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Selling 196 Lots
114 Simmental. Angus |
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“Holistic Approach” |
Kappes Simmentals will retain the right to collect 250 units of semen on any of the bulls selling at the buyer’s convenience and the seller’s expense. |
Sale Day Phone Number: 605-225-2062
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SALE
HEADQUARTERS: Ramada Inn 605-225-3600 Ask for Kappes Simmental Sale Block (held until Feb. 19th) Other motels: Ramkota Inn 605-229-4040 or Super 8 West 605-225-1711
SCHEDULE: Saturday, February 21, 2004 SALE TERMS: All cattle will sell under the Suggested Sale Terms & Conditions of the American Simmental Association and the American Angus Association. Terms will be available sale day. AIR TRANSPORTATION: Aberdeen Regional Airport is serviced by Northwest Airlines, 800-225-2525. Rental cars are available through Avis at 605-225-9153, Hertz 605-225-4163 or National at 605-225-1384. Rental offices are located at the airport terminal. LIVESTOCK INSURANCE: Insurance will be available sale day through sale management. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Announcements made sale day and from the auction block take precedence over printed material in the catalog or other printed material associated with this sale. Anyone attending this sale attends at his or her own risk. Kappes Simmentals, Eberspacher Ent. or any other sale force will not be held responsible for any personal injury for attending this sale. EPDS: Please note that EPDs may change from the time the sale catalog is printed until registration paper is transferred. EPDs listed are the new Spring 2004 numbers. TRUCKING: BULLS: Haul your bulls home sale day and receive a $20 per head discount! FEMALES: Bred females are due shortly after the sale. Please plan on taking them home with you sale day if possible. If you are not able to attend, arrangements will be made to have your females delivered as quick as possible at the most economical cost for you. Publication
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| Does your livestock operation have a destination or just a direction? In life we all should consider “charting our course” or have a plan of where we are going. If you don’t know where you are going, how are you going to know when you get there? If the direction of your program is to increase carcass quality, then how will you accomplish this while maintaining or increasing your profitability? With a destination in mind you’d think about carcass quality with also efficiency or profitability of your livestock business. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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At Kappes’ we concentrate on the “HOLISTIC APPROACH”. As defined by
Webster “relating to complete systems”. Our breeding program is exactly
that “a complete simple system that can be followed successfully by
commercial beef producers.” We don’t chase the fads but focus on the
economic important traits that result in the optimum production of RED
MEAT. Our holistic breeding goals have focused on calving ease, maternal ability, carcass traits, solid colored cattle, structural soundness, fertility, performance and moderate framed cattle that can efficiently process forages into beef. Now is the time to consider reinvesting the profit of your 2003 calf crop to move your herd towards a destination: Superior Holistic Genetics - A destination of profitability. |
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Our customers have requested that we expand our genetic offering. This
year we will again offer Simmental, Sim-Angus and Angus genetics to
enhance your opportunity to utilize a crossbreeding program. Our offering
this year includes more numbers than ever before. We are pleased to
announce the addition of Janssen Farms as a seedstock partner. They have
consistently won the hearts of Simmental seedstock operations and have
successfully promoted elite Simmental cow families that are recognized
across North America as some of the top Simmental cow families. This year
they have joined us as a supplier of seedstock and commercial bulls. The
majority of these bulls were raised as embryo transplant calves in western
North Dakota and have been performance tested with our bull calves. Buy
these bulls with confidence as they represent elite cow families. They
sell with the same guarantee that you’ve come to appreciate from us. They
are identified with the prefix “JF”. Flittie Ranch also has elite bred and
open heifers consigned that are bred with much the same breeding goals as
ours. As an added feature this year we’ve implemented a new program to help you identify cow families. All bred and open heifers have been named with their cow family name. Performance data such as scrotal circumference and ultrasound carcass data will be available the end of January. Plan to attend February 21, 2004 and move your livestock enterprise towards a destination with “Holistic Genetics” available only from Kappes’. Call today to visit about beef production.
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WIN! |
MN
Vikings Preseason Tickets All bull buyers will have a chance to win 4 tickets to 2 preseason games. Details of date and opponent will be mailed to the winning buyers. |
100% CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
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Corey, Travis and Roland
Schnabel Emery & Freeman, South Dakota The longest customer of Kappes Simmental genetics! They have been buying Kappes’ genetics for over 20 years. Roland Schnabel stated, “With Kappes genetics we consistently top the market when we sell our calves in March. Our calves typically weigh approximately 1000 at eleven months of age. We accomplish this while having to touch very few calves at birth. The bulls we’ve bought from Kappes’ have had excellent dispositions. Maternally, Kappes sired females are moderate framed and easy keeping.” |
| Redalen Cattle Company Fountain, Minnesota Letter to Kappes Simmental on July 16, 2003
Just wanted to let you know we
are very pleased with our Preferred Beef bred heifer (Lot 94) we purchased
from you at your sale this spring. She has a powerful, extremely stout
bull calf at her side and she is very easy fleshing and very maternal. We
have flushed her twice since she calved, got seventeen embryos the first
time and twelve embryos the second time. Then we bred her just two days
ago. She has done everything we have asked of her! Thanks for all
your hard work in the Simmental business. |
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EPDs are arrived at by using the ASA’s herdbook on both males and females. EPDs are the best way to evaluate different weight traits. This chart will help you identify individuals that will provide the genetics your are searching for. This chart gives guidelines to understand EPDs. Please ask if you need help analyzing EPDs. |
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Birth EPD Recommended for... |
1 lb. & down heifers & cows |
1 to 2 lbs. heifers calving under supervision and cows |
3 lbs. & up cows only |
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Weaning EPD Will... |
22 to 25 lbs. maintain breed average weaning weight |
25 to 30 lbs. increase weaning weight above breed average |
30 lbs. & up greatly increase weaning weight potential |
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Milk EPD Use when herd milk... |
0 to 3 lbs. is adequate under most range conditions |
3 to 10 lbs. needs to increase to allow more growthy calves to express their potential |
10 lbs. & up is below acceptable levels |
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Maternal WW EPD Daughters will... |
19 to 25 lbs. produce average weight calves |
25 to 30 lbs. produce heavier than average calves |
30 lbs. & up improve weaning weights but must have excellent nutrition for rebreeding |
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Yearling EPD Will provide... |
36 to 44 lbs. good growth potential |
44 to 52 lbs. excellent growth potential |
52 lbs. & up superior growth potential |
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