CSU Seedstock Merchandising Team

06/02/2026

Sweet summertime ☀️ Hereford cows on green grass. Does it get much better?! 🫶🏻
We are certainly thankful that we have a front row seat to all season of the on-campus cow herd. We made it through calving and are looking forward to breeding. Equal to learning, we are grateful for the community that this cow herd brings— camaraderie among students, on-farm relationships with faculty, and continued legacy of legends like Dr. Bob Taylor and others.
Just look at that horizon— what a beautiful place to learn! 🧡💚
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06/01/2026

It’s turn out time!! Some have already endured breeding season, some are just turning out, and it’ll be a while for others. Regardless— what a view this Hereford bull has for summer ‘27?!

Mark your calendars for our 50th ANNUAL BULL & FEMALE SALE on February 20, 2027. How remarkable is it that we get to continue Dr. Taylor’s legacy and sell cattle in the space named for Dr. Taylor, the guy that started it all!

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05/23/2026

Congratulations to our very own Grace Stott! She’s interning with the American Hereford Association at Olson Ranches this summer. We know she’ll be great, and Dr. Sam Cunningham knows Grace will love her home state of Nebraska 😉

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05/21/2026

A throwback to calving season and sunrise 🌅 Over a century of beef cattle at Colorado State University. A place where stockmen and women come into their own— launching careers, fostering dreams, finding friendships and mentorships, and collecting small moments like this—new life on a new day.
There are hundreds of new students headed our way come fall. We’re proud of the possibility of opening the gates and share the coolest learning place in the country—sunrise and range to the East, mountains and sunsets to the West, and nothing but opportunities in between.
In a state who’s leading agricultural commodity is beef cattle, what a blessing it is to maintain a cowherd that allows us to share ag and livestock production, to teach students, and to grow the confidence of young people with goals of stewarding and contributing to livelihoods and food systems.
While we do a lot with the cowherd as a CSU Seedstock Merchandising Team, we’re glad to share with fellow Rams, alumni, and friends. Proudly carrying on Dr. Bob Taylor’s legacies of beef cattle and Learning by Doing at CSU. The Land Grant mission exists to educate, to research, and to share. How lucky that we get to practice that week in and week out?
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05/09/2026

We’ve uncovered files of archived stuff! 🤗 And, we’re excited to share it, especially this year, our 50th YEAR! 🧡💚 Colorado State University — Where CATTLE & COLLEGE go hand in hand giving students KNOWLEDGE TO GO PLACES. Proud to be part of Dr. Taylor’s legacy of LEARNING BY DOING.

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05/09/2026

This teaching herd is legacy and tradition and foundation. It’s a place where students practice animal husbandry and livestock handling. For Seedstock students it adds layers of genetic selection and marketing. It’s full-circle, especially for the students part of the Seedstock Merchandising program. Over the course of the past 50 years, Seedstock Merchandising students have been fortunate to work alongside four engaged and talented faculty advisors. Here’s to another century (and then some) of cows on campus, to a half-century of selling CSU bred bulls, and a quarter-century of exhibiting cattle National Western Stock Show.

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05/07/2026

On this Annual Day of Giving please consider supporting the Seedstock Merchandising Team via this year’s RAMS RISE. Any donations will support team travel and student development. We have the largest group of students on record ready to launch as the 2026-27 Seedstock Team. 🧡💚 🐏

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05/06/2026

Who’s been teaching Seedstock students about showing cattle and merchandising genetics since 2019…

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05/05/2026

As we prepare to pass out final exams—a test for students in the Seedstock Management and Merchadising course to make real-time recommendations that could very well move the needle for the university’s teaching herd. More than genetics, and definitely way more than exhibitions and sales— resharing Rachel Gabel’s 2023 piece seems fitting. The students enrolled in the Seedstock courses at CSU have unique opportunity to gain genuine hands on experience with cattle, data, and both producers and consumers largely due to a decades old campus cowherd.

“The Seedstock Team not only works to better the CSU beef herd, but gives real world, rubber meets the road cattle marketing experience to the students who are committed. Throughout the year, students incorporate the mission of the land grant university – to teach, to conduct research, and to provide service to communities. In a state that welcomes into its economy $7.3 billion from the agriculture industry but is prone to forget its importance, it’s more important now than ever.”

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Rachel Gabel The grand champion steer at the Western Live Stock Show in 1906 was a product of the Colorado State University beef herd. It was the inaugural year for the event, and it took place in a borrowed big-top circus tent at the Denver Union Stock Yards Company. Known then as Colorado Agricult...