Moser Ranch 16^th Annual Production Sale
Saturday, November 24, 2007
At the Ranch, Wheaton, Kansas
Auctioneer:  Dan Harris
Sale Management:  The Moser Family

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High-Selling Bulls:

$5750 – Halfblood bull 6812S, s. by GAR US Premium Beef, sold to Allen Childs, Grandridge, FL.

$5700 – Halfblood bull 6811S, s. by GAR US Premium Beef, sold to Jim Hardin, Nevada, MO.   6811S and 6812S were flush brothers.

$4600 – Purebred Simmental bull 6016S, s. by Preferred Beef, sold to Zach Teter, Beverly, WV.

$4600 – Purebred Simmental bull 6319S, s. by Preferred Beef, sold to Zach Teter, Beverly, WV.

$4500 – Purebred Simmental bull 6012S, s. by Hook’s Black Perfecta, sold to Allen Childs, Grandridge, FL.

$3700 – Purebred Simmental bull 6314S, s. by Gambler, sold to AK Farms, Holton, KS.

$3300 – Purebred Simmental bull 6313S, s. by Gambler, sold to Jim and JoAnne Booth, Delia, KS.  6313S and 6314S were flush brothers.

$4200 – Angus Bull 096, s. by GAR US Premium Beef, sold to Roy Niederklein, Girard, KS.

$4000 – Angus Bull 306, s. by Morgan’s Direction, sold to Leonard Edelman, Sabetha, KS.

$3000 – Red Angus Bull 806, s. by Brown’s Vacation, sold to Sue Eden, Lenapah, OK.

High-Selling Females:

$1600 – Spring Bred Heifer, ½ Sim x ½ Red Angus 6500S, s. by FR Rezult, sold to Corey Dean, Kahoka, MO.

$1475 – Angus Cow 102, s. by GAR Example, sold to Prairie View Farms-Leon Mosteller, Bern, KS.

$1250 – Open Heifer, ½ Sim x ½ Angus 7506T, s. by Black Perfector, sold to Shoal Creek Simmentals, Excelsior Springs, MO.

Bull Volume Buyers:  Sue Eden, Lenapah, OK, 5 head; Double B Ranch, Centralia, KS, 3 head.  Twenty-one operations took home two bulls each. 

Female Volume Buyers:  Eagle Bar Ranch, Alma, KS; Prairie View Farms-Leon Mosteller, Bern, KS; Kevin & Dave Lueger, Seneca, KS; Doug Keeton, DVM, Cleo Springs, OK.

The barn was full to capacity for the 16^th Moser sale.  Cattle sold into the states of FL, IL, KS, MO, NE, ND, OK, TN and WV.  137 bidders and buyers registered.  88% of the bulls went to repeat buyers.

Just the Right Amount of Snow Settled the Dust at Moser Sale

The early morning snow on November 24th was just what was needed to settle the dust the day of the Moser Ranch Production Sale. During the early days of sale week, the Moser family debated about asking the local fire department to come out and soak their pens and sorting area so folks attending on Saturday wouldn’t have to deal with the dry pen conditions. As it turned out, the light blanket of snow did the job without becoming a weather hazard, and by early morning on that cold day the pens were full of cattle and buyers.

Gallons of coffee and cocoa, along with morning donuts were served to the approximately 300 people attending the 16th Annual Moser Ranch Production Sale. Harry and Lisa Moser, along with their children Cameron, Kendra and Kayla, and herdsman Todd Strahm, hosted the event at their ranch north of Wheaton, Kansas. As bidders and buyers viewed the animals in the pens that they had studied in the catalog information prior to sale day, the Moser family was busy answering questions, preparing to serve lunch and checking last minute sale preparations so the auction would run smoothly.

Promptly at noon, there was a short welcome along with a moment of silence to honor our troops and all attending veterans. Auctioneer Dan Harris, Holton, then took over and cried a lively sale, taking just three hours and five minutes to sell 224 females and 95 bulls. The barn was packed with people filling the bleachers and standing especially around the areas where the space heaters were located.

The sale got off to a brisk start with 10 fall pairs averaging $1460. Nine purebred Angus cows-all four or five year olds-averaged $1367, with the Eagle Bar Ranch, Alma, taking home five head. Leon Mosteller-Prairie View Farms, Bern, took home the high-selling Angus female lot at $1475. Mosteller’s purchase, Moser 102 of 098 Example, was a GAR Example daughter out of a WW Rito 8503 donor. She sold safe in calf to Bando 1961. Repeat customer Corey Dean, Kahoka, MO, paid $1600 to own the top selling SimGenetics bred heifer, a half-blood FR Rezult daughter out of a Ladiesman Red Angus cow. Five half-blood spring bred heifers averaged $1440. New this year at the Moser Ranch sale was the offering of six March and April born halter heifers. With herdsman Todd Strahm heading up this effort, these heifers averaged $1000/head and sold into Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, with the high seller, 7506S, going to Shoal Creek Simmental, Excelsior Springs, MO, for $1250. 7506S was a Black Perfector daughter out of a 6I6 purebred Angus cow.

Eight Moser Ranch customers sold bred and open heifers on a strong market in the next portion of the sale. Topping the bred heifer offering at $1500 on a five-head lot was Double B Ranch, Centralia. Lance Roskamp, Sutter, IL, was the buyer. Clyde Aubert, St. Marys, paid $1475 to own a draft of five fancy Simmental heifers from Ebert Cattle Company, St. George. Eagle Bar Ranch, Alma, was again a volume buyer, taking home fifteen head of the spring bred heifers, paying an average price of $1390/head. 55 head of spring bred heifers averaged $1424. The open heifer division topped at $1000/head when repeat customer Doug Keeton, DVM, Cleo Springs, OK, paid that amount for five Simmental x Angus females consigned by customer Justin Boswell, Onaga. Twenty-five open heifers-all SimAngus cross-averaged $900.

For the third year in a row, the Moser Ranch offered packages of fall bred heifers at their sale. Seventy head averaged $1250, with the high-selling lot of five head going to Bill Hilbert, Meriden, for $1325/head. These heifers were AI’d the week after the sale for September 1st calves, and will be picked up by buyers in early February 2008, after pregnancy diagnosis.

The 95 bulls in the offering went to several commercial operations from Kansas and across the nation. Lot 83, a ½ Sim x ½ Angus bull, sired by GAR US Premium Beef, topped the sale, going to repeat buyer Allen Childs, Grandridge, FL, for $5750. Ratioing 127 for test gain, this deep-bodied calf had many admirers. Bidding by phone, Mr. Childs also purchased the Lot 18 bull, a solid black purebred Simmental sired by Hook’s Black Perfecta, for $4500. Lot 18 gained 5.11/day on test and ratioed 114. Jim Hardin, Nevada, MO, purchased the Lot 33 bull, another ½ Sim x ½ Angus, sired by GAR US Premium Beef, for $5700. Lot 33 ratioed 111 for Marbling and 110 for test gain. Both black blaze-faced calves, lots 33 and 83 were flush brothers and were homozygous black and polled.

Zach Teter, a progressive young cattleman and repeat buyer made the trip with his grandfather from Beverly, WV, to purchase two bulls at $4600 each. Lots 17 and 20, both solid black purebred Simmental bulls sired by Preferred Beef with ratios of 105 and 108 for REA were noticed by many potential buyers in the pens on sale morning. Bidders were on the phone and in the stands vying for the right to take these two home. Both bulls gained over 4#/day on test, with ADG ratios of 102 and 110.

A set of five flush brothers sired by Gambler and the Moser Full Figures donor 038K were popular with the buyers near the sale’s end. Lots 95 through 99 combined phenomenal carcass numbers and great dispositions in 6.5 frame score packages. All five solid black purebred Simmental bulls went to repeat buyers as follows: Lot 95, $3700 to AK Farms Inc., Holton, KS: Lot 96, $3300 to Jim and JoAnne Booth, Delia, KS; Lots 97 and 99 to David Sellmeyer, Vinita, OK, for $3000 and $2800 respectively; and Lot 98, $2600 to Don Askren, Circleville, KS. Summarizing the Simmental and SimAngus portion of the bull sale: Thirty purebred Simmental bulls averaged $2454 and forty-three SimAngus bulls averaged $2308.

The Angus division saw fourteen bulls averaging $2768. The high seller went to repeat buyer Roy Niederklein, Girard, KS. Niederklein paid $4200 to own the Lot 59 bull, a GAR US Premium Beef son out of a five-year-old GAR Example daughter. This stylish calf had ratios of 118 for Marbling and 102 for REA, and gained 5.36#/day on test. Lot 71, sired by Morgan’s Direction, sold to Leonard Edelman, Sabetha, KS, for $4000. Ratioing 121 for Marbling and 106 for REA, this bull was raised by a three-year-old T510 Angus cow.

Sue Eden, Lenapah, OK, longtime Moser customer, was an active phone bidder on several bull categories all day and took home the high-selling Red Angus at $3000. Lot 73, a March 2005 Brown’s Vacation son out of a Chateau first calf heifer, ratioed 109 for REA and 118 for test gain. Eight Red Angus bulls averaged $2294.

Volume bull buyers were: Sue Eden, Lenapah, OK, 5 head; Double B Ranch, Centralia, KS, 3 head. Twenty-one operations took home two bulls each. Volume female buyers were: Eagle Bar Ranch, Alma, KS; Prairie View Farms-Leon Mosteller, Bern, KS; Kevin & Dave Lueger, Seneca, KS; Doug Keeton, DVM, Cleo Springs, OK. 137 bidders and buyers registered. Cattle sold into Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee and West Virginia. 88% of the bulls went to repeat customers.