October 20, 2012
Iberia, Mo.

Circle A Angus Ranch, headquartered in Iberia, Mo., was proud to host their 6th Annual Fall Bull & Heifer sale offering 380 head sold on October 20. The bleachers were filled with potential buyers vying for the opportunity to own elite genetics backed by great service and a profitable buy�back program by bidding on the 134 bulls, and 235 bred heifers.

One hundred, thirty-four bulls averaged $4,006 with two high selling bulls going for $15,000. Lot 1, Circle A Brilliance 1041 a massive, calving ease son of SAV Brilliance 8077 sold to Gatlin Farms of Bogue Chitto, Miss.. Also selling for $15,000 was lot 69, a big ribbed In Focus bred bull with exceptional growth and carcass EPDs going to Everett Patrick of Bedford, Ind.

Lot 70 was another bull with great phenotype and EPDs selling to Steve Luelf of Mountain Home, Ark. for $12,000. High selling Premium bull was lot 66 a stout CAR Efficient 534 son selling to Powell Farms of Bunker, Mo. Dale Bettels of Butler, Mo. and Pete Bonds of Saganaw, Texas, were the high volume bull buyers each taking home five bulls. Twenty bulls sold for $5,000 or more, with 37 bulls selling for $3,000 or less.

At the hottest commercial heifer sale anyone had ever witnessed, 235 commercial bred heifers, sold in lots of five ultrasounded to calve within ten days of one another and fetal sexed, averaged $2,421 per head. Doug Ferrell of Hickory Cattle Company, Humansville, Mo. and Britt Farms of Clifton Hill, Mo. were the high volume heifer buyers each purchasing 60 head. Frank Hopkins took 40 head to Mountain Gove, Mo.

The optimism concerning next year's cattle market was apparent at Circle A's sale. Customers are looking forward to three to four more years of great prices. Circle A feels fortunate to be part of their success and attributes their part to good genetics, good service and an industry leading calf buyback program. The next opportunity to purchase Circle A genetics will be on March 16 offering 250 bulls and 450 fall calving, bred heifers.

Circle A Angus Ranch is a 24,000 acre, 7,000 head ranching operation headquartered in Iberia, Mo. with satellite operations in Stockton, and Huntsville. Owned by the Dave Gust Family, Circle A's motto is �Quality beef is our business.� Circle A markets more than 450 Black Angus bulls and 900 Premium Angus females annually at sales held the third Saturday's of March and October.

Circle A offers a fulltime customer service representative, free delivery with the purchase of two or more bulls, the most generous calf buyback program in the country and access to the best genetics through the Angus Sire Alliance and the industry's only inherd EPDs for tenderness, feed intake, heifer pregnancy, cow stayability and terminal and maternal profit indexes.