Mid-Winter Projects at RAB
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It is the week before Christmas! We hope this blog post finds your family healthy, happy and ready for one of the greatest holiday of the year! Here at the ranch we took this past week to get a few projects done, which included replacing and replumbing a water tank in one of our pastures and starting the process of getting our calving barn ready for the upcoming calving season. This next week we will be weighing the yearling bulls that will be on the March 2013 sale to get a feel for how they are gaining.

It's Beginning to Look alot like Christmas
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Winter has officially hit in South Dakota. This past weekend we had our first winter storm of the season with a winter storm including a couple inches of snow and gusting winds.  The roads were a little treacherous Saturday and early Sunday morning with a few drifts and decreased visibility but cleared up pretty quickly. Although we are very grateful for the moisture, snow is just so hard to love!                  

Before this weekends winter storm we prepared around the feedlot by spreading fresh straw in their pens.

VGW 903 Oly appreciated his new bed. Oly and Roosevelt are going to World West in Montana soon to get collected.

The replacement heifer calves are in a pasture close to ranch headquarters

The rest of the cow herd is currently out grazing cornstalks.

Craig and Peggy have been busy getting the sale cattle into delivery loads, and are getting down to the last couple loads. Weather depending one of the last delivery loads will go out this week. The guys have also started to work on getting the calving barn ready to go and we will have a post about the updates they have been doing in a couple weeks! We hope that your family have had good weather and are enjoying this wonderful season. Like our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter and share your snow pictures with us!    

Bieber Fever III Sale
Bieber Fever III - November 30, 2012

Last Friday November 30th was our Bieber Fever III Sale here at the ranch. The sale went great, the morning started off a little frosty and foggy but it cleared up a little throughout the day. Overall our sale went really well and here are some picture highlights from saleday. For more sale pictures visit our Facebook Page. 

                             

                            

                We had all of the Registered and Commerical lots penned before the sale for preview 

                             

                             

                                One customer making friends with one of his potential purchases 

                             

                             

We sell all of the lots over video instead of running the lots individually through a sale ring. We switched over to this method a few years back and are very happy with the results! This year we had three 80inch TVs instead of projectors and screens, the videos looked really sharp!

                             

                                                   A couple views from during the sale.

                             

                             

                             

Thank You to all of the Buyers and Bidders! We hope to see you in March for our Annual Production sale! Here is the sale report of the top selling lots and buyers along with our volume buyers. To see more pictures from our sale please look at our Facebook page.

Bieber Red Angus Ranch
Bieber Fever III					November 30th 2012
2012 Fall Production Sale	Head	Average
Red Angus Bred Heifers	49	$3,860
Red Angus Coming 2 Year old Bulls	71	$4,989
Red Angus Spring Calving Cows	50	$3,268
Red Angus Summer Calving Cows	37	$2,016
Red Angus Commercial Bred Heifers	188	$1,782
Red Angus Commercial Cows	217	$1,705
High Selling Lots
Name	Lot	Price			Buyer Name	BuyerFrom
Red Angus Bred Heifers
Bieber Redcap Lady 385Y	2	$11,000			Jon Marshall	Katy TX
Bieber Enchantress 360Y	3	$11,000			Jon Marshall	Katy TX
Bieber Mimi 350Y	1	$10,000			Jon Marshall	Katy TX
Bieber Tilly 348Y	8	$6,500			Jon Marshall	Katy TX
Bieber Galee 388Y	26	$5,500			Jon Marshall	Katy TX
Bieber Enchantress 294Y	4	$5,500			Mud Creek Reds	Alavord IA
Bieber Birdy 382Y	60	$5,500			Brenda & Sheldon Schlecht	Streeter ND
Bieber Designer 345Y	23	$5,250			Terry Albrecht	Thuston NE
Bieber Flower 361Y	11	$4,750			Jordan Rhodes	Faulkton SD
Bieber Kanna 347Y	15	$4,750			Leroy Bieber	Leola SD
Bieber Queen 341Y	5	$4,750			Leroy Bieber	Leola SD
Red Angus Coming 2s
Bieber Goldbar Y379	218	$11,000			Green Mountain Red Angus	Three Forks MT
Bieber Boeing Y310	202	$9,500			Steve & Amy Bieber	Beulah ND
Bieber Goldbar Y345	205	$9,500			Hansmeier & Sons Inc	Bristol SD
Bieber Haymaker Y365	207	$8,250			Steve & Amy Bieber	Beulah ND
Bieber High Noon Y377	211	$8,000			Ammann Red Angus Ranch	Wilmot SD
Bieber EXT Y328	212	$8,000			Otto Red Angus	Grace City ND
Bieber EXT Y364	217	$7,750			Brenda & Sheldon Schlecht	Streeter ND
Bieber Roosevelt Y390	201	$7,250			DWAJ Red Angus	AB, Canada
Bieber Haymaker  Y346	221	$7,000			Wade and Suzie Tucker	Wood SD
Red Angus Spring Calving Cow
BIEBER GALEE 9513	71	$10,500			Jon Marshall	Katy TX
BASIN PRIDE 2048	70	$7,000			Jon Marshall	Katy TX
BIEBER DATELINE 10320	73	$5,500			Greg Raasch	Odebolt IA
OLC LANA S227	86	$5,500			Weber Red Angus	Lake Benton MN
BASIN DYNAMO 3016	78	$5,000			Mud Creek Reds	Alavord IA
BASIN PRIMROSE 4131 BR	92