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Spring 2021
TOGETHER, WE’LL MAKE
YOUR NEXT GENERATION THE BEST
Greetings! Thank you for taking the From a genetics perspective, I feel as if our line-up of sire
time to read Minnesota/Select Sires options is stronger than ever. We have many excellent choices
Co-op, Inc.’s annual Spring Beef of bulls to sire the type of cattle demanded throughout the
Newsletter. 2020 was a wild year. northern region. Calves this year by Rainfall, Tahoe, Cowboy
Covid-19 showed up and its impact Logic, Entice, and Growth Fund are some of the standouts on the
shocked the world. With that being Angus front. From the Simmental breed, calves by Wide Range,
said, I believe this was a good year Main Event, Red Moon, and Imperial look great! And on the Red
for the future of agriculture. Rising Angus side of things, calves by Atomic, Cinch, Spartacus, and
commodity prices and better than Pacesetter are some of our customer’s favorites. Please order
expected cattle markets will have a semen early as some bulls will be short supply!
positive impact on the success of your
By Andrew Swanson Our team of Professional Beef Sales Representatives is actively
operations in 2021.
Beef Business Manager preparing to service you in 2021. I am very proud that we are
(507) 829-4133 As we enter calving season, I’d like stacked with talent and can take on your breeding project.
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Leading off our bull bull. We expect heavy use in North
FOCUSING ON GENETICS section this year is Dakota and beyond in 2021.
THAT WORK FOR YOU
14AN502 TAHOE as a bull
7AN463 PLAYBOOK. A 1682 son with
who exceeds for calving
more frame; Playbook is stout, smooth
ease, growth, maternal
and big-middled with a lot of base
and carcass traits. As
width and muscle expression. Expect
an up and coming bull who we call
calves sired by Playbook to have
a definite foot improver, look for
excellent phenotype and performance.
Tahoe progeny around the region to
be functional with some shape and NEW this year-High Seller and
substance to them. Although he is not a crowd favorite from the 2020
outcross (Upward son x Final Answer), National Western Bull sale is 7AN594
Tahoe will sire excellent females and REGIMENT. This WAR Cavalry son has
make cattle with a nice spread from a HUGE EPD profile. Top 1 percent
7AN466 RAINFALL birth to yearling. for WW, YW, RADG, CW, RE, $W, $F,
$B, and $C. This bull will see heavy
A must have on your short list of
demand due to his phenotype,
calving ease and maternal sires is
performance and pedigree.
7AN466 RAINFALL. One of the most
sought after bulls in our lineup, A rock star in the commercial world,
Rainfall is an excellent calving ease 7AN368 COMRADE shows excellent
and high marbling option for use fertility, proven calving ease and
in both registered and commercial produces super daughters. He ranks
programs. A Charlo son, out of the high for docility and provides added
#1 producing cow at SAV, Rainfall benefits for carcass merit. Proven to
combines dominating phenotype, deliver quality offspring from a wide
14AN553 COWBOY LOGIC superior confirmation and outlier spectrum of cattle types, Comrade
thickness, muscle shape, capacity is a great option to keep mature size
and pounds in a calving ease package. under control. Yearling steers sired by
Rainfall progeny are moderate, easy Comrade in Southern ND weighed in
fleshing and AWESOME to look at. at over 1200 pounds at 10.5 months
of age this year. Calving ease and
One of the most up and coming bulls
performance!
in our lineup comes from the Frey
program in North Dakota. 14AN553 Flawless in structure and phenotype,
COWBOY LOGIC. Cowboy Logic is a 7AN451 FLAT TOP covers all the bases
7AN600 WOLVERINE Cowboy Up son who was the lead off for EPDs and excels for RE and $W.
bull in Frey’s Carload in 2019. Cowboy Black Granite’s stoutest and best
Logic has style, muscle, power, phenotype son in a double digit
and performance in a calving ease calving ease package, Flat Top has
package. One of the truly exciting, high maternal strength interwoven in his
phenotype spread bulls in our lineup. stellar pedigree. His dam consistently
The calves at Frey’s and Hoover Angus transmits exceptional phenotype while
have been standouts. backing it up with production records.
The Flat Top calves are longer bodied
NEW to the lineup this year is the
and have the look! High customer
$15,000 high selling bull from the
satisfaction here.
2020 Talkington Angus Ranch sale,
7AN580 HOME TOWN 7AN600 WOLVERINE. This Tahoe Marbling, marbling, and marbling.
x Brooking Prosecutor bull will be Check out the most talked about
well received in big country. The bull Ashland son in the country, 7AN580
himself is moderate and full of muscle HOME TOWN. 1.82 marbling EPD
shape and rib capacity. He is sound puts this bull in the very top 1% of
made, good footed, and comes from the Angus breed. Combine that with
an excellent young cow in the SAT Calving Ease, an excellent RE EPD,
program. Top 1 percent for and a 355 $C value and you get GAR
$M! He will be a Hometown. This bull is big hipped,
calving ease wide based and has a herd bull
presence. Seedstock producers are of calving ease, calf vigor, strong
already flushing to this bull. performance, maternal strength
and marbling. He excels in all the
7AN531 ENTICE is a cool made, big economically relevant traits for beef
time growth bull from the Mogck production while creating functional
program in South Dakota. This bull cattle with exceptional doability,
himself is a mid 6 frame bull who disposition and feet.
definitely will sire performance and
weaning weight. This bull’s 50K 7AR87 FRANCHISE is a nice
7AN589 SILVERADO scored in the top 1% of the breed for phenotyped, balanced bull from the
docility and his calves will crush the Abigrace cow family. This bull offers
scales in the fall. When pounds mean excellent calving ease with elite
more, Entice will add dollars to your marbling, rib eye and carcass weight
bottom-line. EPDs.
An outcross calving ease sire with A proven bull for satisfied customers
exceptional foot and leg structure, is 14AR2085 ATOMIC. This bull will
7AN419 REMEDY continues to build sire calves that come easy and excel
an EPD profile that defies the odds. for muscle shape, rib capacity and
He combines calving ease with early fleshing ability. Easily one of our
rapid growth in one special entity. customer favorite bulls in 2020, I
7AN528 GROWTH FUND He sires fault free, easy keeping, high expect Atomic to stay towards the top
quality replacement females. Because of our Red Angus sales in 2021. Elite
his pedigree is stacked with high herdbuilder sire here.
maternal sires that have stood the
294AR338 RACER is a powerful red
test of time, you can expect Remedy
angus bull who excels in terms
daughters to stay in the herd for many
of overall mass, depth of rib and
years.
stoutness. Having won champion Red
NEW this year from the Myers Angus bull at the Canadian Western
program in Kentucky is 7AN589 Agribition, use Racer to sire your next
SILVERADO. Here is a bull that great one.
combines many Select Sires greats
14AR2085 ATOMIC in his pedigree (Tahoe x Niagara x
Easily a household name in
SimAngus™ sires, 7SM80 WIDE RANGE
Prophet.) Silverado is a thick made,
is proven to sire beautiful, deep-
attractive and moderate bull that
bodied and wide-based females. He
will sire some eye appealing progeny.
provides substantial performance
Combine that with excellent EPDs and
benefits while keeping frame size in
$values and Silverado will make some
check. He is also homozygous black
sought after cattle for years to come.
and homozygous polled.
Last but certainly not least for the
Ranking in the top 1% of the breed
Angus Sires is 7AN528 GROWTH FUND.
for API and TI, 7SM93 BIG TIMBER is
This bull’s EPDs are impeccable, but
a calving ease purebred that needs
this bull is much more than just a
7SM80 WIDE RANGE serious consideration. Big Timer is
good set of EPDs. Everybody I talk to
backed by a super cow who is very
that has used Growth Fund likes the
correct and keeps a nice udder. His
calves. Cattlemen around the country
EPDs rank him in the top 2% for
have used this bull for consecutive
calving ease and top 10% for birth
years because of the cattle that
weight.
Growth Fund sires. The calves are
cool fronted, structurally sound, full NEW to the Select Sires red
of muscle and they know how to Simmental lineup is 7SM121
grow. Expect to see some high dollar COPPERHEAD. This exciting new
herd bulls sell in 2021 and 2022 in the addition offers great phenotype,
7SM121 COPPERHEAD Upper Midwest by Growth Fund. excellent feet and legs, and will add
muscle to his progeny. We found
14AR2075 REBEL offers a great blend
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this bull at the 2020 National Western Stock show and powerful, stout, rugged, short-marked sire emerging as a
appreciate him not only for his type but also for the fact true breed leader.
that he is outcross to most of the Simmental breed.
Creating excitement in the Hereford world is 7HP122
7SM97 IMPERIAL is sired by a Beef King son out of a TNT HISTORIC. This bull is masterfully maternal, combining
Dual Focus sired cow from the Irvine Ranch in Kansas. CED, CEM, SCF and udder quality. This bull is powerfully
Imperial is a very exciting Red purebred Simmental who built with more depth of body and mass than most
indexes excellent across the board and boasts a spring Hereford bulls in the breed.
time API of 185. Imperial is also in the top 1% for maternal
7CH96 AFFINITY is one of the most phenotypically
calving ease and marbling. With calving ease, growth and
impressive Charolais bulls to enter the AI industry in
maternal traits like that, look for Imperial to be used hard
recent years. Backed by multiple generations of excellent
this spring and summer.
uddered cows, expect Affinity to add depth, muscle, width
From the Behm program in North Dakota comes 7HP120 and scrotal to your next calf crop.
CUDA. This bull has an excellent combination of calving
ease, growth, maternal and carcass merit. This bull is a
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Wayne Jallo Bob Merten Bryan Stroh
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Lehr, ND 218.841.0996 701.709.0032 701.290.7222 Southwest, MN
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