March 27, 2018
Mandan, N.D.
Auctioneer: Chisum Peterson
Sale consultants: MC Marketing Management and Grassroots Consulting
Reported by: Andy Rest, NALF regional manager
Averages
1 – Semen package – $50,000
4 – Two-year-old bulls – $3,213
89 1/3 – Yearling bulls – $3,442
60 – Open yearling commercial heifers – $1,050
Sale Gross – $444,450
$50,000 – Semen Syndicate – AHCC Earning Power 900E ET, 2/8/2017, 81% Limousin, homozygous black, homozygous polled, sired by MAGS Anchor, out of LVLS 9066U, purchased by Magness Land & Cattle, Platteville, Colo., members of the semen syndicate include: MR Limousin, Diamond Hill Cattle Company, ATAK Limousin, Buff Beef Cattle, 4-H Limousin, TTT Farms, Franseen Limousin, Venner Limousin, Graven Land & Cattle, Lakeside Limousin, Circle R Limousin, Beckman Livestock, Jones Brothers, Lewis Limousin and TMJ Cattle Company.
$15,500 – Bull – Lot 20, AHCC Endless Power 0901E ET, 3/4/2017, Lim-Flex, homozygous black, homozygous polled, sired by SAV Resource 1441, out of LVLS 9066U, syndicate consisting of Graven Land & Cattle, Lebanon, Mo.; Magness Land & Cattle, Platteville, Colo; Tubmill Creek Farms, New Florence, Pa.; Diamond Hill Cattle Company, Newcastle, Okla.; and Wulf Cattle, Morris, Minn. purchased this herd sire prospect.
$10,500 – Cow Family Package – Lot 107, package included the right to flush LVLS 9066U, purebred, homozygous black, homozygous polled, sired by LVLS Farmer John 7428P, pick a 2017 spring born LVLS 9066U daughter and semen package in AHCC Earning Power 900E, a LVLS 9066U son sired by MAGS Anchor, purchased by Graven Land & Cattle, Lebanon, Mo.
$6,500 – Bull – Lot 34, AHCC Predominant 126E, 3/27/2017, Lim-Flex, red, homozygous polled, sired by CJSL 2238Z, purchased by James Leier, Dawson, N.D.
$5,750 – Bull – Lot 64, AHCC Y-Axis 288E, 4/14/2017, purebred, homozygous black, polled, sired by AHCC Y-Axis 915B, purchased by Gregory Smith, Marion, N.D.
$5,500 – Bull – Lot 13, AHCC Barn Burner 907E, 2/28/2017, purebred, homozygous black, homozygous polled, sired by AHCC Barn Burner B907, purchased by the Meyer Ranch, Flasher, N.D.
$5,500 – Bull – Lot 40, AHCC Alfalfa 5594E, 2/25/2017, black, homozygous polled, sired by ELMW Alfalfa 103B, purchased by the Jones Brothers, Knob Noster, Mo.
Photo Captions:
(Anderson)- Shane Anderson, Towner, N.D., purchased a top bull for his operation.
(Walker)- The volume bull buyer at the Hager Sale was Buck Walker, Ekalaka, Mont.
(Guthmiller)- Bruce Guthmiller, Robinson, N.D., bought a new herd sire for his Limousin program.
