Notes
VAN NICE ANGUS RANCH – A PROGRAM DRIVEN BY THE PERFORMANCE DATA
It is a pleasure to be working with Joe and Willodine Van Nice again this year on their 15th Annual Van Nice Angus Ranch Perfor-
mance-Tested Bull and Female Sale. Each year the quality continues to grow as does the EPD profiles on the cattle selling. The VNAR
prefix has become synonymous with quality genetics stamped with breed-impacting EPD profiles and this year’s offering is without
question the deepest set of genetics ever offered at Van Nice Angus Ranch.
As you study the bull offering, you will find bulls that excel towards the top of the entire breed for carcass values and these very
same bulls that offer breed-impacting carcass traits also offer breed-changing growth values and do all of this while maintaining
calving ease and high maternal traits. The average EPDs of all the VNAR bulls selling are: CED +9, BW +1.3, WW +50, YW +95, SC
+.30, Milk +28, MB +.70, RE +.61, $W +27.67, $B +75.83. These numbers are solid and uniform and will fit any progressive purebred
or commercial program.
Repeat customers at VNAR appreciate the way that Joe develops these bulls as they are hand fed two times a day and developed in
a manner to express their genetic potential while maintaining sound structure and feet and legs. If you have never had the opportuni-
ty to attend a VNAR bull and female sale, then I would invite you to stop by prior to the sale or be with us on sale day to see first-hand
how these bulls are docile, sound structured, packed full of performance, and developed just the way the industry’s most prominent
commercial cattlemen have invested in. For purebred breeders looking for your next herd sire, study this offering closely as there are
several bulls selling that combine tremendous phenotype with pedigrees backed generations deep with performance and with EPD
profiles that truly are breed impacting.
As all of us in the cattle industry look to the future, there is no brighter time to invest in quality females than now and the females
selling in the VNAR program will prove to be a solid investment. Many of the females selling are mates to bulls who have sold as
features of past VNAR sales and are the product of the VNAR ET program. These females are consistent in their kind, and they, much
like the bulls, offer EPD profiles that will impress any progressive breeder. When you study the pedigrees on these females they are
backed by not just proven and popular cow families, they are stacked generations deep with prominent AI sires and the bred females
are carrying the service of the breed’s most popular AI sires today. Regardless if you are looking for fall bred cows, fall bred heifers or
open replacement females, the VNAR female offering will definitely have something for everyone.
I’d like to personally invite you to be in attendance with us the last Saturday in February for the 15th Annual Van Nice Angus
Ranch Performance-Tested Bull and Female Sale. An event that has grown to be one of the premier Angus sales in the state of Okla-
homa where the cattle are right for the times and the people and the
program behind the cattle are the type you will enjoy doing business
with. Feel free to give me a call at any time if you would like to discuss
the offering in more detail.
Sincerely,
Rance Long
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