having quality replacements,” said Spickler. Nearing its 14th year, the Annual Female Sale was born with the customer in mind. “Our thought was and still is to add value to our customer’s females. We feel like Angus steers sell well. And what we wanted to do was for the heifers that our customers had to market, we wanted them to get steer price. When we go into that sale and people are wondering what they’ll bring, S Resurgence 8578

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Wyatt, Watson, Jessa, Sara, Justin, and Will Spickler.

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the open heifers almost always bring steer price. Of course, on the bred heifer side, we wanted people to get a little extra premium for the bred heifers.”

The desire to succeed inspired careful decisions and big moves along the way. “Shortly after we split off on our own [...] within 15 months, we had doubled the cow herd. I was in partnership with my brother until 2014.” After the peaceful split, Spickler Ranch North redoubled their efforts toward their vision. “2017 would’ve been our first real fall sale THE CATTLE JOURNAL BEEF & BUSINESS 2020

where it was our full calf crop.”

Opportunities and timing have allowed Spickler Ranch North to grow quickly. In 2011, Justin spoke to a rancher nearing retirement: “I saw him at a bull sale and said, ‘If you ever retire and sell your cows, let me know.’ What I meant was I wanted to buy one or two.” Three years later, the same gentleman called Justin: “He said ‘Were you serious?’ I said, ‘Well, yeah.’ He said, ‘Do you want them all?’ Two weeks later, we had all his cows. You have to really be careful what

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you say. I meant two and we got 180.”

Sara has been fundamental from the beginning. From July 1999 to May 2001, Justin was the herdsman in the Beef Unit at North Dakota State University as his father’s ranch was not large enough to support three men at the time.

Justin was working toward his own cow herd, however. “Sara

and I got married in 2001. We leased 100 cows when we were engaged. That was how I made sure she came to the wedding,” he jokes.

As their operation grew along with the work demands, Sara retired as a nurse and took on an essential role on the ranch.

“Sara is fully in charge of all data. I used to be heavily involved in that. I bet she

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Angus seedstock production is the main focus as Spicklers carefully refine their herd to produce top-of-the-line bulls.

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takes 500 of the birthweights.

The calving is organized almost entirely by Sara. Sara does everything from being a mom, housewife, accountant, calves all the cows, does all the record-keeping, she trained herself to make the catalog by watching YouTube videos of

InDesign and she now makes all the ads,” Spickler said.

Their children, Wyatt, Will, Jessa, and Watson, aged from 15 to nine years old, also play a

major role. The two oldest boys are skilled in running haying equipment and recognizing numbers while working cattle.

Jessa and Watson also enjoy

“We went through a business change, a bull sale timing change, and doubled our cow herd and renovated the entire cow herd.”

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Spickler Ranch North is a family operation, with the kids playing a crucial role in the day-to-day ranch work. Right: Justin Spickler seeks to breed extra depth and muscle in each year's calf crop.

ranch work, especially that which can be done horseback.

Though their registered cattle are not specifically bred for showing, the Spickler kids began showing on the 4H level and last year showed at Junior Nationals successfully.

“They’re getting to where they have some bred-and-owned heifers. Next time we go to Junior Nationals, we’ll be able to compete in that,” Justin says.

Justin pauses to look back at the progress in the last eight years. He says, “We went through a business change, a bull sale timing change, and doubled our cow herd and

renovated the entire cow herd.

We are just getting to where we are seeing the benefits of that. I’m not saying that out of arrogance. It was part of the plan. We wanted to try to make these cows as good as we possibly could as quickly as we possibly could. We dove right in and kept heifers and culled cows.” Though he is satisfied with the achievements thus far, he continues to strive. “It’s my personal challenge to make it as good as it can possibly be. I’m

still 15 years from that.”

While the quality and growth of his herd is important, even more meaningful is the future of Spickler’s children. “It’s really hard and I think it gets harder and harder. That’s one of the reasons we have the number of cows we do, to create opportunity for the kids that want to be involved.”

Spickler Ranch North looks ahead to create an effective Angus program and positive future in the industry.

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eddes Herefords of Manhattan, Montana is a family-owned operation that upholds tradition while seeking the innovation of the future. The backdrop of the Bridger Mountains has provided a unique setting for raising hardy cattle for nearly 80 years. Dan Feddes carries on his family’s Hereford roots alongside his brother, Tim, and son, Taylor. “My dad [Marvin]

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The main emphasis at Feddes Herefords is on the female.

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“Our emphasis has always been on the female.

If you have good females, then the bulls will come.” and his brother [Neal] started in 1945. In 1983, that was after my uncle passed away, we split the place and we continued on with the Herefords and my cousin, Chuck, he raises Red Angus now,” Feddes said.

Feddes Herefords sells bulls and females year-round by private treaty. “I get asked when we start selling, but we sell whenever somebody wants to buy them,” Feddes said. “We’ve been getting most of them [bulls] sold by the time they’re 18 months. They go out and breed the first year. It’s worked well. The females, we sell most of them in the fall as bred cows or heifers.”

Maternal traits are a focal point in the Feddes program.

“Our emphasis has always been on the female. If you have good females, then the bulls will come.” With the climate comes challenges that the cows make up for: “Good udders and plenty of milk. We need a lot of milk in this country. I say anybody that thinks you get too much milk has never calved cows when it’s thirty below,” he said.

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influence in the bull crop.

“Now, we’re concentrating on proven bulls with lighter birthweight and high growth of the yearling EPDs. We use EPDs a lot and we use visual a lot. I’m a believer in EPDs, if they’re proven, and we use them quite a lot in our breeding selections. But we still look at them and know what they look like. We still want enough frame but we’re still trying to get more thickness and we’ve always had good length in them. Our main emphasis is still the female,” he said.

Feddes raises high-end Herefords because he believes in the versatility of the breed.

“We’ve always believed in them because we think they’re more adapted to this country.

The cold--I think they stand it better than any breed out there.

They’ve kind of proven their worth throughout the years.

They’re a breed that is fit to take the harsh winters and falls and everything else that we get for weather and still can stand the heat,” he said.

Along with the preservation of his family’s Hereford heritage comes the adjustment to

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Dan Feddes especially loves seeing babies during calving season, even in inclement weather.

modern markets. The current trend seems to be the Black Angus/ Hereford cross, which makes up a large percentage of his bull sales.

“Most of them just go to good commercial men with black cows.

It’s the hybrid figure in the baldies.

They’re probably the most popular steers and probably as popular as any for heifers. They’ve proven that the baldie female lasts longer and breeds better and stays in the herd longer, and that’s where the money is: keeping them in the herd,” he said. Feddes also sells to other registered Hereford breeders.

“Most of our females that we don’t keep for ourselves go for the registered breeders. We try not to sell anything that we won’t keep

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The mountain scenery near the Feddes Ranch brings beauty and burdens equally, as the climate can be a hurdle.

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ourselves.”

Feddes also encourages hardiness and natural selection through their feeding program.

“We wean our heifer calves and turn them back out on pasture.

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wean them and we turn them back out on grass about the first of September. They’ll eat grass or grass/alfalfa hay until about the middle of December and then we take them to a feedlot and we get them ready to sell in the spring. We try to get by on minimal feed,” Feddes said.

Though Dan’s father, Marvin, passed away two years ago, his legacy lives on in his sons.

“We worked together every day so you learn as you work.

Mainly, you learn by watching and doing it. We went on a lot of trips looking at bulls and stuff. That is where we learned everything, is from my dad,” he said. In turn, Dan Feddes passes

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on advice to young ranchers: “I think a lot of it is sticking with what you believe in, whether it’s with cattle or not to be afraid to change with the times. It’s like I always tell my kids. They say we don’t make enough money and I say, ‘Well, it’s not if you don’t make enough, it’s if you spend too much.’ You always have to be careful. Your expenses can’t exceed your income or you’re not going to last long. On the other hand, you have to spend money to make money. It’s a fine balance.”

The mountain scenery near the Feddes Ranch brings beauty and burdens equally, as the climate can be a hurdle.

He said, “That’s the main challenge is the weather up here. It is what it is. People ask me if this is normal and I say, ‘There is no normal in Montana. There’s just an average.’ We calve in January because we sell our bulls at a year old, they go out and

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“That’s the main challenge is the weather up here.

It is what it is. People ask me if this is normal and I say, 'There is no normal in Montana.'"

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breed at 16 months. We need them to be January/February calves. We calve a lot of cows in 20-30-below weather. We calve them, they dry off, and they go out. That’s the thing about Herefords, they can go out in that weather and get along.” Feddes also said that they may receive snow during every month of the year and growing crops is nearly impossible due to the short growing season. “We can’t raise corn for grain. It just doesn’t have enough time to mature. There’s a lot of guys that will raise it for silage, but you can’t depend on it.

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hay and sell it for horse hay.

There’s a lot of horses around here. That’s been good to us,” he said.

For Feddes, the battle with Mother Nature actually brings a sense of peace in his work. “Honestly, we don’t worry too much about the future, because we know who controls the future and we don’t. It’s not us. We truly believe in that, that God is in control and we’re here as stewards of the land.

You always think about the future but it is certainly not something we can control,” he said. “We enjoy it. It’s fun.

There’s obviously a lot of times where it’s not so much

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fun, but nothing quite like checking cows and finding baby calves. I always enjoy going out and looking at them.”

“We love our farm but our family and our Lord come first. That's just the way it is here. We work here every day is a gift from God. Boy, it doesn’t take very long to see that. Life changes in five seconds. I have no sage advice, we just live day to day,” Feddes said.

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Maternal Mountain Mamas

BY TAMARA CHOAT PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE COLEMAN FAMILY

estled in the mountain valley near Charlo in western Montana lies Coleman Angus, a family operation owned by Larry and Dee Coleman and their 16-year-old twins, Dawson and Erica. Larry and Dee both grew up working cattle – each are third-generation ranchers. Larry grew up

on a Limousin operation; Dee’s family raised Hereford and Gelbvieh.

The foresight and commitment that has shaped the success of Coleman Angus was evident in Larry Coleman from early on.

As a kid Coleman was involved in 4-H and quickly recognized the value in having a grand or reserve market animal at his local

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fair – so he worked hard to win. When his family started competing at the bigger tricounty fair in Missoula, “I got pretty aggressive, picked out a good one, fed it right, walked it every day,” says Coleman.

“McDonald’s was always the buyer of the grand or reserve steer, and that year I had a really good calf so I named it Big Mac. We won, McDonald’s bought him, and that was the down payment on my ranch.”

Coleman was just a sophomore in high school.

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for a time. “When those Angus started calving I really appreciated their mothering ability,” says Coleman. As soon as they started their own operation, the Colemans went back to black with a focus on the maternal aspect of the breed.

“Today we’re still extremely maternal,” says Coleman. “A lot of breeders have chased fads or terminal traits but we have stayed focused solely on maternal and the commercial cowman.” They select for good udders, dispositions, feet and short calving intervals.

“When we got started I knew there were lots of

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“I’m kind of a guy who likes to think outside the box.

In the cattle business there are things we can’ t control, but we can control our inputs—that’s critical to surviving and making this work." extremely good Angus cattle in the business and many wellestablished operations,” says Larry. “I knew it was going to be tough to break into.”

The Colemans decided to identify a handful of the best cows they could find, and built their herd through embryos.

“We are still extremely aggressive, we want to be at

the front end of this deal,” says Larry. “Those extremely good cows make a big difference in the quality of the cattle we offer.” Through embryos they are able to offer their customers full and half-brothers. “It really helps with consistency in a calf crop,” says Coleman.

The Colemans are somewhat unique in their seasonal

operations – they calve mostly in July and August.

Coleman says there are several reasons. “One is labor – it’s a lot easier. We don’t get up at night and check anything.”

Everything calves out in the pasture, even the heifers. “We feel this is a lot better place for them to learn to be mothers.

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just creates confusion.”

Plus they are normally tied up on a swather or baler that time of year. The Colemans raise all their own feed for their bulls and replacement heifers, but try and put the cattle to work as the harvesters as much as they can.

On their summer calves, weaning takes place in December or January, depending on snow cover and weather. “We leave the calves on as long as we can and try not to feed unless we have to. It just makes more sense and teaches them how to be a cow.” As soon as the grass greens up in the spring, the calves take those lessons and get back to work grazing.

“I’m kind of a guy who likes to think outside the box,” says Coleman. “In the cattle business there are things we can’t control, but we can control our inputs –

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that’s critical to surviving and making this work. The less days we have to feed, the less tractors we have to start, the better off we are.”

They also have a smaller group of cows that calve the end of January for customers looking for traditional season bulls and bred heifers. The Colemans also work with cooperator commercial outfits to transfer embryos, then buy the weaned calves around September.

Coleman says they sort strictly on phenotype. “I honestly never use an EPD when I’m sorting replacements,” says Coleman. “I look at cattle for what they are, not what they should be. If the cattle are right, the EPDs will follow them.”

He is also extremely focused on fertility and calving intervals.

Cows that calve early get his attention, along with those

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Left: Abigale 0277, a Pathfinder flush sister to Coleman's stand-out bull, Charlo 0256. Right: Coleman Angus' up and coming standout, Bravo.

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that make Pathfinder status – a program of the American Angus Association that identifies superior cows based on early puberty, breeding and early calving, followed by regularity of calving and above-average performance of the offspring.

“A cow that breeds AI and has a calf 20 days earlier than the rest every year – there’s a lot more value to her,” says Coleman.

When talking about herd sires, Coleman says one bull stands

stud. The Colemans currently have a son of Charlo, “Bravo 6313,” that Coleman feels is the next step. His first sons will be offered for sale in 2020 at the annual bull sale. “Bravo calves definitely are standing out,” says Coleman.

Coleman Angus holds their annual bull sale the third Tuesday in February at Five Valleys Livestock Auction in Missoula, Mont., and their annual female sale the second

out as a real game changer for them – Coleman Charlo 0256.

“He’s a bull that changed our herd drastically in a good way,” he says. Charlo’s progeny have sold well everywhere they have been. “Every year his sons have topped our sale; our commercial guys really appreciate him – he’s true-blue calving ease with a tremendous amount of muscle, very easy fleshing.” At nine years old, Charlo is still being used naturally, besides collecting semen at the AI

Tuesday in October at the ranch.

They sell about 175 bulls, with 110 being 18-month bulls and about 65-70 yearlings.

Coleman says their customer base consists of operators who, like them, appreciate the value of maternal genetics. “We focus on having an extremely good set of mother cows that can go out in these harsh environments and make a living in what I call the ‘real world,’” he says.

Marcus Mays is a commercial cow-calf producer in Ellensburg,

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PRODUCER PROFILE: COLEMAN ANGUS Wash., and met the Colemans about 10 years ago on the recommendation of his previous bull breeder, who retired. At the first Coleman bull sale he bought one bull.

Today he is uses 100 percent Coleman sires, and says the Colemans have become good friends over the years.

The Mays Ranch retains ownership on all their calves, raising replacement heifers and putting steer calves into a grassfed branded beef program. “It’s a lot harder to get a calf to finish on grass, but typically our Coleman calves Mountain pastures make for good grazing and hearty, maternal cows.

Inset: Ranch work has been a part of the Coleman twins' life since they were young.

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Coleman Angus is based in the scenic mountain valley near Charlo, Mont.

grade anywhere from 50 to 70 percent Choice. The sector we do put in the feedlot run 95 to 100 percent Choice,” he says.

Mays says Coleman keeps in touch throughout the year, checking to see if there are

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Mays adds he appreciates the philosophies Coleman puts into his operation. “Larry has really strived to make the perfect

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Amdahl Angus and Hereford Amdahls bring forward-thinking to Angus, Hereford cattle STORY AND PHOTOS BY MARIA TIBBETTS or the last several years the Amdahl Angus and Hereford bull sale has been noted for its sub-zero temperatures.

This year, in an effort to avoid that dubious distinction, Tim and Marcia Amdahl and family moved their bull sale to November. While early snowstorms made them wonder if the frigid weather was going to follow them, their Nov. 23 sale date saw temperatures in the 60s.

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private treaty,” Tim said. They attracted some new customers this year, and some of their previous customers said they planned to come back and buy bulls private treaty later on.

“That’s part of where the markets are at today. We want to be optimistic, but there’s some uncertainty about where the markets will be and how the loaning institutions will respond,” Tim said.

To adjust for the early sale, Amdahls offered to keep the bulls until spring, semen-test, then deliver them. They’ve offered that before, but never for this length of time.

Tim said they plan to stick with the

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November sale date. “It was enjoyable preparing for this sale when we aren’t calving cows.

We got to enjoy Thanksgiving, Christmas and now we can look forward to calving in January.”

Tim said his family has been involved in the cattle business since 1884, raised registered Angus cattle since 1972 and added Herefords five years ago when they bought Baker Hereford Ranch near Rapid City, South Dakota.

“We enjoy good cattle of all breeds,” Tim said. “We have a special spot for Angus and we’re enjoying the Herefords.”

Tim is the fourth generation of Amdahls to raise cattle.

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Above: Tim Amdahl checks out the sale catalog, hot off the presses. Right: The barn cat prepares to welcome buyers to the annual bull sale.

have our customers come back and talk about how those calves out of first-calf heifers get up and chase mama down.”

They’ve embraced the purebred business wholeheartedly, DNA testing and offering enhanced EPDs. “We have one of the most DNA-tested herds in the Angus business,” Tim said. “If you DNA test one of our yearling bulls you’ll get accurate calving information as if he’d had 13 calves already.”

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lot of embryo work with her.”

Nine of her progeny were in the November sale.

The DNA testing and genomic-enhanced EPDs are just a couple ways they focus on creating a valuable product for their customers. “Our goal is to help our customers be more profitable in the cattle business,” Tim said. “We do that by helping them have more live calves and heavier calves, and we help market some of their animals.”

Marketing is something they’ve learned to diversify over the years. In addition to their annual bull sale and female sale, they also keep

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several freezers in their on-theranch sale barn stocked with beef to sell to by the quarter and half, via word-of-mouth.

“I believe it’s an advantage to feed out and market some of your own beef. We know the kind of quality of product we’re raising,” Tim said.

It’s a concept his family has been embracing for nearly 50 years. “When people started losing a lot of money feeding cattle, my dad started marketing his own processed beef throughout South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan,

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“Our goal is to help our customers be more profitable in the cattle business.”

Wisconsin.” Oliver Amdahl took orders ahead of time from grocery stores, restaurants and individuals in 22 cities and delivered via reefer truck.

That idea might be timely now, Tim says. “Never have I heard so many of our ranchers and feedlot operators saying we need to be processing and marketing our own beef, because of the huge difference in profits of cattle producers and packers.”

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Amdahls raised purebred Angus cattle for years, but added Hereford to their herd when they bought Baker Hereford Ranch near Rapid City, South Dakota.

near Mitchell, South Dakota, and now on the place formerly owned by Baker Herefords. They bought quite a few of the cows at Bakers’ dispersion sale, and now are applying their Angus methodology to the Hereford herd.

“We’ve been doing embryo work with those. Our goal is to breed them like we do our Angus, for calving ease, performance, fleshing ability, easy keeping, longevity, strong maternal traits and carcass,” Tim said.

Amdahls have been using artificial insemination since 1975. The first embryo transplants ever done in South Dakota were in Amdahl cattle in 1978, which was very expensive at the time.

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and puts in fresh or frozen embryos. They do some in-vitro fertilization as well, but that is done off the ranch.

“We focus on maternal values as a whole,” said JD, their youngest son, who works with them on the ranch. “Especially breedback and predictability.

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Though their marketing and location has changed over the years, they’ve remained committed to their principles, including service to others, faith in God and civic and social responsibility. Tim served as the state land commissioner and in 2002 ran for the U.S. House of Representatives.

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There’s a strong bond because we’ve been through the ups and downs and challenges.”

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The Reich Ranch stretches from the Bear Lodge mountains in Wyoming to the Belle Fourche River in South Dakota, dropping nearly 1,600 feet in elevation along the way.

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he flour is out by 4 a.m. at the Reich household on bull sale day. That’s when Ree Reich starts the homemade yeast doughnuts that have become the stuff of dreams and legends for sale ringmen. But the Reichs of Belle Fourche, South Dakota, started getting ready for their annual Charolais sale long before that—1957 to be exact.

That’s the year Tim Reich says his dad and a neighbor left North Dakota for Missouri and Texas, bringing home some 15/32 cows that were crossed with Brahma, and purebred Charolais bulls.

They brought these foreign cattle home to their Angus, Hereford and baldie cowherd with a pretty good idea of what the neighbors would say.

“At that time crossbreeding was almost a fourletter word,” Tim said. “We starting using some Charolais bulls on some of the cows and the first four years we averaged 74 pounds more per Charolais calf than we did with the Hereford and Angus bulls. We kept getting increased weaning weights with higher crosses of Charolais, but not as dramatic as at first.”

When they crossed their purebred Charolais

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PRODUCER PROFILES bulls onto half-Charolais cows, their weaning weights jumped 37 pounds. The next cross, with three-quarter Charolais cows, saw an added 25 pounds.

“We kept upgrading our cattle until we got a purebred herd,” Tim said.

These numbers roll off Tim’s tongue as readily as his phone number—never mind the 60 years in between.

At the time, Tim and his brother were in 4-H, showing calves. “It was very difficult because the politics was not to be crossbreeding in the first place, and certainly not with something as exotic as Charolais.

“We had some pretty set minds to change,” Tim said. “A number of commercial people were watching us and were seeing how much difference they could make just adding the Charolais blood in their commercial herds.”

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The Reichs knew they would have to introduce the new blood gradually, and for quite some time they sold half- and three-quarter Charolais bulls. “That was a pretty significant increase for those folks and they were getting along without calving problems.”

In the 1960s Canada imported a new challenge for breeders of the pale cattle, disguised as expensive, highquality French bulls.

“Those bulls were really expensive, were bought by AI studs and were marketed hard,” Tim said. “Those bulls were never allowed to come into the U.S., but their

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semen was. With them a lot people got into some serious problems with calving. Those of us who didn’t buy into the full French influence were able to maintain a good bullcustomer relationship and be successful, but generally speaking, it was hard to pick up new customers at that time because there was a perception about calving problems that was well-founded with the French cattle.”

Tim estimates it took about 10 years to get over that hump, and by then the Angus breeders were starting to breed some of their popular bloodlines to Chianina and Holsteins to get a bigger frame on their cattle, trying to compete with the Charolais.

“They did so relatively successfully. Frame scores changed dramatically with one or two generations,” Tim said.

Tim represented the Charolais breed at a lot of shows, but rarely in the show ring—not since his 4-H days when short, blocky Herefords and petite Angus cattle took home the rosettes.

“Our concentration has been on producing Charolais cattle that will go on commercial herds—Hereford, Angus, baldie—and calve easily and produce a heavier calf

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PRODUCER PROFILE: REICH RANCH at weaning. It’s hard to put together something that lasts very long if you’re constantly chasing showring stuff. Those cattle are all designed to be extreme. They don’t produce consistently because they’re up and down. They’re the tallest or the longest or the shortest.”

Reichs also don’t breed with seedstock producers in mind. “That’s a different focus.

We’ve sold bulls occasionally to a breeder, but that’s not our concentration. If we would be producing bulls for other breeders we’d be chasing EPDs, showing cattle at major shows or encouraging others who use our bloodlines to show at major shows, giving them incentives to do so. We’d be doing a whole different ballgame in terms of advertising. I think the top bulls we raise would be very competitive phenotypically and with numbers as bulls that some of the top breeders in the country are selling. But we’re not chasing that market.”

He saw what that looks like behind the scenes early on when he visited a premier Charolais breeder in Missouri. “I don’t know how much his feed bill was. He was feeding his cows and calves full feed, getting 850-pound weaning weights.

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Joshua, Anika and Lydia, children of Holly (Reich) and Jeff Main are getting to be pretty good help around the ranch.

he was doing.”

Since that’s not their market, that’s not how they operate.

“We try to raise cattle the same way our commercial customers do. We want the bulls we sell to go into those herds and do well under the conditions that those fellas are raising cattle,” Tim said.

Their females don't go through the sale ring. They sell them private treaty, and they’ve gone to Canada, Mexico and all over the United States.

“When we started selling females into Canada, some of these guys would come down and want just the top animals,” Tim said. “Dad said he’d sell them the top 5 percent of the heifer crop. I argued with him pretty hard about that for a number of years. When we did have a sale and we kept track of them, those animals were not as productive as the middle bunch on a consistent basis because they were a little more

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extreme. They were bigger, probably didn’t show as much femininity. They certainly didn’t produce the same percentage of bodyweight of calf as the more moderate animals do.”

When Reichs start looking for an infusion of new blood, they look for breeders who are operating the same way they are, and have the same priorities.

“I try to find people who are raising cattle in same kind of environment we are. Some people don’t think anything of trimming their bulls’ feet every year. When we trim a bull’s feet it’s right behind his ears,” Tim said. “To be fair, we’re on hard and rocky ground, so a bull is going to wear his feet down some. Back east it’s soggy, smaller pastures that are more conducive to foot problems.”

They’ve had ample opportunity to see the diverse conditions under which people raise Charolais. Their Charolais cattle have been the ticket for

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The Reichs produce cattle that pay their own way, with no special treatment.

the Reichs to travel around the world, and meet people from around the world.

They were involved in the North Dakota Charolais Association until they moved to South Dakota, when Tim was elected to the national board, eventually serving as the president of the American International Charolais Association.

They traveled to Canada, England, Scotland, France, Denmark, Hungary and Brazil and hosted an international tour in 1995. They hosted 273 people from 21 countries who marveled at everything from the auctioneer’s patter to the wideopen spaces that allow a tour bus to travel for hours without ever stopping to check passports.

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to be bred via AI and all calves were caesarian deliveries.

“The concept is different there because they’re not trying to maximize meat production.

They want these big, bulging, muscled animals so they have a lot of meat in an animal. But they don’t have enough of a market to raise a calf every year out of an animal, or keep an animal for a long period of time,” Tim said.

While it’s interesting to see how others operate, Tim and Ree are content with the ranch that winds along the Belle Fourche River, which belonged to Ree’s family. Ree wasn’t raised on the ranch—her father owned a service station and she was raised in the house in Belle Fourche they still live in, which her father built, and where they welcome the grandkids after school several days a week.

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helping out on the ranch now.

Their daughter, Angela is on the ranch full time, helping with the cows, haying and other ranch work. Their youngest daughter, Holly, lives on their ranch in Wyoming, with her husband and three kids, who are old enough to be some good help. Holly's family also runs a bed and breakfast, which hosts the hunters Tim guides each fall. Tim and Ree also have a son who makes knives professionally, and a daughter who lives in Minnesota.

Ree is very involved in 4-H and helps organize the Family and Consumer Sciences part of Western Junior Livestock Show in Rapid City every fall, plus helps with the youth at church. Tim has served on local, state and national conservation district boards, the local church board and teaches adult Sunday School classes.

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Storms Easier to Weather with Accurate Prediction and Tracking Tools

By Savanna Simmons

“We got three-tenths last night” said one. “Oh, really,” said the other, “We got 38-100ths.” This is a common exchange among the ranching and farming community, and while rain gauges are a mighty important real-time tool for determining weather, other resources exist to calculate future conditions and see current conditions throughout the nation.

Mesonet is a network of automated weather and environmental monitoring stations. It updates data every five minutes from information transmitted from stations

situated around each state in the region. The 30 stations in South Dakota relay current air temperature, humidity, and wind as well as precipitation, though not all gauges are heated, so rain fall levels are more accurate than snow fall.

“We plan to have at least one in every county, if not multiple,” said Laura Edwards, SDSU Extension state climatologist. “We have been chipping away at it, piece by piece.”

Mesonet also supplies soil moisture and temperature and thaw and frost depths.

Users may also travel back in the archives

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Thirty Mesonet Stations are set up across South Dakota, allowing folks to access current weather conditions across the state. LAURA EDWARDS PHOTO

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as far as 2015 for weather conditions on a particular date.

South Dakota’s website can be found at mesonet.SDState.edu.

Edwards also recommends National Weather Service’s mobile-friendly website, mobile. weather.gov. She said that apps can be handy, but the National Weather Service is more accurate, updating conditions at least twice per day. The website can keep track of past locations users have searched. The site also contains the official watches and warnings.

CoCoRaHS, Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network, is a group of folks throughout the nation who have at least a simple rain and snow gauge that

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track daily precipitation and post conditions based on their location.

The network began in 1998 with a few observers along Colorado’s front range and has spread to up-to-date coverage through 20,000 volunteers in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Bahamas.

For those wishing to keep a running record of weather events elsewhere than a wall calendar, CoCoRaHS allows observers to make note of more than just rainfall, and access their own records for years to come. Observers' names and information aren’t publicly listed, rather a location is posted for those posting.

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“As a state climatologist, I will look at it and say, ‘Hey, this place has been getting a lot of snow; there is potential for flooding in the spring,’” Edwards said. “Or this location is in a drought.”

She has been an observer for CoCoRaHS since 2008, when she was living in Nevada, and she is now a state coordinator for the group.

CoCoRaHS weather information is available through the website cocorahs. org or in app stores, and anyone may sign up to be an observer. The only requirement is a clear rain/ snow gauge that can be purchased for about $50 from weatheryourway.com.

The other app that Edwards recommends, and the only one she uses, is Radar Scope.

The $9.99 app can be too technical for the average user, she said, but is a thorough resource in terms of weather.

Each state’s Department of Transportation also provides current road conditions at camera locations around the state, and conditions are available online and through apps like SDDOT 511.

“Once you get familiar with the app, it is so much easier than calling or looking online,” said Rich Zacher, the South Dakota Custer

area engineer, covering the southwestern part of the state including Custer, Fall River, Oglala Lakota, and part of Pennington counties. “You can also save particular areas that you check often, and they will appear at the top.”

Within the last five years, the installation of cameras across

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CoCoRaHS, a community of weather-watchers, supplies up-to-date weather conditions on their website or mobile app.

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photo every minute, offering the most current available information, and for the 69 cameras that offer weather, they also update the temperature and wind speed and direction.

The bird’s eye view may also be found online at SafeTravelUSA.com, however, viewing online doesn’t offer current weather conditions as the free app does. For solely acquiring weather conditions, call 511.

If a Mesonet or DOT station isn’t near enough or the National Weather Service isn’t quite accurate enough, at-home

weather stations are always an option. Edwards recommends Davis Instruments. Their Vantage Pro2 weather stations are customizable and allow users to get data from remote sites with cell coverage.

The website states the weather station can “use growing degree days to accurately forecast harvest dates . . . prevent catastrophic frost damage . . . and track chilling requirements during crop dormancy.”

Davis weather stations are available on www. davisinstruments.com and start at $395.

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DON’T PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE PETRI DISH IVF a viable option for quick genetic turnover

By Savanna Simmons Photos by Jennifer Carrico, Vytelle In dairy cattle, bull calves are generally an undesired outcome, but with innovations progressing in in vitro fertilization, males can become nearly obsolete, and, in both dairy and beef cattle, sought-after genetics can become more readily available. Several IVF companies, including Trans 156

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Don’t put all your Eggs in one Petri Dish Ova and VyTelle, have been expanding with satellite sites across the nation for lab work and oocyte collection.

IVF generally wins over embryo transfer in terms of prepping cattle. Typically, IVF requires one shot to embryo

transfer’s eight to 10 shots prior to embryo retrieval. With Vytelle’s new technology, follicle stimulating hormones (FSH) are unnecessary.

“We are able to utilize nonstimulation and able to grow those into healthier embryos in

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in the cycle, from 15 days postpartum to 100 days pregnant, with two weeks in between collection, Grussing said. Most use IVF to increase genetic turnover, but it can also be a tool best applied to unique circumstances.

Dave Winninger, an AI technician near Cody, Wyoming, has been working on a project with farmers in Massachusetts who wish to get offspring for very rare and old semen to enhance traits in their dairy cattle that they feel has been lost throughout the years.

The bull calves yielded from the semen collected in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s would be unwarranted, Winninger said. The heifers, on the other hand, were highly desired, so with reverse sorting of the semen, of the 120 IVF embryos, all but one of the 50 calves yielded was heifers.

“They got to avoid having all the male calves, which

would have been a waste in this project,” Winninger said. “They got away with only one male calf. That’s the power of that technology.”

IVF can be greater in cost than conventional ET, but more viable embryos can offset the initial expenses.

Vytelle’s technology that eliminates the need for FSH minimizes the cost as well.

“It’s more economical and on a per embryo basis,” Grussing said. “If you only get five embryos, you only have the cost of five. Before, there was a lot of expense setting up the cow.”

This technology also leads to healthier embryos with less large-calf syndrome happening.

IVF is also highly useful for cows that cannot get pregnant due to age or other circumstances or that underperform with embryo transfer practices.

Such was the case of a particular cow of Dale and Nancy Venhuizen’s, of Churchill Cattle Company in Manhattan, Montana.

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fantastic. We got six or eight calves out of the very first flush, when before, we had been getting nothing.”

Dale spoke to varying experienced people in the industry with no reason for such a situation, but he gladly continued IVF with that donor to great success.

In the summer of 2018, Trans Ova reached out to the Venhuizens regarding a satellite center in Montana, where they aspirate outside clients’ cows every other Wednesday.

A typical aspiration generally yields about 20 oocytes from each egg, which are then transferred to labs by the next morning.

The oocyte is fertilized and, if viable embryos are produced, will be implanted into a recipient cow on day eight of the cycle.

An estimated 30 percent of oocytes will turn into embryos, Dale said.

The pregnancy rates in IVF are about 10 to 15 percent lower than conventional embryos, but the opportunity for more calves from one animal is an obvious advantage.

“One of the big advantages of IVF is that you can use several different sires and really spread out your risk,”

Dale said. “We’re always trying to do that, and it allows you to do a little bit of an experiment.”

IVF also allows a cow to stay within a regular calving cycle, if desired. Calving her versus keeping her open allows her to stay healthier and not become overweight, making her hard to breed and hard to donate.

Donor cows’ oocytes can be collected at any point in their cycle up to 100 days pregnant. Ideally, collection shouldn’t occur more than every two weeks.

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Making Sure Nutrient Requirements

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By Heather Smith Thomas Winter forages may need supplementation with protein or minerals. Jeremy Martin, PhD, ruminant nutritionist and reproduction manager, Great Plains Livestock Consulting, says it’s important to sample and test forages, especially this year, after unusual weather patterns in many regions.

“We always recommend testing, even on lower-quality cheaper ingredients of diet. Cost of tests, relative to potential savings, is so small there’s no way to justify not doing it.” You can lose money if you over-supplement or undersupplement, so you need to know the nutrient values of your feeds.

“Ideally, you’d test forages or silages before purchase. Any small grains hay should be tested, because nitrates are potentially an issue with them,” says Martin.

Warren Rusche, SDSU Extension beef feedlot management associate, says weather conditions this year made it more difficult to put up hay or harvest crops. “One of the things we’re concerned about is people relying on book values in terms of nutrient content.

You need to know what the nutrient values actually are,” he says.

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Janna Block, North Dakota State University livestock systems specialist, says fall is a good time to get hay samples.

“This gives producers a chance to evaluate their hay inventory and determine which group of cattle to feed which hay. For protein, cattle need a minimum of 7 percent in the diet. Below that level, microbial efficiency in the rumen declines,” she says. There’s not enough protein to “feed” the microbes

that ferment and digest forage.

Digestion slows and a cow can’t get adequate nutrients from what she’s eating, and also can’t eat enough to sustain herself and loses weight.

Forage that’s only 7 percent protein (and 50 percent TDN) might work for the midgestation dry cow, but is inadequate for cows in late gestation. “They need forages that are at least 55 to 58 percent TDN and 8 to 9 percent protein,

for fetal growth. This will also depend on condition of the cow. If you are trying to feed a thin cow to pick up in body condition she’ll need more nutrient-dense feed,” says Block.

“Cows in late gestation/ early lactation have the highest requirements—about 60 percent TDN and about 11 percent protein. This is a rule-of-thumb way to evaluate your forages and match them with various production groups. First-calf

TEST METHODS Most commercial laboratories offer standard feed tests for forages, grains or total mixed rations. Dr. Rick Rasby, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, says the most important aspects of a feed when designing a diet for beef cattle include moisture content, protein and energy.

Nutrient analyses in a lab are commonly are done using chemical reactions or extracting important compounds and determining their amount in the feed. Some labs also use near-infrared reflectance (NIR) spectroscopy. This is a rapid, reliable, low-cost, computerized method to analyze feeds.

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minutes using NIR, compared to hours or days for chemical methods,” says Rasby.

When sending a sample to be tested using NIR, it is important to identify the type of feed/forage being submitted so the lab can make sure that the right feed library is used. “This method will not accurately evaluate a full mineral profile but does seem to fairly accurately determine calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P),” he says.

NIR does not do an adequate job of measuring energy or TDN (total digestible nutrients) content of distillers’ grains. “In an NIR analysis, TDN is estimated using acid detergent fiber (ADF), which measures cell wall content of a feed. Distillers’ grains are high in fat, and NIR will underestimate energy content.

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However, NIR will adequately measure moisture, percent crude protein (CP), calcium and phosphorus in distillers’ grains,” says Rasby.

Mary Drewnoski, Beef Systems Specialist, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, says many labs use NIR tests because it’s cheaper.

“These are appropriate when testing common feedstuffs like alfalfa, bromegrass, meadow hay or native range hay. With some of the annual forages, however, the NIR tests may not be as accurate. The equation that was developed to predict values was not calibrated for those forages. Spending the extra money to get analyses with wet chemistry for those types of forages would probably be worth it,” she explains.

If you are going to take the time to sample and test your feeds, you want them to be accurate.

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IMPORTANCE OF FORAGE ANALYSIS heifers have high requirements for growth as well as supporting a fetus,” she says.

It’s hard to create a ration for beef cattle without a forage analysis since nutrient values can vary so much, even within the same type of plants. Brome grass hay could be 6 percent protein or as high as 12 percent, depending on stage of maturity and weather conditions while growing and during harvest.

“When feeding grass hay we need to know the protein level,” says Rusche. “If it’s 9 to 9.5 percent protein, we won’t need additional supplement, but if it’s only 7 percent that’s

a different story. The rule of thumb I was taught is that cattle need something that’s at least 8 percent. If it’s below 8 percent and we supplement with protein we see improved digestibility and increased intake.”

Make sure cattle are eating enough, especially in cold weather. “If they don’t eat enough, and the forage is not very digestible, we’ve created an energy deficit in those pregnant cows, and set ourselves up for poorer calf health, poor colostrum quality, and poor rebreeding the next year, and smaller calf check—

so we didn’t save money by not purchasing protein,” says Rusche. An investment in protein supplement when it’s needed will always pay off, but you don’t know if you need it unless you test your feeds.

Block recommends sampling each lot of hay, based on number of bales in each lot, and a lot consists of all the hay (same species) harvested off the same field under the same conditions within a 48-hour period. “Some people might just sample what they think is their worst hay, to know what the bottom level is, but we can’t put together a nutrition program without a

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“I tell producers that if they have never tested their forages before, this is the year to start doing it!” total feed analyses, to be able to target when you’d want to feed certain forages or might need a supplement,” she says.

“Any feed test we do is only as good as the sample we send off, so we want to make sure the sample actually represents the feeds we’re going to be using,” Rusche says. A sample should be taken from each field, and each cutting of hay, because these may be different in their stage of maturity.

“If its grass hay, we may have started at boot stage and ended up with some fields that were already headed out, and those will be very different in quality.

There may also be species differences, or soil differences in certain fields. One field may have had more manure on it, or caught more rain,” says Rusche.

“Then we must make sure we’re sampling that particular lot of hay uniformly and not just pulling cores off bales we can

get to the easiest. We need to take about 20 cores throughout that batch of hay to get a good representative sample,” he says.

The labs do a good job of testing and reporting. “Things we generally look at most closely are moisture content, percent dry matter, crude protein, TDN, fiber levels, and associated energy. These values will tell us whether the feed will be adequate to meet cows’ needs or if certain feeds could

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IMPORTANCE OF FORAGE ANALYSIS be blended together to meet those needs, or whether we need to bring in some outside supplement,” he says.

Often ranchers just do what they’ve always done. “They might give their cows 35 pounds of dry matter and 2 pounds of protein supplement, but they don’t know if they really need that supplement,” says Block.

“With the unusual harvest conditions we’ve had this year, it’s even more important to do feed testing.” A field that normally produces high-quality forage may be different if harvest was delayed (and forage overly mature) or got rained on

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Choosing the correct supplement begins with knowing what your feed is lacking.

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"If a person is trying to figure out a least-cost feeding strategy and develop an adequate nutrition program, this is the place to start." multiple times before baling.

“We published new informational material about rain impacts on forage quality.

Many people had trouble putting up hay, and the growing season was different. We had crested wheatgrass that was still green in August, and it is usually mature and dried out by mid-July. This year everything is very different.

Our growing conditions may have been better in some situations but our harvest was

not ideal,” Block says.

“There was a lot of rainedon forage, so there was loss of quality, digestibility and nutrients. It leached out some of the carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals,” says Block.

Some producers were baling hay too wet because they didn’t have much choice, and it may contain mold and mycotoxins. “I tell producers that if they have never tested their forages before, this is the year to start doing it!”

If a person is trying to figure out a least-cost feeding strategy and develop an adequate nutrition program, this is the place to start. “Some people call and say ‘it’s the same field we did last year; can we just use last year’s analysis report?’ I ask them if this year was exactly the same as last year. You don’t know how different, and we can’t put together a ration with numbers we’re just guessing at,” says Block.

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DEBUNKING Not all Dewormers are Created Equal

By Savanna Simmons Pour-on dewormers are a popular choice within the ranching industry as the ease of use is rather high, but does the effectiveness match the efficiency?

Upon digging, it’s discovered that the answer is no. Pour-on dewormers often miss the mark when it comes to clearing the guts of parasites.

While external parasites are a pest, naturally, internal worms are a far greater concern to producers for the effects they cause, such as poor feed efficiency, leading to poor breed-back rates and milk production in cows and minimal weight gain in calves.

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the effects of that, the weight loss happening, because they could chalk it up to a bad year or drought year,” said Dr. Erica Koller with Cheyenne River Animal Hospital in Edgemont, South Dakota.

There are four common methods of deworming cattle: the widely-used pour-on, an injectable format, an extended release bolus, and a drench.

Three drug classes also exist: Imidazothiazoles, such as levamisole, Benzimidazoles, such as albendazole or fenbendazole, and Macrocyclic lactones or avermectins, such as ivermectin or moxidectin. By switching drugs

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“Pour-ons that are past expiration dates, close to expiring, or have been exposed to the elements are going to be less effective than if you get it the day it was made.” for fear of resistance, but using a dewormer in the same drug class, true resistant parasites won’t be affected.

“Any of your pour-ons that I know of on the market right now are all part of the same drug class,” Dr. Koller said. “So we’re worried about resistance because of the actual drugs being able to combat the parasite, then we’re using the same drugs over and over, even if we’re switching companies.”

Often, misapplication is the greater concern with pouron dewormer than actual resistance, whereas, other methods of application ensure that cattle are receiving the proper dosage. Upon applying pour-on, it is possible that the medicine isn’t seeping under the hair properly, the medicine isn’t applied along the entire backline, the temperature is too low for the medicine to be effective, or it could wash off in weather. Generic dewormers have been found to be as effective as saline, said Dr. Koller’s co-worker Dr. 176

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Stephanie Stephens, improper medicine application can cause a re-infestation.

With all dewormers, the expensive portion of the drug isn’t the deworming agent itself, but rather the carrier that gets the medicine to the gut, Dr. Koller said.

“The longer the product is on the shelf, even if it isn’t past the expiration date, the carrier availability diminishes,” she said. “Pour-ons that are past expiration dates, close to expiring, or have been exposed to the elements are going to be less effective than if you get it the day it was made.”

There is no bad time to deworm, Dr. Koller said, but there are better times to deworm more effectively. She recommends deworming for internal parasites four to six weeks after putting cattle out on fresh grass in the spring, and treating external parasites in the fall, generally around Thanksgiving.

Similarly Dr. Berit Bangoura, an assistant professor of Veterinary Parasitology with

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the University of Wyoming, recommends deworming cows before they calve, treating calves a couple weeks after birth, and deworming cows again after giving birth.

“In this part of the country, people use pastures and don’t have cattle in all the time, so they can’t deworm monthly, or even every three months,” Dr. Koller said. “In confined areas, we would probably have to do that, but it would be more readily available.”

Worms harbor in the ground over the winter, and in spring, larvae crawl to the top of grass blades where they can be picked up by cows and other livestock, where they remain all summer long, Dr. Koller said.

She recommends deworming for internal parasites in the spring and fall for a few years, if cattle haven’t been

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“When animals are treated, I would move them to a new pasture one to two days later so they can excrete worm burden on the old pasture. It can provide the best effect to combine pasture rotation with deworming.” dewormed regularly in some time, and switching what dewormer is used in the spring and fall, using an injectable one time then a “white dewormer,” or drench, the other time.

Injectable dewormer must be kept warm, unlike vaccinations, while administering.

One brand of drench dewormer, SafeGuard, can be given in high doses several days in a row to animals who have extensive worm issues, ensuring the cow gets what she needs and is still deemed safe.

The downfall to drenching is that the animal must be caught by the head, but the upside of drenching is the appropriate amount of medicine is reaching the animal.

Both drenching and injectable dewormers can be administered at the same time if an animal is exhibiting signs of a true resistance, Dr. Koller said. Some recommend keeping 10 percent of the worms in a cow’s gut to prevent resistance.

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promote doing that,” Dr. Koller said. “I don’t do enough fecal egg counts to prove we have a resistance problem around here. Usually when I go places, I see more of a misapplication than resistance. The theory behind saving 10 percent is you’re saving a small culture of the worms that are not resistant to reinfest for next year, so that instead of the big super bugs reinfesting, the non-resistant bugs are there.”

There is no limitation on the amount of parasites that can be present, she said. No “no vacancy” sign, so to speak.

Pasture rotation can help avoiding re-infestation and resistance as well.

“Pasture rotation is always a very good thing if people have an opportunity to do so,” Dr. Bangoura said. “When animals are treated, I would move them to a new pasture one to two days later so they can excrete worm burden on the old pasture. It can provide the best effect to combine pasture rotation with deworming.”

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BRISKET Research

t goes by several names, but the outcome is the same in every instance: it's fatal. Bovine congestive heart failure, bovine pulmonary hypertension (right heart failure) and brisket disease are one and the same.

It's commonly called brisket disease because of the enlargement of the brisket area with fluid. Cattle will also develop fluid filled pouches under their jaw, abdominal swelling, jugular vein distension with visible pulsation, bugged eyes, and exhale “grunt� with some frothing at the mouth, depression, droopy ears, intermittent watery diarrhea, racing heart, and open-mouth breathing. All this leads to weight loss

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as the disease progresses. Not all cattle develop all symptoms, but they all die as a result of the disease.

Upon necropsy, brisket disease cattle will have an enlarged heart that has remodeled until is often twice the size of a normal heart, and unable to pump blood and oxygen to the animal.

Some cattle die very quickly of brisket disease, others linger for weeks.

According to one study, as early as 1963 brisket disease was reported in cattle grazing at high altitude, with a prevalence of 2-10 percent. In 1976, a similar condition was being reported in yearling feedlot cattle at lower altitudes of 3,000 feet.

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DISEASE: Continues to diagnose as it has so many similarities to respiratory problems. Due to the difficult diagnosis and usual treatment for respiratory disease, the animal is not salvageable when it's determined that it has brisket disease. Even if they haven't received antibiotics, handling the cattle so that they can be salvaged at all is nearly impossible due to stress/ movement-induced heart failure.

Some affected producers in the western plains states have experienced greater losses from brisket disease than bovine respiratory disease, so reducing the impact of brisket disease is a high priority in the industry. Research is currently underway at Great Plains Veterinary Education Center in Clay

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Center, Nebraska. Brian VanderLey, GPVEC researcher, says “We think that low-altitude and high-altitude cases are a little different. In the last half decade or so, one of the producers said that they'd always seen a few of them but in about 2007 it really came on with more cases. The effort to figure this out intensified and in 2017 we started collecting samples as part of a genetic investigation,” says VanderLey. “We made 21 trips to the Panhandle in about 11 months as we had a case control study going on in several feedlots. The feedlot would identify a case due to clinical signs and we would study the live animal before euthanasia. Then a control animal was chosen to compare it

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to. In some cases we were able to match half siblings due to the rancher's sire tag numbers.

The premise is to match them as close as possible except for the disease and we matched 102 cases in control.”

“The study included 95 black, five reds, and two redwhite faces. Of course, the population with the most cases was black cattle, but it's important to point out that the feedlot population is predominately black Angus. With the dominance of the black cattle, there

was just nothing there that was a standout conclusion,” according to VanderLey. “I think the black Angus has been hit hard by many for being responsible for this, but I'm not going to go that far.

The fact is, the population is predominately black cattle.

We have some very promising results that should be out in the near future that will really clarify the genetic factor in the disease,” says VanderLey. “Another thing that people have suggested is the speed at which we grow cattle may

be part of the problem. I think that is true of cattle that are already at a genetic risk, but if they already are, maybe they develop the heart failure more quickly as well. There's a relatively small percentage of cattle that are affected, so backing up the whole pen of cattle to protect the few puts the whole cost of production in jeopardy.”

VanderLey explains “If those cattle at risk can be identified we have a host of options available. Maybe those cattle would be better off fed slower,

“Not all cattle develop all symptoms,

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This yearling heifer exhibits the abdominal swelling found in cattle with brisket disease.

“The fact is, the population is predominately black cattle. We have some very promising results that should be out in the near future that will really clarify the genetic factor in the disease.”

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fed in a different environment, or simply slaughtered off of grass. That's why figuring out a diagnostic method is so important in our research.”

High altitude producers have been utilizing a test that was developed in the 1960s to determine arterial pressure in the bovine heart.

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Fort Collins, Colorado. It is Pulmonary Arterial Pressure testing and is generally done on yearling breeding bulls and heifers. Some highaltitude registered breeders have utilized the test for quite a few years and are able to more accurately predict which cattle can work at high altitude and which cannot, as it is a highly heritable trait.

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A CONTINUING JOURNEY OF HOLISTIC RANGE MANAGEMENT Rock Hills Ranch is as old as the hills: literally. The contours of the hilly landscape strewn with granite boulders were shaped by the last glacier that melted, carving out the drainage of Swan Creek as it meets the Missouri River in Walworth County, South Dakota.

Homesteaded by the Gottlieb Holzwarth family in 1906, the place has seen over a century of agricultural production.

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Rock Hills Ranch home for over forty years and put down deep roots, both figuratively and literally. These decades have seen their share of changes to the management practices utilized on the ranch. Questions such as: ‘How does it impact our ecosystem?’ ‘How does it impact our quality of life?’ and ‘Is it profitable?’ drive the decision-making process.

Lyle grew up just a few miles east of

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“We think there’s value in diversifying grazing species in our pastures too. Sheep eat different plants than cattle do.” the ranch near Lowry. His family roots run deep in the area; all four sets of his greatgrandparents homesteaded within thirty miles of Rock Hills Ranch. He and Garnet met while attending SDSU in Brookings, SD. “The only thing I was interested in doing was coming back to ranch,” Lyle said. “My parents, LeRoy and Vivian, bought the original 960 acres of our place in 1975. Garnet and I got married in 1976 and spent the summer here. After I graduated in 1977 we came back to stay.”

LeRoy began transitioning some of the fields of poorer quality soils back into grass and alfalfa. Lyle and Garnet purchased the ranch from Lyle’s parents in 1979 and raised their two children, Luke and Kajsa, there. Dry years in the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s prompted them to question the traditional ‘seasonal grazing’ of their pastures and look at other options.

“When you’re young you want to try something different,” Lyle said. “The way we were doing it wasn’t

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working.”

Rotational grazing was not a common practice in the early 1980’s, but Permans heard about the concept at workshops sponsored by the Extension Service. They built their first cross-fences in 1985.

Attending Holistic Resource Management workshops also helped Permans develop livestock and land management practices that were sustainable, helped to conserve water, reduce erosion, and rebuild the native prairie ecosystems that had been lost to farming of marginal soils and set stocking or seasonal grazing.

Permans became frequent attendees of South Dakota’s Rangeland Days in the early ‘90’s. This event gave the whole family an opportunity to learn more about identifying range plants and soil types and actively participate in range judging in varied locations throughout the state. Although they were already seeing evidence that their rotational grazing practices were changing the landscape on the ranch, this helped them to see the picture in greater detail.

Lyle and Garnet Perman with their family: Luke and Naomi, Isaac, Ella, Micah and Noah, Kajsa and Chris White, Jake, Anna and Myla. Not pictured is Kajsa and Chris's new baby, Piper Rose.

“Rangeland Days really increased our knowledge of what was happening in our pastures,” Garnet said.

Over time they began to see a decrease in the bare spots between the grasses in their pastures. They also started to see more of the warm-season grasses and forbs native to the prairie.

“I can show you places where we used to have a lot more bare soil,” Lyle said.

“Probably the biggest thing we noticed was an increase in the warm season plants,” Lyle said. “We started seeing more big bluestem and sideoats

grama grass.”

Concurrently, they noticed a decrease in runoff when they would get a heavy rain.

“Every time it rained hard it would flood across the lower part of our road,” Garnet said.

“This year, with our unusually high amount of precipitation, is the first time in twenty years that we’ve seen it flood.”

Thanks to better ground cover and healthier plants with stronger root systems, more moisture has been able to soak into the soil; besides reducing runoff, Permans have also seen springs that disappeared in the early homesteading days return

in their pastures.

Conversion of grasslands to farm ground has happened at an alarming rate in recent years. Rock Hills Ranch is located in the Swan Creek watershed (368,842 acres), and in this area alone over 21,000 acres were broken up between 2006 and 2012. Permans are striving to reverse this trend on the land they manage by replanting areas of marginal soils to grass, and using no- till farming methods and cover crops on their tilled acres.

For Luke, the current manager of Rock Hills Ranch, rotational grazing practices

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Lyle and Garnet Perman have transitioned the active management of Rock Hills Ranch to their son, Luke, far left.

have been a given, yet continue to be driven by a continuous learning process.

“When I was growing up we were always building fence and putting in water tanks,” he said. “That’s what I always thought grass management was about: making the cows ‘clean their plate’ so to speak, and then giving the grass time to recover. As I took on more of an active role about fifteen years ago I got to help figure out where and how long to keep the cows, figure stocking rates, figure out what to do in dry years, and so forth. Our management has changed over the years, and it is still changing.”

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officially took over the active management of the ranch in 2011. Lyle sees his current role as a helping one; while Luke is responsible for the management decisions, Lyle is available to help with everything from fencing to shipping to spraying weeds to moving cattle.

“He calls himself the ‘project manager,’” Garnet said.

Rock Hills Ranch’s predominately Angus cows start calving the end of April.

Heifers are bred to calve right along with the cows, but only exposed to bulls for thirty days with the goal of adding only the most fertile females to the cow herd. Roughly half of the cows are bred Angus for keeping replacement heifers for the herd; the other half of the herd is bred to Wagyu and Akushi bulls for a ‘terminal cross’ that will help with

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calving ease for first calf heifers and add marbling to finished cattle. Most of the Angus heifers and some steers are carried over and run on grass.

Permans also run stocker cattle, purchasing yearlings to go to grass early in May through sometime around Labor Day. This year saw some experimentation with custom grazing sheep on the ranch.

“In farming, rotating crops and having different plants on the landscape improves our soil health,” Lyle said. “We think there’s value in diversifying grazing species in our pastures too. Sheep eat different plants than cattle do.”

While Permans have encouraged and ‘trained’ their cows to eat plants that ordinarily cows might pass by, they have found a limit with noxious weeds such as

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Cattle harvesting their own forage during the winter at Rock Hills Ranch.

leafy spurge and wormwood.

Sheep, on the other hand, enjoy browsing on forbs, and Lyle was amazed at how they completely defoliated the spurge plants in areas they grazed.

“We think bringing in sheep will make our pastures better for our cattle in the long run,” Lyle said. “We confined them to small areas, roughly four acres per day, and concentrated on areas in the pasture that had leafy spurge, wormwood, western snowberry, leadplant, and Canadian thistle.”

“The sheep really do a good job on the spurge, and on reducing the canopy of the thick buckbrush patches,” Luke added. “With all the moisture, this year was a good year to try it out.”

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“People want to know where their food comes from and how it is produced,” Garnet said. “McDonald’s is one of the beef industry’s biggest customers; every year they buy nearly a billion pounds of US raised beef to serve in their US restaurants. The Flagship Farms program is all about informing and educating consumers about where their food comes from and the ethical and sustainable management practices used to produce it.”

Permans continue to share their experiences on the ranch with annual interns who come to help Luke with the daily work and learn first hand about holistic range management.

Garnet also has accepted ‘cultural interns’ who want to experience life on the ranch but

don’t necessarily have the skills Luke needs to be practical help.

“I wasn’t much of a cook when we got married,” Garnet laughed. “Thanks to Lyle’s grandma and his mom I learned to butcher, to garden and can, to cook and bake bread.”

Garnet enjoys sharing these skills with her summer interns, but says she may be done now that her grandchildren are old enough to be doing these things with her.

Management of Rock Hills Ranch is a learning and changing process that continues to evolve.

“I feel like I haven’t been able to do the same thing twice,” Luke said. “That’s probably because no two years are exactly the same. Managing a rotational grazing system is sometimes characterized

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Left: The Perman family's sustainable management practices are preparing Rock Hills Ranch for a sixth generation of Permans to live and make a living on the land. Right: Cattle grazing cover crops on Rock Hills Ranch.

by just being able to manage the chaos and then mark the differences you notice. We have definitely been able to extend how long we can graze by saving fresh pastures for the cattle to graze in the fall. We usually have cornstalks we can turn them into, although this year the harvest is so late we haven’t been able to do that yet.

Sometimes we can graze all the way into March.

Originally Permans focused on grazing plans to improve utilization of pastures, with intense stocking rates for short periods followed by a long rest. Now, Luke said, he is experimenting with grazing lightly and then coming back to a pasture later in the same season.

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as solar panels,” he said.

“I’m trying to maximize the photosynthesis potential and the productivity of the plants.

My grazing plans are more complex than they used to be.

“Watching what the cows are eating is another important aspect to think about when making grazing plans. I used to think cows wouldn’t eat Kentucky bluegrass, but we’ve found they love it in the early spring and in the fall.”

Permans have been recognized nationally for their conservation and range management practices. In 2014 the family received both the South Dakota Leopold Conservation award and the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s Environmental Stewardship Award,

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recognizing their efforts toward water conservation, preservation of native prairies and natural wildlife habitat, and sustainable stewardship of the land.

“I don’t think there is any other part of ranching that has as much impact on long term profitability as grazing management,” Luke said.

“Our land is our most valuable asset. If you can increase the productivity of your largest asset by even five percent that’s huge. We ranchers tend to focus on other highly marketed aspects such as genetics to give us higher weaning weights, feed products to make our livestock perform better, or machinery that’s supposed to make our operation more efficient. These things are

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Your cowherd is the mechanism that allows your ranch to turn water, soil and sunshine into the means to sustain your family. The efficiency of that mechanism largely determines your success. MacDonald Ranch Salers and Optimizers are genetically fine-tuned to be the most efficient forage harvesters you can put in your pasture.

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Above: Sheep custom graze on Rock Hills Ranch, summer 2019. Lyle said the sheep were highly effective for the control of broadleaf weeds such as leafy spurge and wormwood, and enjoyed browsing woody plants such as Western Snowberry and leadplant.

The sheep were confined to small areas, perhaps four acres at a time, to have a high impact on these plant species. Right: Cattle harvesting their own forage during the winter at Rock Hills Ranch.

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PLASTIC PLASTIC This piece of plastic netwrap was found in a pasture where old netwrap was tangled in the soil and roots of the grass. A cow or calf apparently picked it up, chewed it up a bit and spit it out, as there is the presence of chewed grass in it.

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BY JAN SWAN WOOD You're out feeding your cows on a winter day when you notice a cow that just doesn't look right. She's big bellied, doesn't seem to have much appetite, yet her nose is wet and eyes are clear. You can see by her tag that she's a six-year-old, right in the prime of her life. There are no real symptoms that you can doctor her for, so you decide to just keep an eye on her. Days pass and she gets thinner and thinner, until finally you put her in the corral to give her a little extra help. In a few weeks, despite ample good feed, she dies. You have a couple more cows that are losing weight and acting similarly, so you call the vet out to do a necropsy, hoping to prevent any more losses if you can learn what

you're dealing with.

The vet opens the cow up and in the rumen is a sodden mass of what turns out to be netwrap or plastic twine, all mixed with the little bit of hay that she had eaten in her last days. The other cows with similar symptoms, plus that bull you spent so much on several years ago, are headed down the same road, and you can't do anything about it.

This is the new “hardware disease,” which should be called “plastic disease,” due to the volume of plastic twine and netwrap that are used in baling hay. Even the biodegradable twine that some have started using as an alternative will cause the same problem once it's ingested. It only breaks down in ultraviolet light, so

once it's out of the sunshine, it stops dissolving. It will, however, break down and no longer be a threat if it is on the ground, unlike plastic twine and netwrap, which remain in the environment indefinitely.

Pulling netwrap or twine off of round bales is time consuming and difficult, especially in country where it will become iced onto the bales.

Sometimes yards of it will be frozen to the hay and is left on the ground under the hay when it is rolled out. The theory is that the cows will eat the hay off of it, but, if you can't pull it loose with your fingers, they can't pull the hay loose with their tongues. When that happens, they get large pieces of netwrap ingested due to the surface area and length. Once

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Above: Spooled netwrap. STOCK PHOTO Right: Dr. Rink, DVM, of Midwest Ag Services, removed this 18 pound piece of netwrap from an eight year old cow. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIDWEST AG SERVICES

they get it in their mouth and swallow once, they can't spit it out.

Feeding in bale feeders is another place that twine and netwrap either are left on the bale to prevent waste, or not all of it is removed for various

reasons. The bale feeder gets moved and the plastic is left on the ground in the lots, where cattle can try to pick hay out of it, eat weeds growing up through it, or baby calves just have to pick it up to taste it, and it's in them.

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People who use bale processers often times don't remove the netwrap or twine, believing that the beaters will peel it off as the hay is fed. That gets a lot of it, but certainly not all of it, as the netwrap is often shredded in the process. Walking the feedground after it's fed will turn up pieces several feet long, even if only a few inches wide. It can go right into the cow when she takes a bite of hay and she'll chew it and swallow it.

Bale processing and feeding without the removal of the net wrap can lead to a high incidence of freegas bloat caused from concretions of pieces of plastic wrap blocking the cow's esophagus. It likely floats in the rumen until the cow belches and the wad of plastic becomes lodged in the esophagus, the cow can't belch, and the gas buildup rapidly causes a fatal bloat.

Even nursing calves will pick up a small piece of netwrap, and when mixed with the grass they graze, can have the

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This mass of plastic was found in a post mortem examination of a bull September 2019 by Dr. Whitlock, DVM, of Midwest Ag and Veterinary Services, Watertown and Aberdeen, South Dakota. It had caused a total blockage that led to the death of the bull. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIDWEST AG SERVICES

same sudden onset bloat and death.

Veterinarian Dr. Jim Myers, Belle Fourche Veterinary Clinic, Belle Fourche, South Dakota, says “I've done necropsies of the second stomach and it looks like a piece of burned plastic.

It stops the advancement of feed on through the digestive process. It's not possible to remove anything from the second stomach, so there's nothing we can do to save the animal.”

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Rumen microbes can't break it down, so it stays in the rumen, unable to pass on through via the small intestine. Cattle that have “mysteriously” died on pasture, when the carcass breaks down and the rumen contents are revealed, can have a ball of plastic twine, some as big or bigger than basketballs, left within the ribcage. The netwrap will also be revealed in a similar mass.

“Even grinding it can lead to impaction and isn't safe,” says

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Dr. Myers. “It still can't pass through to the small intestine.”

Grinding hay has become a popular way to utilize lower quality forage by mixing with better feed for rations. Feedlot cattle receive a lot of ground feed, and even though there are incidents of impaction, they are

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usually slaughtered before the netwrap or twine becomes an issue. Mother cows and bulls, however, due to their longer lives, have the most incidents of blockage or impaction due to the years they are fed ground or processed hay.

Midwest Ag and Veterinary Services, with locations in Watertown and Aberdeen, South Dakota, have had experience with the netwrap and plastic twine losses in customer cattle in that area, according to owner Chris Bartelt. “In 2018, Dr. Rink found an 18-pound piece of

netwrap in an eight-year-old cow. In 2019, Dr. Whitlock did a post mortem on a bull and found a complete blockage. It's a serious problem.”

With the welfare of livestock being so important to producers, plus the sheer cost of losing cattle, it's imperative that people review their methods of feeding and management of the twine and netwrap that are used. The extra time it takes to remove it will pay off in the long run with fewer problems of poor doing cattle or cattle that simply don't make it.

Netwrap can cause complete blockage as it turns into large masses that can't digest properly.

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regnant cows need different protein levels at different stages of gestation. Nutrient requirements in early gestation are similar to maintenance requirements, but as the fetus grows, the cow’s nutrient needs increase. A lactating cow needs a much higher level of protein and energy than when she’s pregnant.

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specialist, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, says there’s also a fetal programming factor; the amount of protein a cow gets during gestation affects fetal development.

“Research data suggests that for cows on dormant range pastures (mature grass) we’ll see negative effects on their progeny if they don’t receive adequate protein; it has longterm consequence on those calves,” she says.

These cows need supplemental protein. “This could be about 2 pounds daily of distillers or cake, which is usually about 25 to 30 percent

crude protein. We can also feed it every other day, doubling the amount. Research indicates this can be a viable option for protein but it doesn’t work so well for energy (cows need an adequate energy level daily in their diet).”

Increasing the protein helps ruminants digest mature forage, but it doesn’t need to be daily. “They can recycle some of that nitrogen back to the rumen, but they need at least 7 percent crude protein in the diet. If forage is lower than that in protein, cattle start decreasing intake.” Digestion slows and they can’t eat

enough to maintain themselves and they start losing weight.

Pregnant cows need adequate protein so they can eat enough and have enough energy.

“What’s interesting is that we don’t see these same effects when grazing corn residue. Protein levels in those residues is below that 7 percent threshold yet cows maintain body condition, and we don’t see the fetal programming effects. My theory is that this is because digestibility of what they select when eating corn residue is higher, and they can continue eating an adequate amount. Corn husks can be up

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to 65 percent TDN.” The cows don’t decrease intake, since it’s so palatable and digestible.

“As long as producers use recommended stocking rates, mature dry cows grazing cornstalks don’t need supplement. This doesn’t hold true for first-calf heifers, however. They are still growing and need higher protein level.

On cornstalks they may need as much as 3.5 pounds per day

of distillers to meet energy and protein requirements,” says Drewnoski.

Jeremy Martin, PhD, ruminant nutritionist and reproduction manager, Great Plains Livestock Consulting says cows and heifers are very different in their needs.

“Weather can be a significant factor, and was a major factor in most regions this past year, but stage of gestation and

ability to consume feed is enough different that a heifer calf or pregnant heifer is a much different animal to feed than a mature cow.”

Drewnoski says you can’t skimp on heifers; they may need to be fed separately.

“Some people may not have enough room to do that, but could put them with their replacement heifers. This would be better than leaving

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them with the mature cows.

The diet and amount of feed most people give replacement heifers would be closer to what those first-calf heifers need,” she says.

“Here in Nebraska some people have replacement heifers on dormant range, with a fairly low rate of gain, and might only be feeding a couple pounds of distillers or cake. That’s appropriate for weaned heifers and a little light for pregnant first-calf heifers, but closer to what they need,” she says.

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“It’s important to provide protein to enable cattle to get full feed intake (and therefore adequate energy) but we also need to monitor body condition,” says Drewnoski.

“If body condition is not maintaining, you may need to increase the protein, to increase feed intake. Body condition is a good gauge but some people don’t look at this until it’s too late and cows have already lost a lot of weight,” she says. It’s

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crucial to assess body condition at least three months before calving. That’s your last chance to do something to correct it because it’s hard to make a change after they calve.

Weaning time is a good time to check body condition scores of cows, since as soon as lactation requirement is removed we can drop the protein requirements. “Those cows will be better able to regain lost body condition,” according to Janna Block, North Dakota State University

Janna Block, North Dakota State

University Livestock Systems

Specialist, says protein requirements vary based on body weight, age,

environment, temperature, how far the cows have to walk to water, etc. “Most

difference; it takes a lot more protein

and energy to feed a lactating dairy cow than to feed most beef cows, and some beef cows give more milk than others, and must be fed accordingly.

“It’s challenging today to find beef

mature cows in mid-gestation will need cows with moderate milk EPD. The about 1.5 pounds of protein per day.

production target has been moved a lot,

closer to 2 pounds per day. When

today’s beef cows require more energy

In late gestation they probably require lactating, their requirements are even

higher and will vary depending on the level of milk production,” she says.

Cow size also makes a difference.

“A 1300-pound cow in early lactation

producing 10 pounds of milk requires

a little over 2.25 pounds of protein and

this would increase to almost 3 pounds if you add another 10 pounds of milk.

She’d also need more energy.” The

amount of milk produced makes a big

in the past 20 years,” says Block. Thus and protein—and more total feed—

than their counterparts a few decades ago, and unfortunately producers

don’t always have the environment/ feed resources to support that much

milk; ranchers often have cows that are drawn down in body condition, trying to crank out a lot of milk on a diet

that is insufficient. Most of these cows have trouble breeding back again on schedule.

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Jeremy Martin recommends pricing

and feed a certain type of supplement.

of-crude-protein basis, always looking

but there are not many grown in western

protein supplements on a cost-per-unitat this on a dry-matter basis, particularly with liquid supplements. “This is the

best comparison. Alfalfa hay is usually

competitive in price, if available. In some

“Soybeans are cheap in central Nebraska cow country. Depending of freight and whether or not you are set up to feed

them, they may or may not work,” Martin says.

areas distillers products and soybean meal When comparing/selecting a protein are feasible options. Some years, and this

supplement, it should be at least 18 to

competitive in price, on a cost per pound

for that product to compete as a protein

may be one, whole soybeans may be very of crude protein basis,” he says.

It often comes down to availability

and freight costs, or ability to handle

20 percent protein. “Below that, it’s hard supplement because it requires so much

volume that it won’t be cost-effective,” he says.

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“We need to look at the thin cows or young cows because most people don’t think about using a supplement before winter. Many cows pick back up on green regrowth of cool season grasses and do well, but we need to pay attention to young cows and any cow that might be really thin. For those it might be worthwhile to separate them from the herd and feed them more, before they calve again. It’s cost-prohibitive and sometimes not possible from a physiological standpoint to try to get more condition on cows during late gestation or after they calve,” says Block.

“Some producers get into calving and have a wreck because condition was not assessed earlier. The goal is to have mature cows calve in body condition score five, so we need to get them to that point prior to late gestation-then maintain body condition, rather than still trying to pick them up,” she says.

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Since 2004, the American Angus Association’s $Value indexes have been “the envy of the beef industry” according to Dan Moser, president of Angus Genetics, Inc. As improvements in technology brought about changes in the cattle market and allowed livestock to improve phenotypically and genetically, Moser said the AAA recognized a need for change.

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years ago to simplify the multitrait genetic selection processes.

Changes made to the indexes on May 31, 2019 will only continue to help cattlemen and women continue to achieve this goal, she added.

Since the updates, Retallick said AGI offers breeders the use of six indexes broken in two categories – maternal and terminal indexes. The indexes are $M (maternal weaned calf), $W (weaned calf value), $EN (cow energy value), $B (beef value), $F (feedlot value) and $G (grid value).

The first maternal $Value is $M. This is a new index, introduced to breeders at the end of May 2019. Retallick said $M replaced the previously

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d ifie r e V ue Val used indexes $QG and $YG. Retallick said $M will focus on the cow cost side of the index for producers.

She describes this index as a summary of a female’s longevity.

Retallick $M will show ranchers the profitability differences from conception to weaning and will be used similarly to $QG and $YG. $M, however, offers twice the trait count as the previously used indexes.

“I think it’s going to be a wonderful index,” said Greg

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Schafer, an Angus breeder from Orlando, California. “I think $M is going to help breeders quite a bit if they take the time to understand what goes in it.”

The next maternal $Value is $W, what Retallick calls the “original maternal index.”

Created in 2005, she said $W is fairly similar to $M, but $W analyzes four traits instead of the nine included in $M. Retallick reminds breeders cattle will rank differently on the two indexes, as $W is designed to predict how much weaning weight a calf can put

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on based on its own ability to gain weight as well as pounds added from maternal milk.

Retallick said $W was revamped in the spring in order to more accurately represent the economics broadcasted by today’s cattle market. $EN is the third and final maternal index. Retallick said this index shows ranchers how much they are saving per head per cow per year, and the index experienced no updates or changes in May. The first of the terminal indexes is $B, a $Value Retallick

“The idea is you’re breeding for profitability in your commercial operation.

That’s what we made this model around.” said was designed to help identify animals capable of bringing in a profit during the post-weaning phase of the beef production chain. This index works to showcase individual animals exhibiting high growth and superior carcasses, she said. “$B does a wonderful job of finding animals that are feed efficient, can do really well in a feedlot and hang well as a carcass,” Retallick added.

Stephen Miller, AGI genetic research director, said he and his team noticed “slight

inaccuracies” in various genetic trends emerging in the Angus industry in recent years. He believes these inaccuracies stem from ranchers inputting large amounts of data of calves in the earlier stages of growth but much less when the animals reach maturity.

To counteract this inconsistency in the data, Miller said AGI created a new “selfreplacing model” for $B that was launched at the end of May. “The idea is you’re breeding for profitability in your

commercial operation,” he said.

“That’s what we made this model around.”

While Miller said the model will combine data more efficiently, the index itself is still highly correlated to the older model ranchers are familiar with. He said the modified $B will create a stronger relationship between EPDs and take dollar discounting into consideration.

Retallick said the need for this update also stems from breeders straying away from using the terminal index to

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drive carcass merit the way it was intended.

“New breeders have forgotten that $B was always supposed to be a terminal index,” Schafer said. “They’re finding animals might do great in a feedlot and hang well but might not be the best cows.”

The new $B will evaluate the same set of traits, but Retallick said it will have a heavier emphasis on being a terminal index.

The next terminal index, $F, aims to look at the performance of an animal individually in a feedlot setting. The index does not consider yield or quality grades premiums or discounts. $G is the last of the terminal indexes and combines four traits to rank animals in their ability to produce calves that perform on a carcass merit grid performance.

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May were miniscule, but he believes the updates will make it easier to identify genetically superior cattle. While he appreciates the changes that occurred in May, he said the most exciting change to the Angus industry is coming in June 2020.

Retallick said a combined index, $C, will merge data from both maternal and terminal indexes to allow breeders to evaluate many traits simultaneously.

“The indexes have proven to be valuable to both seedstock and commercial producers over the past 15 years, but this new index will prove to be revolutionary for the commercial cattleman specifically,” Schafer said.

Commercial ranchers do not have time to evaluate their cattle on an individual basis, Schafer said. He believes these cattlemen are driven by the desire to know if their herd is consistently moving in the right

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direction, and this index will answer that question. $C will use a linear equation to predict livestock’s worth as the animal progresses through the entire production cycle, Retallick said. This will be the first index to combine the nine maternal and six terminal traits, she added.

Knowledge of these changes and $Values is key to ranchers using them to their full potential, Retallick said. She encourages all ranchers to evaluate which indexes are best suited to their own operation and its goals.

“Tailor your selection decisions to your individual breeding goals and finding the dollar values that fit your personal breeding objectives best,” she said.

Schafer said he works to produces bulls that rise to the top genetically and believes this new index will serve as a revolutionary tool for commercial cattlemen.

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ONE CALF AT A TIME Olson Livestock Foundation Builds for Children’s Futures

By Ruth Wiechmann

A century ago, a little boy sat in a tiny log schoolroom built onto his family’s home in Harding County, South Dakota, listening to his teacher read from the book of Psalms. Psalm 50 verse ten was particularly memorable to the little fellow: “For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.”

Claude Olson was surrounded by cattle on a thousand hills; the world as far as he knew it consisted of these two things. Hills and more hills, and the cattle that grazed on them.

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Claude was born to DeLos and Hattie Olson, the fifth of their fourteen children, in a little log cabin at the foot of Mount Rushmore in 1899. He was still a baby when De moved his family north to Harding County to “rep” for the big cattle outfits running on the open range, including the E6 and the Turkey Track.

Since he had so many children of his own and there were no schools in the area yet, De built a room onto his house and hired a teacher who boarded with the Olsons. Claude and his siblings

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learned their “three Rs” and soon neighboring families were sending their children to the school too. Claude would later joke that he had quit the third grade because the teacher took his Bull Durham away from him, but in reality he completed his schooling through the eighth grade. He attended eighth grade twice because by then the family was going to a different school and he had to drive his younger siblings there and back again in the family buckboard.

The “cattle on a thousand hills” was the

world Claude knew, so it was only natural he should turn to ranching to make his living. He homesteaded in the Slim Buttes, and married Inez Peters in 1924. They raised two sons and a daughter while building their place and a fine herd of cattle.

Claude happened to lose a cow in the summer of 1924 and so he had her orphaned calf on his hands. He gave the bum heifer to his youngest brother, Ralph “Buck,” who took great care of his new charge, feeding her and doting on her.

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Left: A bird's eye view of Claude and Inez Olson's ranch in Harding County, South Dakota. Right: Claude and Inez Olson pose next to the stone house built by Claude's father, DeLos Olson.

Claude grew up in this home.

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As the years passed, Claude watched Buck grow that one calf into a herd of his own, and pretty soon he, too had a ranch, a flock of sheep, a wife and a family. And it had all started with that one orphan calf.

Claude watched the cattle grazing and the sun rising and setting on the thousand hills of Harding County ranch country, and an idea grew for a way to help other children grow their own herds; a self-perpetuating gift that would keep on giving for generations.

In 1947, Claude and Inez gave ten Hereford heifer calves to ten area children. The only stipulations: five dollars to cover the cost of insurance in

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case a calf should die, and the return of a heifer calf three years down the road to be passed on to another youngster.

This was repeated for the next two years, with the Olsons donating a total of thirty heifer calves to the Foundation.

Those thirty calves have multiplied into seven hundred twenty head of heifers, each being the start of a herd for a Harding County child. Claude’s idea was that by the time each recipient graduated from high school, he or she would have the foundation of a cow herd to go on and ranch with, or if other goals and dreams called, enough money to help pay for a college education.

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ONE CALF AT A TIME Reuben Olson, Buck’s son, was among the original group of ten children given a calf. Like many other recipients, Reuben is still ranching in Harding County along with some of his children and grandchildren, who also received calves from the Olson Livestock Foundation through the years.

“I kept heifers out of the first calf for a long time,” Reuben said, “Though there’s probably not any of that blood in the herd any more since she was a Hereford and now we run Angus.”

As added incentive for the children, Claude invited them

to write him letters about what they were doing with their calf and her offspring through the years. He then awarded prizes for the best letters.

“First place was a trip to the Denver Stock Show,” Reuben remembered. “I won it one year, but my dad wouldn’t let me go. I guess he didn’t trust his brother to keep track of me,” Reuben chuckled.

“Second place was a saddle and third place was a pair of boots. So I got the saddle instead of the trip.”

Although these extra incentives have gone by the wayside, the nucleus of the

Olson Livestock Foundation is still functioning just as Claude intended. Every fall, ten youngsters bring ten heifer calves to Buffalo, where they are judged and then passed on to another ten children.

The Foundation is currently managed by Claude’s grandson, Tim Olson and his wife, Laura.

“My dad, Dale, better known as Sam, was one of the first group of children to receive a calf and also the first president of the Foundation,” Tim recalled. “I received a calf in 1965. My son, Sam, and Reuben’s granddaughter, Lanie, both received calves in 1997, the fiftieth We can help anniversary of the with ALL your feeding needs. Foundation.”

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ONE CALF AT A TIME “Ag-raised children understand that if the calf doesn’t get fed it will die.

Having a calf of their own to care for breeds responsibility.”

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Livestock calf himself and went to judging school in Brookings. He does a great job for us.”

After the judge explains his placing decisions to the kids, everyone gathers at the Buffalo Community Center for a potluck meal. Names are drawn to determine which child receives which calf.

“It makes all the difference for those kids,” Tim said. “Ag-raised children understand that if the calf doesn’t get fed it will die. Having a calf of their own to care for breeds responsibility.”

During Claude’s lifetime he was nationally recognized as the Olson Livestock Foundation’s founder.

He received the George Washington Medal of Honor from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in 1953. This award was conferred to Claude for his efforts to promote the American way of life and our freedom, specifically through the Olson Livestock Foundation.

He also shared his leadership skills in other areas of the cattle industry, serving as president of both the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association and the National

Beef Council. He was a founding member and served on the board of the Stockman National Life Insurance Company, and for nearly twenty years was a member of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center in Oklahoma City.

Locally, in 1972 Claude was honored by the people whose lives he had blessed with the gift of a set of plaques that now hang in the Harding County Courthouse. The names of all the children who have been given a calf are displayed on these plaques.

“If you look at them, you will recognize the names of many local ranchers,” Tim said.

One calf can make a tremendous difference.

In Claude’s own words, quoted from an article that ran in the Saturday Evening Post: “It’s like dropping a pebble in a water hole. Each little wave starts another.”

Nearly three quarters of a century have passed since the first ten calves were given away, and the Olson Livestock Foundation is still going strong. Claude’s vision is undimmed. Cows still

graze on the thousand hills of Harding County, and every fall another ten children get a start in the cattle business.

Keira Wammen, Kajsa Brown and Donn Hett.

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One Hundred One Years in Wyoming Coal Country: Cat Creek Ranch and the Ligocki Family's History

BY RUTH WIECHMANN PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE LIGOCKI FAMILY

Robert and Joan Ligocki and their family were recognized as a Wyoming Centennial Farm & Ranch in 2018. Robert represents the third generation on the Cat Creek Ranch near Sheridan, and he traces his family roots to Poland, where his grandparents Joseph and Anna Ligocki married in 1909.

Life was tough for the young couple. Jobs were scarce and poverty was rampant. By 1911,

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they had two children, Francis and Joseph Jr. Somehow word crossed two continents and an ocean, and Joseph Sr. learned through word of mouth that there was work to be had in the coal mines of Wyoming. It was an emotional parting when he sailed for America on the steamship Main, leaving his wife and babies behind. After five or six days at sea, he arrived at Ellis Island and made his way

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to coal country in Wyoming.

Mining was very dangerous work in those days, with frequent cave-ins and explosions that would leave miners trapped or dead. There were no safety regulations as there are today, and many of these early miners were buried in the Carneyville Cemetery near Acme, Wyoming.

When the mines were at full production there were fifty head of horses and mules at work

Above: The old days of coal mining in Sheridan County. Left: Monarch church, only building still standing in the ghost town of Monarch, WY.

every day pulling the coal cars in and out of the mines.

“There was child labor used to keep the mines going also,” Robert shared. “Fourteen and fifteen year old boys were in charge of taking care of the horses and leading them in and out of the mines.”

It was into this treacherous environment that Joseph Ligocki, Sr., ventured to make a living and support his family

that was still on another continent. Joseph was paid two dollars and fifty cents for two weeks’ dangerous, back breaking work in the mines, and he faithfully sent money back to Anna in Poland.

In 1914, Anna had saved enough money to come to America—enough, that is, for her own passage. There was not enough to cover the expense of the trip across the Atlantic for

little Francis and Joseph, Jr. Anna left her two young children with her parents and left Poland to come to Joseph, Sr. in America.

It was another emotional and heart-wrenching parting.

Once in Wyoming, Anna got a job in Acme working and cooking for the miners. By 1915, Joseph and Anna were doing well enough to lease a ranch on Cat Creek. Anna had a garden, chickens, and a cow. She sold

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Left to Right: Robert Ligocki, Jackson Ligocki, Merle Ligocki, Jay Ligocki and Loren Ligocki

eggs for fifteen to twenty-four cents a dozen, and sold cream for $2.50 per five gallon can.

Joseph continued to work in the mine, a distance of twenty-four miles from the ranch. He worked all week and went home to the ranch on the weekends. He had no transportation, so he would leave home Sunday afternoon and walk the twenty-four miles back to the mine to be there for work Monday morning.

Money was still scarce in spite of Joseph’s steady job and Anna’s income from milk and eggs. For a while, they tried to make a little extra money by making moonshine.

“I have their still,” Robert said. “They used barley, plums, rye: whatever they could get hold of that would ferment.

They made it at night, hence the name, ‘Moonshine.’ A gallon of their 200 proof concoction was worth two to four dollars.”

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must have seemed like pretty good money!

In 1917, Joseph had an opportunity to buy a hundred sixty acres on Cat Creek. The price was $8.25/acre, and he borrowed all the money. This was the start of the Cat Creek Ranch for the Ligocki family.

Joseph became an American citizen in 1922. He still wanted to bring his two children to the United States but finding the finances to do so was difficult.

In 1924 they had finally saved enough money and sent for Francis and Joseph, Jr. “It must have been terrible for the children,” Robert empathized. “They were leaving their home with their grandparents—the only home they knew. They didn’t remember their parents at all.

They were put on a ship full of strangers with an ID tag on their wrists.”

In 1925, Joseph, Sr., and Anna got a telegram saying that their children had arrived in New

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York City. When Francis and Joseph, Jr., got to the ranch in Wyoming, they were strangers to their own parents. They were fifteen and fourteen, respectively, and had not seen their father in nearly fifteen years.

“Dad didn’t want to stay,” Robert remembers of Joseph, Jr., “But there was no money for him to go back to Poland.”

In spite of the trauma of leaving the only home and family he remembered, Joseph, Jr., quickly adapted to life in Wyoming’s coal country. He liked animals, especially horses, and that made the transition a little easier for the homesick teenager.

During these years there were many single men who were highly skilled in various trades who traveled around the country looking for work in exchange for room and board. They would stay in one place for a year or two working simply for sustenance and shelter.

“My grandfolks would

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Above, Bob with Winnie and Snort, and right, with YoYo.

take them in and put them to work,” Robert said. “One of these men was a carpenter. His name was ‘Grzybec’ which is Polish for ‘mushroom.’ At this time there were five people living in my grandparents one room house. He helped them build on two rooms.”

This is the same house that Robert and Joan call home today. Joseph Sr., and Anna’s younger children—three more daughters­—were all born in this home.

One travelling tradesman who came to stay with the Ligocki family was a teamster, and another was a blacksmith. In 1930 Joseph, Sr. opened a mine on the ranch with the help of his son and these travelling laborers.

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paid off, and they hit a twenty foot vein of coal. They did all that digging with a slip; a big shovel pulled by a team with handles so that a man could flip it and empty the dirt it held.

From this mine, they had coal for themselves and sold coal to their neighbors for a dollar per wagon load.”

In the 1930’s the depression hit, along with drought and a severe infestation of grasshoppers and crickets.

“The cattle were starving,” Robert said. “All there was for them to eat was a little slough grass. The grasshoppers ate everything else. The government paid people $4-5

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per head for their cattle but they still had to be put down.

They tried to salvage what meat they could but they had no refrigeration. The government also supplied arsenic dust to kill the pestiferous grasshoppers and crickets, which my dad and granddad spread with a hand spreader. It probably caused a lot of people to die of cancer.”

Through all these hardships, somehow the Ligocki’s managed to stay on the ranch and keep food on the table for their family.

“I’ve often wondered why my grandparents survived when so many didn’t,” Robert mused. “I attribute it to their strong faith

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in the Lord and the fact that they were already seasoned to going without. I’m thankful they were able to survive the ‘30’s and stay on the ranch.’

In 1935, Joseph, Jr., married Mary Legerski, a woman he met in the coal camps. They leased the neighboring Takach place from Mr. and Mrs. Louis Takach. There was no electricity and no plumbing in the house, and they did not have electricity there until 1949. After a time of leasing the place was up for sale. Mrs. Takach was now a widow and had moved to Great Falls, Montana. Not knowing exactly where to find her and only speaking Polish, Joseph, Jr., and his mother drove to Great Falls. They managed to make a deal on the place in spite of these obstacles, putting some earnest money down with an agreement to pay the rest later.

There were no schools near this home, so young Robert and his sister were sent to stay with their grandmother, Anna Legerski in the coal camps at Monarch, so they could attend the Kooi School.

“I had a hard time in school,” Robert admitted. “My Grandmother only spoke Polish, so there was no one at home to help me with English. My sister was my security.”

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where the railroad ran to carry away the coal.

“I would listen, at night, to the sounds of the whistle, the steam engines, and the coal train leaving,” Robert reminisced, “And I wished I was old enough to go on the train.”

Grandmother’s house had electricity, but no telephone and no indoor plumbing. They hauled water from the Tongue River for washing and drinking, and heated bath and wash water in the reservoir on the wood cook stove.

“Christmas Eve my Grandmother had a tradition to invite someone in need,” Robert remembered. “Hobos and gypsies knew she would feed them without any questions. On Sunday we always went to the Monarch Church.”

During the winter of ’49 a couple took shelter in the church during a blizzard. They found coal and wood and lit the stove. “They burned all the coal in the shed,” Robert said, “But they survived.”

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Today St. Thomas Catholic Church is the only building still standing in the ghost town of Monarch. Two previous churches in the area had burned down, so the members used stone for this structure. It bears silent testament to the life and faith of the mining community in years gone by.

By third grade, Robert went to a different school eight miles west of his parents’ place. The children rode in a jeep to school, and the ruts on the road were so deep the driver could let go of the wheel and the vehicle would stay on the road! It was very cold in the school; their teacher would put a pot of soup to cook on the coal heating stove in the room.

Other adventures happened at home. Robert’s brother was helping his dad hay on the Takach place, and he saw a man down on the creek. The place was very remote, so it was unusual to see anyone there. When the two went to investigate, they could see that he held a revolver wrapped in a

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handkerchief. The man was later apprehended by the law, and the Ligockis learned that he had escaped from the Rawlins Prison!

One neighbor Robert remembers was John Matzek.

He came to Wyoming in 1909 from the Polish/German border and homesteaded in the hills.

“The remains of his dugout are still there,” Robert said.

“Back then he lived in a shack on the hill. Everybody wondered why he would live on a hill. They didn’t know that eighty years later everybody would want to live on a hill! There were record low temperatures in the thirties, and I always wondered how he

survived in that little shack.”

Matzek left a legacy in the neighborhood. During the 1918-19 Influenza epidemic he walked thirteen miles to town and took medicine to sick people on Dutch Creek. His efforts saved many lives.

At one point, Matzek was delinquent on his taxes by $75.76. At the tax sale, a neighbor bought John’s place and told him to go home, and whenever he could pay him back that was fine.

At one point, the Dutch Creek Church near Cat Creek Ranch needed painting but no one had money to get it done. One day a painter showed up and

began the work, but he would not say who had hired him.

It was a mystery for many years, but at John’s funeral it was learned that he was the mysterious source of the three hundred dollars needed to get the church painted. His will gave a fourth of his estate to the Orphan’s home in St. Cloud, Minnesota, a fourth to the Wyoming Children’s Home, a fourth to Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska, and the remaining fourth to his sister who still lived in Germany.

Twenty-five years after Robert’s grandfather had opened the mine on Cat Creek, Joseph, Jr. was still working it.

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Robert described the process.

“The tunnel was timbered to hold up the roof, but the coal vein was hard enough to support itself. They dug an air shaft up through the hill from the coal.

It was very dusty in the mine.

We used carbide lamps for light.

You’d put a little water in the top so it would drip into the carbide, forming carbide gas. When the gas was formed then you would light the lamp. My dad’s job was to undercut the coal with a big chain saw that had a seven or eight-foot blade. They would drill into the coal for blasting

with a hand auger. They used black powder to blast the coal away.

“They had two methods of blasting. One with a fuse, and one without. When they used a fuse, they ran it through the center of the powder charges, and then light it. It would take three or four minutes for the fuse to burn to the powder.

They would go halfway out of the mine and lean against the timbers, waiting to feel the tremor of the blast. The mine would be full of white smoke when the black powder went off.

“When they didn’t use a fuse they would place the powder charges, lay a rod called a ‘needle’ at the bottom of the hole they drilled, and then plug the hole behind the powder with rolls of paper filled with damp soil. These would be tamped tightly in place with a stick. The ‘needle’ would leave a groove.

When it was pulled out, they would light a ‘squib’ which propelled the flame along itself to the powder through the hole.

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next day to go in and try again.”

The mine site is still visible today at the Cat Creek Ranch, and Robert has preserved some of the tools used by his father and grandfather in the mine.

“You can still see the coal slag on the ground near the entrance,” Robert said.

Life was not all work for the Ligocki family, though.

“Music was a great thing in our family,” Robert shared. “In 1959 my brother-in-law and a friend and I started a country western and polka band. We performed all over the area in community halls and bars.

Folks had no TV then, and little access to radio so live music and dances were a regular form of entertainment.

“We were playing out at the Kearny Hall and this attractive lady walked in…”

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The rest was history, as they say. Robert and Joan married in 1966. They raised three sons on the ranch where Robert’s grandparents carved out a living a century ago. Robert and Joan also served as foster parents for over twenty years, sharing their hearts and home with over thirty children ranging from infants to teenagers.

“The ranch environment is the best therapy for troubled children,” Robert believes. “The jobs they learned to do gave them self-worth.”

Today, Robert and Joan still live in the same house that Joseph, Sr. and Anna Ligocki lived in. It has been added onto a few times, but the original structure is still home to the Ligocki family.

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have come and gone over a century, Robert preserves the tradition of feeding with a team of draft horses.

“We’re one of the last ranches in the area to use a team for feeding,” Robert said. “A lot of ranches aren’t set up for teams because there’s a long distance between the feed and where the cattle are. When we get snow and mud, a team works well for us. They don’t tear up the ground and they can get places you couldn’t go otherwise. My grandfolks used teams. I find it relaxing to feed with a team; that’s my enjoyment.”

Robert shares his passion with his community, taking his Belgians to parades and funerals, and helping to educate local school children by giving them wagon rides, explaining how beef is produced on the

ranch, showing them an old chuck wagon, and explaining brands and how to read them.

“I have so many good memories of the place,” Robert said. “A farm or ranch is not a commodity, it is a treasure.

My son comes out every day to feed, and he’s always asking questions about how to do things on the ranch. I try to pass on what I know to make it easier for him, just as my dad slowly let me take over. He was always there to help. I’m pretty proud of the fact that our ranch is being passed down to the fourth generation. Statistics show that only about three percent of family business stay

in the family and survive to the fourth generation. The credit goes to my grandfolks and my parents for their hard work and the hardships they endured to stay here. They kept the family strong and had a good work ethic.”

As Robert makes the transition from actively ranching to turning the reins over to son Merle, he is working to get his family’s history documented for the next generation. Robert travelled to Poland in 2006 to see where his grandparents and his father came from. He also visited Auschwitz. As he travelled, Robert was struck by the names on the tombstones in

the small church cemeteries.

It was easy to see that if his grandparents had not braved the risk of emigrating to Wyoming, and then working so hard to bring his father over from Poland, that his family’s story would have likely been far, far different, living through two World Wars, the Nazi Holocaust, and the period when Communists controlled Poland.

“They were the same names as people here in Wyoming,” Robert said. “It’s unbelievable what happened there. We are so lucky to be in the United States. Our freedom is something we should treasure.”

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Gateway Genetics Bull Sale, Pierce,NE 7 Harrel Hereford Ranch Production Sale, Baker City, OR 7 Spring Valley Angus at the Farm LaMoure ND Arrowsmith Red Angus Bull Sale, Bassett Livestock, Bassett, NE 7 Campbell Red Angus Bull Sale at Mobridge Livestock, Mo7 bridge, SD 7 Caroway Red Angus sale, Lake Benton, MN 7 Clear Creek Angus Production Sale, Chinook, MT 7 Hojer Ranch Annual Gelbvieh & Balancer Production Sale, Lake 7 Preston, SD 7 Kester Herefords Bull Sale, Atkinson, NE 7 Styles Angus Bull Bull Sale at the farm, Brentford, SD 8 Vision Angus Bull Sale, North Platte, NE 8 Apex Angus Bull Sale, at the ranch, Valier, MT 9 Doll Ranch Charolais & Simmental bull sale, Kist Livestock, 9 Mandan, ND 9 Macholan Angus Sale, Columbus, NE 9 Nansels Flying N Ranch Angus sale, Miles City, MT Ridl Angus Farms Dickinson ND sale at Stockman’s Livestock 9 Dickinson ND 9 Sandhill Red Angus Bull Sale, Sidney, MT Schutte & Sons Polled Herefords Production Sale, Guide Rock, 9 NE 9 Warner Beef Genetics "Genetic Investment" Bull Sale, at the 10 ranch, Arapahoe, NE 10 Bruns Angus Farm Bull Sale, at the Farm, Madison SD 10 Gaaskjolen Gelbvieh Ranch sale, Lemmon, SD Hall Ranch Angus Production Sale, Bassett, NE 10 Ox Bow Ranch Angus Bull Sale, Wolf Creek, MT 10 Pederson Broken Heart Ranch Red Angus Production Sale, at the ranch, Firesteel, SD 10 Bieber Red Angus "Bieber Fever" sale at the ranch, Leola, SD 10 Dave Fuoss Angus Ranch sale at the Ranch, Draper, SD 10 Infinity Angus Bull Sale, Glasgow, MT 11 Keyes Angus Production Sale, Springfield, NE 11 Pokorny Red Angus Sale, Bassett, NE Southerlin Farms Red Angus Production Sale, Stevensville, MT 11 Split Diamond Ranch Angus Bull Sale, Dillon, MT 11 Chimney Butte Ranch Annual Production Sale, Kist Livestock, Mandan,ND 12 Diamond Peak Cattle Co Bull Sale, Riverton, WY 12 Eichacker Simmental , at Eichacher sale facility, Salem SD 12 Reminisce Angus Bull Sale, Dillon, MT 12 Sandmeier Charolais Annual Bull Sale, at the ranch, Bowdle, SD 12 Bulls of the Bitterroot Bull Sale, Stevensville, MT Bussmuss Angus Production Sale, at the ranch, Mitchell, SD 12 TRI-STATE LIVESTOCK NEWS

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Dubas Cattle Co. Angus Bull Sale, Fullerton, NE Keller Broken Heart Simmental Bull sale at the ranch, Mandan, ND Lazy JB Ranch Angus Bull Sale, Montrose, CO Lucky 7 Angus Bull Sale, Riverton, WY Mason Angus & SimAngus Bull Sale, Broken Bow, NE Ravine Creek Ranch Herefords Bull Sale, Huron, SD Redland Red Angus Production Sale, Hysham, MT SEGA Gelbvieh Annual Bull Sale, Pierce, CO Thorstenson Gelbvieh & Angus sale at the ranch, Selby, SD Wilde Angus/Aufforth Charolais Annual Bull Sale, Shevlin, MT 4M Angus Sale, Blue Hill, NE RBM Livesock sale at the Farm Florence SD Feist Gelbvieh bull sale, Bowman, ND Holden Herefords Annual Sale, Valier, MT Nichols & Sons Bull Sale, Chambers, NE Niobrara Red Angus Bull Sale, Stockmens Livestock, Yankton, SD Parry Angus Sale, Sterling, CO Pine Coulee Angus Bull Sale, at the Wagon Box Ranch, Hardin, MT Schauer Angus Ranch Bull Sale, Faith Livestock, Faith, SD Tegtmeier Polled Hereford Production Sale, Burchard, NE Cooper Hereford Ranch Bull Sale, Willow Creek, MT James Angus Ranch Sale, Alma, NE MacDonald Ranches Salers and Optimiser Bull sale, Kist Livestock, Mandan, ND Marshall Cattle Co. Sale, Burlington, CO Trask & Peterson Angus Bull Sale, Philip Livestock Auction, Philip, SD Veltkamp Angus Bull Sale, Manhattan, MT Wagon Wheel Ranch Angus Bull Sale, Yuma, CO Wedel Red Angus Production Sale, Leoti, KS Beck Angus Sale, Ericson, NE Heart River Red Angus & Open A Angus bull sale at the ranch, Belfieild, ND Sitz Angus Spring Bull Sale, Dillon, MT TC Reds/Weber Land & Cattle "Red Connection" Bull Sale, Madison, SD Cattlemens Cut Bull Sale, Bellville, KD Evenson Angus Bull sale, Lemmon Livestock, Lemmon, SD Fritz Red Angus Production Sale, Brady, MT Kearns Cattle Co. Annual Bull Sale, Rushville, NE Mogck Angus Farm Annual Production Sale, at the ranch, Tripp, SD Wheeler Mountain Angus Bull Sale, Whitehall, MT

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12 Wilkinson Farms Simmental Bull Sale, at C-B Sale Facility, Mont- 19 Benoit Angus Bull Sale, Esbon, KS pelier, ND 19 DBL Angus Bull Sale, Fullerton, NE 13 Brookhouser T - Bone Angus Bull Sale, Atkinson, NE 19 Jayce Shearer's, J Spear Angus Bull Sale at Belle Fourche Live13 Flesch Angus Bull Sale, Shelby, MT stock, Belle Fourche, SD 13 Huefle Cattle Co. Red Angus Bull Sale, Cozad, NE 19 Kicking Horse Ranch Annual Production Sale, Great Falls, MT 13 L Bar W Cattle Co., Production Sale, Absarokee, MT 19 Malek Angus Ranch, Highwood, MT 13 Leland Red Angus Annual Productin Sale, at the ranch, Sidney, 19 Vaughn Farms Limousin Bull Sale, Napoleon, ND MT 20 3C Christensen Ranch Production Sale at the ranch, Wessinton, 13 Scherbenske Angus Ranch Bull and Female Sale, Mobridge SD Livestock, Mobridge, SD. 20 Montana Performance Bull Co-op/Basin Angus Ranch sale, 13 SW Nebraska Angus Assn. Sale, McCook, NE Columbus, MT 13 T Bone Angus Bull Sale, North Platte, NE 20 Mushrush Ranches Red Angus Bull Sale, Strong City, KS 14 Big Rok Angus Production Sale, Detroit Lakes, MN 20 Roth Angus sale at Mitchell Livestock, Mitchell SD 14 Cowboy Classic Bull Sale, Buffalo Livestock, Buffalo, WY 20 TD Angus Bull Sale, at Rishel Ranch, North Platte, NE 14 Fast Angus/Strommen Angus, Dohrmann Cattle Co. sale, Kist 20-21 Hermanson/Kist Spring Horse Sale, Kist Livestock, Mandan, Livestock, Mandan, ND ND 14 I-29 Bull Run Hereford Sale, Sioux Falls, SD 21 Altenburg Super Baldy Bull Sale, Fort Collins, CO 14 Koberstein Farms Angus Bull Sale, Ogalala, NE 21 Carmichael Herefords rescheduled bull sale, at the ranch, Faith, 14 Lensegrav Hybrid Angus Bull Sale, Faith Livestock, Faith, SD SD 14 Lienetics Ranch Bull Sale, Beatrice, NE 21 Fred Ranch Charolais Bull & Heifer Sale, Burwell Livestock, 14 Lucht Red Angus Sale, Manhattan, MT Burwell, NE 14 Smith Farms Angus & Red Angus Bull Sale, Hay Springs, NE 21 Gardel's Angus Bull Sale, Kearney, NE 14 Thousand Hills Angus Bull Sale, Three Forks, MT 21 Grays Angus Ranch Bull Sale at the ranch, Harrison, NE 14 ZumBrunnen Angus Bull Sale, Lusk, WY 21 J & J Sonstebo Angus Bull Sale, Wallace, NE 15 E D Angus Bull Sale, Ashby, NE 21 Milk Creek Reds Red Angus Sale, at the ranch, Plevna, MT 15 Hanneken Angus Bull Sale, Pierz, MN 21 Open 8 Genetics Simmental and Sim Angus bull sale, Braodus, 16 Baxter Angus Farm Bull Sale, at the farm, Rockham, SD MT 16 Flatwater Gang Red Angus bull sale, One Box Convention 21 White Angus Ranch & Raymond Lee Angus Bull Sale at, BowCenter, Broken Bow, NE man Livestock, Bowman ND 16 Sun River Reds Red Angus Bull Sale, Great Falls, MT 23 Axtell Cattle Co. Sale, Anton, CO 16 TLC Angus Bull sale, Mandan, ND 23 Bridle Bit Simmental bull sale, Walsh, CO 16 Van Beek Angus bull sale. Mobridge, SD 23 Cole Creek Angus Bull Sale, Columbus, MT 16 Westwind Genetics Angus Bull Sale, Lewistown, MT 23 Feddes / C-T Red Angus Sale, Manhattan, MT 17 Bartels Angus Bull Sale, Riverton, NE 23 Freouf Angus Sale, Ericson, NE 17 Blevins Angus Ranch Production Sale, Missoula, MT 23 Hager Cattle Co. Limousin Bull Sale, Kist Livestock, Mandan, ND 17 Green Mountain Red Angus bull sale, Three Forks, MT 23 Larson Ranch Angus sale, Forsyth, MT 17 Nelson Red Angus Bull Sale, Philip Livestock, Philip, SD 23 Leachman of Colorado Bull Sale, Fort Collins, CO 17 Open Gate Ranch Simmental Sale, Simms, MT 24 Bar JV Angus Sale, Fariview, MT 17 Quirck Land & Cattle Co. Sale, Hastings, NE 24 C - B Charolais Production Sale, Montpelier, ND 17 Roberts Angus Bull sale, Kist Livestock, Mandan, ND 24 Frenzen Polled Herefords Production Sale, Fullerton, NE 18 Ernst Herefords Bull Sale, Atkinson, NE 24 Hall Stock Farm Bull Sale, at the ranch, Berthold, ND 18 Klompien Red Angus Bull Sale, Manhattan, MT 24 Schmidt Angus Ranch Bull Sale, Dickinson, ND 18 Stevenson Angus Bull Sale, Hobson, MT 24 Slovek Ranch Angus & Angus Plus Bull Sale, Philip Livestock, 18 Wagner Charolais Sale, Sterling, CO Philip, SD 18 Wagonhammer Ranches Production Sale, at the ranch, Albion, 24 Top Gun Cattle Co. Bull Sale, Lexington, NE NE 25 Masters Angus Bull Sale, Chinook, MT THE CATTLE JOURNAL BEEF & BUSINESS 2020

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Northern Lites Red Angus Bull Sale, Glascow, MT Schuler Red Angus Production sale at the ranch, near Bridgeport, NE Vermilion Ranch Commercial Female Sale, Billings, MT Brent Cattle Co. Bull Sale, Woodrow, CO Haugen/Josephson Angus Bull Sale, Kist Livestock, Mandan, ND Lisco Angus/M Diamond Angus Bull Sale, Casper, WY Schurrtop Angus & Charolais Bull Sale, at Tri State Livestock, McCook, NE Smith Angus Ranch Bull Sale, Bassett, NE Tom Varilek Angus sale, Platte, SD Vermillion Ranch Bull Sale, Billings, MT Wilson Ranch bull sale, St. Onge, SD

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28 Connealy Angus Ranch Bull Sale, at the ranch, Whitman, NE 28 Dakitch Hereford Farms Bull Sale, Ada, MN 28 Fischer Red Angus Annual Spring Fling, Harlowton, MT 28 Geyer Cattle Co. Annual Bull Sale, Magnes Livestock, Huron, SD 28 Lehrkamp Livestock bull sale at the ranch, Caputa, SD 28 Lund’s B Bar Angus Bull Sale, Baker, MT 28 Sinclair Cattle Company Bull Sale, Buffalo, WY 28 T - Heart Ranch Bull Sale, Delta, CO 28 Valley View Charolais Bull Sale, Polson, MT 28 Wakefield Farms Bull Sale, Dunlap, IA 28 Zender/Waage Annual Charolais Bull Sale, Greenbush, MN 29 Croissant Red Angus bull sale at the ranch, Briggsdale, CO 29 Harrer's Lost Lake Ranch bull sale, Great Falls, MT 30 Miller Angus Farms Annual Bull Sale, Huron Continental Commission Co., Huron, SD 31 Littau Angus Ranch Bull Sale, at the ranch, Carter SDw

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Huckfeldt/Turner Angus Bull Sale, Ogalala, NE Nissen Angus Bull Sale, Chinook, MT Schelske Angus sale at Magness Livestock, Huron SD Sourthard Ranches Bull Sale, Wheatland, WY A & B Cattle Co. Bull Sale, at the ranch, Bassett, NE Arntzen Angus Bull Sale, Hilger, MT Bar 69 Angus Ranch Production Sale, Belle Fourche Livestock, Belle Fourche, SD 2 Fox Angus Farms sale at SD Livestock Barn, Watertown SD 2 Midland Bull Test Gelbvieh Sale, Columbus, MT 3 Brozik Angus Bull & Female Sale, Winner Livestock, Winner, SD 3 Dethlefs Angus Ranch Bull Sale, Loup City, NE 3 Kammerer Livestock, CK Bar Ranch, Lambert Family Bull Sale, St. Onge, SD 3 Midland Bull Test Angus Sale, Columbus, MT 3 Pieper Red Angus Spring Bull Sale, at the ranch Hay Springs, NE 3 Roster Charolais Bull Sale, Mitchell Livestock, Mitchell, SD 3 SDSU Annual Bull Sale, Cow Calf Center, Brookings, SD 3 Spring Lake Angus Sale, Lynch, NE 3 -4 Gardiner Angus Ranch Sale, Ashland, KS 4 Big Country Genetics Bull Sale, Powell, WY 4 Brooks Chalky Butte Angus Ranch sale at Bowman Livestock, Bowman ND 4 DeBrucker Charolais Annual sale at Western Livestock, Great Falls, Mt 4 Diamond C Red Angus Bull Sale, Kist Livestock, Mandan, ND 4 Kraye Angus Bull Sale, Mullen, NE 4 Reisig Cattle Company Bull Sale, Hardin, MT 4 Southern Cattle Co. Bull Sale, Powell, WY 4 Spear J Red Angus Sale, Jordan, MT 5 Albrecht Angus Bull Sale, North Platte, NE 6 Curt Miller Angus sale at Presho Livestock Presho SD 6 Gollaher Angus Bull Sale, Cascade, MT 6 Weber Red Angus & Charolais Bull Sale, at the ranch Lake Andes, SD 6 Windmill Angus Ranch Bull Sale, at the ranch Haigler, NE 7 Beckton Red Angus Bull Sale, Sheridan, WY 7 Calvo Family Red Angus sale at the ranch, Bassett, NE 7 Coleman Limousin Ranch Bull Sale, Missoula, MT 7 Daigger - Orr Angus Bull Sale, North Platte, NE 7 Hinman Angus Bull Sale, Malta, MT 7 WEBO Angus Bull Sale, Lusk, WY 8 Dybdal Charolais Annual Bull & Female Sale, Laurel Livestock Sales, Laural, NE

8 Pass Creek Angus Bull Sale, at the ranch, Wyola, MT 9 Reich Charolais Bull Sale, at Belle Fourche Livestock, Belle Fourche, SD 9 Sonderup Charolais Ranch Annual Bull Sale, at the ranch, Fullerton,NE 9 Wulf Cattle Sale, Atkinson, NE 10 5 L Red Angus "Right for the Times" Spring Production sale, at the ranch, Sheridan, MT 10 Cardinal Charlolais Annual Bull Sale, at the ranch, Hillrose, CO 10 Red Western Red Angus Bull Sale at Crawford Livestock, Crawford, NE 10 Regency Acres Angus Bull Sale, Sidney, MT 10 Rock Lake Land & Cattle LLC Annual bull Sale, Wheatland, WY 11 Dandy Acres Angus Bull Sale, Pipestone, MN 11 Hebbert Charolais Annual Bull Sale at the ranch, Hyannis, NE 11 Hilltop Simmentals Spring Turnout Bull Sale, Worthing, SD 11 Montgomery Ranch Angus / Hansen Cattle Co. Bull Sale, Carrington, ND 11 Prairie Valley Farm Charolais Bull Sale, Platte Livestock, Platte, SD 11 Rambur Charolais & Angus Annual Bull Sale at the ranch, Sidney, MT 11 Sonstegard Red Angus Spring Bull Sale at the farm, Montevideo, MN 11 Thorstensen Hereford & Angus Bull Sale, Selby, SD 13 Bakers LEMAR Angus Ranch sale at St Onge Livestock, St Onge, SD 13 Eggelston Charolais Annual Bull & Female Sale at Huron CCC, Huron, SD 13 Garrigan Land & Cattle Annual Bull Sale, Faith Livestock, Faith, SD 13 Hebbert Charolais Annual Bull Sale at the ranch, Hyannis, NE 13 Sunrise Angus Bull sale, Faith Livestock Commission Co. Faith, SD 14 Oakwater Ranch Charolais Bull Sale, Valentine, NE 14 Thomas Ranch sale at the Ranch, Harrold SD 14 Treasure Test Bull Sale, Great Falls, MT 15 Schaak Ranch Angus Bull Sale, at the ranch, Wall, SD 15 McNamee Angus Ranch bull sale at the ranch, Miles City, MT 15 Milk River Angus Assn. Bull Sale, Chinook, MT 15 Peterson L7 Bar Limousin Ranch Bull Sale, at the ranch Pukwana, SD 16 Big Dry Angus, Glasgow, MT 17 Morgan Ranch Hereford Bull Sale, Burwell, NE 17 Pine Creek Angus Ranch Annual Angus Productin Sale, at Faith Livestock, Faith SD

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18 Feiring Angus Ranch/Ash Coulee Angus Bull Sale at Feiring Ranch, Powers Lake, ND 18 Lindskov & Thiel Ranch Charolais and Angus Bull Sale at the Ranch, Isabel SD 18 Stuber Ranch Herefords Sale, at the ranch, Bowman, ND 19 DeGrand Angus Annual Bull Sale, Baker, MT 20 Jorgenson Angus Farm Bull Sale the farm, Ideal, SD 21 Currant Creek Angus Bull Sale, Miles City, MT 21 PAYS Grasstime Bull Sale, Billings, MT 21 Rafter U Cross Ranch Angus sale at Philip Livestock, Philip SD 22 Opp Angus Bull Salt at Stockman’s Livestock, Dickinson ND 22 Wedge Tent Angus Ranch Bull Sale, Faith Livestock Auction, Faith, SD

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23 Mangen Angus Ranch Bull Salt at Belle Fourche Livestock, Belle Fourche SD 23 Prairie Pride Angus bull sale at Jamestown Livestock, Jamestown ND 24 Kuhn/Crosshair/Huber Red Angus and Simmental Sale, Napleon Livestock, Napoleon, ND 24 Medicine Rock Angus Bull Sale, Bowman, ND 25 Wicks Angus Ranch Bull Sale, Carpenter, SD 25 Wienk Charolias Annual Bull Sale at the ranch, Lake Preston, SD 27 Ma & Pa Angus sale at Presho Livestock, Presho SD 27 ND Angus Bull Test Sale, Stockmens Livestock, Dickinson, ND 28 Cottonwood Angus Bull sale, Philip Livestock, Philip, SD 28 Vollmer Angus Ranch sale at the ranch, Wing, ND

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4 Spickler Ranch South Angus Bull Sale, at the ranch, Glenfield, ND 5 Philip Livestock "Bull Day" All Breeds Bull Sale, Philip, SD 6 McDonnell Angus bull sale, Bowman, ND 7 Kopriva Angus sale at the ranch Raymond SD 7 Paint Rock Angus Spring Bull Sale, at the ranch, Hyattville, WY 8 Duppong’s Willow Creek Farms at the Farm Glen Ullin ND 9 Cody Wild West Days Horse Sale, Cody, WY 11 Wendel Livestock Bull Sale, LaMoure, ND 17 Heuchert's Willow Creek Angus Bull Sale, Hensel, ND

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LEHRKAMP LIVESTOCK .......................................159 LELAND RED ANGUS .............................................163 LINDSKOV IMPLEMENT ........................... 129 & 151 LIVESTOCK MARKER DIRECTORY........ 186 & 187 LITTAU ANGUS RANCH ........................................137 LONE CREEK CATTLE CO. ....................................124 LONE TREE RED ANGUS .......................................125 LUCKY 7 ANGUS ...............................................18 & 19 LYNN WEISHAAR ....................................................110 MACDONALD RANCHES ......................................198 MARTIN-TRUDEAU INSURANCE ......................136 MATHIS IMPLEMENT ............................................182 MATT LOWERY ........................................................225 MCCUMBER ANGUS RANCH ..............................271 MEDICINE ROCKS RANCH ..................................152 MEYERINK FARM SERVICE ..................................156 MH EQUIPMENT & TRUCK REPAIR INC. ........234 MILK CREEK REDS ..................................................237 MINERT-SIMONSON ANGUS ...............................224 MISKE ANGUS RANCH ............................................ 97 MIX 30...........................................................................199 MONTANA RED ANGUS ASSOC ........................... 87 MOUNT RUSHMORE ANGUS .................................. 4 MRNAK HEREFORDS RANCH ................................. 5 NCBA.............................................................................157 NIOBRARA RED ANGUS ........................................270 NO BULL ENTERPRISES .........................................255 NUTRALIX .................................................................260 ORWIG'S TUBS, INC. ...............................................197 PASS CREEK ANGUS RANCH ................................. 69 PENNY NEWMAN/COWBOS ................................. 65 PHARMCO-PLATTE ................................................257 PIEPER RED ANGUS .................................................... 9 POPPE CATTLE COMPANY .................................... 92 POSS ANGUS ..............................................................105 POWDER RIVER ANGUS ......................................... 93 QUALITY LIQUID FEEDS .......................................212 R LAZY B CHAROLAIS ............................................217 RANCHERS LIVESTOCK EQUIPMENT .............182 RAUSCH HEREFORD ................................................ 76

RAVEN ANGUS RANCH .........................................119 REAL TUFF INC .......................................................... 77 RED ANGUS ASSOC OF AMERICA .....................143 REDLAND RED ANGUS/GELBVIEH ...................235 REICH CHAROLAIS ............. INSIDE BACK COVER RESSLER RED ANGUS .............................................268 REYES & RUSSELL ...................................................... 96 RHODES RED ANGUS .............................................263 RIDDER HEREFORD RANCH ...............................253 ROWDY BENSON......................................................175 SAFETY ZONE CALF CATCHERS, LLC ..............145 SANDMEIER CHAROLAIS ....................................... 58 SCHAFF ANGUS VALLEY ........................................... 7 SCHAUER ANGUS ....................................................115 SCHIEFELBEIN ANGUS ...................................32 & 33 SD ANGUS ASSOCIATION ..............................38 & 39 SD SIMMENTAL ASSOCIATION............................. 84 SD RED ANGUS ASSOCIATION ............................. 59 SETH WEISHAAR .....................................................165 SINCLAIR CATTLE COMPANY ....... BACK COVER SLETTEN ANGUS .....................................................227 SMART LIC.................................................................... 57 SMITH'S SADDLE BUTTE RANCH ......................262 SOREIDE CHAROLAIS RANCH ............................168 SOUTH CENTRAL LIVESTOCK SUPPLY ...........183 THOMAS RANCH ....................................................... 85 THORSTENSON GELBVIEH & ANGUS ................ 67 TOKACH ANGUS RANCH .....................................169 TOPP ANGUS .............................................................183 TOPP HEREFORDS ...........................................60 & 61 TRANS OVA GENETICS ..........................................201 TRI-STATE LIVESTOCK NEWS............130, 204, 205 TWEDT RED ANGUS ................................................ 31 WALDO REALTY ......................................................111 WERNING CATTLE CO ..........................................245 WIENK CHAROLAIS ........ INSIDE FRONT COVER WILKINSON RANCH ..............................................216 WILLRODT MOTOR ................................................111

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NEW SALE DATE & LOCATION Wednesday, February 5, 2020 1:00 PM at the Ressler Ranch Cooperstown, ND

Offering: • • • •

40 Yearling Bulls Bred Heifers 50 Commercial Replacements Choice of Flush Sisters

(Roughrider x Y539)

Offspring Sired By: • • • • •

Roughrider Regiment Super Charger Full Measure Legendary

www.ResslerRanch.com

Ryan 701-797-7212 | Meghan 701-797-7213

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MARCH 25, 2020 |

ANNUAL BULL SALE

| 3 P M C S T | AT T H E R A N C H

SELLING

Mc Cumber Titanium 5005 #18233036

He has been an outstanding sire. He consistently sires cattle with added muscle shape and natural thickness. His first daughters in production are outstanding.

130 yearling bulls 40 yearling heifers and 20 commercial yearling Angus heifers.

Large group of heifer bulls selling.

1000 mile free delivery

For 3 generations we have

Mc Cumber Tribute 702 #18844381

An outstanding calving ease sire with plenty of performance. Used in South America for his ability to sire progeny that are born easily and still perform on a forage diet. First progeny sell in 2020

focused on maternal function in the cowherd and breeding cattle that are adaptable and profitable for commercial cattlemen. We believe our cowherd makes the difference. We will offer the most consistent set of bulls to date with added length, depth and muscle Mc Cumber Steadfast 635 # 18532396

Sires soft made, big bodied, high performance cattle with excellent foot quality. His daughters look exceptional at this point. His pathfinder, donor dam never misses.

shape. It is a high performing set of bulls that are bred to thrive in any environment.

Mc Cumber Armour 7148 #18844424

Maternal brother to Steadfast. Armour sires sharp, long bodied, heavy muscled progeny with extra balance and style. His first sons sell in 2020

For More Information Matt Tastad 701/246-3847 or 701/871-1072 Chuck Tastad 701/246-3366 or 701/871-9800 email: mccumber@utma.com www.mccumberangus.com OCC Tremendous 619T #15992634

A time-tested sire that we have gone back to. He consistently sires light birth, heavy weaning progeny that excel in a forage environment. His daughters are exceptional.

8673 37th Ave Rolette, ND 58366

OCC Zodiac 655Z #17715632

A new sire for us and a popular sire group at Ohlde Cattle Company. He sires extra length, depth and muscle. ET sons sell out of Miss Wix 2003 of Mc Cumber and Miss Wix 2012 of Mc Cumber.

Cowherd known for outstanding maternal traits | These cows represent the type of females that produced this set of bulls.

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PRACTICAL • PREDICTABLE • PROVEN

3.28.20

ANNUAL PRODUCTION SALE ARRIVE ALIVE CALVING EASE HERD BUILDER SALE Featuring Calving Ease and Maternal Profit Maker Bulls Buffalo Livestock Auction • Buffalo Wyoming

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