Syndicate buys C Miles McKee for $600,000 From the moment he was named, C Miles McKee 2103 ET was intended to be a special bull. The horned Hereford, named after legendary Kansas State University herdsman and genetics professor Miles McKee, ended up being more than special. The 13-month-old became a world record-setting bull by selling for $600,000 at the Colyer Herefords & Angus annual sale Feb. 23 in Bruneau, Idaho.

Although the economy is apparently strengthening, gross domestic product (GDP) is growing slowly and quarter-to-quarter change is uneven. Real GDP – the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the U.S. – increased at an annual rate of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 (that is, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter), according to the “second” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.