We ordered new hats at S.B.L. when five Parisien steers won the 1971 National Beef Futurity Show at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Ten breeds were represented in groups of five. The average slaughter age was 441 days. The Parisien steers had the highest carcass weight per day of age. The second place group were also Simmental crossbred steers out of the S.B.L. bull Sultan. …
From March 1972:
Bidding was keen at the Fort Worth, Texas “Simmental Saturday Night Sale” on February 5th. The following is a summary of the sale results:
6 Purebred bull calves—avg ....... $ 27,100.00We are proud to announce that we received $53,000.00 for our purebred bull calf which sold to Houston, February 25, 1972. This calf was sired by Beat out of Petula, May 22, 1971. The two ¾ blood heifers which we sold averaged $7,000.00.
1 Bred ¾ Heifer .................. $ 12,500.00
23 ¾ Open Heifers—avg......... $ 6,374.00
7 ½ Blood Cows with ¾ calves—avg... $ 5,264.00
80 Bred ½ Blood heifers—avg...... $ 1,833.00
9 ½ Blood Open Heifers—avg..... $ 1,250.00
With results like this, who can afford not to “Breed ‘em all Simmental”!!
Last December, SBL sold their commercial cow herd and our ranch operation now consists solely of percentage Simmental females. This program has a two-fold purpose. One is to furnish data for evaluation of our SBL sires, and the other is to select only the best of the high producing females to use in an upgrading program. To assist us in this program, we are using a comprehensive computerized record system to store and evaluate data obtained in our program.
