SALE REPORT
CLEMSON BULL TEST AND HEIFER SALE HELD FEBRUARY 3, 2007

February 3, 2007
Clemson, S.C.

Fifty two bulls were sold in the 2007 Clemson Bull Test Sale on February 3rd. They brought $102,700 - an average of $1,975 per bull. Buyers were from South Carolina - 41 bulls, North Carolina - five bulls, Georgia - five bulls and Alabama - one bull. The bulls averaged 464 days old, 52.9 inches tall, 5.9 frame score, 1,467 lbs, 3.16 lbs/day WDA and 36.3 cm scrotal circumference on Wednesday before the sale. Volume buyers were Circle H Farm from Greer, S.C. - three bulls and George Boswell from Greensboro, Ga. - three bulls.

MPAC Angus' 1 senior Angus was the high selling bull at $5,100 to the Clemson Beef Farm at Clemson, S.C. Second high seller was Double B Farms' 17 senior Angus bull at $3,800 to Sunny Acres Farm at Trenton, S.C. Rice Farms' 20 senior Angus bull was the 3rd high selling bull at $3,700 to George Durham from Williamston, S.C. The top nine selling bulls averaged $3,500 per bull.

In the 2007 Clemson Heifer Sale which followed the bull sale, 42 heifers in 15 pens sold for $40,950 - an average of $890.22 per head. The average weight of the heifers was 866 lbs. The top three selling pens of heifers were consigned by the Edisto Research & Education Center at Blackville, S.C. Larry Cantrell from Seneca, S.C. purchased pen 10 - three crossbred heifers at $1,025 each. Wes Woodard Farms at Darlington, S.C. purchased pen 11 - four crossbred heifers at $1,000 each and pen 12 - four crossbred heifers at $1,000 each. Volume heifer buyers were R. W. Bussey from Clarks Hill, S.C. - heifers, Wes Woodard Farms from Darlington, S.C. - eight heifers, and Robert Baker from Lancaster, S.C. - eight heifers.

Test & Sale Manager: Dr. Larry Olson, Extension Animal Scientist.

Auctioneer: Col. Mike Jones, West Point, Ga.