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Had a chance to catch up with Isabel South Dakota Breeder, Bryce Lindskov on their recent sale.

You mind telling us how it went, Bryce?

It was a record-breaking sale, like most of them have been good, but this one would of course be our top sale. We sold like 605 bulls, 28 states, 4 Canadian provinces, and I'd say it would be the number one averaging sale for Angus and Charolais in the nation, and then the Hereford's would have been the top three.

Yeah, and do they keep numbers on those things?

Yeah, that's a national record-breaking sale. Charolais, we've been at the top for 45 years. Angus was sure it would have been the first year we hit the top, and this year would be the second year in a row. I think everybody's got their own program, their own customer-based and our goal is to keep our customer base and keep it growing.

Averages don't mean a lot to me in the end, but if you can be at the top of two out of your three breeds in the nation, it makes you feel like you're doing something right. My goal is to retain the customers and pick up new customers, and sometimes averages scare people, but there's a lot of good bulls that could be bought from us and everybody's price range. I always tell everybody the cheapest bull on my sale would be at the top of both sales across the country, so don't feel like you can't buy the cheapest one on our sale. That same bull would probably top a lot of sales.

That takes quite an effort to put on a sale of that caliber, I imagine.

There's three of us brothers involved in. It takes everybody to do their part, and then the wife's of course. My wife did all the clerking, and my sister-in-law did all the hospitality side as far as the food goes, and then my other sister-in-law was on the block doing the clerking up there. So I'd say we had 65 people all hands on deck on those two days trying to make it happen.

Isabel South Dakota breeder, Bryce Lindskov.

Here's more from my conversation with South Central South Dakota Angus breeder Steve Mowry.

You said you've been running it this way. It's been successful running them through the ring. Do you see any disadvantages to that?

"You know, I've had bulls that are team as kittens at home and I've had them get excited in the ring and and you know, it hurts the sale. But I mean, they are what they are and I've had bulls that I was a little concerned about and they were, you know, you never really know with livestock. So for the most part, people really, really like to see exactly what they're buying. I like the video sales. Those are okay too. But it's really nice to see the bull come in the ring and see what you're doing. I buy bulls myself. And that's the way I like to buy them."

This many years in your reputation you have, you offer guarantee, I'm sure.

"Absolutely. Yeah. And you know, I was offering a 50% guarantee just to kind of help the customer share the risk that we've changed. I've never given 50% credit to anybody in my life. We've always given 100%. So this year we went ahead and offered the 100%. So we try to take care of our customers. You have to in this business."

After that many years, you got to have a lot of returning customers, right?

"We do. We have a great base, it's taken a long time. And you know, just like I said, perseverance and patience. There's been some years that weren't so good. And like I always say, it could have been a little better. It could have been a whole lot worse. We offer free delivery and I don't usually have to haul the bulls very far. I like to brag about that because my neighbors use our bulls. That's a good thing."

South Central, South Dakota Angus Breeder, Steve Mowry.

Steve Mowry from Ma And Pa Angus in Presho, South Dakota.

"I started when I was about 16 as a bullfighter, but when I was a young 10, 12 years old, I was in Little Bitches rodeos. I always enjoyed the bull riding more than I rode barebacks and saddle broncs both. I had a lot more luck with junior bulls and even the senior bulls growing up. I just clicked with cattle. Horses, I was more afraid of a horse than I was a mean bull."

"On the other side note, I actually rode when I was a kid at about 12 years old, but they had us on steers rather than many bulls. Maybe it was just different area or time."

"Up here we have some super-ranked cattle and their yearlings and two-year-olds are as mean as all get out. They'd run over you and that's what the junior boys kids rode. In some places they do ride steers, but even junior, when I started my bullfighting, I was doing those junior rodeos and the bulls were plenty mean and a great place to learn."

"I could not have been in a better place in the world to learn my trade. My first cows that I bought well was actually from winning from the 1983 bullfight championships. I won 12,000 there and I brought it home and bought black baldies. From then I switched to black and today we're 100% registered Angus."

"And the name of your ranch is Ma And Pa Angus in Preshos, South Dakota?"

"Life's been a journey. To God be the glory."

Steve Mowry from Ma anb Pa Angus in Presho, South Dakota has a sale today. So the first question is Steve, if you don't mind, just give me a little background on how you got started in the cattle business.

"I guess I've always been drawn cattle in one form or another. I grew up on a ranch, my dad bought this ranch in 1961, the year that I was born. I followed my brothers into rodeo. That was some of my first enjoyable experiences. Cattle have just been a part of everything I've ever done. I went on to did pro rodeo for quite awhile as a rodeo bullfighter. When I retired from that, I worked for a veterinarian for a couple of years in kind of fell in love with the Angus breed while I was at the veterinarian."

"The timing could not have been any better. When Ag was bad in the 1980s, there was a Wrangler jeans came out with a program called the Wrangler Bullfighting Competition. I was a rodeo bullfighter and they paid a tremendous amount of money. It got up to $485,000 for a 16 man tour. I won more than my share of that $485,000. That's basically how I got in the cow business was my winnings from those bullfights. I was buying cows when cows were dirt cheap in the 80s and my dad was running them on shares with me. That's how I got started."

"We have 65 yearling bulls on the sale. We are on DV auction. You'll be able to bid and buy there. Our catalog and videos are there, of course, but the sale itself is at Presho Livestock Auction. We still run the bulls in the ring one at a time so you get to see exactly what you're buying."

Steve Mowry from Ma and Pa Angus, Presho, South Dakota. 

Now here's Galen Frenzen from Frenzen Angus and Polled Herefords.

"Most of the guys that sell yearling bulls, they start calving right after Christmas. We don't start calving till the middle of February and when we tested our bulls at our sale, I always get nervous with the yearling bulls, a lot of them weren't even a year old yet. But the vet commented that he said the nuts are right there and they're firm. And he said, I'm not grabbing hold of a scrotum full of, well he didn't say scrotum, he said, a bag full of fat. We don't get them fat."

"The genetics are the same. When that calf is born, his genetics are set. And what you do from there is not going to change them. I don't care how you fat you get them or how hard you promote them or what. Those genetics aren't going to change. And so we don't have the weights that a lot of them do. And I've been watching a lot of videos and there's a lot of fat cattle out there.

"It was a Sunday afternoon, a guy called and he said, I don't need any more bulls. But he said, I want to come to your sale. And he said, just look at your bulls and he said, I'm the most guilty one there is. He said, 'I say, I'm not going to buy a fat bull. But that's what we buy because they look better. And then we get upset because they go to hell come summer.' We got repeat customers that say the bowl, he looks about the same in July as they bought them. In areas where there's a hell of a lot of highly promoted, high powered bulls, he says, well, I'm tired of buying fat bulls. It's a totally different program. That's it in nutshell. I'm a redneck. I'm stubborn. I'm German.

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Well, if you look at a map and find Timber Lake South Dakota, our gravel road is 6 miles east of Timber Lake on Highway 20. You'll run into our ranch sign and a big cross anda U.S. flag we got flying there. Then you just go north a couple miles and back west and you're right there. It's really simple. The catalog is online. It's at gillredangus.com. My phone number is 701-730134. And if you want to see the videos of the bulls, they will be on DV Auction here shortly.

Bryan Gill from Gilred Angus in Timber Lake, South Dakota. They have a sale today, Wednesday, April 22nd. You can find it online at DV Auction and Cattleman's Corner or go to their place out at Timber Lake, South Dakota and buy a bull today!

And speaking of those sales that are listed on Cattleman's Corner, Stroud Farms is also having their sale today in Pueblo, Colorado. Tomorrow it's the Packard Point Bull Sale in Muldrow, Oklahoma and the XL Angus Ranch Bull Sale in Evansville, Wyoming. On Friday we are featuring Cavender Ranches, their registered female sale in Jacksonville, Texas. Find all these sales on Cattleman's Corner.com. 

Gill Red Angus from Timberlake, South Dakota has a sale coming up on Wednesday. Here's Bryan Gill with more.

We have Bryan Gill from Gill Red Angus on the phone today. Can you tell us how you got started in the cattle business, Bryan?

My brother and I took over my parents' operation. Dad started Gill Red Angus in 1979. He had commercial cattle before that, but he bought his first registered cattle in 1979, and it progressed along the way, and then my parents retired, and we were here working with them, and when they retired, we just took it over. Back then, it was just commercial cattle, and then in 1979 when Dad bought the first registered Red Angus cattle back, before then, they had some, just kind of a mix-match. They had some herefords and some blacks and whatnot, but there was some red-angus cattle in the country. Then Dad really started to admire, and that's how we chose Red Angus.

What do you think's best about them?

For me, it's the maternal end, it is second to none. The disposition is quiet. Flushability is there. It's always in good shape, and they've got good feet and good utters, and the depths of body, and it's just very easy to get along with, I guess, the red cattle.

April 22nd, at the ranch near Timberlake, South Dakota, we're going to be selling 100 bulls, and in them bulls, 60 of them will be age-advantaged, and 40 of them will be yearlings, and then we'll have 180 commercial replacement heifers, and then we'll also have, one first time we've ever done this, it's a pick of the herd, 2026 born heifer calves. So they're just getting born now, but whoever buys it can come into here, and there's approximately 600 registered cows calving right now, and they get to pick any calf heifer calf they want out of that deal. 

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