TAUBENHEIM GELBVIEH

Every year on the first Monday in February, beef producers gather at the Taubenheim ranch for their annual Gelbvieh and Balancer bull and female sale. While many of the bulls stay in Nebraska, some of them are sold into the surrounding states, even to as far away as California. Repeat buyers, who trust the Taubenheim genetics, make up a large percentage of the sales... Their son Mike, while in college, began researching the different breeds of beef cattle. He was impressed with the many traits of the Gelbvieh breed, the docility, heavy muscling, good milk production and mothering abilities. On the advice of a cattle semen representative, Mike purchased two bred heifers from Jim Wilson of Mankato, Kansas in 1982 and they each had a bull calf. "Back in the early eighties a calf brought around maybe 480 dollars. I sold the bull calves for $3,700," Mike Taubenheim said... The Taubenheims were some of the first to cross their Gelbvieh cows with top Black Angus sires, resulting in Balancer..

Primary location: Amherst United States