Welcome everyone to the “Best in the Midwest Bull Sale” in Bradley, SD! It seems just like yesterday we were preparing for the 2025 sale, but here we are in 2026. They say time goes by a lot faster if you really enjoy what you’re doing! This year marks 20 years of selling bulls and what a great time it’s been. We’ve met and became friends with so many cattle men and women in that time; and we look forward to meeting many more great people for years to come. A little ranch history, my dad and uncle grew up raising Hereford cattle with their parents in their early childhood. When Dad and my uncle were able to get their own place started in the mid 1970’s they decided to run Charolais bulls on their commercial cows. These calves performed well at the time but they were getting too big of birthweight calves so they decided to try out angus bulls. This really worked well for more calving ease, calf vigor, and an opportunity to keep their own replacements. The angus bulls were a huge hit and stuck ever since. Their cow numbers really grew over the years reaching over 800 hd. Dad bought a few registered heifer calves from SIKS Thousand Oaks angus in Watertown SD for us kids in the early 2000’s. Dad saw our interest really spike with those heifers so he decided to give us a chance to buy our own at the KMD Livestock Registered Dispersion in Wood SD. My brothers and I picked these cows out with what we new best and that was going through the cattle analyzing them all by eye site only on what we thought were the best cows by look and soundness. We bought a great set of front end cows that day and started our own registered herds. A short time after buying off the KMD Dispersion a special opportunity was offered to us and that was to buy the entire bred heifer crop from Dikoff Ranch in Onaka SD. We jumped on this offer and bought all their 2006 model heifers. At this time our cow herd numbers were getting to the max capacity that the ranch could handle. When we found out SIK Thousand OAKS angus was dispersing their registered cow herd we made the decision to buy good share of their cows as my dad, mom and uncle used a lot of their bulls over the years and had very good results with them. After buying these cows we made the hard decision of dispersing our commercial herd to focus solely on the registered cattle. Since 2005 we have used ai extensively in our cow herd. The virgin heifers get heat synchronized and ai bred. 17 days later we repatch the heifers and ai through them again for about 2 weeks then turn clean up bulls with them. Once we pull the heifers off pasture we will analyze the heifers for fleshing ability, eye appeal, foot quality and disposition. We typically keep around 70 % of the ai bred heifers and disperse the bull bred heifers. Every cow has gotten ai service every year other then a few later calving cows. We are constantly analyzing our cow herd year round for udder and foot quality. Disposition, fleshing ability and calf raising ability. We keep back a lot of heifers every year giving them a chance, this lets us cull on our cows extensively year after year. We make our selection of what makes the bull sale shortly after weaning time. We analyze the bulls for their phenotype, disposition, soundness, and overall performance. We only keep about the top 1/3 of the calf crop as bulls every year. In the catalog we try to supply as much information as possible. The bulls yw and carcass epds will change a bunch by sale time. Their actuals were turned in just before assembling the catalog so they have not had time to be updated at the associations by catalog print. Updated numbers will be available sale day or give one of us a call anytime and we can get it to you sooner. New this year we will be selling 7 polled Hereford bulls. Dad always talked about how he wanted to get a few Hereford cows as he had a lot of memories of them when he was young. We finally gave into him and went out to Rausch Herefords and bought a select group of what we thought were the best heifers they had to offer. These 7 bulls on the sale were the top cut out of 25 Hereford bull calves. We are very excited about this years offering of bulls and truly believe they’re the best set yet. From the first lot to the last lot quality can be found throughout. We feed these bulls a growing ration not a fattening ration. We want these bulls to be ready to go to work for you the day you get them and be able to last for many years. From all of us here on the ranch we want to thank all our past and present customers. We know firsthand all the hard work and dedication a rancher puts into their cattle and we will do what it takes to keep and earn your business. If you have any problems that may occur with the bulls please don’t hesitate to call. Bulls are always available for viewing at any time. We will have bulls penned up in tighter pens for ease of looking at the evening before the sale and sale day. It’s a busy time a year and if you can’t make time to come look, then don’t hesitate to call and have one of us be the eyes for you. Hope to see you all sale day! Sincerely, The Reppe Family
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 • 2 pm Wednesday, April 29, 2026 • 2 pm
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