WELCOME Dear Friends, Fellow Cattlemen, and Valued Customers:
Welcome to our 54th Annual Bull Sale! What a privilege it is to be involved in the cattle industry with so many incredible people and operations. What a joy it is to be surrounded by God’s creations—to see a newborn calf stand on wobbly legs and suckle its dam, to feel the strength of a good horse under your legs, and to witness the majestic beauty of a pink-painted sunrise or sunset. What a humbling honor it is to work hand-in-hand with God as stewards of some of his creations. We are living in a time of unrivaled prices and excitement in the cattle industry with numbers remaining at a sixty-year low and prices holding strong. However, amidst the excitement of high cattle prices, we are also facing a major drought in a large portion of the western United States. Our prayers are filled with supplications that the good Lord will send moisture to these parched rangelands and crop lands. With the ever increasing costs of feed and input expenses, we need cattle that thrive on high roughage diets, raise and wean a big calf each year, and consistently rebreed in a sixty-day calving interval. They need to have good feet and legs and be able to move with ease and have good base width. Low maintenance cattle are a must for cattlemen–cattle with small teats and tight udders, quiet dispositions, and problem- free structure with good longevity. The most efficient strategy to make cattle like this and improve your cow herd with these characteristics is to select bulls that have these traits. At Yardley Cattle Company, we have such genetics, backed by multi-generational quality females.
The bulls in this sale represent a lifetime of breeding quality genetics—deep, thick, moderate- made, easy-fleshing, low-maintenance cattle with quiet dispositions, excellent udders and ideal feet and legs. We have been AIing to the best bulls we can find or raise for 57 years. Our cattle are bred with the commercial cattleman in mind. They thrive on rangelands, excel in the feedlot, and perform in the pasture with style and eye appeal to compete in the show ring. They are loaded with length, width, depth and fleshing ability. Our bulls are raised on the range and expected to excel there. Our cows calve unassisted on desert winter range where they have to trail one to two miles each day for water. In the summer they are driven horseback twenty-five miles to our Forest Service permits. Necessity alone requires that our cattle have good feet and legs, and are structurally-sound, easy-keeping animals. Our bulls are developed on high roughage diets in large pens so they are not overly fat, and are ready to go to work for you. Our goal is that the bulls you purchase in this sale will improve your profitability and bottom line. We have a rigorous culling program and stand confidently behind our product. If you have any questions or concerns now or after the sale, please contact us. We look forward to seeing you in beautiful Beaver, UT, March 14. Thank you for your interest and confidence in our program, -Steven Yardley Family
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