North America s Sedalia, Missouri June 22-27, 2015 March 1, 2015 Dear Midwest Sale Consignor:

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March 1, 2015 Dear Midwest Sale Consignor: Sedalia, Missouri June 22-27, 2015 The Heartland Group is committed to continuing and improving the biggest and best sheep sale in North America!

1 March 1, 2015 Dear Midwest Sale Consignor: Sedalia, Missouri June 22-27, 2015 The Heartland Group is committed to continuing and improving the biggest and best sheep sale in North America! The strong traditions and standards of excellence, under Larry s leadership, provides us with a great foundation on which to continue to grow this event. You will see improvements in technology and use of social media as well as an updated marketing campaign. New ENTRIES DUE DATE: May 5th Entry blanks are included with this letter or can be found and printed online at Simply mail completed entry blanks with your payment check to Midwest Sale - PO Box 72 - Milo, IA On the website, you also have the option of submitting entries online with credit card payment. Entries will be accepted on an Information Sale Day basis, but we encourage you to include as much information as possible for your cataloged entries! Entry fees and sale charges are fully explained on the back side of this letter. Read that material carefully. In an effort to produce the sale catalog in a timely manner, this May 5th deadline is final. We will gladly accept entries after May 5th, but they will not be included in the printed catalog. Late entries will continue to be accepted through day of sale. Make sure to review the sale rules, as there are some slight changes for this year (see enclosed Midwest Stud Ram Sale Rules sheet). Also be aware if your breed has any special sale rules. Some of these specific breed rules are listed on the back of the Midwest Sale Rules for your review, others are listed on your breed s websites. All special breed rules are enforced by the breed association, not by the Midwest Sale staff. Scrapie Tags Required for All Entries! The APHIS Scrapie Regulations require that all US entries carry the scrapie tags, issued by the state veterinarian in each state. DNA Test Information: Those breeders wanting to list Codon 171 or 136 results or spider test results should include that in the eartag field when making entries. While test results are not required for most breeds, if you have them available, we do encourage you to provide a copy of results with your registration and health papers. Codon provided by consignor will be included on the sale orders, but is not guaranteed by the Midwest Sale. Registration Papers: If consigning registered animals, please make sure to have your registration papers for entries to turn in at checkin. If registration papers are not provided prior to sale, your consignor check will be held until papers are provided. Again, all yearling rams and fall-born ram lambs must have Elisa test for B.Ovis within 30 days of the sale. Standard interstate health paper will be required for all sheep. We suggest not testing your rams until after June 5, so as to allow for travel time after the sale. North America s Greatest Sheep Sale Only the Best are sold at Sedalia! Managing Partner: Curt Overcash (815) curt@midwestsale.com Media Contact: Bret Oelke (218) bret@midwestsale.com Karey Claghorn (515) karey@midwestsale.com Millie Moore (701) millie@midwestsale.com Brandan Bruce (515) brandan@midwestsale.com Carrie Taylor-Kelly (515) carrie@midwestsale.com Midwest Stud Ram Sale PO Box 72 Milo, Iowa Heartland Mission: to create the premier marketplace for livestock genetics No other sale comes close to offering top purebred breeders a stronger market or environment in which to merchandise your top animals. Each year upwards of 2,000 buyers register at this sale from over 40 states and two or three foreign countries! Plan now to consign your very best! A full class listing per breed is included on the back of the sale entry blank. Please note your breeds listed classes, as some may have changed. (more information on back side) managed by

2 Entry Fee Schedule Entry fees are $20 per head ($60 per pen of three), plus 10% of the full sale price of each animal, including any no sales. An exception are the entry fees for Montadales, which wil be the same as their past National Sales at $30 per entry, with $10 of that amount going directly to the Montadale Association. As always, these entry fees are nonrefundable. These fees and charges apply to both breeding sheep, wether sires and dams, and club lambs. Entries are due May 5th; make sure they reach us by that date to be cataloged! In addition to the charges outlined above, there will be a 1% surcharge deducted from your sale settlement for the Missouri Sheep Producers, the sponsors of this sale. Polypay Tunis, Katahdin, Rambouillet, Dorper, Shropshires, Dorset, Texel, Southdown, Suffolk and Hampshire breeders will have an additional 1% deducted for their National Associations. Corriedale & Montadale breeders will have an additional 2% deducted for their Association. Ohio sheep entries also have a ½% deduction for the Ohio Sheep Commission. The Amercain Lamb Board mandates $1.50 per head deducted from each animal sold as well. Several breeds also have us deduct futurity fees; included are Southdowns, Shropshires, Columbias and Dorpers. All consignors will have transfer fees deducted on sheep sold as we transfer the registration papers to the new owners and mail those certificated directly to them. Substitutions are Permitted Substitutions (within or out of class/breed) will be allowed in the interest of improved quality. Please make sure to have correct paperwork (health and registration papers) on the animals that are entered into the sale. If registration papers are not provided prior to sale, your consignor check will be held until papers are provided. Advertising Options Most past consignors, and commercial & industry supporters received advertising information in the mail prior to this letter. If you did not receive that information, please visit to print and review the offered advertising opportunities. We are offering NEW added value with catalog ads bundled with web banner ads that will appear during the live streaming of your breeds show and sale. ADVERTISING DEADLINE AND RATES April 20th - Ad Commitment and Content Due May 1st - Camera Ready Ads DUE (must commit by April 20th) Offering 10% discount for ads PAID in FULL by April 20th. Offering 5% discount for ads provided camera ready by May 1st. Other Miscellaneous Items As a consignor you are responsible for the cost incurred in the preparation and transportation of your animals to the sale, plus the feed and bedding at the sale as per usual. Hay and straw will be available on the fairgrounds at local prevailing prices. Entry fees are nonrefundable. No entry fees can be refunded for animals sifted from the sale, scratched for the sale, or that for other reasons fail to get to the sale. Settlement checks will be mailed to consignors in early August on all sheep paid for by that time. Collections from bad buyers of necessity must be a shared responsibility. No consignor has ever failed to be paid for sheep sold through this sale, but unfortunately, there have been some delays from time to time due to circumstances beyond our control. Looking forward to seeing you at the 2015 Midwest Stud Ram Sale! Sincerly, Heartland Livestock Services Partners Enclosed are Sale Entry Blank, Sale Rules and Sale Schedule

3 Midwest Stud Ram Sale Rules 1) All sheep in the sale must be offered with Full Interest Selling! All sheep must be guaranteed as breeders, if properly handled. Half-interest sales are permitted, but only at the option of the buyer(s). Consignors must offer the Full interest through the sale. 2) No semen right may be imposed by consignors subsequent to the sale of a ram. Consignors may collect and retain rights to semen on rams sold, but only that semen collected prior to the sale. Rams that have been previously collected will be branded with a C merely as a means of letting the prospective buyers know that consignor is holding semen, and retaining rights to this semen. Please notify the sale staff when checking in the animal so that a C can be included on the paint branding card. 3) DNA Test Information: Those breeders wanting to list Codon 171 or 136 results or spider test results with your pedigrees should include that with entries, and also bring a copy of the test results with your registration and health papers. Codon provided by consignor will be included on the sale orders, but is not guaranteed by the Midwest Sale. 4) Registration Papers: If consigning registered animals, please make sure to have your registration papers for entries to turn in at checkin. If registration papers are not provided prior to sale, your consignor check will be held until papers are provided. Flock tags, scrapie tags, or tattoos are required. 5) Health Papers: All animals must have a health certificate, dated June 5th or later. A health paper (or photocopy of master paper) for each entry is to be turned in to sale management at check-in. All entries must have scrapie tags! Elisa Testing Required: All s and s are required to be ELISA tested with the individual test results attached to the health paper. Schedule these ELISA test for June 5th or later to allow for traveling time for the new owners after the sale. 6) Artificial Coloring: Any artificial coloring of the head and legs, or of wool for the purpose of camouflaging black fiber is prohibited. 7) Lambs Teeth: All lambs should hold their lamb s teeth to 12 months of age. Any lambs that drop their teeth prior to 12 months as determined by their registry paper shall be replaced with a lamb of equal value to the mutual satisfaction of the buyer and seller within a reasonable amount of time, or the consignor shall refund the purchase price promptly with all fees and percentages retained by the sale managements. It shall be the responsibility of the buyer to notify the seller and then the sale manager if such a problem occurs. Any consignor failing to comply with this rule shall be barred from consigning any animals to the following Midwest Sale. 8) Show Placing and Sifting: A full class list can be found on the back of the entry blank. Classes with over 30 entries will be split by age after check-in except in Wether Sire and Dam Divisions. Only the top end of classes larger than 20 will be placed in all breeds. The balance of the class will be randomly drawn for sale order. Any unsound, inferior or unacceptable entries in the opinion of the Judge or Sale Classifier or Sifting Designee will be sifted. All decisions by the listed designees are final. 9) Lamb Muzzles Prohibited: Any consignor using muzzles on animals will be asked to remove them. If muzzles are seen on the animals again, these animals will be automatically dismissed from the sale. 10) Penning assignments: Will be made prior to the sale and all consignors must use those assigned pens. Any special penning request must accompany your sale entries! We will honor these requests whenever possible. 11) NEW PROCEDURE ON TRANSIT ANIMLS IN THE DESIGNATED TRANSIT BARNS: Animals not consigned in the Midwest Sale are not allowed to be housed in the Sheep and Swine barns. Instead, they are considered transit animals and should be held in the horse barn stalls. Stalls for transit animals will now be accounted for by Midwest Sale staff. All stalls will be locked prior to sale week and can then be rented by consignors/non-consignors through sale staff in the FFA Building. Stall rent will cost $5.00 per pen per day for consignors, and $15 per pen per day for non-consignors. All rentals must be paid up frout and will pay rent thourgh Sunday, June 28th. We will require renter name, addess, phone number, number of sheep penned, and a brief descpition of animals upon pen rental. If renter chooses to empty the pen prior to Sunday, they may return to the FFA Building for a refund of days not used, allowing the pen to again be locked by sale staff. Refunds will be allowed for the day staff is informed of the empty pen through Sunday. Renters wishing to lock their transit pens will be required to furnish their own locks for this purpose. Otherwise transit animals are to be held in personal trailers, at no responsibility to the Midwest Sale or its staff. ALL TRANSIT ANIMALS MUST ALSO HAVE HEALTH PAPERS available for inspection in accordance with Missouri health standards and rules and federal law. Please put transit animals on seprate health papers from sale entries. 12) Parking: No trailers or trucks are to be parked adjacent to the barns as these are fire lanes. 13) Display Dogs Prohibited: No display dogs will be allowed in the barns. 14) Blankets: Blankets are to remain off animals once shown, except for late night protection. 15) Shearing Rules: All Southdowns, Texels, Shropshires, Dorpers, Wether Sires & Dams, plus Club Lambs show and sell slick-shorn with No Butt Wool! The Suffolk, Hampshire, Montadale and Dorset Show & Sales will have special slick-sheared classes, but otherwise should have no more than one inch of wool on any part of the body. Corriedales, Natural Colored, Polypays, Columbias and Rambouillets are exempted, but should not be presented in overly long fleeces. The annual Midwest Stud Ram Sale, which takes place in Sedalia, Missouri each June, is North America¹s premier sheep show and sale. Heartland Livestock Services and members of the Midwest Sale management have an expectation of ethical behavior from consignors at this event. Behavior should reflect the national status of this show and sale. Should questions arise regarding a consignor s behavior, or their consignment, we reserve the right to investigate to our satisfaction.

4 Special Rules Katahdin: 1. Only 100% Registered (White Papered) Katahdins are eligible. 2. Consignors must be KHSI or CKSI members. 3. All entries must be shown to determine their sale order. 4. Consignors should enter A coat yearlings or lambs that have shed their lamb coats. It is recognized that such shedding may not be possible for younger spring lambs, particularly any spring lamb entries born in March or April. 5. As Katahdins are Hair Sheep, no shearing, trimming or clipping will be permitted. Consignors should present their entries in as attractive manner as possible. Washing and brushing are encouraged. 6. No tail docked animals allowed. 7. All yearling rams and fall ram lambs must have a negative b.ovis ELISA test, in addition to the interstate health papers required for all entries. Dorper: 1. Fullblood and Purebred entries will be combined into single classes. 2. All rams should be High Type 3 or better. 3. Consignors are allowed 2 ram entries, any additional rams must have 2 ewes for each ram entered. 4. All entries must be slick sheared within one week of the show unless the animal has completely shed at the time of the show. No carding or blocking will be permitted. Montadales: All entries MUST be codon tested and lab reports MUST accompany registration papers at check-in. Polypays: 1. All animals consigned to the sale must be from multiple births. 2. All yearling ewes consigned must have lambed prior to sale. Texels: 1. The Texel Sheep ers Society has determined that animals will not be allowed to be penned and participate in the show and sale unless the animal has a liftable tail dock (there must be tail vertebrae liftable by hand). The recommended tail length is 1.5 inches which would approximate a dock at the distal end of the caudal fold. All animals born after July 1, 2014 must conform to the tail docking rule in order to participate in the National Texel Show and Sale. 2. All Texels must have negative OPP tests within 30 days of the sale. Lambs under 6 months must have similar tests of their dame within 30 days. Southdowns: 1. HEREDITARY CHONDRODYSPLASIA, ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIS, and CODON 171 SALE WARRANTY: At all sales sponsored by this association the seller warrants to the buyer that sheep sold are free of Hereditary Chondrodysplasia (spider), Ectodermal Dysplasia (hairy lamb) and contain a minimum of one R at condon 171. Any claimed violation of this warranty shall be settled between the buyer and seller. This guarantee shall constitute a contract between the buyer and the seller only. No other parties, including but not limited to the American Southdown ers Association, Sale Management and sponsoring organizations, shall assume any liability, legal or otherwise, express or implied. Any seller failing to in good faith comply with this rule shall be denied the right to register and transfer with the Association and will be automatically barred from selling any sheep for five years or until resolved to this sale or any sale sponsored or sanctioned by the American Southdown ers Association. 2. DNA TESTING: Designate Gene Check as official lab for ASBA Show and Sale work. (Summer 2009.) Suffolk: The United Suffolk Sheep Association has adopted the following requirements for all USSA sanctioned sales, including the Midwest Sale. This applies to both breeding sheep and wether sires and dams. Registered Suffolks of all genotypes (NN, NS, RR, QR, QQ) will be allowed to sell. Each consignor must declare and guarantee the genetic makeup of each of their entries with respect to both spider syndrome and scrapie susceptibility (codon 171). Any registered Suffolk may be sold as long as this information is provided at the time of paper check-in prior to the start of the shows. DNA test results are not required and consignors may declare and guarantee the genotypes of their entries based solely on pedigree. Genotype information (NS or NN and QQ, QR or RR) will be printed on the sale order, which is prepared following the shows. Any buyer who wishes to have the benefit of this guarantee must have the animal DNA tested, at the buyer s expense, to confirm whether or not the sheep is as declared by the seller with respect to either scrapie susceptibility or spider syndrome. Such testing must be performed within 45 days of the date of sale. If a sheep is determined by the buyer s DNA testing to be of lesser genotype that the consignor declared at the sale, the seller shall have the option of having the animals retested at the seller s expense. The seller must arrange for such testing within two weeks of receipt of buyer s test results or a mutually agreeable timetable. In the event there is a conflict in the results between the two tests, a third test will immediately be run with the cost of such third test to be equally shared by the buyer and seller. If the animal is determined to be less than declared by the consignor or if the seller fails to provide for a re-test, the sheep shall be returned to the seller with the costs association with the transportation of the retuned sheep being equally shared by the buyer and the seller and the seller shall refund the full purchase price of the animal promptly, with all fees and percentages levied against the animal retained by the sale. This guarantee shall constitute a contract between the buyer and seller only. No other parties, including but not limited to the USSA, sale management, sponsoring organizations, shall assumer any liability, legal or otherwise, express or implied. Sellers failing to comply with the spirit of these provisions will be subject to being barred from future USSA sanctioned sales.

Farm Name: Consignor Name: Address: City/State/Zip: Cell Phone: Home Phone: ALL BREEDS SALE ENTRY FORM Entries Due May 5th $20 per head Email: Website: What is your Scrapie Premise ID?

5 Farm Name: Consignor Name: Address: City/State/Zip: Cell Phone: Home Phone: ALL BREEDS SALE ENTRY FORM Entries Due May 5th $20 per head Website: What is your Scrapie Premise ID? (1st portion of Scrapie Tag) Are you in the VFSCP? Yes No If Yes, What was your enrolment date? *Birth Type: (S) Single, (TW) Twin, (TR) Triplet, (QD) Quadruplet, (QT) Quintuplet **Class: See list on reverse side. ALL ENTRIES MUST HAVE SCRAPIE TAGS Photocopy this page for additional entries PO Box 72 - Milo, IA entries@midwestsale.com or make entries online...

6 Entries Due May 5th $20 per head *Birth Type: (S) Single, (TW) Twin, (TR) Triplet, (QD) Quadruplet, (QT) Quintuplet **Class: See list on reverse side. ALL ENTRIES MUST HAVE SCRAPIE TAGS PO Box 72 - Milo, IA entries@midwestsale.com Photocopy this page for additional entries or make entries online... Corriedale Columbia Rambouillet Natural Colored Tunis Southdown Shropshire *All Shropshire breeding sheep and wether sires/dams show and sell together Texel Polypay Brood Ewe Katahdin Dorper White Dorper Pen of s Pen of Ewe Lambs Suffolk Slick Sheared Slick Sheared Spring Ram Lamb Slick Sheared Slick Sheared Spring Ewe Lamb Hampshire Slick Sheared Spring Ram Lamb Slick Sheared Slick Sheared Spring Ewe Lamb Montadale added $10 entry fee Slick Sheared Slick Sheared Spring Ewe Lamb Polled Dorset Horned Dorset Early (9-1 to 9-30) Late (10-1 to 11-30) Winter Ram Lamb (12-1 to 1-31) Spring Ram Lmb (2-1 & after) Slick Shorn Ram Lamb (9-1 & after) Slick Shorn Early (9-1 to 9-30) Late (10-1 to 11-30) Slick Shorn (9-1 to 11-30) Winter Ewe Lamb (12-1 to 1-31) Spring Ewe Lamb (2-1 & after) Slick Shorn Winter/Spring Ewe Lamb (12-1 & after) WETHER SIRES & DAMS Dorsets, Dorset Advantage, Hampshires, Suffolks, *above 4 must have registration papers Natural Colored, Speckle-Faced, Crossbreds April Ram Lamb April Ewe Lamb CLUB LAMBS *wethers only/scrotums removed Dorsets, Hampshires, Suffolks, Natural Colored, Speckle-Faced, Crossbreds For Club Lamb entries place Club Lamb in breed, then breed in class

MARKET LAMB DIVISION

MARKET LAMB DIVISION Entry Deadline -----------------------------------------------------------------------------January 15 Entry Fee ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------$20.00