Beef Cattle Improvement Association

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Hinds Community College Sales Facility, Raymond, MS

The Mississippi Beef Cattle Improvement Association wrapped up a record-breaking Spring Bull Sale on March 6, 2008. It featured 12 performance-backed bulls from breeders across the state. Thank you to all of the consignors and buyers for supporting the Spring 2008 Mississippi BCIA Bull Sale.

The top-selling lot was MSU Midland S158, an Angus bull. MSU Midland S158 was consigned by The Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station of Mississippi State, Mississippi and sold for $4,750 to Richard A. Fisher, Sr. of Yazoo City, Mississippi. Other breeders marketing bulls in the MBCIA sale included Calyx Star Ranch and Southern Shine Pastures. Sale receipts on twelve bulls totaled $27,125 for a sale average price of $2,260.

The objective of the Mississippi BCIA Bull Sale program is to encourage production and identification of genetically superior bulls by purebred breeders and to encourage the purchase and use of these bulls by commercial producers. Bulls offered through this sale have passed a breeding soundness exam, met minimum growth and scrotal circumference requirements, and are backed with extensive performance information. The MBCIA Spring Bull Sale is held in conjunction with the Hinds Community College Bull Test sale on the first Thursday in March.