Welcome to Wedel Beef Genetics’ 26th Annual Bull & Replacement Female Sale Welcome to our 26 th annual production sale. After a few tough years of drought, we were blessed with some green grass this summer and the Wedel Red Angus herd did what they were supposed to do; bred up at a high rate, weaned heavy calves and got themselves in shape to handle the winter. We were further blessed with the best market we’ve seen in our lifetime, with weaned calves bringing over $2500, yearlings often besting $3000, and finished steers over $4000. The bulls we’ll offer on March 10 th are the result of breeding decisions made in the spring of 2024, but more than that they are the product of 11 years of testing for Feed Efficiency, 40 plus years of feedlot and carcass data collection and more than 10 generations of our cow herd being honed for maternal efficiency and environmental fit against all the droughts and harsh winters our western great plains location has to offer. I believe during these last two years, I’ve had more fun breeding Red Angus seedstock than at any time in our 40+ years as a Red Angus genetic supplier.. That results from witnessing the success our customers have enjoyed with market topping results during the big summer video sales as well as seeing the incredible set of “wet” 2-year-old daughters of our new herd
sires. The first calf daughters of Remedy and Transcendent are beautiful uddered and appear to be every bit as good as the Prime-Times and Cornerstones were two years earlier. We continue to participate in the largest structured progeny test in the Red Angus breed. There we collect not only harvest data, but reproductive data that drills deeper into heifer breed up, calving season distribution and calving interval. The results of that progeny testing show in the closeouts on the steers we, and our customers feed, the breed-up on our heifers, and the high reproductive rates and low average cow carrying costs that we enjoy on our Wallace Ranch. We’ve completed a decade of selling bulls with our good friends at Anderson Land & Cattle. Our ranch customers from the high deserts of eastern Oregon and north- ern Nevada tell us their ALC prefix bulls hold up just like the Wedel bulls, which we expect since they are developed exactly the same and the Andersons share very similar selection priorities. Study our catalog over the past 10 years and you’ll see an increase in the genetic similarities between our programs. Thanks again for your interest in Wedel Beef Genetics, please let us know if we can better serve you in either bull selection or in the marketing of your next calf crop! Frank and Susan Wedel
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