2024 Midwest Beef Cattle Consultants, LLC 21st Annual Bull and Female Sale Report

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Reported by Dr. W. Mark Hilton

Midwest Beef Cattle Consultants, LLC held their 21st annual open house featuring the “opening day” of their bull sale season. 37 Balancer®, Gelbvieh, and Gelbvieh-composite bulls sold to buyers from six states for an average of $5,441.

High selling bull at $10,800, for full possession and 50% semen interest was MBCC Edey 55L selling to Ryan’s Prime, Jeff Ryan at Cresco, Iowa. This purebred, homozygous black, homozygous polled son of DCH Hille Stock Options D410 is the only Gelbvieh bull in the breed with top 20% CED, 3% BW, 5% WW, 10% YW, 1% STAY, and 10% MARB. He is also top 1% for HP, $Cow, and FPI™. “Edey” will be a combination bull where females will be retained, and steers will sell to his customers wanting prime grading beef.

The second highest selling bull was MBCC Top Gun 51L a 72% Gelbvieh bull out of DCH Triple K Husker G413. This homozygous black, homozygous polled bull sports an EPD spread of 16 for CED and 126 for YW. He is also top 10% for marbling. Top Gun sold to first-time buyer Carl Propp, DVM from Adair, Oklahoma, for $10,700.

John Garrett, another first-time buyer from Louisburg, North Carolina, selected MSCM Smooth Operator 38L from M5 Ag Services/Chris and Jordan Muegge. This 75% Gelbvieh son of DCH Triple K Husker G413 out of a first calf Civil War E92 daughter sold for $8,700. He is another calving ease bull with outstanding growth, stayability, and marbling.

Long-time buyer Chris Tempel of St Croix, Indiana, selected MBCC Hercules 59L at $8,300. This MBCC Reward 4F son is out of the highest WW and YW Balancer female in the breed and the top 1% for both WW and YW.

Joe Melton, DVM of Diamond M Land and Livestock selected MUEG Mass Appeal 43L at $8,000 for his commercial herd in Harrison, Arkansas. This “Stock Options” son was the highest stayability bull in the sale at 24 (top 1%). He goes back to one of the foundation cows at MBCC, “MBCC 6J”. Dr. Melton has been buying bulls from us for 10 years and he and his clients selected nine bulls to take back to northwest Arkansas.

In the female sale, Riedie Cattle Farms sold two cow/calf pairs and one bred heifer for $3,500 each. Buyers were Mark Welp of St. Anthony, Indiana, and Adam Fogg from Greensburg, Indiana. Nine open Balancer and Sim-An-Gelbvieh heifers from M5 and Blue Ridge Farms/Tom and Janice Brooks averaged $2,500 with long-time customer Jim Lankford, Martinsville, Indiana, taking home four as did first-time buyers Jerry and Jane Gettelfinger of Depauw, Indiana.

Fiest Gelbvieh 36th Annual Bull Sale Report

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Reported by: Scott Dirk, Tri-State Livestock News

Sale Date: March 11, 2024

Location: Bowman Livestock Marketing, Bowman, North Dakota

Auctioneer: Scott Weishaar

32 yearling bulls averaged $4,166.

Randy and Carol Fiest, along with Jess and Jimi and family, held the 36th Annual First Gelbvieh Sale at Bowman Livestock Marketing. Great set of growthy, thick Gelbvieh and Balancer® bulls. This was a standout set of bulls, with a pen of red bulls that got some extra attention.

Top bull was Lot L57, April 12, 2023, black Balancer son of Whites Impressive 703 x Lees Upshot to Charles Verhulst, Reva, South Dakota, at $7,000.

Lot L10, March 25, 2023, black Balancer son of Whites Windy 847 WAR x JOB Danell Grand Slam 23D to Zimmerman Ranch, Dawson, North Dakota, for $6,750.

Lot L62, April 16, 2023, black purebred son of JRI Secrets Out 270J470 x JOB Danell Grand Slam 23D to Gary Jepsen, Kildeer, North Dakota for $6,500.

Lot L52, April 10, 2023, red purebred son of DDGR Red Rocket 736 x Jack Top Grid 045X to Gerald Burgduff, Camp Crook, South Dakota, for $5,500.

Lot 113, April 25, 2023, black purebred son of JRI Secrets Out 270J470 x WOHL Everett Y24, Clair Janvrin, Ludlow, South Dakota, for $5,500.

Thorstenson’s Lazy TV Ranch 43rd Annual Production Sale Report

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Thortenson’s Lazy TV Ranch 43rd Annual Production Sale

Saturday, March 2, 2024 – At the Ranch, Selby, South Dakota

Auctioneers: Seth and Lynn Weishaar

Owners: Vaughn and Wendy Thorstenson, Brian and DeDee Begeman, Levi and Gina Goetz

Reported by: Wendy Thorstenson

 

132 Yearling Balancer Bulls averaged $5892

29 Yearling SimAngus Bulls averaged $5517

21 Yearling Angus Bulls averaged $6024

182 Yearling Bulls averaged $5848

25 Yearling Balancer and SimAngus Heifers averaged $2470

 

Beautiful weather, optimistic cattlemen and a solid offering drew in the largest sale crowd Lazy TV Ranch has ever hosted for their 43rd Annual Production Sale at the ranch west of Selby, South, Dakota. Bidding was active in-house and online selling cattle into 10 states.

 

Lot 109 Lazy TV Homespun L280 – Red Balancer sired by Lazy TV Homemade G420 sold for $18,000 to Diamond D Gelbvieh, Mandan, North Dakota.

Lot 1 Lazy TV Promised Land L270 – Homo-Black Balancer sired by Ellingson Badlands sold to Rippe Gelbvieh, Hubbell, Nebraska, for $17,000.

Lot 2 Lazy TV Bombshell L303 – Homo-Black Balancer out of Bombshell 204H sold for $17,000 to repeat customer John Haefner, Mound City, South Dakota.

Lot 159 Lazy TV Payout L157 – Homo-Black Balancer x SimAngus hybrid out of Lazy TV Payout sold to John Haefner, Mound City, South Dakota, for $15,000.

Lot 116 Lazy TV Homemade L295 – Red Balancer sired by Lazy TV Homemade G420 sold to longtime customer Hicks Ranch, Martin, South Dakota, for $12,500.

Lot 31 Lazy TV Old West L132 – Homo-Black Balancer sired by Varilek Historic sold to Stuecken Brothers, Freeburg, Missouri, for $12,500.