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.

2018 Beef and Pork Orders

I would like to Thank all of our customers that purchased beef and pork from our farm.  We really appreciate not only your business but your confidence in what we are raising!!




Thank you!!!!

We are now taking orders for 2018.


Beef

1. Two beef going in February 22nd - Three quarters remaining
2. Two beef going in March 22nd - all available

Pork

1. We are long ways away from August but its not too early to plan ahead!  I would like a $50 deposit on a pig and I will guarantee on for August delivery.

As always we will be using Lonsdale Country Market for our beef.  We can try a different processor for the pigs if requests are made and I can get appointments.


Updated Sale Picture

The 2017 Minnesota Shorthorn Sale is Sunday February 26 at noon. Sale is held at Simon Arena in Cannon Falls

Minnesota Shorthorn Sale Lot 14

2017 Minnesota Shorthorn Sale...
February 26, 2017 - Simon Arena - Cannon Falls, MN

It's that time of year once again!  We have entered two animals for the sale:



BSF 934 Audry 628D (x4242874)

This is the first calf offered up for sale out of TS Ben Cartwright and she's a dandy!  Just a May baby and is ready to show or run in the front pasture. 

TS Ben Cartwright - by Saskvally Bonanza



BSF 828 North Springtime 522C (*DR4245222)

Durham Red!  522c is a half sib to past sale heifers out of our Norseman King son Red Angus bull.  Her mother goes back to an old favorite from Canada Eionmor Ultra 49J.  She was AI'd to Red Cloud 7026 and cleaned up with ADS HL Conquistador (JSF Troubador son) due in late March 2017.

I do have some more half sibs to this bred female and they are like peas in a pod! 

KAMILAROI MEAT PACKER H04

BSF 106Y Miss Packer (x4234827)
Meat Packer out of a Prince of Jazz daughter

Along with Donnelly Shorthorns and Bollum Family Shorthorns we purchased the U.S. semen rights on Meat Packer.  We will be having calves out of him the end of March 2016.  Semen is available so bring your tanks to the 2016 Minnesota Shorthorn Sale!!

 

2016 State Sale Entry

We ended up having to scratch our bred heifer from the 2016 sale.  The vet figures that she ate some bad feed and ended up with an infection in her mouth.  The swelling went down but she still has a small hard spot on her jaw.  I do not feel right putting her in the sale.

BSF 035X Gayle 419B

She does look good and I do have two half sisters to her I would be willing to sell all bred to DMH Cherry Fillet due the end of March 2016.

2015 Minnesota Shorthorn Sale Entries

I have consigned these three bred heifers to the 2015 Minnesota Shorthorn Sale.  We have also put the blue roan heifers pictured in a previous post from the 2014 North Star Classic by Hard Core out of a Prince of Jazz daughter.  

324A Purebred Shorthorn

 

304A Shorthorn Plus

313A Shorthorn Plus

2015 Bred Heifer Offering

The chart speaks for itself.    The plus females are like peas in a pod.  All out of the same Norseman King son and solid Shorthorn Mamma's.  Most of them are solid red with a couple showing some roan.  I am asking $2800 for them in December with the price going up as they get closer to calving and we have more feed invested. 

The purebred Red Angus is a solid female but we decided to breed her Shorthorn as we have been so happy with the cross.

I will be putting one of the purebred Shorthornns in the Mn Shorthorn Sale and have them priced higher than the plus heifers.  Let me know if you have any questions.
 

2015 North Star Classic - Valley City ND

Once again we made the trip to Valley.  Good weather and good times T showed two plus heifers.  The pic is of one of our consignments to the 2015 Mn Shorthorn Sale - March 8, 2015 at Simon Arena in Cannon Falls MN.  She's a March 2014 Hardcore (maine) out of a white Prince of Jazz female. Broke and ready to go and should get 'bluer' as she ages!!

BSF 106Y HARDPRINCES 408B

2014 Dakota County Fair

Purebred Simmental bull calf.  Class winner prospect calves.

The Dakota county fair was here and gone for 2014.  Tiana had a really nice fair starting out with the cow/calf and feeder calf show.  Her bull calf won his class and she competed well in showmanship.  She then had the beef show with her two heifers and Shorthorn plus steer.  She ended up 10th overall with her steer and 12th with her Simmental heifer.  The next day she had the swine show where she really shined!  Champion breeding gilt, reserve champion market gilt, reserve interview and reserve showmanship plus a class winner with her lightweight cross barrow.  She's headed to state fair with her steer and will also compete in the Jr. Barrow show and FFA/open class beef weekend.  After that here comes school!

MN State Sale and Bred Heifer Pics

Worked up a couple of entries to the Minnesota State Shorthorn Sale. (Simon Arena in Cannon Falls MN first weekend in March)  We also pictured other females we would be interested in selling right off the farm.  Let me know what you if you are interested.

Minnesota State Sale Entries:

219z - BSF Fresh Prince times Byland Dazzler 1AW
bred to Creole 135

232z - BSF Fresh Prince times Shorthorn Plus (Alta Cedar Samuri X Red Angus)
bred to Kiwaliks Velvet Leader

313a  - BSF Northern King (Red Angus by Norseman King) times NFS New Alliance
open Shorthorn Plus heifer

 

 

For Sale off the Farm

I have a few more bred heifers for sale same as the listing in the last post.  Tried to get more pics but this one will have to do for now.

209z bred heifer- See listing in Previous Post.

Also have a nice set of half sibs to the open heifer we are selling on the state sale.  Here are a few pics of them.


Open heifers by Northen King (Red Angus Bull)

Northern King daughter



Northern King daughter



Just for fun...

Tiana and Ben (new bull calf purchased from Tramm Shorthorns)
As you can see he's pretty easy going.