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51. See Summitt, Kaedemaru, polled Akaushi, and Himawari genetics in our July auction · Got Any Cows?

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Got Any Cows Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to learn all you can about the beef cattle industry, this is the podcast for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: My name is Stephanie Christian.
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  SPEAKER_00: My company has sent beef cattle genetics to 45 of the 50 states and 12 countries around the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've had the chance to learn from some of the best and brightest in the beef cattle industry, and I invite you to join me for those conversations here on the Got Any Cows Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Got Any Cows Podcast.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate you being here.
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  SPEAKER_00: If this is your first time tuning in, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um if you've been here listening for a long time, appreciate it.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um Jacob and I were just at the Aki Uchi Convention within the last 30 days and recorded a pile of podcasts there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And really appreciate all the people that that came and introduced themselves andor people that I've known for a long time and said, hey, we we've listened to the podcast, we appreciate the podcast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you to all of you that that reached out and and uh mentioned that you've been following along and and listening.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate you guys doing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and thank you if you're brand new to the podcast this time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate you being here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um it's been a busy month.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Jacob and I flew down to College Station, Texas, uh, for the American Akiishi Association convention there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we recorded 13 uh podcast episodes while we were there, and so you'll see those released over the course of this next year.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um our format is what we end up releasing, we release every other week, so every two weeks.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um on Thursday mornings is when this podcast is released.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just this morning, July 9th, we released um an episode with Andrew Pryor um filling you in on the first uh Akiyushi Association branded beef challenge uh that he was the winner of.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then Andrew also gave us some updates from the board of directors uh from the American Akeyushi Association.
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  SPEAKER_00: So appreciate him taking the time to record with us there in College Station.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you'll see as we continue to release these podcasts, we go back and forth between a guest episode and then an episode with the cows.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today we're out with the cows, we're sitting in the truck on the ranch looking at the cattle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, these are animals that are going to be present in our auction in July.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you've got the option to purchase some of these animals and/or aspirations, IVF aspirations on some of these animals.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but even if you're not necessarily looking to buy right this moment, or you're not uh not looking to make a purchase today, hopefully give you a real in-depth view on what these cattle are, strengths and weaknesses, why we've bred them, how we do, um just kind of what the animals are, and hopefully provide some valuable information whether you're looking to buy or not.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: And if you are looking to buy, give you an option to purchase some some exciting front edge genetics that are gonna bring some different things to the table.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can see behind me right now there's a Charlie cow in addition to a pulled purebred Akeyushi cow back there.
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  SPEAKER_00: So so some different breeds, um, and we'll go through some of the different options and things there, and and uh so that's kind of the goal and intent of this podcast.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, within the last 30 days, we've done a bunch of tours as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've had had uh folks come and and sit in this pickup and drive around and visit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most of the cattle are out on pasture right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So in July, um, we sit in the in the Cache Valley here in Idaho, so we we straddle the Idaho-Utah border, and uh we've got we've got cattle in seven different pat seven different pastures spread out across Cache Valley.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so been able to go uh you know, have visitors to the ranch, go out into those pastures with me, take a look at those animals, get a feel for what they are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate folks coming in.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've had folks here from California, Texas, and Virginia uh in the last uh last 30 days, and appreciate all of you coming in and and taking the time to be here and and uh yeah, have really enjoyed that.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um got a bunch of hay in.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: I'm looking out across here.
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  SPEAKER_00: We brought there's there's 700 ton of triticale there, um, and then brought in a bunch of alfalfa as well, probably about 400 tons of that over into the barn.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um anyway, and still still have got second crop coming and some more grain hay coming and and uh continue to buy.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: It is it's a it's a drought year here in in Idaho.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: This is the the driest year in in my lifetime.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm 33 and I've never never had a winter like this one as far as just lack of um snow or rain or like really winter at all.
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  SPEAKER_00: So kind of looking at a tough feed situation that way.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we're trying to make sure we have plenty, plenty of hay stacked up and have that all ready and available.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: Normally I don't buy as much as early in the season just because we don't want to, I don't have as I don't have enough storage space for all of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: So a bunch of this is stacked out in the open and and subject to to damage from the elements, assuming assuming we do get rain at some point.
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  SPEAKER_00: But um the reason we've done that is that normally, you know, if I only buy what I can store, I gotta continue to buy through the winter and into next spring, and just want to be sure we've we've got that hay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So trucked in a lot of hay, bought bought hay from a lot of folks, appreciate all of them doing that.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: Added another truck, got it, got an F-450 added to the truck, the group of trucks to tow trailers around, uh pictured donors and studs within the last 30 days.
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  SPEAKER_00: So excited to share some of those pictures with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dalton Sorensen was here doing that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Really appreciate him and his his professional work and getting high-quality images of these cattle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, appreciate Aaron and Billy and Shane and all their hard work getting those cattle through and pictured and and uh definitely a time-consuming job.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you think picturing toddlers is hard, uh try picturing cows.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_00: It's uh it's it's a task, um, but but really neat, and I'm really excited to share some of those pictures with you.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_00: We've just got some of those first few images back from Dalton, and and you know, really look good, just really exciting to see see those animals and and to be able to share those images with you guys.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see some of the first of those today.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then obviously celebrated the 4th of July, America's 250th birthday.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what a blessing.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_00: What a blessing it is to live here in the United States and and to enjoy the freedoms we enjoy and to have the opportunities we have, and and so grateful to to be an American and and grateful for the opportunities it provides me.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: And and uh, you know, and and grateful for all the folks that we deal with internationally as well, you know, that have come here to visit here here in the States.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: We've we've had visitors here at the ranch from from Mexico and from Canada and from Australia, from Hungary as well.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: Shout out to Peter Kuhn if you're listening, he's been here as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then we've sent genetics out to other parts of the world as well, but certainly grateful to live where we do and get to do what we do where we do.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I guess the most exciting thing we've got coming up, you know, it is is hopefully have another another baby here within the next 30 days.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_00: By the time I recorded another one of these, hopefully go from three kids running around to having our fourth here.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Haley is due to to have a baby on August 2nd, and uh she has been sick, and so we're pretty pretty ready to have that that pregnancy wrapped up and buttoned up and and put together.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, excited to get a baby here, you know, always always a miracle, you know, to get those babies here and sure excited to to welcome that baby to the world and excited for Haley to feel better.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: And and uh, you know, I I always know just how much Haley does, but I really know how much she does when she can't do it.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I am not nearly as good at being mom as as Haley is.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm sure my kids are looking forward to having this baby here too.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_00: So that's kind of the update, I guess, of the last 30 days.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, and what all's going on here, like I mentioned.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be the the cattle podcast.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: The next one we release, you know, two weeks after this one's released will be another guest episode from convention there, and then we'll toggle back and forth between guest episodes and and uh cattle podcasts and go back and forth between just informational subjects with our guests and uh and then opportunities to buy and/or at least learn about the genetics we represent in these cattle episodes.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so you know, video of this podcast is definitely a really important component of what we do.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean, I I I'll I'll be the first to tell you podcasts for me are generally an audio thing.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_00: I do generally just listen on Apple Podcasts myself.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but I would tell you, if you're not watching video of this podcast, um you're missing out on on a lot of what we're we're aiming to provide for you.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean, I'll tell you everything I possibly can in an audio format.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but Jacob does full video on all of these podcasts.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: You're welcome to jump in and watch that uh watch that video on gotanycows.com, on YouTube, or on Apple Podcasts as well.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: We've got the full video of this podcast, and I invite you to do that just because I can talk to you about these cows, but I want you to be able to see these cows, you know, and and we're sitting here looking at them, we're in the truck right now, parked right next to the cattle.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I want to be able to show you what these animals are, give you a feel for what they are, whether you're looking to buy them or just look at them and learn about them.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the video component is is important.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: So the auction that this video uh is tied to or this podcast is tied to is going to open the same day that this podcast releases.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this podcast is scheduled to release on July 23rd.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll open the auction July 23rd uh as well.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: So at the time that you're watching or listening to this, you can go direct to that auction site.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: That is cgauction.gifsmart.com.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: You can also just go to godanycows.com.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: There'll be a link there as well.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but at cgoction.gifsmart.com, that's gonna pull up.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's the smart auctions platform that we run on.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_00: That's gonna pull up all the pictures of all the cattle, registrations of all the cattle, um, write-up on all the cattle, footnotes on all the cattle.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and from the time that auction opens, it you can bid.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: So, I mean, you can throw a bid at it from the moment that catalog opens.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I would recommend that you do uh get those early bids, you're gonna get the best prices if you get an early bid.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and the other benefit you're gonna have is you get that bid in early, and then if you're out bid, the platform will text you and let you know, hey, you've been out bid on this lot.
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_00: So rather than worrying about forgetting that you know you that do I or do I not have the winning bid, or forgetting, hey, what day does this close or whatever else, if you get out bid, the platform will let you know.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_00: So then you don't have to worry about forgetting to log on and place your bids at some point within that next week.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, no, it's already been.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you there is a max bid feature there.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there's two different if you go to place your bid there, there's kind of two different tabs you can toggle between.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: One of them is just a current bid that you can throw in, the other tab is a max bid.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: And if you throw in the max bid, then the computer will bid for you.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: If someone else comes in or tries to to outbid you, um, it will automatically increase your bid to the threshold you set.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I can't see any of that.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: I I am not involved on the back end of that.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Chelsea Halderman is our smart auctions administrator, she can help you with anything you need help with on the platform side of things.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Chelsea does a wonderful job and is is a great help.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_00: So if you have any issues with that smart auctions platform, let me know.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'll put you in contact with Chelsea and she can get you taken care of.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, I would get in early, get the very best bid, um, you know, and and uh and take advantage of the opportunity here.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I mean I would tell you, we continue to run these sales monthly.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, this is this is the 12th time, I guess.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we started last July, July of 25 with our monthly sales, and now we're June of 26.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: Are we July?
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: We're July of 26.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: We're at the year mark.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, we've we've been doing this for a year.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: And uh last Wednesday of each month is is when these auctions run.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, they close at 6 p.m.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: mountain time.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you know, what the the goal with these is to give people a consistent opportunity so that when you are ready to buy, there are cattle ready for you to buy because I know everybody's running on different timelines, different schedules.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: When is it you've got dollars available, or when is it you've got pastures ready, or fences ready, or facilities ready, or or whatever else, or when is it just that the right animal comes up?
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_00: So we we try to keep an opportunity available um, you know, on a month-to-month basis for for you to be able to get the genetics you need, and as well, it makes it easy to cash flow.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: And rather than us saying, hey, we're only gonna draw on one big sale a year, and if you don't have a huge lump of cash that one day, that's your one shot, and well, there it goes for the rest of the year.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: So you know, even if you buy one a month or or one every couple months, one every six months, whatever it may be, um, or you buy what you can afford, it does make it easier to cash flow as a buyer.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: And so we want to be able to give you a consistent opportunity um and and not make it something that that you've got to have an enormous pile of cash to be able to engage in.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: So um, I would tell you, you know, as as you evaluate, kind of, hey, which animals should I buy, when, where, how.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: I will tell you, you know, where you buy matters as much, if not more, than what you buy.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_00: What I mean by that is there are businesses out there uh run by people you can trust.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: People that you say, hey, I can bank on these folks, these folks are gonna be in business a long time, these folks are gonna take care of me.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, these people are honest, these are people I can trust.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: That I mean, that is what we strive to be here, you know.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: Now, am I perfect?
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely not, right?
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: Am I gonna have failings or is there gonna be a problem with an animal somewhere?
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: That will happen.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: That's part of life.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_00: But what I can commit to is doing everything I possibly can to take care of you, to take care of the buyers, to take care of the people that support me and my family and my business.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm I will do all in my I can, all in my power to take care of you and and make sure that that you are taken care of in the long term.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_00: This is what I do all day, every day is is work with beef cattle.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_00: I sell beef cattle genetics for a living.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_00: This isn't a sideline, this isn't a hobby, this is my full-time employment, this is what I do all day, every day.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, I mean, I haven't worked for anybody else in in 16 years, and I've been running cows for 22 years now that I've owned cows.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: And what I what I mean by all that is I'm gonna be here, I'm gonna be in business, I'm gonna take care of you, I'll take your call, we'll do everything we can to make it right.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: It matters where you buy from.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: There are other good places out there to to buy from.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: There are other people you cannot trust and that are not gonna take care of you, and that you can't bank on to stay in business or be around or be there to take care of you or make sure that things are made right whenever whenever something goes wrong.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: There are operations that you don't want to do business with.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: So I would tell you, it matters where you buy them, and and it is a priority to me that this be a quality place for for you to source cattle.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: So whenever the time is right for you to make a purchase or or to to go ahead and and uh add genetics to your operation, um, let me know.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: I will do all I can to earn your business and make sure that we we take good care of you and and uh provide a quality place to purchase these cattle.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I'll tell you, here in our operation, you know, we are running within the Akiushi cattle.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: There were only ever 13 females and six males that ever left Japan.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_00: Total, all in, all done.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: You can adjust those counts up or down a hair one way or the other based on some of the cows were carrying some of the other individuals or things like that.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: But to put it simply, a very finite group of animals ever left Japan relative to the Akiushi or red waggy breed.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: All of them are represented here.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: We have immediate maternal descendants of all the females, all the males, all of them are represented here.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: And they get it, we get a chance to run them all side by side, head to head here, so that we can take and parse out the environmental or the management component, because as we know, the expression of any given genetic trait.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: So, I mean the ex whether we're talking docility, fertility, calvinies, growth, marbling, longevity, whatever it may be, there is both an environmental component and a genetic component.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: And so the way we can evaluate the genetic component is by basically controlling the environmental component.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: All of these animals are running side by side, same place, same management, same feed, same everything.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the differences expressed are genetic.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_00: And so here is as we strive to breed these cattle to be better, to be more docile, you know, docile, docile, however you docile to be more docile.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna call it docile.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: Docile, whatever.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: Boy, that word shouldn't confuse me as much as it does.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_00: That thing, mellow, easy, you know, quality animals to be around.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: Whether we're talking about that, making them easier to handle, easier to calve, meaning they don't have problems at calving at birth, they do that on their own unassisted.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: Whether we're talking about making these animals faster gaining, you know, to where we can put uh finished product on the plate sooner and with less days on feed, whether we're talking about marbling, you know, the amount of intramuscular fat present in that finished product and things that directly impact eating quality, um, improving that.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: Or whether we're talking about longevity, you know, making these cattle last longer and be structurally sound and give you maximum return on your investment with more years of service.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: With any of those things, we're able to evaluate those in this setting by taking that whole gene pool and kind of running them head to head, you know, in a direct comparison setting.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so that's one of the things we aim to do here.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: And then I I look to share all of the information that I can gather from these animals via this podcast.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: And so if there's ever any questions that I don't answer particularly well for you, or they say, hey, I've got further questions there, please reach out via call, text, email, message, whatever it may be, and let me know.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, I'd like for you to talk a little bit more about this.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: So to answer one of the questions that uh had been sent to me by text from my good friend Clint Gold, Clint asked me about EPDs, and I've had I've had several people ask the same question about EPDs in in red waggy rocky cattle.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, coming from other breeds, coming from Angus or even coming over from dairy breeds or things, EPDs are something we're used to.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: And and an EPD, for anyone not aware, is an expected progeny difference, or you'll see EBVs, which are estimated breeding values.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: Both are meant to basically try to quantify the genetic merit of an animal for a given trait.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, basically to provide, you know, something easy uh for comparison of genetic merit in a given area of focus.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: And if they work, you know, if they're accurate, that's a really nice thing.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: It's a very convenient thing, it's a very valuable thing.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um but if we end up using them as as guideposts and they're not accurate or they don't take us where we want to go, you're better off not looking at them.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: And as it sits today in in red wagyu or in Akiyushi, um, frankly, you're better off to not worry about them, to not look at them.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I am not saying that EPDs don't have merit at all.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_00: Don't get me wrong.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: I am not saying that that the the systems and processes that have been so proven across breeds like Angus or like Holstein don't have merit.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: They do.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_00: I do look at them in in breeding Angus cattle, for example.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, they are not the end-all be-all, even in the case of Angus cattle, but they are a useful tool, and I'll tell you why.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: They're a useful tool in Angus, but not as much today in Akiushi.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: In Angus, there's a huge data set training these EPDs, right?
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: The American Angus Association has more phenotypic data points, i.e., birth weights, weaning weights, yearling weights, carcass ultrasound, carcass records, all of these different pieces than any of the other beef breed registries, and it's not close.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of Angus data points.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: So you got the hard data to base it on, and then you got years of developing Angus-specific EPDs, and then now there's genomic uh data layered on top of that, taking taking points along the bovine genome that correlate to these different production traits and using them to further enhance the the predictive value of those EPDs.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: To where, again, they're not gonna be the end-all be-all, but they're gonna give you some idea which of these animals are easier calving or faster growing or heavier marbling, or these different different selection criteria we're after.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: In Ocuus here in Red Wagyu today, there is not enough data to train these EPDs.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's not a it's not a case of we don't want to do that or that we won't do that.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: I do think that's something we'll see more of going forward.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see more data collection.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we'll see more people working together to make that happen and to feed data into the association database to be able to train things like EPDs.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but the data's not there yet.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and then you know, the other thing to be aware of is you know, in two of the three breed registries for these cattle, so in American Wagyu Association and Australian Wagyu Association, these cattle are in the same breed registry or the same data set with another breed, with the Black Wagyu, which is a separate and distinct breed, but it's in the same herd book because both are Japanese cattle, both are Wagyu in the sense they came from Japan, but they are two separate breeds.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: They are no more similar than Herford and Angus, that both they're both British breeds, right?
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: Or Cementol and Limousin, that are both continental breeds, but they're separate breeds.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: So Aushi and Black Wagyu, different breeds that came from the same place, but because they came from the same place, um, they're registered in two of the three cases in the same herd book.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: So you got American Akeyushi that's all reds all the time, all Akeushi cattle.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: In the American Wagyu Association or Australian Wagyu Association, you got reds side by side with blacks.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: So if you take a look at, for example, at the EPDs on literally any given red wagyu or Akeyushi animal in uh the American Wagyu Association database, it's gonna basically tell you that, well, they're gonna be horrendous for calving ease, and they're gonna be fantastic for growth, and they're gonna be horrendous for marbling, is what it's gonna call all the reds lumped together to one extent or another.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: Because it's comparing them directly to blacks.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then if you look at you know, even the published accuracies, for example, there's carcass EPDs in in American Wagyu, the American Wagyu Association, which is great.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_00: Again, don't get me wrong, I think EPDs at large or in the future or can be a part of what you use to inform breeding decisions.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: But today, I mean the published accuracy on a lot of those carcass EPDs is 0.01, i.e., 1% odds they have they have nailed that prediction.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_00: 99% chance it's not right.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: And if you've got if somebody gives me a weather forecast and says there's a 99% chance this is wrong, why would I even look at the weather forecast?
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: Much less something like breeding cattle, where we're gonna invest a lot of time and a lot of feed and a lot of money into breeding these things, I would not get real worried about.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: About EPDs yet.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: Now, in the future, with more data or with a better developed EPD system, comparing reds to reds, not reds to blacks, and with it's going to require more data to move the accuracy level from a 1% accuracy up to something more credible.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: At that point, you could look at EPDs as a part of your breeding decisions.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's still very important that it not become the only criteria because then all of a sudden you've got cattle that are fantastic on paper and horrendous in the pen.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: And I say this as an Angus breeder.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: I've had them, I've bred them, I've I've got cattle that'll blow your socks off on paper that did not turn out even close to how a guy would hope in the pen.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: So they're a valuable tool.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: Even when they are developed, and they're not developed yet.
• 22:51
  SPEAKER_00: So long answer to a short question, but it's been asked a bunch of times by a bunch of you know good friends of mine and people that that that I respect and want to provide my opinion on the matter too.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: And I would say today, don't worry too much about the EPDs.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: Today, look at things more like direct head-to-head comparisons on things like docility, birth weight, you know, calving ease, growth, marbling longevity.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: I will provide as much of that as I can here.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um and and try to guide you on saying, hey, you know, depending on what your target is, I will gladly steer you in the direction of the animals that will best fit your genetic goals.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so jumping into what's going to be in this sale, the first thing I'm going to talk about is not uh here in the Pens to video.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: I already grabbed a video of her the other day out on pasture for why you should care about the 9961Y donor.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so this is CGX Himawari 9961Y.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this cow is selling in her entirety.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: So you're getting the cow, the ownership of the cow, you're getting the heifer calf in her belly, you're getting free delivery anywhere in the continental United States, and this is a proven donor that has performed at a really high level for us, has given us plenty of embryos.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: At this point, we have what we need.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so I'm gonna open this female up as an opportunity for a cornerstone kind of female that someone else can build from.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: What makes this cow unique, what makes this cow distinct, is that this cow is the closest living maternal descendant or closest living descendant, period, of the original import Himowari in the entire American Wagyu Association database.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: And so I'll tell you that the reason that would matter, again, talking those three registries, stuff that's registered with American Wagyu Association can be dual or triple registered with Australian Wagyu Association or the American Akiushi Association.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: American Akuchi and Australian Wagyu will recognize and accept American Wagyu papers.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: The inverse is not true.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: And so if you have something that's registered at American Akui or Australian Wagyu, American Wagyu, the American Wagyu Association will not necessarily recognize those papers.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: So those animals will be specific to one of those other breed registries.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_00: So a female like this that is registered with the American Wagyu Association is unique in the sense that you've got more market doors open to you.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_00: If you've got somebody that says, Hey, I need American Wagyu Association papers specifically, this cow has them.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_00: And this cow specifically brings Himawari, one of those 13 cows that's that uh left Japan, as close to the front of the pedigree as you can possibly get her.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: Period.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_00: Like this is the closest cow to Himawari in the entire American Wagyu Association database.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_00: So looking at 9961Y, the biggest benefit here is you're getting uh a real outcross pedigree, which is really important when we're looking at a gene pool this small, something that is really distinct, really unique pedigree-wise for most of what's available out there, adds a tremendous amount of value from an outcross standpoint.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then this cow is is a direct daughter of Tamamaru, her mother's a daughter of Big Al, and then her mother is a daughter of Himawari.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's what you're looking at in that pedigree.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of outcross value in 9961Y, that's the reason she came here.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: This cow is registered with the American Wagyu Association, giving you extra market access that way.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then this cow continues to be fertile and productive.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: So this this is a 14-year-old cow, so be aware, anybody looking at it, this isn't a female you're looking at that you're anticipating is gonna go for forever in perpetuity.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, even Aku, she as long as they live or as long as they last, it is a finite amount of time that these cows can go.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so be aware she is 14.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_00: But you can see in the video, take a look at the video, this cow is holding good flesh.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: This cow is moving smooth.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_00: This cow, I mean, this cow bred up right at the front edge of our entire calving season to female sexed semen.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: She's due to calve September 9th.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: So after this sale, we will ship this cow immediately.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, get her to you just as soon as possible.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_00: So she will calve at your ranch.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: The the calf she's carrying is a heifer calf, um, and it is sired by Shoshone.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: So Shoshone is gonna be the highest marbling bowl of our entire 2023 calf crop on actual carcass ultrasound.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, high performing kind of a bowl.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: I want to say 684 for a weaning weight, so heavy weaning, high performance kind of a bowl.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_00: His mother is the$104,000 RMW Hoshiko D18.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh D18 is a long-bodied, mellow-mannered, super fertile female.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: I just just love the cow.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: My good friends Doug and Amy Slayby at uh Slayby Akashi Ranch in Wisconsin own D18.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: And uh this Shoshone bowl, you know, brings brings that cow right to the front of the pedigree.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking at this lot one purchase, look at it as okay.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm getting a cow that consistently produces, I mean, this cow produces in the teens on a regular basis for for transferable embryos per aspiration.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: So I mean, you can make 14, 15, 16, whatever embryos every couple of weeks in an IVF setting.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna make your money back in a hurry on a cow like this.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's the only reason we can let a cow like this go, is this cow has been so productive.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: We've got plenty of embryos from her.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we got a son here that I think a lot of that we anticipate incorporating back into our breeding program.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so this cow is not one that I'm saying, hey, we don't want to continue forward with.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's just that we have enough to continue forward with her.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think this is a neat opportunity for somebody else to tie into a uh, you know, a high-value breeding piece, a unique outcross, unique from a registration standpoint, unique from a pedigree standpoint, proven longevity, proven fertility.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, look at the video on this female.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: The feet are still perfect, the udder's still perfect.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: This is a cow that's not overly big, isn't going to eat you out of house and home.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then obviously still very productive.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_00: This one cow is gonna be two in the immediate future.
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, just a lot of opportunity in a female like this.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's lot one CGX Himawari 9961Y.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I would mention as well that baby she's carrying, that Shoshone, um, that Shoshone daughter, I mean, Shoshone is our all-time high-value semen sales bull.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, semen is sold at$3,200 for a single straw of Shoshone.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so a lot of value in that heifer calf as well.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: So not only are you getting unique outcross pedigree, a ton of immediate um embryo production capacity, but you're also getting a female as young as you could get with her whole life ahead of her.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you've kind of got an insurance policy in that sense of hey, no matter what you get for additional production out of this cow, and I expect this cow to go to 16 to 18 years old without batting an eye, I honestly do.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but no matter what she does, you've got a heifer calf on the ground ready to go in the immediate future.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: So that's that's lot one.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: Lot two, um, jumping down to this female that's actually just sitting right outside the window right here.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be the CG Katie 1022 female.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: So this is a Charolet cow.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so Charolet, why would you want to engage in Charolais at all?
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'll tell you why I did.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, in 2018, my goal was to incorporate some different breeds that would add some different uh different values, different strengths uh to the average Angus cow.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: So the average cow in the United States is an Angus cow or an Angus crossbred.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um and I wanted to add different things to those cattle with different breeds for for my clients.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_00: So Akeushi came in to add marbling, right?
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_00: And add marbling in an eye-appealing functional package.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Charolet came in specifically to add performance, to add gainability, to add the ability to wean as heavy as possible, as fast as possible.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: So if you want maximum growth curve, Charolet will get you there.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, without question, these cattle gain, they gain fast.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they'll put a big carcass on the rail and they'll put it on the rail quickly.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so gainability is what brings you to Charlet.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_00: Charlet is a French breed.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and this cow here, just a super unique individual, super beautiful cow.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_00: This 1022 cow, her mother would be the cornerstone of our Charlet program.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: So her mother, I bought in 2018 from Brent Thiel in uh Linsco Thiel in South Dakota.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this cow, 1022, CGKD 1022, that we're looking at here, that is lot two in this auction that opens the day this this podcast is released and closes July 29th at 6 p.m.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: Mountain time, this cow that's lot two, 1022, is a full sister to the dam of a bull called Authority that LT sold, Lensco Field sold for$160,000.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of star power, a lot of marketability to this pedigree.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: In addition to that, outside of just the sheer dollar value or the notoriety of that pedigree, the 8042 cow, which is the mother of this 1022, weaned eight calves at a 108 weaning weight ratio in arguably the best Charlet herd in the country.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: And so, I mean, to take a herd like that to produce a 108 weaning weight ratio, that means her calves were on average eight percent heavier at weaning than the average calf in that set of cows.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: And the average calf in that set of cows is gonna be a good calf, and that her mother did that eight times over up against arguably the stiffest competition in the United States.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: So, really unique female here, you know.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_00: And again, we're looking at getting two for the price of one.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_00: This female's right in her prime.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_00: This is a five-year-old cow.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so I mean, absolutely has her life ahead of her.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, she's confirmed pregnant, carrying a heifer calf sired by LT Ledger 9603, due for January 16th.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so you're gonna be getting two females for the price of one.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the winning bid on lot two gets this cow, gets the heifer calf in her belly, gets free delivery anywhere on the continental United States.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking to add gain, growth, the ability to put a big carcass on the rail quickly, two for the price of one, delivered to your place, star power from a pedigree standpoint, proven performance behind this cow, um, an awesome opportunity there in lot two.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_00: CG Katie 1022.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_00: So now we're looking at lot three.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: This is going to be the CGX Heavyweight 4417 M bowl.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: So if you are looking for a pulled purebred Akeyushi bowl, this is the bowl you want.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: This is the guy you're after.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: This is the only pulled purebred Akeyushi bowl that is ready to breed that I have right now.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_00: So don't wait, don't wait for another one.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: Don't figure out next month there'll be something, or you know, at another point in time that we can do something.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: If you want a pulled purebred Akiushi bull ready to breed in 2026, it is this bull or this bull.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_00: We've got other pulled purebreds coming, but they're young.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_00: They're not going to be ready to breed until 2027.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: And so if you want a pulled purebred Okeyushi bowl to breed in 2026, this is your guy.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_00: Don't sleep on this bull, don't miss this bowl, don't pass up on this bull.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_00: This bull semen tested, he's ready to breed right now.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this bull is a full brother to our heavy duty bull.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, heavy duty semen's been selling up to$1,100 a straw.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_00: There'll be semen on heavy duty available again in this sale.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you want to talk about cattle that are easy mannered.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: This bull here, this 4417 bull, um, below average for birth weight.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be an easy calving bull.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: You could use this bull on heifers safely.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: This is a pulled purebred Akuchi bull, so no horns, right?
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to deal with de-horning.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_00: Historically, I mean that's been more just a convenience thing that makes life easier.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_00: Now, with the screw worm, that can be the difference between life and death.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_00: If we do or don't have an open wound on an animal's head from dehorning it because of this animal's genetically dehorned, that the horns are removed at conception rather than having to take the horns off through the de-horning process.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this is the way to go.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, when I look at pulled purebred cattle, we have people ask for these more often than anything else.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of demand for these, there's not a lot of availability.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: If you want a pulled purebred Okey Usi bowl to breed your cows in 2026, this lot nine is, or not, sorry, not lot nine, lot three, sorry, lot three is the lot to buy.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this bowl.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: You can use them on heifers, they'll cab easy.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_00: You're not gonna have to dehorn them.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_00: His his full brother is our heaviest weaning pulled ockeyushi stud bowl at 738 pounds at weaning.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, his damn and grand dam of both this bull and his full brother heavy duty both scanned prime plus on actual carcass ultrasound.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this bull's mother is the 577 donor, has done 100,000 in direct progeny sales.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_00: This bull's grand damn is the 121 donor, has done 200,000 in uh direct progeny sales, so a ton of value there.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'll have I'll uh have Jacob show you a picture here as well of uh carcass of a steak.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this steak would have been produced by my friend Catherine Zajak in in Virginia.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this steak came from a full sister to the dam of this bowl.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_00: So to give you a feel for what these bulb bines will do, what they look like on the plate, do they or do they not marble?
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, they marble.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we've seen it on ultrasound, yes, we've seen it on the plate.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: Catherine, thank you for sharing that that picture.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate that.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and that gives you a feel uh for what these genetics will do on the plate.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I can think of no reason why you wouldn't want this bull.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you're getting all the boxes in front of you, like what would you want in a bowl?
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_00: This bull's got it.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like, number one, I mean, this is a mature bull, coming two-year-old bull, ready to breed right now, semen checked, so we're good to go.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna eat cow's bred.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: He's easy mannered, so I mean, from the second he steps off the truck, you're not gonna have to deal with issues, not gonna have to deal with problems.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: The docility's there, so that box is checked.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the bull's pulled, so we're not gonna have to monkey with horns.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_00: So that box is checked.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_00: The growth is there.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_00: These are heavy weaning cattle, heavyweight.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_00: This bull's sire was the heaviest weaning calf of his calf crop.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: Heavy duty, this bull's full brother was the heaviest weaning bull of his calf crop.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, a lot of gainability in these cattle, a lot of muscle mass, um, really attractive cattle.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_00: The marbling is there on ultrasound, on the plate, wherever you want to see it.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, all the pieces are present.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: So I would tell you don't sleep on lot three, CGX Heavyweight Heavyweight 4417M.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_00: The auction is open now at cgauction.gifsmart.com.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_00: It closes July 29th at 6 p.m.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_00: Mountain Time.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: The female we're looking at now is the 4535 female.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be CGX Katie Maroo 4535M.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_00: We're selling an IVF aspiration on this female.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be a direct daughter of our Katie Maroon clone.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_00: So the original Katie Maroon came out of Japan in utero, was born in Canada, came down to Texas, was cloned.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that clone is the cow we own, and that clone is the mother of this cow.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_00: So incredibly unique from a pedigree standpoint on the bottom side of the pedigree there.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, top side of the pedigree, also extremely unique, rare, and valuable.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is going to be a red rum daughter.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_00: Red rum is a judo son from the Naomi maternal line.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: So we're bringing in judo, who's a 1970s import out of Japan.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_00: Semen trades between four and 10,000 a straw for that semen.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, putting them over the Naomi maternal line, one of the least broadly distributed maternal lines out of Japan.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_00: So, again, a lot of unique pedigree value there.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is going to be an American Wagyu Association registered female, so you can take her progeny to any of the three three uh associations: American Wagyu, American Akiushi, or Australian Wagyu.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this female is backed by, I mean, just an incredibly performance-proven cow.
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_00: Looking at the the Katie Maru clone, I mean, throw out the window the fact that she is as incredibly pedigreed as she is, or that she is a clone, and just look at what the cow herself is.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_00: The cow herself, the mother of this female, the Katie Maru 001D cow, um, extremely heavy muscled.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_00: Our number one highest marbling female on actual carcass ultrasound out of all the Okey Usi cows we have ever scanned.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_00: The number one highest marbling Okeyushi female on actual carcass ultrasound is the Katie Maroon clone.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: So this female's mother.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that's also going to be the mellowest cow that I have been around in the breed.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this cow's easy, easy mannered.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_00: This is the cow that everyone comes and takes a picture with when they come and visit the ranch because she is so dang impressive to look at.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_00: She is so incredibly unique from a pedigree standpoint, so incredibly unique from a muscle standpoint, our best marbling cow, and then just the docility is exceptional, which as a breed, docility is not the strong point for Akeushi.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_00: But for the Katy Maru line, you want to talk mellow, easy mannered, these cattle will do it, these cattle will get it done.
• 39:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, looking at this female here, uh, this female's full sister sold for$30,000.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so looking at a high value kind of a female here, uh, as we look at$45.35, um, what we're offering in this sale as lot eight is is going to be the Katy Maru 4535M aspiration.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_00: So again, an IVF aspiration.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: So you as the buyer, you pay one flat bid price for the right to aspirate the cow.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_00: You pay for the semen of your choice, conventional or female sexed, you pay$200 an embryo to have Winstar make the embryos for you, and we will guarantee at least three female sexed embryos or at least five conventional embryos from this aspiration.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking for a really, really, really cost-effective way to be able to get, I mean, if you bought this female, this is a$30,000 female.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'd imagine you can probably get the aspiration bought a little cheaper.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_00: And if you can get something like that, get those genetics and get them bought at the right price, this is going to be something that pays dividends all day long.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I talk about all the time, if you if you go with quality when you start building the base of a cow herd, it might cost you a little more up front to have that quality present.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_00: But now for the rest of forever, as you multiply that animal and her daughters and her daughter's daughters, that quality is always there.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_00: So you're constantly you're spending the same time and feed and effort and money to produce quality and and be well paid for those genetics and perpetuity, rather than saying, hey, I started with junk, I started with something cheap, I started with something low value, and now I'm struggling to ever, you know, make up the difference or catch up or or or uh produce a high value animal.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I'd encourage you though those Katie Maru cattle.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_00: I would say, I mean, when I look at these two aspirations in this auction, our highest value full blood line is the Katie Maroon line, and you're looking at aspirating a direct daughter here in the 4535 female.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, our highest valued pulled line is that 19273 female that we are just looking at.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_00: You have an option for an IVF aspiration on either one of the two, like Katie Maru line female or the 19273.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_00: One is a uh full blood, one is a pulled purebred, whichever you'd prefer.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there's some awesome IVF aspiration options here, but that's gonna be La 8 CGX Katy Maru 4535M Aspiration.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_00: So this is the 19273 donor.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's on the left there.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_00: That's gonna be that red cow, uh, that pulled purebred Akiushi female, super mellow mannered female.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this cow's great to be around, real easy mannered kind of a cow.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_00: Love the way this cow is to handle.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_00: She just made 50 oocytes on her last out aspiration yesterday.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so huge embryo producer.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_00: We'll see how many of those turn in, turn into transferable embryos, but you know, about double what a normal aspiration would be to be doing 50 oocytes, and we're selling an IVF aspiration on this cow.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_00: So an IVF aspiration, I mean, look at that cow.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you look at the the the depth of body on this female, the hip on this female, the strength of top on this female, I mean, just an incredible female in the flesh.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_00: If you're not watching the video, you should be watching the video.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, because that cow is danged impressive.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_00: It would really be a shame to only hear me talk about this cow.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you ought to be looking at this cow.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you're talking the the cow, if I if I have the option to make every pulled purebred Akiyushi female I own look just like that, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we will absolutely be incorporating this female going forward in our program at a significant level.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this cow is gonna be one of the cornerstone pieces that we build around in our pulled purebred Akiyushi program.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, just a super unique female, strong top, deep-sided, massive width of bass, perfect uttered, perfect footed, great mannered.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is our highest marbling pulled purebred Akiushi female on actual carcass ultrasound.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: This is this cow is second only to the Katy Maru clone in the amount of marbling on actual carcass ultrasound.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_00: So an incredibly high marbling female, super high performance female.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you're not giving up carcass quality to get this degree of look or this degree of docility or the or the fact that this cow is a pulled purebred, so naturally hornless.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, huge embryo producer, 50 oocytes yesterday.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh her full brother in blood is the Sanchi bull.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, look at that cow.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just totally showing off there.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_00: You know, super, super pretty cow, super unique cow.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just just anyway.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_00: I keep getting distracted.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_00: I talk other points on the cow, but look at the cow.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_00: Like, if you haven't looked at the video, like stop what you're doing or mark a note to look at it tonight, or whatever.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: Whenever you get to where you can look at the video, if you're driving and listening to this, for example, look at this cow.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this 19273 cow is an absolute powerhouse, an absolute standout, absolutely one of the very best we have.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_00: A cow we're gonna build around in our pulled purebred program.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the pulled thing, I mean, I get more calls for pulled genetics than anything else I sell right now.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_00: Pulled purebred, Aushi genetics.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of demand for these cattle, there's not a lot of them out there.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is a unique, unique opportunity to get in on one of the absolute best pulled purebred cows I have.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, her full brother in blood is the Saunchi Bowl.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_00: We just had a son of Saunchi here that weaned at 766 pounds.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so one of our all-time best weaning weights in the Akiyushi breed.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, ton of performance in these cattle, a lot of gainability in these cattle.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_00: As you can see here, heavy muscle, like I talked about, extremely high marbling.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_00: She's pulled, so naturally hornless.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and and I mean, just a proven cow.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this is one that I just wouldn't hesitate for a second.
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_00: If you were gonna spend$10,000,$12,000 on an aspiration, this is the cow to spend it on.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, without question, she's worth that.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now, depending on who shows up day of the auction, you might only have to spend one or two thousand to get that aspiration.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_00: We've had aspirations sell for one or two thousand.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_00: We've had aspirations sell for three or four thousand, six thousand, eight thousand.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_00: The aspiration on this cow should sell for ten to twelve thousand.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_00: She's worth ten to twelve thousand.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_00: Will she?
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_00: Entirely depends on who shows up, what they're willing to pay.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I absolutely think there could be a buy here.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_00: On these IVF aspirations, we're gonna guarantee that you get at least three female-sexed uh IVF embryos with the goal you get at least one heifer calf on the ground from the aspiration.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_00: We'll guarantee at least five conventional embryos if you choose to use conventional semen rather than female-sexed semen.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_00: Again, with the hope you get at least one heifer calf from the aspiration.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_00: But the the beauty of a deal like this, there we've taken care of the bottom side risk for you.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_00: You're not gonna spend the money and then not get a set of embryos.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_00: You're going to get embryos, they're going to be from your choice of sires.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_00: You can make them female sexed or conventional, whatever you want to do.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_00: And then you've got all the upside potential.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_00: So if this female goes and drops 10, 15, 20 plus embryos, you get them all.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_00: One flat bid price, you get them all.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_00: And so the buyer does pay for the semen costs separate, so you can go with semen as cheap or as expensive as you'd like, something from my sale, something from somewhere else, whatever you want to do there.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_00: Female sex or conventional semen.
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then you do pay the lab costs to the to the lab.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_00: So you pay the lab making the embryos.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_00: Winstar genetics will do that for you.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna be into that 200 bucks an embryo, is what you're looking at on production cost um to do a single flush there.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so factor that into your budget.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_00: But if you can get a big old pile of embryos, one flat bid price for the aspiration, one flat price for the semen, and then 200 bucks an embryo to pay the lab is what you need to budget for, what you need to plan for.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_00: But you have the potential to get five, 10, 20 embryos off a cow.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_00: She just dumped 50 oocytes.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this is a highly productive kind of a cow.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, these are extremely valuable genetics, you can get them in volume.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_00: I think there's a buy to be had here.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, I honestly feel like that that aspiration without question is worth 10 to 12,000.
• 47:21
  SPEAKER_00: But you might be the guy that gets it bought.
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_00: If no one shows up, you get it bought for one or two thousand, you know.
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_00: Very realistically, you might get it on for three, four, or five, six thousand.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and one heifer calf would pay for it, even if you got 10, 10,000, 12,000 into this aspiration, one heifer calf, which we're guaranteeing you enough embryos to get that, would more than pay for it.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_00: But I'd bet you get a group of heifer calves off of uh off an aspiration like that.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the kind of female that could make a bowl where even if you use conventional semen, you might make you know a really high-powered um pole dockyoshi bowl off a deal like that, too.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_00: So don't sleep.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's gonna be lot nine.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_00: Again, that auction is open now at the cgauction.givsmart.com link.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_00: It will close July 29th at 6 p.m.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_00: Mountain.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'd get an early bid in on that one.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_00: You don't hear me get this excited about that many lots.
• 48:11
  SPEAKER_00: Do not miss lot nine.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_00: I repeat, do not miss lot nine IVF aspiration on one of our very best pulled purebred Akichi females we've ever offered.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_00: This is a cornerstone kind of cow.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_00: So we're up here to our fourth pen of calves that we're looking at today, our fourth pen of animals.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_00: This pen has got four uh of our wienling bull calves in it.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_00: So these will be fall of 2025 calves.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_00: They were weaned in spring of 2026.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_00: And we have got a a full-blood red wagyu bull in here.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_00: We have got a registered black Angus bull in here, and we have got two red wagyu steers in here.
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so a couple different things depending on what all you're looking to do.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_00: Looking at the 5538 bowl, which would be on the far left, far left, the group, the front of that whole group, the front of that whole bunch, 5538.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_00: That's gonna be a direct Uma Maru sun.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so really valuable semen as the sire of this this calf.
• 49:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you're gonna be into that semen usually about 7,500 bucks for a straw.
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, at the cheapest, you know, three, four thousand if you can find it.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh umamaru is a katy maru sun, so obviously that gives me just a ton of confidence in in how these cattle are gonna be for docility, for muscle, for marbling, for gainability.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the bull himself has a great look to him.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_00: You can take a look there.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_00: He's an umaru over international over 919.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so top and bottom side of this pedigree got some really unique stuff going on.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_00: The international bull is gonna be uh you know, unique and rare bull out of Australia.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_00: You don't see a lot of those around.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna bring the Namiko maternal line to play.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, really impressive bowl, really good looking bowl.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_00: The 919 cow at the bottom of the bottom of this side of this pedigree uh is our$300,000 producing female.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that cow's done us a wonderful job.
• 50:01
  SPEAKER_00: Big owl over Hikari over Shigamaru over Ume female, so straight foundation pedigree.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you're gonna get a ton of marbling out of a pedigree like that when we look at a bowl like this with the Katy Maroon on the top side, 919 on the bottom, just marbling on marbling on marbling.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is a below average birth weight bowl.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_00: You could easily use this bowl safely on heifers.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, this bowl weaned at 580 pounds, so a respectable weaning weight, got some good growth there.
• 50:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you're getting the Katy Maru genetics on the top side, you're getting Namiko and 919 both on the bottom.
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and free delivery anywhere in the continental United States included on 5538, which would be lot four, the Umamaru 5538 bowl calf.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_00: Now jumping to the black calf in the pan.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_00: So right now he's second uh away from the truck as he currently sits.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um that bowl that that's a registered Angus bowl, and that is the number one dollar combined bowl in our program at$431 combined.
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_00: So the dollar combined EPD basically tries to boil together the whole suite of EPDs into when we look at final genetic merit added to both sons and daughters of this bowl.
• 51:12
  SPEAKER_00: If you took this bull out and used him to make sons that go through the feedlot and turn into beef, uh that's to make daughters that return to your herd and become mother cows, that dollar combined figure is trying to put together what's the added value we get from having calves of that bull rather than any other bull or than the average bull or whatever else.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_00: So CGX breakthrough 5502N.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um dollar combined is at 431, so well into the top 1% of the breed.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, he's also top 1% for weaning weight at 101, top 1% for yearling weight at 175, top 1% for carcass weight at 98, top 3% for marbling at 1.76, top 2% for ribeye at 1.41, and cleared up there on all of the index values.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this bull currently weighs 802 pounds, is where as we're looking at the black bull here, the the CGX Breakthrough 5502N.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking for obviously homozygous black and homozygous pulled, where he's an Angus bull, um, with as high a dollar combined index value as we have ever produced in our program at 431.
• 52:17
  SPEAKER_00: Free delivery anywhere in the continental United States.
• 52:19
  SPEAKER_00: Don't sleep on lot five, the 5502 bull.
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_00: Now the other two individuals in the pen that are both sitting back in the corner behind the black bowl, and hopefully that black bowl will peel around and give us a look here.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but those black last two that are in the corner there are both the steers.
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um they're gonna be lot six and seven, uh CGX Viral 5570 and CGX Viral 5577.
• 52:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so looking at those two, uh they're gonna weigh 572 and 615 pounds, respectively.
• 52:48
  SPEAKER_00: So starting with 5570, who weighs 572 pounds.
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um that bull is a son of viral, who's a shigamaru over Hikari over Namiko, out of our$200,000 producer JC Ms.
• 53:01
  SPEAKER_00: Rushaw 121, uh, who is a Rushaw over Hikari over Judo over Homari.
• 53:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so looking at a steer like that, why would we choose to buy a steer like that?
• 53:11
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I can tell you this when it comes to the real costs of ranching, it's feed and it's time.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and if you're gonna invest the same feed in the same time, you're way better off to invest that feed and that time into something you know is gonna be an excellent eating experience rather than invest the same feed in the same time and yield something subpar.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_00: So with these steers, um, in the case of lot six, that viral sun out of 121, super high powered pedigree top and bottom.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this is an American Wagyu Association register, 100% full blood, DNA verified, all the bells, all the whistles, don't waste your feed on anything less.
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_00: Looking at his brother lot 7, the CGX Viral 5577 and steer, a little bit heavier.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so if you were splitting hairs and it's coming on down to the close of the sale, which one do you put one bit in more than the other?
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_00: Lot seven is a hair heavier than lot six.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_00: So lot seven weighs 615 pounds, lot six weighs 572 pounds.
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so gonna get just a little bit more weight um on your lot seven steer there.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_00: He is gonna be a viral son again out of the Himawari 9961Y female that is selling as lot one.
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so again, American Wagyu Association registered, DNA verified, 100% Japanese origin.
• 54:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know what I would tell somebody, anybody looking at buying that lot one, looking at buying that donor, if you wanted good solid, hard carcass data on her and you wanted to know what those carcasses will do under your management and at your place and on your feed, buy this steer.
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_00: There will be more value for the buyer of that lot one of those 9961 Y genetics in buying this steer than for anybody else.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is gonna be a great steer for anybody.
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_00: This steer is gonna make great stake no matter who buys him.
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_00: This steer is gonna be something you know you can be confident investing that time and that feed into to make an awesome quality end product.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_00: That these steers come with free delivery anywhere on the continental United States included.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_00: But whoever buys lot one is getting all those benefits, plus proving out, hey, what do these genetics do on this new donor I bought in lot one?
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_00: So if you wanted to fast track, instead of saying, hey, now I gotta get this cow, make an embryo, make a calf, raise the calf, and try to try to try to produce beef that way, you can jump your timeline by a year or two with getting this steer that all he needs is a year of feed put into him, and he's gonna be ready to harvest and put an awesome steak on the plate.
• 55:37
  SPEAKER_00: So there'd be added value if you buy the lot one donor, take a good look at her son, the lot seven steer.
• 55:43
  SPEAKER_00: Now, a couple of other things I want to touch on real quick here um as as we get towards wrapping up.
• 55:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, two new pictures uh that that that are we're gonna show.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I'll have Jacob throw these into the video here.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, lot 15, uh, the guapo bull.
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I don't think I've been as excited about a picture on a bull really ever.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_00: Of all the bulls we've pictured.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this guapo bull is just stellar, it's just so good.
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I think you'll agree as you take a look at this picture again.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_00: Watch the video of this uh of this podcast, watch it on godanycows.com, watch it on YouTube, watch it on Apple Podcasts, take a look at this bull.
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh guapo, uh super, super good looking bull, homozygous polled bull, extremely heavy muscle bull, super well-mannered bull.
• 56:29
  SPEAKER_00: We've loved the calves here.
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_00: We've gotten excellent reports back the places he's been used.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this bull, this bull's the real deal.
• 56:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we're gonna be using guapo heavily going forward.
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of other programs will as well.
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_00: If you're looking for a bull to incorporate the pulled gene into your herd, um, give guapo a good hard look.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, there is sexed semen available on this bowl as well.
• 56:50
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking for heifer-sexed semen, um, you have the option to upgrade your purchase in this sale to heifer-sexed semen.
• 56:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the bid price is for conventional semen in the sale.
• 57:01
  SPEAKER_00: If you choose to go female sexed, it's an additional$500 per straw to go from conventional to female sexed.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking to make specifically daughters, you can do that.
• 57:10
  SPEAKER_00: But wanted to point out that there's this fresh picture.
• 57:13
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, what a picture.
• 57:14
  SPEAKER_00: Homozygous pulled bull, outcross pedigree.
• 57:17
  SPEAKER_00: So anybody that has been doing anything with the polled ockie genetics, there's a real heavy King David influence in in the polled ockie marketplace or the polled ockie gene pool.
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_00: King David cattle are excellent.
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_00: I love the King David bull, I love the Dose bull as son, but they're very, very prevalent in these pedigrees.
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so something outcross like guapo that doesn't have any of that uh King David in it is is of value.
• 57:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um the bull's got muscle, docility.
• 57:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, these bulls already sent semen internationally to Australia.
• 57:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this bull is gonna be live covering cows in Maine.
• 57:49
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, Jim came out here and and and looked through all of what we had and picked an awesome one there and and uh reads hauling them out to Maine and uh to live cover cows out that way.
• 57:59
  SPEAKER_00: Some of the best calves in our last calf crop were guapos.
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_00: Don't miss out.
• 58:03
  SPEAKER_00: That is gonna be lot 15, uh, five units of guapo semen.
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the other bowl that I would tell you to take a look at, the new picture on, and I'll have Jacob throw this picture in as well, um, is gonna be the Mellow Yellow Bowl.
• 58:16
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so CGX Mellow Yellow 4553M.
• 58:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we have never sold semen on this bowl before, so you could be the very first to access semen on Mellow Yellow.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_00: And he is named Mellow Yellow because I'm super original and super unique.
• 58:30
  SPEAKER_00: This is a mellow yellow bull.
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like this bull from the time he was a calf, always just so easy mannered, so easy to be around.
• 58:39
  SPEAKER_00: Out of all of our 2024 calves, if you walked out into that set of bull calves when they were wheenlings, when they were yearlings, now as they're coming twos, that's the bull that's gonna come up to greet you.
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_00: He's mellow, he's easy mannered, he isn't gonna chase you around, he isn't gonna run away, he isn't gonna cause a problem.
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_00: If you're looking to improve docility in your Akyushi cattle or red wagyu cattle, and you want to do it with a full blood, so 100% Japanese origin uh bull that's American Wagyu Association registered, this is your guy.
• 59:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like that, that is why this bull was collected.
• 59:13
  SPEAKER_00: That is what I would recommend using this semen for.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_00: That is why this bull exists and is named what he is.
• 59:19
  SPEAKER_00: If you have a cow that you say, hey, there's things I like about this cow, she's a unique individual, unique pedigree, has some good things about her, but she's kind of a knucklehead, you know, or she can get a little panicky in the chute, or she can get a little snorty in the in the bug box on the way into the chute, or she can sometimes she wants to take off and run up run away from you, or whatever.
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_00: Just a little bit panicky, a little bit nervous, which can be it's frankly quite common in Aki Uchi, and we want to make that better.
• 59:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, go ahead and buy this Lot 11.
• 59:46
  SPEAKER_00: This is one unit of CGX mellow yellow 4550 4453 M semen.
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_00: This bowl obviously intended for use in an IVF setting uh with a single straw.
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_00: So if you're looking to take the donor that that's good but needs mellowed out, that's what this bowl's for.
• 1:00:02
  SPEAKER_00: Mellow yellow, um, go ahead and get that straw bought.
• 1:00:05
  SPEAKER_00: Cool pedigree on the bowl, too.
• 1:00:07
  SPEAKER_00: Take a look at you know, this is a Joe Sun, so shig over big L over Fuyuko on the top side of the pedigree.
• 1:00:12
  SPEAKER_00: So we're bringing Fuyuco right up front, which is neat.
• 1:00:15
  SPEAKER_00: And then the bottom side of the pedigree, um, that cow 239F is a granddaughter of both Master Chef and Rushaw.
• 1:00:22
  SPEAKER_00: So two of the very most valuable bulls in the breed, you know, you're gonna be 22 grand up to 22 grand for a straw of Rushaw.
• 1:00:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean up to five, six thousand for a straw of Master Chef, uh, if you can find it.
• 1:00:35
  SPEAKER_00: And this bowl is just always a standout in the pan, so I'd sure recommend you take a look at at those two new pictures.
• 1:00:41
  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna jump in here and add a feature lot after the fact.
• 1:00:44
  SPEAKER_00: Jacob and I actually recorded this auction podcast a couple of weeks ago and we're figuring we were on top of things and ahead of things, but this is a lot that is too good not to offer in this sale.
• 1:00:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we're gonna add uh a feature lot here.
• 1:00:58
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna add uh a lot that a lot of people have been asking for, a lot of people have been excited about.
• 1:01:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um after talking to my good friend Andrew Pryor at 16 Peaks, we've decided to offer one unit of summit semen in this auction.
• 1:01:10
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you're not familiar with Summit, Summit is the grand champion of the inaugural branded beef challenge that the American Akeushi Association put on uh in Texas this year.
• 1:01:21
  SPEAKER_00: Umit was offered for the first time at the American Akeyushi Association convention sale, the Stars of Akuchi sale, where that first package of semen sold five units for$4,250.
• 1:01:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um that's the only format this bull has been available in up to this point.
• 1:01:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um Andrew has offered those five unit packages at$4,250, so$850 a straw, but you had to buy five to be able to be able to get into the bull.
• 1:01:46
  SPEAKER_00: Now, as I've talked with Andrew about this bull, he's had a lot of interest in a single unit package, and after talking to him, we decided, you know, the fair way to set a fair market value on a single unit, given that people have, you know, spent that$850 per unit on five unit packages, um, respect and appreciate those folks.
• 1:02:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know, Jason and Elisa Hein there bought that first package at auction.
• 1:02:07
  SPEAKER_00: There's been a series of folks, including myself, purchased five unit packages since that auction, looking to tie into the proven carcass excellence of this bull.
• 1:02:15
  SPEAKER_00: And if we're gonna offer a single unit, we don't want to do anything that that is gonna harm in any way, shape, or form any of the folks that have already invested in this bull and already invested in these genetics.
• 1:02:26
  SPEAKER_00: So decided the the fairest way to set the fair auction value for a single unit package for for IVF use would be the same way that that fair market value was set um on a five unit package uh at auction um in Texas this June.
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um so appreciate Andrew, you know, proving out this bull, um offering this bull, being all right with us saying, hey, it's all right if we go ahead and sell a unit in this sale and and appreciate him and the good working relationship we have.
• 1:02:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um appreciate him bringing a neat bull like this to the marketplace.
• 1:02:55
  SPEAKER_00: You don't know what a bull like this can do until he's been proven out, and Andrew has done that.
• 1:03:01
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate him.
• 1:03:02
  SPEAKER_00: Tip my hat uh to Andrew Pryor and the whole team there at that 16 Peaks.
• 1:03:06
  SPEAKER_00: We just had him on the last podcast where he shared a little bit of the story of this bull, you know, and and Andrew mentioned that that, you know, when this bull calf came through, they were supposed to be steering all of the calves in the set.
• 1:03:19
  SPEAKER_00: So they were going to make all the bull calves they'd gotten from Heartbrand steers.
• 1:03:22
  SPEAKER_00: And and when this summit bull came through, even as a baby, he said, you know, he was just too good.
• 1:03:26
  SPEAKER_00: Too good to be able to to nut him, he said, just just too good a bull.
• 1:03:29
  SPEAKER_00: They had to leave him intact.
• 1:03:32
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I mean, and this bull was coming off a great set of cows.
• 1:03:35
  SPEAKER_00: Andrew had gone through and very, very carefully, very thoroughly sourced that set of cows from Hartbrand, so Hartbrand to be the breeders of this summit bull, and then um Andrew and and Sixteen Peaks there'd be the owners.
• 1:03:46
  SPEAKER_00: And then he said, you know, just couldn't bring himself to to go ahead and castrate this calf.
• 1:03:50
  SPEAKER_00: So kept him intact, um, raised him up to be a mature bull.
• 1:03:53
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, in talking with Andrew about the bull, you know, and just kind of picking his brain on, hey, what what is the bull, strengths, weaknesses, how to use him, given that we are going to incorporate him within our program, you know, Andrew mentioned to me, he says this bull is really, really mellow, really easy-mannered, really docile, really just good to be around.
• 1:04:11
  SPEAKER_00: He said he's had not that he'd recommend it, but he said that he's he's had his kids get on this bull's back.
• 1:04:15
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just mellow, just easy, just good to be around, super good bull.
• 1:04:19
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, talking to Andrew had mentioned these these are growth cattle, you know.
• 1:04:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, looking at that, that bull calf, you know, probably 100, 125 pounds heavier than his contemporaries, and that was in muscle, not frame.
• 1:04:30
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, thickness, thick, stout, heavy kind of a calf.
• 1:04:33
  SPEAKER_00: One of the things that Andrew's really appreciated in these summit cattle as well is that they take less days on feed.
• 1:04:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, quite often a lot of these Akeyushi cattle are going to be a 300-day finish is a very normal thing in in Akiyuchi cattle.
• 1:04:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's a very standard thing, you know, is to take 300 days to get these things ready for harvest.
• 1:04:50
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, you know, it's very realistic with these summit cattle to have them ready in 210 days, um, so significantly faster, have them harvested by 19 months in a lot of cases.
• 1:04:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um really just an impressive growth curve to these cattle, so the docility is there, the growth is there, the muscle is there, you know, being able to finish them quickly, um, that's proven with over 200 carcass data points there at 16 peaks.
• 1:05:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then the bull has been taken head to head with the best of the best in the American Akiushi Association Brand of Beef Challenge, where he came out as the grand champion.
• 1:05:22
  SPEAKER_00: So we I think enough of the bull, I think enough of Andrew and his program and what they've gone put into proven this bull.
• 1:05:27
  SPEAKER_00: We've invested in in a five-unit package there, which as I mentioned, that's the only way the bull's been available.
• 1:05:32
  SPEAKER_00: Five units, four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars to get into them.
• 1:05:35
  SPEAKER_00: We are going to offer a single unit of Summit Siemen for the first time in this auction.
• 1:05:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um appreciate Andrew being being on board with that, being good to work together on that, and uh being willing to uh let us offer a single unit.
• 1:05:49
  SPEAKER_00: I know there's a lot of people interested in this lot, really unique, proven carcass excellence.
• 1:05:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um, help yourself here to the first offering of a single unit of Summit Siemen.
• 1:06:00
  SPEAKER_00: So, in closing, um, you know, just a couple of things uh that I want to touch base on uh before I let you go and and uh take a look at this auction at cgoction.gifsmart.com.
• 1:06:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, watch our previous auction overview podcast podcasts.
• 1:06:14
  SPEAKER_00: So every time, like I mentioned, every other episode, if you're to go back through our episodes.
• 1:06:19
  SPEAKER_00: So, for example, if you went to gotanycows.com and went to the podcast page, you're gonna see all 51 episodes there.
• 1:06:25
  SPEAKER_00: And every other episode, you're gonna see for the last several times, we're out here in the cows.
• 1:06:30
  SPEAKER_00: We're out here showing you the cows in the pens, you have a chance to look at the live animals.
• 1:06:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you want further information or more in-depth look at different pedigrees, different bloodlines, different animals that we've featured and showcased here, different semen options that are that are in this sale.
• 1:06:46
  SPEAKER_00: There's several things we've gone into depth on before that I'm not going to repeat myself on here.
• 1:06:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, if you want more information on things that are in this sale or want to kind of get up to speed, go back through those those uh previous auction overview podcasts.
• 1:07:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that'll give you a chance to take a deeper dive on some of the lots in this offering.
• 1:07:07
  SPEAKER_00: As well, if there's anything in specific, a question that you have that I've not answered in this recording, reach out to me directly.
• 1:07:13
  SPEAKER_00: You can call or text me at 208-589-9988, email me at Seth at Christiansen Genetics.com or message Christiansen Genetics on Facebook.
• 1:07:24
  SPEAKER_00: Be sure to mark into your calendar July 29, 6 p.m.
• 1:07:28
  SPEAKER_00: Mountain time to be there for closing.
• 1:07:30
  SPEAKER_00: This is a horse race style finish.
• 1:07:32
  SPEAKER_00: That means that the clock will reset to five minutes every time there's a bid on any lot at closing.
• 1:07:39
  SPEAKER_00: So if there were no bids at all, the thing would close right at 6 p.m.
• 1:07:43
  SPEAKER_00: mountain time.
• 1:07:43
  SPEAKER_00: Most of the time, there's a lot of bidding right at close.
• 1:07:46
  SPEAKER_00: Quite often it'll take about an hour.
• 1:07:48
  SPEAKER_00: In some cases, if there's a lot of bidding from a lot of people for a long time, it can take up to two.
• 1:07:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so be aware that you know 6 p.m.
• 1:07:55
  SPEAKER_00: is when it starts closing.
• 1:07:56
  SPEAKER_00: That clock will continue to reset to five minutes, uh, that countdown clock, until there's no more bidding for a full five-minute window.
• 1:08:04
  SPEAKER_00: Watch uh your your browser and make sure to refresh, refresh, and refresh to be sure that you've got the winning bid at closing.
• 1:08:13
  SPEAKER_00: Without fail, every sale of somebody reach out and say, Hey, I thought I had the winning bid, I thought the clock went to zero, and then it said I lost, or it said I didn't get the bid.
• 1:08:23
  SPEAKER_00: Unless you've seen a banner come down over the corner of each lot that says closed or you won or you lost, the thing is not closed.
• 1:08:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, do not assume it is closed just because it looks like that clock has gone to zero.
• 1:08:36
  SPEAKER_00: Refresh, refresh, refresh.
• 1:08:38
  SPEAKER_00: At any point in time, if there's any question, is the auction over or is the auction not?
• 1:08:42
  SPEAKER_00: Refresh your browser and make sure that you see that it hasn't just reset to five minutes or that another bid's not just been entered.
• 1:08:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the the auction is not closed until you see that banner come across the corner of your lots.
• 1:08:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um and yeah, appreciate all of you being here, appreciate you listening, appreciate you watching, and we will see you next time on the Got Any Cows Podcast.
• 1:09:03
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• 1:09:06
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• 1:09:10
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