Soo Line dispersian

[tanbarkguy]

What did the good heifers calves go for?  141A is what I was main concern?  Got an ad that said the sale was the 16th.?  That was wrong I guess>

 

[justintime]

I thought that there were some very good buys in the heifer calves in the sale. Sale grossed $1.3 M but there were still some excellent buying to be done. There were several times when a cow with her heifer calf would come into the ring with the buyer being able to take choice. There were some cows that sold for $10,000-$20,000 with a v good heifer calf at foot. The heifer calf would then sell for $1500 - $2500. I remember one cow selling for $23,000 and her heifer calf sold for $2000. The heifer calf looked like she would develop into a cow every bit as good as the mother ... or better. There were also some buys in the embryos. One cow sold for $30,000 and they then sold a set of embryos from her for $500 each. There were lots of embryos from some of the top cows at $`150 - 300 each. I am not sure why, but the Soo Line boys have told me before that embryos have been a tough sell for them unless it has been to overseas buyers. I think they have sold quite a few internationally but over here, they are tougher to sell. I would think that if a person had the opportunity to get some offspring from a cow like the Rhonda cow that brought $30,000 in the sale, that investing $1500 in 3 embryos would be a pretty good deal. She was an amazing beasty!

I was only at the sale for 1.5 hours, but it seemed to be getting better when I left. Wildcat Creek from Kansas had spent over $400,000 when I left. They purchased the top bull at $70,000 then paid another $25,000 for the 250 straws of semen on him. They also purchased lots of cows at $7500 + including the $30,000 cow  Red Sooline Rhonda 5109 ( lot 179).  The people that were there seemed to be there to buy.

 

[squirt71]

There were a lot of good buys in the heifers. I was there for the sale from start to finish. The last I heard was wildcat creek had spent well over $650,000. I was lucky enough to buy a Baneberry cow, but some of the others I just couldn't compete with wildcat's huge checkbook.  I went looking to buy about 10 or so head but only walked away with 4.

Tanbarkguy, 141a went for $5500.  I have all the sale prices if anyone else is curious on what lots went for.

 

[RedCowsRule]

How good were the Rhonda and Countess cows that were the high sellers?  I was pretty impressed with the pics and watched the sale online.

 

[squirt71]

The Rhoda's were nice looking cows, especially the $30,000 cow.  The 4 flush mate bred heifers were all exactly the same, all deep, long and thick, I would have taken one of them home, but Silver Spur Ranch (another huge check book, I think they totaled around $94,000) took all four at $4500 a piece. By looks alone in person, I never would have thought they would have brought that much.  The $20,000 Countess cow was also a nice looking cow, but my favorite of the Countess's was the lot 55 bred heifer that sold for $10,000.  My absolute favorites were the Star's and the Karuba's.

 

[Shady Lane]

What was the avearge?

 

[vcsf]

What was the avearge?

From everythingangus.ca

SOO LINE CATTLE CO. COMPLETE RED ANGUS DISPERSAL
Oct. 15 - Midale, SK

Announced from the block: 135 Bred Females averaged $4,400; 68 Pairs averaged $6,919; 8 Heifer Calves averaged $1,831; 5 Herd Bulls averaged $19,800. 216 live lots averaged $5,413. When combined with semen and embryos it was a $1.3 million dollar sunny day!

 

[Shady Lane]

Yeah I'd say that would be a good day.

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