Industry Recognition Archive

In 2004, Gardiner Angus Ranch received industry recognition. See the highlights.

The GAR Report Archives

Winter 2008

Featured Stories:

  • 1,100 Head Sell April 5 at the 29th Annual GAR Production Sale 9 AM, at the Ranch Near Ashland, KS
  • Is Your End-Use Target More Pounds, More Quality or Both?
  • GAR-Influenced Commercial Females in Demand at 6th Profit Proven Sale
  • Trends Change; Importance of Quality Stays
  • Gardiner Angus Ranch Bull Summary • 1997-2008
  • Gardiner Breeding Guarantee
  • Free Delivery For the 29th Year
  • Repeat Buyer Discount
  • GAR Sires Represented in the 29th Annual Production Sale

Fall 2007

Featured Stories:

  • 3rd Fall Bull Sale Offers 271 Lots of Versatility, Value and Proven GAR Predictability
  • Maybe There Is A Reason (or 10)
    Economics drives genetic and management decisions in the beef industry
  • Fall Dates Set for Age- and Source-Verified Calf Sales: AngusSource® & G3
  • Weaned Calf Value vs. Beef Value
  • GAR-Influenced Commercial Female Sale Dates
  • GAR 29th Annual Production Sale
  • The GAR Marketplace
  • Take advantage of added value with a G3 tag
  • GAR Influence Cattle Sold Through USPB Excel in FY07

Summer 2007

Featured Stories:

  • 28th Annual Sale Sets New Records While Emphasizing Affordability
  • Fall Dates Set for Age- and Source- Calf Sales: AngusSource & G3
  • Here’s proof. Gardiner customers can have it all.
  • GAR-Influenced Commercial Female Sale Dates
  • Take advantage of added value with a G3 tag
  • Gardiner Angus Ranch Fall Bull Sale
  • Realizing the Effect of Activists
  • USPB Grid Premiums Climb in May
  • Rising Costs Drive Need for Optimal Milk Genetics

Spring 2007

Featured Stories:

  • 28th Annual Sale offering posts best data ever recorded at GAR
  • $Beef comparison of top 1% of 2007 sale bulls show 26% Increase
  • GAR-influenced commercial females in demand at 5th annual cow sale
  • Take advantage of added value with a G3 tag
  • Cashing in on Age Verified Premiums
  • Look Before You Leap—Crossbreeding Considerations
    (Reprinted with permission).

Fall 2006

Feature Stories:

  • GAR 2nd Annual Fall Bull Sale Offering Ranks in top 3% for $Beef
  • Sires Represented in Fall Sale
  • Take advantage of added value with a G3 tag
  • Economics Reshaping Genetic Focus
  • Reproduction, Carcass Traits – Can We Have It All?
  • Selection For $B Makes Cents
  • Value-Added Opportunity for G3 Cattle Dreamcatcher Ranch

Summer 2006

Feature Stories:

  • GAR 27th Annual Sale Presents Buyer’s Opportunity for Genetic Improvements
  • Hinkle’s Prime Cut 4th Female Sale sells to active crowd in record time
  • Strong demand in tough country for GAR genetics at Lee’s Red Mountain Genetics
  • National Beef Packing Company, LLC Concludes Acquisition of Brawley Beef, LLC
  • “Thanks for the ride, Colonel. May you rest in peace.”
    —by Garth Gardiner, Gardiner Angus Ranch
  • Dates Set for GAR Influence Commercial Cow Sales
  • Selection For $B Makes Cents
    —Reprinted with permission, Steve Suther, Certified Angus Beef LLC, Black Ink BasicsTM
  • Take advantage of added value with a G3 tag

Spring 2006

Feature Stories:

  • “Intelligent Design” offering sells April 1 at the 27th Annual Gardiner Angus Ranch Production Sale 9 AM, At The Ranch Near Ashland, KS—Join Us!
  • Bullish returns
  • Gardiner Angus Ranch Bull Summary • 1997-2004
  • 8 key facts about animal ID
  • Strong market continues for GAR-influenced females at Profit Proven Sale
  • Sale credit offered to Guaranteed Gardiner Genetics participants
  • GAR Main Donor Summary • 2003-2004 vs. 2005-2006
  • U.S. Premium Beef Facts…

Fall 2005

Feature Stories:

  • 1,700 head sell at 4th Profit Proven GAR-Influenced Replacement Female Sale, November 28, Pratt, Kansas
  • What demand is and isn’t – Consumption alone cannot measure demand.
  • GAR launches Guaranteed Gardiner Genetics (GGG) Program for customers
  • 1st GAR Fall Bull Sale makes for a quick, successful afternoon
  • Look to genetics for marbling indicators
  • Marketing traits of successful beef producers

Summer 2005

Feature Stories:

  • 26th Annual Production Sale Reaches Milestone April 2-Over 1,000 in Attendance to Purchase 881 Lots
  • Sort It Out and Take Charge
  • Gardiner Breeding Guarantee
  • AngusSource Success
  • Repeat Buyer Discount
  • Free Delivery for Fall Bull Sale
  • GAR Continues to Offer Customer Rebate for AngusSource Enrollment

Spring 2005

Feature Stories:

  • April 2, 26th Annual Sale Showcases Industry-Leading Performance For The Serious Beef Producer
  • Free Delivery For The 26th Year
  • Seven Year Comparison Documents Significant Carcass Improvements
  • Profit Proven Group Featured in March 2005, BEEF Magazine
  • Record Set at GAR-Influenced Commercial Replacement Female Sale
  • How Much Performance Will Be Given Up If I Use An Angus Bull?
  • GAR 1407 New Design 6482 Posts Impressive Numbers in 2005 Sire Evaluation

Fall 2004

Feature Stories:

  • GAR-Influenced Profit Proven Commercial Angus Replacement Female Sale, November 29, Pratt, Kansas
  • GAR Continues to Offer Customer Rebate for AngusSource Enrollment
  • U.S. Premium Beef Converts to LLC Structure
  • GAR Expands Through Land Lease
  • Beef Production vs. the SUV
  • 1st Annual GAR Fall Bull Sale Set For October 7, 2005 at the Ranch
  • Angus Business Experiences Growth in Fiscal 2004
  • Balancing Act—Are Producers Placing Too Much Emphasis on Selection for Carcass Merit?
  • Colleagues Make BEEF Magazine’s “Top 40” Industry Leaders

Summer 2004

Feature Stories:

  • 25th Anniversary Production Sale Sets New Record at Gardiner Angus Ranch
  • GAR Sired Steer Wins 2004 Beef Empire Days
  • The Deadly Mistakes of Breeding Season
  • Grid Maker Progeny Sought After in Spring Sales Across U.S.
  • USDA Yield Grades Explained
  • GAR Marketing Update
  • Irsik and Herman Cattle Return Healthy Premiums through USPB

Spring 2004

Feature Stories:

  • 25th Annual GAR Sale Offering Represents The Future “Unplugged”!
  • GAR offers commercial customers rebate for enrollment in AngusSource program
  • How Much Performance Will Be Given Up If I Use An Angus Bull?
  • Kansas Beef Producer Wins Prestigious Vision Award
  • USPB records large grid premiums during fourth quarter
  • Profit Proven Commercial Angus Female Sale tops ‘02 mark

Fall 2003

Feature Stories:

  • Profit Proven Female Sale to offer 1150 head of GAR-influenced genetics
  • AngusSource Offers New Marketing Tools
  • GAR Commercial Customers Some of First to Enroll in AAA AngusSource Program
  • “New” CIDR + Prostaglandin Synchronization System
  • The Top 10 Principles To Powerful Marketing
  • Gardiner Angus Ranch Plans for 25th Annual Production Sale
  • Summary of Grid Performance, FY 2003
  • Mule Creek Ranch Tops Pratt Market
  • Fiscal 2003 was a strong year of growth for USPB NBP Acquisition Tops Successful Year

Spring 2003

Feature Stories:

  • 24th Annual Production Sale The Best Ever At Gardiner Angus Ranch
  • A Note From Gardiner Angus Ranch
  • Your synchronization toolbox
  • Why is profitability so rare in the cattle business
  • Beef Logic: Muscle
  • USPB Members take home $105,000 in Best Of Breed Angus carcass contest

Winter 2003

Feature Stories:

  • 1,000 Head sell April 5, 2003, at the 24th Annual Gardiner Angus Ranch Production Sale, Ashland, KS
  • Fashionable Females
  • U.S. Premium Beef continues to be one of the industry's greatest success stories
  • Harvest Time: Learning from the past making decision for the future
  • Gardiner Sires Place At The Top of Best of the Breed

Fall 2002

Feature Stories:

  • GAR Customers Join Forces — 1200 Head of Source-Verified, GAR Influence Females Sell Nov. 18, 2002, Pratt, KS
  • What Kind Of An Industry Do We Want to Have?
  • Understanding the "tools" we have to use for synchronization, Part II

Summer 2002

Feature Stories:

  • Developing marketing opportunities for our customers a high priority
  • Three Common Management Traps
  • Giles Family & Krier’s Combine to offer 1,000 GAR Influenced Females, November 18, 2002
  • U.S. Premium Beef, Farmland National Beef Unaffected by Farmland Industries’ Filing
  • Understanding the "tools" we have to use for synchronization

May 2002

Feature Stories:

  • April 6,2002 – A Historic Day At Gardiner Ranch
  • Management of Artificial Insemination Based on Twenty-One Heat Detection Signs
  • Timed Insemination Programs for Cattle – Why Couldn’t We Do This 10 Years Ago?
  • Ultrasound: A Tool for Improving Reproductive Management of Cattle
  • Studying a Lesson of the Cattle Feeding Industry

Spring 2002

Feature Stories:

  • Helpful Info About The Offering
  • The Great "Melting Pot" Theory
  • A Note from Henry
  • "How Much Performance Will Be Given Up If I Use An Angus Bull?"
  • Precision Tops Australian Feed Efficiency Trial

January 2002

Feature Stories:

  • Is end product important? Or…yeah, whatever.
  • Data is only as good as the analysis — using carcass data to improve quality
  • There is a feed yard that fits your operation
  • USPB Announces Grid Changes
  • Have we gotten the wrong message about optimization?
  • Nelson Farms Production Sale Scheduled for February 15, Alma, Nebraska

October 2001

Feature Stories:

  • Information & Technology 101
  • Total Quality Management: A Corporate Concept For The Beef Industry
  • Will Corporations Control the Cattle Business?
  • GAR Contributes to R.A. Brown Ranch Elite Angus Female Offering, Oct. 10-11

May 2001

Feature Stories:

  • Gardiner Angus Ranch 22nd Annual Production Sale Most Successful To Date
  • Questions from GAR customers
  • Value-added Performance: Genetics, health, management – all of the above
  • Synchronization of Estrus in Beef Heifers – time-tested and “new” ideas

January 2001

Feature Stories:

  • Reproduction, growth, carcass traits – can we have it all? (part 3)
  • U.S. Premium Beef Announces Grid Improvements
  • Freeze Branding

December 2000

Feature Stories:

  • Reproduction, growth, carcass traits – can we have it all? (part 2)
  • A young Gardiner customer asked the following questions…
  • Uniform Product or Genetic Diversity?

November 2000

Feature Stories:

  • Reproduction, growth, carcass traits – can we have it all? (part 1)
  • GAR-influence cattle sold through Superior Video Auction top Labor Day Sale – the best bulls of the Angus breed.
  • Angus Beef Record Service (BRS) is valuable tool for commercial producers
  • GAR customers receiving healthy premiums through U.S. Premium Beef