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2025 Missouri Angus Ladies of Autumn Sale

Please mark your calendars for our fourth annual Missouri Angus Ladies of Autumn Sale on Sunday, October 26, 2025 at Wall Street Cattle Company in Lebanon, MO. A special thank you to Wall Street Cattle Company for agreeing to graciously hosting the event again!

2025 Missouri Angus Association Ladies of Autumn Sale Documents

2025 Missouri State Fair Success

The 2025 Missouri State Fair Angus breeding shows are complete with another year of great participation. Here are the Angus show results:

Missouri Angus Association hosted the first Open Phenotype/Genotype Bull Show (PGS). Both the Open Heifer and Open Bull shows were abbreviated as PGS and followed the same scoring system as the National Junior Angus Show with half of the points coming from the judges’ ranking on Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) and the other half on the Phenotype ranking. Ties were broken on Phenotype.

With generous support from Eversole Angus and Meyer Cattle, the cash prize for the Champion PGS Heifer and Bull was $600 and Reserve $300. All class winners also received $100.

Missouri Angus Board of Director Meeting Updates

In July or August, the Missouri Angus Board of Directors meet for their third meeting of the year to continue to manage the property, affairs, and business of the Association. While the full minutes will be printed in the October Trails, here are a few highlights of the meeting:

  • Missouri Angus Association Members are encouraged to participate in the fourth annual Ladies of Autumn Sale that will be held Sunday, October 26. The entry deadline is August 18.
  • The revised schedule proposed by the Member Services Committee was accepted for the 2026 Missouri Angus Futurity Weekend. Highlights of the new schedule include the Annual Meeting taking place at 7 pm on Friday, February 21st as well as a membership social at the hotel at 8 pm. The Missouri Junior Angus Association annual meeting will remain on Saturday afternoon. View the 2026 Futurity Weekend schedule here.
  • Chad Sampson and the Sale Committee continue to make preparations for the 2026 Missouri Angus Futurity Sale. There is continual progress on building improvements and Trowbridge in a great partnership with the University of Missouri.
  • Check-in for the Missouri State Fair included 62 head in the 4-H Show, 56 in the FFA Show, 182 in the Open Show which includes 34 PGS entries.
  • In the future, Missouri Angus will be allowing ACH and online credit card payments for invoices with all existing options still available. Julie Conover and Dave Eversole will work on getting these arranged.
  • It’s never too early to select consignments for our state sponsored sales. The Missouri Angus Futurity entry deadline will be in December.

If you have additional questions about the board meeting, please contact Julie Conover or any of the Board members listed under the Boards, Association Tab. The next meeting will be held Monday, October 6.

Other Angus News

“Top 10 Best Practices” for Regional Association Consignment Sales

In the 2023-2024 Missouri Angus Directory, we released the work of the Missouri Angus Association Industry Relations Committee’s, “Top 10 Best Practices” for Regional Association Consignment Sales. The items are not listed in any particular order and are meant to aid consignment sales in running more effective, higher grossing sales that better fit the needs of buyers. The Missouri Angus Association “Top 10 Best Practices” for Regional Association Consignment Sales document can also be viewed here.

In an effort to further expand upon the practices, an article was written monthly and printed in the Missouri Angus Trails.

  1. Consign healthy, sound structured, functional cattle.
  2. Have accurate data available on each lot consigned.
  3. Cattle should be in excellent condition.
  4. Consignors need to be positive and accept some responsibility for marketing the sale.
  5. Identify your customers and market to them.
  6. Pictures in sale book can add value.
  7. Poor pictures are worse than no pictures.
  8. Sale books need to be out in a timely manner.
  9. Know what type and how many cattle are desired by buyers in your marketplace.
  10. Social activities can strengthen your Association.

In addition to the written words, on Saturday, February 24 during the Missouri Angus Breeders’ Futurity Weekend, we hosted a panel discussion around marketing cattle with an emphasis on the consignment sale setting. The discussion was moderated by Clint Hunter and included four previous Missouri Angus Herdsman of the Year Recipients including Teela Sadowsky, Jennifer Russell, Reed Gooden and Cash Langford. The video can be viewed on youtube.

Notes about the Trails:

 

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