Welcome to our 20th Annual Sale.

What an interesting year it has been around the farm. We started the spring off with some pretty
major weather scares and evacuation orders due to fires approaching very close to our land. Luckily the community really pulled together during these stressful and trying times to help support all the people at risk of losing homes and infrastructure. We then moved into some major flooding in later spring but after that things seemed to smooth out. Crops were quite good and cattle prices have continued to remain strong making the industry appear brighter than it has in awhile.

We decided to make a few changes to our sale this year. You’ll note that the date has changed to a Wednesday on the farm with lunch. We are also very excited to be switching back to a live auction with a video sale and to be teaming up with the crew at Transcon! We have worked with Transcon for the past few years in the Lone Stone Farms Invitational Female Sale and love the way they’ve supported our
female bred heifer program. We really appreciate being able to bring them on board with our bull and heifer sale now as well! As far as our program goes, we continue to strive to produce the same high quality, affordable bulls for the commercial herd that we have built our herd around for years.

This year in our Fleckvieh offering we have a selection of calving ease bulls from our Haiti, Director’s Cut, and Wolfe Fitzroy sires as well as quite a few polled fleckvieh bulls sired by our homozygous polled Benchmark and Golf bulls. There are a couple of neat AI calves on offer and we have many Sully sons with heavy pigmentation and lots of muscle.

In our purebred program there are a good variety of homozygous polled red and black sons. A few calving ease sons from the NUG Truffle bull as well as power and growth bulls from Major League and Rattler. Our homegrown Gibraltar bull sired by the LFE Amber Jack bull has a few bulls in the sale and he also calves fantastic and produces many dark red calves. We strive to produce bulls to fit a variety of
programs and all are semen tested and guaranteed.

Our replacement heifer calves are heifers that represent our herd and breeding program as a whole. All the calves at the sale are vaccinated as newborn calves with Nasalgen, an intranasal vaccine, and then boostered in spring with Pyramid + presponse and Vision 8 with somnus. They are boostered again in fall with Presponse HM, Express 5, Vision 8 with somnugen, and dewormed with Bovimectin and Clean Up II. We select our sale calves from our herd of 350 registered cows focusing on soundness, temperament, udder structure, and longevity as well as calving ease. To us it’s very important to aim for an unassisted calf with good vigor that hops up and nurses quickly. No one has the time to be pulling calves in this busy day and age or fighting with them to get colostrum during those first critical hours. Every one of our calves is weighed on a digital scale within 24 hours of birth.

Once again our sale will be a live video auction on the farm. The bulls will be available to view on farm at any time and will be in pens for the buyers convenience on Tuesday and Wednesday. Feel free to stop by whenever or check out the bulls online. Snacks and coffee will be provided daily with lunch on sale day. Videos will be posted of each bull on our website at www.swantewittsimmentals.com and can be found online on Transcon and the DLMS websites.

We hope to see you there!