WelcomeWe would like to invite you to attend the 11th annual fall Northeast Mo. Show-Me-Select replacement heifer sale at Palmyra, Mo., Dec. 14, 2007. The Northeast Region was one of two pilot regions when the Show-Me-Select heifer program was started in Missouri under the leadership of Dr. David Patterson. The Palmyra sale is one of only two sales that were held the first year. During the eleven years we have run approximately 19,000 head of heifers through the program and with this year's sale will have sold 3450 head.
We have surveyed the buyers of heifers from our first nine sales to see how they got along calving their Show-Me-Select heifers. We have had about a 90% buyer satisfaction rate. Results follow:
The national average for assisting first calf heifers is around 22% and for death due to calving problems is 8-10%, so we are pleased with our results and are striving to improve.
This is an outstanding set of heifers. Many of the heifers have years of performance testing behind them and are out of top performance tested bulls. Information on the sires of many of the heifers are available upon request. Heifers with blemishes and disposition problems have been culled.
About 70% of the heifers have been synchronized and are bred A.I. Many of them will be grouped so they calve in less than a two week period. Over 90% of the heifers sold in our past four sales calved within two weeks of our projected calving dates. Heifers will be grouped for the sale according to projected calving dates and uniformity of the heifers.
If you have questions feel free to call the consignors or myself. Hope to see you Dec. 14.
Al Kennett
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