2012 North Star Classic

Valley City was exceptionally warm and dry.  I think most of Dakota County was in attendance at the show as we had Will Bolllum and Hannah Neil along with us.  The Shorthorn was third in class behind two blue roans and the cross heifer ran into some tough competition.  We home to be buying in the revamped club calf sale next year.

T and Hope our home raised Shadybrook Scotty daughter.





T and Betty a Q Dog hiefer we had purchased from Glen and Ruth Dicks.



2013 Minnesota State Sale. . .

Hard to believe we are already getting entries ready for the Minnesota State Shorthorn sale to be held on March 3/3/2013 at Jim Simon Arena in Cannon Falls Minnesota!  Here is a preview of our offering. 
All heifers are AI'd on 6/15/2012 for early March 2013 calves and pasture exposed to ADS Mister Conquest 009x until 9/30/2012.  Will post updates as they arise.

BSF 640S Moorebloom 101Y (x4183925)

This bred is sired by Shadybrook Scotty and back to an female who goes back to Juda Ben Hur and was purchased from Dr. Bert Moore at a previous state sale.  She was AI'd to DF Builtmore.

101Y

 BSF 904W Madam Princess 103Y (*x4178105) 

103y is right out of the heart of the bred heifer pen.  Sired by DF Builtmore and out of a Deerhorn Red Prince daughter (see sires page for his pic).  She was AI'd to Jake's Proud Jazz 266L.

103Y



DF Builtmore



 BSF 822 Gayle 126Y (x4183757)

Dark roan bred heifer.  Gayle 126y is from a long line of solid females decending from the Stangland herd in Barnsville MN.  She is the first bred offspring from our senior herd bull BSF Fresh Prince (see sires page on blog for pic) and we are really excited about his progeny.  We have a pile of her half sisters in the yearling pen so we decided to let her go.  She was AI'd to Jake's Prince of Jazz.
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Feel free to give me a call 507-302-9422 with questions and catalog requests (available in mid February)  Thanks for the interest.

2012 Minnesota Beef Expo

The beef expo went with a flash!  So many activitied and of course donating a fine heifer to Natalie made it all worth the work.  Here are a few pics to share.

Expo Show

T and Kaillie showed and had fun.

T and Waldo - Mercedes Benz steer from Netzke Bros.

Kaillie and T with Baby Doll, good job Kaylee!

2012 Expo Sale

The sale was a little low in numbers but prices were decent.  We offered this roan heifer calf by JSF Capice.

Capice heifer sold on the Expo Sale

Long Time...

It's been awhile since any updates!  Going through the camera I found a few pics worth posting.

Dakota County Fair Swine Show. . .

Champion Purebred Barrow - Hampshire from Wildung Hamps - Thanks Reid and Shelly!

Champion Breeding Gilt -  by Hot Shot 125-3 from Moyers raised by us, bred for a Feb 2013 litter

 Art's In at the Dakota County Fair

Tiana and Taylor with there 'cow' commercial at 4-H Arts Inn!!

2012 Minnesota State Fair 4-H Beef Show

T and Rocky

This was T's first year at the State Fair showing beef.  She had fun and ran into a tough class of Shorthorn Plus Steers. Where she also was a finalist for Beef Inerviews we are so proud!!

State Sale Update!!

Both of our lots entered in the 2012 Minnesota State Sale are safe to the AI date, Lot 17 - Rosabell 004x to Prince of Jazz and Lot 21 Shania 031x to JR Conquest with an end of March 2012 due date they will be heavy in calf come sale time!!  We will also have them vaccinated with Guardian befor sale time. 

Feel free to contact me for more information and dowload the catalog at mnshorthorn.com and click on the events page.

Minnesota State Sale Entries

I finally got the pics taken and I didn't even have the snow or cold to blame!  Here they are:

BSF 7092 ROSABELL 004X ( x4175074) This dark roan purebred female is bred to Prince of Jazz for a Late March 2012 calf.  She is a different kind of pedigree with her being out of our herd bull Absolute Power (see sires page for pic and pedigree) and her mother is a first calf heifer out of the Haumont program in Broken Bow Nebraska.  She is as soggy and easy keeping as she looks and is packed with maternal power.

BSF 1130 SHANIA 031X  (*xAR52666) This is our first offering of what we hope will be more to come, a really solid Shorthorn Plus bred female.  She is also due in Late March 2012 to the calving ease specialist JR Conquest.  This female stems from our former herdsire Deerhorn Red Prince 707T and a purebred Red Angus cow who is a direct daughter of Holden Hi Ho 574 and a complete tank in her own right.  Shania is the right kind with plenty of growth, muscle and extremely easy keeping. 

Look for the catalog online in early March at mnshorthorn.com .  I will try and get more pics closer to the sale.  Feel free to contact me if you are looking for more information. 



North Star Classic

Its been an excellent summer and a beautiful fall.  I have been kind of slacking on posting but managed to get a photo at a recent show.  We made the trip once again to Valley City, North Dakota.  Here's a pic of Tiana with one of the heifers purchased in the Damar sale this fall.  I will be posting some of our Minnesota  State Shorthorn Sale set for March of 2012 consignments later this month.  The plan is to consign two bred heifers due the end of March with one purebred and the other a shorthorn plus.  Enjoy the pic of this April born Simmental heifer: