The Chronicles of 100X Ranch and the Guttormson family 2025
We are proud and excited to look back at what 2025 brought to our lives, both good or bad. We all grew in our daily endeavors, sometimes surprising ourselves even. It seems practically daily we have “What the ___ happened now?” experiences. Ranch life is amazing even entertaining at times. Wouldn’t change it for nothing.
April showed us some signs of spring. The big bastards that insisted on rubbing hair off, despite every effort to keep them treated, had grown back and started slicking off for the year. Brian was able to come up during the middle of the month to view the operation and deliver bulls to our valuable customers. As they made it to their new homes, we really appreciated the feedback for how good the bulls looked and their dispositions. The main cowherd started calving the 20th of April and kept us chasing our own tails to keep up with everything. Wouldn’t want it any other way. May gives us hope, that grass does turn green every year bringing new life and optimism. The most bizarre thing happened though! We have our own shipper for semen and embryos. It was packed with some very rare and valuable semen to be sent to Trans Ova. Low and behold, this tank took the long route by UPS. When it didn’t show on time, we discovered it was mistakenly sent to Germany! Hours on the
January brought on new challenges as the most recent purchases in late 2024 made their way to the ranch. Our weather was not cooperative for comfort but new females still had to be calved. We had made the decision to host an online bull sale for the first time. Assembling and orchestrating a sale has a lot of moving parts. The learning curve was steep and we were doing tasks not usual in our past. Ian Hall,
phone literally all over the world to locate and get it returned was stressful to say the least. A huge Thanks to Patty Miller from TransOva for working overtime to retrieve the tank. You went above and beyond! Back-up sires for the upcoming IVF Aspirations were chosen. With the grace of God, it was only misplaced one more time before finally getting to the destination in the nick of time. Let’s not do that again, UPS. The first group of ET
Rafter H Ag Enterprises, came out and clipped and burned sale bulls. On the 19th, Lacey Holen Kraft, Kool Kreft Promotions, endured the coldest day of the year at -47F to photo and video. That’s not pleasant regardless of where you are from. All the steps needed to get a catalog made and set up DVAuction, had to be done while the daily chores of feeding, bedding, and family activities kept us very busy. Special recognition to Amy and mini-assistant Colton of handfeeding the bulls their supplement and creating great dispositions. February didn’t warm up much. Getting advertising out, catalogs mailed, customer visits and displaying at the Farm Show consumed most of the time to the bull sale on the 18- 19th. Maybe this wasn’t the largest sale in the country, but it was a perfect amount to learn the ropes. When the sale completed, we were so humbled by the great people who inquired, bid, watched, and purchased bulls especially over a wide geographical area. Thank you so much for your trust and belief in our program. We started planning the 2026 event straight away. 100X was pleased to have purchased JNR Brick as the high selling bull at JNR’s sale early in the month. Since our breeding window is much later, JNR Farms leased him for their early 2025 breeding season. Brick was a veteran breeder when he got here. March starts our calving of the Embryo Transfer and first calf heifers, due March 10 and 27. This is an awesome time as
recips were set up along with donors for fresh implants and the AI program on the heifers commenced. Thanks Kyle and Mitch for all you do at and for 100X Ranch and still operate B&G Electric full time. Weekends stay very busy. During the week, kid’s sports, music recitals, and other school events keep the wheels turning in all directions. Fences on all of the pastures had to be looked over and repaired if needed for turn-out. June accelerated to full throttle. If it is even possible to jam more into our schedules. If the sun shines, there are things to be done. The second and largest group of recip cows were set up for implanting the most exciting set of embryos. Donors; Sibelle Pol Amazone 41L, WJS Loyal Choice 118L and LFS Pol Juliette contributed a generous quantity of embryos from numerous matings, along with the proven older donors. Our good friend and proficient embryologist, Todd Van Dyke, from Pennsylvania for group 1. And our friends at TransOva provided tremendous professional services for group 2 recips. Pairs were sorted and turned out to grass and multiple herdsires joined them in various pastures. Our Fleckvieh cows run with our commercial cows and mated with selected sires. Ground was prepared for planting crops and feedstuffs.
the product we worked so hard to create genetically starts the next cycle of our program. Selling coming two-year-old bulls, requires patience. Not always our personal strong attribute. We wouldn’t be able to get everything done without our kids lending a helping hand. Nearly 60 ET calves were born, exciting us even more for the genetic progress the future.
July is full on summer. This year we purchased a team of Percheron mares with fillies at their side. Celebrating our community of Velva, we hitched them up and drove them in the
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