hello welcome to Kate's Ag today i am at the 38th annual DeBruycker Bull sale which is
very exciting it is my second time and i am going to learn a little bit more about why
the DeBruycker's have superior genetics for the Charolais bulls and how the why they're
so incredible i hope you enjoy the video
now i'm here with Brett DeBruycker of DeBruycker Charolais so this is very exciting thank you
so much for inviting me to your bull sale you bet thanks for coming we're glad to have
you very happy to be here you bet a little chilly outside today but hopefully it'll be
a good day on saturday yes i hope so too and could you tell me a little bit about what
you do here so on saturday which is this year it's april 2nd 2022 we'll have our annual
bull sale we'll sell 700 charolais bulls at auction on saturday so we're the largest Charolais
bull sale in the world wow and we got both customers coming from all over the united
states and canada and so hopefully we'll get along well we've got pretty good offerings
so we're fairly excited about it yes and i was actually here last year and i met some
wonderful folks from all around the us that come for the superior DeBruycker genetics
yeah yeah well thank you yeah and we've got a good following and great customers we're
really lucky to have them and you know it's more than just business it's more like a family
relationship with most of the people we work with yes for sure and today you're preparing
the bulls yeah today we're uh we brought them in into town here to great falls at western
livestock auction and we're giving them a bath so we're giving them a shower they need
that to get cleaned up if you're going to go to town you want to clean up and smell
good right yes and they do look very nice well thank you and uh now we've got the guys
out back we're panning them in in their proper pens getting them ready for the bull sale
so that people can walk through and find the uh bull that there or bulls they're looking
for what do you look for in good quality bulls well what we like is obviously we like a lot
of performance in our bulls but along with that performance and feed efficiency that
we we provide we want a nice small head real smooth shoulders and of course they need to
be good sound uh good legged good sound footed bulls with a lot of length of body so we just
like a good well-rounded performance made bull and a nice good looking package that's
really great yeah what would you say your customers use your bulls for most often so
most of our customers use our bulls on black angus or red angus or crossbred cows and they're
just making calves that they can sell to feedlots which go on to uh get processed for meat and
uh our cav our bulls help add a lot of weaning weight onto their their calves so they get
a lot of free pounds using our bulls over other breeds that they could use that's really
great yeah so it helps helps our customers make money that's incredible and you're also
working to move to direct to consumer as well yeah no we're diving into another segment
of the beef industry and so we've uh started with the with the DeBruycker Charolais meats
and we're on our website at DeBruyckercharolais.com we've got our meats website where customers
can go there and order cuts of beef and we'll ship it to them so oh that's wonderful yeah
thanks no it's been a good addition it's still growing we got some growing pains to get through
but so far all the all the feedback from customers and we've sent beef to california and new
york and texas colorado very very cool florida all over so far all of the feedback we've
had has been really good people are very happy with it and would people go to your website
to learn a little bit more about your bulls and what you do yeah if you go to our website
at DeBruyckercharolais.com you can learn all about the family and our our breeding operation
and what we do and how long have you been established for well mom and dad bought their
first charlotte heifers in 1963 so we've been at it for a little while and now it's just
a family operation with my brother and i and a couple of my sisters and now i've got some
nephews coming back in and my my daughters are thinking about being part of it so it's
just a big family operation that's amazing we get along most days well thank you so much
it was a pleasure speaking with you oh thank you kate it's always good to see you and i
appreciate you taking the time yes of course now i'm here with Clay so this is super exciting
and you're washing the bulls today in preparation for sale day can you tell me a little bit
more about that uh we just run them through and get them clean because especially these
white bulls that they get really dirty and it pulls it off and they shine right up really
nice yes they're very beautiful after they're all washed yes really nice so the first pen
is with soap uh i have soap and just kind of pre-soak them but we wash them somewhat
there and it's just cold water with soap and then we go into with heat and soap and then
we shut the soap off and then just rinse it all off and then that's it wow and how many
bulls would you say you usually wash a day do about 30 an hour so depends on i think
we did 260 yesterday today we'll do 340. so yep and it's very important for sale day because
then they look great when they're in the ring yep so that makes them look a lot nicer so
yep what is your favorite part about the DeBruycker Bull sale oh just the bulls that's for sure
they're very incredible yep so yep well thank you so much and it was a pleasure speaking
with you again because you were also in my video last year yep so yeah so it's fantastic
to be back yep for sure thank you very much all right thank you i think i'm gonna hand
the mic over to Clint Rusk the new executive director for the american international charolais
association uh we sure appreciate his taking the time him taking the time to come out to
our bull sale and he's uh spent an immense amount of time walking the bulls and we really
appreciate him taking that time to do it and i'd like clint to have a few words here about
Charolais well thank you brad certainly payday at the DeBruycker Charolais Bull Sale and
i know these folks are excited about you folks being here the interest you've shown in their
cattle and more so in their program my first trip here to DeBruycker so i'm learning a
lot i've still got a lot to learn i'm probably going to write a summary article when i get
home just about the experience because from the time my plane landed on thursday until
today i've enjoyed every moment of it it's exciting it's fun there's a lot of people
here that many of you that take this business very seriously and there's good cattle here
i promise you i got down on the guard rail pins the other morning i found a bull in every
pin that i would be pleased to take home and uh so those of you that spend the rest of
the day and stay on the end and are disciplined i think you can find an awful good set of
bulls even at the very end of the sale that you're going to be happy with so buy with
confidence the cattle are good the best part i told people the other day at our at our
annual board meeting i love the cattle but i really believe the backbone of the Charolais
business are the people that produce them and the people that use them every day that's
you folks so thank you for coming i'm now here with Mr Sherburne again and you were
in my interview in last year's DeBruycker bull sale so that was super awesome and i'm
very happy to speak with you again well i'm sure glad to have the opportunity to talk
to you again and interview uh i think it's very important for our industry what you do
thank you so much what brings you to the DeBruycker bull sale to buy the quality of cattle that
are here you could drive your wheels off all over the united states and never come up with
as many bulls and quality that is here for what i believe is a volume and buy the bulls
at the prices that they're at i've gone to several other bull sales and looked at them
and i could get four or five bulls at their bull sale that i really like but i can come
here and look at 100 bulls that i really like so the volume here you're just not going to
find it anywhere else in the united states or anywhere maybe in the world that's amazing
so the quality is exceptional the quality is exceptional coming in the ring here uh
i think he's one of the better bulls in the sale just shaped like a barrel i think he's
gonna go out and do a great job in the breeding he's lot 162 the number to buy look at the
weaning on him and he's a herd bull and so to get ten thousand on the bull...............
sold the bull $32,000.
all right thank you very much we appreciate it see there's another bull right there that
10 bull he's got quite a little bone maybe not as much as a 13 bull but he's very a correct
bull too and we like him real well and you walked all of the bulls yesterday yeah we
what we do is we put them in the alley and we watch every bull walk we like we we want
to see that they can travel we live in nevada where it's big country uh we run on somewhere
between four hundred thousand and five hundred thousand acres given on the year and these
bulls have to be correctly made or they won't stand up to the terrain that we have in the
miles that they have to travel to cover a cow that's very very interesting and what
do you look for on the sheet what do some of these numbers mean okay these numbers here
that's 100 120 and 109 and what we're looking for is every bull to be over a hundred that
means that they are above average in the DeBruycker herd not comparable to anybody else's herd
but in their own herd that's where they're at this bull is is real good on his numbers
then they have what they call it EPD which is expected what the bull should do in his
future to produce your calves and we like to buy bulls that their average is above the
average in the charolais industry that's not comparable to angus or any other breeds but
in the charolais industry we want those EPDs to be above average and we believe that if
you use the EPDs and the indexes both in buying these bulls you'll come up with a bull that
should produce the kind of product at the end that we're looking for and could you give
me an overview of your operation our operation we run between my brother-in-law and me we
run right at 3 400 head of mother cows and we use a black angus cow and put the charolais
bull on them for the hybrid vigor that we get out of that and since we've been doing
this our weaning weights have gone up every year and we started out kind of bottom swimmers
on our bulls and now the way to increase our pounds on these cattle is to buy better bulls
and buy better black heifers to put them on so that helps on both sides of getting that
greener calf and we do a terminal cross so we never keep a half charolais cow or a half
angus cow we always buy back angus calves or first calf heifers and then we breed them
back to a charolais bull that's fascinating and what are you looking for with this bull
we're looking for a real flat top line where he's straight and then look at his front legs
look at the bone that's on that bull he carries that bowl he's uh he's very correct he's very
straight legged so he doesn't toe out or toe in so structurally this bull is put together
the way i like to see a bull look from his elbow on his front leg back to his flank he
carries through so he's got volume for growth so he can consume enough feed to produce the
pounds that you want and as far as i'm concerned this is really a nice bull look at the width
on his hind quarters wow and he carries through deep through here he carries down to his hawk
so he doesn't just look like a chicken-legged bull he carries that volume all the way through
his whole body in my opinion if i could take every bull home that looked like him i'd be
really tickled that's really interesting how long have you been coming to the DeBruycker
bull sale we've been coming to the DeBruycker Bull sale for about 18 years now between me
and my brother-in-law we will take out of here somewhere between 40 to 50 bulls every
year that's incredible and you also come with your daughter which is awesome so it's a true
family operation we are a true family operation my brother-in-law on the ranch he's at has
both his son and daughter and and son-in-law working on the ranch and then on our ranch
my daughters come home thank you so much oh you bet it was a pleasure speaking with you
oh it's a pleasure speaking with you too
friendly too i'm now here with Luis Velasco from Santana Ranch and Kylie and Bridger so
this is very exciting and we're all at the DeBruycker bull sale could you explain to
me a little bit about your operation and why you choose DeBruycker bulls we run a commercial
operator operation excuse me and uh we like the charolais bulls DeBruycker bulls because
of the win weight more than anything and the calving ease we don't have much problem and
what is an overview of your operation cow calf operation do you enjoy coming to the
bull sale yes you do what's your favorite part see bulls my favorite my favorite part
is like seeing the bulls and like things that turn up into oh very fun and how long have
you been coming to the bull sale for good question 15 years wow yeah you must really
like these bulls we do like the bulls and we like the people here too yes and that's
sometimes the most important part it was a pleasure speaking with you thank you so much
no problem you're very cute i'm now here with mike mckinley and you've been coming to the
DeBruycker Bull sale for a very long time yeah 22 23 years something like that that's
awesome and where are you from i'm from cheney washington eastern washington it's about 15
miles from spokane and what do you look for in your bulls well i like uniformity i'm looking
for milk i'm looking for easy calving they've got all of that through 20 some years of coming
here i've you know i've learned that that everything i want in a bull is here so there's
no use to go anywhere else that's very interesting and could you give me an overview of your
operation i have about 240 mother cows they run uh about 12 DeBruycker bulls a year on
those 240 and uh it's been weaning weights have gone up every year have they used them
since i started using them cows are awesome that i gotta keep about 30 a year i keep from
from his bulls good udders and good milk and and good mothers so it's it's been it's been
great that's really great and what are you looking for particularly today well i'm looking
for bulls that uh can be on the open range and and uh not be not be babied and we'll
hold up we'll get the breeding done and and not have bad feet or lazy and can calve easy
and so the cows can can do it on their own i don't i don't like to have to be with them
a lot so yes they need to they need to be able to calve on their own and take care of
it on their own so you know it's not hard to find bulls like that here you know um about
any bull you pick will would be a good bull wow that's incredible and how long have you
been ranching for well i'm fourth generation i'm fourth generation on the farm as well
well congratulations thank you yeah my great great grandfather homesteaded in 1887. there
and uh i do wheat and and barley and and addition to the cows so i've been in the operation
since i was really five first summer i i earned some money when i was five years old that's
awesome so i've been involved a long time very cool what was a pleasure speaking with
you thank you so much you too thank you 19 000 you'll do nothing but make your money
$19 500 on you....... $19, 500 sold onhim