Top Charolais cattle to be auctioned
HOUSTON, Tx. - The top
fc/10 percent of America’s
Charolais herds will be on
display and offered at
auction at the breed’s 1980
Show and Sale at San An
tonio, Texas, February 13
through 16.
“La Fiesta de Charolais”
will be the pacesetting event
, for the breed and the most
important Charolais show
and sale ever, according to
the American-International
Charolais Association.
The program begins
Tuesday, February 12, with
the arrival of the show and
sale cattle and is climaxed
with the National Charolais
Sale Saturday, February 16,
at La Mansion del Norte, just
prior to the annual AICA
awards and recognition
banquet.
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“Time has made a big
change m the Charolais
breed,” according to
William H. Arhtt, current
AICA president. “The cattle
came to the United States in
the 1930’s from Mexico
where they had been for
almost 100 years,” stated
Arhtt.
“The early arrivals were
used to add size and scale to
domestic herds, to begin
with, and early results
brought a rush to buy the
newly introduced genetic
package,” Arhtt said.
“The advent of Charolais
brought about most of the
performance programs now
used to measure all breeds in
this country, and in modem
times, Charolais have
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According to AICA
Executive Director Don
Nelson, “Charolais excel in
production of beef and
profitability. The primary
goal of commercial beef
production is to produce the
most pounds of high quahty
beef in the shortest possible
tune at the least cost, with
the greatest profit. That’s
the reason our annual show
and sale will be of prime
importance to commercial
and seed stock producers in
the Western Hemisphere,”
Nelson added.
‘‘Proof is in per
formance,” said Fred
Wortham, Jr., AICA staff
member, “and that’s why
our breed, for the second
year in a row, won the top
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three places in the carcass
competition at the Great
Western Beef Expo in
Sterling, Colorado, and has
led virtually every carcass
value per day of age test in
the last three years.”
Best of the breed Charolais
will be shown and sold at the
1980 National Charolais
Show and Sale headquar
tered at La Mansion del
Norte. Charolais breeders
from around the country will
show their prize bulls and
females to an expected
capacity crowd.
The highlight of “La
Fiesta de Charolais” is the
National Charolais Sale,
Saturday, February 16, at La
Mansion del Norte. This sale
will offer several of the
divisional champions and
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reserve champions chosen at
the 1980 National Show.
The sale event will follow
the annual membership and
board meetings and will
feature Col. George Morse,
auctioneer from Lenexa,
Kansas.
Entertainment for
breeders and buyers
abounds m the Alamo City
with a “Night in Old San
Antonio” along the famed
San Antonio River with an
authentic Mexican Fiesta,
boat rides and Mexican
Manachis.
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