The Leachman Spring Sale 2022

Leachman financial indexes allow you to HAVE IT ALL!

$Ranch: Profit from birth through weaning. Includes: • Fertility, Milk, Growth • Cow feed intake and mature size $Feeder: Profit from weaning to harvest. Includes: • Feed conversion • Carcass value • Carcass weight $Profit: Puts it all together. $Ranch + $Feeder . Feed:Gain: Difference in the amount of feed a bull's progeny will consume to produce one pound of gain. Example: A -0.50 F:G EPD means this animal's progeny will consume 1/2 pound less feed per pound of gain than would progeny of a 0.00 F:G EPD sire. Feed Intake: Difference in feed consumption of each of a bull's progeny in a 112 day feeding period. Example: A steer whose sire has a -100 Intake EPD will eat 100 pounds less feed in 112 days than one whose sire had a zero Intake EPD. Dare to compare: You cannot afford to make mistakes in your breeding program! Choosing to use sires with incom- plete or low value data can unknowingly make your herd less profitable – same work, same cost, poor results - unaccept- able. Leachman ABC’s are the most reliable and comprehen- sive EPD’s in the industry. They are backed by a large (nearly a million), long-standing (over 30 years), multi-breed (over 15 breeds) database. Using this system assures you of making sound breeding decisions with minimal risk of failure.

$ Indexes Explained: Best % Rank: Average Top 25% Top 1% $Profit $7,402 $11,705 $22,252 $Ranch $25 $39 $74 $Feeder $62 $103 $206 Good Better

• One number that predicts your bottom line!

Feed Efficiency Explained: Best % Rank: Average Top 25% Top 1% Feed:Gain 0.04 -0.04 -0.21 Intake 27 2 -61 Good Better

Across Breed C omparisons

Good Best % Rank: Average Top 25% Top 1% BW 1.9 0.4 -3.3 WW 38 46 66 YW 64 79 115 MILK 21 25 36 SC 0.55 0.78 1.34 HT 0.62 0.80 1.24 MAT WT 29 15 -18 REA 0.53 0.67 1.02 IMF 0.22 0.36 0.70 CAR WT 831 845 878 BF -0.04 -0.02 0.02 PAP -0.45 -0.95 -2.16 Better

On the Ranch, In the Feedlot, & On the Rail, $ PROFIT ™ simply works!

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