Bull & Female Sale
Gelbvieh Balancer and
Southwest Iowa
Friday, March 20, 2026 • 1 p.m. (CST) Creston Livestock Auction • Creston, Iowa
Breeding Guarantee: All bulls have been semen tested and will be fully guaranteed to be capable of settling healthy, sound and fertile cows of breeding age. Bulls selling for $5,000 or more will carry an additional guarantee against injury effecting breeding as declared by a licensed veterinarian; and not injured due to abuse or neglect. This guarantee is for the spring breeding period. The seller will give the purchaser of the bull credit at next year’s sale for one half of the purchase price, minus the salvage value. Seller of the bull must be notified immediately if injury occurs. If any other problems occur, the terms and conditions as stated by the breeding guarantee of the AGA (in the back of this catalog), will be in effect. Any guarantee is between the individual seller and the purchaser. Online bidding: Contact Cody Frey at (641) 344-6112 or the sale barn at (641) 782-7025. To view only, the sale can be seen on www.dvauction.com. To be able to bid, click on submit and then contact Cody Frey or the sale barn three (3) days prior to the sale.
Welcome to our 17th Annual Bull and Female Sale! We would like to welcome everyone to the 17th Annual Southwest Iowa Gelbvieh & Balancer Bull & Female Sale and the first Gelbvieh Breeders of Iowa female Sale. This year all of the bulls were tested at the Green Springs Bull Testing Center in Nevada, Missouri. We want to thank everyone at the Werner Feed Efficiency Testing Center for working with us over the past 16 years. Werner's were a great group to work with and are going to be missed after all those years. Also new this year the Gelbvieh Breeders of Iowa (GBOI) are hosting a female sale which will start immediately following our bull sale. There will be an excellent set of bulls and females offered, and with all the different breeding programs represented between the two sales, there will be several different genetic lines to consider. We want to thank Kent Abele and his crew at Green Springs for all they have done for us to get the bulls ready. Also thanks to Cody Frey and everyone associated with Creston Livestock Auction for all they do to help us get ready for our sale. Last but not least to Jane Adolph for putting the sale catalog together and putting up with the calls asking if she can do this or that for us. See you at the sale!
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Remember to please bring your catalog with you to the Sale on March 20th!
Delivery: Any bull bringing over $5000 will be delivered free of charge up to 200 miles. Bulls sold farther than 200 miles will be delivered to a midway point between buyer and seller, as soon as it is convenient for both parties. Semen Interest Retained: The sellers are retaining a 50% semen interest in all the bulls in the sale. The buyer is getting full possession and 50% semen interest. If we choose to collect semen we will work with the new owner and schedule the collection around his schedule. We will rarely exercise this option, but with all the new DNA technology we may want to use some of these genetics in the future. Catalog by: Jane Adolph, Mt. Carroll, IL | 815-297-5456
About the EPDs: The bulls in the Southwest Iowa Gelbvieh & Balancer Sale have been tested and rated on all the major tests for breeding bulls; including ultra-sound for carcass, semen tested, scrotal measured, BVD tested and the new EPDs for weights, milk, carcass, etc. The new EPDs are more accurate through genetic testing, termed “Genomic Enhancement”. This is done by picking out genetic markers in blood samples for individual EPD traits and the degree they influence each trait. In the past EPDs have been calculated from many generations of weights and growth. The addition of genomic markers for each trait, combining the past accumulated records gives us the more accurate genomic enhanced EPDs.
Southwest Iowa Gelbvieh and Balancer Bull and Female Consignors:
Michael Bauer MJBC Gelbvieh 1645 Heron Ave. Aububon, IA 50025 (712) 304-4320
Gary Martens Martens Gelbvieh 2126 500th St. Walnut, IA 51577 (712) 764-5007, home (712) 249-5744, cell
Jim & Ed McCreary McCreary Gelbvieh 1730 U.S. Hwy 169 Mt. Ary, IA 50854 (641) 234-0039, Jim (641) 234-0246, Ed
Jennie Reiste Rafter R Gelbvieh 23366 Idaho Place Adel, IA 50003
Doug Hobbs Family Hobbs Gelbvieh 12117 530th St. Lucas, IA 50151 (515) 822-2561
Nancy Holste Holste’s Triple H Farms 3113 260th St. Clarinda, IA 51632 (712) 303-0263, Nancy (712) 370-2088, Doug
Anthony Kopriva Kopriva Gelbvieh 2542 Hwy. V18 Clutier, IA 52217 (319) 231-6279
Tyler Beenken Beenken Farms 1208 R Ave. Buckingham, IA 50612 (319) 610-3610
(515) 314-4870, Jennie (515) 360-3106, Linda
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