2016 Leachman Customer Testimony

Monday, March 21st, 2016 CSU ARDEC Sale Facility • Wellington, CO

Spring Bull & Female Sale530 Bulls • 150 Females

LEADING WITH

$PROFIT!

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Leachman Spring Bull & Female Sale

Saturday, March 19th 9:00 a.m. - Coffee and Donuts at ARDEC for CSU Private Treaty offering – 35 Angus & Hereford Bulls and 21 Yearling Commercial Heifers

11:00 a.m. - Silent Auction ends on CSU Sale Cattle 5:00 p.m. - Early Customer Reception at the Budweiser Brewery Vistor Center 2351 Busch Drive, Fort Collins, CO 80524, RSVP required.

Sunday, March 20th 9:00 a.m. - Cowboy Church at the Embassy Suites, Loveland Noon - Lunch served at CSU ARDEC sale barn 1:00 p.m. - Seminar at CSU ARDEC Tools for Taking Your Commercial Herd to the Next Level ▪ Profit per acre, let’s do the math – Lee Leachman ▪ Key Performance Indicators – What we can learn from SPA – Dr. Stan Bevers, TX A&M ▪ Reputation Feeder Cattle finding real value differences – Duane Gangwish, Verified Beef ▪ Using DNA to improve your rate of genetic progress – Dr. Kent Andersen, Zoetis ▪ Cow Sense, take your herd into $Profit territory! – Tim Davis, Cow Sense 6:00 p.m. - Cowman’s Banquet & Concert, Embassy Suites, Loveland (RSVP required!) ▪ Don’t miss Lee Leachman’s Industry Outlook presentation and the Hairpin Award. ▪ Enjoy country music by the Bar J Wranglers! ▪ Bring your whole family, but call (970) 568-3983 to RSVP so you have a guaranteed seat.

Monday, March 21st

9:00 a.m. - Leachman’s Top Cut Replacements– 115 Open Heifers ▪ Plus, 35 fall bred cows. Bred to top 1% $Profit sires. ▪ Top 56 sell via auction, remainder via Silent Auction. ▪ Start a seedstock herd or build the best commercial herd possible!

10:00 a.m. - Leachman’s Top 530 $Profit Bulls 23 Angus, 7 Charolais, & 500 Black & Red Stabilizers

5:00 p.m. - Join us for a steak dinner.Hotel Headquarters: Embassy Suites Hotel

Loveland, CO(970) 593-6200 CSU ARDEC Center

Fort Collins, CO

Bar J Wranglers

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Monday, March 21st • $Profit Sale680 Head: 150 Females & 530 Bulls

Angus ● Red Angus ● Charolais ● Stabilizer

Lot 435 Cadillac x Conquest, ASA #3012382

Lot 610 Heifer Bull, ASA #2963597, 190.6 APILot 567 Stout Heifer Bull by Trinity

Lot 301 Best Red Composite ever! $18,930 $PLot 306 Stout Heifer Bull, 8 breeds!Lot 302 High Growth!, $15,005 $P

Lot 135 StabilizerLot 144 Angus, #16540941 Lot 125 Angus, #16072116Lot 129 Red Angus, #1561685

Lot 39 Angus, #18196195, $10,324 $PLot 11 AN x SM, by CadillacLot 1 AN x SM, $10,919 $P

Lot 228 Charolais, #M862947, +0.8 to +75Lot 208 Angus #18181539, $13,035 $P

115 Open Heifers

35 Fall Calving Cows (AI’d to start calving 9/21/16)

23 Registered Angus Bulls

500 Black and Red Stabilizer Bulls

7 Registered Charolais Bulls

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Leachman $Profit Sires that Lead the Industry!These bulls are sires or sibs of 275 BULLS in the sale –

that’s 52% of the bull offering!

Leachman Prophet at $16,342 $Profit - 33 sons!The undisputed leader for growth with type and kind.

Leachman Yosemite

at $12,112 $Profit - 63 sons!

The $Ranch profit leader that will

significantly reduce costs in your operation.


Trinity at $15,092 $Profit - 47 sons!The best high percentage

Simmental sire in the industry.

Leachman Advance at $15,0403 $Profit - 43 sons!

An outcross bull with big time birth to yearling spread, efficiency, and profit.

Leachman 18 Karat at $18,930 $Profit - 88 sibs sell!

Lot 301 and his sibs by Testify dominate the offering.

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ELITE SEMEN COOPERATIVE


“We are deep into the Leachman program.

We want it all!

~ Mike Healy L U Ranch Worland, WY

We are using two tools: $Profit bulls and DNA testing. Our goals are to have quiet temperaments, wean a high percentage of good, healthy calves at an early age and produce feed lot cattle that really put on the weight with high daily gain and feed efficiency. We want to harvest the calves at 12 – 13 months of age and earn as many carcass premiums as possible.”

Fall Leachman $Profit bulls being trailed to summer

mountain pastures.


“Our cows winter graze and range calve on high, semi-arid ranges from 5000’ to 8500’. We do not feed hay, but do supplement with protein tubs. Our total carrying capac-ity is limited by our public range carrying capacity limits. Year in and year out we are around 1400 cows. We keep very close track of what the cows are doing:

● 90% pregnant on our yearling heifers in a short, 30 day season with timed AI and natural service cleanup.

● 96%+ pregnancy on the cowherd. We then sell any bred cow that will not calve in the first 45 days.

● 92% - 95% weaned calves/pregnant cows depending on Spring storms.

These numbers have all improved over the last 15 years as the cows were increasingly the result of high $Profit Leachman Stabilizer bulls.”


~ Mike & Sarah Healy L U Ranch Worland, WY

This couple is one of the best bull buying teams in the country!

“Lee asked me how we were going to top last year’s data.

Our cull replacement heifers did it all!

Average Daily Gain 4.3 lbs. / dayHot carcass weight 906 lbs.Ribeye area 15.6 sq. inches% Choice 98%% CAB & Prime 46%% YG 3 or better 92%No death loss. Average gross per head: $2,076.78

LU Cull Heifers Harvested 1/8/2016

A steer mate to LU heifers: • 907 lb. carcass weight • 16.2 in2 ribeye area • Upper 2/3 CH (CAB) • Converted 4.5 to 1 • $1,824 return to ranch


“I’ve never seen maternal cattle with so much feedlot and carcass merit!These feed lot cattle come out of maternal genetics that work in rough country. I know the females work, I purchased LU heifers and calved them at my home place. This is fun. The progress we’re making is mind boggling….”

~ Kevin Unger, Resource Mgr. Lincoln County Feed Yard Stapleton, NE (Former lot manager of Decatur County)


K Lazy K, like most herds, was Hereford based. Photo circa 1950.

A progression of top Leachman sires used heavily by K Lazy K; All High Efficiency and High Carcass sires.

New Design 1407

Protégé

Resolution

Visionary

Jerry Kusser


“We’ve been AI’ing to high carcass merit bulls for 25 years. Some were good, others were not. The Leachman bulls do more good things that are right and less bad things that are wrong.”

“The efficiency stuff is coming into play. We weigh and test all our feed, and our cows will not eat as much as the nutritionists say they should.”

~ Jerry Kusser K Lazy K Ranch Highmore, SD

A Visionary steer calf.

A Visionary yearling bred heifer.


I like to brag about our steers to my neighbors…

For me, high quality is more than just getting a 80 or 90% choice. I want the

big premiums – CAB and Prime.

Plus, I want conversion! ~ Jerry Kusser K Lazy K Ranch Highmore, SD

Real world results: K Lazy K Ranch is a reputation producer of high qual-ity steers. Feeders and packers like bidding on their string of 500+ steers and feeding them to hit high

quality markets. When fed naturally, the steers will grade well over 50% prime. When fed conventionally, the steers will convert at better than 5 to 1. Today, the challenge is to add carcass weight while still hold-ing cow size steady. The K Lazy K Ranch also participates as a Leachman test herd. By artificially insemi-nating over 800 females, large sire groups are created. The steers are then fed in sire groups to collect feed intake data. This allows the real world verification of the Intake and F:G breeding values calculated on all Leachman animals. With data on six calf crops, the K Lazy K herd has repeatedly shown that the EPDs accurately predict the feed conversion of the steer calves in the feedlot.

Jerry Kusser

Steer sired by Visionary.


“The Kusser calves have changed dramatically since 2009.

At Decatur County, we saw the conversion improve from 6 to 1 down to 4.8 to 1. When fed NHTC, the cattle graded over 60% prime. They are making huge, multi-trait progress!”

~ Kevin Unger, Resource Mgr. Lincoln County Feed Yard Stapleton, NE (Former lot manager of Decatur County)

Kevin Unger


Chase Hibbard and Cooper SiebenSieben Live Stock Company

Three year old females by Leachman Stabilizer bulls.

“I started managing the ranch nearly

30 years ago... My first experience with composites, EPD’s and crossbreed-ing science came from sheep. We starting using the Targhee in 1951. It is a USDA developed, 4 way cross composite sheep breed. Our Targhee rams are very much in demand. Now we are applying the same strategies in our cattle for two reasons:

First, I really like the idea of using composite bulls to bring heterosis back into our herd which is now almost straight Angus.

Second, we are very happy with the direction of the proven index that Lee Leachman has built. Both of these reasons led us to Leachman Stabilizer bulls and the $Profit index – AND, the market place has dramat-ically rewarded us for our efforts!”

~ Chase Hibbard, President Sieben Live Stock Company Cascade, MT


“No single step has made our ranch into a sustainable operation…


Sieben innovations for economic and environmental sustainability include: ● Controlled grazing in a rest-rotation. ● Utilize sheep to complement the grazing of the cattle. ● Selective logging combined with returning biomass to the soil. ● Calve later to reduce hay and labor by 40% or more.

It took us a long time to get good at doing it the traditional way, and it is taking a while to get good at doing it the new way.”


“I called Lee to see if he could

reach some potential buyers.

Then my phone started ringing. The Sieben yearlings brought $17 per cwt more than any other yearlings in their weight range…

topping the entire sale! ~ Steve Christensen Northern Video Rep Helena, MT

490 Sieben Live Stock yearling steers sold for $2.37 at an

865# payweight on Oct. 15, 2015.



~ Steve Christensen Northern Video Rep Helena, MT


“Lee, thank you for your help and for earning such a good reputation. This helps us successfully market the progeny from your bulls!”


Gerald Colton

Colton uses the same Stabilizer bulls on his heifers and cow herd.

Survivors and market toppers

“Don’t do anything different with

your Stabilizers... we like them the

way they are!


They have optimum milk, breed back, do better, and sell well.”

~ Gerald Colton G & B Colton Ranches Baker City, OR

Gerald and Bonnie Colton have been coming to Leachman Cattle for over 15 years. They have invested in over 70 Leachman Stabilizer bulls. As the pictures show, they run in tough desert country east of Baker City, Oregon. Their range only gets 9 to 10” of rain. When we visited in 2015, it was one of the driest years on record. As Gerald said, “If our sagebrush was a forage, the dust was a mineral, and our rocks were an ore – then this would be paradise!”

Jon Levy, helps the Colton’s market their calves through Intermountain Livestock Auction in La Grande, OR. He states, “These Colton Ranch Stabilizer cattle have a really good reputation out here. The cattle always do better than they should…. If I had to go home and take over the family operation, I would do exactly what Gerald is doing with his Stabilizer cattle.”


“I only wish we had started with Leachman $Profit sires a long time ago…

We would have been happier today with better cows. We haven’t had calves like this in years. Our Trinity

calves topped the market at Platte Livestock, Grand Island, NE at $168.75 per cwt in January!”

~ George Stahl, Beef Manager Spring Valley Colony Wessington Springs, SD

A sophisticated agricultural enterprise that takes advantage of technology, economies of scale, and hard working families. Spring Valley Colony is home to 24 families supporting 132 people on 6500 acres of South Dakota prairie.

Feed mill where they mix their own feed and next door make Styrofoam insulation.

Turkeys: Three flocks that produce 15,000 head per flock... every 6 weeks!

Hogs: 600+ sows to make 13,000 plus butcher pigs per year.

Pheasants: Raise 7,000 roosters for hunting lodges each year.


Trinity calves on Spring Valley Colony cows.

“We calved all our heifers and part of the cowherd to Trinity and cleaned up with $Profit bulls that were mostly Trinity sons. His calves come small and grew good. They have lots of shape and weighed more.“

One of 85 Trinity daughters being retained this year.


“100% of our wet two-year-old heifers, with calves

at side, bred back for their second calf.

All 78 head in 2013 and all 82 head in 2014!The first year I thought it was just luck – it has never happened before. It’s hard to believe. 100% is probably a fluke. But for sure it would not

happen if the cattle were not well managed and highly fertile.”

~ Rex Nelson Baker City, OR


Rex and Susan Nelson have bought Stabilizer bulls

at Leachman Cattle of Colorado for the last nine

years in a row.

“In 2002, my son, Curt, came home from college and suggested that they try crossbreeding. Our straight Angus cowherd had been getting too big and too hard to keep. We couldn’t pack enough feed to them. So the next year, we went to Leachman Cattle in Billings for our first Stabilizer bulls. We were worried about keeping the cattle even. As it has turned out, the Stabilizers produce few outliers. They breed true and we like them. They moderated our mature cow size and milk and are easier to keep. I’ve been impressed with Leachman’s $Profit and Feed Efficiency selection. Efficiency is important – right up there as one of our top criteria for picking bulls. Consumption and conversion are not going to stay on the back burner. It is not only important for feeder cattle, but for our cowherds to eat less too. Leachman has led the charge towards feed consumption and indexes.”


The IX Ranch is a large, multi-generational, commercial, cow/calf operation located southeast of Big Sandy, MT. The Roth family has managed the ranch for three generations. They are precise managers of their land, people, and cattle. The ranches goals revolve around preservation of their natural resources and superior economic returns. They know that they cannot manage what they do not measure! Each year, the ranch works with Dr. Stan Bevers, an economist from Texas A&M, to evaluate benchmarks on key performance indicators that drive ranch profitability. Through their extensive records, they are able to closely monitor the production success of the ranch. The ranch is divided up into east and west divisions overseen by long-time managers, Rusty Sparks and Todd Amsbaugh. The ranch also relies heavily on annual internship employees.

Every cow and calf is paired out.


“Our goal is to be a low cost producer. In 2007, Lee recommended that we

buy Stabilizer bulls selected for

high $Ranch. It’s working.” ~ Rich Roth, Vice President IX Ranch Big Sandy, MT

Results from using hundreds of Leachman bulls:● Weaned calf crop percentage up 5%!● Pounds weaned per cow exposed up 30 lbs.!● Cow size down.

Rich Roth

One of 250 Leachman $Profit Stabilizers in use at the IX.


“Using the high $Profit Stabilizers has moved

us from 35% Choice to 90%+ Choice

with very few yield grade fours. Our cows breed up over 90% in a 60 day period in very high,

rugged, mountain country. The cattle are really sound, milk well, and make great

replacements. Going on 20 years, they have been good cattle for me!”

~ Bill Trampe Trampe Ranch Gunnison, CO

Trampe bred heifers: 20 of which sold at the Leachman Loma Sale for a top of $2,300 per head.


These Trampe cows drift up to 11,700’ during the summer.

“I’m Bill’s range rider! We focus on cattle that have a minimum of altitude and disposition problems. Our range cows are very quiet – they ignore the cyclists and the hunters! The Stabilizers are aggressive climbers and move well – they make good high altitude range cows.”

~ Barb West Bill’s Partner


Stabilizers Work Great in High Country!

Jim Tomlinson – a Colorado native is the ranch manager. Jim is already seeing an advantage in the survival rates of the Stabilizer calves from birth to weaning. He explains,

“We AI’d our yearlings to two of Leachman’s best low birth weight and low PAP bulls – Trinity and Yosemite. They

calved easily and we didn’t lose a single calf to brisket from birth to weaning. Our very lofty goal is to wean 94% from

pregnant cows at this elevation!”

A two year old, Hereford x Angus heifer at Nottingham Ranch with a Trinity bull calf.

The Nottingham Ranch runs from 6,200 feet to over 11,000 feet on both sides of the Colorado River. The herd has been developed using top Angus and Hereford genetics for decades.


Susan Nottingham and Lee Leachman

Leachman Cattle of Colorado is working with the Nottingham Ranch to breed a herd of Stabilizers that specialize in high altitude adaptability. All sires are PAP tested. The first bull calves out of two year old heifers will be PAP tested along with their dams. Colorado State University will produce a PAP EPD for Leachman.

Dr. Tim Holt is the world expert on PAP testing.Tim spoke to our annual cooperator meeting and explained how and why high altitude impacts cattle.


$Profit Works—“We buy better bulls for less by doing our $Profit homework.

We do lots of homework before sale day. This spring we bought six Leachman bulls under the sale average for $6,375 each. They averaged $11,972 $Profit – that ranks them in the top 1% of the industry’s 2014 crop! Our 1,250 lb. cows produce 650 lb. steer calves at seven months and 1,400-1,500 pound fats when finished. We have shopped at Leachmans for nearly 20 years….”

~ Tom McMillan, McMillan Ranch Co, Milburn, NE

Visionary topped our 2015 feed efficiency test. His steer progeny were quite a bit better with a high ADG of 4.48 and more efficient with a low 4.98 to 1 pounds of feed per pound of gain – the other two sires were under four on gain and over five on feed to gain. This data really opened my eyes!

“I use AI to stack the best Leachman sires in my herd – it reads like a who’s who of their top sires. The high $Profit bulls are really advancing our program.

~ Charlie Molvig O’Neill Cattle Company, O’Neill, NEVisionary, Feb. 2016

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The proof is in our customers’ herds!

~ Hi Lambert, Triple Creek Ranches, Riverton, NE

$Profit helped us breed, document and market our $62,000 high selling Captain J067B, a son of Leachman Yosemite (pictured). We knew he was a looker, but you can’t tell profit by just

looking at them. Only $Profit makes sure that all the traits balance out to make more money….”

“$Profit is a good number – it helped us breed, quantify, and market our best bull ever!

My 250 cow outfit cash flows better than some big outfits. They’re all sired by Leach-man $Profit bulls. My steer calves off their mother brought top total dollar… in 2014 at

$1,697 per head ($2.39 net x 710 lbs. pay weight). 85% of all my heifer calves make quality bred yearling replacements. I sell a pot load every fall as bred heifers which top the video auction. I got $3,100 head that year. We keep the rest for my replacements – there isn’t enough money to buy them….”

“If you haven’t used Leachman’s Red Angus and Red Stabilizers, you don’t know what you’re missing…

~ Benny Arnold, Arnold Ranch, Broadview, MT

Yosemite

Captain J067B as a calf.

A replacement heifer that ranks in the top 1% on $Profit.


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