Loonan Stock Farm - Red Angus, Simmental, Red Hybred Breeding Stock, Private Treaty Sale February 5, 2000, Herd Bulls, Cows, Replacement Heifers, Show Cattle, Club Calves, Performance Breeding, Show Ring

Loonan Stock Farm - Corning, IA - has been in the beef seedstock business for 37 years producing Simmental, Red Angus and Red Sim-Angus. The Loonan family originally was in commercial cattle production beginning in 1864. With their commercial background, the program is still focused on balancing all traits which contribute to increasing profits for the commercial producer.

37TH ANNUAL PRODUCTION SALE
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Private Treaty Auction • 1:00 p.m. CST Sharp
At the Farm • Corning, Iowa
Red Angus • Simmental • Red SimAngus

SELLING:

130 Yearling Bulls
• Many A.I. sired by breed leaders
• Carcass traits backed by 18 years of data
• Uniform, thick & easy fleshing with great dispositions
• The Loonan Program stresses maximum performance without calving problems
• Affordably priced at $2000, $2300 and $2600
• Select your bulls Feb 4, leave at Loonans with free delivery April 1 to May 10 when we are in your area, or pick up your bulls after test and semen check. (For over 300 miles, please inquire.)

90 Open Heifers
• Individual seedstock heifers
• Show prospects
• Commercial replacement heifers in 3 to 5 head uniform groups, starting at $750
• Our entire crop of 2011 SimAngus F1 heifers
• Affordably priced from $1200 to $1500

You can come and see the calves at any time. Call, write or e-mail for a complete catalog.

Give Judy or Rick a call:
Judy (cell) • (515) 423-5642
Rick (cell) • (515) 229-0920
1724 Holly Ave • Corning, IA 50841
lsfrra@wildblue.net

This calf crop is outstanding and can produce great benefits and progress your program.

Ask about the Loonan "Leave 'Em & Breed Em Program!"

No cattle sold or reserved ahead of time.

Join the many repeat customers at Loonan's Sale on Febrary 4 and let Loonan heterosis potential increase your bottom line.


The Loonan Program Continues ...

Friends and Customers, We want to thank everyone for your concern and caring in the passing of Dad. This is a new arena for me as I’m used to dealing with the numbers, facts and figures but will do my best to tell what Loonan Stock Farm’s genetics can do for you to ensure your profitability and continuation in the cattle industry. We started ultrasounding 17 years ago in 1994. Rick and I – with the guidance of Dad – have been keeping carcass quality, uniformity, disposition and gainability with performance and eye appeal in the forefront of our bull-buying decisions. And we are going to continue on with that philosophy to ensure that the calf crop we offer to you will benefit your program. It has been an interesting time for Rick and I putting this flyer together since we haven’t done it in the past. I’ve pulled out files of past flyers and it has been bittersweet, yet very interesting to see the progressiveness of our program and the people who have helped us get to where we are today. I’ve been researching to come up with ideas and hadn’t realized the exact extent of insight Dad had about the cattle business. Hopefully we will be able to step into his shoes to help us realize the overall picture of what makes us Loonan Stock Farm. With the help of Rick and the understanding of you we plan to go on as before with our emphasis on quality with calving ease, disposition, performance, eye appeal and the bottom line of carcass. We have added three new Red Angus sires – Beckton Accent W226 L2, Beckton Hasten W753 J3 and LSFR Jubilation 42W. Our Simmental sires are still HSR Dakota Beef U653; our Shear Force son, SRF Shear Force 05U; and a son of Red Dream, LSF Red Dream 3U. We are looking forward to next year with our first calves out of Real Deal, a son of Kappes Real Deal P366 from the Schalek herd where Earthquake came from. The calves are looking great and work has just begun on our sale catalog. Judy		Hello Customers, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your business the last 37 years. We look forward to continuing to work with you in the future. With the passing of Dick this spring, it will bring new challenges for Judy and myself. Dick always did all the advertising and flyers for our sale. This is something Judy and I will have to learn. One thing that will never change is us raising phenotypically correct, structurally sound cattle that excel in calving ease, disposition, growth and carcass merit. We have three new sires that have progeny in the sale this year. • Beckton Accent W226 L2 was the top-selling bull in the Beckton sale in 2010. He was a perfect 10 in the Igenity test for tenderness. He is a long-bodied, deep-ribbed bull. Don’t miss his calves! • Beckton Hasten W753 J3 is a low birthweight bull with outstanding weaning and yearling ratios. • LSFR Jubilation R42W is a Jubilation son that we raised. He is a performance bull with loads of muscle. His calves are really thick and stylish. We weighed all the bulls on test on Sept. 27 and all the calves were gaining exceptionally well. This should be an outstanding set of bulls and replacement heifers. So don’t miss our opening day private treaty sale on Feb. 4, 2012. Thanks for reading and have a great day. Feel free to give Judy or myself a call if you have any questions. Thanks again, Rick

Loonan Bulls Make Uniform Calves That Perform Well.

For the last 34 years, the Fleharty Brothers from Corning, Iowa, have been buying their bulls from Loonan Stock Farm. They started with Simmental bulls and, in 2002, were expecting calves out of Red Angus and red SimAngus Loonan bulls. Today, all of their calves are sired by Red Angus bulls.

Back in 2001at the Southwest Iowa Preconditioned Sale at Massena, Iowa, they sold 130 head. This September they sold 318 head of steers and heifers with part of the heifers going back to the farm. The Flehartys have been source and age verifying their calves since the Red Angus Feeder Calf Certification Program started.

Randall Fleharty said using Loonan bulls on mixed-colored cows made their calves uniform and the calves perform well.

We are proud to be able to serve Flehartys with their bull selections and they are now using bulls out of the same sire lines with good performance and excellent carcass genetics. We look forward to serving the next generation of Flehartys through their sons.

Loonan Genetics Gain Top Feed Efficiency Ranking
A Taylor County commercial cattleman’s Loonan genetics Red Angus and Simmental 2009 calf crop closed out ranking no. 2 in feed efficiency over 118 lots representing 10,036 cattle fed at the Tri-County Steer Futurity Custom Feedlots in 2010.

The 120 head of home-grown Red Angus x Simmental Loonan genetic calves gained
3.25 lbs.-per-day on feed and were sold at 12 to 14 months of age. They had 80 percent yield grade 1 or 2 carcasses, graded 57 percent Choice with one Prime. They were source and age verified and the meat went to Japan for a net profit of $177 per head to the commercial producer (over feedlot in appraised value and feedlot charges).

Age, Source and Genetic Verification
“Source and age verification is becoming more important in feeder cattle sales. We have a feedlot that pays
$20-plus for source and age verified feeders.”
– Allen Venteicher, owner Massena Livestock Sales, Massena, Iowa.
Note: The Massena Red Angus feeder calf sale is the second Tuesday in January.

All calves by Loonan bulls are eligible for source and age verification through the Red Angus Association of America and the American Simmental Association.

Red Angus:

• Source and age verification to ranch of origin.

• Genetics require half Red Angus calf by registered Red Angus sire or dam.

Call Ann at the Red Angus Assn. of America at 940-387-3502

Simmental:

• Source and age verification to ranch of origin.

• No genetic requirements.

Call Jannine Story at the American Simmental Association at 406-587-2778

Profitable Years Forecast
“The cow-calf sector could have the most profitable three or four years ahead as any time in history.”
– Randy Black, Cattle Fax

New Red Angus Sires:

BECKTON ACCENT W226 L2
#1331669 • BD: 3/15/09

CE	BW	WW	YW	M	TM	Marb	REA
11	-2.3	27	60	22	35	0.16	0.10

• High-selling bull at Beckton's 2010 sale
• Accent was the top overall pick from every bull that was on test that winter
• The only bull to get a perfect 10
• Accent was also DNA profiled and he scored a perfect 10 on Igenity's scale to measure tenderness.
• He had an ADG of 4.41 with a WW ratio of 108 and a YW ratio of 112
• An outcross from our other sires and his calves have length

These Accent sons, plus others, sell on Feb, 4, 2012!

BECKTON HASTEN W753 J3
#1331861 • BD: 4/18/09

CE	BW	WW	YW	M	TM	Marb	REA
12	-3.2	36	69	19	37	-0.12	-0.09

• His sire, Hasten HS 462, is a grandson of Hustler C2L079, and his dam, Belgos 198 JC, is a granddaughter of Julian GG B571 – two great bulls!
• He came in with a WW ratio of 120 and a YW ratio of 114
• He has a BW EPD of -3.2
• Calving ease with good performance and carcass traits

These Hasten sons, plus others, sell on Feb, 4, 2012!

LSFR JUBILATION 42W
#1310848 • BD: 3/4/09

CE	BW	WW	YW	M	TM	Marb	REA
11	-0.5	41	67	13	34	-0.32	-0.07

• A son of Jubilation ST 642 that we lost after two years of breeding
• This son is proving to be just like his sire
• The calves are dark red, long and showing performance and eye appeal
• His dam is a female we bought as a bred heifer back in 1999 from Mountain View at the Mile High Sale
• We are very impressed with his calves

These Jubilation sons, plus others, sell on Feb, 4, 2012!

New Simmental Sires:

HSR DAKOTA BEEF U653
#2454850 • BD: 3/11/08

CE	BW	WW	YW	M	TM	Marb	REA
10.8	2.7	62.8	106.6	1.2	32.6	0.13	0.61

• Top 1% of the breed in WW, YW, MWW and CW
• Top 4% for Marbling
• Top 10% for REA
• Top 2% for API
• Top 1% for TI
• Dakota adds thickness, style and performance to his calves.

This Dakota son, plus others, sell on Feb, 4, 2012!

LSF RED DREAM 3U
#2449104 • BD: 3/4/08

CE	BW	WW	YW	M	TM	Marb	REA
11.5	1.5	33.9	57.1	3.4	20.4	0.09	-0.03

• Deep, dark red son of Red Dream

This Red Dream son, plus others, sell on Feb, 4, 2012!

SRF SHEAR FORCE 05U
#2454951 • BD: 2/17/08

CE	BW	WW	YW	M	TM	Marb	REA
14.4	-0.4	30.4	63.0	10.8	26.0	0.51	0.36

We are looking forward to our calves in 2012 out of our new Simmental sire, SF Real Deal X530 (#2544477) from the Duane Schalek herd where Earthquake came from, We are continuing our philosophy of keeping the thickness in and the frame score in the 6 area. In March of 2011, Real Deal had a REA of 21.5 sq. in.

Youth Continue to Excel with Loonan Genetics
Logan Bauer, Exira, Iowa, made history at the Iowa State Fair “Beef of Merit” Carcass Contest in 2010. Logan won both Window A “High-Cutability” Grid and Window B “High-Quality” Grid. According to Dennis DeWitt, 4-H Beef of Merit Superintendent, this is the first time the same exhibitor has won both grids with different steers.

Window A Steer
A red Simmental x Red Angus weighed 1,325 lbs. with a 3.87-lb. ADG, 1.5 Yield Grade and low Choice quality grade. The steer yielded 69.6 percent return product for a value of $4.36 per day on feed.

Window B Steer
A red Simmental x Red Angus weighed 1,208 lbs. with an 3.74-lb. ADG, 2.6 Yield Grade and Choice quality Grade. The steer yielded 65.1 percent retail product with $3.90 carcass value per days on feed.

Logan, and his dad Michael and Uncle Brian before him, are no strangers to the Iowa State Fair Beef of Merit Carcass Contest. Last year, Logan had both champion and reserve steers in Window A.

Loonan Stock Farm is proud to have had a part in Bauers’ success by being the source of the genetics for many of their contest champions. It is a real pleasure for us to see our genetics coupled with the excellent Bauer management and see the predictable result.

Molly Miller


Molly Miller and Rascal 87, daughter of the Thom Millers of Winfield, Iowa, Henry County