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PolandAngusRanch CB Farms
M arch4,2026
Isabel,Kansas
Post-Sale Care: For those that may not have a safe place for your new purchase, we will care for your new purchases at no cost to you or 30 days. After 30 days, we will continue to care for your bull for $5 per day. Terms and Conditions: We will retain 1/3 revenue sharing semen interest in all bulls selling in this year’s sale. The purchaser gets full possession and 100% salvage value of the purchased bull. All purchases are to be settled sale day unless prior arrangements have been made. Cattle will sell under the suggested Terms and Conditions of the American Angus Association ( http://www.angus.org/ Pub/suggested_sale_terms.pdf ). Herd Health: Proper health certificates for immediate shipment will accompany all cattle. All breeding age bulls have passed a breeding soundness evaluation and have tested PI negative. Announcements: Announcements made from the sale block will take precedence over printed material. Insurance: Livestock mortality insurance is available upon request through Farm Bureau Insurance in Medicine Lodge. Call Corona Hoch at 620-886-3316. The office personnel will help you. Delivery: Bulls picked up sale day will receive a $50 discount. Free delivery; 1) all purchases within 100 miles; 2) all purchases $3500 or more, or two or more bulls within 200 miles; 3) all bulls over $5000 within the continental United States. Video Auction The bulls will not run through the ring on sale day, so come early to evaluate the bulls in the pens! See page 5 for more information. Selling: 40 Angus Fall Yearlings 37 Angus Spring Yearlings Schedule of Events: March 3rd: Noon-6:30…………………………View Bulls March 4th: 8 AM………………………………View Bulls 11:30 AM…………….Complimentary Lunch 12:45 PM………………Opening Comments 1 PM………………….Video Auction Begins View the sale book, bull video, and updated bull information on our website: www.polandangus.com .
Auctioneer : Andrew Sylvester, 785-456-4352 Livestock Press: Bud Mears, High Plains Journal, 785-405-0376 Stephen Russell, Kansas Stockman, 785-458-2650 Guy Peverly, The Stock Exchange , 785-456-4390
Buyers unable to attend the sale may send their bids to the Auctioneer, owners or any member of the livestock press. DVAuction will be broadcasting this year’s sale. Go to www.dvauction.com to view the video of the bulls and register to bid. Sale Day Phones: Richard Poland 620-886-1720 Berry Bortz 620-546-6077 Brandon Bortz 620-546-4199 Brandon Poland 620-886-1755 Paul Smith 620-886-0399 Jeff Mafi 816-344-4266 Accommodations: PRATT, KS: Comfort Suites..……….……..…704 Allison Lane - 620-672-9999 Holiday Inn Express……..……..1903 Pauline Pl. - 620-508-6350 Best Western Plus………………………112 K-61 - 620-508-6466 MEDICINE LODGE, KS: Copa Budget Host Inn………………W. Hwy. 160 - 620-886-5673 Sale Location: From Isabel, KS (which is 15 miles north of Medicine Lodge or 22 miles SE of Pratt), Poland Angus Ranch is located 1 mile east on Hwy 42, 3 miles south on Isabel Road, 1 mile east on Mineral Road (at Poland Angus Sign) and 1/4 mile north on Harvest Road. Repeat Buyer and Volume Discounts: We offer discounts for both our repeat buyers and volume buyers of bulls that sell for greater than $3,500. If you have purchased a bull in the last three years, you will receive a 5% discount on your bull purchases for any bull selling for more than $3,500. If you buy five or more bulls for more than $3,500 each, you will receive a 5% discount. Buy 10 or more and take 10% off. The total discount combining the repeat and volume discounts will not exceed 10%. Additionally, there is a $50/head discount for bulls taken home on sale day. Breeding Guarantee: First breeding season guarantee until August 1 of the year purchased, against death and injury on any bull selling for $3,500 or more. In the case of an injury that prohibits the bull’s use as a breeder per inspection by buyer and seller, the bull will be sold for salvage price, which the buyer will retain. The buyer will then receive credit for the bid price less the salvage price in next year’s sale or exchange for a suitable replacement. All bulls are guaranteed as breeders; we stand behind all of the bulls regardless of price.
Welcome to the 2026 edition of the Carcass Plus Bull Sale. Poland Angus Ranch and CB Farms FLP are glad to make this outstanding offering of breeding bulls and we are excited that you have shown interest in this offering. We strive to improve our genetic offering each year, to help put money in your pocket and to improve our own cow herds. As you know, there are few quick fixes in breeding cattle. It is a long planned game plan that brings improvements in many traits of economic importance. Poland Angus Ranch strives to produce breeding stock that will have a POSITIVE, LASTING EFFECT on the cattle industry. We should live our lives with this goal in mind as well. This years offering brings the first offspring from some new bulls we have used. Connealy Commerce was used to improve carcass traits while at the same time enhancing body capacity. I believe that the Commerce bulls are exhibiting the added body capacity and carcass marbling and ribeye that I anticipated. Commerce has been heavily used across the country and ranks high in registrations at the AAA. 2 Bar C Crossfire was added to improve carcass merit and maintain body capacity as well. The Crossfire bulls have certainly excelled at improving IMF and have performed well. You will have an expanded selection of these Crossfire sons in the future. KA Kindred is another Fireball son that we sampled this past year. The Kindred bulls in this sale were purchased on their dams from Rosemayne Angus at Burdett. We have a good number of Kindred calves on the ground that will be in the sale next year. Once again, I used Kindred to enhance carcass merit. I believe that the new sires we have added to our program are doing what we thought they would do, improve carcass merit and performance while maintaining body capacity and functionality. Select your new breeding stock with confidence that they will perform to your expectations.
Richard and Anita
Brandon, Jan, Regan, Zeb and Quinn Poland Bailea, Daniel, Kyler and Coraline Daub Faith and Tommy McDowell
Paul, Heather, Corbin, Camryn and Callan Smith
Thank you for considering our offering.
If you have questions, ask them. We are here to help you make breeding stock selections that will benefit you for years to come. Sincerely
Kent, Erin, Isabel and Reese Simpson
Richard Poland
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First of all, I would like to thank our friends, neighbors, customers, family, and service providers for taking an interest in the sale and for all your support. Without you, there would be no need or motivation to do what we do. Speaking of motivation, I am writing this on February 5, and like many of you, the last two weeks have taken a lot of energy and motivation to care for the livestock during those two polar vortex cold snaps. We went five days straight during the first one without taking our clothes off, just power napping. We patrol the pastures every three hours when the temperature drops below 15°F. For the most part, if the cows stay on the bedding next to the shelter belts, the calves are pretty resilient. However, it’s those cows that want to walk away and lay down on top of the snow to calve that create issues. In those cases, we have to intervene on the calf’s behalf, then spend a day getting them paired back up. Right now, we are two-thirds done calving, and the oddest part for us is that we are running 7% twins on both the heifers and cows. Twins can create their own set of challenges as well. During those late-night checks, my mind tends to wander a bit. Maybe it’s just sleep deprivation taking over, or maybe it’s old age and a lack of focus. Two things really struck me. The first: for those who think beef prices are too high, I would like you to stay with us for two months during calving season before voicing your opinion! Besides the physical and mental tolls, the rate of rising economic costs is just inconceivable. As evidence of this, I offer the following: On Wednesday, I needed to rewire a trailer plug-in. I keep a picture in the glove box because it seems to be a more frequent occurrence that I forget to unplug before I drive off. While rummaging through the glove box, I found the original list price sticker: 2015 Ford F250 4x4 diesel crew cab, $48,800 list. The same pickup today would be over $90,000. The second thing: Of all the EPDs we’ve studied and developed, we have yet to come up with an I.Q. for expecting mothers—more specifically, an environmental awareness I.Q. While picking up cold calves from moms that had walked away from protection, I realized that more than half of those cows had short ears. This likely means their mothers probably did the same thing. Does this mean environmental awareness is heritable? Now, to the more pressing question of the day: What is a good bull worth? OSU’s Mark Johnson recently published an article in Drovers that I would encourage you to read. It’s available online by searching for “What is a good bull worth.” He uses the age-old adage that a bull is worth 5 calves. Then, he goes into the calculations of selling at weaning, as yearlings, or as a finished steer. He concluded that the longer you own the calf, the more valuable the bull becomes, because you capture more of his genetic properties. Mark came up with values ranging from $12,000 for weaning programs to $17,175 for retained ownership programs, based on last fall’s market conditions. Prices are higher today than last fall, so he may be underestimating the value this spring, given current prices. THANK YOU again for your interest, Berry and Crew
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PolandAngusRanch 1230NEHarvestRd. Isabel,KS67065 620.739.4587 richardpoland18@ gm ail.com cbfarm sfp@ gm ail.com Carcas PlusBulSale M arch4,2026
EventSchedule
BulsAvailableforViewing 8:00 AM Lunch 1:30AM OpeningRem arks 12:45PM VideoAuctionBegins 1:00 PM
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