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2025 Missouri Angus Ladies of Autumn Sale A Success

Thank you to all of the consignors, bidders and buyers for making our Missouri Angus Ladies of Autumn Sale a success. We cannot thank Wall Street Cattle Company enough for graciously hosting our fourth annual event. View the 2025 sale report here.

    2026 Missouri Angus Futurity Weekend

    February 20-21 will be here sooner than we think! We are excited to again have live cattle go through the sale ring on Saturday, February 21, 2026 in Columbia, MO at the Trowbridge Livestock Center on the campus of University of Missouri! Additionally, our revised schedule will allow for more member interactions and fellowship. Learn more with the documents below:

    Missouri Angus Board of Director Meeting Updates

    In October, the Missouri Angus Board of Directors meet for their fourth 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 December Trails, here are a few highlights of the meeting:

    • Profitability Challenge Angus Winners: The 2025 Missouri Cattlemen’s Association Profitability Challenge results are in, and Angus-sired calves once again dominated, claiming 4 of the top 5 spots.  Missouri Angus will present checks at the award ceremony on October 15 at McLaren CC Beef hosted event.
    • MAA Brand Clothing Pop-Up Store: MAA will have another Clothing Pop-Up Store with Boles Marketing Company this fall.  The store is open until Monday, October 27. This allows time for production and delivery of items for the holiday gift giving season. Click here to order.
    • 2025 Ladies of Autumn Sale: Sale management has secured 59 lots for the sale.  The schedule for the weekend begins cattle available for viewing at 3 p.m. with a Pre-Sale Social then at 6:30 p.m.  Sunday, sale day, will have lunch available at noon, followed by the sale at 1:00 p.m.
    • 2026 Missouri Angus Futurity Weekend: Board members were reminded of the revised schedule for the Futurity weekend with a Friday 7 pm Annual Meeting and 8 pm Social.  Acoustic guitar music, appetizers and a cash bar will be offered during the social. View the 2026 Futurity Weekend schedule here.
    • Preview Show Weekend: June 12-14, 2026: MAA will again sponsor a PGS Show in conjunction with the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association Junior Expo Weekend that will be sponsored by Paradox Farms.
    • 2026 Missouri State Fair Angus Shows:
      • Fitting Rule: Per a request from the Juniors at the August meeting, the Show Committee recommended that the fitting rule for the State Fair shows be changed to tops, tailheads and tails for Open Show and opportunity to full fit, no paint for junior show.  A motion was made and passed.
      • Showmanship: There will be a new Missouri State Fair Angus Showmanship Contest for those entered in the 4-H and FFA Angus Shows. The show will be held on Wednesday at 5 p.m. with three divisions, awarding a Champion and Reserve in each division with the 4-H and FFA participants combined, showing as junior members.  CAT Cattle Company and SWMO Vytelle have agreed to sponsor the prizes for each division. 
        • 2026 Angus Showmanship Rules are:
          1. Entry to be completed only during the Angus check-in.
          2. Age divisions will be as follows (as of January 1 of the current year): 8-11; 12-15; 16-21.
          3. The 8-11 age division will go first.
          4. 4-H and FFA will be shown together.
          5. Cattle must be clean and dry. NO FITTING.
          6. Participants will be evaluated on control and handling of their animal, sportsmanship, and attention to the judge and arena surroundings with awards presented only to the Champion and Reserve in each of the three divisions.
          7. Showmanship participants must have an entry in the 4-H or FFA Angus Cow/Calf, Heifer or Bull Show.
    • Phenotype/Genotype (PGS) Open Heifer and Bull Show:
      • With the positive reception to the Open PGS show and the ability to rearrange the schedule, the Open PGS Heifer and Bull Show will move to Wednesday evening directly following the Showmanship contest with a fitting rule of Blow and Go.  The 2026 shows will be sponsored by Eversole Angus and Meyer Cattle.
      • Additionally, due to the size of show, we were experiencing a high percentage of tie scores after the combination of the genotype placings and the live placings.  It was approved that the MAA show rules deviate from the national rules to allow ties to be broken at the discretion of the judge.  The updated rule reads: Each animal will receive half their score from their ranking on Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) and the other half on the Phenotype ranking. Ties will be broken at the judge’s discretion.
    • 2026-2027 Advertising Packages: Motion passed to keep prices April 2026 through March 2027 period as the same levels as in 2025 for all MO Angus advertising options. The one adjustment is to remove the trade show booth option benefit from the 10 and 5.5 page ad contracts as with the change of schedule and return to live cattle, the booth space is harder to accommodate.
    • In the future, Missouri Angus will be allowing ACH and online credit card payments for invoices with all existing options still available. Julie Conover and Dave Eversole continue to work on getting these arranged.
    • It’s never too early to select consignments for our state sponsored sales. The Missouri Angus Futurity entry deadline will be December 12.

    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 Friday, February 20.

    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

    11/08/2025 Valley Oaks Production Sale Warsaw, MO
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    11/15/2025 Ginger Hill Angus Sale Culpeper, VA
    11/16/2025 Frank/Hazelrigg Cattle Co. Sale Fulton, MO
    11/16/2025 Prime of Iowa Angus Sale Ames, IA
    11/17/2025 Green Springs Bull Test Nevada, MO
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