PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: Tonya Albarado, Katy, TX

I am completing my term as BueLingo President, and would like to share that it has been an honor and great opportunityto serve on the BueLingo Board and as your President. I appreciate all the guidance and contribution received from theother Board Members and visiting with our General Membership along the way.

We have done some exciting things, which I hope will continue to serve the BueLingo Society in the years to come, butas always there are items left to do and areas to continue to build upon.

I believe we are blessed to be raising one of the best cattle breeds out there, and I hope to continue to help promote our“belted beauties” in the coming years.

I know that the Society could use your help and input, so I encourage all Members to think about how they might be ableto contribute. Reach out to one of the Board Members and get engaged where you can, I promise you will not only behelping improve our breed and Society, but you will meet some great folks along the way!

Hope everyone continues to stay safe thru this Covid journey, and if you get down to south Texas and the Houston area,please let us know!

Tonya #buelingoproud

B U E L I N G O N E W S L E T T E RS E P T E M B E R 2 0 2 0

PRESIDENT 2020-2021

Sean Meyer

Timberline Ranch

1779 E Hwy 164

Kirkwood, IL 61447

C: 309-371-4467

sdmeyer@rocketmail.com

sean@thebeltedcoworchard.com

VICE PRESIDENT

Harvey Blair

Dai-Bue Acres

15904 Warren Rd

Warren, IL 61087

C: 608-214-7813

Ph: 815-745-2311

bldaibue@jisp.net

Grace Meyer

1779 E Hwy 64

Kirkwood, IL 61447

309-371-4611

gracemeyer321@yahoo.com

Dean Monson

Monson’s Udder Farm MUF

9364 Silver Spring Rd

Gratiot, WI 53541

C: 608-482-2364

Ph: 608-922-3322

mufllc@hotmail.com

Terry Bryant

TRB

210570 E 680 Rd.

Camargo, OK 73835

C: 580-254-0291

Ph: 580-926-3541

terrybryant562@gmail.com

Judy Brener

Windy River Cattle Company

6565 N Broadway Rd.

Apple River, IL 61001

Ph: 815-594-2573

tristater@hotmail.com

Kenneth Hart

3521 W 7th St.

Elk City, OK 73644

Ph: 580-225-2149

C: 580-243-8934

16khart@gmail.com

Executive Secretary

Susan Blair

15904 W Warren Rd.

Warren, IL 61087

Phone 815-745-2147

office@buelingo.com

www.buelingo.com

WELCOME KENNETH HART OF ELK CITY, OKLAHOMA TO THE 2020-2023 BUELINGO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kenneth will share a little about himself in the next BueLingo World Issue!

MEMBERSHIP 2020/2021

Thank you to all who have renewed their memberships for 2020/2021.

If I have not received your renewal, you will receive a renewal notice with this newsletter.Memberships expired May 31, 2020.

Help support and promote the BueLingo Beef Cattle Society with your membership and participation of cattleregistrations of the BueLingo Breed of cattle. Please feel free to contact any board member with questions or concernsabout the BueLingo breed of cattle or the BueLingo Beef Cattle Society. They all enjoy talking about BueLingo!

2020-2021 Board of Directors and contact information

A Quorum was met in the election of officers by the sitting board of directors. Sean Meyer is now our acting Presidentwith Harvey Blair as the Vice President! May you have a productive year on the BBCS Board of Directors.

PMT TESTING!

The Society has signed another contract to continue PMT testing through UC DAVIS. We will maintain the benefits of aformal agreement without being bound to a test minimum concurrence. All testing will still be done through the Society office, sowe may verify and validate the results within our PMT database.

Cost has gone up to $30.00 per test. This covers the cost of the test itself, collection cards, as well as the postage and handlingfees. UC Davis has been returning test results within 5-10 days.

Our ultimate goal was to make PMT testing obsolete by eradicating PMT from the BueLingo breed. The majority of ourbreeders have tested their entire herd and have eliminated or manage their PMT CARRIERS. Some dams/sires/offspring have notbeen tested and an animal may be registered as PMT NOT TESTED. With UC DAVIS efficiently testing for PMT we can haveresults back in your hands in a timely manner to help maintain and manage PMT within your herd. Contact the office for more in-formation:

815-745-2147 or office@buelingo.com

WELCOMENEW MEMBERS OF 2020

Lee WaldhartW3226 Stetson Ave.Stetsonville, WI 54480715-678-2873(gift Danny Meyer)

Brenda Hanson64091 200th St.Rose Creek, MN 55970507-584-6813507-273-5989Brenda.hanson13@hotmail.com(gift Kevin Foster)

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THATHAVE GIVEN OUTGIFT MEMBERSHIPS!

Robert SmuckBuckeye Cattle Co19131 G Ave.Alden, IA 50006641-640-0132(gift Kevin Foster)

Kenneth WittDeerfield Farms LLC4090 McSpadden Rd.Houston, MN 55943507-429-7640(gift Kevin Foster)

Randy & Colleen KlaersKlaers Family Farm4364 S Lake Sarah Dr.Maple Plain, MN 55359(gift Dean Monson)

Dustin SchlinsogW2760 County Rd HGranton, WI 54436(gift Dean Monson)

Adam & Suzannah Helman234981 County Rd HEdgar, WI 54426715-680-8149715-573-2430(gift David Gallion)

Abby Koehn was a 1st grade student at EnglishValleys Elementary and is a member of the Crossroads4-H Club. This was Abby's second year showing in thePeewee Bucket Bottle Calf show at the Iowa CountyFair. Abby named her calf Starlight, who is a homeraised commercial heifer. Abby spent many monthsand days feeding, walking, washing, and working withher calf. Abby was so proud to take her calf in the ringand did an excellent job showing her. They made agreat team. One component of the show is an interviewprocess that took place with a live microphone, onenever knows what they might say, but she was quick toanswer as she knew everything about Starlight. One ofthe questions the Judge asked was "What are your plansfor your calf after the fair?" She was quick to respondwith "She's going back to Grandpa’s house to be acow." Abby received a participation trophy and ribbon.Abby also exhibited a barn quilt in the Home Improve-ment class in the Clover Buds division receiving a par-ticipation ribbon for her excellent project.

BUELINGO FEEDER CATTLE MARKETING

CONTACT BEFORE NOVEMBER 1, 2020 OR ASAP FOR MORE INFORMATION ON MARKETING BUELINGO FEEDERS

DANNY MEYER - Home Phone: 715-255-8436 Cell: 608-397-2354 dandeeloyal@gmail.com

DAVID GALLION - Home Phone: 715-659-4802 Cell: 715-613-4801 karen.a.gallion@gmail.com

JACOB FRANZEN - Cell: 507-273-5546 jakefranzen51@hotmail.com

BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ NOTIFICATIONS

The Board met via phone conference July 22, 2020 to officially waive the General Membership meeting of 2020.

Dean moved to postpone the 2020 Convention/General Membership meeting because of Covid 19 and all the extenuatingcircumstances surrounding the issue until a time when it would be more safe and prudent to do so. Terry 2nd: All in favor.

A lot of discussion went into the decision and all are saddened that we couldn’t meet face to face and enjoy BueLingo friends andfellowship, along with promoting the BueLingo Breed of Cattle. Hopefully our nation will turn around for the better soon and thesetypes of decisions won’t have to be made.

But, in the meantime: Business went on as usual. Ballots were read for the new directors of 2020-2021. Sean and Terry were re-elected to a 2nd term and Kenneth Hart of Elk City, OK will begin his 1st - 3 year term. Thank you to Tonya for serving on theBoard these past 6 years with the last 2 years serving as the President of the Board of Directors. She’s brought and executed somegreat additions to our Society.

Even though our membership numbers are being maintained, Registration numbers have been cut almost in half. We registered 159compared to 300 average over the past few years. So the Board has decided to run a promotion. A motion was made to offer Regis-tration of over 15 months of age at a cost of $15.00 each to be offered until December 31, 2020.

HARVEY’S HIDEOUT!

Hi from the hideout. It’s that time of the year again where the haymaking is finished, silage chopped, time to work cattle and gettingready for the great anticipated corn and bean harvest.

It’s great living on the farm where we can set aside the bad distractions; politics, bad weather, pandemics and whatever else ails you,and go out and look at our year’s accomplishments.

It’s been a challenging year to say the least, but the BueLingo look great and that means a lot to me.

Have a great fall and don’t forget to vote.

Sincerely from the Hideout, Harvey Blair

Evan Koehn was a 4th grade student at English Valleys Elementary andis a member of the Crossroads 4-H Club. This was Evan's first year as afull 4-H member, having been a Clover Bud member for 3 years. Evanshowed in the Homeraised Market Steer class and the Senior YearlingPurchased Commercial Heifer Class. In the Senior Yearling PurchasedCommercial Heifer class, Evan showed his Heifer named Apple. Applewas purchased from Harvey and Susan Blair in November 2019. BeingEvan's first time in the show ring with the big calves was a little intimi-dating. At the start of the show, Apple was nervous, but Evan quicklystood his ground and walked her into the ring. He became more confidentas the class went on. He did an excellent job talking to the judge and re-ceived a blue ribbon with his heifer. Evan is planning on showing Appleas a Cow-Calf Pair next year. He was able to pre-check her at the vet andis excited that she is going to have a calf in the spring.

Evan then showed his Homeraised Commercial Market Steer, Charles.Charles was a bottle calf that Evan showed in the Peewee Calf show theprevious year. Charles was Evan's favorite calf and he was very proud totake him in the ring. They made a great team. Evan received a blueribbon for his steer and placed 3rd overall in the rate of gain class with again of 3.80 lbs/day. Evan had an emotional few days as we all saidgoodbye to Charles. Evan also exhibited a card holder in the Woodwork-ing class and received a blue ribbon.

Evan Koehn and his Homeraised Market Steer, Charles,Iowa County Fair in Marengo, IA.

Evan Koehn exhibiting his Senior Yearling CommercialHeifer, Apple. Iowa County Fair in Marengo, IA

2021 CALENDAR

NATIONAL BUELINGO BEEF CATTLE SOCIETY

CALENDAR COVER PHOTO CONTEST!

SEND US THAT “SPECIAL” PICTURE TO BE SELECTED AS OUR 2021 BUELINGO COVER PHOTO

Want to sponsor a page or sponsor by submitting a business card ad?Sponsor a Calendar Page for $100.00 by submitting a BueLingo Picture(s) - high resolution -along withyour ad to be displayed with that calendar month. You may also support the calendar with Business cardads to be displayed at $35.00 each. A membership page will be included on the calendar, so have yourmembership current.

You may request a month for your picture/ad, but will be selected on a first come first serve basis. Wewelcome as many pictures as you wish to send, cannot guarantee they will all be used, but would like toput out a very colorful BueLingo calendar for 2021. The BueLingo Society will retain all rights to thepictures submitted.

Not able to email your pictures, then you may mail originals to the office to be scanned in. May notproduce a Quality photo.

We will start collecting pictures now and wish to have all pictures submitted by October 30, 2020. Weplan to have the calendar completed and ready to print in November and in your hands for the ChristmasHolidays. Due to sponsorships we have been able to sell the Calendars at $10.00 each including postage.Each sponsor receives one complimentary calendar.

We had a very successful run the last 2 Calendars and are excited to offer the calendar for 2021. So, getthose pictures snapping…. And let us know your intentions to help sponsor the next BueLingo Calendar.Send photos via email to Susan Blair office@buelingo.com

PROMOTION OF REGISTRATIONS!

All BueLingo over the age of 15 months may be registered at the $15.00 fee. ($30.00 if a non-member)

Promotion is in effect until December 31, 2020! Need registration forms, etc, contact the office@buelingo.comPhone: 815-745-2147 or print from the web site www.buelingo.com under Forms & Fees

Share your Show Cattle photos to be included in the next BueLingo World. December 2020!(some shows were cancelled this year as well as our 2020 BBCS Convention and General Membership meeting.)

BueLingo World Display ads! Prices and sizes vary….see the www.buelingo.com web site for details on display ads!

DECEMBER 1, 2020 — Deadline for ads for the December issue of the BueLingo World! (Christmas issue)

Need your input to keep our Society current and exciting to the oldest and newest BueLingo Cattle Producers.Contact Susan: BBCS - 15904 W Warren Rd. Warren, IL 61087 - Phone: 815-745-2147 - office@buelingo.com

DEAN’S DEN!

Does anyone else wonder where summer went? The weather sure was different this year compared to 2019. We finishedchopping corn and filling silos on September 7, 2020. In 2019, we had lots of rain and flooding. We didn't’ start chopping corn orfilling silos till October 7th.

We cut some 4th crop hay last weekend. Corn fields are really drying, and some farmers have started to combine corn. Westarted to wean some of our BueLingo calves this week. Hope we can get a fair price when we sell them.

Hope that everyone has a bountiful harvest of crops and livestock! Have a Happy and Safe Fall.

Belted (masked) Regards,Dean Monson

“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.” Samuel Johnson