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A nice crowd and a sunny day got the Moser Ranch 18th Annual Bull Sale off to a good start. Cattlemen showed up at 10AM on November 14, 2009 to begin appraising the bull offering, and after a brisket lunch, the Mosers hosted their first-ever video bull auction. Powered by DV Auctions, it took just under two hours to sell. Owen Brothers Cattle Company, Aaron and Jennie Owen and sons Adam, Matt and Casey, Bois D’ Arc, MO, joined the Moser Ranch again this year to sell nine bulls at auction.
The high-selling bull went to repeat customer Matt Homandberg, Hudson, SD. Matt paid $7500 to own Lot 1, a homozygous black, homozygous polled Shear Force son that ranked in the Top 2% for API and TI. This black star-faced purebred Simmental had lots of admirers throughout the summer and fall, and especially on sale day.
Double B Ranch, Centralia, KS, purchased the second high-selling bull of the day. Lot 9, a solid black HC Hummer x Fortune 500 x Arapahoe x Redcoat spring yearling commanded $4900 from Betty Bonjour and Jessi Figge, owners of the Double B, and customers of the Moser Ranch since 1993. Ranked in the Top 10% of all purebred Simmental bulls for Calving Ease, Marbling and Terminal Index, and in the Top 5% for All Purpose Index, this homozygous black and polled purebred Simmental bull had several repeat customers vying for the honors to take him home.
Lots 2-7 were a set of six spring yearling flush mate Simmental bulls ranking in the Top 5% for Calving Ease, Top 10% for Birthweight, and the Top 15% for All Purpose Index. These homozygous black Ranch Hand sons out of the Moser Ranch 2094M donor averaged $3550 per head. Lot 3 was the high-selling flush brother out of the set of six that sold at $4500, and he went to repeat customer Zach Teter, Beverly, WV. Four of the six went to repeat customers including Teter, Pat Winter, AK Farms, and Wayne Atkins, with the remaining two going to new buyer Loren Ripa, Wilbur, NE, for $3500 and $3600.
Longtime customers Bob and Barry Jones and Barry’s daughter Jessa were at the ranch on sale day and picked up the solid red Lot 40 bull, a Voyager son out of the Moser Ranch 5549R donor. He is a maternal half-brother to the Lot 9 bull. Jones’ paid $4000 to lay claim to this homozygous polled, heavy muscled, moderate framed calf. Two other red full brothers that were very popular were lots 36 and 37. These solid red homozygous polled Beef Maker sons had numbers ranking in the Top 20% for Calving Ease and Weaning Weight, Top 10% for Marbling and All Purpose Index and Top 2% for Terminal Index. Repeat customers Zach Teter, WV, and Sue Eden, OK, picked up lots 36 and 37 for $4200 and $3900 respectively.
Denny Braddock, a Moser customer from Olsburg, KS, purchased the top-selling percentage bull of the sale, paying $4000 to own Lot 19. Sired by MSR Full Power 5597R and out of Moser 043, a 6I6 bred Angus cow, lot 19 scanned the largest REA of the entire offering ratioing 135, a feat his sire, the MSR Full Power bull also did the year he sold as a yearling in the fall 2006 Moser Ranch sale to Hanel’s Black Simmentals at Courtland, KS. Jim, Mike and Chris McCormick, Blaine, KS, paid $3800 to own Cameron Moser’s bull consignment, Lot 12. This black baldy Revelation son combined a great set of performance numbers with a heavy muscled, deep-bodied phenotype.
In the Angus division, Double B Ranch of Centralia again purchased a high-selling bull. Lot 57, a Predestined x Example x 8503 son had across-the-board ratios of 100 or better in performance, carcass traits and scrotal. He ranked in the Top 10% for Marbling, Top 15% for $G, and Top 5% for $B. $2600 was the purchase price for Lot 57. Repeat customer Keith Bramhall, Vliets, KS, paid $2500 to own the Lot 52 Angus bull. This stout made Bando 1961 x Retail Product x 8503 son posted a 5.58 ADG on test.
Forty-five purebred Simmental bulls averaged $2620; 35 percentage bulls averaged $2475; and 14 Angus bulls averaged $1836. Bulls sold into North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri and West Virginia. Volume buyer of four bulls was the Perry Ranch, Oskaloosa, KS. Buyers of three head were Galen Weaver, DVM, Amarillo, TX; Double B Ranch, Centralia, KS; Zach Teter, Beverly, WV; K&K Cattle Company, Harveyville, KS; Koelzer Farms, Onaga, KS. Seventeen buyers purchased two head of bulls. 90% of the bulls went to repeat customers.
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Lot 1 Tattoo 8004U
Homozygous Polled
$7500 Repeat customer Matt Homandberg, SD |
Lot 2 Tattoo 8118U
$3500 Loren Ripa, NE |
Lot 3 Tattoo 8113U
$4500 Repeat customer Zach Teter, WV |
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Lot 12 Tattoo 8508U
$3800 Repeat customers Jim, Mike & Chris McCormick, KS |
Lot 13 Tattoo 8514U
$3000 Repeat customer Darin Holaday, KS |
Lot 16 Tattoo 8528U
$3200 Bill Schoonover, KS |
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Lot 15 Tattoo 8501U
$3500 Repeat customer Galen Weaver, TX |
Lot 27 Tattoo M11U
$1900 Repeat customers Bob & Barry Jones |
Lot 19 Tattoo 8766U
$4000 Repeat customer Denny Braddock, KS |
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Lot 23 Tattoo 902U
$2100 Repeat customer Don Nye, KS |
Lot 30 Tattoo 8314U
$2500 Repeat customer Jeff Stithem, KS |
Lot 39 Tattoo M08U
$2500 Repeat customer J. W. Phillips, MO |
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Lot 40 Tattoo 8302U
$4000 Repeat customers Bob & Barry Jones, KS |
Lot 48 Tattoo 8229U
$1700 Repeat customers Bob & Russ Smith, NE |
Lot 66 Tattoo 8810U
$1800 Repeat customer Todd Surdez, KS |
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Lot 52 Tattoo 038 Angus
$2500 Repeat customer Keith Bramhall, KS |
Lot 62 Tattoo 548 Angus
$1500 Repeat customer K&K Cattle Company, KS |
Lot 87 Tattoo 8213U
$2800 Repeat customer K&K Cattle Company, KS |
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Lot 88 Tattoo 8768U
$2800 Repeat customer Ed Livingston, NE |
Lot 100 Tattoo 8758U
$1400 Repeat customer Koelzer Farms, KS |
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