► Welcome to the 70th Anniversary Spring Select Sale
Come join us May 1st, 2010 at 1:00PM at the Eastern States Exposition for a great opportunity to invest into some of the best Hereford genetics available in the northeast.  Below are just a few of the lots available at this years sale.  Our Annual Meeting and Banquet will be hosted by the Storrowtown Tavern, right on the grounds of Eastern States Exposition Friday, April 30th at 6:00PM.  Hope you can join us!

There is a block of hotel rooms available at the Candlewood Suites in W. Springfield , MA if you’d like to spend the night. Room rate is $90 + Tax. Call 413-739-1122 and reference the NEHA Block.

VIEW CONSIGNMENT FORM HERE

The 2010 Spring Select Sale is in full swing.  We need to get your best consignments cleaned up and ready to sell.  With the economy still struggling, our buyers will only be interested in your very best, so please take some consideration as you go through your herd over the next few weeks and choose only the best animals to represent your farm. 

We will be advertising our sale in a larger target area this year, covering more of New York , New Jersey and Pennsylvania as well as the New England states to help encourage more potential buyers to attend this year’s sale.  We still need your help, however, in getting that message across.  We need each consignor to take a day and get that animal clean and clipped up so that we can have some good photos to help market our catalog to farmers who might come from longer distances.  As an incentive, every consignment that comes with a good photo will also be listed on the newenglandhereford.org webpage with its lot number and description. So as you’re talking to prospective buyers you can easily direct them to our new website to market your animals.

A couple of notes to prospective consignors:

1. In order to consign a bull to this sale, we are now requiring that you also consign a yearling heifer or a mature cow

2. All bulls must be semen tested and have documentation at the sale indicating so

3. I strongly suggest that if you choose to consign a cow/calf to the auction, please make sure that the cow has a heifer calf at side. (We can substitute a cow/calf pair at the sale if the cow you originally consigned in the catalog had a bull.  We have much better results with Cow/Calf pairs that feature heifer calves)

4. All animals that are consigned to the sale must have the following on their health certificate.  (We have many animals that get shipped to states that now require additional testing, most of these tests are not for bringing cattle into Massachusetts , but for selling into other north-east states.)

            a. Health Certificates

            b. Shipping Fever vaccination

            c. BVD Testing

            d. TB Testing

            e. Rabies Vaccination

            f. Brucellosis Testing (if from an accredited Brucellosis free herd or state, please have veterinarian indicate so on the papers)

I look forward to working with all of you in the upcoming months and I hope we can make this years sale a great opportunity for breeders and buyers alike. If you have questions, please call me or email me directly at 860-250-3311 or herbholden@holdeninc.com

Thanks Again!