Missouri Angus Happenings

2024 Missouri Angus Ladies of Autumn Sale

We look forward to hosting our third annual Missouri Angus Ladies of Autumn Sale on Sunday, October 27, 2024 at Wall Street Cattle Company in Lebanon, MO. We invite you to reach out to the sale manager, Jordan Hunter via email or at 417-224-6296 with questions. Please find additional resources below:

• 2024 Ladies of Autumn Consignment Form as pdf file – Deadline: August 19, 2024
• 2024 Ladies of Autumn Consignment Form as word file – Deadline: August 19, 2024
• 2024 Ladies Of Autumn Sale Rules – Updated 4.29.2024
• Pay your $250/head Ladies of Autumn entry fee online here.

We are also excited to gather our Angus family on the evening of Saturday, October 26 to provide more social interactions with specific details announced in the sale book published closer to the event.

2024 Missouri State Fair Angus Shows

We enjoyed seeing many of our members in Sedalia for the Missouri State Fair. Below are the results as well as the remaining schedule of Angus events.

• Thursday, August 8 (71 head): 2024 Missouri State Fair 4-H Angus Show Results
• Thursday, August 8 (53 head): 2024 Missouri State Fair FFA Angus Show Results
• Friday, August 9 (166 head): 2024 Missouri State Fair Open Angus Show Results
• Friday, August 9 (28 head): 2024 Missouri State Fair Open Phenotype-Genotype Results

2024 Missouri State Fair OPEN Phenotype/Genotype Heifer Show

Our first event is in the books! Thank you to Missouri State Fair for allowing us to host the inaugural Missouri State Fair Open Angus Phenotype/Genotype Heifer Show. We had 28 entries into the class and awarded $2,060 in cash prizes that were sponsored by Eversole Angus!

We look forward to hosting this event again in the future for our members. If you have any questions about the show, please reach out to Julie Conover.

Save the Date – 2025 Preview Show Weekend

We invite you to mark your calendars for the 2025 Missouri Angus Preview Show Weekend held in conjunction with the Missouri Cattlemen’s Youth Expo. It is an action packed weekend for our junior members with the following schedule:

• Friday, June 13, 2025:
  • Missouri Angus Phenotype/Genotype Heifer Show
  • 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 is a week later than originally planned and will fall over Father’s Day in 2025.

Missouri Angus Board of Director Meeting Updates

Each July, the Missouri Angus Board of Directors meets for their third 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 September Trails, here are a few highlights of the meeting:

• Industry Relations: A Learning Forum will again be held in conjunction with the Breeders’ Futurity weekend. It will be held at 9 a.m. in Trowbridge, prior to the Futurity Sale with the topic of Animal Health Best Practices.
• Commercial Marketing: Committee looking how to increase use of the commercial female web listing service and the possibility of hosting a commercial female sale(s) in 2025. A proposal will be compiled by the committee in the coming months with specific cattle criteria and expected costs. It was also reported that Missouri Angus Association premiums will be paid on the second, third and fifth place animals in from the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association Steer Profitability Challenge as they were verified to be from registered Angus Bulls. 
• Preview Show: The Missouri Angus Preview Show Weekend will have the same schedule moving forward with showing the Phenotype-Genotype Junior Show and Heifer and Steer Missouri Breeder Jackpot Shows on Friday evening. The Junior Show will continue to be on Saturday as well as the Open Show on Sunday.
• Ladies of Autumn Sale: Entries will be accepted until August 19^th for the 2024 Ladies of Autumn Sale to be held Sunday, October 27. Jordan Hunter is serving as the sale manager and is making visits and screening cattle for the event.
• 2025 Missouri Angus Breeders’ Futurity Sale: With the return to the Trowbridge Livestock Center and having live cattle on site, Chad Sampson has worked with a metal fabricator to determine the size, layout and style to best meet our needs for having unhaltered cattle. Additional information be gathered and conversations had with University of Missouri staff regarding cost share, storage etc. before the October board meeting. The sale will be held Saturday, February 24, 2025 at noon.
• Membership Banquet Youth Alternative: During the February membership banquet, there will be a staffed kids room available with pizza and babysitters for children under the age of 17. An RSVP will be needed by February 5.
• Trails Premium Page Auction: The sale of premium advertising pages is an important source of revenue for Missouri Angus and with the format changes, these ad pages will now sell at the conclusion of the Futurity cattle sale.
• Missouri State Fair: The Open Phenotype & Genotype Show will be held on Friday August 9 at the conclusion of the Open Show. All entries must be entered in the Missouri State Fair Open Angus Show. Judge for this event will be John Ritter, Marthasville, MO. Eversole Angus is the 2024 Open PGS Show Sponsor.
• Certified Angus Beef® Tour: The membership bus tour to Wooster, Ohio will take place August 20-23, 2025 with registration opening in February. Sponsorship opportunities are currently available. Contact Julie Conover for additional information.

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.

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 23, 2025. 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 2024 publication year kicked off with the February 2024 publication and continues with March 2024, April 2024, May 2024, 2024-2025 Missouri Angus Directory, August 2024, and September 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.