Welcome to Kappes Simmentals and the "Holistic Approach"
Simmental and Angus Maternal & Performance Sale

In life we all have many desires and at Kappes Simmentals we concentrate on the "Holistic Approach" when focusing on personal and business goals. Our breeding program has concentrated very heavily on convenience traits for our commercial and seedstock customers. Our focus has been to produce cattle that excel in the following areas: solid color pattern, polled gene, calving ease, low birth weights, performance, maternal, carcass quality, structurally correct and phenotype. Our breeding program ranks in the top of the breed when talking about calving ease and low birth weights. Our genetics have been designed to provide profit for all segments of the industry, not just one.

This year’s offering provides several genetic packages to help you meet your breeding goals. We have increased our bull offering from our previous sales to provide you with a broader selection of future herd sires. This year’s bull offering will include the following: red and black Simmental bulls, SimmAngus bulls and Angus bulls.

Each year we sort through thousands of pedigrees to select our future herd sires. This is done with much patience and is directed by our customers breeding goals. Our selection process is designed to continue to compliment our base genetics in our cowherd. Our banker doesn’t always agree with us on how much we pay for herd sires, but we feel that in order to move forward genetically it only can be accomplished with superior genes. Our commitment to buy the best is evident in the success of our herd bulls; very little semen is used from outside sources. The majority of semen used in our A.I. and embryo transplant comes from the sires that walk our pastures or we have raised. Our most recent acquisition includes the pick of the Grand Champion Pen of 3 at the 2002 National Western Stock Show, Daume Lucky Deal L101. If he breeds the way he looks, his calves will be awesome. The high selling bull at Gateway Simmentals, GW Twenty-Four Seven, he was a standout in his class in terms of calving ease, birth weight, performance, phenotype and carcass quality. 24-7 is a son of the leading carcass sire Lucky Strike. He is solid black and does not have a white hair on him. Home-raised future stars include Duramax, Collateral and Direct Force.

Once again, Flittie Simmentals will join us for this event. Their cattle philosophy is very similar to ours. Their consignments include bred and open donor female prospects.

Complete ultrasound carcass and scrotal circumference data will be available the end of January. Plan to attend February 15th, 2003 and move your cowherd towards value based marketing by using our "Holistic Approach" genetics.

                                                                              Sincerely,
                                                                              Kappes Simmentals