THURSDAY
FEBRUARY 19, 2026
1:00 PM CST AT THE C-B SALE FACILITY
4 MILES SOUTH OF THE RANCH, MONTPELIER, NORTH DAKOTA
28TH ANNUAL PRODUCTION SALE
JORDAN, SUSAN, ALAURA, JOSHUA, JOSEPH AND LIBERTY SCHLENKER
CHRISTIAN, CASSIA AND CYLAN KLEMZ GARNET SCHLENKER
for doing your part to feed the world!
-Looking back on 27 sales and over 40 years breeding Simmentals...we’ve seen some things. We’ve ridden the waves of the industry alongside you and helped rudder the ship. During this time, we have found that the herd bull may pull us in the direction we’re headed, but the cow carries us and will ultimately determine how we weather the storm.
I for one, -like many others- could get used to this smooth sailing trend we’re enjoying in the cattle markets and hyperfocus on a terminal direction to capitalize on every pound and dollar possible...but if you and I neglect the maternal ship of our herds, how long will we stay afloat?
Breeding to make heifers has always been our central focus, while maintaining a balance-bred animal to prevent sacrificing any of the important traits you prioritize promoting in your herd when buying bulls to take your operation into the future.
We take pride in producing cattle that calve easily but also challenge the projected limitations of the stereotype, that suggests, “Low BW translates into low growth.”
We are working to change the culture to expect more...to believe, yes, we can create breeding stock that do it all.
This year’s set of bulls are among the deepest groups we have ever tested...especially for: top quality, naturally muscled, easy going herd bull prospects with an array of sons that have risen to the top of their respective sire groups, not only here, but breed wide.
We encourage you to stop by in the weeks leading up to the sale to see our offering for yourself. In doing so you will receive $500 OFF the purchase of a bull on sale day. (See next page for qualification details) If you can’t make it to the ranch, we look forward to hearing from you by call or text and at the sale.
We pray blessings on you and your family!
AARON SCHLENKER AND EVERYONE AT WILKINSON FARMS SIMMENTALS
THURSDAY
FEBRUARY
Terry Schlenker
Aaron Schlenker
Jordan Schlenker
Corey Wilkins
Jared Murnin
Cathy Schlenker
701-320-2171
701-269-8271
701-320-1895
256-590-2487
406-321-1542
701-320-8248
Refer to map on page 4 for google map to our ranch and C-B Sale Facility. SALE LOCATION ADDRESS: 5314 76TH AVE SE, JUD, ND
Directions to WFS Ranch: From Hwy 281, turn west on 49th St SE (on gravel) at the Montpelier sign, then go 6 ½ miles on 49th St SE. Turn right (north) onto our ½ mile L-shape driveway. From West I-94: Take exit 248, turn right to follow the south paved frontage road to the west until it takes a sharp left. Go south 11 miles. When pavement ends and turns into gravel, continue south for 2 miles to the intersection of 73rd Ave and 49th St SE. Turn left and go 3 ½ miles. Turn left (north) at our mailbox onto our driveway.
C-B Sale Facility on sale day: From Gackle – 13 miles east on ND Hwy 46 to 76th Ave SE and north ¾ mile. OR 7 ½ miles west of the Junction of Hwy 281 and Hwy 46, north ¾ mile and right to the C-B Sale Facility.
Tracy Harl, Auctioneer 402-469-3852
Jory Boote, Cattle BusinessWeekly 701-789-7047
Kelly Klein, TriState Livestock News 701-320-5817
Russ Danielson, ASA 701-261-2742
Marty Ropp, Allied Genetic Resources 406-581-7835
Videos available early February at www.wilkinsonfarmssimmentals.com.
Watch the sale and bid online at DV Auction. See page 24.
Visit our Wilkinson Farms Simmentals Facebook page or call the Sale Day Phone Numbers listed on this page.
• Please register for a bidding number prior to the sale!
• Announcements made sale day and from the auction block, during the sale, take precedence over printed material associated with this sale.
• Wilkinson Farms Simmentals semen retention rights for every bull sold through the Breeding for the Future production sale or off the ranch each year can be found in detail on page 2.
• All cattle sell under the terms and conditions of the American Simmental Association.
• Any cattle going to CANADA will be delivered to the nearest ND/CAN border crossing facility. All costs for testing and export are the responsibility of the buyer.
This year when you visit the ranch on or before February 17, we are offering $500 OFF the purchase of one bull of $4,500 or more at auction for the Wilkinson Farms Simmentals, Breeding for the Future, spring auction sale. Limit one discount per ranch, please. We request no Saturday visits, please.
Comfort Inn 701-252-7125
811 20th St. SW, Jamestown, ND Hampton Inn 701-952-6500
2400 85h Ave SW, Jamestown, ND 58401 Baymont Inn 701-252-3611
507 25th St. SW, Jamestown, ND
Any person attending the sale does so at his/her own risk. Neither the sale management, owners, sale facility owners nor any person connected with this sale, assumes any liability, legal or otherwise.
Breakfast refreshments will be available after 9:15 am for those arriving early to view the cattle. A noon meal is served from 11:30 am-12:45 pm
• Feed bulls until April 1st or when we start delivering bulls. After April 1, 2026 we will charge $3.50/day per animal.
• Test all bulls and guarantee their soundness at delivery.
• BULL DELIVERY: We deliver bulls, free of charge, up to a 200-mile radius of our ranch. $1.50/mile after 200 miles. Often, we make trips beyond that radius. We will do our best to accommodate each purchase for the most economical delivery and will help to coordinate long-distance transportation. Any buyer who wants us to keep their bull(s), beyond our delivery date, is responsible for pick up and delivery, at the buyer’s expense.
• FEMALE DELIVERY: We will help to coordinate deliveries. Bred females need to be removed within 2 weeks after the sale.
• We ultrasound all bulls and all replacement females.
• Wilkinson Farms now has data for their entire herd with 28 years of ultrasound history.
• All sale animals will have genomic-enhanced EPDs and Right Choice evaluations.
Animal injuries or death are the responsibility of the new owners. We highly recommend that you insure your livestock on sale day. Contact information is listed below.
Mark Smith – Liberty Mutual 515-229-5227
VACCINATION SCHEDULE
BULL SHOT RECORDS
• At birth: Inforce
• May 2025: Inforce, BVD One Shot, Vision 7
• Weaning: Bovishield Gold One Shot, Ultra Bac 7 w/Somnus
• Boosted with Bovishield Gold 5, Ultra Bac 7 w/Somnus, Dectomax Injectible, Poured with Clean Up
BRED HEIFER SHOT RECORDS
• December 2025: Scour Bos 9 & poured
• January 2026: Boosted with Scour Bos 9, Virashield VL5, poured with Dectomax, confirmed bred
• Received magnets as yearlings
WILKINSON FARMS SIMMENTALS SEMEN RETENTION RIGHTS FOR EVERY BULL SOLD THROUGH THE BREEDING FOR THE FUTURE PRODUCTION SALE OR OFF THE RANCH EACH YEAR ARE AS FOLLOWS:
• 1/2 (one half) semen interest on any bull sold for up to $25,000.
• 1/3 (one third) semen interest on any bull sold from $25,001 to $40,000.
• 1/4 (one quarter) semen interest on any bull sold for over $40,000.
• If semen sales are made on a Wilkinson Farms Simmentals raised/owned bull, the new bull partner/buyer will receive royalties for sold semen on the applicable bull once expenses are recovered. Such expenses may result from, but are not exclusive to: semen collection(s), housing, trucking, travel expenses, storage fees, etc.
• Wilkinson Farms Simmentals reserves the right to charge sales fees for semen sold which would be reflected on royalty payments of any applicable bull where semen has been collected and sold.
• The action of purchasing a bull from Wilkinson Farms Simmentals by auction, or off the ranch, indicates the buyer assumes the terms of this pre-sale agreement.
• Negotiation of any pre-sale proposals or adjustments to the terms listed previously will close one hour prior to the scheduled sale time.
- Micheal J. Fox
SALE LOCATION ADDRESS: 5314 76TH AVE SE, JUD, ND
Directions to WFS Ranch: From Hwy 281, turn west on 49th St SE (on gravel) at the Montpelier sign, then go 6 ½ miles on 49th St SE. Turn right (north) onto our ½ mile L-shape driveway. From West I-94: Take exit 248, turn right to follow the south paved frontage road to the west until it takes a sharp left. Go south 11 miles. When pavement ends and turns into gravel, continue south for 2 miles to the intersection of 73rd Ave and 49th St SE. Turn left and go 3 ½ miles. Turn left (north) at our mailbox onto our driveway.
C-B Sale Facility on sale day: From Gackle – 13 miles east on ND Hwy 46 to 76th Ave SE and north ¾ mile. OR 7 ½ miles west of the Junction of Hwy 281 and Hwy 46, north ¾ mile and right to the C-B Sale Facility.
Access to more and better information has always been key to making wise decisions. The evolution and improvement of genetic evaluation tools too has given us an ever-clearer picture of the true genetic makeup of cattle and thus a better view of the value proposition. RightMate, powered by Top Genomics LLC is taking the evaluation of genetics and genomics one giant step further. By combining speci c genomic information with the long-proven value of EPDs, this new advancement in technology improves our depth and precision when evaluating the actual ability to transmit value and pro t.
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WS MISS REGAL Z148–She was aptly named–for she is a beautiful, powerhouse cow. Just another WS Hot Beef daughter making a name for herself, albeit through the exceptional daughters she produces. Her Proclamation daughters had 3 bulls in last year’s sale, with one going to Wildberry Farms in Illinois.
These Full Figures daughters highlighted in Lots 1-4, may be her best flush yet. There is a full sister to them working in Doug Bichler’s herd. As far as longevity goes, Z148 will be 14 by sale day and due to calve around then also.
•Great performing Pontiac son from a powerhouse
•Two prominent cattlemen have commented that he’s the stoutest Pontiac son they’ve seen
•He was our top gaining bull post weaning
Homozygous Black
•Our only Bold Ruler son and he really clicked with this mating •WS Hot Beef on both sides of the pedigree means maternal and carcass are locked in •#3 in ADG since weaning—106 days
12N Sells as Lot 3. WS 18N Sells as Lot 4.
MISS REGAL Z148 Maternal grandam of Lots 1-4.
•Potential Herdsire Prospect
•This bull impresses more every day. 81lbs to 100 plus indexes across the board
•40 scrotal and was our #2 ADG bull
•Sire was a high seller in the Keller’s 2023 sale
•Once again Hot Beef on both sides of the pedigree
Heterozygous Black Homozygous Polled
•A calving ease prospect—78lb birth weight with above average weaning
•Full brother in blood to Lot 3, but not as powerful
•A versatile bull that can be used on red or black heifers and cows
•Showed one of our biggest Ribeyes
Straight up, soggy middled, heifer bull with a perfect performance
and a 115 ratio on IMF. He also racked up 5 EPDs better than both parents.
Homozygous Black Homozygous
both parents, including STAY, MARB and API. -Aaron
•Enhancement did it again with this heavy-muscled rascal
•He had below average BW to well above average weaning and yearling
•Maternal granddam is a maternal sister to WS All In who Kenner Simmentals used for several years
Heterozygous
A structural gem, 14N stands among the most physically complete bulls in the sale with an impeccable disposition and whose dam has a picture perfect udder. -Aaron
WS Making Noise has been on my radar all year. Not just for his blaze face and number set but also the maternal cows behind him. He spent the summer at the technologically progressive BovaGen, with his dam until late August when he was weaned. In the weeks to come, this gentle guy seemed to explode on pasture before going back to the drylot when we weaning the rest of his herd mates. Touching on his numbers a bit: he is the #1 son of BAS Money Maker for the BW, MARB, API and TI, EPDs. I expect he should stand among the better and most powerful calving ease bulls to surface this season. -Aaron
I am excited to introduce this sharp, hard to fault son of WS Love Language L8. He expresses all the traits you want to find in a maternally backed, heifer bull with a twist of fresh genetics. As an individual, he stands out claiming the #2 CE, #1 BW, #1 MARB, #1 API, and #2 TI, EPD spots of all PB sons of the splashy new Clemson Elite bull. Though he appears in the top
WS Love Language L8 is setting herself up for notoriety with a top shelf EPD profile and a number of less-sampled sire lines preceding her, adding the attraction of mating versatility to her already visually pleasing, self-presentation. This high efficiency young donor displays a picture perfect udder and appears to pass on her super fleshing ability, long spine, strong bone and athletic nature. Uniquely, she bears the “ATM” RightChoice badge despite a -5.0 BW EPD.
Homozygous
•The only Boomer bull in the sale, who is as long as a train
•Low birthweight and high growth, with one of the largest measured scrotums
•Tremendous disposition
WS 33N Sells as Lot 13. WS 25N Sells as Lot 14.
•13 EPDs in the top 15% of the breed
Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled
This bull’s pedigree is a couple generations away from the heavier used bloodlines offering a shot of freshness to the black side of Simm. From what I’m seeing early on in his daughters, I have a feeling the maternal of Klein Kick Off is going to be strong. On the bottom side, 25N comes from one of our most potent MARB cowlines. He registered perfect performance/carcass slashlines of 95/105/108 and 100/113/109. -Aaron
122N Sells as Lot 15.
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Homozygous Black Homozygous Polled
•A favorite Kickoff son out of WS CEO’s dam
•This is probably A52’s last calf here, as she is 13 years old and has a bad hip—but what a record! 106 WW index on 10 calves
•We really like the Kickoff calves. They are projected to be money makers.
•Pure heifer bull here with over a 22 for
•Good for Stay at 22
•Good Marbling at .91 and an IMF ratio of 124
•Our only Diligence son, but he’s a good one
•Dam has a 105 WW index on her calves
•He sped up his gain after weaning and has the 3rd largest Adj. Scrotal in the sale
I love the BCLR Manifesto cattle and I feel like this bull could put on a structure clinic. You can confidently buy this bull to add athleticism and maternal integrity to your herd. -Aaron
WS 56N Sells as Lot 19.
WS 32N Sells as Lot 21.
•Big
•Lots of maternal backing him with a great cow family with a
RANK 20 20 50 35 10 2 20 15
•This bull could be the sleeper of the day. Don’t miss out!
•He is a full ET brother to the dams of Lots 1, 2, 3 & 4
•A homo black Full Figures son, which is hard to find
• Maternal is king here. Dam is 14 years old and still a beautifully uddered cow—due to calve again this spring. She has a 109 WW index on her calves and has produced 24 ET calves for us.
•He is HUGE and had a big weaning weight.
•Should be lots of growth in his calves with added frame.
•This bull will cover a lot of cows.
•Fall ET bull out of the Little Sister cow—the only sister to WS Beef Maker. She was here until she was 15 years old
•This bull has 11 EPDs in the top 20% of the breed
•Can be used on red or black cows
RANK 15 45 25 20 3 10 4
•This bull has a great API and leans more toward calving ease
•Comes from a great cow family
•His full sister, WS Lady Liberty, was featured in the 2025 North Dakota State Sale
•Small birth weight, but grew well out of first calf heifer—in fact, he was about as big as his dam by weaning.
•Good maternal traits.
•Great carcass traits.
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•One of the best 911Z sons we have sold to date, with big time growth and good carcass traits that should add a lot of value to your calves.
•Added frame size.
•This very attractive calf slants
• He grew well and did great on his carcass ultrasound. •He is well put together and has good maternal also.
•Very attractive Hot Beef calf that grew very well
•He has good maternal and did very well on carcass ultrasound
•One of the best Hot Beef bulls we’ve raised
•This bull is a calving ease prospect who grew very well.
•Great maternal and carcass.
Red Homozygous Polled
•An ET Forge son who really grew, especially since his recip dam was lame a good part of the summer
•His donor dam was our high selling open heifer in 2023—but retained this flush. We have 4 full sisters
•Dam was one of the highest marbling heifers ever raised here and this bull and his sisters are following suit.
•Growth, maternal and carcass traits all tied together
•He is a big time power pull with huge indexes
•Raising big calves is in the cow family-his grandam was known for having some of our biggest calves year after year.
•There’s a lot of maternal built into this bull’s pedigree.
•A Forge son with good carcass
•Well-backed maternal pedigree
•Another great performing Forge son
•Should make beautiful females and scale pounding steers
•Ideal prospect for some red Angus cross cows
•Dam is a cherry red Imperial daughter with a 105 WW index on 4 calves
•Cow family has produced female after female with beautiful udders
•This guy has been a personal favorite all year
•Check out his growth numbers
•He’s very attractive, has great structural integrity, good feet, and moves well
•Very heavy muscled
•I’d like to get some semen on this bull to use in our herd.
•Another very solid maternal bull
•Backed by a quality cow family
•Good performance with that good Forge carcass
Red Homozygous Polled
and
He comes from the same cow family as WS 38 Special, so maternal will be strong with two perfectly uddered cows behind him. -Aaron
Here is a larger framed bull who in the right herd I believe could work on heifers. Born to the grandam of WS Tomkat, WS Down Home is the biggest framed and most powerful branch in the WS Zarzaparilla family tree. Inserting Forge into this bloodline could change the standard of maternal in all the right ways. -Aaron
•Powerhouse bull who is #1 for weaning and yearling weights overall
•Born unassisted out of a beautiful young cow who lost her calf last year and was dry
•Dam has 117 WW index on 2 calves
•We recommend use on mature cows
•A virgin 2 year old out of Forge and the J20 cow
•Dam comes from the A52 cow family and raised our highest weaning heifer this year
•He weighed almost a ton on 1-06-26
•A virgin 2 year old who was orphaned at 2 ½ months of age
•Dam was flushed just before she died, so you know she was special
•This red cow family is sprinkled in the pedigree of other bulls in this sale
age-advantaged
The WS Dead Red daughters are making an impact on my herd and this bull’s dam is no exception. It is fun to cross black on red and make outcross cattle like this bull who will be as uniquely bred a red as you may run across this sale season. He is bred from a line of great personalities, long bodies and perfect teat size on cows who milk their hearts out. -Aaron
Cherry red, smooth made, gentle son of Tomkat out of a perfect uddered Dead Red daughter. His dam promotes lighter BWs in her calves. I wonder if with the way he is built if he may work on some heifers...take a look and tell me what you think. -Aaron
•High powered bull here with a great pedigree behind him
•His dam is a sister to the great WS Miss Sugar.
•Well made with a big quarter and long side.
•This bull should be a lot of people’s favorite on sale day
•Great performance numbers
•Dam has put several bulls in the sale in past years
RANK 35 15 10 95
•What a set of EPDs! 14 in the top 20% of the breed
•His sire WS Landmark, is a sure fire heifer bull, that works great on powerful heifers—he was our high selling red bull in 2024
•Impressive spread from birth to weaning and yearling
•Potential calving ease Herd Sire
•Outcross red pedigree
•One of our favorite bulls all summer
•Another Landmark son with tremendous CE, maternal and carcass EPDs
•Dam is a powerful, red Herschel daughter that is picture perfect. She will be in the donor pen this spring.
•Granddam’s bull calf is Lot 53
•Maternal is rock solid
•A top performing Admiral son with huge growth indexes
•Tremendous producing dam with a 114 WW index on 3 calves
•12 EPDs in the top 25% of the breed
•A wonderful ET son out of Spellbound
•This bull just gets better every day
•He carries one of the biggest scrotums and is top 10 in ADG
•We have only a couple Spellbound sons in the sale due to having mostly heifer calves his first calf crop
•This bull is a maternal brother to WS Jam-packed who is a herd sire at Keller’s Broken Heart Ranch
•He just does a lot of things right
•Solid EPD profile, big scrotal, ADG and IMF
•Heifer bull with a 20 in CE and -4 in BW
•Really good marbling and high API and TI
•Has a lot of style and phenotype
•Good structured, and free moving, and has a good hip on him
•Comes from a very good cow family
Great maternal-should make good females
•Very balanced in his EPD profile
•He has a very maternally stacked pedigree coming from both sides
•Dam sells as Lot 65
RANK 60 30 25
Like his brother, 64N may be one of the best 7507 sons we have raised. He has a more fleshy look about him and still wide, square hipped and big ribbed in his make up. -Aaron
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I just can’t get enough of the Abundance 7507 cattle. 71N is an echo of what you can expect when breeding 7507. Clean, expressive, confident and dark colored. And to echo my own words in the past, “I’ve never seen another bull stamp udders the way 7507 does” with that level of consistency. -Aaron
WS SWEET SIXTEEN F16 Sells as Lot 62.
WS Sweet Sixteen scared us with a broken rear leg between the knee and ankle at only two weeks of age. After about a month of barn time and special care she pulled through and to this day, I cannot tell you which leg she fractured. One point I often relay from that experience is how gentle her cow family is as her mother would stand over us while we would redress the splint regularly in a 17 sq ft calving pen...as if to make sure we were doing it right.
So in short, from a personal perspective, it is difficult to part with WS Sweet Sixteen. But I believe there is someone who can take her places I cannot and continue improving this breed through her truly unique genetic building blocks and structural influence.
Physically, I love her mating to CDI Levite...I wish I had a flush from her this way. I believe the heifer to come could be a great one. -Aaron
Heterozygous
How about we kick off our bred heifer line up with a little bit of chrome trimmed, black beauty right here. She is sweet, attractive and is backed by a fine set of cows with a dam who exhibits a picture perfect udder. And with her purchase, she is bred to give you one of the first calves from the inspiring new sire, WS Marvel. I’m reserving the right to flush her for 10 quality embryos with an open top. -Aaron
Red
EXPECTED PROGENY DIFFERENCES (EPDS): EPDs are the most accurate and effective tool available for comparing genetic levels. In using EPDs, the difference between two sires’ EPDs represents the unit difference expected in the performance of their progeny. For example, if sires A and B have EPDs of +10 and -5, a 15-unit difference would be expected in their progeny (moving from -5 to +10 yields 15 units). Key to using EPDs is knowing in what units they are expressed. For example, if the above case referred to weaning weight EPDs, sire A would be expected to sire 15 pounds more weaning weight than sire B. If calving ease was the trait, sire A would be expected to sire 15 percent more unassisted births in first-calf heifers; in other words, if sire B sired 30 assists in a group of 100 heifers, we would expect sire A to require 15 assists. A percentile-ranking chart is required to determine where a bull’s EPDs rank him relative to other bulls in the breed. For more detailed information about EPDs and $ indexes, visit www. simmental.org.
Listed below are the units in which ASA EPDs are expressed:
ALL-PURPOSE INDEX (API): Dollars per cow exposed under an all-purpose-sire scenario.
BACK FAT (BF): Inches of carcass backfat at 475 days.
BIRTH WEIGHT (BW): Pounds of birth weight.
CALVING EASE (CE): Percent of unassisted births when used on heifers.
CARCASS WEIGHT (CW): Pounds of carcass weight at 475 days.
DOCILITY (DOC): Percent of offspring receiving a disposition score of 1 (docile).
MATERNAL CALVING EASE (MCE): Percent of unassisted births in first-calving daughters.
MILK (MLK): Pounds of weaning weight due to milk.
MARBLING (MARB): Carcass marbling score at 475 days.
MATERNAL WEANING WEIGHT (MWW): Pounds of weaning weight due to milk and growth.
RIBEYE AREA (REA): Square inches of carcass ribeye at 475 days.
TERMINAL INDEX (TI): Dollars per cow exposed under a terminal-sire scenario.
WEANING WEIGHT (WW): Pounds of weaning weight.
YEARLING WEIGHT (YW): Pounds of yearling weight.
YIELD GRADE (YG): Carcass yield grade score at 475 days.
$ INDEXES: Though EPDs allow for the comparison of genetic levels for many economically important traits, they only provide pieces of the economic puzzle. This is where $ indexes come in. Through well-conceived, rigorous mathematical computation, $ indexes blend EPDs and economics to estimate an animal’s overall impact on integrated commercial production. The same technology that led to the dramatic progress in swine, poultry and dairy genetics over the last several decades was used to develop the following $ indexes:
ALL-PURPOSE INDEX (API): Evaluates sires for use on the entire cow herd (bred to both Angus first-calf heifers and mature cows) with the portion of their daughters required to maintain herd size retained and the remaining heifers and steers put on feed and sold grade and yield.
TERMINAL INDEX (TI): Evaluates sires for use on mature Angus cows with all offspring put on feed and sold grade and yield.
For more detailed information about EPDs and $indexes, visit: www. simmental.org
GEORGE WOLF – One of the most humble men I have ever met. A true cowboy and cattleman. Along with his faithful & hard-working wife, Irene, ran one of the most picturesque ranches along the Little Missouri River, north of Medora.
We had the pleasure of getting to know them 34 years ago, when they came to buy bulls, private treaty, which they continued to do until they retired and sold the ranch. They became so much more than customers….they were great friends.
Our memories of George run deep. The sharp wit, his love of people and oh, the storytelling. As a young man, he got to know and work for some of the pioneer ranchers in the area. He shared a lot of what he experienced and also the many legends that he had heard. I loved listening to him share. Our children have many great memories, as well. Especially, the rattlesnake he caught and saved between two 5-gallon pails (the day before we were coming for a weekend visit), just to show us how easy it was to kill one. He said, “You cut the head off and make sure to throw the head one way and the body the other way, so that they don’t find each other.”
His kind words and the praise he would heap on others, will be what I remember most about him.
We all lost a great man, whom we will never forget.
Pray for his wonderful wife, Irene, who cared for him at home, until his last days.
Rest in Peace, dear friend.
Until Jesus returns, Terry, Cathy & family.
Welcome to the 2026 Wilkinson Farms Simmentals sale. We are extremely excited about the bulls and females being offered. This program is known for producing some of the top genetics in the Simmental breed. Through the years some of the breeds greatest AI sires and donor dams have sold through this sale. We feel that this year’s offer has the potential to produce the next breed leading Herd Sire and donor female. The Schlenker family has been committed to producing cattle that keep moving the industry in a positive direction. They are students of the breed and are always striving to make the next generation better. With the use of new genomic technology as well as good old fashioned breeding philosophy this set of bulls and females might be the best produced in this program, only time will tell.
We have experienced some great times in the cattle industry with record high prices being paid for all classes of cattle. We have also experienced high input cost and weather challenges this past year in many parts of the country. With all this being said it proves why it is important to select your genetics from programs that have produced breed leading genetics for decades. They have survived the ups and downs we experience in the business, and this helps ensure your next genetic purchase has the potential to keep your cowherd equipped to take advantage of the good times and weather the bad.
As always, if you have questions about the offering or need assistance on sale day please reach out to any one of us on the Allied team.
Sincerely,
Marty Ropp, Corey Wilkins and Jared Murnin
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