April Market Reports
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EMCC Catalog Bull Sale Report 2012 04/16/12 2:28:31 PM
Record Sale Average at Annual Bull Sale
By Jon Angell
Bowling Green – The first Tuesday in April two standing annual events can be counted on. One would be a local election day and the other is the Eastern Missouri Commission Co. Annual Spring Catalog Bull Sale, this year marking its twelfth year. Spring has come early in this part of the country making for plenty to do all at one time. Many area farmers took a brief time out of a busy day to exercise their civic right to vote between planting early corn, spreading fertilizer, and other daily chores ahead of the forecasted rain that blew through right before the late afternoon bull sale kickoff.
Ann Rincker from Shelbyville IL learned first hand about kicking off the sale when she drew by lot from a hat in a consigner meeting shortly before the sale the honor and responsibility to led things off. Her confidence in the quality of her bull was pitted against the knowledge that in previous years it has taken a few drafts of bulls sold below the eventual market average to warm bidders up for the many sale offerings. Uncertainty and pressure was more acute for Ann as she had but one entry for the sale and there would be no second chance to boost her evening’s sale average.
When auctioneer Mike Van Maanen shouted “sold,” Rincker was ecstatic with a selling price of $4025 for her 24 month old Angus bull, over $800 above the evenings $3220 average. Prices ranged from $2250 to $4600 on 40 bulls sold from 19 area seedstock producers. The 40 bulls sold were divided among 28 different buyers which included several perennial buyers as well as several first time EMCC Bull Sale buyers. Although five of these buyers bought multiple bulls the sale wasn’t overly dominated by anyone and bulls were mostly distributed across a broad area and mixture of cattlemen.
Meyer Cattle Co drew the honor and responsibly of setting the final tone for the sale that historically has been characterized by strong prices as reluctant bidders finally get engaged to bring home “a bull” and scramble over the last of the evenings offerings. The break with historical trends set by Rincker at he beginning of the sale gave way to a more traditional finish of strong prices with Meyer Right Answer 1002 a son of SAV Final Answer 0035 topping the sale at $4600 on the evenings last offering.
Consensus of several annual sale attendants shared a very positive impression of this years bull consignments with frequent comments expressing a belief that this year’s offerings where the highest over-all quality ever offered. Last year’s offerings where really good and this year’s overall quality even better leaves us looking forward to building on that trend for next year. Save the date, April 2 of 2013, and plan on participating in the 13th Annual EMCC Catalog Bull Sale.
2012 EMCC Annual Catalog Bull Sale Results:
Angus Bull Sales-
CR Angus of Wellsville MO lot 101 @ $3100
CR Angus of Wellsville MO lot 102 @ $2500
Tony Griffin of Monroe City MO lot 103 @ $3800
Tim Gutermuth of St Charles MO lot 105 @ $2250
Hopewell Farms of Paris MO lot 106 @ $3700
Hopewell Farms of Paris MO lot 107 @ $3900
Hopewell Farms of Paris MO lot 108 @ $3900
Hopewell Farms of Paris MO lot 109 @ $4000
Hopewell Farms of Paris MO lot 110 @ $3850
Meyer Cattle Co. of Curryville MO lot 111 @ $3050
Meyer Cattle Co. of Curryville MO lot 112 @ $3800
Meyer Cattle Co. of Curryville MO lot 113 @ $4600
Meyer Cattle Co. of Curryville MO lot 114 @ $2650
Meyer Cattle Co. of Curryville MO lot 115 @ $3350
Musgrave Angus of Griggsville IL lot 116 @ $3700
Musgrave Angus of Griggsville IL lot 117 @ $4000
Musgrave Angus of Griggsville IL lot 118 @ $3100
Musgrave Angus of Griggsville IL lot 119 @ $3150
Musgrave/White Hawk of Pittsfield IL lot 120 @ $2800
Musgrave/White Hawk of Pittsfield IL lot 121 @ $3250
Musgrave/White Hawk of Pittsfield IL lot 122 @ $2900
Musgrave/White Hawk of Pittsfield IL lot 123 @ $2850
Ragsdale Cattle Co. of Paris MO lot 124 @ $3800
Ragsdale Cattle Co. of Paris MO lot 125 @ $3700
Ragsdale Cattle Co. of Paris MO lot 126 @ $3800
Lee and Ann Rinker of Shelbyville IL lot 127 @ $4025
John & Al Ripperger and Sons of Centralia MO lot 128 @ $2850
Shannon Farms of Bowling Green MO lot 129 @ $2400
Triple K Angus of Bowling Green MO lot 130 @ $2850
Wehrle Cattle Co. of Rhineland MO lot 131 @ $2250
Wehrle Cattle Co. of Rhineland MO lot 132 @ $2500
Charolais Bull Sale
Fountain Charolais of Thompson MO lot 201 @ $3100
Limousin Bull Sale
Quarter K Limousin of Bowling Green MO lot 301 @ $3800
Simmental and SimAngus Bulls
Steve Gill Farms of Wentzville MO lot 401 @ $3050
Steve Gill Farms of Wentzville MO lot 402 @ $3350
Steve Gill Farms of Wentzville MO lot 403 @ $2350
Tim Gutermutht of St. Charles MO lot 404 @ $2250
Brent Rinker of Shelbyville IL lot 405 @ $2750
Sachs Simmental of Bowling Green MO lot 409 $ 2600
A warm thank you to the Successful Buyers….
Harry Tinsley of Troy MO
Bill Shepard of Pearl IL
Roger Crowder of Nebo IL
Joe Van Booven of Rhineland MO
Larry Robinson of Wellsville MO
Bailey Farms of Curryville MO
Gary Jennings of Clark MO
Harold Kropf of Thompson MO
Herberle Farms of Hermann MO
Plum Creek Farms of New London MO
Darin and Keith Schnarre of Centralia MO
Palmer Brothers of New London MO
Tribune Grain of Tribune KS
Scott McKinnon of Nebo IL
Bruce Coleman of Perry MO
Jim Becker of Eolia MO
Greg Wyble of Bowling Green MO
Chris Tobias of Loraine IL
Rob Mixer of Quincy IL
Bob Van Booven of Rhineland MO
Scott McKee of Versailles IL
Neal Norton of Silex MO
Chod Farms of Clarksville/Glencoe MO
Mark Franz of New Hartford MO
Bob Close of Windsor MO
James Carroll of Troy MO
Griffin Brothers of Monroe City MO
Mark Dowell of Mexico MO
A special thanks to those bidders who helped make the market even though they didn’t take a bull home this year. The consigners and EMCC market team would like to thank you as well for your important role in helping to make this a successful sales event.
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