Dan Reardon of Rocking R Red Angus

I've got Dan Reardon from Rocking R Red Angus on the phone.

Yeah, Dan, I noticed you recently moved to Nebraska. Can you give us a little background on your operation?

We are from Western Colorado. We moved to Nebraska Panhandle about two years ago. We ran Red Angus Cattle at high elevation in Western Colorado. We ran our cattle above Gunnison about 10,000 feet up there in the summer time. And our farm was in Montrose, Colorado about 6,500 feet. So we've been dealing with Red Angus high altitude genetics for years. We wanted to make a change for quite a while and two years ago, we were finally able to make that happen and chose the Nebraska Panhandle as our new place. Our ranch, like I said, is due south of McGrew. So we're kind of in between Bayard and Gering and just a little bit closer to Bayard.

Are you doing the same practices or is it different now?

We've changed some things. We definitely can create a lot more performance at the elevation we run cattle at now. We introduce genetics from other high altitude breeders. We did that for years, but after moving into Nebraska, we can incorporate a lot more performance into our genetics. We feel like we have an extremely maternal type of herd. The last two years, we've implemented a lot of performance into those genetics and our weaning weights and our yearly weights are significantly different from one we're running in Colorado. We are offering 40 head of yearling Red Angus Bulls. And we do have two, what we call hybrids, category threes, the registered Red Angus, but there are two of them in there that are not purebreds. So 40 yearling Red Angus Bulls in total.

That's Dan Reardon from Rockin' R Red Angus, now located south of McGrew, Nebraska. Saturday, March 14th at 1 p.m. Mountain.

 

 

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