Hello from the TNT Ranch! Welcome to our 41st Annual Bull Sale! We continue to be blessed with another record-setting sale in 2025, thanks to all our top-end customers like you that put con- fidence in our genetics. We had such amazing support from both past and new cus - tomers and friends and it was another wonderful, emotional day for us all. How can it be possible that TNT has been going for 41 years? I guess when you enjoy what you are doing, time truly does fly by. The Good Lord has continued to bless us, allowing us to live a life that we absolutely love, doing what brings us so much joy. We continue to make it our goal to build upon the hard work and success that my parents started, dedicated to working hard to produce a product our customers want that continues to improve the genetics and performance in their herds as well. We continue to grow our herd and will be calving 420 registered cows this year along with 40 recipient cows, with 200 replacement heifers being developed, and Dad will calve
out right at 260, with around 120 replacements. Dad will also be selling 35 of his bulls with us this year as well. With increas - ing our herd numbers, we have bumped up our offering a bit again this year, and we continue to offer you a solid set of bulls that we feel are just as good from the first to the last. As you will notice in the catalog, we are featuring three herd sires that we are retaining, two last year and our new one TNT Exclusive N813, and we also kept a maternal brother to TNT Plateau, of whom we named TNT Throttle N741. We are extremely excited about these bulls. We feel that though they would have been sale toppers in our sale, you can’t put a value on knowing the cow families for generations that create top end bulls like them. They were chosen for their cow family strengths that con - tribute to our maternal expectations of highly productive, strong producing cows with added longevity, while adding value through their phenotype, profit and performance aspects as well. We do not creep feed the calves, so what you see is what the dam produced, and I am very proud of what our cows can do for us. We weaned the calves the beginning of October and the calves weaned off heavy and looked excellent on pastures, one of the strongest sets I can remember. Dad’s bulls were weaned and raised at his place until early November, so they are in their own contemporary for weaning, but were included with ours from then on. We feel ratioing the bull in one large contemporary group gives you a more accurate compar - ison against the whole herd. Our fall has been fairly mild, and the bulls have really done well. The bulls are fed a TMR ration developed by our nutritionist Joel Ostendorf with CHS nutrition, and are not being pushed hard, being worked up to what they are currently being fed in mid-December, a 50 Mega Cal ration. We really like this ration that has a high percentage of high-moisture alfalfa baleage in it, which makes the ration higher in protein and they consume it really well. This ration is designed for a 3.25 to 3.50 gain and this year they were averaging 3.97 on a 95-day test. We feel the milder weather, performance minded genetics and choosing the top end of all the bulls born at both places helps contribute to their higher gain. As you maybe noticed, something new to the offering this year is our bred heifers! We are extremely excited to offer up a solid set of heifers right out of our replacement pen, bred right to the herdbulls that we use to produce the bulls selling in our sale. The heifers are a mixture of red and black from both dads herd and our own, calving between March 5th, AI bred to June 5th. We normally sell around 150 to 200 cows each fall between our two ranches, retaining a majority of our replacements to keep our herd young with fresh genetics. But selling privately off the farm can be very tedious and time-consuming, so this year we decided to sell some heifers in our sale instead of just off the farm. With trying to not make it turn into too much extra work, we are selling them in lot groups by due date, with the option of choice twice per group. We are very proud of the group we have put together, and hope you like what you see. Please see the heifer section at the back of the catalog for more information on how they will sell. The bulls will sell by video with Seth Weishaar as our auctioneer. The bulls will be penned right outside the sale facility by 9 a.m. for your viewing and will stay in those pens until the conclusion of the sale. The sale will be broadcast live on DVAuction and we will have sale reps here and phone bidding will be available for anyone who is not able to attend. We will have a video of each bull on DVAuction. We do encourage you to try to get out and see the bulls in person ahead of sale day. They are all being fed at our ranch at Lehr. Do not hesitate to call us or Dad to go over any of the bulls, as we will do our best to help you choose bulls that fit your needs. We feel this is another tremendous offering of bulls and heifers that we are proud to represent. Almost all of the cattle are out of dams that were raised on the TNT Ranch. We feel this shows the ability of our home-raised cows to raise top end bulls and heifers from the first to the last. We place a strong emphasis on fleshing ability, performance, docility, udder quality, and high maternal traits. We are proud of our cattle and feel you will be proud of “The Explosive Difference” they will make for you. We, along with Dad, truly have a passion for this business and love breeding cattle with the never-ending pursuit to try to make them better. We will continue to stand behind what we sell just as Dad and Mom have, with high integrity and honesty backing all of our business operations. Feel free to stop in and view the cattle anytime of the year. Thank you for your current and past interest in TNT Simmentals! Sincerely, Shanon, Gabriel and Family
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