Our April 28 Southern Tradition Angus Bull and Female sale catalogs should have arrived by now if you are on our regular mailing list. If you signed up to receive a catalog within the last two weeks, you should be getting yours in the mail at the end of this week since I had to wait to receive them myself and then mail them out to you. We also have posted on our homepage  video of our current sale offerings.  To view them, click on the bar that reads “Click here for video of our April sale” and it will bring up the different lot numbers for you to view. Our electronic catalog is also located on our homepage. Click on the cover of the catalog and you can flip through it just as you would a regular paper copy. If you are interested in receiving a catalog, we would be happy to send you one. Simply fill out the catalog request form. This form is located in the top right hand corner of our homepage. If you have any questions, feel free to give us a call!

Our catalogs are set to mail out on Friday, March 23 and we have requested an in-home date of Wednesday, March 28. We will also have video available online on March 28 of our sale offerings for the April 28th sale. If you haven’t received a catalog by the first few days of April, please let us know and we will be happy to get you another one. We will also make available online on March 28 an electronic version of our catalog that may be downloaded and viewed from your computer. Please call us and let us know if we can assist you in any way. We are gearing up for a great sale and looking forward to seeing all our repeat customers and friends on sale day!

The newly acquired Whitestone Black Arrow Z101 is possibly the best young herd sire in Billings, Montana at the Genex facility according to Tom Burke with the American Angus Hall of Fame.  He is jointly owned by Tanner Farms, Whitestone Farm, Genex CRI and a group of progressive breeders. This promising herd sire is residing at the Genex facility and they are handling the semen services for him.  Tanner Farms this past week had their first calves sired by Whitestone Black Arrow. We are excited about this great herd sire prospect and look forward to the future progeny he will produce. The calves that were born this week look exceptional. If you are interested in purchasing semen, contact Genex. Click on the link below to see video footage of this great sire.

We are happy to report that we have a great upcoming bull calf by SAV Polly 9829 sired by SAV Bismark 5682! This yearling bull’s adjusted weaning weight was 1350 and he ranks 3rd out of 53 yearling bulls, by the way, this is her first calf! He will be for sale in our October 2012 bull sale. She is scheduled to calve again this Spring and is sired by Sitz Upward 307R.

We would like to say a special thank you to our repeat and new customers for making this year’s Pasture Performance-Tested Registered Angus Bull Sale a success! We sold a total of 84 lots  with an average price of $3,075. Some of our top buyers included Luke Foster from Paragould, Arkansas that purchased Lot 11, Tanner Final Answer 964Y for $7500. We had a tie for second highest buyer with Ms. Lola Westerfield of Batesville, Mississippi purchasing the Lot 66 bull, Tanner EXT 221Z for $7,000 and Genex Cooperative Inc. from Shawano, Wisconsin purchasing the Lot 10 bull, Tanner Upward 107 Z also for $7,000.  John Brewer from Water Valley, Mississippi bought the Lot 85 bull, Tanner Traveler 337Z for $4,800. The lot 47 bull, Tanner New Frontier 159Y was purchased by Boothe & Boothe Farms from Millport, AL for $4,500 and Tanner Missing Link 943Y was purchased for $4,100 by John Caveness of Jacksonville, Texas.  We are pleased to report that we had a record crowd and had our largest number of bidders at this sale. Our goal is to help our customers produce market-topping feeder calves that will weigh more with less input, and develop an easy fleshing, fertile herd with productive longevity. We thank everyone that attended and spent this special day with us. We are looking forward to our upcoming Southern Tradition Angus Bull and Female sale on April 28, 2012 sale! We will be offering 70 female lots including fall calving cows, elite heifer pregnancies, fall embryo heifer calves, open yearling Angus heifers, and bred Angus heifers.  We will also have a fantastic set of  40 service age bulls! We will be sending out our next catalog around the end of March. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us!

We have had a few customers call regarding frame size and scrotal circumference.  For questions concerning frame size, please call our farm manager Tim Hardy at 601-319-7894.  All scrotal measurements will be on the update sheet available on sale day.  If you have any other questions, please feel free to call us at 601-477-2202.

The catalogs are in the mail! You should be receiving them soon. The video will be live on Thursday, September 22.  We will also be adding our electronic catalog to our homepage by Thursday as well. Call us or email if you have any questions.

We are putting the final touches on the catalog and it will be at the printers tomorrow.  We are looking at an in-home delivery date of September 23.  Although we put on our catalogs that it should be in your home by September 23, some are delivered a few days later.  However, you should have one by October 1.  If you have not received a catalog by October 1, please call or email us and we will get another on its way. If you are not currently on our mailing list and would like to sign up, you can simply click the Request a Catalog button on the home page, fill out the form, and we will be glad to send you one. Please feel free to contact us with questions either by phone 601-477-2202 or email.  We are looking forward to a great sale with a fantastic set of bulls and we hope you will be able to join us!

We prefer for each of you to be in attendance on sale day. Realistically, we know there will be some scheduling conflicts and distance limitations.  In these cases, we have arranged for you to be able to participate in the sale on an absentee basis.

If possible, you can come by and evaluate the cattle prior to sale day. If distance is a problem, we can provide you with a  DVD of all the cattle for home viewing.  All of the lots in the sale will be available for viewing online prior to sale day at www.superiorlive.com.

Here’s how it works.  Please call Superior Productions at 800-431-4452 and pre-register for your buyers number. A registration form needs to be filled out and returned to Superior Productions with a signature on it.  This registration form can be found by clicking on the “REGISTER FOR YOUR BUYER’S NUMBER” link online at www.superiorlive.com.  The registration form can be printed, completed and either faxed or mailed in at the number or address provided on the form.  Upon receipt of this information, Superior will call you with a buyer’s number and the bid line phone number that you will use on sale day to place bids over the phone.

The sale will be broadcast via the internet at www. superiorlive.com.  Simply go to www.superiorlive.com and on the home page click on the link titled “To Watch Today’s Auction-click here”.  Regardless of internet connection, you will be able to view and listen to the video and audio feed.  For the bidding process-follow the auction on the internet and call the bid line number to place your bids.  Your computer must have Flash Media Player installed to view the auction.

Bidders who are successful in making purchases over the internet will be contacted by Tanner Farms after the sale to settle payment and make shipping arrangements.

We wanted to make everyone aware that we are changing our                   Pasture Performance-Tested Registered Angus Bull Sale to the 4th Saturday in October. This year that date will be October 22, 2011. We will be offering an exceptional set of 100 registered, coming two-year-old Angus Bulls. Our bulls are power packed for performance and muscle, have tremendous gaining power, and have complete ultrasound and EPD data. These deep, thick, wide-based Angus bulls are part of our certified herd and are 100% guaranteed fertile. If you are not on our catalog list, you can click on the Catalog tab in the top right hand corner of the site and complete the form. This will get you added to our mailing list and you will receive our catalog and any other important information that may arise during the year. We hope you make plans to attend our sale in October and if you need help in any way, give us a shout!

We want to thank everyone for coming to Tanner Farms to make this year’s Southern Tradition Angus Sale a great success! We had a fantastic crowd and a really good sale. We were very pleased with our sale cattle and feel they should make a great addition to the herds they will find as their new home. We want to especially thank all our repeat and new customers! Your confidence in our program is appreciated and we stand behind the quality of our stock.  We really enjoy the cattle business and the people we meet along the way, to be able to work with the American farmer and cattleman is an added bonus.  As always, if we can help you with something, please let us know.

We are offering our sale catalog online!   It is just to the right of this post, under the heading Angus Production Sale.   To view, click on the cover of the catalog and it will open.  If you are unable to view the entire 31 pages click on angus.org scroll down until you see our sale date of 4/23/11 and our name and you may view our catalog there by clicking on Tanner Farms and the sale book will open up.  We hope you enjoy our sale offering and as always, if you have any questions, please feel free to call!

If you are a past customer of ours or you have signed up to be on our mailing list, you should receive your Tanner Farms Southern Tradition Angus Bull and Female Sale catalog in the mail this week.  If you have not received it, please let us know and we will be happy to send you a new one.  If you are not on our mailing list and would like to receive a catalog, simply fill out the form on the catalog tab at the top of this page and we will send you one right out. We are also posting the catalog on our website homepage for your viewing as well.   The video is still up and you can take a peek of selected lots in action.  If you have any questions, please feel free to give us a call!

We have posted for your viewing pleasure the long awaited video of our April 23, 2011 Tanner Farms Southern Tradition Bull and Female Sale offerings! We hope you enjoy the show! If you have any questions, feel free to email us at gary@tannerfarms.net or amanda@tannerfarms.net or call 601-477-2202.  Catalogs are set to mail soon with an in-home date of March 31.  We will be posting our electronic catalog online for you as well as soon as that is available. If you are not on our mailing list and would like to be added, simply click the catalog tab to fill out your address information and send it in.

We were able to get the heifers shot this week! The weather cooperated and all the footage is in the can and off to the editor.  We are looking at having it up by the March 15th which is next Tuesday.  The catalog is coming along as well and should be in the mail by the end of March and in homes by April 1.  We will also have an electronic version on our site for viewing as well.

We were able to shoot our video this week! The bulls all really cooperated and we are hoping that this will be our best video yet! We are still hoping to get heifer footage this upcoming week.  We are planning to have the video loaded on the web and ready for viewing by March 15th!  We are working diligently on our Southern Tradition Registered Angus Female and Bull sale catalog which is set to mail out the end of March. The in-home date is set for April 1st. We will also have it available for viewing here on the web. We have lots to get done! Thank you to those of you who are helping to get the word out about our upcoming Registered Angus sale! We look forward to getting together with our returning customers and meeting new ones!

Things have been busy around the farm since the beginning of the new year; flushing donors, transferring eggs, and calving!  We have gotten off to a great start with our breeding season and are looking forward to some promising pregnancies! Gary, Tim, and Drew have just returned from a trip to Schaff Angus Valley and they really enjoyed their time at the Schaff farm.  It is really amazing to see how people farm in different areas of the country especially in such wintry conditions and have such a successful operation.  Farming is like other lines of work in that it is always helpful to see how other producers are meeting challenges and solving problems to make their operation more successful and efficient. Speaking of efficiency, our new Cow Chips Heat Watch system is on its way! We are looking forward to working with this new technology and hope to enjoy the success of this investment. We are also looking to shoot new video of our bulls  at the end of February and it should be live by mid-March. Keep checking!

We wanted to thank everyone who helped make our December 4th sale a success! We enjoyed seeing our familiar customers as well as some new faces.  We trust the animals you purchased will make a big impact to your bottom line and will be rock solid performers. We always have fun on sale day and we hope you did, too.  On a personal note our Christmas this year was a real blast. We had three little girls under the age of two opening gifts-actually one that opened them for everyone- and it was great fun experiencing the magic of Christmas through the eyes of a child once again! It was bedlam for a brief moment but we wouldn’t trade it for anything. As we look toward the new year, we are anticipating a wonderful year of cattle herding, child rearing, and making life moments that really count.  We hope to see you at our Spring sale on April 23, 2011 and if we can help in any way between now and then, just let us know. Happy New Year!

Click on the 2010 Bull Sale tab at the top of our home page to view our sale offering for the December 4th sale!

Here is the latest on news and events coming up for us at Tanner Farms!

• Dec. 4 2010 Bull Sale Catalog available on website now
• Bull Sale catalogs due in homes by Nov. 8th
• Tri County Cattleman’s Dinner, Thrus. Nov. 18th
• Pasture Performance-Tested Registered Angus Bull Sale,  Sat. Dec. 4th at Noon, Shuqualak, MS

Yes, you are in the right place! We have updated and revamped our site! We hope you enjoy our new look and are able to navigate easier with the changes we’ve made.  Our catalog will be available soon along with video of the bulls for sale at our upcoming sale December 4, 2010 at noon.  Keep checking and we will have it all up soon!