Can you walk me through the planning process?And whats coming under the gavel?
A. We will be selling over 400 18-month-old, forage-tested bulls and over 700 Pharo-influenced heifers on November 5th and 6th in Burlington, Colorado. This will be our biggest fall sale ever. The bulls we will be selling are 100% foraged-developed and forage-tested – on grass. They have never been shut up in a corral and they have never been fed any grain. Since May they have been rotating through pastures in eleven different herds. We have eight herds within an eight-mile radius of Pharo Cattle Company (PCC) headquarters. We have three more herds on the Rhoades Ranch – 50 miles north of PCC headquarters. We have to gather these bulls and haul them to PCC headquarters two times prior to the sale – and then again at sale time. This involves three men with a set of portable corrals, a portable loading chute, a four-wheeler and a cattle truck. Most herds can be gathered and hauled in one to two hours. After the first trip, the bulls gather and load very quickly and easily. In late August
