TO: Prospective Buyers and Guests: Welcome to the ninth Southeast Missouri Show-Me-Select Spring Calving Replacement Heifer Sale. The seventh Southeast Fall calving sale was held in May and it was a huge success with heifers averaging $1499. The past four sales have averaged $1455 on 851 heifers. The preg checks were started in late June and the open heifers from some of these herds were placed on feed and have already gone to market as finished cattle. They have averaged right at $1150 at U.S. Premium Beef. The 197 heifers in this sale were started from 840 heifers and we have individually sifted and sorted. The breeding work is already done and some will start calving in 2 months. Guaranteed bred heifers, and not having to feed and take care of the heifer that did not breed is worth about $250 - $330 per heifer to you. Remember, those heifers are guaranteed bred for 30 days after you buy them. Contact the consignor before 30 days if you suspect one is open. The genetics on most of these heifers is excellent with 6-7 generations of stacked pedigrees in several of the herds. Also some have been sending cattle to U.S. Premium Beef for processing and have carcass data on steer mates to the heifers. There are some that had a $216 per head premium on steers. If you as a producer are wanting to develop a herd, 20 years of selections are already done on some of the consignments. There are 150 black, 32 black white face, 1 white, 2 gray, 12 red or RWF heifers in the sale. There are 12 Registered Angus in the sale; also 7 Registered Herefords, 4 Purebred Herefords and 7 Registered Simmentals. If you want AI lots there are many all AI lots and there are 96 heifers pregnancy checked AI bred. Most of the heifers were synchronized with CIDR's and given Lutaluse for estrus synchronization. There are leading AI sires represented with 20 or more bred to 3 different bulls. Consignors are listed in alphabetical order so the sale order will be different. The catalog has footnotes for your use. I have also included accuracy on the EPD's and also Carcass and Scrotal EPD's on AI sires. Remember, the higher the accuracy towards .90 of above the more reliable the data is in selection. 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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