2020 Eagle Pass Ranch Spring Bull and Maternal Edge™ Female Sale

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Eagle Pass Ranch Headquarters

Highmore, South Dakota

February 17, 2020

Auctioneer: Seth Weishaar

Sale Report: AJ Munger

Sale Averages:

201 Total Bulls $5,046

87 Black Balancer® and Gelbvieh Bulls $3,862

6 Red Balancer® Bulls $5,708

87 Black SimAngus™ and Simmental Bulls: $5,445

15 Red Angus Bulls: $8,667

6 Angus Bulls: $6,708

7 Registered Bred Heifers: $2,371

146 Commercial Bred Heifers: $1,818

Top Selling Balancer® Bull:

Lot 126 – $11,000 EGL Guinness G046. Connealy Guinness x EGL Lock and Load X415. Robert and Jeremy Haselhorst – Mansfield, SD.

Top Selling Red Angus Bull:

Lot 193 – $70,000 EGL Guidance 9117. McD Spur 6111 x Brown JYJ Redemption Y1334. Sold to 9 Mile Ranch – Touchet, WA, TJS Red Angus – Lodge Grass, MT, Jeffries Red Angus – Checotah, OK, and Triangle Cattle Co, Mineral Wells, TX.

Top Selling SimAngus™ Bulls:

Lot 1 – $23,000 EGL Granite City 220G. CCR Cowboy Cut 5048Z x PA Safeguard 021. Sold to Krebs Ranch – Gordon, NE.

Lot 30 – $22,000 EGL Great Western 87G. T C A Visionary 158 x MR NLC Upgrade U8676. Sold to All Beef and ABS Global – DeForest, WI.

Lot 29 – $16,000 EGL Glacier 48G. G A R Drive x MR NLC Upgrade U8676. Sold to Stan Sears – Montague, CA.

Lot 70 – $12,500 EGL Goldeneye 78G. Basin Payweight 1682 x Hooks Shear Force 38K. Farlee Ranch, Dupree, SD

Thorstenson’s Lazy TV Ranch 39th Annual Production Sale

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Saturday, March 7, 2020

At the Ranch

Selby, South Dakota

Auctioneers: Seth Weishaar, Lynn Weishaar

Reported by Vaughn Thorstenson

Sale Averages:

113 Balancer® and Gelbvieh Yearling Bulls $4,183

43 Yearling Angus Bulls $4,005

Total: 156 Yearling Bulls $4,130

A beautiful spring day and a stout set of yearling Balancer and Angus bulls welcomed a large crowd for the Thorstenson’s Lazy TV Ranch Annual Production Sale Saturday, March 7, at the ranch west of Selby, South Dakota. Cattle sold into nine states.

Drawing lots of attention and a final bid from longtime customer Rau Farm Ranch of Selby, South Dakota, was sale topper Lot 142 at $18,000. A yearling Angus sired by Musgrave 316 Stunner, he posted a -5.22 RFI along with performance EPDs in the top 1% of the Angus breed. He also had a 14.6 adj. REA to index 111 and a 4.48 IMF to ratio 110.

Another Angus, Lot 148, commanded a bid of $12,500 from JK Angus at Montrose, South Dakota. Sired by KCF Bennett Boulder he gained 4. lbs. per day for an adj. YW of 1347. He also scanned an impressive 6.85 adj. IMF to index 168.

Lot 93, a red Balancer topped the Balancer offering with an $11,000 bid from Hicks Ranch, Martin, South Dakota. Sired by KHR Taylor Made, he combined calving-ease and performance numbers.

Lot 4 topped the black Balancer offering with a final bid of $10,500 from John Haefner of Mound City, South Dakota. Another Boulder son, he checked a lot of boxes with nearly every economically relevant EPD in the top 20% of the breed. He also scanned an adj. IMF at 4.8 for a ratio of 149.

Another longtime customer, Larry Thompson of Glenham, South Dakota, made the final bid on Lot 151, Angus, at $10,000. Sired by Schiefelbein Eclipse 927, Lot 151 was the top-ranking Angus bull in the feed-efficiency test with an RFI of -9.72 and also posted an adj. YW of 1311 pounds.

Also selling at $10,00 was Lot 46, a black Balancer out of Musgrave 316 Stunner, chosen by Plateau Gelbvieh of Peetz, Colorado. Lot 46 combines performance EPDs in the top 5% of the breed along with feed efficiency in the top 25% of the test group.