John Deere 4440 sells for $20,000

ARCHBOLD, Ohio — On April 14, Yoder & Frey, Inc. auctioned off farm equipment owned by Andy King in Archbold, Ohio.

Top-selling items included a 1981 John Deere 4440 cab tractor with A/C and heat for $20,000; John Deere A-hand start-fenders for $3,100; a 1947 Case DC for $1,250; a 1972 John Deere 7700 hydro combine for $6,100, a John Deere 218 flex head for $3,000 and a Krause 15-foot rock flex disk for $3,550.

For more information, contact Yoder & Frey at 419-445-2070.

Scenic Kentucky farm leaves block at $887,149

OWENSBORO, Ky. — A western Kentucky farm in McLean County, Ky. containing nearly 270 acres sold in 6 tracts at auction for $887,149 or $3,293 per acre. The farm had about 60 acres of cropland on Green River, about 95 acres of rolling pasture land with the balance in wooded land that was timbered in 1987. Improvements included an older country home, shop, hay barn and tobacco barn. The land’s great appeal was the view of the Green River valley from all but two of the tracts.

Kurtz Auction & Realty Company conducted the auction for the Hugh T. Miller Estate using the choice-by-the-acre method of auction. Jim Knott was the auctioneer in charge, assisted by Jim Goetz, Mike Melloan, Joe Mills and Bill Kurtz, all veteran agents with Kurtz.
Kurtz, founded in 1945, is a real estate auction marketing firm with 20 employees and is licensed in Kentucky and six other states. They conduct 200 auctions per year selling 500 parcels of farm, commercial, industrial and residential real estate.

Contact Bill Kurtz at bill@kurtzauction. com or by phone at 800-264-1204.

Kentucky Hereford Feeder Calf sale repeats success

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The second Kentucky Certified Hereford Influenced Sale replicated the success of the first sale that was hosted last October. On May 11, sellers earned premiums of more than $4 per cwt. for heifers and about $3 per cwt. for steers compared to the weekly average price for each weight range. The 733 head of Hereford and Hereford-influenced calves were sold at the Blue Grass Stockyards South in Stanford, Ky.

Seeing the largest advantage in the sale was the 600-weight steers that averaged a $6.31 cwt. premium compared to the weekly average. Word of the premiums earned in the first Kentucky Hereford sale in fall 2009 spread as consignors responded with about 200 more head compared to the first sale.

“Kentucky breeders and the Kentucky Hereford Assoc. have done a great job promoting these sales to both sellers and buyers and that has played a major role in the success of both sales,” said Tim Dietrich, beef cattle marketing specialist for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.

Modeled after other successful Hereford feeder sales, the Kentucky Certified Hereford Influenced Sale was organized by the Kentucky Hereford Assoc., after Hereford breeders became frustrated by receiving discounts for their odd numbers of Hereford calves.
Following the feeder calf sale, Hereford breeders sold 10 bulls.