SALE REPORT
CAMP COOLEY HOSTS BRANGUS FEMALE SALE

November 13, 2008
Franklin, Texas

A full house was on hand for “The New Beginning Brangus Female Sale” on Thursday November 13th. The sale represented the dispersal of the remaining females from the legendary Camp Cooley Brangus cow herd. Daughters of the great breed matrons were offered and customers were provided with the opportunity to build their own programs based on the freshest, cutting-edge genetics available in the Brangus breed.

The sale also marked the launch of Camp Cooley Genetics, a premier seedstock provider and a unique service company focusing on assisting its partners with breeding, managing, and marketing their cattle. Camp Cooley Genetics will combine the expertise of Camp Cooley Ranch, Ultimate Genetics, and Camp Cooley Beef into one customer-service driven entity.

Two hundred seventy-nine powerful Brangus female lots grossed $766,000 for an average $2,765. The sale was paced with the $20,000 purchase of Ms. Brinks Bright Side 302L6, Lot 167, by Southern Cattle Company of Marianna, Fla. She is a full sister to the $44,000 Newt and to the $50,000 302L9, and out of the #1 revenue earning cow at Camp Cooley Ranch, 302H6, who has lifetime earnings in excess of $367,000.

The second high selling female was Lot 145, Ms Brinks Ali 30P26, who fetched a bid price of $17,500 from RRR Ranch of Claxton, Ga. She is the dam of the Friday bull sale feature, Patton of Brinks 30T22, as one-half interest sold for $25,000. She sold safe to Ike of Brinks 504P31.

RRR Ranch also took home the third high selling female as they paid $11,500 to own Ms Brinks Angelo 541P38. She was a heavy bred fall cow and recorded a well balanced set of EPDs to match her powerful phenotype and is a paternal sister to the dam of the great Robertson bull.

RRR Ranch again stepped up to own Ms Brinks Cole 803U9, a spring born weaned heifer, for $10,500. She is an outstanding daughter of the $50,000, 803M donor cow. She was the high selling open heifer. Her full sister, another high performing Cole daughter out of 803M, scored the winning bid of $9,500 as 101 Ranch, of Strawn, Texas, took her home.

Also selling for $9,500 was Ms Brinks Unitas 361U7, a weaned spring heifer calf sired by Unitas of Brinks 361R6, that sold to 101 Ranch and Ms Brinks CEO 302S9, a daughter of the $50,000 donor, 302L9 who sold to Southern Cattle Co.

One-half interest and no possession of Ms Brinks Geronimo 535K14, sold to Southern Cattle Co. for $9,000. This brought her auction-based value to $58,000. Double W Ranch owns the other half of this great donor.