The North Carolina Angus Association’s Down East Sale was held Saturday, November 6, 2010 at the Sampson County Livestock Arena in Clinton, North Carolina.  A big thank you goes out to Roy Outlaw committee chairman, and the entire Down East Sale committee for bringing together a great group of consignments.

Friday was a beautiful fall day.  Cattle were received on Friday and most everything was in by late afternoon.  Sale order was decided and the cattle were penned before everyone left for the night. 

Saturday morning was brisk and cool!  Buyers began arriving by 10 am and everyone looked over the lots in the back of the barn.  A new baby calf with lot 40 from Shuffler Farms greeted us.  We had 39 lots, 31 registered Angus cattle and 8 lots of purebred cattle.   We also a donkey for sale.

Top selling cow/calf pair was lot 6X & 6XA a substitute lot consigned by Blue Q Ranch in Troy.  She was sired by Garden’s Prime Star and a daughter of BR Midland.   She sold with a heifer calf sired by SVF Fortunate.  The pair sold for $2,100.00 and was purchased by Earl Sullivan, Sullivan Farms, Lucama, NC.  27 lots of cow/calf pairs averaged $1365.

Six lots of bred cows averaged $1,392.  Two lots (22 & 23) consigned by Marty Rooker, Smith Creek Angus, Warrenton, brought $1,575 each.  Lot 22 was SAFE to GAR Cimarron due in November and lot 23 was SAFE to SCAF Retail Product 774 due in December.  Creston Mills, Dick Mills Farm in Ayden, NC, purchased them both.

Keaton Vandemark, Vandemark Angus, Spring Hope consigned five lots of bred heifers, 
they averaged $1,970.  Lots 28, 29 & 30 brought $2,150 each and were purchased by Carlton Lamm, Lamm Livestock in Dunn.  They were all SAFE to Vandes 7508 of Emblazon, the Vandemark herd sire.

Two open heifers consigned by SEE Performance Genetics, Beulaville brought $1,800 each and were purchased by Bear Swamp Angus, B.L. Grady of Faison.  SEE is made up of John Smith, Pink Hill and Dexter & Nick Edwards of Beulaville.  They were two flush sisters born in October 2009 from their embryo program sired by B.C Matrix out of a GAR Rito 6I6 4792 daughter. 

Volume buyers were Carlton Lamm, Lamm Livestock who bought 5 lots for $9,850 and Braxton Rouse, Rouse Hog Farm, Seven Springs; who bought 7 lots for $9,050.  Thank you to these buyers and everyone who purchased cattle.

Total sale gross was $58,720.00, and averaged $1,466 per lot.

Thank you to the consigners and the buyers for making this another successful sale.  The consigners worked hard to bring some of the most current and top genetics to the sale. Again this year E.B Harris auctioned the sale.  Thanks to Joe Hampton for the color comments; to Steve McPherson for being ring man and to Robin Hampton for working the box.  Thanks to Bettie Garner, Brenda Vinson, Donna and Chelsea Outlaw for helping clerking the sale.  The North Carolina Junior Angus served lunch.

A thank you goes out to everyone who helped the Down East Committee with this year’s sale.  Plans are already underway for 2011.  So make plans now to be in Clinton the first Saturday in November.