The Cattleman's Kind
	The Cattleman’s Kind, features a group of like-minded Simmental breeders, who market their bulls collectively through Jordan Cattle Auction. The upcoming offering represents the seventh set of bulls and will be from the Texas herds of Tex-Ann Cattle Co., Granbury; Premier Beef, Thrall; - B Simmentals, Muenster; and Mallett Simmentals, Lampasas. These programs have very similar performance philosophies and performance traits are strongly emphasized in each program. The bulls are developed at PX Feeders, in Evant and are put through a 30 day warm up period starting in September and are started on test in October. Complete performance and test data is provided to prospective buyers. The group is very selective about the bulls they put into the test for inclusion in the sale. They are like-minded when it comes to selecting bulls with marketable birth weights, weaning weights and they also pay attention to carcass merit traits. The Cattleman’s Kind gives commercial breeders an opportunity to select Simmental and SimAngus bulls from some of the most popular bloodlines in the breed. Each of these individual programs utilize AI extensively and strive to present a balanced set of bulls that can provide growth traits, hybrid vigor and carcass traits to cattlemen. “We feel the Simmental breed has a lot to offer and by combining our resources, we feel we are offering a diverse set of bulls, but yet uniform and very alike in quality and performance,” says Mallett.