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Southwest Missouri Bull Sale Report
ELDON COLE
MT. VERNON, MO.
The 95th Southwest Missouri All-Breed Performance Tested Bull Sale operated somewhat differently March 30 thanks to COVID-19. Extension livestock specialists were not in attendance but the consignors, sale manager, Phoebe Wiles and her recruits made the sale successful.
The big change was the web site setup to livestream the sale via computer so persons at have could view and make phone bids. Attendance by spectators was discouraged and compared to previous Tested Bull Sale crowds, it was about one-half normal size.
The sale top was $5,000 on an Angus consigned by Wiles Ridge Ranch, Willow Springs. The buyer was Richard LeJeune, Halfway. Twenty-six Angus averaged $3,090. The second high price for the Angus, with two consignors Naylor’s Angus, Buffalo and Blue Mound Angus, Sheldon Swartzentruber, El Dorado Springs selling three bulls for $3,700 each.
Two Gelbvieh bulls from Witt Cattle, El Dorado Springs averaged $,3050 with a top of $3,400. Buying the top selling bull was Lichti Farms, Huntsville, Ark.
The volume buyer at the sale with four head was Cope Farms, Aurora. Three Angus bulls did not receive the floor bid of $,2250. The October, 2019 sale averaged $2,818 and one year ago the average was $2,903.
Persons interested in consigning bulls to the SWMO BCIA’s next performance tested bull sale on Oct. 26 should contact sale manager Phoebe Wiles, 417-293-8002 or your University of Missouri Extension field specialist in livestock. Those specialists are: Elizabeth Picking, West Plains, Andy McCorkill, Lebanon, Patrick Davis, Stockton and Eldon Cole, Mt. Vernon. ∆
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