Mike Sitz Angus Ranch

Mike Sitz Angus Ranch / Joel Johnston Angus
Hosts 51th Annual Bull Sale

Mike and Debra Sitz, and Joel and Bethany Johnston hosted their 51th Annual Bull Sale at the Burwell Livestock Market, on Monday, February 5, 2024. Following a week of foggy weather, sale day in Burwell continued that same pattern, with icy roads reported to the east, and glimpses of a lighter sky to the west. With the Burwell’s morning temperature at 32 degrees, overall, it was a good sale day weather wise.

For over a century the Sitz family has been devoted to building a cowherd centered around functional and problem free Angus genetics, and coming from this cow herd was a very uniform set of bulls, with 92 head of Mike Sitz and Joel Johnston’s Coming- Two-Year-Old Angus bulls, averaging $6600.

The high selling bull came from the Joel and Bethany Johnston herd. Lot 29, JJA Justified 2169, a son of KG Justified 3023#, and dam, JJA Marshall Queen 7177#, both designated Pathfinders. This deep, eye appealing, high ratioing Justified son, sold to repeat customer Mike and Jane Gesiriech, Newport, Nebraska, for $17,000. A calving ease-bull, he had a 72-pound birth weight, with a 119 Wean Ratio and a 114 Yearling Ratio. EPD’s on Lot 29 are 13 CED, -1.7 BW, 60 WW, 97 YW, 9 CEM, 30 Milk, and ranking in the top 5% for $M with an 86.

Repeat customer, Brandon Bruha, Ord, Nebraska purchased Lot 60, MSAR Century 2071, the second high selling bull for $13,500. Lot 60 is a son of MSAR Emblazon 2092 – 4079, and the dam is from the Blackbird cow line, and a BAR Ext Traveler 205 # daughter, having 10 calves on record. This bull had EPDs of 7 CED, 1.9 BW, 53 WW, 96 YW, 7 CEM Milk 31, 79 for $M. He had a birth weight of 85 pounds, a Wean Ratio of 110 and a Yearling Ratio of 115.

Another repeat customer, Hauserman Ranch, Stapleton, Nebraska, purchased Lot 62, MSAR Century 2084, for $12,500. A MSAR Emblazon 2092 – 4079 son, this stylish, deep bodied bull has a maternal side packed with five Pathfinders in a three-generation pedigree. The dam is a MSAR Forte 6776 # daughter, from the Blackbird cow line, with the cow herself being a Pathfinder, having 12 calves on record.

Hauserman Ranch took home Lot 56, MSAR Century 2059, for $12,000. He had EPDs of 8 CED, 1.3 BW, 50 WW, 87 YW, 8 CEM, 27 Milk, 81 $M, with an 81 Birth Weight, a 106 Wean Ratio and a 105 Yearling Ratio. His dam is from the Blackbird cow family.

The high selling sire group were the MSAR Game Day 4042 - 7041 sons averaging $8450, the second high-selling sire group were the Century bulls from MSAR Emblazon 2092-4079 at $7767, with the KG Justified 3023 sons right on his heels at $7470.

Mike Baxter, Ainsworth, was the auctioneer.

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