Welcome
TO THE ANNUAL UNL BULL SALE
Dear Cattleman,
I would like to welcome you to the 33rd annual Bull Sale conducted by the 2026 UNL Beef Seedstock Production and Sales class. I hope you will take the time to visit with our students on sale day. The experiences, and knowledge, these young cattle enthusiasts gain from interacting with you is invaluable. I encourage cattle producers to think about buying bulls as an investment in genetics. Depending on the goals of the operation, the time horizon where we see the return on that investment might vary. Increased weights or carcass merit manifest earlier than improvements to reproductive longevity of the cowherd. Indeed, having an objective, and working the plan to achieve your objective, is important. Our objective is not only to provide bulls that will improve the profitability of our customers, but to also educate the next generation of cattle producers and allied industry professionals. In addition to the opportunity to invest in genetics, our student-run sale also offers bull buyers the opportunity to invest in the future of our industry by supporting the kinds of hands-on and real-world experiences that our seedstock herd and this class enable. We encourage you to reach out, before the sale or on sale day, to tell us about your goals so that we can help make sure that we best match bulls to your operation. My job, year-round, is to develop, evaluate, and deploy advanced genetic selection tools and methods. That is why you will notice that our catalog focuses on the (proven) selection tools that really matter—EPDs and economic selection indexes. If there is additional data that you would like to see to help you make your decision, please ask and we’ll provide it. If you have questions, please ask. Education is at the heart of what we do. This sale requires a great deal of effort year-round by numerous people. We would like to thank our ENREEC Cow-Calf crew: Dale Foster, Manager; Trevor Ormesher, Bonnie Long, and Brooke Rudloff along with all the student employees. Also, thanks to the ENREEC Feedlot crew. We certainly could not have put this together without Brent Johnson. We owe a lot to those that put more effort into our sale than they need to, specifically our auctioneer Matt Printz and Chris Beutler. We would also like to thank all of the folks at DVAuction.
Most of all, we thank you for your support of our sale and our teaching program here at UNL.
Matt Spangler UNL Teaching Herd Coordinator, Professor and Extension Beef Genetics Specialist
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