Record Sale
The $600,000 Bull
Idaho's Colyer Ranch made history last week, with a bull named in honor of a Kansas State University professor and livestock judge, Miles McKee. The Hereford bull, "C. Miles McKee 2103 ET", brought an amazing $600,000 at the annual Colyer's bull sale.
C. Miles McKee will find his way into the Guinness World Record, replacing Le Grand Domino 7184, a bull that sold for $301,000 for a half interest in 1980. The buyer of C. Miles McKee was a syndicate out of Dunlap, Iowa -- the Miles McKee Syndicate. The syndicate bought three-quarters interest in the bull.
Guy Colyer, who manages the ranch's 250 registered Hereford cow herd, says naming the bull after the legendary livestock judge was something the family wanted to do.
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"Miles has been an icon in the cattle industry for more than 40 years, he said. "Both Kyle and Katie, our grown children, graduated from Kansas State, and they thought very highly of him as a professor and a mentor. Thus, we named the bull after him."
C. Miles McKee wasn't the only animal sold at the February 25 sale. The Colyer sale included 259 total lots, with a gross for the sale of $1,792,400. Included in the sale: 141 lots of Hereford bulls, average $5,361; 70 lots of Angus bulls, average $4,623; 27 lots of open Hereford heifer calves, average $2,826; and 20 lots of open Angus heifer calves, average $1,830.
The top price for a Hereford heifer at the sale was $7,200 for C 11X Ms Hereford 2204. Top for an Angus heifer was $3,000 for CCC Bismarck Lady 2047. The top Angus bull that day was CCC Aberdeen 2108, at $9,250.
C. Miles McKee, the story of the day, was born January 11, 2012, and is the son of NJW 98S R117 Ribeye 88X ET. He was recently named Grand Champion Horned Hereford at the Fort Worth Stock Show, and was lead bull in Colyer's Grand Champion Pen at the 2013 National Western Stock Show.
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