EICHACKER SIMMENTAL
WELCOME!
KAPPERMAN FAMILY Ross, Rowdy, Billy, Nadine, Jeff, Sue, John Patti, Angie, Colton, Laura
EICHACKER SIMMENTAL FAMILY Bridgett, Becki , Greg Dana, Amanda, Judy, Haley, Adam, Cathy , Steve, Jordan, Nick Taylor, Hunter, Andi, Emmitt, Ellie
ZAC HEUMILLER
RYAN BLAGG
Another year has come and gone and just like all the other years it has had its ups and downs. We went from drought conditions in early spring to flooding in early summer then back to drought by early fall. We certainly want to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU for your interest in our cattle operations here at Eichacker Simmentals and JK Angus. We know you can buy your bulls, and good bulls, from a lot of different producers. The other day the mailman dropped off the mail and there were twelve sale catalogs with a big rubber band holding them together in our mailbox, all in one day. Then the Fed-Ex driver pulled in three days in a row to drop off catalogs. So yes, there are many choices, but the bull business is a people business and at the end of the day it’s who you want to do business with. And the fact that you are even reading this means more than you’ll ever know. For those that didn’t know we’d like to welcome Zac Heumiller back to ES. He had been working here for over 12 years before taking a few years off to experience other work adventures. We are so grateful to have him back as part of the ES crew! And oh my, did we have fun this summer with not one but two weddings. Yes, two of McCook County’s most eligible bachelors got married, Billy & Nadine were married in June and Adam and Haley joined hands in August with a fun reception in our shop! Congrats and welcome Nadine & Haley! Some of you may think Christmas can be a little hectic around the house, but you should walk into a seedstock producers’ house at sale catalog time. The office and kitchen table are scattered with computers, pedigrees, weights and measurements, cameras, video camera, pictures, and notebooks full of footnotes. But like a Christmas miracle, as a deadline approaches it all comes together into a beautiful sale catalog. The world is changing and changing fast in how we evaluate cattle with what DNA has brought to the table in the past five years is unbelievable. There are people who literly sit at their computer and sort their replacement heifers based off the DNA. Don’t get me wrong, we still feel there’s a lot of cowboy logic that goes in cattle selection but there are other tools available that can help in the process. Like we have for the past few years, we have the RightChoice logo to help find the bulls you’re looking for.
To really give you something to think about, Top Genomics has another tool available called RightBull, there’s a flyer on page 3 in the catalog with more information. In a nutshell we would love to visit with you on this option if you want to take your bull selection to a whole new level. We had an awesome week of weather at the end of January to picture and video, so the bulls are already videoed, so hopefully they’ll be displayed on DV Auction shortly after the catalog goes to print. We worked with Marty Ropp and Allied Genetics to secure some embryos out of some of the elite donors in the breed to offer some bulls with a few new bloodlines. We hope you enjoy sorting through them as much as we have, there’s a lot of information in the footnotes to help you in the selection process. FYI we even put in more embryos last spring. On that note we want to thank and acknowledge Glen, Kurt, and Heath over at the Kummer Ranch for the dedication and great work they have done as they have been awesome partners for many years.
The sale will once again be a video auction, and videos will be available by mid-February on our website and DV Auction.
The cattle are always available for viewing prior to the sale. The Simmental bulls and heifers are at ES and the Angus bulls are at JK. Each of our operations is only two miles off I-90 but there are fifteen miles between exits. Thanks again for your interest in our operations, it’s not taken lightly. If there’s anything we can do, don’t hesitate to call. Come early and stay after for some great hospitality.
HOPE TO SEE YOU ON MARCH 7.
Eichacker Simmentals & JK Angus
VIDEOS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT WWW.EICHACKERSIMMENTALS.COM OR WWW.EBERSALE.COM
FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2023 FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2025
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