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5 Bull Drive | Columbus, MT 59019 TEST | 2018 SALE APRIL 5-6 MIDLAND BULL Genetics Made For Ranchers, By Ranchers. Ef ciency | Balanced Performance Complete & Comprehensive Data The Final Sort Top 5% of 20,000 matings AMERICA’S LARGEST SOURCE OF EFFICIENCY TESTED BULLS BULL SALE APRIL 5, 2018 • 200 Bulls Complete Performance Data - No Nonsense Bulls are developed on a high roughage ration for www.MidlandBullTest.com SALERS • SIMMENTAL • RED ANGUS • SOUTH DEVON • HEREFORD • AMERICAN ABERDEEN Free Delivery up to 800 miles - buy 10 or more sound practical bulls that are ready to go to work! bulls and get free delivery anywhere in the It’s proven, by selecting for ef ciency (RFI), an Continental US. improvement in the cowherd and feedlot of greater APRIL 6, 2018 • 500 ANGUS Bulls 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] • 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 56 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 2018 th Red Angus • South Devon April 5 Hereford • Salers • Simmental American Aberdeen This Report contains all th breeds and all bulls April 6 Angus Angus Lots 1 - 701 Sale Starts at Red Angus 750 - 812 11:00 am Simmental 825 - 835 both days South Devon 850-899 Salers 900 - 961 Auctioneers Hereford 970 - 990 Joe Goggins office 406/ 373-6844 or cell 406/ 861-5664 Aberdeen 1000 - 1039 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, Gary Fike Join Us for American Salers, Dean Pike Sale Day Only Complimentary American Simmental, Will Townsend 406/ 322-9911 Dinner and North American South Devon, Jim Brown Entertainment American Aberdeen, Dean Pike Little Metra in Columbus, MT Wednesday, April 4 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 High Country Cowboys Don Ravellette, Cattlemen’s Invite, 605/ 685-5147 Thursday, April 5 Dwayne Dietz, Western Ag Reporter, 406/ 672-8500 6:00 pm Social 6:30 pm Steak Fry Curt Cox, Wyoming Livestock Roundup, 307/ 630-4604 Kyle Shobe and the Bill Angel, Wyoming Livestock Roundup, 970/ 396-5594 Walk ‘Em Boys 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. Sale day orders bulls are performed by Bryan Roe, DVM, document average trump. daily gain, genetic Shepherd, MT. Scrotal measurements for Terms Are Cash – When making settlement, group 1 (*) were taken mid-February. expression, please leave specific instructions for Group 2 (**) were taken the first week of phenotypic transfer and shipping. Each animal will March. All are published as actual size. strengths, etc. Two be sold to the highest bidder with the For projected sale date size, add 1 to 1.5 cm of the primary auctioneer settling any dispute as to bids. per month. These bulls sell guaranteed to purposes of Midland Announcements made from the auction be breeders via natural service. Bull Test is to focus block take precedence over any printed Efficiency Test – Bulls are denoted as *(group material. Livestock will be cared for on soundness and 1) or **(group 2). RFI is given in this following the sale at the buyer’s risk and catalog. Complete efficiency test results are fertility. The fall responsibility. available at www.MidlandBullTest.com. out for fertility is Certificate of Registry – A transferred 1/3 Revenue Sharing Semen Interest – Some relatively low in our certificate of registry will be furnished breeders have elected to retain semen test partially due to the Buyer for each animal after interest in their bulls. The buyer will have to the ration fed. settlement has been made. full possession and full salvage value. The The high level of seller, if he/she desires to collect semen, Health – All cattle will be sold according will do so in the off-breeding season roughage coupled to the health regulations of the State of at the seller’s expense and the buyer’s with the low level Montana. Buyers must be aware of any convenience. If the buyer opts to participate of grain promotes variations between the laws of the states. in semen sales, then buyer and seller will ultimate soundness All bulls have tested BVD-PI negative and work out a mutual agreement. Over the years it has been Midland’s experience that in the feet and legs are tested negative for known genetic defects as detected by pedigree per most sellers do not exercise this option on and also aids in respective Associations as of 2/28/15. bulls going into commercial herds. attaining the highest Furthermore, bulls sold into states that Delivery – Cattle purchased in our sale will levels of fertility. require trich test will be trich tested after be delivered to CENTRAL locations, such as Our bulls walk sale and trucking arrangements will be stockyards, in the lower 48 states Please see through the sale in made in short order. page 9 for our delivery policy, map and costs. fit using condition Everyone attending the sale does so at their ready to go to work. own risk. The owners and Midland assume no The importance of liability, legal or otherwise, for any accidents bulls being capable which may occur. 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 ours. Every effort guarantees will be serviced through Plains Horizon. Buyers who desire to guarantee is made to offer bulls (insure), must initiate coverage at check-out following the sale. Midland Bull Test functional bulls that is offering to pay ½ of the cost of a 6-month policy covering mortality and loss of use. transition into the The total cost of the coverage is 8.5% of the purchase price to be split between Midland Bull Test and the buyer (A minimum of $200 or minimum $100 to Midland and $100 to life of a successful buyer). We think that it is a very fair and complete coverage and it will be the only loss and fit asset to your of use breeding guarantee offered by Midland Bull Test. Special consideration for bulls operation. standing at a collection facility. - 2 - Dear Friends— With anticipation, excitement and humility, the Williams and McDonnell Families personally invite you to join us for the Midland Bull Test Sales - April 5 & 6, 2018.