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22nd Annual ABBA National F1 Sale

Sealy, Texas -- A capacity crowd in the large amphitheater of Port City Stockyards’ Sealy Livestock Auction paid “spring high” prices for consignments to the 22nd Annual ABBA National F1 and TBA sponsored Purebred Brahman Female Sale on Saturday, April 18th on the rainiest day in the area in many months. Over 165 interested cowmen registered to buy the 22nd Annual offering as 53 of the group stepped to the plate to place their money where their knowledge is. They recognize that the F1 Brahman hybrid is the “Queen of Cow Country” and that she is worth more because she does more. The overall sale average of $1280, which consisted of 80.5% open females, was only a few dollars behind last year’s average price.
This year’s 22nd Annual Sale was dedicated to Wendell E. Schronk, a longtime ABBA executive, who recently retired from Beefmaster Breeders United. Schronk was with ABBA from 1976 to 1996, and in that time, he began the ABBA F1 Female Program, long acclaimed as the best of its kind, and instituted this annual sale in 1984. Schronk’s work with the American Brahman and the American Breeds Coalition has done much to keep Brahman blood in the cowherds of southern tier commercial cattlemen.

Champion F1 females were named in three divisions as Steven Plummer of Sealy and Mike Clark of Houston judged the high-quality set of F1 females.

Paul Dufrene’s, Triple Son Farms of Cut Off, Louisiana consigned the champion pen of F1 pairs. This offering of five ABBA Golden Certified F1 Brahman X Angus with fresh babies was purchased by Nelson Bulanek of Danbury, TX.

The overall high selling pen of F1’s was consigned by Robbie Hamilton’s H & M Cattle Co. This pen of two head of Golden Certified F1 B X H females with 550# calves at side and bred back five months, sold for $2150 to Rutherford Ranches of Pearsall. The Champion pen of Bred Females was consigned by Rotello Farms of Navasota, TX. The pen was five head of Golden Certified F1 Brahman X Hereford heifers bred 7-8 months and sold to BG Farms of Hester, LA for $1300. The Champion pen of open females was consigned by Tipp Ranch of Sealy, TX; this pen of fancy Golden Certified F1 Hereford X Brahman heifers sold for $1350 to Wes Marti of Cleburne, TX. Topping the open F1 heifer division at $1400 was a pen of four ABBA Golden Certified F1 Brahman X Hereford heifers from Mike and Claude Ciomperlik of San Antonio. These females were purchased by Clyde Raesner of Guy, TX.

Mark Switzer, of Bellville, TX was auctioneer for the 22nd Annual Sale. He made the F1’s sell for an overall average of $1,099 with a whopping 84.3% open females. The Registered Brahman females that consisted of 70 % open females averaged $1,473 to make an overall average of $1281. The high selling pen of Brahman females was 3 head of open yearling heifers consigned by Anita Janicek of Needville, TX. This pen of ultra fancy heifers sold to Paul DuFrene’s Triple Son Farm of Cut Off, LA for $3100. Many of the open, ready to breed two year old heifers sold for $1800 to $2300 while most of the open yearling females sold for $1700 to $2500 with the one pen selling for $3100.

Volume buyers for the sale included Anthony Deshotels of Ville Platte, Louisiana. Other Louisiana buyers included Chris Krielow’s Seven L Cattle Co. of Roanoke, R J Cattle Co. of Jennings, B G Farms of Hester, Grace Ranch of Jennings, and Jay Harang of Donaldsonville. Volume buyers were Deshotels, Grace Ranch, Rutherford Ranches Triple S Cattle Co of Brenham, Tommy Wise of Cat Spring, TX and Jimmy Hines of George West, TX. Buyer came from Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas from Bowie to George West and from Beaumont to Uvalde. Industry sponsors for the sale were Capital Farm Credit, Postive Feed, J. D. Hudgins, Inc and V8 Ranch, both of Hungerford and Horsegate Ranch of Hempstead. Their participation helped to defray the cost of premium awards for the F1’s and the Consignor Reception on Friday evening before the sale.

The F1 Certification Program of the American Brahman Breeders Association is the seed stock industry’s leading program of recognition of superior maternal genetics that results from crossing the American Brahman on purebred genetics of English or Continental breeds. The program recognizes the cross of registered parents as a Golden Certified cross while the Certified Female is a cross of a registered bull on qualified cows that have been inspected by the ABBA for use in this upscale program. Commercial females that are produced under ABBA’s F1 Program Guidelines is the commercial cowman’s assurance of the purity of the crosses that make up the “Queen of Cow County” and provides for the maximum amount of hybrid vigor available in the bovine world.

Co-sale Chairman J. D. Sartwelle, Jr. of Sealy states that there is a three-fold purpose for this highly publicized sale. This is ABBA’s opportunity to focus on one of the American Brahman’s role in the beef cattle industry by spot lighting the primary ingredient of any cowman’s first and very real need for superior maternal ability and environmental adaptability in his cowherd. The second purpose is to provide a showcase for those who raise the very best of these Brahman F1 genetics and thirdly to make them available through public auction to those who admire them most and are interested in making a profit in the cow/calf sector of our industry.