Page 4 - Loonan Stock Farm Private Treaty Auction – Feb. 1, 2025

“Located in the hills of southwest Iowa”

Judy Loonan
Rick Thompson, Herdsman
Phone: (641) 322-3921 • 1724 Holly Avenue • Corning, IA 50841 • Email: lsfrras@gmail.com
Judy Loonan – (515) 423-5642 (cell) • Rick Thompson – (515) 229-0920 (cell)

Welcome Dear Friends,

Judy and I would like to welcome you to our 50th Anniversary Pro-
duction Sale. It’s truly amazing how time flies by when you are able to
do what you love and be able to share your achievements with great
people. Over the past 50 years, it’s been great sharing our genetics
with our wonderful customers. To the customers that have been with
us a lot of years, we are thankful and truly blessed to call all of you
friends. Some of our valued customers have passed. They were with Judy Loonan Rick Thompson
us for most of the 50 years and they will be missed. These customers
were the ones that came up with the way we have our sale still today.

Dick and Judy’s first sale was on Dec. 6, 1975. They had their first 10
sales at the Corning sale barn. At that time, they just sold Simmentals. The gray bulls averaged $353 per head, the red bulls averaged
$415, and the charcoal bulls averaged $335 per head. We have sure come a long way since then.

In 1985, they moved the sale back to the farm selling bred females and open heifers the day after Thanksgiving. They sold the bulls in
January. In 1986, they started selling bulls private treaty. In February of 1992, the first Red Angus were offered on the 18th sale. The
first private treaty auction started in 1994 – that’s when I joined Dick and Judy, and the rest of the is history.

The 50th sale is fast approaching, and Judy and I feel we have a set of bulls that is as even as we have ever sold. That is the goal, right?
This year’s bulls have some of the best EPDs you can buy anywhere. It has been our goal to bring you the best genetics available. We
bar no expense when it comes to purchasing herd bulls. Cattle markets are at an all-time high and look to stay good for some time to
come with cow numbers low. Join us Feb. 1 and purchase top-quality genetics.

We have three new Red Angus sires with progeny in the sale this year. Deep End is a bull we raised out of one of our top cows. He
is a long-sided, soft-made bull with a tremendous amount of muscle and bone. He is probably one of the heaviest boned Red Angus
bulls I have seen, and he also is a large-framed bull. His calves will carry the same traits.

We purchased Marksman at the Cross Diamond Cattle Co. sale. He is also a bigger framed bull with a lot of performance.

We purchased Reputation at the Feddes-CT Red Angus sale. We used him on heifers. He’s just a little smaller framed bull.

On the Simmental side, we have Infrared, bought from Springer Simmental. He’s a bull with frame and muscle and complements Cop-
perhead well.

As I bring the welcome to an end, we just want to say it truly humbles Judy and myself to have such great customers that we con-
sider friends. Without our loyal customers, we would not have made it 50 years, so thank you for helping us reach this milestone. We
hope to be able to serve you for at least another 10 years. I’d like to say 50, but Father Time may catch us before then. We can’t say it
enough – thank you from the bottom of our hearts for supporting us.

We truly hope you can join us on Feb. 1 for our 50th Anniversary Sale. Feel free to call or come and evaluate the bulls before the sale.
We would love to show them to you.
Judy and Rick

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