2020 Calves

It sure has been an interesting year...  We have had more family time which has been good and have been working hard on a great set of calves.  I will follow up with a few more pics but here are a couple of highlights:

Soggy Balmoral Oaks Eagle daughter.  Cow is by Saskvally Warrior so lots of Canadian breeding. 

Super stout steer by DMH Maverick.  Dark roan and ready to show.  Look for more pics of Mav calves, really have a nice set.

Sweet heifer calf here!  Thermal Energy back to a young daughter of our big bull TS Ben Cartwright.  She has two shots of Bonanza and it worked out!  We went back and used twice as much TE at breeding time!  Check back for more pics of this girl and other salty heifer calves.

Locker beef for sale

It is an interesting time in the world!  We have been selling quarters of beef but still have a beef and a half for the end of August, two for the end of October and one for mid November 2020.  Send me an email or give me a call if you are interested. Check out BSF Natural Beef, Pork and Lamb page for more information on our farm.

Thanks,

Ed

2020 Minnesota Shorthorn Sale Entry

Consigned to Minnesota Shorthorn Sale

Simon Arena - Cannon Falls, MN

BSF 320A Springtime 909G

 909G is super stout. She's out of our Bonanza son TS Ben Catrwright and back to a daughter of BSF Fresh Price.  The dam goes back to Alta Cedar Signature and HUBS Red Prince.

2019 Calves

The 2019 calf crop was pretty salty!!  It did lean a little more towards the bull end of the spectrum.  Here are a few snapshots of the crop

Bull calf we are keeping.  He's out of a cow we bought in the Minnesota State Sale from Doug Bruns.  He's a JDMC Standout times Big Sky momma.  Double bred Bonanza!

He's pretty thick!

Here's the other bull we are keeping.  DMH Cherry Fillet back to a Saskvalley Warrior daughter.  Soggy red and polled!

TS Ben Cartwright times Deerhorn Fresh Prince.  She was sold to Kaitlyn Rux. Thanks Kaitlyn!!

Here's a Fall calving heifer back to DMH Maverick.  We have 15 calves out of him and they all came easy and are pretty stout.  Tough Fall with the weather but they seemed to push through it.
 

We moved all of our Red Angus females to the Fall herd.  I also own a Regulator Son from Nordlund Stock Farm with Rob Tate and Dean Taylor.  Here's the oldest calf out of him.  Her mother is out of an NBAR Hamley son.

Busy Summer!!

It was a very busy summer!!  It started out with Pre-school Graduation for Brenden.

It was his idea to wear the tie!! I'm told he graduated with honors!

The next venture was T-Ball

If you can't pick it up from the picture he's all left handed!

We then let the genie out of the bottle for Brenden's show career with some showpigs from Steve and Jill Resler.  Tiana added a couple of gilts to the mix too.

People breaking pigs with little sister and dottie looking on!

 



Summer ditch walking!

At High Honors comeback show with big sister!

Cousins hanging out!

Good day at Minnesota State Fair Jr. Barrow Show

Hanging with the barrows down in Austin at the NBS

Great big ribbons at the National Barrow Show!
 

The summer came and went with school starting.  A big day for Loralei….preschooler in the house!

With her Elsa dress on Loralei didn't look back on the first day of pre-school!

2018 Heifer Calf Crop

Hope the winter season has been treating everyone well!  It looks like the cold and snow are settling in for a normal winter.  I was very fortunate to be able to connect with a cattlemen from North Dakota this past Fall and market all but one of my spring born Shorthorn heifers as well as a couple of Fall 2017 heifers.  I did want to post some pictures of them as I am very proud of what we produced.

Most of the calves were sired by TS Ben Cartwright.  You can see an updated picture of him on the sires page.

Because of the sale I didn't have any females to consign to the Minnesota State Shorthorn Sale.  We do have a nice set of Fall 2018 purebred heifers if anyone is interested.

Haumont Rosabell Cow with calf sired by Haumont bull.

TS Ben Cartwright daughter with Haumont bull sired heifer calf

2018 Cattle Offering

Normally I would be posting pictures of bred and open heifers we were consigning at the Minnesota Shorthorn Sale.  This past year was very successful in terms of marketing females so I didn't have many open heifers to make into bred heifers!  Good problem to have!  We do have some 2017 born  heifer calves mostly sired by TS Ben Cartwright (Bonanza Son)  Here are some examples:

Ben C. times Fresh Prince

Ben C. times 80c

We also have a nice set of Fall born heifer calves out of a bull which originated with Haumont Shorthorns in Nebraska.  They are still on the cow so I will post pictures later.