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> Dec. 18, 2006 – Bar 5 posts the methods & Genetics Program in a shortened and easier to read format:
Designed Maternal Crossbreeding Program Bar 5 Breeding Philosophies & Techniques
Bar 5 Designed Maternal Crossbreeding Systems

Bar 5 Selection Methods & Certified Genetics Program Summary 
Genetics - Sire & Maternal Lines 
Physical Assessment – EOT 
Genetic Evaluations – EPDs 

Feb. 15 - Greg has been invited by the Cdn Consulate for Trade to make a Genetics Presentation in Mexico in February, 2007 to present this material above !!!.

Other Quickie Highlights for 2007
 
Feb. 9 is the Woonallee Simmental-Fleckvieh Sale in Australia, we are trying to make it. Click here for the Woonallee page on the Bar 5 WEB.

Feb, 27 - the FSFF Show Case Sale in Houston on Feb. 27, 2007.

March - Also, a group in Columbia has invited Greg to attend some events in early March,

March - Lee Leachman, LCoC announces his intentions to start a radio broadcast program and it will be carried Live on the internet, please watch closely the LCoC page on the Bar 5 WEB.   

Mar. 11, 2007 - Bar 5 Bull Test Station Open House & Field Day

April 14, 2007 - Bar 5’s Spring Spectacular XXXIV – Bull Sale & Elite Female Sale, Markdale, ON

May 1 - The Mexican National Show is scheduled for the first week in May, and we have received numerous invitations to attend, which Greg will.

> Dec. 9, 2006 – COB Bull Sale goes very well, with a large crowd and turn out of commercial producers to buy the offering. Bulls sold across Canada to Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec with the commercial cattle selling to Quebec & Ontario.
Our first offering of Stabilizer bulls were well received and the Hybrid power was appreciated by the buyers.  The 6 SA Fleck bulls were well appreciated.

Next Bar 5 Bull sale is scheduled for April 14, 2007; which will be featuring SA Flecks, Polled Flecks, Red Angus, Angus, Red & Black Simmentals, and Red & Black Stabilizers. 

> Dec. 4, 2006 -- Tips for Profit - Feeding Natural Cattle Is Topic Of Free Publication
A new South Dakota State University (SDSU) online publication discusses raising cattle without implants, ionophores or antibiotics. In the publication, "Feeding Natural Cattle" (find it at agbiopubs.sdstate.edu/articles/ExEx2056.pdf), SDSU Extension personnel Tyler Melroe and Erik Loe detail the market potential for "natural" beef, the requirements of such a management and marketing program, and the attributes, drawbacks and economics of "natural" feeding.
-- Joe Roybal

> Dec. 3, 2006 – Leachman announces Weekly Webcasts and posts new Producer Newsletter. Click here

> Oct. 10, 2006 – The “Bar 5 Invitational Multi-Breed Bull Test Station” delivery date receives the Fall Test Group, who will run the 112 day test with a Start of test (SOT) from November 7, 2006 to End of Test ( EOT ) of Feb. 27, 2007 when they will scanned, weighed, testes measured and frame scored by an independent veterinarian from BIO – Beef Improvement Services Inc. www.biobeef.com   

The Test group consists of the Maternal Breeds ( Fleckvieh, Red Angus, Angus, & Simmental ) and Hybrids and Composites of these breeds; FleckAngus, SimmAngus and some GelbAngus. Bar 5 congsigns 15 bulls and we invited 56 bulls for a Test Group of 71 !!!    We will try to sort the Bulls after to EOT and the top 50 will sell on April 14, 2007 in the Bar 5 Spring Spectacular 34 Spring Production Sale !!!!

The Delivery & ALL data on the bulls will be posted on the BIO site after the SOT of November 7 !!   Heaviest bull was a March 1 Angus bull from Bar 5 weighing  1000 lbs. !!  He is a Few Dollars More son !!!   www.biobeef.com for the Bull Listings !!!    

We are anticipating that we will invite guests for the Fall Groups that we will set of this coming Spring !!!!  Delivery date will be around May 1, 2007 with the End of Test scheduled for around Sept. 1, 2007.  Please contact Andreas Buschbeck with any possible entries.

We encourage producers to contact us to get our recommendations of breeding assignments for bulls that we are recommending, or would like to source for our Bull Sales !!!

Fall 2006 EOT – Bar 5 has pulled 112 animals off test this last couple months, with EOT of the three groups on Aug. 23; Sept. 19 & Oct. 24.  The bull candidates will be selling Dec. 2 in Fleckvieh Select in Red Deer, AB; and the remaining Fleck bulls selling with the Angus, Red Angus, Red Hybrid & Black Hybrid bulls selling on December 9, 2006 !!!!!

Dec. 2 – Bar 5 SA Fleckvieh bulls sell !!!  (http://www.bar5.com/salesevents.htm )   

Dec. 9 – Bar 5 selling SA Fleck bulls, along with Angus, Red Angus, Red Hybrid & Black Hybrid bulls !!!!!   (http://www.simmangus.com/sales.htm )  

Click here for the Bar 5 Invitational Multi-Breed Bull Test Station”  page on the Bar5 WEB !!!

> August 14 – Dan Ferguson will make the entire 2 hour VBPP Program review, for a comprehensive look at the Producer Standards that will be required for the Bar 5 Alliance.  Contact the Bar 5 office for full details.

> June 5 – Paul Stiles will run a 15 video, and make a short 15 minute Program review. Brian Pogue, will review the latest developments in source verification from BIO.

> May 1 – Verified Beef Production Program ( VBPP ) of the CCA & OCA “Quality Starts Here” initiative has agreed to participate in the Bar 5 Producer Alliance events. Paul Stiles and Dan Ferguson, of the OCA have agreed to attend and make the presentation for the benefit of the producers. VBPP certification will be required for future producer certification.