Beenken Farms

05/04/2024

Please take extra caution on the roads this spring when passing farm equipment! Tractors turn signals work just like cars, so if you see one side flashing and one solid that means we are turning! We want to make it home safe to our families just as you do! 🚜 🌽 🐄

04/17/2024

Balancer cattle get it done!

Gelbvieh ranks #1 for percent retail product according to U.S. Meat Animal Research Center progress report #22.

🔗: https://gelbvieh.org/about/edge/feedlot

07/06/2023

Golden hour pasture checks are the best! ☀️ ☀️ ☀️

02/12/2023

Video for lot 16 that sells today at 2pm. Really nice made 50% Balancer female sired by EGL Lifeline B101. Her dam did a great job raising 71K1 as her first calf and has a picture perfect udder!
Call Tyler at 319-610-3610 with any questions. Online bidding available at www.liveauctions.tv

https://youtu.be/C4gPbep5AS8

02/12/2023

🔥TBKN Kimber 3K4 sells today at 2pm at the Iowa Beef Expo! This JKGF Chief Justice C205 heifer checks all the the boxes, big ribbed, smooth fronted and sound on the move. Juniors- Bring her back to the Iowa State Fair this summer and have a chance at winning $500 in the futurity class.

07/16/2022

It is always so humbling to be able to breed them, feed them and do well at the county fair! Congratulations Andrew Beenken on Champion Tamco Steer at the Tama County Fair! We are so proud of all your hardwork!!!

05/24/2022

The newest addition to the Beenken family is learning all about beef! Happy Beef Month!

04/13/2022

Still in need of a bull for breeding season? We still have a few yearlings and a couple 2 year old Balancer & 3/4 Gelbvieh bulls available! Message us or feel free to give Tyler a call at (319)-610-3610

Picture is TBKN Jensen 69J6, an 87.5% purebred bull, sired by our herd sire TBKN Admiral 69A2 (pending DNA).

02/13/2022

These two homozygous black, homozygous polled herd sire prospects sell tomorrow at the Iowa Beef Expo Gelbvieh Gold sale at 2 pm.

Lot 25- 74.5% Gelbvieh, stout made, big middled and made right from the ground up. Weighed in at 1325 lbs today with a 41 cm scrotal.

Lot 27- 75% Gelbvieh bull, this bull is the real deal, sired by Frontrunner and out of one of our best cows on the farm! Weighed in at 1230 lbs today with a 39 cm scrotal.

02/15/2021

🔥🔥🔥Lot 16 sells tomorrow at 2pm in the Gelbvieh Gold sale at the Iowa Beef Expo!

TJB Anissa 921U ET x CTR Sandhills

Juniors she is futurity eligible, bring her back to the Iowa State Fair and have a chance at winning $500!

02/14/2021

Be sure to stop by the stalls at the Iowa Beef Expo and check out our two open heifers on the Gelbvieh Gold Sale!

These two heifers will make great show heifers for a junior! Both heifers are out of the great TJB 921U cow!

Sale is Tuesday, February 16th at 2 pm. Catalog can be found here: https://issuu.com/ddmarti/docs/s21_iabeefexpo_salebook_finalweb

Lot 15 is a 75% Balancer female out of the great TJB Anissa 921U cow, and sired by FMGF Blues Impact 001X.

Lot 16 is a 50% Balancer female out of TJB 921U and sired by CTR Sandhills 0065X.