nortexsook said:
Hereford76 said:
Justin said:
this is just a guess, but they must have averaged about $5500-$6000. thats a pretty good day, i'd say.
probably right on justin - just got home from that deal.
Well?
this will be a pretty lame report but i watched the first 15 or 20 sell. harrel bought a high priced one, vannewkirk bought three while i was there, thorstenson @ SD bought a nice one(good eye by the way), commercial man ginther bought a 9000 dollar bull (wouldn't it be fun to have commercial customers like that- jack stopped the sale with this bull and said the bull would be the kind to take any program forward), spencer bought one (didn't really care for the bull), stardance out of TX bought... lots of purebred breeders bought while i was there. oh year - wichman herefords at moore mt bought the red faced bull, the russians bought two or three bulls for stud (stevenson was buying those bulls- all five thousand dollar bulls).
i didn't have the catalog while i was watching - my hat goes off to those guys, pretty neat deal to generate that kind of money off a ranch that size.
I snuck in late and ducked out early - didn't want to be accused of rubbing elbows with the big shots and its not really my kind of crowd. our AHA rep gave me the cold sholder - can't get those guys attention unless you are padding their wallet. couple of my customers bought later on i guess.
they had a bull with an adj imf score of 6.0 and a couple 16 sq in adj rib eyes - goggins calls them type cowboy bulls.... (what would you call those kind?)
several times goggins had the S O L but not quite the D and got a couple more thousand out of them - he says, I was just going to say sold them higher is all not SOLD... got the crowd laughing
i looked the bulls over before hand and thought it was one of the nicer sets i've seen there - and they weren't nearly as fat as they have been the last 5 years or so.
jack said it was his 22 year involved in the deal over the last 44 so hes got half of them under his belt and going strong. he also said his wife deserved a medal for sticking with him for this long and it got a chuckle out of me. it think it is a damn neat deal.... here this ranch sitting at valier montana draws the attention of cattlemen all over the world - awesome!
i can't remember the number of the bull i picked - definite standout as far as top and muscle.... can't remember who bought him either
someone will have to give a report on coopers sale
was the quality good watching it on TV or the computer? watched the calgary sale on the computer and it was a joke for quality