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Missouri Angus Futurity A Success

It was great to have our Angus family gather in Columbia. Thank you to our members as well as the bidders and buyers for helping make our 68th Annual Futurity Sale a success. View the 2025 MO Angus Futurity Sale Report by clicking on the link.

To kick-off the festivities on sale day, Missouri Angus Association hosted a panel discussion around animal health with an emphasis on sale cattle. The discussion was moderated by Clint Hunter and the three panel members included Dr. Scott Poock, Ben Eggers and Holly Meyer. View the recoding on youtube at: 2025 Missouri Angus Learning Forum – Best Practices for Animal Health!

2025 Membership Tour to Certified Angus Beef®

We are offering a membership tour to Wooster, Ohio to visit Certified Angus Beef® and additional tour stop locations. The membership bus tour will take place August 20-23, 2025. Registration is now open and you can confirm your spot by registering here.

Once you register online, you will receive a confirmation email which includes a link to make payment online. Payments can be paid online or a check can be made out to Missouri Angus Association and mailed to Holden, MO. Costs are as follows:

  • Cost for 1 attendee based on double hotel room occupancy: $450
  • Cost for 1 attendee based on single hotel room occupancy: $632
  • Family Option: Cost for 1 attendee based on triple hotel room occupancy (if available): $350
  • Family Option: Cost for 1 attendee based on quad hotel room occupancy (if available): $337

The attendee cost includes three nights in a hotel, bus transportation and all meals once we depart from Columbia, MO. Thank you to the following breeders and partners for sponsoring portions of the bus trip to help defer attendee costs:

  • Hinkle’s Prime Cut Angus of Nevada, MO
  • Briarwood Farms of Bulter, MO
  • Brinkley Angus Ranch of Milan, MO
  • BUB Ranch of Koshkonong, MO
  • Hoover Angus of Ellston, Iowa
  • Mead Farms of Barnett, MO
  • Missouri Beef Industry Council of Columbia, MO
  • Sydenstricker Genetics of Mexico, MO
  • AJC Angus of Holden, MO

Sponsorship opportunities are still available by clicking here!

2025 Preview Show Weekend Announcements

The 2025 Missouri Angus Preview Show Weekend held in conjunction with the Missouri Cattlemen’s Youth Expo is quickly approaching. We are excited to announce our new PGS Sponsor: Paradox Farms of Bolivar, Missouri!

It is an action packed weekend for our junior members with the following schedule:

  • Friday, June 13, 2025: Missouri Angus Phenotype/Genotype Heifer Show (PGS) and Missouri Angus Jackpot Heifer & Steer Shows
    • Fitting Rule: Blow and Go Only. No paint, no adhesive.
    • Judge: Shane Werk from Kansas
  • Saturday, June 14, 2025: Missouri Cattlemen’s Association/MO Jr. Angus Preview Show
    • Fitting Rule: Full fit optional, no paint.
    • Judge: Neal Thompson from Oklahoma
  • Sunday, June 15, 2025: Missouri Angus Open Preview Show
    • Fitting Rule: Tops, Tailheads and Tails only. No Paint
    • Judge: Jenna Craft from Oklahoma

Please note, this event will fall over Father’s Day in 2025 and will have an entry deadline of May 17. You can now submit ALL your ANGUS entries online through the Showman App. Find additional details about the shows on our Applications & Forms Tab!

2025 Missouri Angus Ladies of Autumn Sale

Please mark your calendars for our fourth annual Missouri Angus Ladies of Autumn Sale on Sunday, October 26, 2025 at Wall Street Cattle Company in Lebanon, MO. A special thank you to Wall Street Cattle Company for agreeing to graciously hosting the event again! Preparation is a key to success for marketing cattle so the entries are open and will be accepted until August 18.

2025 Missouri Angus Association Ladies of Autumn Sale Documents

Missouri Angus Board of Director Meeting Updates

Each April, the Missouri Angus Board of Directors meets for their second meeting of the year to continue to manage the property, affairs, and business of the Association. While the full minutes will be printed in the August Trails, here are a few highlights of the meeting:

  • Committee assignments and revised responsibilities were approved and are available on the Boards, Association tab our website as well as will be printed in the Directory.
  • Feedback from the note cards at the Annual Meeting was shared with the Board of Directors.
  • As recommended by the Sale Committee, the Futurity will consistently be called the Missouri Angus Futurity moving forward.
  • Missouri Angus Trails Publication: Due to ongoing problems with the USPS delivery system, the ad deadline and ultimately the printing and mailing date of the Trails and Directory has been moved up. If an ad is not received by the deadline, filler editorial or other content may be added.
  • 2025 Certified Angus Beef Tour: Missouri Angus has received $12,500 in donations to assist with the bus trip to Wooster, Ohio to tour the Certified Angus Beef® headquarters and other stops. Registration opens May 1st.
    • Cost for 1 attendee based on double hotel room occupancy: $450
    • Cost for 1 attendee based on single hotel room occupancy: $632
    • Family Option: Cost for 1 attendee based on triple hotel room occupancy if available: $350
    • Family Option: Cost for 1 attendee based on quad hotel room occupancy if available: $337
  • State Sponsored Sales:
    • Rules Revisions: Two rules were revised to clarify consignor ownership and the age in which calves must have genomic testing completed. Rules have been updated and our on the website.
    • Sale Management: Per the February meeting and acceptance of the proposal from JDH Enterprises, the Sale Committee developed an agreement spelling out the terms and expectations which was approved by the board with some modifications.
  • 2025 Missouri Angus Breeders’ Futurity:
    • Payment for all purchases have been received and consignor payment began on March 11 (17 days post sale) with the final payment mailed 44 days following the sale.
    • The University of Missouri Memorandum of Understanding for our donation of Riverode gates and panels was reviewed by an attorney and had additional liability language added. The University accepted the added language, and the revised MOU was signed in April.
  • 2025 Ladies of Autumn Sale: Entries are now open for the Sunday, October 26 sale at Wall Street Cattle Company. A hotel block has been secured with the Holiday Inn in Lebanon at a rate of $127, plus tax for a king and $132, plus tax for a queen room. Mention MO Angus for the discounted rate.
  • 2026 Missouri Angus Breeders’ Futurity Sale:
    • Plans are underway for the 2026 event to be held at the University of Missouri Trowbridge Livestock Center the last full weekend of February. A plan needs to be developed to take care of cleanup of the facility as per the agreement with the University.
    • With the positive response to the gates and ability to bring unhaltered cattle to the Futurity, Chad Sampson was directed to work with the University to gauge their interest in securing more gates and panels and extending our previous agreement.
  • President Behlmann initiated a new time of “Comments for the Good of the Association”. He reviewed the MAA Mission Statement and reminded the group that there is a social aspect and camaraderie to our purpose. Along those lines several directors mentioned the tight schedule of the one-day Futurity event. Julie Conover was directed to draft a one-day, as has been done the last three years, and an additional schedule returning to the previous two-day format. Due to timing, the proposals will be sent to the Sale Committee for review and then to the Board for an email vote.

If you have additional questions about the board meeting, please contact Julie Conover or any of the Board members listed under the Boards, Association Tab. The next meeting will be held Wednesday, August 6.

Missouri Angus Commercial Female Listing

In an effort to continue to connect breeders and potential buyers with cattle available for purchase, the Missouri Angus Association Board of Directors voted to create a Commercial Female Online Listing system.

Each listing will cost $20 and be active for 60 days once posted online. Listing are only available to Missouri Angus Association members or commercial customers of Missouri Angus Association members. To continue the success of the program, the $20 fee has been waived until February 20, 2026. Find more details under the For Sale Tab, Commercial Females.

Ready to list your offering or have a bull customer you want to sponsor? You can download the form and email or mail it in, or complete the digital form by clicking on the links below. Please note, digital forms will be processed quicker.

Online Form or download form as PDF or Document.

Other Angus News

“Top 10 Best Practices” for Regional Association Consignment Sales

In the 2023-2024 Missouri Angus Directory, we released the work of the Missouri Angus Association Industry Relations Committee’s, “Top 10 Best Practices” for Regional Association Consignment Sales. The items are not listed in any particular order and are meant to aid consignment sales in running more effective, higher grossing sales that better fit the needs of buyers. The Missouri Angus Association “Top 10 Best Practices” for Regional Association Consignment Sales document can also be viewed here.

In an effort to further expand upon the practices, an article was written monthly and printed in the Missouri Angus Trails.

  1. Consign healthy, sound structured, functional cattle.
  2. Have accurate data available on each lot consigned.
  3. Cattle should be in excellent condition.
  4. Consignors need to be positive and accept some responsibility for marketing the sale.
  5. Identify your customers and market to them.
  6. Pictures in sale book can add value.
  7. Poor pictures are worse than no pictures.
  8. Sale books need to be out in a timely manner.
  9. Know what type and how many cattle are desired by buyers in your marketplace.
  10. Social activities can strengthen your Association.

In addition to the written words, on Saturday, February 24 during the Missouri Angus Breeders’ Futurity Weekend, we hosted a panel discussion around marketing cattle with an emphasis on the consignment sale setting. The discussion was moderated by Clint Hunter and included four previous Missouri Angus Herdsman of the Year Recipients including Teela Sadowsky, Jennifer Russell, Reed Gooden and Cash Langford. The video can be viewed on youtube.

Notes about the Trails:

 

Upcoming Events

05/17/2025 Byergo Angus Sale Savannah, MO
05/31/2025 Golden Era Female Sale Macon, MO
06/08/2025 Hawkeye Country Angus Sale Bloomfield, IA
06/13/2025 MO Angus Phenotype-Genotype Heifer Show Sedalia, MO
06/13/2025 MO Angus Breeders Jackpot Heifer & Steer Show Sedalia, MO
06/14/2025 Missouri Jr. Angus Preview Show Sedalia, MO
06/15/2025 Missouri Angus Open Preview Show Sedalia, MO
07/02/2025 National Junior Angus Show Tulsa, OK

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