Balancer

We started into the Balancers very hard, but those cows are so fertile.

What drew us to this breed was in the 1980s, the U.S. Markdad, a meat animal research center, had shown the fertility, the milking ability, the mothering ability of the Galvee and the Balancer cattle.

And that started us right down on the road of making productive cows that hit the profits that we tried to achieve.

So we started down that road and we've incorporated a lot of balancer genetics and those cows seem to last, you know, compared to purebred cattle.

We're previewing their fall bull and commercial female sale coming up Saturday, October 17th at noon, and that's gonna be at Joplin Regional Stockyards in Carthage, Missouri.

The offering includes 150 Balancer and Gelbvieh 18-month-old bulls, and they also have 30 commercial open heifers that's gonna be in the sale as well.

Matt, Cami, welcome to Genetics and the Gavel.

Yeah, thank you.

I'm glad to have you here today.

Before we get talking about the Seedstock Plus fall bull and female sale, October 17th, 2026, at noon Central Time at the Joplin Regional Stockyards in Carthage, Missouri, uh, why don't you talk to a little bit about your background, uh, your family, how you got started in the beef industry, and how you kind of ended up at Seedstock?

I grew up on a, uh, a farm that we raised Gelbvieh and Balancer cattle.

Uh, Burbank Cattle Company started back in, I think, '85, and so we grew up raising cattle.

So my family, I'm of the sixth generation to live and work on my family's beef cattle farm.

We live in the northern part of White County, just north of Searcy, about 20 minutes, and we raise registered Gelbvieh, Balancer, and Hereford cattle.

Um, my grand- great-grandpa bought his first registered Hereford in 1936.

So-