Greetings Cattlemen & Cattlewomen: Sometimes I can’t believe how good this market truly is, I hope it continues for the rest of my life. Fertility continues to be a problem in the commercial cattle industry and Gelbvieh excels in fertility and longevity. I continue to preach every commercial cowherd needs some Gelbvieh in their herd, so they last. Rippe Gelbvieh has continued to assemble a cow herd that is balanced in ALL traits that are economically important to our customers – commercial cattlemen. We have a complete lineup of Balancer and Purebred Gelbvieh bulls that have enough genetic variation to compliment your cow herd and allow you to take full advantage of the “free lunch” that heterosis and hybrid vigor offer. In my eyes, what sets us at Rippe Gelbvieh apart is how much we are tied into the cattle business. My dad, Duane, manages the cow calf and farming operation. I, Dustin, own and operate Roode Feedyard at Fairbury, NE. I buy a lot of customer calves and feed out our own each year. This allows us to collect carcass data back on many, many individual animals. I want to emphasize this is not a side business for us, we both make our living in the cattle industry and are really passionate about its future. Joel Cast is also very instrumental in this operation. Joel knows the cattle as well as anyone. I can point out a cow 50 yards away and he can tell me what cow it is along with 2 generations back in her pedigree and what the birthweight was of her last calf. We couldn’t manage this herd or collect the data we do without him. Many places preach maternal. How can they preach maternal without taking cow weights and looking at cow efficiency? Joel takes pride in taking an udder score on every cow that calves. Every heifer is DNA’d prior to being selected as a replacement. Not many operations can match the genetic lineup we are offering. It isn’t by chance. We run a very large seedstock herd and are very aggressive in our AI and ET program along with owning some of the best bulls in the business. From a carcass standpoint, we have as much actual kill data as anyone in the country. We ultrasound the bulls and heifers each and every year. It is our hope that the information we track is valuable to you when you are selecting bulls. I won’t buy a bull that is not sire verified. I won’t buy a bull without knowing the udder on the dam. I won’t buy a bull that doesn’t have genomics. You shouldn’t either. We will be posting additional information on a supplement sheet prior to the sale on our website. Please call ahead of the sale and we can go over your program and your program’s needs. Duane & Dustin Rippe
Contact Information:
For information regarding the bulls contact Dustin. Dustin & Karla Rippe C - 316-323-4874 C- 402-200-0555 Email: dustin@rgcattle.com Duane & Brenda Rippe 6775 Road D – Hubbell, NE 68375 C – 402-200-0096 Joel Cast C - 402-641-1705 10 th year at Rippe Gelbvieh Stan Sims C – 850-557-0115 1 st year at Rippe Gelbvieh
Dustin, Karla, Brenda & Duane
Joel & Amanda Cast
Sale Manager: Chris Mitchell
Stan Sims family
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