March 18, 2017
Napoleon, N.D.
Auctioneer: Chisum Peterson
Sale consultant: Herman Symens
Reported by: Frank Padilla, NALF director of marketing
Averages
27 – Bulls – $3,687
16 – Spring bred females – $1,909
Sale gross – $130,093
$17,000 – Bull – Lot 1, TOMV Diesel 619D, 3/1/2016, red, homozygous polled, purebred, sired by GV Austin 701A, purchased by Treftz Limousin, Wetonka S.D., and Black Butte Acres, Velva, S.D.
$4,750 – Bull – Lot 5, TOMV Dreamer 609D, 2/25/2016, red, homozygous polled, purebred, sired by DLVL Bicep 491B, purchased by Adam Davis, Page, N.D.
$4,000 – Bull – Lot 7, TOMV Duke 601D, 2/19/2016, red, homozygous polled, 77.6% Limousin, sired by TREF Zeus 232Z, purchased by Jeff Lapica, Ross, N.D.
$4,000 – Bull – Lot 14, TOMV Desperato 638D, 3/9/2016, red, homozygous polled, purebred, sired by DVVL Xerox 023X, purchased by Steve Vorhees, Scobey, Mont.
Photo captions:
8085 – Tom Vaughn welcomes guests to the Vaughn Farms Genetics for the Future sale.
8094 – From left to right, Tom and Rita Vaughn are pictured with with Lori Hill, Glenn Treftz, Treftz Limousin, Wetonka S.D., and Jerry and Norma Effertz, Black Butte Acres, Velva, S.D. Treftz and Effertz partnered to purchase the Lot 1 high selling bull at the Vaughn sale.
8095 – Tom Vaughn, right, and Jim Thomas, Flandreau, S.D., left, who was a volume buyer at the sale.
