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A partnership that works in the seed stock business. News updates and lots more. Crew, let's Ranch it Up. Good day everyone and thanks for riding with us on this all new episode of the Ranch It Up Radio Show. I'm Jeff Tigger Earhart. A big thank you goes out to our partners for today's episode. The American Galvie Association Pharmatan by Imogene ingredients livestockmarket.com ranch channel.com the all new sales series found on ranch channel.com Schnabel Ranch Simmentals and Lazy J Bar Ranch Sire Buyer was some Red Angus Westway Feed products and this fine radio station Cow Country News. You know the cow stuff. As you have probably heard, President Trump issued a proclamation entitled Ensuring Affordable Beef for the American Consumer. The proclamation increases the quantity of lean beef trimmings that can be imported from Argentina by an additional 80,000 metric tons during the 2026 calendar year. The purpose of the proclamation is to increase the supply of imported lean beef trimmings from Argentina so American consumers would experience a decrease in the price of ground beef, the United States Cattlemen's Association President Justin Tupper said. The association has been engaged with the administration since the idea of expanded from Argentina was first floated. Tupper said the announcement of the agreement follows the administration's original notice in October 2025 that it would pursue increased beef imports from Argentina. Since that time, USCA has remained in close communication with the White House, USDA and USTR to understand how any trade agreement could impact U.S. cattle producers, markets and the broader beef supply. Tupper emphasized that USDA's position has stood firm from the very beginning, he said USDA has been clear a safe, secure and resilient beef supply starts with a strong domestic industry. We must continue to focus on how we can rebuild our US Cattle herd. Any trade agreement must be structured in a way that does not undermine US Cattle producers ability to compete and does not compromise the integrity of our supply, he said. We continue to stress the need for tightened rul origin and product limitations built into the agreement, he says. We are still deeply concerned about the origin and the scale of these imports. Argentina is currently facing very tight cattle supplies, same as the US a roughly 400% increase in access to Argentine product must be treated as a one time measure of exception, not a template for routine quota expansions. USCA strongly urges the administration not to normalize this level of increase for Argentina or any other supplier, particularly when both exporting and importing countries are navigating constrained cattle inventories and heightened volatility. U.S. cattle producers and U.S. consumers deserve to know where their beef comes from. Trade policy and labeling policy must move together, not in opposite directions. Similar responses have come from R Calf USA saying previous administrations had similarly invited increased beef imports from foreign countries with the same expectation that increased imported supplies would lower consumer beef prices. Such analysis by previous administrations accompanied proposals to allow additional beef imports from such countries as Argentina, Brazil, Nambia and Paraguay. In each of these analyses, the US Department of Agriculture predicted that the negative impact to cattle farmers and ranchers would be offset by a larger benefit to consumers. In practice, however, consumer beef prices were not reduced by increased supplies of imported beef, R Calf said. Instead, increased quantities of imports correlated with the shrinking of the US Cattle herd, the exodus of US Cattle farmers and ranchers, and higher consumer beef prices. You can read both of those press releases in full by heading to ranchitupshow.com and clicking on the Show Notes for this episode. An Update on New World Screwworm Behringer Ingelheim announced that the U.S. food and Drug Administration has issued an Emergency Use Authorization for the use of Ivamek 1% injection for the prevention of infestations caused by New World screwworm and cattle. Now Merck, on the other side, has a new product on the market that received FDA approval. We will have more on those products coming up in the next few episodes. Time for a quick break. When we come back, a seed stock partnership that works. That's up next here on the Ranch it up radio show. If you're buying or selling cattle, make your first stop livestockmarket.com Bred cows, heifers, pears, bulls and frozen genetics. Even feeder calves. You'll find them all@livestock market.com Livestock market features private treaty sales, online auctions and live production sale bidding. You'll also find horses, sheep, goats and hay. Check out the free Livestock Market magazine wherever you pick up Tractor house and download the Livestock Market mobile app. Today, the Red Angus outfit with everything you need was some Red Angus, 70 elite Red Angus bulls and 130 of those highly sought after commercial open heifers. Mark the date. Thursday, February 19th richerton, North Dakota. Sale info available@ranchchannel.com and wasomred angus.com Crew this is Jeff Tigger Earhart. Check this out. Coming in 2026, RanchChannel.com proudly launches the Sale series your inside track to the world of livestock and ranching excellence. From elite bulls, heifers and horses to the land and equipment, products and programs shaping the future of agriculture, we bring you the stories behind the operations, the vision behind the genetics and the focus that can elevate your herd. Whether you're building, expanding, or fine tuning your ranch. Dive deeper into the innovations and livestock programs. Changing the game. The sales series only on ranchchannel.com where smart ranching starts. Today's breeder feature takes us to South Dakota. Two different outfits, two different philosophies, two different breeds, but a joint production sale that works. Many reasons not to be complementary, but many reasons that are. First, Simmental Simangus and Red Angus Genetics. Obviously complementary breeds and Schnabel Ranch Simmentals and Lazy J Bar Ranch make it work. Tom Schnabel and John Jung, thanks for joining us. The obvious question when I pointed out the difference is how are y' all able to do this, come together and have a very successful bull and female offering?
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I guess in my opinion, we probably have the same ideas in mind as where of what the cowherds are based off of. You know, everything's based on a very strong maternal, you know, very maternally oriented, I feel, on both sides and functional cattle that are gonna just do it on their own and be able to work for everybody.
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And like you said, they do complement each other because we do have not what we thought it would be when we started, but we do have some people that will come and buy both, you know, Red Angus and. And Sematol. And, you know, the idea was that the Sematol guys use Red Angus bulls on their first calf heifers and just kind of. Kind of how it all got started. Yeah, I think Tom and us both have pretty much the same philosophy as far as feeding the bulls. You want them to look the best they can sale day, but you still want them to keep growing and functioning and not fall apart when people get them. And by us keeping the bulls after the sale means it's an early sale. A lot of times, you know, the bulls don't get delivered until April maybe. And then it gives you time to make sure them bulls are hardened up and you know how it goes. You deliver them to somebody and they got nowhere to throw them, so they go in. In a pen with a bunch of herd bulls on a bale of hay or something. You know, that's. So it's. Yeah. And developing the bulls, I think it's pretty similar. And on how we develop them and handle them and all helps in the.
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Long run, being we do calve a little later than. Than most sales probably are. I mean, we. We won't start calving till March. I mean, there are a lot of younger, younger bulls in there. So you, you kind of got to develop maut a little bit differently to make sure that they reach their maximum potential, but yet that you don't, don't push them too hard, that they fall apart right away, you know. So it is nice when you bring them back home that you can just keep them on those rations and gradually make those adjustments to them to make sure that you allow the maximum development but yet have the longevity that you, you feel that they're able to achieve as well.
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Okay, you said something interesting there, Tom. Allowing the maximum development. So when you're talking with guys, do you make recommendations of how to take possession of those young bulls to not turn them in with the aged bu because you know what's going to happen. The young guy always gets picked on. I mean, that happened to us when we were freshmen playing high school football. You know, that's just the way it goes.
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Throughout the years, I've kind of figured out which customers can and can't handle yearling bulls and, and develop them. And so we've just made sure that those are the last ones we get bulls delivered to because we know that it's going to be more beneficial to us to keep them bulls and keep them going on a level plane of nutrition so they keep growing and have a quality semen test. We've kind of come to know our customers so we, we know which ones we can deliver right away and which ones we're just going to kind of hang on to.
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A lot of our customers, they, they just assume that, that we do keep them here and get them back on the rations that they're used to and, and gradually stair step them down, you know, on their, on their mega cals, keep that high roughage on, on all the ingredients that they're used to. And a lot of our customers, they're busy calving in that April time frame. They don't have time to worry about babysitting, you know, one or two little bulls there. They gotta have those pens available if we get bad weather that they can be keeping those next, next generation of calves alive. And we got some guys that they don't want them even until, you know, maybe a week before turnout, even possibly just because they would just assume that they stay here and pay a small feed build and have the hassle of dealing with them every day.
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I wanted to also ask both of you in regards to data and DNA and you both knew that I was going to go down this road just because genomics has become such a, I'm not going to say Popular, I'm going to say it's become a necessity of being able to really dial in genetically what these bulls are most prone to do. And I know a lot of that starts on the cow side of knowing exactly what you have if you peel the hide back of their potential. So let's talk a little bit about the types of data that you have and you're offering your customers. Tell me a little bit about the genomics, tell me if you're ultrasounding or just some of the different types of data that you have to help customers make a, the best decision they can.
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We've used utilized data and DNA on the Red Angus side several years and we have had all our cows through the Red Cow rally. So our cow herd has been all DNA'd and the calf crops been DNA'd and have used DNA for several years. 2012 is when we started implementing everything being DNA'd. As you said, it's not only something else to do, it's a necessity and a tool anymore to enhance the MEPD's and just to know the, the sire and dams are qualified right. And you know the pedigree you're getting is, is what's there. So we find it very beneficial. And especially when you're looking at Cavanese bulls, you know, you can, you think.
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That you got a bull that's out.
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Of a first calf heifer and a heifer bull that should be Cavanese, but that's not always the case and DNA takes some of that guesswork away from it.
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We've used DNA on all of ours too. We, we DNA the entire calf crop. Steers, heifers, bulls, everything's gone. Whole cowherd has been DNA through the, when the Scimitol association did their, their cowherd roundup there, we, we jumped on board with that right away, got the entire herd, you know, the entire cowherd was all, all done enhanced all those EPDs, got them, got everybody paired and verified. You know, get everything done and taken care of and you get that DNA that, that enhanced EPD there, you kind of take some of the guesswork out because you, you basically almost got yet first first calving season is already under your belt. So to say with, with having that DNA proven in there to give you a little bit more accuracy. And you know we, we kind of, we went one step farther with, with ours and we do all the right choice scoring on them. So every, every bull will be, will carry a badge of you know, a G plus or ATM or an Ace bowl to just Just to make it simplified out just a little bit more. So that if guys know what they're want and they can just sort through the catalog on the, you know, by what badge they're after, if they're after a G plus or an atm, they, they know which ones to look for right away and they can just kind of, kind of make it a little easier for them then.
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And I think it's important to note when we talk about genomics and EPDs, we've used the word enhanced. And I think what a lot of people need to understand is, is when we say enhanced epd, that doesn't mean that we're jacking up the weaning weight or something like that. We're talking about enhancing the accuracy of those EPDs of really like you said, John, that you ran into this before where you thought that this bull or this mating per se was going to be the ultimate calving ease machine. And then all of a sudden you realize by getting the genomics back the DNA and diving deeper, that's what we mean by enhanced is not increasing those numbers, it's increasing the accuracy and the amount of information to prove said epd. But you found that, gosh, you thought you had this mating perfect. And every now and then it turns out that that was, was not the case. And I think that's very important for people to understand when we say enhanced EPDs of being able to really, really fine tune those choices and make it that easier. Hints like you were saying Tom, of, of having the right mate and right choice program with your cows where they can have that three badge designation and being able to make it that much easier to pick out a bull. And I'm gonna add to that making it that much more accurate to pick out that bull.
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Correct. It just takes so much guesswork out. You know, if you're, if you're looking for a, you know, cavities and you want to just sleep all night, I mean you, you find with an ace badge on it. And I mean we've seen it ourselves. You know, we breed heifers to an eighth pole and I mean they, the calves are, they're running halfway out of the cow before they're even on the ground. I mean they're, they're up and going. I mean they're so small, they're, they're just up and going immediately.
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They just poop them little suckers right out, don't they?
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Yep, yep. They call you hard. They fall right out the back end.
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That's right. So as we kind of land the plane on this deal, bid and buy with confidence. You're guaranteeing the bulls breeding soundness dinner.
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And try to semen test beginning part of April. Try to get them, try to get them bulls to be as close to a year of age as possible on them. And you know, we'll get them all semen tested, get all the pre breeding shots in them ready to go and so that when, you know, when the guys are ready for them, you know, we can get them delivered whenever they're ready and get it coordinated. And it's just one less thing that they got to worry about, you know, I mean, everybody's got so much on their plate. If we can, we can get that semen test done, get all the shots in that that bull is just ready to get loaded back up, go to the pasture. It's just one more thing that they don't have to worry about.
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Tom Schnabel with Schnabel Ranch Simmentals and John Jung with Lazy J Bar Ranch. Here are the details. Saturday, February 21st at Hub City Livestock in Aberdeen, South Dakota. 85 red and black Simmental and Simangus bulls, 40 red Angus bulls and 10 open red Angus and Simmental heifers. It's the right choice production sale bidden by online at DV auction and all sale information, the catalog, the videos, everything you need to know is available@ranchchannel.com thanks gentlemen and the best of luck with the sale. It's time for a break and when we come back, the numbers and market recap time here on the ranch it up radio show. So go nowhere and keep it parked. Nutrition does not need to be difficult or overwhelming or complicated at all. Keep things simple with Westway feed products, cow calf dairy feedlots, equine and custom. If you need, you can count on Westway. Westwayfeed.com Bull and female sales, commercial heifers, products, services and information. It's all on ranch channel.com make it easy on yourself. Head to ranch channel.com on your phone. Click those three little dots in the corner and save it to your home screen.
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Use it like it. Love it.
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Ranchchannel.com Calf prices are good, but want to add another hundred bucks per calf? Here's the Sol Galvian balancer. Females at an average maternal weaning weight advantage of 22.7 pounds per calf at a market price of 4.5 dollars a pound on five weight steers with a 22.7 pound weaning weight advantage, that's an additional $102.15 per calf. Galvie and balancer females they make it work. Make the right choice with Schnabel Ranch Simmentals and Lazy J Bar Ranch Simmentals Sim Angus and Red Angus bulls and heifers with every critter Schnabel Ranch Simmentals and Lazy J bar Ranch Saturday, February 21st at Hub City Livestock in Aberdeen, South Dakota. All sale information available@ranch channel.com welcome to Sirebuyer, the nation's number one destination for buying and selling breeding Genetics. Sire Byer features the top Angus bulls across the country. If you're looking for the best place in breeding genetics, you've just found it. Welcome back everyone to the Ranch it up radio show. That time in the program, we bring in Kirk Donsbach, Stonex Financial Incorporated. Recapping the markets from the previous week, going through the numbers. So Kirk, what do you got for us today, buddy?
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Good morning Tigger and all your listeners out there. As of Friday, February 6th, March feeder futures closed the week at 367.82 and a half. That's up $8 on the week. The CME feeder index closed up.6 at 374.47, so not much movement in the cash prices. That left the basis at a positive $6.64.5 versus March futures. February live cattle closed the week at 238. That's up to 20 on the week with cash trading 242 to 245 in the south and 238 to 245 in the north. I left the five area weighted average up 317 at 239.91 and the basis versus February futures at a very normal positive $1.91. Choice boxes were up 377 at 369.33. Packer margins continue to be pretty concerning, running negative. Weekly slaughter was 536,000. That's up 8,000 over last week and 47,000 below the week last year. Dressed weights were down four pounds at 893. That's 18 pounds above the same week. Last year of higher dressed and lower slaughter has left yearly production up 8.10of a percent versus last week and 9.7% less than this week last year. Wrap this up. March corn closed. We get 430¾. That's up two and a half on the week. Corn is working higher, but as long as March trades below the 437 level, we view corn to have a bearish undertone.
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Is your new year resolution to Organize your cattle records. Here's something that could help hey hey. I'm Shea Warner and I host the casual Cattle Conversations podcast Tarot Network. Miller, founder of CattleMax, recently shared his tips and tools for helping ranchers get organized this year. Here's a portion of our conversation.
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One of our customers favorite features this time of year is what we call our End of Year Organizer feature and it does just what you need. And that is it gathers all that information up and makes it easy to share with the accountant. One of the really neat things about software like CattleMax is you're entering this data throughout the year as it happens. If you buy a cow in January, if you sell some calves in March, if you buy a piece of equipment in April and you sell some hay, all of these things that go on throughout the year. When it comes time for the end of year, you can go to the End of year organizer and CattleMax generates a PDF or spreadsheet that has exactly what you said. All the animals we purchased this year, what was our death loss? These animals that were purchased that died, were they raised? Because that's treated differently for taxes. All of that information is sort of put together in a packet that's very easy to share with the accountant, so it saves the rancher time and money.
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With all ready to tune into the full conversation, Check out the casual Cattle Conversations podcast on your favorite podcast player as soon as you're done listening to the Ranch it up radio show. The Ranch Channel Sales Calendar here's the lineup going on today right now. February 14 Prairie Hills Galvie at the ranch in Gladstone, North Dakota. Red and black Galvie and Balancer and Red Angus bulls. Also going on today, CK Cattle and Wager Cattle, Simmental and Simangus and Angus bulls and heifers Highmore, South Dakota. Coming up on Monday, February 16th Frank Cattle and Genetics and Baldridge Tiedemann Angus and Red Angus yearling aged and 2 year old bulls at the Ranch Lodge, Pole, Nebraska. Also on Monday, February 16th, President's Day the 15th annual Albrecht Pens President's Day sale selling 218 month old Angus bulls and 200 registered and commercial Angus females at the Clay Freeney Ranch, Caddo, Oklahoma. On Monday, the online bidding opens up for Lazy D Red Angus on DV Auction. It runs through the 18th. They're selling 30 yearling Red Angus bulls, two elite registered heifers, 40 commercial Red Angus heifers and 10 commercial Red Angus bread heifers. That's Lazy D Red Angus online only on DV auction on Tuesday, February 17th. Who's Cow Angus selling 130 performance yearling Angus bulls Gordon, Nebraska also on Tuesday, February 17th, 7F Charolais Cattle Co. Their first annual production sale offering 47 Charolais bulls and six open red Charolais heifers, Jamestown, North Dakota. That whole red factor in those Charolais cattle has me intrigued. Coming up Thursday, February 19th Wasson Red Angus selling 69 yearling Red Angus bulls and 130 commercial open red Angus heifers at the Wick Sale Barn in Richerton, North Dakota. Check out the extended interview that we did with Chris on the sales series found on Ranch channel on Saturday, February 21 Schiefelbein Farm selling 400 bulls consisting of yearling and fall Yearling Angus bulls and Yearling Sim Angus bulls, registered bred heifers and a couple bred donor cows at the farm in Kimball, Minnesota. Also Saturday, February 21st the right choice Production Sale. We just visited with Tom Schnabel and John Jung from Schnabel Ranch, Simmentals and Lazy J Bar Ranch. Again they're selling 85 Simmental and Simangus bulls, 40 Red Angus bulls, 10 open Red Angus and Simmental heifers in Aberdeen, South Dakota. And then on Sunday, February 22nd, Chestnut Angus selling 82 yearling Angus bulls including their Denver Pen of three along with 29 registered bred heifers and three donor cows at the ranch Pipestone, Minnesota. ISA Beefmasters Private Treaty Bull and Heifer sale is open for bids. Get a hold of Lorenzo Latticer to view the bulls and a choice group of heifers at the Ranch San Angelo, Texas. The Alabama Select Horse Sale is taking consignments as we speak. Now this is becoming one of the hottest ranch arena performance and pleasure sales in the South. Check out the consignment forms and and info that you need to consign. That sale is coming up the middle of March. Montgomery, Alabama. There's lots of sales literally that are jumping on as we speak all across the country. You can find all the details, catalogs, videos, bidding and buying information and sale reports and it's all available@ranch channel.com and now that's going to wrap it up for today. A big thanks goes out to our crew, Tom Schnabel with Schnabel Ranch, Simmentals, John Jung with Lazy J Bar Ranch, Kirk Donsbach, Stonex Financial Incorporated and Shay Wanner with casual cattle conversations. A big shout out to our partners for today's episode. The American Galvie Association Farm A Tan by Imogene ingredients livestockmarket.com ranch channel.com the all new sales series found on ranchchannel.com Schnabel Ranch, Simmentals and Lazy J Bar Ranch, Sirebyre, Wassem, Red Angus, Westway Feed Products and this fine radio station and crew. So glad to all came with us one more time as we Ranch it up. Be sure to follow and like us on Facebook at Ranch It Up show. Our email is ranchituphowmail.com you can call and text 24. 7 that phone number 707-Ranch 20. That's 707-726-2420. Spread the good word and join us again next week where it's always Tigger and Beck approved. Stay ranchy and Ranch it Up.
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