How To Manage Your New Herd Sire

It’s the Ranch It Up Radio Show!  We answer your questions about new herdsire management.  Plus, we start a new feature segment where you, our listeners, get to nominate your vote for the Ranch It Up Radio Show Top Hand.  We have the markets, news, and updates that you need to hear.  Join Jeff 'Tigger' Erhardt, the Boss Lady Rebecca Wanner aka 'BEC', and our crew as we bring you the latest in markets, news, and Western entertainment on this all-new episode of the Ranch It Up Radio Show.  Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcasting app or on the Ranch It Up Radio Show YouTube Channel.

EPISODE 157 DETAILS
Your questions are always welcome here at The Ranch It Up Radio Show.  One of our listeners from Missouri texted us in regard to last week's program.  We featured Doug Bichler from Bichler Simmentals in South Central North Dakota.  He already had a very successful seedstock operation supplying Simmental and SimAngus Genetics.  His accident in 2017 caused him and his family to re-evaluate how they were running their cattle, the efficiency of bloodlines, and the predictability of the bulls being offered for sale each year.  This caused the operation to transition from a winter and spring calving cowherd to a summer calving cowherd.  They changed from selling Spring Yearling Bulls each February to selling Virgin Long Yearling Bulls in November.  David from Missouri was wondering how to care for these fall yearling bulls and how it is different from caring for spring yearling bulls.  We bring Doug to answer more questions about managing new herd sire prospects.

We start a new segment where you, our listeners get to nominate a person, farm/ranch, business, product, horse, dog, etc, that does not matter for our weekly Ranch It Up Radio Show Top Hand.  Today, we relieve our very first winner.

Not to mention the weekly market recap with Kirk Donsbach with Stone X Financial, Inc.  We have it all for you in this jam-packed episode of The Ranch It Up Radio Show!  As always Tigger & BEC and the Ranch It Up crew dive into the latest agriculture news, rodeo action not to miss, and cover the cattle markets.

HOW TO MANAGE YOUR NEW HERD SIRE

We spend all that time trying to find the perfect bull for our operation.  And now congratulations!  You found him and got him purchased in your price range.  Now what?  Learn how to manage your new herd sires and how to get them through the cold months on into breeding season.

BICHLER SIMMENTALS

The Program:  The Bichler Simmentals ranch is owned and operated by Doug and Maria Bichler, representing the third generation to farm the land and live on the homestead. Since the farm’s inception in 1920, the Bichler family has strived to care for the land and their animals to the best of their ability. And, in 2022 that core value has never wavered.

The program has grown significantly in the past 17 years. Since they began their production sale in 2005, they have been able to not only increase the number of bulls and females offered but also create more genetic and phenotypic consistent cattle. They use AI and embryo transfer extensively to ensure they are propagating the best genetics. The ranch is located in south central North Dakota and consists of 250 mother cows which are comprised of both registered and commercial females. Commercial females are utilized in the ET program. 

The Philosophy:  Their philosophy is that quality is always centered around the cowherd. This is why they cull heavily for not only performance and genetics but for relevant traits important to customers such as disposition, udder quality, and structural soundness. Any females failing to meet these requirements are either moved into the recipient herd or are simply culled. The Bichler family believes the best-performing cattle are moderately framed, easy fleshing, and deep-bodied and you will see this in the cattle they produce. They flush superior cows in the herd to produce superior females which in turn are mated to produce bulls for the purebred and commercial producers alike.

RANCH IT UP RADIO SHOW TOP HAND
We are starting a new feature here on the Ranch It Up Radio Show.  Each week a particular operation, business, person, outfit, bull, dog, it does not matter, is highlighted as Tigger & BEC approved, and they are the Top Hand of the Week.  You can nominate any operation just send us an email of who or what you are nominating and why you are nominating.  Today our Top Hand is JYJ Red Angus of Columbia, Alabama.  Jim and Jessica Yance.

Jim became very interested in the Red Angus breed 23 years ago when he visited R.A. Brown Ranch in Throckmorton, Texas. As a result, he bought his first Red Angus bulls and set out to transform a very hodge-podge herd of commercial cattle into a very impressive, uniform, highly marketable calf crop. After graduating from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, he returned to the family farm with a passion for rebuilding the farm’s cowherd, and in just a few years was able to utilize breed-leading Red Angus genetics to do just that: Produce and market outstanding feeder cattle, and make replacement females that grew into a productive and prolific red cowherd.

When Jim married his wife, Jessica, they knew they wanted to contribute to the well-established, family operation, Yance Farms, Inc., built by Jim’s grandfather, Clarence Yance, and his father, Terry Yance. With their blessing and support, along with the mentorship of Donnell Brown from R.A. Brown Ranch, they began their journey into the Red Angus seedstock business as JYJ Red Angus, LLC.

The Yance’s purchased their first Red Angus females in October 2006, which is also when the Brown Family invited them to join their cooperator team. Today, 17 years later, the Yance Family is more committed than ever to producing and marketing superior Red Angus genetics through biannual sales in Throckmorton, Texas.

While the majority of the spring or fall-born bulls travel almost 1,000 miles to be feed efficiency tested, developed, and marketed in Texas, the Yance’s realized that’s not a feasible marketing plan for the rest of their seedstock cattle. The growth of their herd over these 17 years has created the need to better manage grass, cattle inventory, and time. That’s what led them to share their program through our first production sale.

Their first sale literally happening as speak.  Check them out at JYJ Red Angus and follow along on Facebook.  

FEATURING
Jim Yance

JYJ Red Angus

@jyjredangus

https://www.jyjredangus.com/

 

Doug Bichler

Bichler Simmentals

@bichlersimmentals

https://bichlersimmentals.com/

 

Shaye Koester

Casual Cattle Conversation

https://www.casualcattleconversations.com/

@cattleconvos

 

Kirk Donsbach: Stone X Financial

https://www.stonex.com/  

@StoneXGroupInc   

 

Mark Van Zee 

Livestock Market, Equine Market, Auction Time

https://www.auctiontime.com/

https://www.livestockmarket.com/

https://www.equinemarket.com/

@LivestockMkt

@EquineMkt

@AuctionTime

 

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References

https://www.stonex.com/

https://www.livestockmarket.com/

https://www.equinemarket.com/

https://www.auctiontime.com/

https://gelbvieh.org/

https://www.imogeneingredients.com/

https://alliedgeneticresources.com/

https://westwayfeed.com/

https://medoraboot.com/

https://www.bek.news/dakotacowboy

https://bichlersimmentals.com/

https://www.rabrownranch.com/

https://www.jyjredangus.com/