Mike Switzer was in to talked to Jimmy Clark about the Quartermaster Creek Bull sale Wednesday Feb. 28th at 12:30 at the Ranch.
G'day to all you great stewards of the land.
It is Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark, brought to you by the First National Bank and Trust of Sayre in Elk City, Oklahoma.
All right, hey, it's warm out there today.
Let's go ahead and get started.
Hollis, you're 81, Mangum, 83, Butler, you're 88, 84 at Cheyenne, the home of the secret weapon.
I heard he got into some money the other day at the golf course.
I don't know this for a fact, but I heard he was on the winning team.
So he's still going forward being the secret weapon.
Arnett, 80, 77 at Freedom, 72 at Cherokee, 69 at Medford out here in the panhandle of Texas.
It's a little warmer.
78 degrees at Lipscomb, 82 at McLean, 85 at Dozer, 85 at Wellington, 86 at Childress and 82 at Odell.
So anyway, first of all, today is the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association Happy Hour.
Today, we'll have more on them coming up shortly.
First, I had a really good time this weekend.
Saturday, I got to announce the Sare Local Show over there at Sare at the County Barn.
They have their show right before the Beckham County Show.
So it's going on today.
A little more on it later.
But first, down in Jackson County, I want to give a big congratulations to Action Jackson, as he's known.
Jackson Zorger Reserve Grand Market Stair at the County.
And he also won the Senior Showmanship at the Jackson County Spring Show there, County Show there.
Jackson, congratulations.
I was at his father's birthday party, Bobby's birthday party, Saturday night, and he left early so he could go home and get rested up so he could give it all Sunday.
And he did.
Reserve Grand Market Stair and Senior Showmanship.
So, congratulations, Jackson.
Pretty proud of you.
Good kid.
Excellent kid.
Let's see what else is going on.
Right now, the County is going on.
Beckham County is going on.
If you guys want me to talk about your county shows, I don't care if you're in Texas, Oklahoma, Panhandle, wherever, you gotta let me know.
You can do it on Facebook or you can do it in my email.
It's really easy, jimmy at kecofm.com.
I can't keep up with all of them.
I'm sorry.
I'm just, there's too many things going on in ag world, but I keep up with some of these and just cause of some of the kids I know, Worcetall County, Beckham, Jackson, all those.
But if you want me to talk about your kids on the show, all you gotta do is let me know or text it into the show the day I'm doing it here.
The Today in Ag text line is always open at 580-225-9697.
Okay, what else we got going on?
Oh, a big shout out to my listeners.
I'm proud of you.
Super proud of you.
I text Professor Ball, sorry, Paul Beck, this morning to see if his numbers have increased with this Cow Calf Corner subscription.
You guys are doing an awesome job.
He sent me some numbers.
So as of January 8th, they had 1,662 subscriptions to Cow Calf Corner, the OSU Cow Calf Corner.
This week, they have 1,860.
That's 200 increase since we started talking about it.
So don't give up.
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Get on your iPhone or your Android, just Google or get on your computer at home.
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It's a great subscription that comes out every Monday.
Lots of articles.
Matter of fact, if I got time today, I'm gonna talk about one of the articles that they have in today's episode.
So anyway, thank you very much listeners, but let's keep it doing.
Let's hit 2,000 here in the next couple, two, three weeks if you will.
Appreciate it.
Also, I was talking to, went to the meeting Friday out at North Fork Electric with Senator Howard was there talking with irrigators from Beckham County, Greer County, and Roger Mills County, and ran into Representative Nick Archer.
And they, him and Anthony Moore had proposed a bill on some to help with some of the Farrell hog problems.
It got knocked down, but we need to do, we need to help them out.
So this week, I'm going to mention it every day.
If you guys got pictures, you farmers or landowners got pictures of Farrell hog damage, you can either text them to my personal phone number, or you can text them to, or just not text them, but email them to me on my email, jimmy at kecofm.com.
Easy email to remember, or I'll give you, most everybody knows my phone number anyway, 580-821-6646.
And I appreciate any pictures of damage.
We're building an album.
And so I appreciate it if you did that.
Oh, here we go.
Jaren Johnson of Sweetwater 4-H had the reserve breed champion dark cross Barra at the Woodward District show last week behind the grand champion Barrow.
He will be in the premium sale tomorrow in Woodward.
Thank you for whoever that is.
Appreciate you texting that in to me.
See how easy that is?
So anyway, let's see what else.
So please, we gotta do something about the feral hogs.
I'm sorry.
I know there's a lot of guys hunt them.
There's some people, ranches that's got them, that they make some money off feral hog damage, feral hogs, shooting feral hogs.
And that's fine.
But you gotta understand the opposite side of that.
I know you've guys heard me say it between me and my son in the last two years, small farmers, very small farmers, over $50,000 worth of damage to our crops.
And you know, you can't get feral hog insurance, sorry.
It don't work that way.
So we're going to, I got a mission, and I'm gonna go with it.
And I hope it don't upset you, but you just keep hunting hogs the way you do.
But we got to do something on the main population because it's getting out of control.
Totally out of control.
Texas is probably one of the, South Texas probably one of the biggest reasons why we have all these feral hogs.
And they migrated up into here and are been transported up into here.
And it's, you guys have fun hunting.
I hunt as much as any of you guys.
So don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-hunting.
I'm anti-feral hogs.
And I know I'm gonna upset a few people out there that do this, have this to make extra money.
And I'm sorry, it's nothing personal, but nobody's reimbursing me for my land damage or any other farmer or rancher or landowner, if you want to say that, for feral hogs.
They're not reimbursing them for damage.
So we're gonna do it our way.
And so we're gonna do it with the laws and stuff and just the way it's gonna be, hopefully anyway.
How about that?
Okay, let's check out some stuff that starts.
The big three things overnight in our ag world.
Grains and soybeans were lower in overnight trading on signs of slack demand for US supplies.
Wheat sales in the seven days it ended on the fifth, where the 15th dropped 33%.
Week to week, 233,000 to 233,500 metric tons.
That's down 38% from the prior four week average.
Exports of the week totaled 373,100 tons, down 8% from the previous week.
Corn sales were reported at 820,400 tons, down 37% from the week prior, and 30% from the average according to the USDA.
Exports, however, rose 13% to 1.02 million tons.
Soybean sales plunged to 55,900 metric tons, the lowest since the marketing year started on September 1st, down 84% from both the previous week and the four-week average.
Exports dropped 18% to 2 million tons.
Cheap Russian wheat and ample global supplies of corn and soybeans have weighed on prices in recent weeks.
Wheat futures for May delivery dropped 6.75 cents to $5.62 and a quarter cents a bushel overnight on the Chicago Board of Trade, and Kansas City Futures lost 6.5 cents to $5.59 a bushel.
Corn futures were down overnight, three cents to $4.10 and a half cents a bushel.
Soybean futures for May delivery fell 2.75 cents to $11.39 a bushel.
Soy meal was up 20%, up 20 cents, not percent, to $328.20 a short ton, and soy oil fell 0.13 cents to $44.47 a pound.
Let's see what else is going on.
Weather.
As you guys heard Jared on his news deal here, we are under a red flag warning.
Matter of fact, I'll tell you who it is.
Beckham, Roger Mills, Ellis, Woodward, Dewey, all three counties in the Oklahoma Panhandle, all of the Texas Panhandle, all of Southwestern Kansas, all of the Eastern Colorado, all of Nebraska, most of Iowa, little bit of Northern Missouri and a lot of Illinois.
Red flag warning till seven tonight, be even worse tomorrow.
And let's see what the, la la la, where'd it go?
Oh, there it is.
Here's from the Oklahoma Forestry Department.
I'll read you the last deal on the near term for fires.
More powerful fire weather will be present on Tuesday ahead of a stronger cold front that's coming in tomorrow afternoon into the Northwestern Oklahoma, presenting the highest fire danger and wildfire potential of the season so far.
This is serious.
Red flag warning along and west of I-44 is anticipated tomorrow.
The cold front is expected to move into Northwestern Oklahoma tomorrow early evening with very strong winds gusting 40 plus miles an hour over the warned area.
Significant fire potential will increase especially in Northwestern Oklahoma.
This cold front will be primarily dry, holding elevated fire weather in place through the week.
While it's still outside of a good forecast confidence, fire danger will escalate again into next weekend, especially across Northwestern Oklahoma.
Oh, anyway, you heard me say it.
I've been saying it for three years, guys.
You're going to pull a trailer somewhere, check your chains, check your bearings.
I lost a cap last night going home, a partial cap on my trailer.
I was hauling some manure from Cloud Chief yesterday from my garden, and just like two inches of my rubber was missing on the outside edge, but that steel belt was causing sparks along the highway, so I just slowed down, and then I got on the dirt road, and rocks weren't causing a spark, but just stuff like that will cause a major fire with stuff.
They had some control burns yesterday.
I heard one got out of a control burn, got out of hand yesterday, so be careful.
Don't be going out there and welding on your gate again today.
Just leave it alone until this thing all subsides.
We are looking like we have a couple good chances of some moisture for our wheat coming up next week, so we are going to need it after these two days of wind here.
Anyway, let's go ahead and take Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association break, and when I get back, we will talk cattle.
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This is the Elk City Livestock Auction Market Report for Friday, February the 16th.
1,404 head were sold.
Eight at 491 brought 330.
10 at 573 brought 312.
Seven at 656 brought 264.
Five at 673 brought 258.
14 at 737 brought 247.
25 at 754 brought 239.
Seven head to Heffers at 423 brought 326.
Nine at 463 brought 322.
Seven at 561 brought 283.
15 at 645 brought 245.
Nine at 720 brought 233.
10 at 727 brought 228.
Butcher cows were 47 to 121.
Butcher bulls brought 97 to 139.
Bread cows were 900 to 2000.
Pairs brought 1575 to 2175.
Elk City Livestock Auction, 3202 South Highway 6, Elk City, Oklahoma sale every Friday at 9 a.m.
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 Leading.
You can also view the sale and bid online.
For videos and sale info, log on to quartermastercreek.com.
He loves talking about farming and ranching.
Here's more of Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
All right, welcome back to this Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association Happy Hour Today.
I picked Miami, Texas for your ag weather update out in the panhandle.
Humidity is at 16%, temperature's 80, dew point's 29.
The winds are out of the west at 26 miles an hour with wind gusts right now at 34 peak wind gusts so far today, 47 miles an hour, 41 hundredths of an inch month to date precipitation.
Red flag minutes already today, 90 minutes.
Sub freezing minutes, zero, eight inch soil temperature, 49 degrees.
The Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, on the whole, farmers and ranchers are independent individuals who like to tend to their own work and stay pretty close to home.
Most of us don't care much about city life or politics.
We don't have time or the desire to travel to the capital to attend legislative sessions, but we still know what happens there can drastically affect our operations.
That's exactly why we need an organization like the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association.
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All right, let's see here.
Let's see what the markets are doing right now.
And I've lost them.
I don't know where they went.
Let's just add another one.
I know where they're at.
There they go.
We got, okay.
Let's see what grains are doing right now.
Actually, not too bad.
March corn, 404, up a little over four.
May is 419, up five.
Soybeans for March, 1133.
Unchanged basically, and so is May at 1142.
Soybean mill, 331 for March, up 160.
May is 327.60, down 40 cents.
Soybean oil for March, 4445, up 43.
Hard red winter wheat, 580, up 11.
March is 576, up 10.
Cotton, March 9613, up 120.
May is 9469, up 120.
Where are we going here?
Let's see what Texas oil is worth.
April, 7797, up a buck 48.
And natural gas is actually up a little bit, but it's still way too cheap, especially for people with mineral rights.
March, 164, up three.
Cattle, live cattle, February 186, 10, up 50.
April's 188, 42, up 52.
June is 184, 17, up 30.
Feeder cattle for March, 254, down 57.
April, 259, 82, down 15.
May is 262, 47, up 40.
And August is 271, even, up 12.
Lean hogs are down a little bit today.
April, 86, 25, down 95.
And May is 90, 72, up 12.
Coming up here shortly, we're gonna have a special guest in the studio.
Mr.
Mike Switzer's gonna be in here talking about the bull cell coming up in Leedy, Dewey County, Quartermaster Bull Cells coming up.
Guess what?
I'll be up there Wednesday to do my show live from the bull cell.
So this is gonna be pretty interesting.
The bull cell actually, I think, starts at 1230.
So we're gonna, you guys are gonna get to hear a little bit of the bull cell and right off the bat.
So this ought to be interesting.
First time I ever done this.
So don't you guys get high expectations of me because it ain't gonna work out that way.
Anyway, now it'll be fun.
It'll be good.
All right, let's see here.
Let's start with Oklahoma.
Last week, cattle receipts from the sale barns reported 39,823 went through the sale barns compared to 32,143 the year before.
Compared to last week, feeder steers were $2 to $4 higher.
Feeder heifers were firm to $4 higher.
Steers and calves $4 to $10 higher.
Some instances $25 higher.
Demand extremely good for all classes.
All important cattle on feed report due out today with expectations, very light placement numbers.
And I do have that from Dr.
Peel coming up.
If we got time, weather has turned warm and dry and hoping this isn't a sign of another dry year to come.
Slaughter cows $2 to $4 higher.
Slaughter bulls were $6 higher.
Demand very good on all classes of cows.
These numbers have tightened up for all categories.
Let's check out just a few numbers here with the steers.
So we'll go with some 327 weight steers up to 437.
421.14 was the average.
And then some 400 pounders, we're bringing up to 387.
Some 500 pounders up to 352.
600 pounders, 318 is the highest I see in here.
And 700 pounders, 270.
Let's check out a few heifers.
If I can find them, where are you guys all at?
There we are.
I found the heifers here.
400 pound heifers, we're bringing up to 343.
500 pounds, the highest I see in here was 302.
And 600 pounds, we're up to 266.
There's 286 and seven, seven weight heifers bringing up to, let me see here, 237.50.
All right, let's see what happened in Texas, in Texas Panhandle.
Feeder sale bar reports was 9,676 compared to 6,395 last year.
And they only had like 3,700 reported last week.
In Texas compared to last week, feeder steers and heifers sold three to $6 higher on limited comparable sales.
Receipts were hammered, hampered, not hammered, hampered last week due to the rain and snow storms.
Trade was active on good demand, slaughter cows and bulls, $2 to $8 higher.
Let's see what they were doing in Texas.
Let's do some three weight steers.
407, 410 is the highest I see there.
Oh, let me back up.
Sorry, no, them are two weights.
Yeah, 410 was the highest I'm seeing there.
Five weights, 335.
Six weights on steers, 304.
Seven weights was 253.
Eight weights, there's some 245s.
That's on steers.
And let's see what the heifers were doing.
Some of the heifers in the three weights were up to 375.
Some 324s, about 375.
And then some four weights, 322.
Five weights up to 335 there.
And then six weights up to 285.
So anyway, looking pretty good.
Well, let's go ahead and take a Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association break because the man of the hour is in the studio.
And so, Mr.
Mike Switzer will be on here in the next segment.
We'll be talking about the Quartermaster Creek Bull sale coming up Wednesday.
Is that 1230, right?
Anyway, we'll be right back after this OCA break.
The Day in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
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You know, another piece of advice I would give is when you go in and talk to that agent, you need to discuss getting some life insurance.
It doesn't have to be me.
Any agent can help with that, 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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Oh, Jimmy's all wound up and ready to go.
Here comes more of Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
All right, welcome back.
Well, Mike's in the studio, so I'm going to get the closest mesonet to his place, which is Comargo.
And that's who I'll do my Ag weather update for Northwestern Oklahoma.
84 degrees, feels like 81.
Dew point's 32, humidity 16.
The winds are out of the west, 20 miles an hour.
Wind gusts up to 30.
No rainfall in the last 10 days.
Three day average, four inch bare soil temperature, 50 degrees.
One day average, 10 inch fractional water,.
8 sunset at 629.
Increasing clouds today, 81.
West winds tonight, 56 for low.
West to southwest winds, 8 to 15 miles an hour.
Tomorrow, not very good.
Breezy, 81 degrees.
Southwest to west wind, 10 to 30 miles an hour, with wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour.
How does that sound for a forecast?
Well, it could be icy.
Welcome to the show, man.
It's been a whole year since you've been on the show.
Yep.
You know, 11 years ago, my wife showed me a picture this morning.
11 years ago was the first sail we had out there.
And the snow was about two foot deep on that.
So we've picked that day is a pretty good day for stormy weather.
Well, it looks like it's going to be a little better.
Yeah, it's actually cooler is better.
Yeah.
We're doing.
Yeah.
So the you got your cell coming up.
So this is your 11th cell up there at the house at the house.
And it might be even more than that.
But I don't know if that was the first sale or not.
But I know 11 years ago, it was deep.
Yeah.
And it was, and you still had a good bull cell, didn't you?
Oh yeah.
We, we canceled a couple of weeks.
So moisture is always a good thing, you know, and, uh, you know, I guess this, as we put in our book, this was our 20th year of, uh, selling bulls, uh, auction.
So it starts at 1230 at the ranch and the ranch is not that hard to find.
Tell everybody how they can get there.
Well, uh, you know, the best way is to follow the directions in the book, uh, because some of those roads dead end and, you know, your Google might get you sure enough where you need to call somebody.
But, uh, from the 3447 junction, you know, we're back there.
Six West, three South, two and three quarter South, actually.
And then back West bar, sale barns up on top of the Hill bar house and follow the traffic jam.
I hope, I hope we always hope that, you know, we always look down the road and like, boy, I hope they don't show up here too early while we're doing our work.
And then about 10 30 in the morning, we start looking down the road, hoping for some dust, you know, well, they, uh, uh, well, let's talk about Mike and any first.
Yep.
My wife, uh, one year I was on this show and I failed to mention her and don't think I didn't hear about that later.
So that's why I started, I appreciate that you throwing me a bone here to keep out of trouble.
So I promised one time, if you don't think she's at least half of this deal, maybe I, you know, I told somebody once you want to see how much a part of this, she is just, well, just tear this place up.
She'll get hers.
And then has it deservedly.
So has it coming.
So, uh, well, what I've noticed about Mike Switzer since I've met you, as I've been to caught a few events since I started the show more than I normally go to and Mike Switzer and Annie too, let me put that, let's just say Quartermaster Creek Angus, let's just put it that way.
The ranch is always out participating in something.
I've seen you at the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association Convention.
I've seen you at Cattlemen's Congress twice.
Uh, I've seen you at some other people's bull sales later on in the sale, uh, showing your, uh, support to all the local bull raisers.
So I just want to tell everybody that that's what I've seen on my personal side.
So, uh, thank you for being that man.
Sure.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
So anyway, so, uh, you guys, why don't you do the bull sale?
Why?
Why?
What drives you?
Oh, I don't know.
I mean, that's kind of a, uh, it started as a, as a, uh, as a by-product.
You know, we were just, we were so into the cows and we still are.
Uh, we always, we always, uh, when we're breeding these cows, we're always thinking about what makes this cow better.
And then, and then, and then ultimately the Bulls are the by-product of that pro program too, because, and that's one of the things I'm the proudest of here as of light.
Uh, the, uh, Angus Association guy was at my house the other day.
And, and he, and he said, well, Mike, this is the, this is the most consistent product I've ever seen at this place.
And I said, well, or I said, is that a compliment?
Or are you telling me that my worst ones are better?
Or what are you saying here, bud?
But, but really it is a reflection of the, of our cow herd.
I mean, if the, if that part of the sales, if those bulls are better, longer, that should mean that.
That we're doing the right things because our cows should be better.
Their sisters will turn into, you know, come right into our cow herd.
And therefore, you know, you'd think down the road, the more good ones you got, the better product we're going to deliver later.
So, you know, and then we're conscious, you know, we are certainly conscious about now keeping these bulls good enough to, you know, mass is what I always talk about when I get, and we got to have cattle that push the scales down because almost all the, almost all of our customers are still paid by the pound and the way they look.
So, you know, we got to, we got to be careful that we're delivering a product that helps them too, because that helps, you know, we're going to be.
Well, you want to return customers.
Oh, that's it.
That's our whole business.
So, you know, I've told, I've joked around in it as a joke.
I don't want this to come out wrong, but I can't cheat you bad enough to help me in one sale.
You know, so we need to, we need to, we need to sell you something good and hope you come back.
And, you know, and that's, that's what all of us guys that do that's got some long term thinking about them.
You know, we're all trying to do the same thing.
All right.
Yeah.
And so there's, you know, how, how big a benefit is it to have the American Angus Association behind you?
You know, has to be we get, you know, nobody has done a better job marketing Angus Cattle than the Angus Association in the in the certified Angus Beef, the programs we do.
And, and, you know, even the even the little old piddly things that I don't agree with association, but I still get benefit from it.
Right.
So I mean, so they're long as they're putting that stuff out there and, and everybody's thinking about it, it's good for me.
I mean, it just has to be right.
Yeah, there's always a little bit of this and that going on with every association.
Ticky tack about I don't think we ought to be doing this or we shouldn't be doing that.
And sometimes, like I said, sometimes these associations, it seems like to me, they set their policy and then ask their members what they think after they already.
They already changed it, but, you know, probably for the greater good, that's the only way it can be.
Well, the Angus Association and my book is, you know, from what they've done to promote Angus beef.
When you go into restaurants and you see that CAB in there and when you go like Cattleman's Congress and you go up there and they got their big booth set up and they're promoting it.
And you're right, every association, even parents, teachers, conferences, associations, PTAs, they got their little knickknacks.
But overall, man, as far as all the breeds, a lot of the breeds are coming up.
And the Angus Association in my book has set the standard.
And don't think that they haven't made it easier for the other breeds to come up.
I mean, that's the same thing with whether I'm selling Angus Bulls and some other guys selling Hereford Bulls, the better I do, the better he does.
And the same thing with these, like the CAB, don't think that for an instant that that didn't make it easier to sell certified Hereford beef somewhere because of the groundwork these guys did.
But I want to tell you something.
Do you got time for me to hear this?
I want to tell you that that's the thing about progress that we all drag our feet about.
Do you know that at the board meeting, when they decided to start certified Angus beef, the board vote was eight to seven.
I mean, people were scared of change, scared they were biting off something, and they shouldn't.
And this is the smartest guys probably in the world back then, or in the meat business or the cattle business.
Cattle business, yeah.
And that was not just a slam dunk.
This is the greatest idea ever.
I've seen that in some of the past.
I didn't know that.
But the board vote was split by one vote.
I think it was eight to seven.
It was one or two votes away.
We almost didn't get to see it.
They almost didn't do it then.
It just shows you that, you know, I mean, just that we all, and even when you're hearing me gripe about change, you know, maybe some of this is through the books.
Older people don't like change.
Well, I know.
Anyway, but there's some guys that are all ambitioan about it, but anyway, so when did Quartermaster Creek start?
I want everybody to know who Quartermaster Creek is.
Well, when my wife and I got married, that was the start of it, because we were buying groups of heifers and calving out heifers and selling our work, just to get some value in our work.
And then in 1998, we bought a show heifer and 40...
We bought the show heifer born in 1998, and in 1999, we bought 40 bred heifers from that guy who had never sold a show heifer before in his life.
So it was a place based on ranching, and the following year, we bought 30 more.
So there were 71 registered heifers, 71 counting the show cap.
And we started there, and in 2003 or 2004, we committed to total AI.
Evercow, since 2004, has been exposed to AI at least once, and now they're all exposed twice.
And that was a milestone, was changing then, because that added to the work exponentially.
But then it allowed us to use bulls that people in other places had heard of.
Because if it's only about the cattle, we might just use our own, but we might close our herd up and only use our own.
But you get all the hoopla, and these bulls are great.
I mean, some of these bulls we're using now, like Deer Valley Growth Fund and stuff, that boy, he don't need much introduction, because he's adding value to the whole industry.
Because he's just one of the few.
I mean, not few, but you understand.
So this morning, I talked to a guy up there in northern Kansas, and it's like, hey, how's those Growth Fund bulls look?
So I get that for free, the notoriety.
And so I'm not just blown on Growth Fund.
We got lots of good bulls, but lots of good sire groups.
But that's just one particular one that...
Well, it's the number one seller in that select semen book.
And then what you get, we finally, if we can get those people to come and look, they come and look at a Growth Fund, and then look over the fence, and holy cow, there's a step up that's the same bull.
And so, you know, I mean, he helps us, just like what I was saying, just about the Angus-Hurford thing.
It's the same thing.
Those notorized bulls, and you know, they'll find that there's...
the crowd's going to find out that, you know, there's a smoking good bull out there that's out of one of our cleanup bulls.
Well, you're the reason.
Last year, when you came in here, you gave me a catalog, and I was looking through it, and I kept, right off the bat, I seen the Growth Fund.
Well, you're the reason why I bought 25 straws of Growth Fund semen and AI'd the ones out here west of town.
And you know what?
I know they're only a few weeks old, but they look good.
They're going to, you'll like that, finally, you know, at the end of the day.
Well, let's take a quick break.
Sure.
And when we come back from this OCA break, that is, when we come back, I'll have your Hoper Farming Garden Ag Weather update for, I think I'm going to pick Hollis today.
I hadn't picked on them a lot here in a while, so I'll pick Harmon County and we'll finish up.
We'll start talking about some of the Bulls and Mike Switzer is in the studio with me from Quartermaster Creek in Dewey County.
We'll be right back.
Roger Mills.
Roger Mills.
Is it?
That's where I live.
Oh, my bad.
I'm sorry, Dewey County.
Roger Mills, home of the secret weapon.
We'll be right back.
Today 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.
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.
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Here's more of Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark.
Hollis, Oklahoma, here's your Hobart farm and garden ag weather update.
Eighty three dew points, forty two, humidity is twenty four.
The winds are out of the west, southwest, ten miles an hour.
Three day average, four inch bare soil temperature, fifty two degrees one day, ten inch average fractional water, point nine, six thirty two is your sunset, mostly cloudy, eighty nine, eighty six for fifty six.
I'm sorry for low tonight and then breezy and eighty three tomorrow with west southwest winds tomorrow, six to twenty eight miles an hour with gusts up to forty in southwestern Oklahoma.
Again, although Colman Panhandle, all the Texas Panhandle Beckham, Roger Mills, Dewey Ellis, Woodward, whatever the Kharman are not Harman.
But what county is what counties there next to Woodward to the west?
My brain just went dead.
Yeah, Ellis and somewhere in there.
Yeah.
And then anyway, you were under a red flag warning.
Sorry, I could have brought my map up and been easy.
But hey, me and Mr.
Mike Switzer, we got things to talk about.
First of all, let's just let's talk about your sales team.
Okay.
Well, we, uh, Eddie Burks is the auctioneer.
Um, I'm actually the only sale in Oklahoma.
I think he does.
Uh, but he is a he's first class.
He's first class.
He, he actually auctioneered the Angus sale and stuff in the Hereford sale down at the Congress this year.
Yep.
But, but he's, he's a great job.
He's a, he's a, he's clear as a bell.
And I mean, he is clear and, and it sounds, one of my buddies joked about the fact that it kind of sounds like a, one of these professionals.
I mean, his tone is, it's really good.
Uh, then the ring men always, we get the Angus association guy, Jeff Maffey and Doug Paul and Colton Prances with the, uh, with Oklahoma Cowman and, uh, Christie Collins does the CCI dot live.
That's the online bidding part of the deal.
They send, uh, and that's a really great system to do online.
That system is good.
And it is, I mean, it is within a heartbeat.
You, it is right there.
It's actually probably quicker than out in the celery.
I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's spot on and they do a very professional job.
But that's so that that's, you know, that's the best thing I can do as a, as a rancher or whatever is just hire people that smarter than me to help me.
And almost that whole row is I'll just say, let me say that again, because one of them will hear me all that whole row is smarter than me.
I don't want to single out here.
Well, before I get to what I want to talk about the females, I got a text message on the online and then this is a compliment.
Mike and Annie also support leading school functions.
They are all about the community.
There you go.
That's a compliment.
But that's self-serving too, because we do better just like the thing.
That's all intertwangled there, so thank you for whoever sent that in.
The sale will begin with the commercial females.
Yes.
At $12.30 and you'll be sold in groups of 10.
Is that correct?
Yes.
The winner bid takes as many as they want in groups of 10.
Is that correct?
That's true.
All right.
And how many females are we selling?
We're going to sell 50 pairs.
Those are both my brother-in-law's cattle.
One of them is going to sell 20, the other one 30.
They've just, you know, bought stuff from me over the years, and it's been kind of a little service to...
And it's good to get people in the barn and look around.
And all of this year, this is the first time, the open heifers all came out of my herd.
Generally, we take some cooperators that buy bulls from me and sell a few open heifers, but this year, they're all mine.
They all come out of it.
They come right out of our registered herd, even though we're selling them as commercial.
And like the, I'm going to say the first 20 of these, I think every one of them is out of an AISR.
We just, we can't keep them all, and we would rather sell them as commercial as, you know, that's just the way it is.
Right.
And, you know, with our herd rebuilding going on, this is going to be a pretty good year for you to come up and pick up some nice pens, size 10 of a time, or as many as you want there.
So anyway, it's going to be great to start that off.
And then, then we start out with the bulls.
How many bulls we got going?
You know, we got 157 cataloged, but we've identified an idiot or two, and they're already at Cavaness Packing, and some are not going to, not going to, they probably won't, they just had something wrong with the cripple.
I mean, we just have some, when the day's done, we'll be right at 150 or just short.
I mean, 148 to 150 bulls.
But, but we just, we're going to, like I said, we've already got rid of five that I know are not there.
Right.
And that's not a bad percentage out of that many.
You know, in fact, when I come down here, the reason I was almost late was these bulls have been running where they're at for the last month.
And this morning, four yearling bulls roll right in front.
Not even this morning.
At about 11 o'clock, four yearling bulls get into one of those pastures with 50 of them.
And you could see the dirt cloud.
They were stirring the pot down there.
Oh yeah, it's a rodeo occasionally.
Well, open your catalog and pick one, talk about it.
Pick a bull?
Yep, pick a bull.
I'll pick two bulls because this is conversation, just right off the bat.
Every one of these bulls are different.
But number four, I love that bull, but he's a big bull.
And so I was talking to the guy in Kansas this morning about him.
He said, well, what's another bull?
You're like, well, like nine, I'm going to start the sale with him.
So I said, you know, obviously I like him.
And then I just felt crazy sitting there talking about them because I was kind of nitpicking my two favorite bulls in the sale, you know, because they're just different.
You know, they're just different.
So you just got to decide what you like.
And, you know, number 75 is another one that has all the bells and whistles for a for a low birth weight bull or low birth weight prospect.
Not only is he's, you know, he's got all the numbers.
He's got all the bells and whistles.
He happens to be one of the better justified sons by numbers.
And, you know, so we get a lot of hoopla.
I mean, a lot of people call me about him, but golly, there are so many.
Well, I knew that I knew that's how you would go with this, because we got a couple of minutes left.
And that's why I wanted you to pick a bull.
And, of course, he went the easy route.
He opened the first page up.
I'll tell you what, I'll look at a different one.
149, 150.
Yeah, 150.
There's one on the back page.
Barricade is new to us.
I said that I wanted those bulls that had some mass to them.
Right.
And so we bred, you know, this year there's only, I probably only used 20 straws of semen to end up with these five or six barricade bulls that makes the sale.
But then last year, I used them again.
And these five bulls, you know, if you all come to the sale, just look at the width.
They're not the biggest bulls out there, but they certainly are displaying the width and the mass.
So, you know, you'll be seeing barricade bulls at our place the next couple of years.
There's a pretty good lag at our place since we sell these older bulls, you know.
So what do you think about my first experience doing a show live from a bull sale?
This is going to be fun.
There's going to be some characters around there.
You might want to, I mean, I'm trying not to curse on the radio too, you know.
No, you almost did while I go.
Did I?
No, I'm kidding.
Everybody calls the one guy the other couple of weeks ago said, you cussed on the radio.
I said, no, I didn't.
No, you did.
You said the wheat report took a blank.
And I said, no, I didn't.
I said, I said tank.
Well, if I did say it, I apologize.
You're good.
You surely know me by now.
I'm going to kid you a little bit, but anyway, don't mean nothing by it.
But anyway, I'm excited.
The Bull Cell is at the Quartermaster Creek.
It's called Real Life, Real Beat.
Spring Bull Cell, Wednesday, February 28 at 1230 at the ranch in Leedy, Oklahoma.
And we timed that just perfect.
Thanks for having me.
Everybody, Mike and Annie, would love for you guys to come to their Bull Cell Wednesday.
Skip work.
Yeah, I'm going to post everything on my Facebook page and KCO here in the next hour so you can look it up.
So it'll be great.
Thanks again, Mike Switzer.
It's Today in Ag with Jimmy Clark brought to you by First National Bank and Trust of Sayre in Elk City, Oklahoma.
God bless.
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