Missouri Angus Happenings

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 Breeders’ 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 will be 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 with registration opening May 1st. Sponsorship opportunities are currently available by clicking here!

2025 Preview Show Weekend Annoucements

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)
  • Missouri Angus Breeders Jackpot Heifer
  • Missouri Angus Breeders Jackpot Steer Show
• Saturday, June 14, 2025: Missouri Cattlemen’s Association/MO Jr. Angus Preview Show
• Sunday, June 15, 2025: Missouri Angus Open Preview Show

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! Stay tuned to the Trails and our website for more information about the 2025.

Missouri Angus Board of Director Meeting Updates

Each February, the Missouri Angus Board of Directors meets for their first 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 April Trails, here are a few highlights of the meeting:

• 2025 American Angus Association Board of Directors Candidate Endorsement: Alan Mead was endorsed as our Missouri candidate to run for his second term in office.
• Show Animal of the Year Tie-Breaker: Beginning in 2025, ties for Animal of the Year will be broken based on the animal that was exhibited at the most eligible shows in that year.
• Missouri Angus Preview Show Weekend:
  • Schedule to remain the same as 2024.
  • The Open Show fitting rule to be tops, tailheads and tails only with no exclusion for junior show champions competing in the MCA Expo Supreme Drive.
• Phenotype & Genotype Shows (PGS): We look forward to hosting two PGS Shows again this year, one in June at Preview Show and one in August at the Missouri State Fair. Additionally in 2025, we will have a PGS Bull Show at the Missouri State Fair. All bulls must be entered in the Open Angus Show to be eligible to compete in the PGS Show.
• 2025 Missouri Angus Breeders’ Futurity Sale: With the return to the Trowbridge Livestock Center and having live cattle on site, a big thank you to Chad Sampson for organizing and Mark Womack for all of their efforts to get this project completed. A Memorandum of Understanding is being worked on and per the agreement, the Missouri Angus Association contribution for the purchase of panels and gates was considered as a donation, meaning the University of Missouri has sole ownership of the equipment and we are able to utilize the facility rent free for 7 years.
• 2025 Ladies of Autumn Sale: Wall Street Cattle Company will again be hosting us for the Ladies of Autumn Sale to be held Sunday, October 26. Jordan Hunter of JDH Enterprises will serve as the sale manager.
• 2026 Missouri Angus Breeders’ Futurity Sale: Futurity is scheduled on the University calendar and the room block confirmed with the Courtyard by Marriott. We look forward to a great event February 20-22, 2026. Hotel contracts will also be booked for 2028 and 2029. Jordan Hunter of JDH Enterprises will serve as the sale manager.
• Future Ladies of Autumn and Breeders’ Futurity Sales:
  • An EID tag will be required at all MAA sponsored sales beginning with the 2025 Ladies of Autumn Sale.
  • On future approved donation lots, beneficiary will receive the net proceeds from lot.
  • An award for the highest grossing lot will be awarded for each Association sponsored sale and noted in the next sale catalog.
• Commercial Female Listing: Listing to remain available and $20 fee waived until February 20, 2026.
• Certified Angus Beef® Tour: The membership bus tour to Wooster, Ohio will take place August 20-23, 2025. Sponsorship opportunities are listed here. Contact Julie Conover for additional information.
• Committee Realignment: In review of responsibilities and workloads, the current Activities and Events Committee be split into a Sale Committee and a Show Committee. The Commercial Marketing Committee and Industry Relations Committee would be merged and will be renamed. A new Member Services Committee would be formed. All other standing committees will remain intact. Committee assignments and responsibilities will be approved at the April meeting.

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 Tuesday, April 22.

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:

• The Missouri Angus Trails was redesigned in 2021! We hope you continue to enjoy these changes and the availability of an online publication located on Angus.org as well as our publications page. The 2025 publication includes the February 2025 and March 2025 publications. 2024 publications can be viewed here: February 2024, March 2024, April 2024, May 2024, 2024-2025 Missouri Angus Directory, August 2024, September 2024, October 2024, November 2024, and December 2024. 2023 publications can be viewed here: February 2023, March 2023, April 2023, May 2023, 2023-2024 Missouri Angus Directory, August 2023, September 2023, October 2023, November 2023, and December 2023. As a note, our publication size is 8.125″x 10.8125″. Full page ads will still need 1/8 inch bleeds.
• Please use our calendar page to stay up to date on sales and locations from our members and advertisers in the Missouri Angus Trails.