IMBIO 2024

Cattle Producers, This year Bloomfield Livestock Market is going to hold 1 IMBIO (co-mingle) pre-condition special feeder cattle sale. Our goal here is to keep you aware of what buyers are looking for, to help meet up with the consumer demands. Our buyers have requested that the calves need to be weaned 60 days to help with the transition to their new location for a healthier calf. We also request that the cattle be in the right condition, clean in appearance, remove all your personal ear tags, so that the most particular buyers will bid on them. It is a huge benefit to the seller! We work with Mike England, the Zoetis senior territory business manager. Zoetis pre-weaning protocol will ensure healthier calves for you and the buyers. Most feedlot and background operators believe that pre-arrival processing reduces sickness, stress, and death loss in their lots. Zoetis is very flexible in the options that are available; whether you begin vaccination at pre-weaning or weaning to meet the requirements. We recommend that you talk to a veterinarian (range ready vet list provided) to see what protocol fits your needs for your best results. What is IMBIO, you may ask? IMBIO Stands for Iowa Missouri Beef Improvement Organization. It is our co-mingle grade sale. This program targets spring born calves that are English/Beef breeds, colors do not matter. All cattle participating in the sale will have to meet the requirements listed. Once all your cattle have been unloaded at the sale barn on sale day we sort the cattle in their appropriate groups, weigh the cattle, yard them out with other cattle that they fit, sell the cattle in the evening on the weights from when they were sorted. The cattle get put in bigger groups up to semi load lots that are more attractive to buyers. We have been doing this since the early 1990s and is a proven program. There are many advantages to this program for the producers and buyers. Feel free to contact us with any questions, concerns, or for a farm visit to look at your cattle!