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Cattle for the Long Haul Inaugural Sale-    ​April 7-8th DV auction

Our goal at Deep Grass Graziers is to breed no nonsense, regionally adapted cattle built around reproductive longevity.  If we get the mama cows right, your program can use them to produce grass finished calves, replacement quality heifers, or truckload lots into the conventional supply chain.  Our bulls are purpose built to produce daughters that will thrive in the heat an humidity, and sons that will grade on grass.   We care more about cow families than EPDs, and more about longevity than one year's weaning weight.  We hope to help you build a program rather than a single calf crop.  We err on the side of applying too much pressure on our cattle sometimes, so you might be surprised how our bulls keep growing until they're 4-5 years old, and how are cows will wean a high percentage of their body weight when the groceries are available.

​ This is our first online sale offering.  We have selected 32 open heifers (mostly in groups of 3)off the top,  4 bred cows calving outside of our season we think are worthy, and 4 standout pairs that are true program builders, both young and older.  We also thought it would be fun to sell pick of the litter of our entire open heifer spring calf crop.  The 14 bulls in sale range from 2 years old to proven herd sires.  They have a reasonable base price and are each good at something.   ​All bulls will have passed a BSE on 3/17/26 and will be certified trich free.  They have been developed on forage only so even the young bulls won't melt in the pasture.  

We have provided details about these offerings, but don't hesitate to reach out with questions.  

Trucking will be available for delivery but is not included.  We will make every effort to get them to you as cheap as possible.  If you have any concerns about this contact me to discuss our options.  

Everything is available for viewing so if you'd like to come look prior the 4/8/26 please call and schedule a visit, we are happy to host and help you make the right choice.  Bid with confidence.  We are here to create a partnership and not a one time sale.  

LInk to the online sale:  deepgrassgraziers.dvauction.com/events/261269-deep-grass-graziers-inaugural-for-long-haul-4-8-26

Pick of the litter

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One of my first mentors Ed Oliver (Cripple Pines now Oliver Family Angus) struck up a friendship with Larry Leonhardt (Shoshone Angus) years back.  They wrote letters back and forth discussing breeding philosophy and whatnot.   Once when Ed was visiting Larry told him to go pick out his favorite heifer in a group of several hundred.   No records, no background, just his eye.   That heifer because the 389 cow, that Ed and now Spencer have built an entire outcross line around.  I have granddaughters working here.  

Back when I was putting the sale together I thought, "It would be pretty cool if someone could come in a pick their favorite heifer out of our entire calf crop.  That would be exciting. "  Now, looking through these girls, I'm jealous and thinking, "Don't pick her...or her...or her.." Well, I can't stop the train now, so if you want to cherry pick a commercial seedstock herd foundation heifer, here's your chance.  Obviously she will have a lot left to prove, but let your eye be your guide.   The tag colors are a cheat, as they will identify which herd the heifers came from, BUT, let your eye be your guide! 

Bulls

It's hard to over emphasis the difference in fed bulls and truly forage developed bulls.  Most "forage developed" bulls are on pasture with some type of supplement.   The bulls in this sale have had low-medium quality hay and for the past 25 days really good grazing.   Our dry fall and winter really slowed down our forages but now they are compensating like crazy!  We develop them this way because we believe it contributes to longevity.  We hope these bulls continue to work until they are 10 years or older.  A bull is a big investment and you deserve more than a couple years out of your dollars and we believe this offering will move your cow herd in the right direction for years to come.  

Docility scores are on a 1-5 scale.  We pride ourselves on being very good animal handlers and will still use Docility 3 bulls if we believe they have above average merit and are unlikely to pass down learned behavior from mom.  We don't put up with bulls that are aggressive in the pasture.  Those are 4 and up on our scale.   Call if you have any concerns on bidding to discuss any bulls in particular.  

All our animals are single wire electric trained and follow with a call, and push with a whistle.   We handle on foot or on a UTV.  If they don't get with the program they don't stay.   

UPDATE:  Lot 29 and Lot 30 were deferred on their BSE and are out of sale.  Will be retested in 60 days and available private treaty if they pass.  Too many coiled tails.  Will expose to cows and get them cleaned out and I suspect they will pass.  
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DGG 157k-Lot 28

DOB- 3/12/22
Frame Score:  4+
Scrotal:  40cm
Docility:  1
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​Here's the heavy hitter in the sale.  A young herd sire we've used and are featuring as a standout opportunity.  He is a son of the Senepol bull  (MS Helios 87f) with which we have built an army of Senangus daughters.  His dam is a Red Angus ET daughter (DGG 403g)  of a flush out of one of our best RA cows .  (only 1 of 2 cows we've ever flushed)  If you need a bull to create slick haired composite daughters, this is your guy.  If you need to improve hair, fleshing ease or udders, look no further.  Check out those happy lines after 3 weeks of grazing!  This is my top pick in the offering this year.  
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Max-Lot 25

DOB- 2/10/24
Frame score- 3+
Scrotal- 41cm
Docility-1

​My favorite 2 year old in the group, Max would be staying here if he didn't have a 1/2 brother that had slightly better hair than him.  This is the epitome of grass based genetics:  easy fleshing, deep, wide, and the largest testicles of any 2 year old bull we've ever raised.   He is extremely well balanced and will be an impressive bull at full maturity.   Very docile.  If you direct market beef or need to save heifers, look no farther.
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DGG 127L-Lot 26

DOB- 2/01/24
Frame score-  4-
Scrotal- 37cm
Docility-1

​Son of our herd sire, Lot 30 202h, this young bull is as deep as he is tall.  Tremendous capacity and rib shape, solid scrotal, and a nice blend of 1/4 Senepol, 3/4 Registered Red Angus.  His dam (DGG 402G) is the other ET cow and sister to Lot 28's dam.  We sold his paternal grandsire to Ozark Hills, a Pharo cooperator, and they've sold numerous sons that have topped the composite sales, normally averaging over $10k.   DGG 127L does not carry the slick hair gene but has solid heterosis from the two breeds and will complement a grass based program.  Another easy going bull that moves well.
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Mack-Lot 21

DOB- 1/15/24
Frame score-  4
Scrotal- 35
Docility- 3

Mack is my pick of the black Angus bulls in this sale.  He is from the registered herd but doesn't carry papers.  He was top of his class as a weaned calf and had continued to look the part.  Incredible muscle, spring of rib, and strong crest and top line.  He will be a bull your neighbors will salivate over in a couple years, and would work in a number of different applications.  He has never been a problem in the pasture, but showed out at the last BSE so I downgraded his docility score.  I would not hesitate to use this bull and we will if he doesn't bring the floor.  UPDATE: I've been tossing a few range cubes to the bulls in the pasture to get them to come to me and Mack is a big fan.  So take the Docility score with a grain of salt.  

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Mater-Lot 32

DOB- 11/15/23
Frame score-  5
Scrotal- 35.5
Docility- 1

Mater is sired by our Casey Beefmaster bull, Gus, out of a registered Red Angus cow.  When looking to create a composite, we chose Casey Beefmaster as our breeding partner because of their intense fertility pressure (one cycle breeding since 1977!).   Mater adds a bit of frame and true heat tolerance.  We've noticed that while our Beefmaster cows don't have as good hair as our 1/2 Senepol, they have equal heat tolerance, and will lay or graze in the sunshine in temps over 90f when the British are in the shade.  Like his sire, he will grow until he's 4 years old or more and continue to add muscle.  If you need a balance of growth, heat tolerance, and maternal, Mater is your bull.  
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DGG 4L-Lot 23

DOB- 10/21/23
Frame score- 4
Scrotal- 39.5cm
Docility- 1

One of the important mentors I've had is Bill Hodge who has spent a lifetime around useful Angus cattle.  Bill has traveled across the U.S. visit herds, tracing pedigrees, and chasing bloodlines that he thinks are important to producing herds with Reproductive Longevity.  This concept is overlooked in the age of EPDs and DNA, but is critical to maintaining a healthy population of cattle that can keep ranches in business.   The bull is one example of Bill's quest: combining old line pedigrees with proven performance on grass.  Shoshone, Wye, Traveler and Graham Angus genetics woven with purpose.  I am working to get registration papers finished on this ET bull.   If you still sell calves at the stockyard, but want to save heifers, this is probably the bull for you.   He is true Angus.  

Sire:  McCumber Foundation 701   AAA #+12829263
Dam:  Hodge Georgina 57    AAA 10769807
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MS Helios 80y 87f-Lot 31

DOB-5/23/2018
Frame score-  5
Scrotal- 44.5cm
Docility- 1

Update-- Mark Sanders at Millertown Senepol has elected to retain his 1/2 interest in this bull.  He will go direct to collection in Texas after the sale.  Mark requests to have the bull to use 8/01-10/31 each year and retain 1/2 salvage value.  We realize this might not work for most, but if you live near Knoxville, TN (Millertown Senepol area), this could work.  We have cut his starting bid in half due to this recent change.  

We struggled over how to bring in intense heat tolerance to our herd.  We thought Mashona might make our cows too small.  We were nervous about using Brahmin blood to delay sexual maturity, increase frame size, or hurt docility, not to mention make it more difficult to grade on grass.  We finally settled on Senepol, we thought a good compromise towards our goals.  87f was one of two sons of our favorite cows at Millertown Senepols.  His dam, 31z, has made her way to the flush pen and I believe is 13 years old this year.  She was a gorgeous, moderate and feminine cow with a near perfect udder, and we've found that this son tends to improve udders.   We bought him as a weaned calf and have used him here ever since, saving the majority of his daughters to help rebuild the herd with heat tolerance in mind.   If you are looking to build a moderate cow herd of slick haired, adapted cattle, he should do it in one generation.   87f's sire (80y) and his grandsire (5714) were both working at 14 years old!    He is the sire of lot 28, DGG 157k, and his sons working in several herds in VA, TX, and MS.  
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Casey/Fudge 1L- Lot 27

 DOB- 4/12/2023
Frame score- 5+
Scrotal- 35.5cm
Docility- 1

We have a close friend and mentor in Deep South GA who has been raising no nonsense Angus cattle since the 1970s.  James Fudge has honed the work that Graham Angus started decades earlier into a hidden gem of a maternal herd.  Recently he has brought in Oliver Angus as an outcross, and started his on line of Red Angus cattle, in which we have shared bulls.  Unbeknownst to me, James started his own heat tolerant herd about a year before I brought in my first Casey Beefmaster.   I guess heat tolerant minds think a like because he also went to Casey to source his genetics!  This bull is a son of his herd sire that we bought to develop.  He will have more frame and growth than most of our offerings, and has strong muscle definition.  He's still growing and would be a great choice to make F1's over Angus, Hereford, or Red Angus genetics for a number of marketing directions.   Happy lines on this guy too!
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Merv-Lot 33

DOB- 2/15/24
Frame Score-  4
Scrotal-  40cm
Docility- 1

Another solid purebred Angus bull out of our registered herd.  Outstanding scrotal for a young forage developed bull.  Structure and disposition both very good in this one.   This is the bull that will get overlooked.  Don't sleep on him. 
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DGG 202H-Lot 30.    OUT OF SALE

DOB- 2/15/2020
Frame Score- 4+
Scrotal- 43cm
Docility- 2

Here's a herd sire we used for the past several seasons.  202H goes back to perhaps our best Michael Vance/ Southern Reds cow, SR Hazel 543 ( RAA 3509227). She is 11 years old and still a powerhouse of production.  She has raised several outstanding sons and daughters and keeps getting bred back.  Michael spoke highly of the 5L craftsman bull as a female maker and he did his work on her.  This son is a belly dragger!   He is a beef maker and if you sell direct or need to add volume he should be on your list.   His sire was a full Senepol bull  (MS 60d) out of our other favorite cow at Millertown.  We sold 60d to Ozark Hills where he has gone on to produce sons that topped the composite bulls sales for several years.   We don't have an expensive prefix yet so get this one for a value while you can.   I scored him a 2 on docility because he's moody if you force him places.  In the pasture you can almost put your hands on him.  
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DGG FMR-Lot 22

DOB- 11/01/23
Frame Score- 6
Scrotal- 36
Doc- 2

Folmar is his full name, after our friend Damon who we bought his dam from as an ET receptionist.   She was the largest cow we've owned, 1/2 Dutch Belted, 1/2 Angus.  A gentle giant.  This bull is meant for one thing, calves that can grow.  If you need a true terminal bull that will produce muscle, weaning, and yearling weight, we have a bull to take advantage of the high price of pounds on the scale.  I would only use on adult cows.    His reserve price is very reasonable and if cull values hold, you won't have much invested as this bull should mature over 2000 lbs in a couple of years.  UPDATE:  Folmar's DNA linked his sire to Lot 31, MS Helios 80y 87f!  

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DGG 003k-Lot 24

DOB- 10/25/22
Frame Score- 5+
Scrotal- 36.5
Docility- 2
Sire- McCumber Foundation 701 AAA #+12829263
​Dam- Hodge Georgina 57 AAA 10769807
003k is a Bonsma type specimen that is still growing due to his upbringing that was pretty tough.  After weaning he got thrown in with the adult bulls and had to manage on most of nothing.   He is from an Embryo we bought from a mentor, Bill Hodge, who knew useful Angus pedigrees and programs as well as anyone I've ever met.  Bill knew if the mother of any famous Angus sire from the 60s or 70s had good feet or not and could recite cow numbers from Wye breeding lines from 5 decades prior.  This was his mating and we trust him to know.  Nice blend of Shoshone, Wye, and early Graham Angus: Maternal royalty.   I would use this bull if you want to sell into the conventional marketplace and want to improve maternal in your herd. He will do both, IMO.  Enough frame and power to produce marketable steers while enough maternal goodness of make a cow herd.  Would also work great on smaller framed adult cows to add a little heft.  
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DGG 129L-Lot 29.  OUT OF SALE

DOB- 2/10/23
Frame score- 4-
Scrotal- 36cm
Docility- 3
Had this young man had better hair, we would be using him on everything.   He was the deepest bodied, grass phenotype bull we raised in his contemporary group.  I started taking pictures of him when he was 4 months old.  HIs dam is possibly our most profitable registered cow to date, weaning a high percentage of her bodyweight year after year, and out of the cow that has 4 daughters thriving in the herd.   He's always been a little wary and we are patient when moving him, but can handle without issue.  He still has growing left to do and will mature out for the next couple years becoming a full blown tank.   If you direct market grass feed beef, he is your man.  
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DGG 911L-Lot 20

DOB- 2/22/23
Frame Score- 4+
Scrotal- 40cm
​Docility- 1

Tied for the heaviest weaning weight of his contemporary group with his half brother, Lot 29, this 1/4 Senepol, 3/4 Angus/Red Angus bull is soggy!  His dam (DGG 152g) was absolutely the standout in her contemporary group, raising the top bull calves in '22 and '23.  There's the best of Pinebank Angus, Red Hill Red Angus, 5L, and Millertown Senepol in this pedigree blended with maternal lineages from each.  If you need a grass bull that could also make solid females, he could be a good fit.  Like his brother lot 29, This bull would be staying here if his hair was a touch better.  Perfect for somewhere that doesn't have 8 months of summer or as a grass fed beef maker.  He is sired by Lot 30, DGG 202h.   P.S.  He told me to tell you he looks better in person.  This is my least good picture.  Video on DV Auction a little more representative.
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