Schweitzer Red Angus Sale

Schweitzer Red Angus has an annual bull in female sale coming up tomorrow Friday, March 20th at the Beatrice 77 sale barn, Beatrice, Nebraska. I had a chance to catch up with Austin about their upcoming sale and their operation, so Austin, how did you get started?

"I grew up in a farming background. My parents never farmed with my grandpa did, so I just got out of passion for cattle from kindergarten up, whether it was bucket calves or anything like that. I acquired some cows in high school. Then through college, I worked at the Cow Calf Research Center for four years in Meade, Nebraska, which is affiliated with the University of Nebraska, and that's where my passion clicked in there during those college years."

Did you do any 4-H or FFA or anything like that?

"Yeah, I was blessed to be a state FFA officer. I can't remember what year that was now. 2001, somewhere in there. Yeah, I was heavily involved in FFA through high school, and then I would have been an officer my sophomore year in college."

What kind of cattle are you raising?

"So right now we have a unique operation. We have a seed sock herd, which is 90% red Angus. We do do a lot of black-eyed-ud red Angus. A lot of people in the area just want to stick with black, and I respect that. I like to have the opportunity to breed with Angus, the in-red Angus trade. Seedstock herd, and then we also run a feed yard. So we see it from the calf being tagged all the way to the calf getting on the truck to slaughter at our local packing houses. So it's kind of interesting."

Visit CattlemansCorner.com and click on Featured Sales to see that Schweitzer Red Angus Bull sale with a link directly to that auction.

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