2006 Winners
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Overall Champion – TCSCF - Rocky Creek Farms, Harris Livestock, Home Park Farm, Shand & Shand, and Prairie Cattle
The grand champion pen was a record-setting group of 68 steers from Iowa's Tri-County Steer Carcass Futurity (TCSCF). They were fed at Ron Barrier's Rolling B Farms, Neola, Iowa, on behalf of TCSCF cooperators in Alabama and Georgia.
The steers achieved 61.8% Certified Angus Beef ® (CAB ® ) brand acceptance, including 11.8% Prime. The trick was putting that together with 67% Yield Grade (YG) 1s and 2s, no discounts and a 754-pound (lb.) carcass weight. The combination made for a record $108.77 per hundredweight (cwt.) on the NACC contest grid.
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Left to right – Ty Groshans, American Angus Association; Turk Stovall, ORIgen; Van Ricketts, Merial; Ron Barrier, Rolling B Farms; Amber Tjernagel, Alltech; Kathy LaScala, Drovers; and John Stika, Certified Angus Beef LLC.
Steer Division Champion – Beller Corporation, Lindsay, Neb.
Beller Corp., operated by brothers Doug, Dennis and Duane, fed the champion steer pen. Last year marked the third time Beller Corp. bought steers from Ken Pelster, Bartlett, Neb., at an Elgin, Neb., auction. It must have been a charm, because they made 82% CAB, including 28.2% Prime and tallied $107.12 per cwt. on the NACC grid.
Pelster uses bulls from three main suppliers: RAMM Angus at Elgin, Dethlef Angus at Ravenna, and Gray's Angus at Harrison, Neb. He watched in Denver as the Beller Corp. brothers collected a $3,000 NACC bonus for believing in his cattle. Being the top value AngusSource pen added $1,000.
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Left to right – Dennis, Dean and Doug Beller, Beller Corporation; Ken and Carol Pelster, Pelster Angus Ranch; Naomi Gray and Jeff Pelster, Gray's Angus
Heifer Division Champion – Beller Feedlots, Lindsay, Neb.
The champion heifers were owned and fed by a past NACC notable and veteran CAB partner, Beller Feedlots, Lindsay, Neb. Sired by SAF Hi Road and Hoff's Hi Spade, the pen came in second overall in grid value, at $107.62.
The 813-lb. carcasses were among the heaviest, yet set a contest record with 97% of them in the NACC bull's eye premium zone of 750 to 849 lb. and there were no discounts. They made 47.2% CAB and Prime.
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Left to right – Turk Stovall, ORIgen; Ty Groshans, American Angus Association; Kathy LaScala, Drovers; Van Ricketts, Merial; Terry and Carla Beller, Beller Feedlots; Amber Tjernagel, Alltech; and John Stika, Certified Angus Beef LLC.
Heifer Division Reserve Champion – Woodstone Angus, New Ulm, Texas
The reserve champion heifers set an all-time high 94.7% CAB and Prime mark. They were only a penny behind the champion pen on the NACC grid at $107.61 with an average carcass weight of 682 lb., and no discounts.
The heifers were owned by Bill and Yvonne Woods, Woodstone Angus, who keep half their linebred 500 cows in Texas, the other half near Hackett, Ark., and fed at Cattlemen's Choice Feedyard, Gage, Okla., by managers Dale and Mary Moore. The Woods family accepted the $3,500 NACC award for the two pens in Denver.
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Left to right – John Stika, Certified Angus Beef LLC; Turk Stovall, ORIgen; Ty Groshans, American Angus Association; Van Ricketts, Merial; Kathy LaScala, Drovers; Amber Tjernagel, Alltech; Bill Woods and John Wiggins, Woodstone Angus; and Dale Moore, Cattlemen's Choice Feedyard. Front Will Woods, Woodstone Angus
Steer Division Reserve Champion – GG Genetics, Ida Grove, Iowa
The reserve grand pen of steers made 58.3% CAB and Prime, at $106.97 on the NACC grid. Mason Fleenor, GG Genetics, also had the sixth, eleventh, fourteenth and fifteenth place steers, and the third, fifth and eighteenth place heifer pens. His top two heifer pens went 61.9% and 48.6% CAB, including 29.7% Prime in the latter. In all, Fleenor collected $4,800 from the NACC, and another $500 in ORIgen semen credit.
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Left to right – Ty Groshans, American Angus Association; Turk Stovall, ORIgen; Van Ricketts, Merial; Diane and Mason Fleenor, GG Genetics; Amber Tjernagel, Alltech; Kathy LaScala, Drovers; and John Stika, Certified Angus Beef LLC.
To learn more about the 2006 NACC winners, read the full news release.
To see the 2006 NACC detailed list of top 20 entries, go to the 2006 Leader Board.