The high selling bull was Lot 2, MSAR Walk On 4 Traveler 5021, selling for $14,500. His new home will be in Nisland, North Dakota at Foos Angus Ranch. Lot 2 is a thick and extremely well balanced bull. His sire is Dars Walk On 4 Traveler 584, a son of GDAR Traveler 584 L T and the Sitz Barbara Perfection 4368 cow. Lot 2 had EPD’s of + 5 for CED, + 1.0 for Birth, + 41 for Wean, + 76 for Yearling and + 24 for Milk. The dam, Msar Evidences Eppionia 0014, is a good producing daughter of MSAR Right Time 7757, having five calves at 103 for birth, five calves at 102 for Wean, and four at 103 for Yearling, with an actual birth weight of 85 pounds with a Wean Ratio of 107 and a Yearling Ratio of 110.

The second high selling bull, Lot 36, JJA Game Day 5065, from the Joel and Bethany (Sitz) Johnston herd, Thedford, NE, sold to repeat customer, Hauserman Ranch, North Platte, for $11,000. Lot 36 is an attractive, long, high capacity GDAR Game Day 449 son being from the Marshall Queen cow family. Maternal Grandsire is MSAR New Deal 6676. Lot 36 had EPD’s of + 3 for CED, + 1.9 for Birth, + 47 for Wean, + 84 for Yearling and + 28 for Milk. The dam, Msar Marshall Queen 0060, a Pathfinder cow, has five calves at 107 for birth, five calves at 110 for Wean and two at 107 for Yearling, with an actual birth weight of 94 pounds with a Wean Ratio of 116 and a Yearling Ratio of 115.

Hauserman Ranch took home another high selling bull for $10,500. Lot 12, another well-balanced, long bodied Walk On 4 Traveler 584 son, was from the Marshall Queen cow family. Lot 12 had EPD’s of + 7 for CED, + 0.6 for Birth, + 45 for Wean, + 78 for Yearling and + 26 for Milk. The dam, Msar Marshall Queen 1027, is a Pathfinder cow out of a Pathfinder sire CAR Chinnook 786 and a Pathfinder dam. She has four calves at 105 for birth, four calves at 104 for Wean and three at 106 for Yearling, with an actual birth weight of 84 pounds, with a Wean Ratio of 112 and a Yearling Ratio of 107.

The Sitz and Johnston family want to thank everyone who attended their sale, and all those who bid and purchased.

The auctioneer was Mike Baxter from Ainsworth, Nebraska.