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Sales R & R Acres 18th Annual Bull Sale LV Bar Annual Production Sale February 2, 2019 Airdrie, Alberta, Canada Auctioneer: Dan Skeels February 9, 2019 Plainville, Kan. Auctioneer: Bruce Brooks Sale management: R&R Marketing, Randall O. Ratliff Sale consultant: Mark Smith, Grassroots Genetics Livestock Representatives: Ty Gillum, Plainville Livestock; Craig Talkington, Special Assignment Reported by: Nathan Smith, NALF regional manager Averages 7 Fall yearling Limousin bulls.....$5,586 7 Fall yearling Simmental bulls...$5,971 Sale Goss ....................................... $80,900* * = Canadian Dollar $9,500 - Lot 8, R & R Beefmaker SMTR 2E, 5/26/2017, homozygous black, homozygous polled, sired by CCR Cowboy Cut 5048Z, purchased by Marsh Ranches, Calgary, AB. $7,000 -Lot 4, R & R Beefmaker 12E, 6/4/2017, Purebred, red, homozygous polled, sired by Limousin R & R Beefmaker 72A, purchased by Fair Farms, Grand Prairie, AB. $6,500 - Lot 10, R & R Beefmaker SMTR 22E, 6/12/2017, Lim-Flex, homozygous black, homozygous polled, sired by Dikemans Double Down 26W, purchased by Wray Ranches, Irricana, AB. $6,100 - Lot 5, R & R Beefmaker 45E, 7/21/2017, Purebred, homozygous black, homozygous polled, sired by Limousin R & R Beefmaker 21B, purchased by Fair Farms, Grand Prairie, AB. I Volume buyer Leland Richards, middle, of Bavaria, Kan. is pictured with owners, Mark, Chad and Mike Settje. Averages 78 Limousin & Lim-Flex bulls........$3,015 22 Registered bred heifers ...........$1,935 30 Commercial bred heifers..........$1,472 122 Live Lots Gross..................... $335,195 $6,200 - Bull - Lot 77, LVBR Optimizer 74E, 4/5/2017, Lim-Flex, red, homozygous polled, sired by CRVL California 505C, purchased by Liz VanLoenen, Bogue, Kan. LV Bar owners, Mark, Chad and Mike (not pictured) Settje with manager, Mike Smith and longtime volume bull buyer, Mike Beckman, middle, Hoxie, Kan. $3,500 - Bred Female - Lot 92, LVBR 710E, 3/2/2017, double black, double polled, sired by MAGS Bronc Buster, purchased by Sullivan Farms, Dunlap Iowa. Special Thanks to Buyers: Leland Richards, Bavaria, Kan. and Mike Beckman, Hoxie, Kan. I High selling bull buyer, Liz Vanloenen, middle, Bouge, Kan., is pictured with owners, Mark, Chad and Mike Settje. Doug Wray, left, Irricana, Alberta, purchased a top bull out of the R & R Acres Sale and is pictured with owner, Randy Bollum, after the sale. 68 | MARCH 2019