We often hear that records are made to be broken. While the devil is in the details, records are being broken throughout registered seedstock production buoyed by historic prices across commercial production. The inarguable secret sauce in the historic marketing environment we enjoy today is consumer demand for quality beef. The challenge and question we should ask ourselves during these unprecedented times is, “where we go from here.”
As Angus seedstock suppliers and as Southern Synergy partners with a rock-solid commitment to quality, make no mistake, we see the future with a clarity like never before. Our investments in genetics, a focus on multi-trait selection pressure for all the traits of economic importance, and a report card from the opportunity to market our bulls as Gardiner Angus Ranch cooperators, provide data we need to make educated, informed and accurate decisions about future generations of elite Angus cattle at Ogeechee Farms and CAM Ranches. Our April 11 sale was further confirmation that quality matters at every point in beef cattle production.
The high selling female was Lot 1, Ogeechee Preeminent 521, an elite fall heifer donor prospect out of Ogeechee FB Grid Maker 17150. Half-interest sold to the Georgia partnership of Derwin Kimberly, Kimberly Farms and David Barber, for $185,000. Brett Jenkins, Millen, Ga., followed with … Read the entire sale report
GAR Powercat offers one of the absolute best opportunities in our business to continue the quest for beef cattle superiority. He is truly a dominant multi-trait marvel. He excels for athletic movement, picture perfect feet, and is the type and kind we all appreciate. Powercat offers particular interest as an outcross alternative for use on Home Town, Transcendent, Fireball, Fireproof, Apex and Dual Force daughters in herds across the country.
We offer our sincere thanks to our partners in GAR Powercat—Bill Wasden, Millen, Georgia; Select Sires; and Gardiner Angus Ranch, Ashland, Kansas. We look forward to this outstanding partnership and opportunity for excellence.
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A big THANK YOU to the buyers of GAR Home Run, born and raised at Ogeechee Farms! We look forward to our partnership with Busenlehner Farms, Rowena, Texas; Select Sires; and Gardiner Angus Ranch, Ashland, Kansas.
Of the many thousands of GAR Home Town progeny, GAR Home Run is the son to take us all to new heights of beef cattle excellence. Decades of disciplined breeding, genomic data and feedlot and carcass closeouts on thousands of head of Gardiner genetics are proving the reality of genetic acceleration, changing populations of Angus from average to elite.
Contact Select Sires for semen.
P.O. Box 820 • Wadley, GA 30477
Clint Smith: (706) 551-2878
ogeechee05@yahoo.com
Smitty Lamb: (229) 646-4785
smittylamb@hotmail.com
Andrew & Julie McPeake
1849 Athens Road
Crawford, GA 30630
Andrew McPeake: (478) 719-7021
andrew_mcpeake@hotmail.com
