Jim, Debra Davis and Jordon Davis Cook talked to Jimmy Clark about their upcoming bull sale Saturday at 12:30.
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Ah, it's a rough day out there today, gentlemen.
Let's take some temperatures.
And ladies, 78 degrees at Hollis, 78 at Erick, 76 at Arnett, 81 at Cherokee, 83 at La Joma, out here in the Panhandle of Texas, 76 degrees at Lipscomb, 76 at Miami, 75 at McLean, 79 at Wellington.
Well, let's just get right to it.
It's not a good day outside for fires.
So there's a big one happening right now out west of Wheeler right now.
No Wheeler County Fire Department I've seen has been called out to that one.
If you get on the radar, you can actually see it on radar.
It's a, it's a, it's a big fire.
So guys got to be careful out there.
And I've seen this post, so I'm going to share this with you as far as the.
The advisories, all of the Texas, Oklahoma panhandle.
Most of all of Oklahoma, except for the far southeast and parts of Kansas and most of all Nebraska and a little bit of New Mexico is under a critical fire alert.
And but over here, northern Beckham County, all Roger Mills, part of Custer and Dewey and Ellis County, you're in extreme fire risk right now.
And they the gentleman shared a picture too, and it's come from the National Weather Service.
Fire prevention, avoid using welding equipment, driving on a flat tire, parking on dry grass, throwing cigarettes out a window and dragging chains.
Behind the vehicle and check.
And I'm going to add, check your wheelbarrow.
It is extremely dangerous out there today.
The worst it's been all year.
And probably we had one day last year, according to one of the news reports that it was just as bad.
So this is extreme.
So just don't do anything.
You don't have to today.
Just take it out there.
And the winds are crazy right now.
And the panhandle, they got winds gusting up to 50 miles an hour.
Further down into Ellis County and Dewey County and parts of Roger Mills, we got 36 mile an hour sustained wind with gust up to 52, 41.
It's just windy up there.
It's dry.
Everybody just please be careful out there is all I'm asking.
Also, I got I got an early text message.
And I want to share this with you because I was actually going to talk a little bit for just a second about the Wildlife Department.
Jimmy, I would like to appeal to all hunters, fishermen and outdoor enthusiasts requesting their support of Senate Bill 941 in the Oklahoma legislation.
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It also raises license fees for non-resident deer and waterfowl hunters and will also raise the cost of a resident lifetime license.
The bill will create a resident youth super license where resident youth will receive all the annual licenses, rags for everything and a great discount price.
And we do.
We need more youth hunting right now.
The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has not received a license fee increase in more than 20 years.
Currently, the OWDC does not receive general appropriations of tax dollars from the Oklahoma legislation without a license fee increase in more than 20 years.
The OWDC ODWC is operating on a 20 year old budget.
As we all know, inflation has increased tremendously by the cost of maintaining everything the public services provide by the OWODWC benefit all residents, visitors and wildlife in the great state of Oklahoma.
So please contact your state led senators and representatives and urge them to support SB 941.
Thank you.
Yes, I support it.
My personal opinion.
Anyway, I'm in big support of that.
It needs to be revamped.
And there's 20 or 25 licenses out there now.
We need to revamp and make it more simple and just have a deal.
Also, the Department of Wildlife reminds you this is snipe season in Oklahoma is officially open night bag limit to flashlights are permitted.
Spotlights are not no hunting from vehicles, fabric and paper bags only.
So there you go.
So throw that one in there.
Anyway, please, though, check out read it for yourself.
Senate Bill 941.
And if you let your senators and state representatives know what you want to do there, I got a lot going on today.
I got it.
I'm going to take an early break here.
And when I come back and it's Stockman's Vet Clinic happy hour today.
So I'm going to take a Stockman's Vet break.
Get back.
I'll have Brandon Hickey on.
Get an update of what happened to the sale barns at Elk City and West East Clinton.
And then the Davis family is coming on.
Jim, Deb and Jordan will be on here.
And we're going to talk about the Davis Angus bull sale coming up this Saturday over there by Burns Flat.
So we'll be right back after this.
The Day in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
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The Quartermaster Creek Spring Bull Sale is February 28th at the ranch southwest of Leedy, selling 150 two-year-old bulls.
Sires include Deer Valley Growth Fund, KG Justified and EZAR Step Up.
Several other breed leading sires will be represented.
Also selling commercial two-year-old pairs and open-yearling heifers carrying QC Genetics.
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Now back to more of Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
All right, welcome back.
Miami, Texas, here is your ag weather forecast.
Humidity is 21, dew point is 35, excuse me.
Southwest winds 37 with gusts up to 47.
Peak wind gust today is 62 miles an hour.
Month to date precipitation 0.40.
No red flag minutes yet.
I can't believe that.
It must not be updated.
8-inch soil temperature, 51 degrees.
Man, guys, this ain't...
Everybody, this wind's no joke out there.
Well, on this Stockman's Vets happy hour, I have a special guest to start off the show with today.
And it's the world famous Brandon Hickey.
You're breaking up, are you there?
No, I'm kidding.
Yes, I can hear you.
Anyway, you must be on Verizon today.
Anyway, hey, is it windy out where you're at?
It is unbelievable.
But you know, it makes me think maybe spring is on its way.
If we got any cold weather coming in, there's winter coming back, or are we gonna just go ahead and start spring?
Wait till you get up in the morning.
So, I haven't even looked yet, but I think like 20 something degrees in the morning.
It's back and blustering north winds starting to see.
I think it's supposed to get into Woodward this afternoon around six.
So it'll make it here by seven or eight probably.
But what you're telling me is we're going to have one of those Western Oklahoma weather switches.
Yes.
If you think the weather is bad now, give us a couple hours.
Looks like you had a...
I ain't got my text message up from you, but I will here in just a second.
Right there it is.
Looks like you had a great sale at Elk City Friday.
Yes, sir.
1,445 interest.
Yep, yep.
Lots of good buyer interest.
Lots of good caves to sell again.
Starting to see a few of the fleshy new crops starting to show up and come to town, but mostly it's still good conditioned, age year cattle.
And so still a premium for the older aged, good conditioned cattle.
A little bit of a discount for the fleshy or new crop caves coming off these cows that are milking good.
But not bad, still really good money.
You can see there, from Mountain View, 589 weight steers at 287.50.
And that would be for some of those fleshy caves that was there, which is still really good money, but you are looking a little bit down the pole from them good conditioned, thinner, long aged cattle.
What stood out Friday to you?
You know, what really stood out to me was probably the bread cow market.
We had a good offering of young bread cows, and the big, nice, sure enough, front end choice, black Angus, black Angus, baldy cows, really ringing a bell, getting up there right around, bumping around that 2,900 for a five to seven month, five to eight month bread cow.
That really stood out, had lots of buyers in the barn on them for that good offering of them.
And didn't have as many of the really, really choice front end pairs, but the handful that we did have, sure enough, choice front end pairs, they all sold as singles in these 3,200 on the top of them.
And so I don't know what a good group of sure enough young choice pairs would bring, but you know, you're getting 3,200 out of the singles, well you figure that a package of them, you're gonna get on up there.
Yeah, I seen that.
That's a good point.
And it looks like there's some people starting to look for some cows put back out on the grass that they've sold and stuff.
Does it seem like that to you?
Yeah, yeah.
We're definitely have some interest in that.
There are definitely a lot of them out there looking.
Some of them are looking pretty hard and heavy.
And some of them just kind of in the beginning stages of kicking the tires, see what it's going to cost them to restock.
But there's definitely quite a bit of interest out there.
And the really good choice, fancy front end, heavy bred cows and pears are not easily found.
There's not a whole lot of them out there easily found.
And so, but they're, you know, they're starting.
We did have a few of them last week and sure had the buyers show up to get at them.
Have you got anything coming in this Friday that you know of yet?
No, I've got one little old package of heavy bred young red Angus cows.
I think there's going to be just eight of them, three, four, five year old heavy bred red Angus cows.
And then everything else that's on the list is mostly weaned lightweight calves.
Going to have a good offering of weaned three and four weight calves again this week coming in.
So we'll have a nice run again, but I don't have as many of the good front end cows like what we had to offer this last week.
Yeah, and the buyer turnout at Elk City has been really good the last three or four weeks.
And would you apologize to the ladies in the cafe for me?
I missed them Friday.
I had to go to that meeting over at the North Fork for the water deal.
I seen your father there, by the way.
Yeah, you're taking your life and your reputation into your own hands by snubbing those ladies.
If I said anything about them last Friday, it would be fake news, and that would just make them really matter.
I'll let last Friday roll with the ladies.
And let's head on over to Clinton, to Western Oklahoma.
And good turnout there.
2,173 head.
And looks like I seen a group in there.
Got my attention.
Oh, they're from Clinton.
80 head of steers.
815 brought 241.
I'll take that all day long.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, yeah.
Good, nice group, and a lot of really good home-raised cattle.
Those 771-pounders from Cordell, really nice set of home-raised cattle at 250 and a dime.
I thought that was a really good ticket.
And then the 1003s and 1079-pounders at 208, 217, 50.
That's a lot of dollars, but those good front-end cattle, they'll bring it right now.
People are looking for them.
They're needing them.
There's some empty pens, and they're ready to fill them back up.
And we don't have as many of these cattle to be had this time of year.
We're seeing good numbers, but not just the absolute huge numbers coming off this week like we normally do.
We could still see a little pullback if we get some really big runs in the next two or three weeks, but right now we haven't got enough to satisfy the appetite of the empty pens that the feedlots have got.
So we're in good shape here for another week or so anyway on these calves, these good front end yearlings.
But they're sure, they're sure after those very front ends.
Are you hearing anything?
Are some people going to graze some wheat out?
Yeah, there's some wheat that some guys have been telling me about that they are going to go ahead and graze out some nice size acreages.
One deal I heard about was 450 acres and one deal was 500 acres.
The wheat deal has fallen off just enough that they're going to go ahead and graze it out.
Of course, then the big question is do I sell the big cattle that I've got on it and replace them with little cattle or old cows or do I leave the big cattle out there that's out there now and just go ahead and make them bigger?
That's one of them $100 million questions that if you had a crystal ball, your new exact answer would be that it'd be great.
That's why cattle producers are either broke or they're rich.
Yes, sir.
But I think right now with this market, as long as something's weird, don't throw a kink in the thing or something.
I think you're going to be in pretty good shape either way.
I mean, we should be, numbers-wise, we should be steady to hire, continuing going forward.
But I'd encourage anybody out there that's keeping their cattle, grazing their cattle or buying cattle to graze, get you some sort of protection just in case we have another one of those weird oddball things like what happened in November happen again when you get those paper traders involved.
You never know how much they can move this thing in just a few weeks' time.
So I'd encourage anybody that's got them out to have you some puts or some LRPs or something just to take care, just to make sure that you get to take advantage of these high prices.
Because you just never know what this...
Like I say, you get these paper traders, you just never know how fast they can move that market and funds go to doing stuff and they can move those markets and not really make any sense.
And that's what we saw happen in November.
There wasn't anything changed about our numbers.
It was just, you know, they all got on board and decided to move it, and they moved it about $40 a hundred over the course of about six weeks.
And, you know, that's a lot of dollars per head.
And on this market, you know, there's no sense in giving that up.
So, you know, I'd highly encourage to protect yourself from, you know, from something like that happening.
You know, we got these good prices and good high prices and a lot of dollars per head, but no sense in losing out on that, you know, if you can get an LRP or some puts to kind of protect yourself.
I would encourage anybody to do that, whether it be your home-raised cattle or some you bought or, you know, even, they've even got programs where you can protect these lightweight caves off the, you know, off the cows that you got turned after, what not.
Okay, got anything coming up, Clinton, so far that you know of yet?
I mean, I know you just got done yesterday, but...
Yes, sir.
Yeah, I've got a couple of nice home-raised deals already on the books coming in.
Mr.
Zerby from over there at Custer City, he had his all caught yesterday, and part of them got back out, so I know he's going to bring the rest of his next week.
That'll be a really nice offering of nice home-raised yearlings.
And I got a couple of other nice home-raised yearlings coming in also next week already on consignment.
So we're expecting another good run next week of these good wheat pasture cattle, and we'll have some good long-weaned, lightweight calves as well, but they'll be, you know, we'll be heavy again to those 650 to 1,000 pound cattle, I think, coming next week again.
Really, really front end, mostly home-raised cattle.
All right.
Well, Mr.
Brandon Hickey, I'll probably see you this Friday for sure.
And I missed out last Friday, and I apologize.
I usually go in there and stir your crowd up for a few minutes, and then I run.
Just like a grandpa with the grandkids.
Come get everybody stirred up and go home.
That's right.
Especially that top row.
So anyway, so thanks for taking time out to come on today, and I'll talk to you Friday.
You bet.
Thank you, Jimmy.
Thanks, Brandon.
Mr.
Brandon Hickey with the Elk City and Western Oklahoma Livestock Auction.
We're going to take a Stockman's Vet Clinic break when we come back.
It looks like the other one showed up finally.
So now we can have a family outing in here.
So anyway, the Davis family will be in here, and we're going to be talking about the Davis Angus Bull Cell coming up this Saturday.
And we'll be right back after this.
Yes.
Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
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This is the Western Oklahoma Livestock Auction Market Report from Monday, February 26th.
2,173 head were sold.
Four head of steers at 480 brought 312.
Six at 567 brought 279.
10 at 602 brought 314.
Six at 738 brought 251.
13 at 855 brought 235.50.
Nine head of heifers at 494 brought 273.
11 at 546 brought 278.
Three at 598 brought 248.
Eight at 699 brought 238.
29 at 802 brought 220.50.
33 at 811 brought 219.50.
Butcher cows were 32 to 133.
Butcher bulls brought 109 to 143.
Bread cows were 1105 to 2325.
Pairs brought 1175 to 2250.
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to consign call Brandon Hickey 580-497-6095.
The Quartermaster Creek Spring Bull Sale is February 28th at the Ranch Southwest of Leedy, selling 150 two-year-old bulls.
Sires include Deer Valley Growth Fund, KG Justified and EZAR Step Up.
Several other breed leading sires will be represented.
Also selling commercial two-year-old pairs and open yearling heifers carrying QC Genetics.
The Quartermaster Creek Spring Bull Sale, Wednesday, February 28th at 1230 at the Ranch Southwest of Leedy.
You can also view the sale and bid online.
For videos and sale info, log on to quartermastercreek.com.
Jimmy's all wound up and ready to go.
Here comes more of Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
All right, welcome back.
Here's your Northwestern Oklahoma Ag weather update.
I picked Arnett, home of the famous Laurie Campbell.
80 degree, whoop.
Let me refresh this, cause that thing just went from 80 to 75 in one second.
Maybe I shouldn't have refreshed it cause now it's nothing on there.
Oh, there it is.
Okay, 75 degrees, feels like 75.
Dew point's 35, humidity's 23.
The winds are out of the west southwest at 28 miles an hour with sustained gusts of 38.
Three day average four inch bare soil temperature, 51 degrees, fractional water,.
8 sunset at 632.
It's windy, 80 degrees today.
Tonight, blustery, 25 degrees with winds switching from the west to the north, 14 to 30 miles an hour with wind gusts up to 50 tonight.
So we got at least 24 more hours of this stuff.
Tomorrow, mostly sunny, light winds, 53 degrees for a high.
Well, one of my favorite Angus families in western Oklahoma, the Davis Angus family is in the deal.
And hopefully we don't have any fights today.
But anyway, Debbie, Jim and Jordan are in the studio.
Welcome back to Today in Ag, folks.
I missed you guys.
Thanks for having us on, Jim.
Yeah, we're glad to be here.
We are, it is.
You are, I know, she was first.
She's always excited to be in here.
She was the first one here.
So anyway, well, Miss Deb, are you excited about this year?
I am, I am.
It's been a different year.
It's always is, right?
You know, and you think you have this game plan that you're gonna follow and you do this.
And then something comes along and kind of-
Jim Davis?
Yeah, well, detours it, but it makes it exciting.
And you just, first of all, I just need to give God the glory.
He has just blessed us so much with being able to do what we do.
And he's guided us every step of the way on our journey.
And I just want to praise him for just allowing us to do what we do and to meet so many incredible people, like you, Jimmy Clark.
Well, no, I tell you what, I met a lot of people, you guys, at sale last year, and I'm coming this year.
Don't think I'm not, because that food was great.
Yeah, Carol, if we hadn't have done this, we'd never...
Well, I grew up with Carol Brown.
Just down the road.
Well, of course, just down the road in Durham, Oklahoma means, you know, about 10 miles.
Just around the corner.
Turn right there at the dead oak tree with a squirrel in it.
Yeah, with that squirrel in it, you'll wonder.
But yes, yes, Carol's been doing our food.
Oh, gosh, since we started and You want to tell everyone what we're having?
Prime rib.
Really?
And what's everyone's favorite?
The best part.
Bread pudding and prime rib.
Any Jack Daniels in that bread pudding?
You never know with Carol.
And so we're just have a great sale staff.
Of course, Greg Griffith is our auctioneer.
And, and you know, this is year two at the new pins, right?
Yes, year two.
Any anything been done except since last year?
Because I thought it went pretty good.
No, we're kind of waiting to see how it goes this year.
And Nikona and I are remodeling a house and putting in a new show bar.
The other day, you know, I was over there by your place.
The other day, you were Sunday.
I went and got me a trailer load of cow poop.
You do it by Colton.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And to put in the garden.
Yeah.
And so anyway, Nikona, he said, well, there goes Nikona.
And then he pointed at the house where you guys are remodeling.
Yeah.
I know the neighborhood now.
Yeah.
Stop by anytime.
We'd love to show you.
Nobody there.
I don't think.
Anyway, so we got that going on and who's doing the auction?
Greg.
Greg.
You're okay.
Greg's been with us since the inception of Versailles and as everybody else has.
And it's just the same old group.
No, no, we've got some new kids.
We also have a group of high school kids that help us this year.
And so everyone can come out and meet them, our FFA kids that we're helping with their.
Cordell.
From Burns Flat and Cordell both.
Yeah.
And they saved our life.
They are awesome.
It's amazing for young people like that to perform the way they did.
They were on video day.
They were at our house for 14 hours and everyone of them left smiling.
And clean the barn.
Well, I don't give them their paycheck until the tarps are folded and put up in the barn.
That's why the attitudes were still good.
I call it the Debbie's Golden Rule.
She who has the gold gets the rule or she who has the paychecks gets the rule.
But I want those tarps put up.
Hey, before we get too deep into this bull sale, give me an update from Ouachita County.
Yeah.
So last night we had our Ouachita County Junior Livestock Show or yesterday, I guess.
And anyways, just a quick plug for our sale.
It's tonight at the Ouachita County, Ouachita County Fairgrounds or Activity Center.
And dinner will be served at six o'clock.
Awards are at 645 and the sale is at seven o'clock.
This year we made all the exhibitors made the sale.
And so we've got 82 kids selling and they all had terrific projects and are all deserving.
So come out and support the kids.
Yeah.
Okay, I want to hear about your oldest because tell me that heifer one.
She well, we didn't take goose.
What?
Now it's too high.
It's 85 degrees.
So we left her at home and she's going to OIE, but we took out Deb.
We have a name after this lady.
No, she came with the name, but she's a little special and she gets a little worked up sometimes.
So we fit, and so we kept it.
And so, yeah.
I've seen her in stock shows.
She's the reason I don't go to softball games anymore because these parents over there are yelling.
Yeah.
And Deb only gets worked up at stock shows.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
So yeah, Deb was champion key and she was reserve grand, so he still did pretty good in any one showmanship.
And Jaden, a girl that was a senior from Cordell, she comes out and she's Dobbs.
Okay, and she had a heifer and her goal when she came out this year, I said, I need a goal.
And so it took her about a month and she finally said, I want to win a belt buckle.
And I said, okay.
So this is her last show and she finally won her belt buckle in showmanship.
Yep.
Oh, awesome.
Yeah.
Jaden, right?
Yep.
Yeah.
Congratulations, Jaden.
And then I seen somebody else.
Who else do you have?
Oh, Bailey Beggs.
There you go, Bailey.
Yep.
She's from Burns Flat.
She has pigs.
She's been working on cows for next year.
And so, yeah, she had the-
From pigs to cattle.
Yes.
Yeah.
She got to show a heifer yesterday, and she's like, I'm not so for sure about that.
And so she showed Debra and Angus in the Grand Drive.
And so, but she had the reserve bronze burke guilt at our show yesterday.
I got you.
And so, and I wasn't watching.
I got to talking, and so I didn't see how commercial did.
That's shocking.
Right?
Anyway.
Jimbo, you've been awful quiet, because you got them on both sides of you this year.
What's left to say?
So you guys, before we go to break, let's tell everybody the directions to the sale.
It is from the Cotton Gin and Burns Flat, downtown Burns Flat.
Traffic's not bad on Saturday morning, so you can bring the trailer.
Don't worry about getting caught in traffic.
Still one mile east of the Burns Flat Co-op Gin and a quarter mile back south.
Back south?
Yeah.
And from the black top there, east of the gin, you can see the sale.
And we'll have some signs up, too.
Yeah.
You can see the sale.
It's hard.
And it starts at what time?
1230.
Lunch starts at 1130.
We begin the sale at 1230, and we try to be on time.
Yeah.
And we'll have some lime rib and pudding.
That's all we need.
That's all you need to be there.
Anyway, we're going to take a Stockman's Vet break.
And when I come back, I'll have your Holbert Farming Garden ag weather update for you.
Again, guys, we got to be careful out there today.
Guy just text me in a picture.
There's two major fires going on in the Panhandle of Texas right now, and you can see them both on the radar now.
So we got and we need to is that brought the Lord in on blessing them.
We need to bless our mostly volunteer fire departments and firefighters that are out there fighting this right now.
And it's again, this time of the year, everybody, we need to make donations to our volunteer fire departments with Gatorades, water, perishable items, all that stuff.
If you will, please donate stuff to them because this is just the start of it.
So anyway, we still got another month of this to go on it anyway.
We would appreciate all donations to the volunteer fire departments.
So anyway, we'll be right back after this.
Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
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It doesn't have to be me.
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But a young couple, you need to go in and sit down and talk to someone and understand what you're doing.
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Friends, I would like to invite you to join us at the Davis Angus Value Genetics Bulls and Female Sale on Saturday, March 2nd at 1230 p.m.
Where you can get better beef bulls at an affordable price, selling 90-yearling and 18-month-old bulls and 30 commercial bread heifers and first calf heifer pears.
The bulls have been DNA tested, ultrasound tested and been tested for feed efficiency on the Grow Safe System.
Please join us on Saturday, March 2nd at 1230 p.m.
on County Road 2150 near Burns Flat, Oklahoma.
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Here's more of Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
I'm going with Bessie, that's the closest mezzanine.
Is that the closest mezzanine station to you guys?
I thought it was.
Anyway, I got the Davis Angus family in here.
Deb, Jim and Jordon's in here.
And Bessie, here is your forecast, maybe.
It looks the same as the one I just read.
We'll try it out.
82 degrees right now, it feels like 80, dew point 37, the humidity is 20, winds are 34 miles an hour straight out of the west with 44 mile an hour gust.
Three day average, four inch bare soil temperature, 55 degrees.
I guess the wheat is growing down there pretty good around you guys.
So the ground temperature is pretty warm.
Sunset 629, breezy and 82 today, west winds 31 to 33 tonight.
Blustery 34 low, winds switching from the west to the north, 17 to 28 miles an hour with gusts up to 40.
Tomorrow 51 sunny and light winds.
Jim, Debra, Jordon Davis, Jordon Davis Cook over there in that corner over there, and we got the Davises in this corner over here.
Anyway, they're having their annual bull sale coming up this Saturday at what time?
1230 p.m.
straight up.
Anyway, their location there east of the Burns Flat, Cotton G in one mile and then back south.
You can't miss it.
All right, let's get serious.
92 bulls and 30 commercial heifers.
Let's start with you with the heifers.
What do you got with the heifers?
So last year, I talked Nikon into keeping some heifers that go back to some customer cattle because we buy a lot of cattle out of the country from our customers.
And so this time last year, I was like, hey, let's keep some of those heifers.
I collected a lot.
I think it was a lot for last year's 09J is my favorite bull.
And I was like, I want to use this something.
I heard that number last year.
500 straws of the semen.
Let's use it.
And so somehow I convinced him to do that and we sorted through them.
We pelvic measured all of them.
And we vaccinated them.
And then we went ahead and A.I.ed them.
And now they're bred.
Oh, OK.
To 09J.
They're all hide.
We've got 13 calves out of that.
And then the rest are fixing to start caving to a fireball son that he's not quite as cool as the 09J bull, but he's pretty cool to his numbers.
The 09J bull, the one you and your dad were having a conversation about the first year on the show here.
Maybe he had his choice of bull and you had no, we actually agreed.
It was the only one time that we actually agreed that it was probably the best ball.
The bull was amazing.
Yeah.
For a Cavingy's bull, what he looked like.
It's just amazing that and he's real.
It is Cavingy's bull.
Yeah, and I kind of said, are all of them going to be this small?
And I said, I hope so.
That's the plan.
And so, and they just get up and grow.
The little kids are really nice.
There's some black baldies in that group.
And so we're going to sell them in pairs of five.
And so yeah, they're really nice set.
And so I really want to keep the black baldies, but they really probably need to find somebody else's house to live at because I've got too many cows.
Look at that face.
Let's talk about the bulls.
I'm going to start it again.
Have you got a favorite bull?
Well, are you still just a book lady?
Well, I'm a book lady, and so, but of course, you cannot look at the book and not like Lot 6.
I mean, which is L-17.
That's a hometown bull.
I mean, and that cow, she's...
Look at the EPDs on it.
Yes, yes, yes.
Yeah, he carried...
Some of these young people do a lot of helping us, and the fellow that tagged the calves last year was the kid that was helping us, and he tagged this calf as a growth fund.
He had a GF on the bottom of his tag, and he walked around the farm thinking he was a growth fund, and everyone else did also.
Those growth funds are tremendously muscular cattle.
And they grow well.
I got my first calves out of growth fund out there now.
Debbie sent his DNA in, and lo and behold, he comes back a hometown.
This calf does not look like your prototypical hometown.
And what he did number wise, we've never ever had a calf do what this calf did, as well as what he did on the feed efficiency test.
If you look at this calf and convince yourself he's not a growth fund, and look at the bar graph that we've got in there and where he ranks out of a million, 500 and some thousand head, he's just phenomenal.
He looks great.
He's got good taste.
I'm the SI on the numbers.
I've got the catalog downstairs, and I'm not going to lie, I hadn't looked at it yet, because I saved it for today.
Well, she just saved me a lot of trouble.
And I'm still trying to convince Jim to not put the sires on the bottom of them, because I'm just, because they do.
You think it's one sire until, if you send in the DNA, sometimes you get surprised, and you know, it happens.
But that's one of the great values of what we're doing now versus what we were doing 20 years ago.
We would have not known about this calf 20 years ago when we weren't sending the DNA in.
And evaluating the DNA, we evaluate DNA on our bulls as well as our heifers.
We use these numbers religiously.
Well, I'm going to ask you guys the same question that I asked Mike yesterday, because I know you guys are great friends.
What has the Angus Association done for you guys?
What has it done?
The Angus Association has the greatest database on cattle.
They've been collecting information on cattle for years and years and years.
And their EPD program is second to none.
There's nobody else even close.
And say what you may about EPDs.
I've been on both sides of that discussion.
You know, it's technology.
Things are changing.
The DNA has changed the way we do business.
The EPDs are getting better.
As more data is turned in on these bulls, we not only do the DNA, we do ultrasound stuff.
We do all of that stuff to send in to the Angus Association, which they charge us dearly for that.
But I think one way to look at the EPDs is kind of like route guidance.
I mean, who has a route guidance machine that hasn't taken them a place where they don't want to go?
That's a possibility.
But you cannot stop at a gas station and ask directions anymore.
All of them have bars on the windows.
I mean, every once in a while, you'll go down a road you don't want to be going down with route guidance.
Have you ever used a road map in the glove department of a car?
Yes, only with my dad, because he gets very mad when I pull up my cell phone.
There you have it.
So anyway, ask him how many times they've led me in the wrong direction.
Oh, and we were delivering a bullet.
Oh, he just doesn't listen.
But I want to echo on this, what the Angus means to us.
Being married to a commercial guy, the Angus breed for him and for myself.
It means more money in our pockets because those cattle grow, they grade, and everybody wants black-hided cattle.
I don't know how many times I get calls that said, well, we used XYZ breed a bull, and we got Doc somewhere.
We want Angus genetics now because that's what everybody wants.
Yeah, because you guys also, besides having your bull cell, you guys follow your cattle, some of your cattle.
All the way.
And it pays.
It's remarkable what you can do with this.
I think last year's group of cattle sold in November for $2,750.
The cattle will grow.
Tom sells those cattle in their way in 1,700 pounds.
And that's a pile of money.
I wanted 3,000 for them, but I come in when you talk, when Brandon was talking about the $40 move.
Yeah, that was in November.
Because we sold ours in October, and I thought there was never be another bad day for a while.
Bam, 30 days later, like, what happened?
I had $3,000 ahead already given to Debbie to spend anyway she wanted to.
If she would have been taking a drink of coffee, she'd have spit it all over my studio about right then.
What's your favorite bull?
I like Baylor's bull, lot 69.
He calls him Shark Finn, and that bull is just one cool looking dude.
And so he's kind of way back there.
But yeah, I've liked him from birth.
I've got his family photos in my phone of his life.
But getting back then, tell Jimmy what Tom said about the certified Angus beef, whenever those cattle...
You want to tell the story?
Well, I'm not sure where she's coming from there, but when you get to fat cattle selling out of the feed yard, it's not like selling a sale barn where a 600-pound calf brings more dollars per pound than a 900-pound calf.
If they're 1,000 pounds, 1,200 pounds or 1,800 pounds, they bring the same money.
You figure you add $2 and all the hanging weight is what we sell them by.
$2 and something a pound if every pound you get.
And it's quite easy to get 200 pounds more.
That's $500, $600, $1,000 more for a bigger cow than a 1,200-pound calf.
And then you get to talk about how it doesn't fit the plate.
But if you go, almost any nice, I'm talking expensive restaurant you go to now, you can buy a 2-pound T-bone steak sliced up and ready to eat for something over $250.
And that's for one steak guy.
Yeah.
And that's the type of cattle that we can sell for.
How many have you bought?
Exactly.
Well, that's not too many.
But I was talking about the CAB, Jim, the certified Angus beef.
Yeah, because Mike and I talked about it yesterday.
It's real.
And you get a premium for those calves that grade as CAB.
And whenever you just sell them at the sale barn, they don't know what's underneath that hide.
But when they harvest them, they grade them and you get that extra premium.
And so that's what we're after.
I mean, that's one of our goals, is to get that premium on those cattle, the prime and the high choice.
And that's been our goal for 30-some years.
That's not something we started yesterday.
That's back even when Jordan was very successful showing cattle, we were breeding for today.
And you guys have.
If you guys haven't got a catalog, where did I see a catalog?
I've seen a catalog here at the cell barn at Elk City.
And that's where I got my catalog from.
I was trying to remember where I got it from.
Anyway, they got a lot of great genetics.
And I'm just looking through this thing for the first time.
I have been kind of scrolling through here while they've been on here.
And man, they got some, you guys got some good bulls this year.
The little smiley faces, that's CAB.
Targeting the brand.
That's what she calls smiley faces.
Oh, I got you.
You can't take the teacher out of her.
She likes to put little stickers on everything.
And she's like, well, that one just isn't good enough.
It doesn't have a sticker.
Oh, I look forward to you guys coming on every year.
This is the third year in a row, isn't it?
This is year three.
Oh, no.
You guys are kind of like adoptive family for me anyway.
I see when I go to like Calvin's Congress or I go to something, I always go find them.
See what Denton's up to.
I really enjoy Denton.
So anyway, real quick, like, full sale is this Saturday, March 2nd at 1230.
Food will be served.
And it is just east of the Burns Flat, being one mile and quarter mile back south.
Thanks again, Davis family for coming in today.
And man, that show went quick.
It's Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark brought to you by the First National Bank and Trust of Sayre in Elk City, Oklahoma.
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