Sydenstricker Angus Farms Receives the
2001 BIF Outstanding Seedstock Producer Award

San Antonio, Texas – Sydenstricker Angus Farms was named the Beef Improvement Federation Outstanding Seedstock Producer of the Year at the thirty-third annual convention in San Antonio, Texas on July 13, 2001.

Sydenstricker Angus Farms is owned by Eddie L. Sydenstricker and managed by Ben Eggers. Ralph E. Sydenstricker, Eddie’s father, established Sydenstricker Angus Farms (SAF) in 1952 at Paris, Missouri. They have been producers of registered Angus seedstock since that time.

The herd was enrolled in Angus Herd Improvement Records in 1977 and Angus Information System (AIMS) software is currently being used to facilitate better access to herd data.

SAF has utilized the same headquarters location south of Mexico, Missouri, in north central Missouri, for 41 years. They are currently calving about 500 head, of which 22 percent are embryo transplant calves. They also produce some ET calves in cooperator herds. Utilizing heat synchronization, SAF has a 90-day spring-calving season and a 60-day fall-calving season. The herd is maintained on 2,500 owned acres and 750 leased acres. The farm is a combination farm with 25 percent in a crop rotation of corn, soybeans, and wheat. The remainder of the farm is pasture and hay.

Most of the production is marketed through an annual production sale held each year in November. All fall yearling bulls, and the older two-thirds of the spring bull calf crop are sold at this time, as well as a cross-section of females and embryos. SAF began carcass evaluation of herd sires in 1988, and own or co-own 34 sires with carcass EPDs, based on 1,268 of their progeny evaluated, as well as 12 more sires in some stage of carcass evaluation. They have marketed semen and AI certificates of herd sires since 1981. Their semen directory, printed annually since 1992, now contains information on 53 sires. These sires are responsible for over 30,000 progeny with weights recorded in the AHIR database, and 3,174 progeny on Australia’s Breedplan. Although many are young sires, seventeen of them have 5,135 daughters in production on AHIR.

SAF was awarded the Certified Angus Beef Seedstock Commitment to Excellence Award in 1997. At an early age, Eddie Sydenstricker was involved with the formation of the first junior Angus association in the country and has served on the American Angus Association Board of Directors. Ben Eggers is currently a director of the American Angus Association and serves on the board of Angus Productions, Inc.