TO: Prospective Buyers and Guests: Welcome to the sixth Southeast Missouri Show-Me-Select Fall Calving Replacement Heifer Sale. The first Fall Calving Sale averaged $1050, the second averaged $1110, the third $1118, the fourth $1071 and the May 2004 averaged $1397. There are 257 heifers: 203 Black, 42 BWF, 10 Gray, and 2 Charolais in this sale with 168 A.I. bred to some of the respective breeds leading Birth Weight EPD and calving ease sires as well as excellent growth sires. All but 2 herds were A.I. bred and synchronized using MGA and Lutalyse or CIDR and Lutalyse. Breeds include 4 Registered Angus, 10 gray in color Angus sired heifers, 3 Registered Simmental heifers, 2 Charolais, 51 Purebred Angus, and the rest Angus sired that are black or BWF in color. There are also three sorts of sexed embryos with a sort of 3 heifers; 1 sort of 4 bulls and another of 3 bull calves. There are 40 daughters of the Angus bull GAR Predestined in the sale with 30 of these A.I. bred to SAF Directive. There are also 50 heifers total bred to Directive and 40 heifers A.I. bred to SAF Focus J30. The genetics in these, as well as others in the sale, is top notch. As in the last fall sale all heifers have known birth dates and parentage and several herds have 6 to 7 generations of stacked pedigrees. A few herds have carcass data from U.S. Premium Beef on the steer mates. All heifers' due dates are September 1 to November 25th. All sires have all available growth EPD's listed and scrotal and carcass EPD's where available. As you can see the EPD's are tremendous. The natural sires EPD's are about as good as you will find. Accuracy is also listed. Remember the higher the accuracy towards .99 the more reliable the offspring will be. Thanks for attending the Sale, or just studying the catalog. If you have questions feel free to call me 573-243-3581, look at our website: semobeef.com, or call the consignor at the number listed. Sincerely,
Roger Eakins
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