i'm now here with jerry malpe owner of broken box ranch which is just incredible and where
are you from williams california just north of sacramento about 60 miles that's awesome and could
you tell me a little bit about your operation we raise charolais cattle and commercial cows
have a background in feedlot and also raised rice that's really interesting
why do you come to the DeBruycker bull sale well i've known lloyd since about 1962 63 and
we got in the charolais business about the same era and uh so we just
haven't been here in a number of years and i wanted to come up and see the bulls that's
awesome and what do you look for in bulls well you know the DeBruckers have always been a
mainstay of the charolais business uh even when we had the western charolais association which was
lloyd was very active in and and uh he always had a great eye for cattle and we just
are after bulls that represent the charolais breed and thickness and smoothness and we're after
probably a pool of bulls maybe to use as a hurd sire very cool wow this has been awesome and
what's your favorite part about the debrucker bull sale oh you it's hard to go to one place
and see 700 bulls and so it's it's nice because you can see the varieties of different sires and
and you have a chance to see a lot of people you don't get to see all the time and even though
it's a long ways from home it's certainly worth it and i've known the boys since they were real small
and and jane is tremendous person and so it's always fun to come up and see him well it was a
pleasure speaking with you thank you so much well thank you for interview i'm now here with robert
wellman and you're from montana right yep valier montana that's awesome and what brings you to the
DeBruckyer bull sale uh i've been attending this bull sale for over 40 years really right i started
with lloyd DeBruycker now i'm working with his son and his grandsons that's awesome and what do you
enjoy about Debrucker bulls particularly well we use about 80 to 100 debruycker bulls every year
started out with a few now we're all the DeBruycker bulls and we're i mean they're
good people to work with so when you have good people to work with it's easy to keep coming back
yes it is and what do you look for in your bulls i don't know they've done a remarkable job of
you know trying to get everything that rancher needs in their bulls they've worked real hard
on getting the genetics right the size right so we have no problem with buying the top dollar
bull or the medium dollar bull or the lower end bull because it seems like they all have the same
characteristics and quality that we're looking for that's fantastic and what type of operation
do you have well yeah just a cow calf operation run about 2 000 cows and we also farm well thank
you so much it was a pleasure speaking with you yeah well nice speaking to you i'm now here with
cutter martin kelly martin's son which is awesome thank you could you explain a little bit about the
operation what you're doing today um we're just uh penning the bulls and bringing them in me and
kaler and ochert and just try to keep the sale going i mean we're kind of everyone relies on us
the backbone of the backbone of bringing bringing the bulls to the ring today and yeah
well that's awesome it's a beautiful day in montana yes it really is a little breezy my
brother and i kessler we run bulls with the family and it's just nice to work together and
everyone does their part to get everything ready for the big day
that's really great yeah well thank you so much it was a pleasure speaking with you yes pleasure
speaking with you i'm now here with kim summers of knock creek ranch and this is super exciting
because i am interviewing you now for the second time this year at the bull sale yes
yes glad to be here it's been a great sale the bulls look really good this year we've been
really tickled with those so that's awesome and what type of operation do you have and where are
you from so we're i'm from uh northwest nevada around the winnemucca and denial nevada area
i manage three ranches there for lavaca and the may brothers out of colorado and
we've been buying bulls here uh for that that company since 2014 and we've uh we've really
enjoyed the bulls here so that's incredible and why do you particularly enjoy the DeBruycker bulsl
uh we like the way these bulls transition to the desert they seem to handle the desert well
they travel well and they'll take kind of our our rough truck climate and the rough terrain and they
so they work really good for us and we like feeding these calves we feed these calves in
colorado and we like the way they feed and the way they perform that's interesting and what
do you look for when you're purchasing goals we're looking for uh big gainers bulls that
will travel straight and handle our country so confirmation is a big part of what we look for but
we also want bulls that'll you know put a lot of weight on a calf and perform well in our feedlots
how many bulls are you looking to purchase today oh gosh i don't know a handful anyway well that's
awesome thank you so much it was a pleasure speaking with you again okay thank you yes i
appreciate it i'm now here with joe campbell part of the DeBruycker family raising charolais bulls
yep and uh we've been doing it kathy and my wife and i for 35 years now we started in 83. oh wow
that is awesome yep what do you enjoy most about it i enjoy the calving end of it just to watch the
trying to build a herd it's really fun the calves are fun that's really cool yeah you know this
part of it it's uh kind of like a harvest it's the end of the time get them gone start into the next
season like a marathon exactly yeah like today we started at 11 o'clock and we're about three
quarters done so we're selling about 70 -75 bulls an hour oh wow yeah well your bulls are incredible
well thank you this year i've heard that the bulls are more uniform than they've ever been and we've
got return customers from 25 years it's kind of fun having them come back yes that's awesome yeah
and how do you um choose which bulls to breed we we're pretty particular on what we breed too and
they got to be really correct and have the right temperament that's about as important as anything
yeah it could be pretty thick and long your bulls are very gentle well thank you we've got to breed
that way because people don't want bulls that are overactive and you can't handle them in a corral
so yes that could be very bad yeah well thank you so much it was a pleasure speaking with you thank
you very much i'm now here with kessler martin partner in the DeBruycker operation which is
just awesome and you're going to talk a little bit about what you do yeah yeah uh so what i do uh we
farm and ranch as one of the uh family members of the worker operation uh i raise bulls for you know
the whole operation i have my own um ranch entity um so yeah i just have them have them on my own
uh with my brother uh we bring them back in the fall we run all the calves together and then we uh
grow them up here um grow them up slow get them ready for the bull sale now i'm just here kind of
trying to look at some bulls for some buyers down in colorado and texas that couldn't make it today
um and or tomorrow um so yeah they just want me to do some looking for them and because of how
phenomenal your bulls are they're sold across the country yeah you know from texas to canada
uh further north you know seems like you know guys you know like our bulls and they're good
good quality bulls they seem to do well you know in the desert to nevada or the you know gulf coast
to texas and florida you know they can go anywhere yes and montana's harsh winters yeah and montana's
harsh winters you know we might go from 60 degrees to negative 30 in a day so you know they're good
hardy bulls they'll be yield grades ones and twos and they'll have a quality grade of a choice
choice plus into prime you know you just can't beat a charolais cross calf
fantastic what generation would you be oh gosh
so i would be the third generation from the DeBruycker charolais lloyd grandpa lloyd um but
his father was also a farmer and rancher um but i would be lloyd's grandson so third generation
from lloyd's starting the actual bull sale um that's incredible yeah for in terms of farming
and ranching i think you know maybe going on the sixth generation of and what would you say it's
been like being the next generation um yeah it's uh it's a lot of fun a lot of opportunity i think
the groundwork's been made by grandpa lloyd and my uncles and aunts um well thank you so much it
was a pleasure speaking with you yeah of course same to you thanks for having me yes of course
i'm now here with coley campbell at the DeBruycker bull sale and you're going to tell me a little
bit more about your part in operation in this awesome bull sale i do a lot of the back stuff i
bring the bulls in during the sale and i try to try to keep the bulls going for everything
we sort and wash them and just try to keep the sale moving basically that's awesome and such
an important aspect yep yeah absolutely yeah pretty fun back here the bulls are
good good to sort and they're fun to be around for sure right i enjoy it that's incredible well thank
you so much it was great speaking with you i'm now here at the DeBruycker bull sale with brian
romain and you're a cattle producer could you tell me what you look for in the DeBruycker bulls
well look for birth weights and how they move i look for their feet and make sure that they have
sound feet when they walk around the pens and then i will look at their into how they indexed against
their rivals because they all go on test and they compete against each other so to speak and
i look for the bulls that can add weight to the calves that they're going to produce
so i'm looking for kind of a meaty bull i don't want one that's very tall but yet i don't want one
that's overly short neither so basically you look for somebody that's muscular like kind of like 184
there where he's got some potential to add muscle and meat and weight to that calf in the fall
that's very interesting and what type of operation do you have
it's a grain cattle operation between chester and fort benton very neat yeah so it's been we've been
in operating out there since 1913. oh wow so my grandfather homesteaded out there then
very cool my great-grandfather emigrated from denmark and homesteaded our farm in 1912. oh
good pretty close to the same time mine actually came from cottonwood idaho really came over here
got off the railroad in carter montana and went out to the homestead that is awesome so
i have no idea why he left cottonwood idaho for chester montana it's always puzzled me
so that's and i've been coming to the maybe not everybody knows the DeBruycker uh lloyd started
in the Simmental bull business i bought my first bulls from lloyd and they were Simmental tall
way back years ago and then he switched over to the Charolais and i think maybe i've missed one
to DeBruycker charolais sales since then wow so you've been coming to these for a very long time
i have been using the DeBruyckers bulls for a long long time and what do you feel makes the
DeBruycker bull stand out the boys back them and they add pounds to the calves
if i didn't like DeBruycker bulls i wouldn't have been coming for i don't know how many years
they've been doing this but i'm sure i was there the first DeBruycker charolais bull sale they had
well that's amazing well thank you so much it was a pleasure speaking with you well thank you thank
you so much for watching today's video make sure to like and subscribe i hope you had an awesome
time watching and learned about this incredible operation i hope to see you next year bye