Past Sales
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High Seller at the Eastern Breeders Sale pictured with the buyers Bryan Champluvierand Daughters. Brian Garrison to the left represented the contenders, Heartland Dairy LLC,, Adam Fraley and Wayne Sliker in the box.
The second High Seller was Lot #53 Pine Tree 2050 Pacto 9494-ETV consigned by Pine Tree Dairy, OH and taken by Dennis & Tanner Mashek, IA
The EASTERN BREEDERS SALE
***October 22, 2022--Muncy, PA***
**101 Live Lots Average $2,784. **
**24 Embryos Average $1,033.33**
The 86th Anniversary Sale is successfully in the books. A beautiful fall day in scenic Northern Pennsylvania provided the background for another active sale with consignors, buyers and contenders from18 different states. Top seller for the event at $20,500. was a fancy uddered two-year-old, Top Acres GW Wispit-ET. She was the choice of Lime-Val Farm, Bryan Champluvier and Daughters, Wyalusing, PA. Contending bidder on this Glenwood from the World of Whizzbang was Heartland Dairy, LLC of Reedsville, WI. Wispit was among the consignments from Top Acres, St. Paris, OH. Next in line at $10,400 was Pine Tree 2052 Pacto 9494 ETV, a +180PPR Pactole provided by Pine Tree Dairy, Marshallville, OH and now at home with Dennis & Tanner Mashek, Calmar, Iowa. Contender on this highly ranked and quality genomic calf was Kylie Chittenden, Whiting, VT. Jenlar Famous Wendy ET sold for $9,500. to John Moore of Conesus, NY. This fancy March 2022 Famous calf is from the popular All American Jenlar Carter Waltz and consigned by Briana Meyer, Chilton, WI. Another of the standouts in the lineup of young cows was Brook Hollow Christmas Present, a top uddered Carter two-year old from the Priscilla family consigned by Delbert and Heather Yoder, West Salem, OH. This special young cow bought $9,000. and is now owned by Heartland Dairy, LLC, Reedsville, WI. An embryo package from Top Acres Supreme Wizard 3E95 and sired by Hilltop Acres D Kickstart was taken at $8,500. by Dennis and Tanner Mashek, IA. This opportunity was consigned by Top Acres, OH.
The 86th Anniversary Eastern Breeders Sale was again managed by Modern Associates with Wayne Sliker and Brian Garrison making the bulk of selections. The sale day crew included Adam Fraley as auctioneer and Wayne Sliker as boxman along with Brian Garrison, Larry Hill, Richard Hill, Harold @Fraley and Andrew Evans taking bids. Fraley Auction Co. clerked the event. The very capable NY and PA Juniors presented the cattle in the ring including Amelia Somers, Dylan Klossner and Elizabeth Schieferstine from NY & Landree Fraley, Avery Fogle, Olivia Champluvier and Allie Champluvier from PA
ADDITIONAL HIGH SELLERS
*Cutting Edge F Diamond$6,000.
Buyers: Main & Manion, NY
Seller: James Ward, NY
*Knapp Rasta Casino ET $5,500.
Buyer: Peter Vail, FL
Seller: Bruce Dearborn, MA
*Top Acres D Wizteria ET $5,500.
Buyer: Peter Vail, FL
Seller: Top Acres, OH
* Risky x First C Embryos $5,400
Buyer: Kevin Willrath, OH
Seller: Jo-Dee Swiss, OR
*BlessingGarbro R Prudy $5,300.
Buyer:Doug & Abby Fairbanks IA
Seller: Blessing Garbro, IN
The Breeder’s Touch
Columbia City, IN---APRIL 30, 2022
The sale is successfully in the books with a final average of $6660. on 93 Lots going to 20 different states with an outstanding top of $45,000 for Hilltop Acres DB Whisper ETV. 23 Hi-level embryos averaged $1391. The well attended event was hosted by Blessing Farms and conducted at the Whitley Co. 4-H Fairgrounds with support from Balchem Animal Health & Nutrition, Select Sires, Boviteq, New Generation Genetics, Dairy Agenda Today, Golden-Link, and JaCher Graphics. The offering was loaded with high quality consignments from Master Breeder herds and Friends. A Pre-Sale event held the evening prior featured sale cattle viewing and Bar-B-Q as well as history displays by the Brown Swiss Historical Society and Blessing Farms.
Modern Associates managed the Breeder’s Touch with nationwide selections by Wayne Sliker, Brian Garrison and Dale Bendig. Long time associates Darrell Worden and Tim Eiting handled auctioneering duties with Wayne Sliker as Boxman. Working the ring and the phones were Brian Garrison, Norman Magnussen, Lee Barber, Joe Sparrow, Jake Hushon, Kathi Brown-Meier and Gordon DeMay. Erica Davis was active online representing Cowbuyer bidders. The seasoned clerking staff included Connie Sliker, Deb Hoffman and Cindy Worden.
The five high sellers are pictured below along with the players involved---followed by the additional lots selling for over $10,000 with their consignors and buyers.
Starting the sale off with a bang and tops for the day at $45,000. was Hilltop Acres DB Whisper-ET, the current #1 PTAT cow of the breed with a deep pedigree and consigned by Hilltop Acres Farm, Calmar, IA. Dylan Fry of Robbinsville, NJ placed the winning bid with Main & Manion, NY contending.
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The All-American, Brook Hollow C Pristine second high seller at $28,500. Kathi Brown Meier represented Peter Vail, FL, buyer; Heather Oros Yoder and Delbert Yoder, were the consignors.
Empire Famous Lucy $23,000. was 3rd high and consigned by Jason Demay of NY. Ryland Nierman and Brian Nierman were the buyers.
VB RF PZ Sega Jackpot ET $20,500. sold to Kathi Brown-Meier representing ST Genetics,TX, buyer; Chris and Hilary Voegeli, consignors.
Edge View F Destinee ETV sold for $17,000 as the fifth high seller for consignors Ken Main and Kenny Joe Manion. She was purchased by Peter Vail, FL and Clark Woodmansee of CT.
The exceptionally dedicated sales team included Richard Kepler, Makenzie Resler, Brian Garrison, Hunter Smalley, Bryce Birk, Dylan Duncan, Emily Fisher, Andrew Evans, Hannah Harvey, Heather Oros Yoder, Lee Barber, and Dale Bendig.
Listed below are additional lots selling for $10,000 or more:
Blessing Garbro Famous Fire $16,000
Consignor: Blessing Farms & Garrison Bros., IN/OH
Buyer: Landree and Dakota Fraley, PA
Blessing Garbro F Patricia $15,000
Consignor: Blessing Farms & Garrison Bros., IN/OH
Buyer: Brooke and Braxton Foote, Dolgeville, NY
Top Acres Famous Wrazor ETV $13,600
Consignor: Top Acres, OH
Buyer: Caylee Nicole James, IN
Choice of 3 Famous X Jenlar Carter Waltz ET $11,500
Consignor: Brianna, Austin & Abby Meyer, WI
Buyer: Don Graft, IN
Ruhls Ranch Braiden Eve $10,700
Consignor: Ally Jones & Hadleigh, Ezra & Kenna Jones, KY
Buyer: Ameila Somers, NY
Top Acres Rampage Wizer ETV $10,700
Consignor: Top Acres, OH
Buyer: Billie Jo Swope Rhodes, VA
Wizard x Doboy Embryo Package $10,500
Consignor: Top Acres, OH
Buyer: Rager Brothers Farm, OH
A Joy T Snowfall $10,200
Consignor: A-Joy Swiss, PA
Buyer: Peter Vail, FL
Blessing Garbro C Pasha ETV $10,000
Consignor: Blessing Farms & Garrison Bros., IN/OH
Buyer: Blessing Farm, IN
Top Acres HP Winanna ET $10,000
Consignor: Ken Main & Kenny Joe Manion, NY
Buyer: Trevor Bigelow, NY
Eastern Breeder’s Sale
Muncy, Pennsylvania | October 23, 2021
88 Lots Averaged $2,108.
The 85th Anniversary Edition of the Eastern Breeder’s Sale was held on Saturday, October 23, 2021, in Muncy, Pennsylvania at the Fraley Auction Company. Eighty-eight lots averaged $2,108 and were purchased by breeders in 16 states.
Topping the sale at $9,000 was lot 100 and Junior Champion of the 2021 Premier National Junior Show, Bo Shona Doboy Hermoine. Consigned by Keelan Pavelski of Pennsylvania, this fancy summer yearling by Switzer Tals Drdvl Doboy ET also sold with a first Junior and third Open Summer Yearling credits at the recently held World Dairy Expo. Hermoine sold checked pregnant with a heifer calf by Jobo Wonder Bosephus ET and is from the Meadow Hill Jade Aburie 3E92 family. Watch for her at future shows as her new Junior/Senior owner combo, Amelia Somers and Ken Main of New York continue to develop her winning ways.
Genomics was the name of the game for the second-high seller of the day at $7,500. Pine-Tree Dairy of Ohio, consigned the Portmann BS Bays Jonmar sired calf, Pine-Tree 6717 Jonm 9151 ET. The July 2021 calf sold with a PPR +176, PTAT +0.5, UDC +0.91, +794M +49F +38P +596NM$ and health traits of PL +4.2 and DPR +0.6. She is out of a Hilton ET two-year-old dam with PPR +144 and +560NM$. The next several dams are all Very Good or Excellent with records to 33,840M. She was purchased by ST Genetics of Texas.
The top-selling embryo package also sold for $7,500. Five #1 IVF (fe sorted) embryos from the combined Champion families of Top Acres Supreme Wizard ET 3E95 and Cutting Edge T Foremost were consigned by Top Acres of St. Paris, Ohio. Wizard, the 2017 Grand Champion of World Dairy Expo is from the World of Whizzbang. Foremost’s full sister, Faye, was recently named the Grand Champion and Reserve Supreme Champion of this past World Dairy Expo. These potential champion embryos were purchased by Cripple Creek Farms of New York.
The sale was managed by Modern Associates Sales of St. Paris, Ohio with facility owners, Adam Fraley and Harold Fraley as auctioneers. Pedigrees were read by Wayne Sliker. Brian Garrison, Gordon DeMay and Larry Hill were ringside with cattle preparation by Dale Bendig, Andrew Evans, Bob Nagel and Justin Kaufman. Providing the clerking were Kathy DeMay and the Fraleys. The talented Fraley twins, Dakota and Landree, presented the sale cattle along with Levi Cooley and Wesley Brantnder.
Additional Top Sellers of the day:
A Joy D Sheraton..........$6100
Consignor: Michala Kuhlman, PA
Buyer: Nierman Family, IN
5 Embryos - Brown Heaven C First Choice x Jenlar Carter Waltz ETV..........$5250
Consignor: Brianna Meyer, WI
Buyer: Peter Vail, FL
R N R F&F Prima..........$4900
Consignor: Ron & Renee Michalovich, OH
Buyer: Emily Fisher, NH
Blessing Garbro D Petra ETV..........$4700
Consignors: Blessing Farms & Garrison Bros, IN
Buyer: Kently Thompson, WI
Richmond-FD Madison ET..........$4500
Consignor: Leila Richmond, NY
Buyer: Pine-Tree Dairy, OH
Top Acres Cade Whiffle ETV..........$3800
Consignor: Wayne E. Sliker, OH
Buyer: Dylan Fry, NJ
Round Hill Carter Wasabi ET..........$3800
Consignor: Kaylah Simpson, MD
Buyer: Cindy Warner, MD
Round Hill Carter Wink ETV..........$3600
Consignor: Kortney Smithling, NY
Buyer: William Harrison, VA
4 Embryos – Norwin X Top Acres Famous Winzer ET..........$3600
Consignor: Cripple Creek Farm, NY
Buyer: Bruce Haase, SD
Nutmeg Acres CP Pepper..........$3500
Consignor: Ken Main, NY
Buyer: Alan Brisson, VT
2022 Sales
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2021 Sales
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2020 Sales
(covid year)
CANCELED
Older Sales & Dispersals
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The New England SUPER SWISS National Sale
Celebrating the Past and Embracing the Future
July 2, 2021—Three County Fairgrounds—Northampton, MA
Modern Associates, St. Paris, OH - The New England SUPER SWISS National Sale averaged $5,580 when the final tally was made on 50 lots selling in this successful event. Buyers from 19 states, from Maine to California and Alaska to Florida made the offering truly national in scope as well as in quality.
In keeping with “Celebrating the Past theme,” The Three County Fairgrounds in Northampton, MA served as the setting for the presale social and cattle viewing on Thursday afternoon and the sale on Friday, July 2. Balchem Animal Health and Nutrition sponsored the presale gathering and refreshments for convention goers and potential buyers. This historic fairground had provided the venue for Brown Swiss sales of the past including the famous Diamond Jubilee Sale held in 1955.
The sale was sponsored by the New England Brown Swiss Association and was the final activity for National Convention week. Modern Associates managed the event with Adam Fraley as the auctioneer and Wayne Sliker, boxman. Brian Garrison, Lee Barber and Norman Magnussen took bids from an active crowd. Cowbuyer provided the online bidding option with Modern Associates clerks. The consignments were expertly presented in the ring by Ashlynn Foster, Hayden Pike, Brooke Clark, Laylah Clark and Adele Biasini.
The very hot and humid week made cattle preparation a difficult task for the talented barn crew that included Dale Bendig, Andrew Evans, Jack Cliffe, Dalton Freeman, Jordan Stookey, Jonathon Hubbard and Mike Mott. A rainy sale day provided some relief for both cattle and people.
Here are the high-selling consignments for the day:
Lot 37 - TOP ACRES CADE WIZENE ETV carrying a DAREDEVIL X WIZARD heifer calf…$15,500
A Cadence from an “E91” Biver daughter of Top Acres Supreme Wizard ET “3E95,” Wizene sold due in September as a Potential Milking Yearling prospect and carrying a Daredevil x Wizard heifer calf.
Seller: Top Acres, St. Paris, OH
Buyer: Alan McCauley, Mount Corey, OH
Lot 14 - EMPIRE WINRITE LOTUS ……………………………………………………………………………$14,500.
Lotus caught the eye of most everyone that saw her presale. An extremely stylish spring calf prospect, she drew bids from across the crowd as well as the internet thru Cowbuyer . Sired by Top Acres Cade Winrite, Lotus is from a “E92” Seaman out of the reliable LuAnn Family.
Seller: Jason DeMay, Palmyra, NY
Buyer: Dylan Fry, Robbinsville, NJ
Lot 3 - EDGE VIEW N DREAMER ETV ……………………………………………………………..……… $13,000
One of the early features of the sale, Dreamer is a March 2021 Norwin from the 2x WDE Supreme Champion Delilah “2E95.” After spirited bidding both visual and virtual, she found her new home at Cripple Creek Farm, Ballston Spa, NY.
Seller: Ken Main & Kenny Manion, Copake, NY
Buyer: Cripple Creek Farm, Ballston Spa, NY
Lot 1 - IROQUOIS ACRES C TEARIN ………………………………………….…………………………………$12,250
A standout in both the sale lineup and the catalog as Lot #1, Tearin is a big-time Senior Two-year-old show prospect for 2021. She is a potential seventh generation Excellent from the famed Timberline Jetway Toni Family.
Seller: Aaron Ouellette, Bridport, VT
Buyer: Brian Pacheco, Kerman,CA
Lot 16 - Choice of RASTAS X JENLAR CARTER WALTZ ETV ……………………………………………$10,750.
Seller: Brianna Meyer, Chilton, WI
Buyer: Olsen, Beckard, Read & Lickfelt, MN
Lot 43 - BLESSING GARBRO W PAYGE ET ……………………………………………………………………$10,250
Seller: Blessing Farms & Garrison Bros., IN & OH
Buyer: Ryland, Braydon &Camdyn Nierman, Brownstown, IN
Lot 36 - EDGE VIEW D WAVERLY ETV ……………………………………………………………………………$10,000
Seller: Ken Main and Kenny Manion, Copake, NY
Buyer: Donald Graft, Fort Wayne, IN
Lot 10 - SHELBURNE DYNAMITE DIPPY ………………………………………………………………………$9,700
Seller: Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, VT
Buyer: Blessing Farms & Garrison Brothers, IN & OH
Lot 4 - CUTTING EDGE B DISNEY …………………………………………………………………………………$9,400
Seller; Brand Swiss Breeders, Hart, TX
Buyer: Alizabeth Dumont & Bowen Blye, Albion, ME
Lot 25 - DJ NORWIN CHEYENNE ………………………………………………………………………………$9,000
Seller: Bendig & Heizer, Gettysburg, PA
Buyer: Peter Vail & Lindsey Rucks, Engelwood, FL
Lot 17 - Choice of CARTERS/DAREDEVIL X TOP ACRES GARBRO S WISH ET ………………….$9,000
Seller: Acclaimed Swiss, Epworth, IA
Buyer: Dylan Fry, Robbinsville, NJ
LOT 5 - VB THUNDER MOCHA ET ………………..……………………………………………………………..$8,000
Seller: Voegeli Farm, Inc., Monticello ,WI
Buyers: Blessing Farms & Garrison Brothers, IN&OH
Lot 32 - WIZARD x FAMOUS Embryo Package ………………………………………..………………..$8,000
Seller: Top Acres, St. Paris, OH
Buyer: Peter Vail, Engelwood, FL