2019 Sale | April 4
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America’s largest source of effi ciency tested bulls 5 Bull Drive | Columbus, MT 59019 TEST | 2019 SALE APRIL 4 - 5 MIDLAND BULL Genetics Made For Ranchers, By Ranchers. Ef ciency | Balanced Performance Complete & Comprehensive Data The Final Sort 2019 BULL SALE APRIL 4th SALERS • SIMMENTAL RED ANGUS • SOUTH DEVON HEREFORD AMERICA’S LARGEST SOURCE OF APRIL 5th EFFICIENCY TESTED BULLS ANGUS No Nonsense Complete Performance Data - Free Delivery up to 800 miles - buy 10 or more bulls and get free delivery anywhere in the www.MidlandBullTest.com Continental US. Bulls are developed on a high roughage ration for sound practical bulls that are ready to go to work! It’s proven, by selecting for ef ciency (RFI), an improvement in the cowherd and feedlot of greater than 20% can be made - that’s $200 per calf! Can’t make the sale? Call us and we will help you select and buy bulls that match your program. 406.322.5597 • [email protected] • Selling the top end of 950 bulls 5 Bull Drive, Columbus, MT 59019 • Owners: The Williams and McDonnell families www. MidlandBullTest.com • 406-322-9911 Sale Day Only The Final Sort Steve Williams, Leo & Sam McDonnell 406/ 322-5597 • 406/ 322-9044 • Fax 406/ 322-5210 Steve Cell - Text or Call 406/ 321-7046 Leo Cell - 406/ 780-0176 5 Bull Drive • Columbus, MT 59019 [email protected] www.MidlandBullTest.com Join us on FaceBook Midland Sale and Test Location Bull Test Midland Bull Test Facility, Columbus, Montana. See map and directions on page 6. Lunch Complimentary lunch served both days. Here at Midland Bull Test, we are passionate about our history and it is Airlines Columbus: A 2600 ft., paved, lighted our goal to share our stories, as it is this airstrip, Unicom 122-8. Give us a legacy that brings our business to life… call and we’ll be happy to assist with transportation from airstrip. our enduring attention to the essence Billings: Logan International Airport of who we are and the philosophy we is served by United Airlines, Delta, maintain. This philosophy was started SkyWest and Horizon. with Leo Sr and Donna in the 60s and Accommodations that’s the way we’ll stay. So, whenever Columbus: Gits Big Sky Motel, Columbus you see the Circle Running M Brand, 406/ 322-4111 know that over 57 years stand behind it! Super 8 Townhouse, Columbus 406/ 322-4101 Bulls that we develop today must walk Laurel: the walk and tell their own story. This Best Western 406/ 628-6888 commitment provides our customers or 800/237-8483 the confidence that our “Final Sort” Sale Billings: Holiday Inn Grand 406/ 248-7701 is just that; the final sort of top end bulls. or 877/589-5095 Hampton Inn 406/656-7511 Big Horn Resort 406/839-9300 or 877/995-8999 Steve Williams, Leo & Sam McDonnell 406/ 322-5597 • 406/ 322-9044 • Fax 406/ 322-5210 Steve Cell - Text or Call 406/ 321-7046 5 Bull Drive • Columbus, MT 59019 [email protected] www.MidlandBullTest.com The Final Sort BULL SALE 2019 th Red Angus • South Devon April 4 Hereford • Salers • Simmental th This Report contains all April 5 Angus breeds and all bulls Angus Lots 1 - 697 Sale Starts at Red Angus 750 - 801 11:00 am Simmental 810 - 827 both days Hereford 850 - 879 Salers 900 - 949 Auctioneers South Devon 1000 - 1048 Joe Goggins office 406/ 373-6844 or cell 406/ 861-5664 Roger Jacobs cell 406/ 698-7686 Greg Goggins 406/ 200-1880 Sale Day Phones Breed Field Reps 406/ 322-5597 American Angus, Kurt Kangas 406/ 322-9044 Red Angus Association of America, Katie Ochsner Join Us for Complimentary American Salers, Dean Pike Sale Day Only Dinner and American Simmental, Dr. John Paterson 406/ 322-9911 Entertainment North American South Devon, Jim Brown Little Metra in Columbus, MT Wednesday, April 3 Livestock Publication Representatives 6:00 pm Social John Goggins, Western Ag Reporter, 406/ 698-4159 6:30 pm Steak Fry Devin Murnin, Western Livestock Journal, 406/ 696-1502 Kyle Shobe and the Don Ravellette, Cattlemen’s Invite, 605/ 685-5147 Walk ‘Em Boys Thursday, April 4 Dwayne Dietz, Western Ag Reporter, 406/ 672-8500 6:00 pm Social Curt Cox, Wyoming Livestock Roundup, 307/ 630-4604 6:30 pm Steak Fry Bill Angel, Wyoming Livestock Roundup, 970/ 396-5594 Nye Express www.BallyhooPrinting.com 406 • 538 • 7988 Lewistown, MT www.MidlandBullTest.com No One Offers You More Because No One Has More to Offer! Sale Order – Determined by Midland Bull Canadian Buyers – Estimated health 1 1 1 The objective Test Index ( /4 ADG + /4 NR + /4 YR inspection costs for first bull purchase is 1 of a bull test is + /4 ER efficiency ratio) and Estimated $600. Each additional bull is $150 per to measure the Sale Value. We do expect small changes bull. Midland will split this cost equally with differences of a in sale order. They will be posted online buyer for health inspection and testing. group of bulls; with current version on the bottom. Sale Fertility Tested & Guaranteed – Complete orders will be posted online prior to sale to observe and semen and scrotal evaluations on all and available sale day. document average bulls are performed by Bryan Roe, DVM, Terms Are Cash daily gain, genetic – When making settlement, Shepherd, MT. Scrotal measurements for please leave specific instructions for group 1 (*) were taken mid-February. expression, transfer and shipping. Each animal will Group 2 (**) were taken the first week of phenotypic be sold to the highest bidder with the March. All are published as actual size. strengths, etc. Two auctioneer settling any dispute as to bids. For projected sale date size, add 1 to 1.5 cm of the primary Announcements made from the auction per month. These bulls sell guaranteed to purposes of Midland block take precedence over any printed be breeders via natural service. Bull Test is to focus material. Livestock will be cared for Efficiency Test – Bulls are denoted as *(group following the sale at the buyer’s risk and on soundness and 1) or **(group 2). RFI is given in this responsibility. fertility. The fall catalog. out for fertility is Certificate of Registry – A transferred 1/3 Revenue Sharing Semen Interest – Some certificate of registry will be furnished breeders have elected to retain semen relatively low in our to the Buyer for each animal after interest in their bulls. The buyer will have test partially due settlement has been made. full possession and full salvage value. The to the ration fed. seller, if he/she desires to collect semen, Health – All cattle will be sold according The high level of will do so in the off-breeding season to the health regulations of the State of at the seller’s expense and the buyer’s roughage coupled Montana. Buyers must be aware of any convenience. If the buyer opts to participate with the low level variations between the laws of the states. in semen sales, then buyer and seller will of grain promotes All bulls have tested BVD-PI negative and work out a mutual agreement. Over the ultimate soundness are tested negative for known genetic years it has been Midland’s experience that most sellers do not exercise this option on in the feet and legs defects as detected by pedigree per respective Associations as of 3/8/19. bulls going into commercial herds. and also aids in Furthermore, bulls sold into states that Delivery – Cattle purchased in our sale will attaining the highest require trich test will be trich tested after be delivered to CENTRAL locations, such as levels of fertility. sale and trucking arrangements will be stockyards, in the lower 48 states Please see Our bulls walk made in short order. page 9 for our delivery policy, map and costs. through the sale in Everyone attending the sale does so at their fit using condition own risk. The owners and Midland assume no ready to go to work. liability, legal or otherwise, for any accidents The importance of which may occur. bulls being capable of maintaining Terms & Conditions – All sales are being conducted under the American Angus Association their condition Suggested Sale Terms and Conditions (2/21/14) regardless of breed of sale bull. and working when At Midland, we equally value and appreciate our consignors and buyers; and we are turned out is critical cognizant of the risk incurred by both. With a commitment to mitigate and minimize to your success and risk for both parties, Midland has implemented a modified bull guarantee. All guarantees will be serviced through Plains Horizon. Buyers who desire to guarantee bulls (insure), ours. Every effort must initiate coverage at check-out following the sale. Midland Bull Test is offering to is made to offer pay 50% of the cost of a 12-month policy covering Full Mortality and Accident, sickness, functional bulls that and disease infertility. The total cost of the coverage is 12.3% of the purchase price transition into the (most states) 12.8% of purchase price (ND, SD, & NE) to be split between Midland Bull life of a successful Test and the buyer (a minimum of $200 or minimum $100 to Midland and $100 to the and fit asset to your buyer). We think that it is a very fair and complete coverage and it will be the only loss of use breeding guarantee offered by Midland Bull Test. Special consideration for bulls operation. standing at a collection facility. - 2 - Dear Friends, The winter has been relentless across the Country, but sale time brings us the reassurance that Spring is here.