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Bull sale held April 4
CULPEPER - The 50th annual sale of the Virginia Beef Cattle Improvement Association Culpeper, junior bulls, will be held Friday, April 4 at 2 p.m. The sale will be held at Culpeper Agriculture Enterprises, located on Route 29 just south of Culpeper.
The Central Virginia Cattleman's Association will sell commercial, fall-calving bred Virginia premium assured heifers immediately following the bulls.
The sale will include 43 yearling Angus and Gelbvieh bulls. All bulls qualify as sires for the Vir- ginia Quality Assured purple tag feeder calf program. Complete performance information will be available on all bulls.
The CVCA consignment will include 40 Angus-cross VPA heifers due to calve in September and October. All heifers have been developed together and will sell in groups of two to four head.
Heifers have been bred AI to low-birth weight Angus sire LCC Dillon G689L and sons of N Bar Prime Time D806, and New Design were used natural service as cleanup sires.
Beef producers and others who are interested are invited to visit Glenmary Farm of Rapidan to view the bulls and heifers. Glenmary Farm is operated by Tom and Kim Nixon; they can contacted at (540) 672-7396.
For catalogs and additional information on the bulls or heifers, contact the following - Virginia BCIA at (540) 231-9163; Steve Hopkins, Orange County extension agent at (540) 672-1361; or visit the Web sites, http:// bcia.apsc.vt.edu/ or http:// cvcacattle.com.
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