Out West Sale  |  Spring Fever

2008 NORTH CAROLINA ANGUS ASSOCIATION OUT WEST SALE Submitted by: Roy Swisher, Out West Committee chair The North Carolina Angus Association’s Out West Sale was held April 12, 2008 at Deep Creek Farms, Yadkinville, North Carolina. A big thank you goes out to Lenuel Chamberlain, owner; Marty Long, farm manager; and all the crew at Deep Creek for hosting the event. Friday was a beautiful, sunny mild spring day. All the cattle arrived by late afternoon were penned and ready for Saturday. Saturday morning started with thunder and rain showers, by mid morning the sun came out and we had a good crowd viewing the cattle prior to the sale. We had 60 lots of registered Angus and 5 lots of Angus Simmental cross. The overall average was $1297.00 on the 65 lots. There were 17 cow/calf pairs topped by lots 12 & 12A and 13 & 13A consigned by Mike Gillispie of Mike Gillispie Farm of Dobson. These cow/calf pairs brought $2400 each Eugene Shuffler, Shuffler Angus Farm of Hamptonville paid $1400 for lot 12; she was a Hyline Right Time daughter with a Woodhill Foresight heifer calf at her side. Her daughter, lot 12A, was purchased by Mike Jones for $1000 and is going to Tennessee. Lot 13, a KCF Bennett daughter, also consigned by Mike Gillispie was purchased for $1400 by Garry Guthrie of Hamptonville her GAR Retail Product daughter, lot 13A was purchased for $1000 by Henry Craven of Seagrove. The cow/calf pairs averaged $1,728 overall. The 3 bred cows averaged $1,142 and was topped by lot 25 bringing $1700. She is a BR Midland daughter bred to Basin Franchise P142 consigned by Primus Genetics, Millers Creek. The large group of 21-bred heifers averaged $1,532. Cool Spring Plantation of Halifax had the top selling three lots. Lot #34 sold for $2100 and her flush sister, lot #35 brought $2000. Garry Gutherie purchased them both from Hamptonville. They were B/R New Dimension 7127 daughters and both bred to Dr J Analyst. Lot 33 is a Rito 2V1 daughter, which sold for $2000 and was purchased by Todd Little of Turkey Hollow Farm in Oakboro. Cool Springs Plantation consignment lots 55 and 57 topped the 19 lots of open heifers. Both lots sold for $1500 to Todd Little, Turkey Hollow of Oakboro. The open heifers average $1017. The five Simmental Angus commercial lots of bred heifers averaged $1,000. 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 Col. Mike Jones auctioned the sale. Thanks to Bruce Shankle for the color comments; to Joe Hampton, Steve McPherson, and David Gazda for being ring men. Thank you to Jarrod Payne and Pam Thomas from Primus Genetics for working the cattle thru the sale ring. Thanks to Robin Hampton, Brenda Vinson, Teresa Swisher and Suzanne Brewer, Executive Secretary of the NCAA, for clerking the sale. A BIG THANK YOU goes to Garry Guthrie of Hamptonville for being the volume buyer purchasing 14 lots for a total of $18,700. Also thanks to K & P Cattle of Hartwell, Georgia for purchasing 14 lots for $14,300. A thank you goes out to all who helped the Out West Committee get this year’s sale together. Plans are already underway for 2009. So make plans now to be at Deep Creek Farms, Yadkinville for the next chapter of the Out West Sale.

Cattle began arriving on Thursday and by early Friday morning they were all checked in and the wash crew began cleaning up the cattle in preparation for Friday afternoon viewing. Tom Burke arrived later in the day ready to work and get everything in order for the sale.

Friday evening activities began with supper on the upper floor
of the sale barn. The “flower ladies” from the Chinqua-Penn Plantation had done an excellent job of decorating for our meeting. They also decorated the ring for sale day. We appreciate their involvement with our sale.

 

After supper our speaker was Bill Bowman from the American Angus Association. Mr. Bowman is Vice President, Information and Date Management and director of Performance Programs and President of the newly formed Angus Genetics, Inc. He encouraged anyone who is in the area to stop by the Association headquarters in St. Joseph Missouri, they love having visitors.

He spoke of the history of the Association and gave us some astonishing statistics: (1) in 2007 there were over 347,000 registrations, more than the next ten breeds combined; (2) in 2007 50.6% of registrations were from A-I breeding and 49.4% from natural service; (3) in 2007 over 40,000 ET calves were registered, 11.5 % of all registrations.

Mr. Bowman spoke on the Angus Source Program and the changes being made in some of the EPDs. He touched on the Regional Directors, a group of 13 field representatives across the nation; David Gazda from Georgia covers North Carolina. He mentioned the Beef Leadership Institute, which is a program to develop leadership among the 25 to 45 age group and provides insight into all segments of the cattle industry.

In 2007 there were over 584 million pounds of CAB beef and a demand for even more. He talked about other areas of American Angus including Angus Productions and the Angus Foundation which provides funding for scholarships, education and research.

The new AGI, Inc. will focus on genetic evaluation of cattle traits and will conduct research and implement new technology for use through out the beef industry. While the American Angus Association is the world’s largest beef cattle registry, Angus influence in other beef breeds is reportedly as high as 50%. A genetic evaluation process using the AAA database will provide the beef industry with more reliable genetic information.

We appreciate Mr. Bowman’s visit and his comments. He stayed for the sale on Saturday and visited and talked with many of the cattle producers in attendance.

Next on the agenda was the dedication of the 2008 Association handbook. Jane Fowler of Wakelon Angus in Zebulon was the recipient (click here to read more). I want to thank Jim and Donna McCauley and Jane’s daughters, Giny and Jill for all their help with the article. Also, the winner of the photo contest was announced; Jo Linville of LinCrest Angus in Yadkinville was surprised to be called up front and presented a copy of the 2008 handbook with the picture she had taken on the cover. Her picture of a young calf was chosen out of the 37 photos submitted. Thank you to everyone for those photos.

Rather than auction off the items donated for the Cattle Drive Foundation, Joe Hampton suggested that we view the cattle and have a silent auction of the items on Saturday.

Saturday was a beautiful May Day with lots of sunshine and warm weather. The sale started promptly and the first items up for sale were embryos donated by Birdsell Livestock and Gold Hill Angus, with proceeds going to the North Carolina Angus Juniors to help finance their trip to the LEAD conference in Montana. Thank you to Wheat Swamp Angus and Bricton Farm for your purchase.


Top selling lot was a pregnancy from the mating of Primus Genetics’ (Millers Creek, NC) featured donor dam, Basin Chloe 6198 to TC Total 410. This pregnancy is due in June of 2008 and sold for $11,000 to Oakdale Farm in Booneville, Arkansas.

We had 37 lots of cow/calf pairs. Vandemark Angus consigned top lot #11; the OCC Emblazon daughter bred to SAV 8180 Traveler 0004 with a January 2008 bull calf at side by Vandes Kickboxer sold for $5000. Greg Mouse of Elk City, Oklahoma purchased this three in one package. Several outstanding heifer calves sold separate from their dams, lot #3 consigned by C-Rock-R Farm, a BAR EXT Traveler 205 daughter bred to TC Total sold to Lanes Creek Angus in Marshville for $1600 and her September, 2007 heifer calf sold to Rothchild’s Farm in Liberty for $1600 .

An exceptional offering of 21 lots of bred heifers was lead by lots 58 & 59 consigned by Vandemark Angus. Both daughters of OCC Kickboxer 897K, SAFE in calf and due in November of 2008 to OCC No Fault 901N, sold for $4200 each to Greg Mouse in Elk City, Ok.

Our volume buyer was K & P Cattle of Hartwell, Georgia who purchased 17 lots for a total of $24,225.

A special thank you to everyone who consigned cattle, purchased cattle or participated in other ways to make this a great 2008 Spring Fever Sale.