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we just passed through valier Montana and we're headed to the bowl sale so it's
very exciting and you'll get to learn all about both sales and why people go to them
it was really nice yesterday and melted a lot of the snow we've gotten but it was quite windy
now this is what the road conditions look like as you can see beautiful views again today as we
always have in montana here's one of the fields i'm here with joyce field who so kindly invited
me to a bowl sale which is very exciting and we're going to be learning all about what happens
at a bull sale and what buyers look for in the bulls yes curious aren't they yes very curious
so they're going to run them out of here over into that chute and then they'll run them through the
sail barn so i imagine the first ones that are going to go are these oh that makes a lot or
maybe it's those i'm not sure which pen they're going to start with but they'll bring one one
set in at a time get the alley loaded up and then they'll run one bull in the ring at a time
so i would suspect that you know the ones that are closest are going to go in first and then
they'll just keep going because it's kind of their confirmation that's a big thing yes yes
and that's what determines how much they go for yes yes they're linear and if they're calm quiet
or if they're um rank you know the rank ones go to the rodeos and the cause you don't want
anything crazy but you want an aggressive bull to do the breeding i'm here with don conley at conley
angus and you're going to be explaining a little bit about your bulls now okay we have it this is
our 30th annual production sale we have it the last tuesday in february every year we started
in the registered angus in 1974. we our cowherd is based on longevity that's very interesting thank
you you have a wonderful operation thank you every year we sell we sell the top half of our calf crop
on the bulls side usually market around 130 bowls and we sell 20 open yearling heifers and then in
the fall we sell bread cows and heifers our main goal is to make the most money for the
commercial cow calf guy on there to give them a product that they can send to the feed lots and
they'll grade well and these guys can get the most money for their calves and continue their
operations so thank you so much yes it's a whole family affair as joyce said and it's a wonderful
wonderful operation and it's really important to support local people in the agriculture industry
so you're here in valeer oh yes yep we're here in vallarta north of valley montana my dad started
the place here in 1957. that's amazing it is second generation uh my son's going to school in
bozeman there and he wants to come back to the place we got four children
maybe there's another one going to come back we don't know at this point you know and that's
awesome it's so wonderful that your whole family is involved see what the future brings you know
and i just i just like to be nice for more people to see what agriculture is all about you know
yes it's very important it's the basis of what supports the economy everywhere you know so and
it puts food on people's tables there you go yeah thank you so much i really appreciate the
opportunity okay thank you let's open the door let's have the first one bring on lock number one
i'll tell you one of the really good rules that we've walked through the ring here in a
long long time a little a lot of mass a lot of length a lot of performance he weaned at 8 21.
he's got a light birth weight he's got a big time spread on his numbers with a minus two one foot
144 euro and he's a plus 15 ce build here's bill that could break as much as any goal we've ever
ever had in this rank who be twenty thousand five twenty five more than twenty nine twenty
thousand to twenty thousand and twenty eight three four five seventy five hundred thousand
over the 18 000 17 18 i soldered 17 017 how's it going
i'm here with trina joe bradley at conley angus and she's going to be sharing a little bit
about a cattle operation yeah so my husband and i have a cattle ranch west of here about oh 18 miles
right on the front we raise black angus cattle and we recently added some hereford bowls to our herd
so this spring we will be getting our first baldies super excited so baldi's are a cross
between herefords and angus and so they're black cows with white faces um my favorite very cool um
yeah and then we have a 13 year old daughter that loves ranching she would skip school every day to
help us she's coming out to the sale with her dad today because she can't possibly go to school um
so yeah we we run up on the front and then in the summer we pasture our cows uh north north and west
of browning which is where a lot of people here go because there's so much good pasture up there
and we have some really good friends that run our cows up there for us in the summer and take care
of them we we calve about march 15th uh every year just in time for hopefully good weather
awesome um yeah and we also just started raising some quarter horses we're gonna
have our first baby this spring that'll be interesting super excited yes and then you
know in our spare time we have a miniature horse and a miniature goat and a miniature dog and
that is just fabulous right it's super fun so we um we're pretty blessed to live where we
do because we really live in a good spot and we have really good neighbors i mean the these guys
at conveyance are great they're great producers we buy a lot of bowls from them we buy cows from them
and it's really nice to live in this little community there's there's other
ball producers here that we also get wolves from um and you know it's just
it's just really fun and it's really it's really satisfying to know that we're feeding the world
and we are producing the beef that's going to be on your plate sometime in the supermarket
or definitely or in a restaurant or you know um so yeah we we just really love it and i'm
i'm really glad that you're doing this thank you and you support local which is so fabulous and
it's really important yeah yeah exactly i mean the the owner of this ranch is my best friend
so you can't you can't go wrong there i mean and i love being here to help her out today because
it's it's so much fun being here so yeah well thank you so much i really appreciate it
no problem get a better hold of the rope here comes that top six build well i mean here's
a durable bull and i like him 111 and yearling big time spread on his numbers chavenese bullies
11 000 11 000.
i'm here with michaela and we're going to be talking a little bit about the egg industry
yeah i'm super super excited so um basically i grew up here on conley angus ranch i spent
my entire life here i had a few jobs outside of the ranch here but a lot of what i did here
prepared me for the rest of my life i ended up going to school at msu northern i took an ag
degree there i have my bachelor's in business and a minor in ag and a minor in marketing
um and awesome yeah it prepared me for a lot of my classes like we had a livestock feeds class that
you know i had a really good understanding of like a lot of the other kids that were in the class
were from kind of a farming background okay and so me being from the ranching background i kind
of had a little step up and you know made things a lot easier and a lot more enjoyable for me
um you know after that i was able to um to get an internship i started ag lending for a little
while and kind of decided to get out of that after a little while it's not fun telling people no but
you know that's not completely amazing yeah but it was it was a lot of fun learned a lot
from that and now i'm actually an inspector at a butcher shop so i help them yeah i help
them be in compliance with the state and um you know their requirements for you know cleanliness
you know basically you know that kind of thing having the right cuts right labeling and so that's
that's kind of where i'm at right now but that's amazing thank you so much yeah of course of course
now i'm here with sammy and you were actually part of a foreign exchange from england to montana and
you love montana so you stayed can you tell me a little bit more about that um yeah i just moved
because i came as a student for one year well for nine months and then i went home and my boss asked
me do you want to do your job again so i said yeah so i came back and that's awesome how do
you like it i love it it doesn't even compare to england really i love it and how do you like
learning about the agriculture industry i love it it's so different women don't have a chance in
england really unless you're raised on a farm oh and i wasn't i was from a big city so i came here
and got to do it all what part of england are you from um yorkshire very cool it's called leeds is
my area that's awesome big big city very awesome thank you so much and what's your favorite part
usually about the bowl sale i've never been i'm normally in england really yep i go to england
normally for three months to renew my visa and do all that kind of fun stuff that's awesome so this
is your first time mine too i've been to lots of bowl sales but not about this one well this
is my first full sale cool so awesome thank you so much thank you for block number seven here's
one of the most talked about bulls going to be in the ring today here's a rare mind they call and uh
automation on the bottom side three generations of half finder cows here's a bullet weave actual 924
pounds 124 on this index 114 in a year and i need one of the good ones kurt if you can't get a hold
of them just buy the bullet it's easier to get forgiveness and permission that's always been my
okay live numbers are you are you on one second you're just working on it well hurry we got a
lot of tourists dude montana's most eligible bachelor back there trying to get on the phone
you know there's a landline in the corner curve
oh did anybody hear that skyler was the state champion this this last weekend girls wrestling
i'm not going to hear what class she would be i'll tell you what but i'll tell you what that's why
i'm a cop split and i think she defeats every boy in the neighborhood and she get arrested
okay all right kurt curt man i proceed okay here we go live number seven who'll be ten thousand
five traded in ten dollars three thirty five four four forty five forty five five thousand five
it says write the good book asking you shall receive i asked three times
okay eleven five open the door let's go all right let's do that five hundred five four
five eleven five don't let them have anybody anybody else eleven dollars
i'm here with matt at conley angus and he's going to be explaining a little
bit more about his operation here yep so basically here we read angus cattle and
we're always breeding for longevity because that's what's going to make the commercial
cattlemen the most money these aren't short-term cattle and they're going to be on your place for
a long time they're going to hold up um you know a lot of people are talking about feedlots how
they want bigger bigger frames bigger carcasses and well out on the range that just really isn't
economical and they usually don't produce the same same calf that a sized calf cow can
thank you so basically um when we feed out our bowls and all of our calves we everything's pretty
much in-house um we grind we grind our barley and we get a mineral mix i guess from company and then
we mix that in with our grind and um do you raise the barley yep yep raise that all in house uh
chop silage and hay and we have a mixture tub and we we uh have a growing ration and then a
finishing ration that we give our steers and um and then our cows they're always out on
uh stubble fields and we feed those on the windrows once again once they get a little
closer to calving but other than that they're pretty much self-sufficient and on their own
that's kind of how we do it around here that's awesome thank you so much
thank you so much for watching and a huge thank you to everyone at the conley angus bowl sale
because everyone was so so nice it was just a pleasure talking to everyone i just had the most
wonderful time i hope you learned a little bit more about cattle operations and the bull sale
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how your food gets on your table this was so much fun so thank you so much for watching bye