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Red Angus – Welcome
Greetings from the Ellefson Ranch
We here at Ellefson Ranch would like to welcome you to our second annual
online bull and commercial female sale. This is a family run operation that
consists of a very maternal commercial cowherd along with a small, but power-
ful registered herd. My wife Jamie and I along with our two children Wesson (8)
and Witten (3) love this way of life and are grateful every day for the opportunity
to raise cattle/crops together.
Enough about us – let’s talk about our cow herd! We have very firm beliefs
on what the ideal Red Angus cow should be. Our focus areas in a nutshell are
the following: fertility, feet, structure, disposition, and phenotype in that order.
The reason for that is simple, we want a cow that gets pregnant on time, won’t
kill you at calving, is good footed, and ideally can wean 10+ first cut calves in
their lifetime. We can say with the utmost confidence that our culling process is
unmatched, these cows do not get a second chance around here, whether it be
fertility, feet, disposition, etc. Although culling can be a little financially intimidat-
ing sometimes, we are committed to making better breeding stock for our family
and our customers to benefit from long term.
Our sale bulls are a product of our small but mighty registered cow herd and
we invite you to come take a look. We sell our bulls as 18 months old instead
Dalton, Jamie, of yearlings for a few basic reasons. The main reason is that we want to make
Wesson & Witten Ellefson cattle without structure issues that sometimes are a result of overfeeding in
605-864-9738 preparation for selling yearling breeding stock. The bulls have been developed
daltone2farms@gmail.com over 18 months without being pushed on feed and are in their everyday work-
ing clothes. These bulls couldn’t pick a creep feeder out of a police lineup! That
being said, we definitely value feed performance and evaluate our own steers
every winter in the feed yard. After all market pounds pays the bills.
We feel great gratitude for the success of last year’s online sale and the con-
tinued support from our customers. We are honored to share this year’s set of
cattle with you!
Please contact us with any questions you may have about the cattle. All cattle
will be available for viewing anytime at the ranch as well as online at DVAuction.
Dalton Ellefson
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