Hello All:

Have you ever seen or felt a wheel out of balance? It can shake things apart. If Christ is not your center, things are out of balance. You are going to be shaken in this life; best you have THE balancer.

We just got 10 of the Hereford heifers registered and their registration numbers are in the online catalog with links to the registration page. (https://www.icecattle.com/catalog/march-2020-heifer-catalog/) All but one of the Hereford heifers are now registered. It looks like most of the black angus bred heifers and bulls are registerable with a DNA sample. Yes, growing pains; we hope to have these issues resolved well prior to now in the future.

A video of Lot #59.5, PCC FSR Jalapeno, a 6 year old registered black angus bull, is now available online. https://www.dvauction.com/events/101527/lots/15866791

It’s sale week! Though we are busy preparing, most of the prep work has already been done. My mom and dad are here, fixing, cleaning, cooking, setting up and teaching the kids Bridge and Board of Trade. I hope the kids have some good memories of sale week. I’d LOVE to have a great memory of sale DAY!!!

Today we sorted the weaned calves into heifer and bull groups and weighed the bulls. We weaned last Monday. This is the first time in our history that we took the calves through winter with the cows on cornstalks. At this point I love it! Calves look the best ever and were completely weaned in 48 hours, no death loss. This beats our prior weaning protocol to bits. I plan to keep doing it unless we find a reason not to. The cows and calves were carried together through the winter without protein; is anyone else doing this?

Tuesday: Preg check cows. We have a LOT of older cows and by taking them through the winter on corn stalks with calves at side the older cows look pretty rough. I won’t be surprised if we have a higher than normal open percentage. We typically run about 10%. Most of our cows look great considering the circumstances. We will likely have a group of late bred cows that are for sale. They will be in a pen on sale day and you can look them over if you are here. The base price on those will be $1200. We are not running them through the sale so let us know if you are interested. We may have a “out in the pen” auction if more than one person is interested. Dennis Mulroy has first choice to make up for some calving issues he’s had in the past.

Wednesday: Haul bull calves to a new stalk field, haul a load of 12 fats to the Butcher Shop.

Thursday: Bring home the bulls for the sale, continue to get things ready.

Friday: Pen bulls and heifers by groups, have a sale…then EAT!!! Delmar, we are having beans this year (along with hamburgers, mom’s homemade potato salad, chips, pop/water and Davey Crockett Bars; Hannah is making chocolate chip and sugar cookies; Mom is also making cinnamon rolls to have before the sale). If you leave our place hungry, it is your own fault.

Please register with DVAuction if you intend to bid that way https://www.dvauction.com/register, or contact Kristin (402-984-3890) to pre-register for on-site bidding.

We cherish you whether it is in person or cyberspace. Thank you for your interest in our cattle.

Grace to you.

Lanny Greenhalgh | Steward
[email protected] | (402) 984-6375
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