Sales
R & R Acres 18th
Annual Bull Sale LV Bar Annual
Production Sale
February 2, 2019
Airdrie, Alberta, Canada
Auctioneer: Dan Skeels February 9, 2019
Plainville, Kan.
Auctioneer: Bruce Brooks
Sale management: R&R Marketing,
Randall O. Ratliff
Sale consultant: Mark Smith,
Grassroots Genetics
Livestock Representatives: Ty Gillum,
Plainville Livestock; Craig Talkington,
Special Assignment
Reported by: Nathan Smith,
NALF regional manager
Averages
7 Fall yearling Limousin bulls.....$5,586
7 Fall yearling Simmental bulls...$5,971
Sale Goss ....................................... $80,900*
* = Canadian Dollar
$9,500 - Lot 8, R & R Beefmaker
SMTR 2E, 5/26/2017, homozygous
black, homozygous polled, sired by
CCR Cowboy Cut 5048Z, purchased
by Marsh Ranches, Calgary, AB.
$7,000 -Lot 4, R & R Beefmaker 12E,
6/4/2017, Purebred, red, homozygous
polled, sired by Limousin R & R
Beefmaker 72A, purchased by
Fair Farms, Grand Prairie, AB.
$6,500 - Lot 10, R & R Beefmaker
SMTR 22E, 6/12/2017, Lim-Flex,
homozygous black, homozygous
polled, sired by Dikemans
Double Down 26W, purchased
by Wray Ranches, Irricana, AB.
$6,100 - Lot 5, R & R Beefmaker
45E, 7/21/2017, Purebred,
homozygous black, homozygous
polled, sired by Limousin R & R
Beefmaker 21B, purchased by Fair
Farms, Grand Prairie, AB. I
Volume buyer Leland Richards, middle,
of Bavaria, Kan. is pictured with owners,
Mark, Chad and Mike Settje.
Averages
78 Limousin & Lim-Flex bulls........$3,015
22 Registered bred heifers ...........$1,935
30 Commercial bred heifers..........$1,472
122 Live Lots Gross..................... $335,195
$6,200 - Bull - Lot 77, LVBR
Optimizer 74E, 4/5/2017, Lim-Flex,
red, homozygous polled, sired by
CRVL California 505C, purchased
by Liz VanLoenen, Bogue, Kan.
LV Bar owners, Mark, Chad and Mike
(not pictured) Settje with manager, Mike
Smith and longtime volume bull buyer,
Mike Beckman, middle, Hoxie, Kan.
$3,500 - Bred Female - Lot 92,
LVBR 710E, 3/2/2017, double
black, double polled, sired by
MAGS Bronc Buster, purchased
by Sullivan Farms, Dunlap Iowa.
Special Thanks to Buyers: Leland
Richards, Bavaria, Kan. and Mike
Beckman, Hoxie, Kan. I
High selling bull buyer, Liz Vanloenen,
middle, Bouge, Kan., is pictured with
owners, Mark, Chad and Mike Settje.
Doug Wray, left, Irricana, Alberta, purchased a top
bull out of the R & R Acres Sale and is pictured
with owner, Randy Bollum, after the sale.
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