For some cattle breeders, hosting an annual sale is a milestone. But that approach isn’t the best for every producer. Buseman Angus, Canistota, S.D., conducts all of their bull sales via private treaty, and the approach has worked for their operation for decades.
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The Buseman family has been raising commercial Angus cattle since Joe Buseman’s dad, Ray, purchased an Angus bull in 1951. The herd was primarily commercial cattle until the late 1970s, when they started buying registered Angus heifers…