October 15, 2016
Wellsville, Mo.
Auctioneer: Ronn Cunningham
Sale management: R & R Marketing
Sale consultant: MC Marketing Management
Reported by: Frank Padilla, NALF director of marketing
Averages
0.5 – Bulls – $5,400
4 – Heifer pregnancies – $7,000
1 – Pregnancy – $7,000
34.5 – Spring bred females – $3,103
3 – Fall bred females – $2,650
2 – Open heifers – $3,575
5 – Spring pairs – $2,540
7 – Fall pairs – $3,193
9.5 – Donor pairs – $2,600
66.5 – Live lots – $3,343
98 – Embryos – $189
Semen – $400
Sale gross – $241,250
$17,500 – Open female – Lot 6, ELCX Candy 330C, 56% Lim-Flex 56%, double polled, double black, sired by RLBH Air Force One, half embryo rights and full possession purchased by P Bar S, Sand Springs, Okla.
$7,000 – 5 embryos – Dam: WLR Prada, 2 eggs sired by TMCK Durham Wheat 6030X, 1 egg sired by OSU Class Act, 1 egg sired by PVF Insight 0129, and 1 egg sired by MAGS Aviator, purchased by White Valley Ranch, Adair, Okla.
$7,000 – Heifer pregnancy – Lot 13, TMCK Durham Wheat 6030X x ELCX Christy 260Z, purchased by Ed Clark, Berryville, Ark.
$7,000 – Heifer pregnancy – Lot 14, MAGS Usual Suspect 538U x ELCX Christy 260Z, purchased by Ed Clark, Berryville, Ark.
$4,000 – Bred female – Lot 21, WLR Cappucino ET, 3/15/15, 62% Lim-Flex, double polled, homozygous black, bred to ELCX Cabin Fever 273C, purchased by Robert Berti, Sullivan, Mo.
Photo captions:
7928- Mark Middleton of M&R Limousin, Bourbon, Mo., with Bob Wies. M&R purchased several lots at the sale.
7881- Bob Wies, left, visits with Dexter Edwards of Edwards Land & Cattle, Beulaville, N.C., who made several purchases at the sale.
7932- The Bob and Euvonne Wies family, with Heather Henderson, several buyers, and the sale team after the sale.