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I believe if this world ever dissipates into total chaos that the Canadians would be the first and last country to have our back--I hope they feel the same commitment from us.

I talked with Abbie Johnson today at North Iowa Area Community College.  They have opened up their sale to a few select calves from area breeders as well as selling the top end of the calves from their herd.  They will be selling a full sib heifer to the MN Champion heifer from 2009 as well as...

We'll be attending the Club Calf Paradise sale late Sunday and early Monday so I hope we'll see some of our SP friends there.  Juli and Brad are doing a great job with the calves and they have a real top notch set this year.  I know that Brauns have some really good ones there(check out their...

I appreciate your nice comments, Christa!  I guess the bidders will determine what she's worth by next Monday evening when the sale concludes.  As of this morning, the bidders had determined she was worth $3500 with 8 days still to go.  Of course, we hope she will bring more by the time the...

Club Calf Paradise website was experiencing some problems last night but all seems to be OK now.

Her registered name is Oakbar Dream Lady BS 2Y ET and she was born on March 1st.  She weighed 90 lbs at birth and is horned.  In fact, she was dehorned 13 days before the Feeder Calf Show at the Iowa State Fair, had been weaned just 5 weeks, and still was named the Reserve Champion Shorthorn. ...

Thanks for all the positive comments everyone.  Its a little bittersweet for me that we raised one this good just as our youngest daughter takes off for college and our oldest daughter enters the working world.  I've traveled thousands of  miles over the last several years looking for calves...

This heifer is the rsult of the heifer pregnancy we offered for sale last winter.  I'm sure glad we didn't sell her then!! Juli and Brad Nelson look to have a really deep set of calves this year and their doing a great job with them.  Check out the Club Calf Paradise website.

This heifer was Reserve Champion Shorthorn Feeder calf at the Iowa State Fair.  Full sib was Grand Champion Female of the Open Shorthorn Show and Res. Champ Shorthorn heifer in the 4-H show at the Iowa State Fair.

We're showing in the Mainetainer and Feeder Calf shows on Saturday,  then working the 4-H shows Sunday thru Wed.    I'll be back in time for the Shorthorn show the following weekend but we decided to leave the calves home for that one.    Too many days if you bring cattle for both weekends.  I ...

I'll be spending a lot of time at the Iowa State Fair in the next 10 days or so.  I'm looking forward to seeing many of my friends from SP. Good luck to anyone showing there this year!

OH Breeder--Yes, this is the bull we raised out of ArSuLu Tonic and our Sonny X Charmer cow.  We bought him back this week to use as a clean up/herd bull here at Oakbar.  The little heifer on the right in the "nap" picture is out of him and our Vortec X Red Queen cow. JIT--Yes, we used...

Nice looking calves!!  I like the Tonic bloodline.  We have a Tonic X Sonny bull and we really like the calves he has produced so far.

I took a few pasture pics last night while doing the chores.  Not great quality but I thought some of you might enjoy them.

Ben Weis won the heifer division with Oakbar Delilah(pic attached)  Braun Show cattle had the Champion Male The Younge family had the Reserve Champion heifer and the Reserve Champion Male I believe. On Saturday, at the 4-H show, Briar Tenold had the Champion Prospect Heifer with Oakbar...

Thanks for all the nice comments folks!  I think this Bloodstone heifer is probably the deepest ribbed calf at  this age that I've ever raised.  She just seems to get deeper and softer made every time I look at her.  I'm also impressed with the width of her pelvic structure and the strength...

Nice cattle, Grant, as always!!    I was just looking at our Pioneer X Myrtle Bo bull calf before I came in the house.   He was born early last week and he's really colorful! I think he might be pretty darn good down the road.   A few weeks will tell us a lot more.   I've got an extremely busy...

She was born on March 1st.  I've been impressed with her depth of  body and width across her pins for a calf her age.    This heifer would be a full sib to the  heifer the Udell family purchased in the Cyclone Trace sale last fall and  has been showing so successfully this year here in Iowa...

We clipped up our Bloodstone X Dream Lady 420 heifer for the first time today.  A little tough getting a good picture as she wouldn't relax out on the grass by herself.

It might just be the quality of the pics, but I realy like the A26 and the Z1 calves.    How do you get those cattle to hang on the bottom of the earth like that?? LOL