HUMMEL CATTLE CO Welcome
I would like to personally invite you to join us Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 at 5 PM MST. If you are not able to attend in person, we will be broadcasting the sale on DV Auction. The sale location is 30 minutes west of Laramie, Wyoming. This year’s sale offering includes 17 coming 2-year-old bulls, 53 commercial bred heifers. At the conclusion of the sale, we are excited to offer two donation heifer calves to all the kids in attendance between the ages of 7–17. Our elevation here is 7,398 ft. The bulls have all been PAP tested at weaning, and again at 18 months of age by our good friend Dr. Tim Holt. The bulls and heifers have been grown out on native grass hay and dry land short grass. They are not fat, they are hard muscled. Our
number 1 goal is to produce cattle that hold up in elevation. These cattle have gone through droughts and extreme cold temperatures. They are hardy and not pampered. This has been a good set of cattle. We stand behind each and every animal in the sale. If you have any issues, let us know and we will make it right. This summer Elias Bacon and his fiancée Hanna joined us here at the McGill Ranch. I’d like to thank you both for the long hours of work, friendship, and dedication. I’d also like to thank Joan McGill for letting us carry on the day-to-day operations and letting us raise our families on this beautiful ranch. We love you, and we miss you. As many of you know, Mike McGill passed away back in February. He had been fighting some health issues and held on as long as he could. We hope he is in a better place now. Mike would not have wanted anyone to mourn his passing. He was a very modest person. Mike was a very blessed person and lived a very fulfilling life. He spoke very fondly of his parents, and he and his sister Joann were lucky enough to grow up on this ranch and live their entire lives in this community. Mike was not very tall in stature, and he had a severe stutter as a child. He worked hard to overcome his stutter to the best of his ability and often worked jobs in his youth to gain strength, such as loading ice blocks on railroad cars. He was fortunate enough to attend The University of Wyoming where he was lucky enough to be on some stellar football teams. In college he met his good friend Dale (Stud) Madden. He and Stud went on to be best friends for almost 60+ years. After college he was able to acquire the home ranch from his parents. There was a lot of lean and tough years returning to the ranch, but with some grit and hard work he was able to build his cow herd and acquire some land. Mike grew up with Hereford cows. One year he sold on a sale where they judged the calves first and then sold. He won the show, but the black calves outsold his Hereford calves. He knew from that day on he would only purchase black bulls. To me, Mike was the Dale Earnhardt of bull sales, he was The Intimidator. If he liked a bull, he was probably going to own him. Mike helped a lot of young people start cow herds, or let them put up hay on shares, or gave them ranch jobs until they were able to move on to bigger and better opportunities. He was a big fan of UW sports and donating a steer a year to the college to help with scholarships. Mike and Joan married in 2002. They had many good years together on the ranch. Together they were able to build a pretty good life for themselves. I could probably write a book about all the things Mike did in his lifetime. He was one of a kind, it was a honor to work for him, he will be missed.
Sincerely, Todd Hummel
SNOWY RANGE EQUESTRIAN CENTER
251 MANDEL LANE • LARAMIE, WYOMING
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