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Joplin Regional Stockyards, Carthage, MO
Cattlemen and
Cattlewomen, Hello from all of us at Flying H Genetics! It is our
pleasure to welcome you to our first Missouri production sale. With
over 60 years of experience in seedstock production and improvement,
it is our goal to offer expanded options to the beef producers
within our regions by providing them with a quality guaranteed
product, valuable services and standing behind them 100%. As you
read through this catalog, you will notice we don’t use the “Smoke &
Mirrors” concept of advertising. We won’t brag about enormous
weights, use terms like “scale busters” or try to cover up genetic
deficiency with layers of fat. If you want to buy fat, go to a
butcher shop; not a bull sale! Our “Grown On Grass” program is
designed to build athletes. It requires our bulls to be developed in
fescue paddocks with a feed supplement that is specifically designed
for a growing bull. They will appear hard, are not fat, can survive
our tough summers, will live longer, and work harder. For these
reasons, we will not be publishing weights or misleading data in our
catalog. Instead, we will include only EPDs & DNA, the real genetic
predictors! It is easy to impress folks with massive weights from
fat to make cattle appear better than they really are. BEEF magazine
published an article by a leading columnist last month that
reiterated the fact that EPDs are still the single most accurate
predictor of genetic value we have. Weights and ratios collected by
breeders help mold the EPDs into a more accurate predictor and
therefore are valuable pieces of the genetic puzzle. By eliminating
the less valuable data from our catalog and adding DNA results, your
selection process will be more accurate, unbiased and based on the
“real” genetic value of the animal. We are aware of the skepticism
of EPDs brought on by the manipulation of data by some producers,
whose genetics over promise and often under deliver. To protect our
customers, FHG bulls are required to pass all of our 17
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2008 FLYING H GENETICS “GROWN ON GRASS” HERDBULL SALE REPORT
A great crowd of cattlemen and women joined the Flying H Genetics crew at Joplin Regional Stockyards to evaluate and price the 51 head of Quality Guaranteed Bulls presented in working condition.
This first ever group of “Grown on Grass” bulls was well accepted with many customers commenting they liked the fact the bulls were muscular, athletic and not fat.
The 43 yearling and 8 eighteen month old bulls averaged $2226 and sold into 5 states.
Top selling bull at $5000 was a Woodhill Foresight sired Angus bull purchased by Robert Simmons. Top selling Balancer was selected by Gary Endicott at $3500 and the top priced SimAngus went home to Scott Widner for $3000.
For more information or to request a list of the private treaty “Grown on Grass” bulls contact Jared at 417. 309.0062 |
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