August 2011 Herd Reference Issue

August August 2011 2011

The The Official Official Magazine Magazine of of The The Canadian Canadian Hereford Hereford Association Association

Hereford-Style Branded Freezer Beef

Young Guns III Faces and Perspectives of a New Generation

Cowboy Connection Web 2.0 - Getting Your Feet Wet in the Social Media Pool

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MHPH 118U Amber 106Y (DLF, IEF, HYF) D.O.B.: Jan. 6/11 Umpire X Pounder 204P BW: 5.6 WW: 50.5 YW: 77.1 MM: 21.6 TM: 46.8

BNMHPH 118U Yarborough 103Y (DLF, IEF, HYF) D.O.B: Jan. 3/11 Umpire X Victor 417L BW: 4.5 WW: 47.5 YW: 72.6 MM: 24.8 TM: 48.5

MHPH 9W Youngblood 414Y (DLF, IEF, HYF) D.O.B.: April 14/11 Tank 9W X America BW: 4.5 WW: 47.4 YW: 76.4 MM: 20.5 TM: 44.2 Maternal brother to Umpire. Watch for him this fall.

MHPH 118U New Yorker 1121Y (DLF, IEF, HYF) D.O.B: Jan 12/11 Umpire X Bright Future BW: 5.1 WW: 52.3 YW: 84.2 MM: 24.0 TM: 50.2

Please note that the entire Autumn Alliance Sale Offering will be tested free of all current genetic defects (DLF, HYF, IEF).

Watch and Bid Online at:

LiveAuctions. TV Live on the Internet. Live Audio. Video. Bidding and Accounting

MHPH 118U Karen 327Y (DLF, IEF, HYF) D.O.B.: March 27/11 Umpire X Premier 152M BW: 4.0 WW: 51.1 YW: 76.2 MM: 18.1 TM: 43.7

Also featuring the Get and Service of National Champion - Umpire, National Champion - Stetson, Agribition Champion - Heat, Tank 9W and Victor 521X

Plan a weekend in Ontario with River Valley’s Sale on Sept. 16th, Elm-Lodge’s Sale on Sept. 17th and the

Autumn Alliance Sale on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011, hosted by Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords, Orillia, Ontario, Canada.

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contents August 2011 Volume 69 | Number 2

Photo Credit: This photo of “Mandy” is courtesy of Willow Creek Ranch

features

contents B R A D D U B E AU

B R A D D U B E AU

History & Pride

Staying Power

The Craigs’ Long-Standing Hereford Tradition

A Fourth Generation Of Aitkens Make Herefords Central On This Operation

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Who Am I? Name That Hereford & Win a $200 CHD Credit!

88 Managing Genetic Abnormalities A North American Hereford Genetic Abnormality Policy encourages producer participation

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Terms & Conditions

C AT H E R I N E B R OW N

C AT H E R I N E B R OW N

A Lifestyle Choice

Young Guns III

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Premier David Alward’s Love of Herefords

Faces and Perspectives of a New Generation

113 Show Results

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Agreement For Sale Of Purebred Hereford(s)

Sales Results

120 Ontario Provincial Report 122 Manitoba Provincial Report 123 Saskatchewan Provincial Report

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C AT H E R I N E B R OW N

Hereford-Style

Cowboy Connections

126 British Columbia Provincial Report

Branded Freezer Beef

Web 2.0 - Getting Your Feet Wet in the Social Media Pool

127 Maritimes Provincial Report

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columns

124 Alberta Provincial Report

127 Quebec Provincial Report 128 CJHA Report 129 CHA Honour Roll & Memorial Scroll 132 CJHA Honour Roll 133 Future of the Breed

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UpFront

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President’s Message

136 Canadian Hereford Association Financial Statements

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Message du Président

153 Quick Reference

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Letters to the Association

155 Auctioneers, Consultants and Services

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Hereford Horizons

156 Hereford EPD Averages

146 Canadian Hereford Association 2010 year-end statistics

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List of Abnormality Carriers

157 Digest Subscription Form & Ad Deadlines

148 Breed Builders 2010

118 General Manager’s Report

158 Cowboy Poetry

119 Rapport du Directeur Général

IBC World Hereford Conference

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CJHA “Future of the Breed” Scholarship Winners

134 4-H Achievements 135 Free Commercial Cattle Listing

149 New Annual Members, Young Guns & Junior Members 2011 150 Hereford Farewells

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schedule of events AUGUST Expo de Saint-Agapit, QC .........................................................................…6 ECOHZ Award Show, Fenelon Falls, ON ................................................... 6 NW SK Annual Cattlemen’s Field Day, Carlrams Ranching, Cut Knife… ...........................................................….11 Saskatchewan Southeast Zone Field Day, Wapella, SK ................ ….13 OVHZ Picnic @ Brent & Jennifer Palsson’s Carp, ON..........................13 ECOHZ Banner Show, Stirling, ON .......................................................... 14 Expo Quebec MOE Show, Quebec City ...........................................16-20 Northern Alberta Hereford Club Field Day and Bull Calf Futurity, Hardisty, AB ................................................................. 18 Hereford Show -Annapolis Valley Exhibition, Lawrencetown, NS...................................................................................... 18 Expo Cookshire MOE Show, Cookstown, QC..................................19-21 Hereford Show - Old Home Week, Charlottetown, PEI.....................20 Ayers Cliff MOE Show, QC ..................................................................25-28 Saint Marie Expo Kent MOE Show, NB ............................................25-28 Bulkley Valley Exhibition MOE Show, Smithers, BC................. …25-28 Dundas MOE Show, PEI .............................................................................27 NS Provincial Exhibition, Hereford Show, Truro, NS...........................27 MHA Field Day & MOE Show, hosted by AM Ranching and Batho Farms at Batho Farms, Oak Lake................ 7 October Digest Advertising Deadline ......................................... 29 112th Interior Provincial Exhibition and Stampede MOE Show, Armstrong , BC ..............................................................................31-Sept 4 SEPTEMBER Expo Shawville MOE Show, Shawville, QC .......................................…1-5 Expo Brome MOE Show, QC ................................................................... 2-5 Ontario West Zone Banner Show, Paris, ON .......................................... 3 Ontario West Zone MOE Show, Orangeville, ON .................................. 4 OVHZ Show, Newington, ON ...................................................................... 4 BC Hereford Association AGM, Salmon Arm, BC ................................. 9 Salmon Arm MOE Show, Salmon Arm, BC… ..................................... 9-11 EJM Hereford Dispersal…………………… .........................……………………10 Stan Jackson Memorial MOE Show-Ont West Seaforth, ON ......... 10 3rd Annual Down East Hereford Sale, Wilmont, NB .......................... 10 2nd Annual Richardson Ranch Online Auction, Tlell, BC .............12-19 River Valley Genetic Designs VII, Newburgh, ON ............................... 16 Source for Success Sale X, Indian River, ON .........................................17 Autumn Alliance Sale XXIX, Orillia, ON ................................................. 18 East Central Zone MOE Show, Lindsay, ON .........................................22 NB Beef Expo MOE Show, Sussex, NB ...................................................24 Ottawa Valley Zone MOE Show, Carp, ON… ........................................24 Windsor Exhibition MOE Show, NS ........................................................24 OCTOBER Pacific Invitational All Breeds Female Sale, Williams Lake Auction ..................................................................................1 East Central Award Show, Roseneath, ON ............................................. 2 Triara’s Premier Event, Melbourne, QC ................................................... 2 Expo Boeuf MOE Show, Victoriaville, QC.............................................7-9 Harvie Ranching Internet Sale ...............................................................7-11 Maritime Fall Fair MOE Show, Halifax, NS ........................................ 8-10 Ontario West Zone Sale, Carson’s Sales Arena, Listowel, ON........... 8 Ottawa Valley Pick of The Valley Sale, Carp Fairgrounds, ON ......…10 C & T Polled Herefords Production Sale (evening), Kisbey, SK .... …15 ANL Polled Herefords & Guests Production Sale, Steelman, SK .....15 Blair Athol/Haroldson’s & Friends Sale, Alameda, SK ....................... 16

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Square-D Production Sale, Langbank, SK ..............................................17 Hereford & Hereford Influence Calf Sale, Ontario Stockyards, Cookstown, ON… .................................................. 18 15th Annual British Breeds Bonanza Rancher Calf Sale, Balog Auction, Lethbridge, AB................................................................. 18 East Central Zone Annual Meeting, Omemee Curling Club, ON .…22 Maple Hill With Partners Production, Clark Hill Shefford, QC.........22 Atlantic Bonus Sale, Nappan, NS ............................................................22 Hereford Influence Presort, Heartland Livestock, Brandon, MB ....25 Hereford, Red Angus, Charolais Calf Sale, Mankota Stockmen’s Weigh Co. Ltd., SK .......................................................................................28 Hereford & Hereford Influence Calf Sale, Brussels Stockyards, Brussels, ON ..............................................................................................…28 The Fall Round-up Hereford Sale, Lindsay Livestock Exchange Lindsay, ON ...................................................................................................29 Red, White & Proud Hereford Sale, Saskatoon, SK ............................30 NOVEMBER British Breeds #2, Balog Auction, Lethbridge, AB… .............................1 Fall MOE Show - Manitoba Livestock Expo, Brandon, MB ............. 2-6 Lloydminster Stockade Roundup Show .............................................. 3-5 Stockade Lady Heifer Jackpot ....................................................... 3 Polled and Horned Show................................................................. 4 King of the Ring Bull Jackpot ......................................................... 4 Junior Exhibitor Female Show ....................................................... 5 Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Ontario Hereford Assoc. Futurity Show ...................................... 3 Eastern National Hereford Show .................................................. 5 Farmfair International Hereford Genes Event...................................................................…8 Western National Show… ............................................................... 9 Headliner All Breeds Sale............................................................... 11 Saskatoon Fall Fair, Saskatoon, SK.......................................................9-12 WLB Internet Heifer Sale .................................................................... 10-14 Big Gully Farm Internet Sale.................................................................11-16 Hereford & Hereford Influence vaccinated Calf Sale, Brussels Stock Yard, ON ............................................................................ 14 Brost Land & Cattle & Guests Sale, Irvine, AB ......................................15 The Amigos Production Sale, Medicine Hat, AB ................................. 16 Doenz Ranches Annual Sale, Warner, AB ..............................................17 Fenton Hereford Ranch Inc. Production Sale, Irma, AB .................... 18 Canadian Western Agribition Market Steer Show & Sale ...........................................................22 Agribition Hereford Sale ...............................................................24 Agribition National Hereford Show............................................25 Agribition Red Coat Classic ........................................................25 DECEMBER Conway Herefords Herd Dispersal ............................................................1 Ontario West Annual Zone Meeting, Guelph, ON................................. 3 Stromsmoe Hereford & Angus Production Sale, Etzikom, AB .......... 6 Alberta Supremacy Sale, Olds, AB..................................TBA – Nov/Dec Justamere’s Sale of the Year, Brandon, MB ............................................ 8 MHA Good As Gold Sale, Brandon, MB.................................................... 9 MC Quantock “Canada’s Cow” Sale, Vermilion, AB ........................... 10

Phone: 1.888.836.7242 Fax: 1.888.824.2329

Email: herefords@hereford.ca

Our Cover Photo Contest winner is Katie Songer, from 5 Gallon Creative. Her photo is of the senior herdsire at Lucky Springs Farms, owned by her parents Len & Sally Songer.

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Newsworthy and notable stories from the Canadian Hereford industry

MOE Shows All MOE shows and MOE show exhibitors are required to adhere to the official Canadian Hereford Association MOE show rules and regulations as posted on the CHA website under Quick Links. MOE show chairmen should familiarize themselves with the rules prior to their MOE show. We recommend that all MOE show exhibitors ensure that they and their animals are in compliance with the rules well in advance of the show to avoid any last minute stress. •

Herefords Around The World Brain Good, Commercial Fieldman for the Canadian Angus Association, took these pictures of some Hereford cows while on vacation in Maui, Hawaii.

Thanks Brian! •

CYL Reps speak at ALMA Future Fare, Canadian Embassy in D.C. Cattlemen’s Young Leaders (CYL) graduate Rosie Templeton and program coordinator Fawn Jackson had a busy second week of June.

The CYL representatives spoke at the Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency’s (ALMA) 2nd annual Future Fare event on the successes of the recently launched National CYL Development Program. Held in Edmonton on June 8, Future Fare celebrates and recognizes leading-edge initiatives in the livestock industry.

Templeton and Jackson travelled to Washington D.C. to speak to the Young Cattlemen’s College (YCC) at the Canadian Embassy. Their presentation covered topics such as the value of trade between Canada and the United States, common issues young cattlemen face around the globe and potential areas and value of cooperation.

Launched by the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) in 2010, the CYL Development Program provides industryspecific training and mentorship to assist the beef industry into the future. This program provides a combination of formal and informal opportunities to learn from existing beef cattle industry leaders. •

Byron Templeton’s (left) service as a past president of the CHA is recognized by current CHA President Randy Radau at the 2011 Calgary Bull Sale on Sale Day as part of the 150 Years of Herefords in Canada celebrations. •

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Bill McKenzie receives his Special Service award from his nominator Doug Finseth at the Calgary Bull Sale on Show Day. •

Armand Corbiell (left) and Ron Hanson (centre) receive gifts as their service as past presidents of the CHA is recognized by current CHA President Randy Radau at the 2011 Calgary Bull Sale on Show as part of the 150 Years of Herefords in Canada celebrations.•

Donald Cross (left) receives a token of appreciation for his many years of dedication to the Keith Gilmore Foundation in the role of Chairman by Kurt Gilmore at the 2011 Calgary Bull Sale on Show Day. •

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Alberta Age Verification Incentive Program The Canadian Hereford Association is a participating Tag Dealer for the point of sale discount program offered by the Government of Alberta on CCIA RFID tags purchased by Alberta producers. Members who purchase their tags will be contacted by the CHA office to determine the eligible discount on tags purchased for 2011.

For more information please visit http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/general/progserv.nsf/all/pgmsrv404 or contact Karin at the CHA office.

A Model Hereford

The University of Calgary Vet College has created a model based on an actual Hereford cow that simulates real life situations. This is a fantastic teaching tool that will give UCVM students hands-on experience dealing with calving difficulties, and the model also milks! The creators came to the Canadian Hereford Association in June of 2010 to solicit our help in creating a model that would “impersonate” a real cow as closely as possible. We took these pictures in May of 2011 of the completed model. The cow that she is modelled after is K 45D Super Lady 171L and she was created by Veterinary Simulator Industries Ltd. of Calgary. •

G o rd o n C r a i g , a D i re c to r of t h e Saskatchewan Hereford Association (pictured right), presents Michael N ewma n th e C a na dia n H e refo rd Association 50 year pin at the Midwestern Bull Sale in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. Michael was joined by his grandchildren for the presentation.•

Gordon Craig, a Director of the Saskatchewan Hereford Association (pictured right), presents Travis Buygrove the Canadian Hereford Association 25 year pin at the Midwestern Bull Sale in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. •

The picture might be a little blurry but that is Gordon Stephenson enjoying 4 pieces of pie and the eastern hospitality at the Maritime Junior Show! •

CHA Director Darryl Kirton (pictured left), presents Ray Van Steinburg of Pine Butte Ranch, Cranbrook, BC, the Canadian Hereford Association 50 year pin at the 74th Annual Williams Lake Bull Sale. •

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By Randy Radau

PR E SI D EN T O F T H E CA N A D IA N H ER EFO R D A S SO CIATI O N

After a long winter there isn’t a better sight than Hereford cows turned out on green grass.

Summer comes with it’s own weather challenges of too much or too little moisture but we are lucky that the adaptability of Herefords seems to pull through under any environmental conditions.

Strong interest in breeding stock has been the talk of Hereford breeders throughout the spring. Bull sales by both private treaty and public auction have been the best we have seen in years. It is very encouraging to see bull buyers who haven’t used Herefords for many years come back again because of our breed’s maternal strength and excellent disposition.

The Hereford female market has also been very encouraging, with increased demand from international markets.

The world has become a much smaller place and countries with improving standards of living are looking to Canadian Herefords to upgrade their beef herds. We have positioned ourselves to be the supplier of choice by many countries because of our excellent health status, performance programs and quality seedstock. A new era has begun where the potential demand for Hereford females could outstrip supply.

We all have a tremendous opportunity in 2012 to further showcase our breed internationally with the World Hereford Conference in Canada. Mark your calendars now to be at Calgary and Olds, Alberta July 13th to 18th.

Planning is well underway for this huge event. Our expectation is that over 400 international delegates from 20 countries will be attending. Eight committees are working hard to bring this event to fruition. This is the biggest undertaking of your association in recent memory. We need every member, past member or Hereford

We all have a tremendous opportunity in 2012 to further showcase our breed internationally with the World Hereford Conference in Canada. Mark your calendars now to be Calgary and Olds, Alberta July 13th to 18th. club to help out to make this a great success. Plan now to do what you can to get involved………attend the feature speaker events, consign cattle to the show, provide sponsorship or volunteer. It’s going to be an exciting event not to be missed.

Work has begun on the process of including a Bonanza Legacy Fund and a Hereford Research Fund as part of the Keith Gilmore Foundation. The scholarship fund, administered by the Foundation, has been a leader in advancing agricultural based education. A natural fit with the Foundation will be the promotion of hands-on learning with the Bonanza Legacy Fund and the quest for leading-edge knowledge with the Hereford Research Fund.

Good luck through the summer months. May your feed be plentiful and your calves fat!

Randy Radau (far left) and Gordon Stephenson (far right) with the delegation from Kazakhstan visiting Coulee Crest Herefords.

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Par Randy Radau

PR É SI D EN T D E L’A S S O CIATI O N CA N A D I EN N E H ER EFO R D

Après un long hiver, le plus beau paysage est un groupe de vaches Hereford broutant de l’herbe verte. L’été n’est pas sans ses défis, soit trop de pluie ou pas assez, mais nous avons la chance d’être éleveurs d’animaux dotés d’une remarquable adaptabilité et les Herefords semblent s’en tirer peu importe les conditions environnementales.

L’intérêt vif pour les animaux de reproduction a été le sujet de conversation des éleveurs Hereford tout au long du printemps. Les ventes de taureaux privées et celles aux enchères publiques ont été les meilleures que nous ayons eues au cours des dernières années. Il est très encourageant de voir que les acheteurs de taureaux qui n’ont pas utilisé le Hereford pendant de nombreuses années reviennent à la race en raison de ses traits maternels et de l’excellence du tempérament.

Le marché des femelles Hereford a également été très encourageant, avec une demande à la hausse provenant des marchés internationaux. Le monde est devenu un endroit beaucoup plus petit et les nations qui s’efforcent d’améliorer leurs conditions de vie se tournent vers les bovins Herefords canadiens pour atteindre des standards semblables aux nôtres. En tant que fournisseurs nous sommes maintenant le choix de nombreux pays en raison de notre statut sanitaire, de nos programmes de performance et de la qualité de nos animaux. Nous entrons dans une ère nouvelle où la demande potentielle pour les femelles Hereford pourrait dépasser l’approvisionnement possible.

En 2012 la conférence mondiale Hereford se tiendra au Canada, ce qui nous offre une occasion incroyable

En 2012 la conférence mondiale Hereford se tiendra au Canada, ce qui nous offre une occasion incroyable pour présenter notre race à l’échelle internationale. Dès maintenant mettez à votre agenda les dates du 13 au 18 juillet pour un rendez vous à Calgary et Olds (Alberta). pour présenter notre race à l’échelle internationale. Dès maintenant mettez à votre agenda les dates du 13 au 18 juillet pour un rendez vous à Calgary et Olds (Alberta).

La planification est en cours pour ce prestigieux événement. Notre espoir est de recevoir plus de 400 délégués internationaux provenant de 20 pays. Huit comités s’efforcent de concrétiser chaque portion du programme.

C’est le plus grand projet de votre association de mémoire récente. Nous avons besoin de tous les membres, anciens membres ou club Hereford pour aider à en faire un incomparable succès. Planifiez votre implication d’une façon ou d’une autre dès maintenant, venez écouter les conférenciers, exposez des animaux, impliquez vous à titre de parrain ou faites partie de l’une ou l’autre équipe de bénévoles. Ça sera un événement à ne pas manquer.

Les démarches sont commencées pour mettre sur pied un fond d’héritage pour le Bonanza et un fond de recherche pour la race Hereford, notamment dans le cadre de la Fondation de Keith Gilmore. Les bourses d’études administrées par la Fondation qui a été un chef de file dans la promotion de l’éducation en matière agricole demeurent une porte ouverte vers un avenir prometteur. Le choix logique de la Fondation sera la promotion de l’apprentissage pratique via les fonds du Bonanza et la quête de connaissances de pointe avec les fonds de recherche.

Bon été à tous. Je vous souhaite des pâturages verts, du foin de grande qualité et des veaux bien dodus !

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letters to the association

Thank you to everyone who sent in their photos for the first Digest Cover Contest. We have some very talented shutterbugs out there taking Hereford photos! We encourage you to keep sending in your photos. You never know when yours will be featured on an upcoming cover, on the CHA website or on promotional materials and in ad campaigns. Some of our favorites are now in the photo vault, and we’re just itching to use them in upcoming issues or projects!

Photo by Copper Creek Ranch Princeton, British Columbia

Photo by Leonard Poholka Breton West Herefords, Breton, Alberta

Dear Membership, Ontario Hereford breeder James Rummerfield is looking for sale catalogues, semen catalogues, fair prize lists, show catalogues and copies of the Canadian Hereford Digest. He is interested in copies from 1959 to 1965 as well as all copies prior to 1959.

Please contact at: James Rummerfield JWR Polled Herefords 14109 Simcoe Street, R.R. #4 Sunderland, Ontario L0C 1H0

Corrections: SHOW RESULTS

Lindsay Central Exhibition MOE Show

September 23, 2010

Lindsay, ON

Reserve Grand Champion Female WLB 36N BETH 354S with calf CB 533P FOOLISH FLO 401X Exhibited By: Caylynne Brown

2010 NB Beef Expo

September 25-26, 2010 Sussex, New Brunswick Reserve Grand Champion Bull BIRD’S-HILL XPECTATION 102X

Exhibited By: Bird’s Hill Farm, A. A. & B. A.

Let us know what you think By email: brad@hereford.ca or mail us a letter at the CHA office: 5160 Skyline Way NE, Calgary, AB T2E 6V1 Phone: 1-888-836-7242 Fax: 1-888-824-2329

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Hello, This photo is submitted by John & Vera Bosnjak of Little Creek Polled Herefords.

The photo is our precious grandson Benjamin, son of Steven and Erin Bosnjak. Oppa & our son Steven took this picture in our backyard by the flowerbed in mid-July. The Hereford statue in the flowerbed always attracted our grandsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attention as well as the smaller Hereford statue that all our grandsons played with. This picture depicts love, innocence and pride, both for our joy with our grandsons and many memorable years in the Hereford breed.

Proud Oppa & Nana Bosnjak Little Creek Polled Herefords Burford, Ontario

We stopped to enjoy a beautiful spring day with our herd. Lilly - 3, Gilbert - 2, & Wade Johnson.

Lilly Johnson, 3, out on the daily rounds.

Photos by Laurel Johnson Seven Pines Ranch , Grenfell, Saskatchewan

Hereford Faces of Spring

Photo by Don Richardson Richardson Ranch, Tlell, British Columbia

Photo by Adrienne McMechan C-Jay Herefords, Houston, B.C

Photo by Jim Scott Scott Alta Farms, Red Deer, Alberta

Photo by Willow Creek Ranch Consul, Saskatchewan

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hereford horizons

By Brad Dubeau

D I R ECTO R O F CO M M U N I CATI O N S

Congratulations to Hereford breeders across Canada on a very successful winter and spring!

Bull sales were up across the board, whether they were consignment or production sales. This is, in large part, due to improvements that Hereford breeders have made to the breed over the last several years.

I’ve heard on more than one occasion from other breed representatives that “it’s Herefords’ turn”.

While making phone calls to remind folks about ad deadlines, I was told by breeders, in many cases, that most, if not all of their two-year-old bulls have been sold out for some time. These people are having to reach into their yearling pens, to the point where they have had to say “no” to potential customers, in order to have two-year-olds available for next year!

producers have expressed concern about unacceptable udders, which gives them a reason to think twice about the breed. The Hereford breed has strong maternal traits with some great momma cows in its midst. But I encourage breeders to be as vigilant as possible when it comes to this matter, so that commercial producers can have faith that females or bulls purchased for their programs will continue to improve udder quality and reduce headaches at calving time.

Finally, with an eye to the CHA budget, it has been established that my visits across Canada will be limited to sales that have advertised with the Canadian Hereford Digest, as well as commercial producer events. This decision, going forward, reduces travel expenses and helps the financial bottom line of the association.

For those retaining more bulls due to increased demand, remember to keep only the ones that you would be proud to have in your own program. This is not the time to forget that not all bulls should be kept as bulls.

This is the case with some of our breeders because they have cut back on their numbers.

For those retaining more bulls due to increased demand, remember to keep only the ones that you would be proud to have in your own program. This is not the time to forget that not all bulls should be kept as bulls.

Along the same lines, I have been getting requests for Hereford females from commercial producers.

Please make use of the CHA’s free commercial listing on the website to promote females that could be sold commercially. This is a huge growing market, both domestically and internationally, so please take advantage of this tool available to you. As a returned favour, encourage your commercial customers to take advantage of the same listing service for marketing their steers and heifers. It can compliment the way they traditionally sell and possibly give them more options.

I am in constant contact with commercial producers and I’m sometimes asked what they are telling me. What I’m consistently told is that breeders need to pay more attention to udder conformation. Many commercial

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By advertising with the Digest or using Digest programs, you are keeping your association costs down while potentially generating revenue that could be invested in programs down the road. These programs directly benefit you, as a member of the Canadian Hereford Association.

Best wishes to all of you hosting your own productions sales or participating in consignment sales this fall.

With any luck, the success of the spring sales forecast better days to come in the Hereford breed and cattle industry generally.

See ya down the road!

We go out of our way to ensure that your expectations are surpassed!

“Working With You - Working For You” Cattlemen from throughout Western Canada consign to our market regularly.

THERE ARE REASONS!

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Fall Sale Schedule Every Wednesday (10:30 AM) - Regular Fat & Feeder Sales Every Wednesday (1:00 PM)) - Special Yearling Sales

Every Monday (1:00 PM) - Stock Cow & Bred Heifer Sales Every Friday (10:30 AM) - September 10th thru to Friday, December 17th - Rancher Calf Sale

Special Sale Dates: Tuesday, October 18th 10:30 AM

Tuesday, October 25th 10:30 AM

Tuesday, November 1st 10:30 AM

15 th Annual British Breeds 5th Annual Angus Appreciation British Breeds #2 Rancher Calf Bonanza Rancher Calf Sale.

Rancher Calf Sale.

Sale $2500 PRIZE MONEY-Featuring Featuring Angus & Angus cross All British Breeds and British calves.

Crossbreds Offering every option and service related to: LIVESTOCK - LAND - MACHINERY MARKETING - REAL ESTATE

All of us at Balog Auction Thank You for your continued patronage and support! To our many customers old and new, we want you to know, we appreciate you!

WATCH ANY BALOG LIVESTOCK AUCTION SALE AS IT HAPPENS! Go to www.balogauction.com & click on “Live Sale” Call any member of the Balog team to discuss your marketing needs

Call us at 1-877-320-1988

or (403) 320-1980 Fax (403) 320-2660 Email: sold@balogauction.com Web site: www.balogauction.com Box 786, Lethbridge, AB T1J 3Z6 27

LBH 20J STANMORE 31R LCI 90M KINGSTON LADY 123R LCI 157K RIBSTONE 46P LCI 46P RIBSTONE LASS 114T LCI T097 TAM O!LASS 88M

LCI 31R KING STANMORE 159T

1HOVRQ KDV GRQH DQ H[FHOOHQW MRE ZLWK KLV Ă&#x20AC;UVW FDOI FURS +H has brought them a little closer to the ground and widened them out without giving up any length. He is throwing great pigment with lots of red eyes and solid to the ground.

EPDs BW 6.9 WW 58.6 YW 87.2 MM 25.1 TM 54.4

LO 931N ASTER LAD 18S

MN 30L ASTER LAD 931N LO 41F STD LASS 58J

WINDY-HILL COLOSSAL LAD ET 15J WINDY-HILL 15J PRINCESS 81R WINDY-HILL 13D PRINCESS 101G

Purchased from Calgary for 15,000. Blair really impressed us at this years show and sale, he is a very active breeder and were hoping that his calves are much like himself. That would be the bull I!m talking about!

EPDs BW 4.4 WW 36.6 YW 58.3 MM 10.0 TM 28.3

PAHL 38J PAPILLON 46P

XTC SUNSHINE LAD 38J MVF 25G STD VOLTAGE LASS 107L

BBSF 114L PEONY 237P

BCD 59J LANDLORD 114L BP STAR LADY 132E

Trooper continues to impress everyone that sees him. He LV D SRZHUIXO EUHHGHU DV KLV FDOYHV DUH YHU\ HDV\ WR Ă&#x20AC;QG They are deep and thick with tremendous bone and lots of eye appeal! He continues to do everything that we ask of him.

November 16, 2011 EPDs BW 5.9 WW 45.5 YW 79.1 MM 14.4 TM 37.2

Scott Pahl 403-548-2356 403-580-9908 pahl.livestock@xplornet.com

Dan Pahl 403-548-8112 403-548-1614 dan@pahl-livestock.com

Selling 80 long yearling bulls 50 purebred & commercial heifers LeRay Pahl 403-548-6626 403-580-9906

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HERD SIRES

Two Powerful Additions BP 144P STANDARD LAD 47U

K 68L STANDARD LAD 144P K 64H RIBSTONE LADY 59N

GCK RIB PACE 43U

FE 101J SUPER RIB 138R GCK 88E EXTRA PACE 42K

EPDs: BW 5.8 WW 45.5 YW 71.5 TM 33.6

EPDs: BW 4.0 WW 34.5 YW 60.0 TM 36.0

Lowers birthweight and adds maternal.

Adds thickness and muscle.

Last chance for these bulls this fall!

MHH 22L BRITISHER LAD 9P

VIKING 254 LAD ET 22L MHH 39D BRITISHER LASS 14J

EPDs: BW 5.6 WW 41.7 YW 75.5 TM 19.9

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Consistent sire of thick, meaty, easy doing sons.

FCC 36N ABSOLUTE 7R FCC 5F KAREN 3M YW 77.1

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Several good polled sons in our fall sale.

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EPDs: BW 5.4 WW 36.8 YW 54.0 TM 31.6

A dozen good sons sell this fall!

FCC 7R IMPACT 8U

MN 64F BRITISH LAD 7N

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Sunshine grandson adding depth and volume.

The Templetons Byron and Carolyn 403-345-3889 Roberta, Jocelyn and Rosie Byronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cell 403-308-9971 Directions 9 miles North of Hwy 4 on Tempest Road or 7 miles South of Hwy 3 on Tempest Road or 11 miles East of Lethbridge on Jail Road & 3.5 miles South on Range Road 19-4 Box 761 www.xtcherefords.com email: xtcherf@shockware.com Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 3Z6

Amigo Sale: November 16, 2011

Selling Horned & Polled Yearling Bulls, Long Yearling Bulls, Purebred & Commercial Heifers Call for a Catalogue

At XTC we strive to produce efficient cattle with optimum production traits, not maximum . Moderate frame and easy doing cows are the standard, with good feet and level balanced udders. We stress the traits that make ranching profitable and easier: hair, sound structure, feed efficiency and disposition. Producing quality Hereford cattle for 49 years.

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MHH 66N SUNRISE LAD 31S C 27H SUN DOG 8L C 359 MISS D ROBIN 30G VIKING 254 LAD ET 22L MHH 22L VIKING LASS 29N MHH 262B VOLTAGE LASS 27L

FE 44S RED SKYLINE 24U FE 17L STAN BRIT 3P SNS 67F SKY LASS 60L SGC 133C HAWKEYE 69E SGC 69E HAWKEYE LASS 29H SGC VIKING POWER LADY 11F

XTC 8L SUNRISE 66N

SNS 3P SKY BRIT 44S

31S has proven to be an outstanding Sire of both males & females. He shows exceptional thickness and muscle. His daughters have beautiful udders.

8ҋV ÀUVW FDOI FURS LV RQ WKH JURXQG DQG WKH\ KDYH PHW DOO RXU expectations. Extra muscle, wide tops, lots of yellow hair. 24U has continued to grow into an impressive looking sire.

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DW ADVANCE 33P LAD 88T

DUNROBIN REDMAN 75L DUNROBIN HARMONY 125N AMARADA EXCEL DOMINO LAD 4H DUNROBIN CLASSIC LADY 127M DUNROBIN STANDARD LADY 48H

LPG BONANZA 52G DW DOUBLE BRIT LASS 60B HH ADVANCE 9012Y DW 9012Y JUSTINE LASS 74F DW JUSTIN LASS 47C

DUNROBIN REDMAN 98S

DW BONANZA LAD 33P

New Herd Bull that we retained at the ranch from our 2011 Calgary Bull Sale string. He carries tremendous thickness and muscle. All reports say the 98S daughters are awesome. We anxiously await his 1st calf crop.

88T has developed into an impressive Sire. His yearlings are some of our best and his daughters should be good, as 88T!s Dam is still producing at age 15 with an excellent udder.

Also in Use: CFH 21M STANMORE 803U

Thank you to all of our previous buyers. Your support is appreciated.

Cattle For Sale At All Times ~ Visitors Always Welcome BRAD & TAMMY, TY & MELISSA

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History & Pride The Craigs’ Long-Standing Hereford Tradition

By Brad Dubeau

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A l b e r t E dw a r d C r a i g hauled supplies during the North-West Rebellion of 1885, to Duck Lake and Fort Carleton, for a take-home pay of $10 per month, after moving to Saskatchewan from Perth County, Ontario. At the time, the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and

between Swift Current and Battleford, Saskatchewan, from 1886 to 1890, while taking up ranching west of Battleford in Prongue Hills.

When the original homestead burned in 1899, Albert Edward moved his homestead to Scent Grass Lake in the Round Hills area, where the current Craigs’ Ranch is located.

In 1902, Albert Edward married Elizabeth Mackenzie and the couple had two children, Albert Miller and Marguite Elizabeth. Following high school, Albert Miller graduated from the School of Agriculture in Saskatoon in 1923 and in 1926, he took over the day-to-day activities from his father, Albert Edward.

Albert Miller Craig was a Past President of the Saskatchewan Hereford Association and also of the Canadian Hereford Association, in 1958. He was inducted into the Canadian Hereford Association Honour Roll in 1977 and ultimately received the Order of Canada in 1979 for his dedication to Agriculture.

A lber ta and much of moder n Manitoba, were part of the Northwest Territories. The Rebellion involved a short-lived and unsuccessful uprising of the Métis led by Louis Riel, against the Dominion of Canada.

After the rebellion, Albert Edward drove a stage coach carrying the mail

The Craig family has long been associated with ranching in the Battleford area.

Now a c ent u r y- old Her eford operation, this family is still in business in North Battleford, under the management of Gordon and Shelley Craig, the fourth generation.

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Albert Miller later married Gladys Kelen and together they had three children, Lloyd, Donald James (Jim) and Joyce.

Albert Miller Craig was a President of the Saskatchewan Hereford Association and in 1958, served as President of the Canadian Hereford

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Association. He was inducted into the Canadian Hereford Association Honour Roll in 1977 and ultimately received the Order of Canada in 1979 for his dedication to Agriculture.

In 1931, Albert Miller traded a carload of barley to C.S. Dale of Silton, Saskatchewan for six registered Hereford heifers and one bull. This group laid the foundation for today’s purebred Hereford operation at the Craig Ranch.

Albert Miller’s sons, Lloyd and Jim, took over operations on the ranch in the late 1970’s. Lloyd retired in 1997 but remained on the ranch and helped when available. He married

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Gordon and Shelley married in 1986.

Now at the helm of Craig Ranching Co. Ltd., they manage a total of about 6,080 deeded acres. About 4,160 acres are held by the company, while 1,920 acres are owned privately by Gordon and his brothers, Albert and Richard. They crop about 1,500 acres annually for feed/swath grazing with some being sold into the commodity market. They also have about 1,000 acres of tame and slough hay.

A total of 270 cows run the ranch, 90 per cent of which are registered Herefords. The company owns 170 head of the cows, while 100 head are

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The 3/4 Circle brand registered in 1887

Gordon has been the Hereford barn boss at the Canadian Western Agribition for 11 years running.

Alice Compton and had three children, all of whom chose their own career paths off the ranch.

Jim Craig, like his father, also g raduated from the Universit y of Saskatoon, spec ial i zing in Agriculture. He worked in British Columbia for a couple years prior to returning to the ranch and later married Genny Mannix and had four children: Jurine, Albert, Gordon and Richard.

Jim and Lloyd ran the ranch together until Gordon and Shelley took it over.

Jim lived and was active on the ranch every day until his sudden passing on June 19th of this year, at the age of 79. His wife Genny continues to live on the ranch. Jurine now makes her home in Edmonton, Alberta, and while Albert and Richard live off the ranch pursuing their own careers, they continue to help out on weekends and when they are

owned privately. Of the 100 head, 75 are owned by Gordon and Shelley themselves. The remainder are owned by Albert and Richard.

The most recent additions to the ranch are 30 registered Red Angus cows, owned by Gordon and Shelley.

The commercial cow herd is mainly straight Hereford and red baldies. For bull power, they use three horned, three polled and three Red Angus bulls.

Everything starts calving in the middle of March and finishes in mid-to-late May. The Craigs sell all the bigger steer calves and some heifers in December, following the Agribition show. The remainder of the steers and heifers, which aren’t kept for replacements, are sold in early March. Twenty-five to 30 head of replacements are kept each year.

The ¾ Circle brand on the left rib has been carried by Craig’s cattle since

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1887 when it was registered by Albert Edward.

Performance records are kept on each cow and calf birth weights are collected.

Calves are marketed t hroug h Campb el l L ivestock i n Nor t h Battleford. They typically weigh between 650 and 700 pounds in the fall and over 700 pounds in March.

where they are now selling just a few bulls by private treaty from the ranch.

But that might change yet, according to Gordon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m starting to get more calls for Herefords,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is more interest in Hereford bulls all the time.â&#x20AC;?

So what are future prospects for Craigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ranching? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Straight ahead, with more demand

Gordon says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d still like to be more involved and get cattle out to local events but says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to find the time, especially when most of the time, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working by himself. Gordon nevertheless remains involved on a personal basis, as Agribition Hereford barn boss, for 11 years running. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a well-liked people-person and is firm and fair, which is just what the job

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m starting to get more calls for Herefords,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is more interest in Hereford bulls all the time.â&#x20AC;?

The purebred herd has been downsized over the past few years.

But for years, they marketed females at the Big Eye Sale at Lloydminster and through the Red Carpet Sale in Saskatoon. Currently, they market a few purebreds locally, although most are retained for the herd at home.

The Craigs sold purebred bulls at Lloydminster, at the Regina bull sale and at Spiritwood for 25 years. For 55 years straight, they consigned to the bull sale in North Battleford. That also has changed, however, to the point

for Hereford bulls and females,â&#x20AC;? says Gordon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the sales being strong this past spring, the future looks bright.â&#x20AC;? Craigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ranching has sold cattle around the world to countries such as Brazil, Japan, Czechoslovakia and Chile. In the past and very recently, they have also exported cattle to Russia.

In years past, the Craigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s placed more emphasis on cattle shows to market their purebreds. In the 1970s they attended Agribition and local summer shows regularly.

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calls for, managing space, resolving disputes and enforcing show rules, during the time of the fair. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a highlight for Gordon each year. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a time to visit with fellow breeders and an opportunity to see the results of breed trends and study the programs of fellow breeders.

Gordon has also served as a director and president of the North-West Saskatchewan Hereford Zone and is past president of the Saskatchewan Hereford Association. He continues to sit on this board as a director and is

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Gordon and Shelley have enjoyed supporting their kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; involvement in 4-H over the years and they continue to enjoy fishing at the lake and spending time with their children.

Gordon particularly loves his time on horseback checking cows. Shelley works part-time at Krammer Auctions Ltd. in North Battleford, which specializes in farm and land sales.

Gordon and Shelley have four children: Jamie (24), Lindsey (22), Dana (20) and Dallas (17). Jamie, Lindsey and Dana have chosen career paths off the ranch but still return home on the weekends to help with cattle chores.

Continuing the tradition of selling purebred Herefords is Gordon and Shelleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 17-yearold son, Dallas. While still in high school, Dallas will ultimately take over Craigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ranching Co. Ltd.. He is the 5th generation of Craigs to ranch.

The newest edition to the Gordy Craig family came on May 24th, 2011 when Lindsey and her husband Shane Tenetuik had their daughter, Layla.

When it comes to the cattle industry in general, Gordon says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shaping up to be good times ahead.â&#x20AC;?

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A Lifestyle Choice Premier David Alward’s Love of Herefords

By Catherine Brown

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A small herd of Herefords grazes the rolling hills along the Saint John River valley in western New Brunswick.

The small village of Meductic is nearby; home to about 155 residents and a few quaint businesses - a bed and breakfast, a gas station and a world-class cymbal maker. A longtime restaurant closed its doors in 2004 after the opening of the new four-lane Trans-Canada Highway,

his province’s Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Bernard Lord government in 2003, the year of the BSE crisis for beef farmers.

He knows a thing or two about the agricultural economy, both regionally and nationally.

David Alward’s family has roots in farming. His paternal grandfather raised Herefords in the fifties and sixties, exhibiting them at shows in eastern Canada and as far west as

of the day were regional health care initiatives and fiscal control challenges. The next day was to involve a scheduled trip to Ottawa for more government business.

On the Ottawa trip he ran into longtime friend and fellow Hereford breeder Bryan Latimer of Remital fame in Alberta. It’s the people in the Hereford fraternity that Alward says have given him such a good experience being involved with the

The farm and the Herefords are what bring the Alward family together, as they navigate their way through a juxtaposing fast-paced, high-profile political scene in the senior Alwards’ professional lives. which caused a dramatic drop in traffic on what is now Route 165.

This is where the Alwards reside.

The farm and the Herefords are what bring the Alward family together, as they navigate their way through a juxtaposing fast-paced, high-profile political scene in the senior Alwards’ professional lives.

David Alward, the current and 32nd Premier of New Brunswick, was also

Ontario. His other grandfather was a dairy farmer who eventually sold his cream quota and kept a herd of beef cattle.

“I inherited a natural love of farm life early on,” says Alward, who describes his farm life as the “real work” in his life. It is actually his labour of love.

He says this as he winds down from a busy day in the New Brunswick legislature in Fredericton. The topics

breed. Some mentors along the way have been Albert, Roy and Mike Goodine, Gil and Molly Henderson and Bobby Hull. Alward also mentions Paul and Jennifer Mastine , Bill and Jill Corp and Craig Flewelling, who have been an inspiration to his son Ben and many other juniors in the junior Hereford Association.

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deal for Ben, says Alward. The whole junior experience, he says, builds tremendous young adults through opportunities to lead and to work toward specific goals.

Now 51-years of age, Alward was the son of a pastor and as such, moved throughout Atlantic Canada in his youth and later graduated from high school in New Brunswick.

Alward completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and completed course work toward a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology. He worked as a federal civil servant from 1982 to 1996. Active in his community,

Minister of Agriculture.

In 2008, Alward became the leader of the Conservative Party of New Brunswick. He was sworn in as the Premier on October 12, 2010. In this position, Alward holds several ministerial titles. His wife, Rhonda is a human resource consultant for the province of New Brunswick.

When Alward talks about his Hereford experience, he talks about the excitement of cattle shows and about calving seasons. But he doesn’t talk about the cattle without talking about his family.

With regards to Ben, his youngest son,

a former President of the Canadian Hereford Association who also wrote a book on the breed.)

Two weeks later, Alward and his brother purchased 10 Hereford heifers from Scranton and figured out, from then on, how to properly raise them.

Ownership of the herd was separated in 1986, when both brothers married.

Alward retained just one female and gradually started herd-building from there. From that “one-cow herd” came a heifer calf that went on to win shows in Fredericton, the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto and in the U.S..

Since then, cattle have remained a

The Alwards have stuck with Herefords, primarily for their maternal strengths and good temperaments, which have made it easy for Wanda or the boys when they were younger, to manage the herd in David’s absence. he volounteered as an emergency medical technician and lab instructor with the St. John Ambulance and as a firefighter with the Meductic Fire Department. Among several other responsibilities, he also served on the board of directors of the New Brunswick Hereford Association. He was also a volounteer in local schools and local economic development.

From 1996 to 1999, he was selfemployed as a human resource de velopment a nd com mu n it y development consultant.

Alward was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, as a Progressive Conservative, in the 1999 election and was re-elected in 2003, after which he joined the cabinet as Photo on page 43: Ben, Wanda, David and Jonathan Photos below: David, with son Ben, checking the herd.

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who has a keen interest in Hereford cattle, he says “our time together on the farm as father and son has been great for our relationship.”

Alward’s oldest son, Jonathan, now 23, is preparing for law school. Ben, who is 21, has earned his plumbing license and is currently working as an apprentice in a second trade of pipe fitting.

While in university himself, David Alward and his brother raised Silver Fox. On a tour to visit other fox breeders through Prince Edward Island in 1982, they drove by the fields of Charlie Scranton’s farm, where his Herefords were grazing.

(Scranton, now 95 years of age and a member of the Order of Canada, is

constant in Alward’s life, if even on a part-time scale. It is a lifestyle choice, he says.

That lifestyle involved years going to 4-H and junior Hereford meetings.

And over the years, the Alwards have purchased and bred some top quality animals, primarily through the use of A.I. sires.

In the early years, the Alwards traded a group of Silver Fox for a Hereford cow from the herd of Alberta’s Bob Caine, which went on to produce prize-winning calves.

They primarily market heifers to other breeders, as they have had no market for Hereford bulls in their area. For years, their best bull calf was steered and broke to show as a steer

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for Ben at spring shows. The proceeds from these steers went towards Ben’s education. He would get up to $3,500

been toward fewer, larger farms but the demand for locally grown and organics has marked a slight

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potato fields.

While Alward leads the province and its agriculture sector toward greater

“I inherited a natural love of farm life early on,” says Alward, who describes his farm life as the “real work” in his life. It is actually his labour of love. for a finished steer at a community auction in support of 4-H, rather than the $1,000 he might earn for the same calf as a bull. The Alwards have stuck with Herefords, primarily for their maternal strengths and good temperaments, which have made it easy for Wanda or the boys when they were younger, to manage the herd in David’s absence.

Ben will carry on with his chosen trade but according to his father, w ill always keep his hand in cattle production on some level.

In Ben’s final year as a Hereford junior last year, he attended the national junior show in Quebec where he won the Grand Aggregate award for placing highest in all the Bonanza competitions. He was also honoured to be a recipient of Triara’s Ambassador Award, for showing kindness, professionalism, team spirit and acting in a mentorship role to his fellow competitors. He has played an active role learning more about the industry by attending livestock shows across the country, including Quebec’s Expo Boeuf, Toronto’s Royal Winter Fair and Regina’s Agribition.

This year is Ben’s final year in 4-H but his dad says he’ll continue with 4-H as a leader. “It’s his passion,” he says.

In David Alward’s political role, his farming background has earned him a level of respect from the farming community in a very agriculturebased area.

One of the platforms his party ran on is that of agricultural renewal.

“The ability to feed ourselves,” says Alward, is an important message his party communicates. “[A healthy ag r iculture sector] streng thens communities and ensures a healthy population,” he says.

“We’ve been working on a locallygrown strategy within the industry.”

While the beef and pork sectors have admittedly struggled in New Brunswick, due to several overlapping market forces, agriculture in New Brunswick accounts for over two per cent of GDP (gross domestic product), which is significant, says Alward.

The trend, in New Brunswick, has

resurgence in smaller operations.

Potatoes are still the number one agricultural crop, followed by supplymanaged operations in dairy and chickens. Grains and oilseeds are also popular as an ideal rotation crops for

long-term stainability, the pastures of Meductic will for a long time stay green, with the help of the Alward’s white-faced, ecological land steward – the Hereford cow.

Look for progeny of these sires at upcoming Medicine Hat and East Central Bull sales or at the Ranch anytime.

MN 30L PRINCE DOMINO 82S FE 11P SILVER STANDARD 89T WINDIMUIR 28P MESA 215U BOY 460R RED LAD 503U

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Breeding 300+ head in 2011 with 13 Hereford bulls.

We’re very proud of our functional purebred and commercial cow herds.

Stop in for a visit – we would welcome the opportunity to show them to you.

Jim and Georgine Westgard

Phone (403) 676-2167

Cell (403) 664-9412 Email jgwestgard@netago.ca Box 27, Sibbald, Alberta T0J 3E0 2 1/2 mil (4 km) North of Hwy 9 at Sibbald on Rnge Rd 2-0 45

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PWM 6S MN 217U ERA 51W

MN 217U ERA 2X ERA 8X LEHR 39R !"#$%&!$'()*)+"!($,-++$./0$ With her 2011 heifer calf at side. Full sibling to 11W.

!"#$&+$'()*)+"!($,-1$223 Reserve Junior Champion at the 2011 Calgary Bull Sale. *Thanks to MN Herefords for purchasing 11W. Also thanks to: Carlrams Ranching Ltd., L-O Horned Herefords, *Dwayne Klassen (2 bulls and the Dawson Creek Grand Champion), *Dale Martinson (2 bulls), *South Peace Colony (2 bulls), *Bryan Tink & Rene Vasseur

TOM BASNETT Box 41 Eureka River, AB T0H 1K0

Ph/Fax 780-685-2102 Cell 780-834-8170 email: tjbasnett@gmail.com

* denotes repeat buyers From the corner of Hwy 64 and #730, go 11 km N. on #730, 1.6 km W. and 4 km N. on Range Rd. 54 49

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Hereford-Style Branded Freezer Beef

By Bonnie Warnyca Once international beef customers slammed the door on Canadian beef and cattle imports post BSE, cattle producers were left with very few options for interim profitability.

Some, like the Wards at WillowPond Polled Hereford Farm in Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia, tried to wait out the suggested blip in the market, but finally took control of their own fate and created a farm

prepared f inishing rat ion but switched to a corn-based ration to market our beef as ‘naturally raised’.

We also prefer the corn-fed beef taste.

We record any inoculations and don’t treat any of our steers and heifers in the beef program.”

The Wards had always raised thicker, deeper-type cattle, purchasing the bulk of their herd sires from western Canada. The bulls selected have enabled their cattle to finish easier.

They believe their enterprise has been successful because of their boxed beef program gate beef business. Up until that time, Larry and Pat Ward, both retired school teachers, had only sold a few halves to friends and neighbours.

“We stumbled a bit at the beginning,” admits Pat, a former mathematics teacher. “We started feeding a

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The Wards are particularly proud of their calf crops sired by Remitall Nightman, an Online son. They’ve opted for an 1,100-pound finishing weight, usually within 15-months.

They believe their enterprise has been successful because of their boxed beef program.

Says Ward, “In order to market the whole carcass, w e of fer $ 10 0 regular and barbecue boxes, $150 family boxes, and custom orders. The $100 regular box has 25 lbs. of beef in it. We are going to have to increase our price in the new year, to reflect higher fuel costs, but on average, we make about $300 above what we could sell our

cattle for at auction.”

The Wards have developed their own webpage which they believe helps to deliver their production story and put a face on the folks that raise the beef.

They also use the website to answer common customer questions and counteract negative industry myths.

About one third of their customer list is comprised of regular customers; another third comes from word-ofmouth and the rest come to them through kijiji and local community newspaper advertising.

Willow-Pond delivers its beef boxes to central locations for customers to pick up their orders.

Besides the steers and late born and bottom end heifers in the feeder pens, the Wards continue to market their top end cattle both off farm and in the annual Nova Scotia Hereford Sale.

Five Willow-Pond heifers went to Russia last year.

The Wards sell anywhere from 15 to 19 head annually through their meat program.

“It’s a lot of work to sell the meat so our first choice is to sell pure stock,” says Ward. “The greatest lesson in all of this, for us, is that now when we look at the cattle, we have a better idea of what the meat will be like. It has improved our ability to select the correct bull for both our meat program and our purebred customers.”

On the southern shores of Georgian

Bay, Ontario, next door to the largest fresh water sand beach in the world, is the land the Vancise family has lived on since 1872. Today, it’s home to Walnut Drive Farms and the John and Isabelle Vancise family.

Like the Wards, their farm gate

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Isabelle Vancise stands by their highway sign

meat business began post BSE and it continues to be a profitable revenue stream along with their 350 head of Polled Herefords and their son’s, Vancise Cattle Co. Red Angus herd.

“We probably have the most formative line of Polled Herefords in the world,” boasts John. “We’ve stuck with the William Spidel line mostly. Other genetics include Circle T and Four

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Vancise Herd.

door. Add to that word of mouth and that’s the extent of their promotional efforts.

The meat is priced to be competitive with local retail markets but there is still a premium attached.

“While some producers ask higher prices, we are content to sell more volume and have happy customers,” sug gests John Vancise. “Many

The couple sells 600 to 700 lb. carcass weights which is optimum for split side and half sales. When they sell split sides and whole carcasses, their customers arrange their own cutting and wrapping. They also sell individual cuts from the farm freezers and a local restaurant takes a lot of their hamburger.

The meat program is Isabelle’s

Isabelle Vancise promotes both the Hereford and Angus meat. She tells customers about the Texas A & M studies that rated Hereford influenced beef at the top, alongside Angus, in their blind taste tests, 15 years apart.

Squares. We have moderately-framed animals that are well marbled.”

Vancise admits that their location has a lot to do with their beef marketing success. They are located on a busy cottage highway and their signage, advertising Great Northern Meats, brings people to the farmhouse

Jim and Shelly Kudera’s herd

customers tell us they’ve never tasted such good beef.”

“This business provides a substantial financial floor under our purebred business,” he continues. “We sell about three animals a month and are able to top market values by $400 to $500 an animal.”

business, as she does the selling and manages the money. She promotes both the Hereford and Angus meat.

She tells customers about the Texas A & M studies that rated Hereford influenced beef at the top, alongside Angus, in their blind taste tests, 15 years apart.

Jim and Shelly Kudera

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Canadian Hereford Freezer Beef Packaging

Logo it.

For an order form visit www.hereford.ca/store.asp

Personalize it.

° Peel and apply to your freezer beef packages ° Hand out at tradeshows to increase your presence

Wrap it.

° Stick to freezer paper or poly-bagged hamburger ° Add your farm name, cut and packaging date

Tape it.

° Package your hamburger, steaks and roasts ° Quality wax coated freezer paper

Box it.

° Seal your freezer paper

° Fill and ship ° A reminder that will keep your customers coming back for more 52

“There’s not a lot of external fat on these animals but they have good marbling,” says Vancise. “Sonograms have shown intramuscular fat (IMF) in the rib eye as high as 7.6% which eclipses triple A parameters.”

While one of the early concerns for Great Northern Meats was that customers would cherry pick the top cuts, that hasn’t been the case.

Out in Alberta, near Wildwood, Jim

and Shelly Kudera and their children Colton, Corbin and April own and operate the Rednex Ranch. Jim works

Hereford beef raised by our family to your family’, on all their labels.

Rednex Ranch whole carcasses and halves are sold at $3 per pound, dressed weight, and freezer packages range from $5 to $ 8 per pound.

Without the middlemen, prices for freezer packages undercut local retail but still include a premium.

Kudera says there are a number of provincial regulations required in Alberta to market freezer beef such as including the ranch name, contact information and the tag number of

The Kuderas have a professionally designed logo, brochures and website to market their beef and use the Hereford tag line, ‘Canadian authentic Hereford beef raised by our family to your family’, on all their labels. off the farm while Shelley is in charge of the freezer beef business.

They moved back to the country in 2005, after years of working in Edmonton. Shelley’s parents had raised Polled Herefords while Jim’s family were in the grain business.

“When living in the city, we sold a few animals for my parents,” remembers Shelley. “Once we moved back to the farm and amassed a small Polled Hereford herd of 30-40 registered females, we took over t hose customers. We found in this area that straight Herefords don’t do that well at auction. So I started the freezer beef program and put any feather neck heifers and steers in it. The beef customers don’t care about the color of the hide, they just want good beef.”

In t he beg inning, t he couple maintained many of their big city customers selling mostly halves and sides. Last year, they began marketing their beef locally through the local farmer’s market and by putting up signs in local businesses. The beef is marketed as natural with no added hormones or antibiotics. The cattle are all vaccinated, and any freezer beef animals that need treatment are pulled from the program. There are about ten head in the freezer beef program annually.

The Kuderas have a professionally designed logo, brochures and website to market their beef and use the Hereford tag line, ‘Canadian authentic

the animal on each package label.

Some of the Rednex Ranch beef is now used in the neighbour’s onfarm licensed catering business. One customer only purchases oxtails; another one buys the kidney suet for making soap and many others purchase soup bones for their dogs.

Kudera has taken a safe food handling course but she isn’t sure if the certification means anything to her customers.

“Our customers are more concerned about knowing where their beef comes from and coming out to the farm is part of that experience. We are proud to show our farm and our cattle. We’ve recently added a “U-pick” strawberry operation which is bringing more people out here.

They come for berries and go home with beef as well. Everything goes back to the cows.”

“We considered increasing our freezer beef numbers last year but the price of oats went up and so did the calf prices at the auction market,” says Kudera.

“It all comes down to profitability.”

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Branded Hereford Beef Program The initiative to develop and provide attractive product packaging for our members who have a Farmgate market, has been very successful.

See page 52 for five different packaging items that members can order from the CHA office. Orders can be mailed to you by Canada Post, which provides the best service for rural addresses.

To order, call Janice Burton at the CHA office and provide her with either a Visa or Mastercard number. Once you place your order with Janice, the items will be sent to you

by Canada Post Expedited Parcel from the CHA office. It may take 2-7 days for delivery, depending on your location.

We appreciate it when members use the packaging to promote Hereford Beef to their customers.

Yours truly,

General Manager Canadian Hereford Association

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Staying Power A Fourth Generation Of Aitkens Make Herefords Central On This Operation

By Brad Dubeau

D I R ECTO R O F CO M M U N I CATI O N S

Photos By Ron Wells

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“I think Herefords are mak ing a comeback ,” says Kevin Aitken, owner of Maple-Dale Farms in Ontario. “Breeders are working hard to improve and advance the breed”.

Aitken, his wife Jaclyn, and three children, use both Horned and Polled Hereford genetics, on their operation

and help with day-to-day activities.

His father, Lyle, a respected cattleman and horseman in the area, was killed in a traffic accident involving their truck and trailer on the way to a team penning competition in 2003.

Kevin and his parents had just purchased a second farm, in the year 1998, expanding the original holdings,

g reat g randpa, Rober t A itken, originally purchased the farm for his son Milton, after his marriage to Florence. Milton and Florence owned the operation until they passed it onto Kevin’s parents, Lyle and Debbie, in 1976.

As Kevin grew up, the operation consisted of a commercial herd with

In 1988 Lyle bought ten purebred Hereford heifers from Ulrich Hereford Ranch of Claresholm, Alberta and a Hereford bull from Fulton Herefords of Carstairs, Alberta, at the Calgary Bull Sale. From there, the registered Hereford herd continued to grow and two predominant cow families remain from that purchase. near the small town of Holstein, about an hour’s drive north of Guelph, Ontario.

Debbie Aitken, Kevin’s mom, owns the original farm and remains in the original farm house where Kevin and his two sisters grew up. Debbie is frequently called upon to move cattle 58

to allow Kevin and his family to continue working at home on the cattle operation.

Today, Maple-Dale Farms consists of about 500 acres plus 120 acres of rented land, of which 100 acres are in hay production. The remainder is set up in rotational pasture. Kevin’s

a Hereford and Simmental cow base.

It was Lyle who made the decision to venture into registered Hereford cattle.

In 1988 Lyle bought ten purebred Hereford heifers from Ulrich Hereford Ranch of Claresholm, Alberta and a Hereford bull from Fulton Herefords

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of Carstairs, Alberta, at the Calgary Bull Sale. From there, the registered Hereford herd continued to grow and two predominant cow families remain from that purchase.

By 2005, the herd numbered 160 head of both registered Hereford cows and commercial cows. Lyle and Debbie also had a small herd of Red Angus cows. Following Lyle’s death, the

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numbers 43 head. Along with the registered cows, the Aitkens also run a custom backgrounding lot and a small bull test centre and this year, they started custom grazing steers.

When it comes to the registered cow herd, the Aitkens used to calve in March and April but have moved their dates ahead to start near the end of January to about the middle of March.

One customer, who owns a 5,000head feedlot locally, has contracted Kevin to board and manage 50 additional cow/calf pairs.

Bulls are turned out with the cows around the 20th of April and while some A.I. is used, the Aitkens have seven bulls at their disposal. Three of them are partnership bulls that are shared with his partners in Ontario.

Along with the registered cows, the Aitkens also run a custom backgrounding lot and a small bull test centre and this year, they started custom grazing steers. decision was made to hold an estate sale which allowed Kevin to purchase and hold the majority position in Maple-Dale Farms. He kept forty commercial cows, ten registered Hereford cows and the Hereford and Red Angus replacement heifer calves.

More recently, in 2010, Kevin sold the Angus and commercial cows.

By retaining replacement Hereford heifers, along with some purchased cows, the current Hereford herd now

Calves are weaned in mid-November and backgrounded in a lot with the additional 100 head of custom calves.

Steers are sent to be processed in April and bulls that don’t make the cut are either sold as freezer beef or go directly to processing.

This past spring, Kevin took on 130 head of steers in April which were backgrounded for a short time before turning them out, as part of his custom grazing service.

The other four will be used in Kevin’s program this summer, after which, they’ll be available for sale this October at the Ontario West Zone Hereford Sale. All bulls are selected based on the strength of their dams. Maternal strength, muscling, doability and balanced EPDs are key criteria used in selection.

Kevin offers his bull test facilities to both Hereford breeders and other breeds. The 2010-2011 season entered

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and tested 15 bulls. This number will vary from year to year. The objectives are measuring gain on a forage-based ration, while aiming for consistency.

“Nothing is pushed,” says Kevin.

“When they’re done, they’re ready to go to work and not melt.”

They are striving for three to 3.2 pounds gain per day. The bulls that hit 3.5 pounds and above, per day, on the same ration, are the ones Kevin

data and developing EPDs for his herd.

Kevin uses EPDs in his day-to-day activities, when it comes to buying or selling his purebred Herefords. “I probably use them more than ever now,” says Kevin. His goal is to maximize individual traits, while maintaining a balanced set of EPDs, using the herd bulls available to him.

When it comes to marketing his breeding program, Kevin believes

attended and exhibited cattle at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, at Canadian Western Agribition in Regina and at Farmfair in Edmonton, over the years.

Kevin has won banners from 1996 to 2010 at national shows, the highlight of which was in Toronto in 2004, when he won Junior Yearling Champion Female, Reserve Junior Yearling Champion Female and

Kevin believes in collecting information on cattle to maximize his returns when marketing them, so it is a natural fit for him to be involved on the Canadian Hereford Association’s THE (Total Herd Evaluation) program. knows will suit his program best and those bulls are kept for his own use or are selected to be sold. The bull test station starts in mid-November and ends in mid-April.

Ke v i n b el ie v e s i n c ol le c t i ng information on cattle to maximize his returns when marketing them, so it is a natural fit for him to be involved on the Canadian Hereford Association’s THE (Total Herd Evaluation) program.

He likes receiving the performance

in the show ring as a good tool for exposure, while affording him the opportunity to meet many breeders from across Canada, in one central location. Livestock shows also give purebred breeders a chance to evaluate strings of cattle belonging to other breeders, allowing exhibitors and visitors alike to have a glimpse at the programs of several operations.

Kevin grew up participating in 4H, until the age of 21. He has since

Reserve Junior Champion Bull and Heifer Calf Champions.

Aitken is frequently called upon to judge all-breed and 4-H shows. In 2010, he won the Calgary Stamped Livestock evaluation competition.

He is currently making plans to organize catt le t ranspor tat ion from the east to participate in t he upcoming World Hereford Conference, to be held in July 2012, at Olds, Alberta.

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The Aitkens traditionally sell their breeding stock at the fall Ontario Western Hereford Zone Sale, now called Ontario West Hereford Zone Sale. They typically enter five or six females and for 2011, there may be a bull or two entered.

In 2010, the Aitkens sold a bull through the National Hereford Sale at Agribition. Kevin moves two to three bulls annually by private treaty from his farm in Holstein. His partnership progeny ow ned w it h wester n Canadian breeders, are ultimately marketed at production sales or by private treaty, in western Canada.

When it comes to marketing, Kevin says that he knows he isn’t doing all that he can to increase market share.

“I rely mostly on word of mouth,” he says. He’s considering advertising more in his local area, to increase awareness of his Hereford program.

Kevin was involved as President of the Western Zone of the Ontario Hereford Association (OHA) prior to the amalgamation this year of three zones into one, now called the Ontario West Zone. He has also served on the OHA Board of Directors for one year.

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An aerial view of Maple-Dale Farms

He plans to become more involved as his children get older.

Kevin’s sisters, Lisa and Staci are both married with children and have their own careers off the farm. Kevin and Jaclyn’s three kids, Dylyn (8), Nolan (6) and Liam (2), are busy with sports - mostly gymnastics, hockey and baseball. An athlete himself, Kevin now more often than not, finds himself in the coaching role. Jaclyn is a hairstylist and she works in a salon in Mount Forest, Ontario. She enjoys attending and participating with Kevin at the cattle shows as well as working with the horses on the farm.

In his reflections about the cattle industry, Kevin says, “I think the industry will be better and stronger with the number of head leaving the industry.” -An eternal optimist, like many others in his profession.

He is especially optimistic that new tools like DNA profiling, combined with capturing performance data and ultrasound information, will allow the industry to breed better cattle, improve grading and ultimately provide a better eating experience for consumers while hopefully improving efficiencies on the production end.

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Faces and Perspectives of a New Generation

Young Guns III

By Catherine A. Brown JILL & COLE HARVIE

Twenty-six-year-old Jill Harvie confidently walks around the cattle show ring at the Bonanza 2010 competition in Quebec, as official showmanship judge. She “owns” the microphone and eloquently and fluently speaks to show participants in both English and French. She is proud of the Hereford Juniors, their abilities and their sheer numbers. She grew up in their ranks herself.

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to ensure the survival of the industry that supports them.

Jill and Cole Harvie represent many young producers who are unlike generations before them. They are ultra conscious of their heritage and threats to its survival. They are ecologically aware and welfareor iented and t hey are tak ing responsibility for filling the divide between producer and consumer, through ever y means possible, including electronic media and

worldwide.

“There’s a growing demand and need for beef worldwide,” she says. She is inspired by young beef farmers in Australia taking over family operations and is optimistic about the potential for Canada’s large land base and natural resources, in terms of its capacity for production. She’s also realistic about the need to be educated on issues both inside and outside the industry.

Jill produced a video in 2010 to help

Don’t ask Jill what the problems are in the beef industry currently. She’ll talk about the opportunities.

Once a shy Ontar io farm g irl, McNeely now works for the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) as a Policy Analyst Assistant and as a coordinator for its Cattlemens’ Young Leaders (CYL) program. She is married to Cole Harvie of Harvie Ranching and together, they are building their own future in family ranching. But they are also working

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reaching out to youth involved in beef production across the world who share the same passions and issues.

It’s a matter of survival.

Don’t ask Jill what the problems are in the beef industry currently. She’ll talk about the opportunities. And she’ll do so with great enthusiasm. And it’s not “mother-earth-apple-pie-in-thesky” kind of talk. She’s educated and aware and connected to the industry,

promote the concept of videoing yourself and your operation to help consumers understand what a modern beef operation looks like and how producers care about the livestock they raise as well as the quality and nutrition of the food produced. See this video on YouTube at : ht t p : / / w w w.y out u b e .c o m / watch?v=OZpzdgnGzuM or on the www.harvieranching.com homepage.

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A young Jill McNeely (Harvey) with Championship steer

“I am part of feeding the world and that is where I fit,” says Jill in the video. “In my opinion, farmers are the green-collar workers of the world. We take care of the environment.” Part of that duty, she says, is ensuring the health of the soil and the forages, to ensure healthy livestock, wildlife and plant biodiversity.

Jill has also helped produce two other videos and a TV show on which

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in Animal Science from the University of Guelph, after which she attended Olds College in Alberta where she earned a Bachelor of Applied Science with an Agri-business major.

She has since served on the Alberta Hereford Association’s board of directors for two years, helping it with ad campaigns and she has worked closely with the Canadian Beef Breeds Council through her involvement

Ambassador honours in 2002.

Twenty-eight-year-old Cole Harvie grew up on Harvie Ranching near Olds, Alberta, raising purebred Herefords and Charolais with his three brothers Eric, Scott, and Will and his parents Ian and Marlene.

Also a Hereford Junior, Cole attended a few of the Bonanzas across Canada. He and Jill met each other during Bonanza 2000 in P.E.I. and

The young couple plans to capitalize on a stronger bull market to supplement the strong female market the operation currently has globally.

They both believe the Herefords are an exciting breed to be involved with right now.

Canadian representatives from the CYL program are featured, promoting why young producers from around the world love the land, the cattle and feeding the world.

Jill has been part of the Hereford breed all her life, growing up east of Ottawa.

She, her older sister Kerry and her parents Frank and Andree McNeely owned and operated Ottawa Valley Hereford Farm (OVHF). The McNeely’s also owned an electric company.

The girls grew up attending 4-H and junior Hereford shows and participating in showing, grooming and judging competitions. In her final three years in 4-H, Jill showed a Hereford steer. Each was named Grand Champion at her regional fall show. The last two were named Grand Champion over all breeds and those two, Jill remembers, profited her $5,000 and $7,500, respectively, to put toward her education.

Jill received a Diploma in Agriculture

with the CCA. In the process, she has become intimate with the workings and needs of associations.

Jill reminisces about her early involvement in the Canadian Junior Hereford Association (CJHA). Team judging competitions were a great opportunity to practice her skills in the ring, evaluating cattle, she says.

The competitions allowed her to meet networks of people across Canada and the U.S..

“I was not always outgoing,” says McNeely. “I grew more comfortable socially, partly through teaching younger kids in the association.”

Talking to consumers at cattle shows also helped strengthen her confidence when dealing with the public, she says.

Jill has attended Bonanzas in Ontario, Quebec, P.E.I. and Alberta and over the course of those years, showed several animals that were named show champion. She received Youth

reconnected again at the Camrose 2001 Bonanza.

Experience on the national council of the CJHA, says Cole, afforded him important skills needed in board governance and fund raising.

Highlights of those Junior Hereford years, he says, were meeting his best friends and his wife, Jill. Another highlight was winning the Grand Aggregate award at Bonanza 1996 in Calgary.

Outside of Hereford circles, Cole holds the 2009 George Beaty Memorial team roping championship title.

Cole earned a Diploma in Animal Science from Dodge City, where he attended on a full scholarship to join its livestock judging team. In 2001, Cole and his team won the Carload competition at the Denver Stock Show and Cole placed 2nd overall as an individual.

Cole also earned a Diploma in Land Reclamation at Olds College. He now

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“pays it forward” in his mentorship role with a current Olds College student.

Cole and Jill married in 2006 and Jill joined Harvie Ranching as a partner, while remaining an active partner in the OVHF herd, with a few cows of her own. Harvie Ranching expanded

JUSTIN LASBY

Justin Lasby, his sister Jessica and his brother Josh, representing JDL Cattle Co., are believed to be the first juniors to win Grand Champion Hereford Female at Toronto’s Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in 2010.

a fe w y ea r s ag o, increasing its cow herd to 300 cows and adding Simmentals as a third breed.

Jill says the family will also be expanding on the Hereford side, particularly through more embryo transfer work , ma k i ng t he most of t hei r top cows. Cole’s ma in responsibilities on the ranch include pedigree, breeding, embryo and marketing work. The Herefords out-averaged their Charolais and Simmental bulls at the ranch’s 2011 spring bull sale, at a $4,200 average for 21 bulls.

The you ng couple plans to capitalize on a stronger bull market to supplement t he strong female market the operation currently has globally. They both believe the Herefords are an exciting breed to be involved with right now.

Har vie Ranching produced the 2010 Canadian National Champion Hereford Female. Harvie Traveller

69T, was named 2010 Sire of the Year. He and Harvie TailorMade 7W were the highest selling bulls in their respective years in Canada.

In three out of the past four years, Harvie Ranching has had the highest averaging female production sale in Canada and has earned two Premier Breeder Awards at Agribition, where they have also received two Reserve Champion bull honours.

Cole and Jill are both continually paid the ultimate compliment when asked to judge at livestock shows locally and across the country. The young couple can also be seen exhibiting their own cattle at the largest beef expositions across North America. Both are playing an active role on organization committees for the upcoming World Hereford Conference, to be hosted by Calgary in 2012.

Jill’s sister Kerry also moved west, to Saskatchewan, where she, her husband and young daughter, grain farm and are building their own herd of Herefords under the name 6-South Acres. Two daughters out west also prompted the move of Jill and Kerry’s parents to rural Saskatchewan.

On May 25th of this year, Jill and Cole welcomed daughter Tinley Mary Harvie into the world.

To top that honour, their cow/calf pair that won, qualified for Agribition’s RBC Beef Supreme Challenge and so the Lasby kids packed their bags and found a way to get out there, with the Hereford pair in tow. Also very much admired and appreciated in Regina, and up against the best of the best of

Canada’s show cattle, the pair went on to make the top 10 of the RBC Supreme show.

Together, the Lasby “kids” own 10 head of Herefords with their family.

While not old enough to know the old “Dukes of Hazard” TV show, it’s theme song, a well-known Waylon Jennings

“Right or wrong, my main focus has always been cows. That’s my priority.”

- Justin Lasby tune – “Makin’ their way, the only way they know how….” – could really be 22-year-old Justin Lasby’s theme song.

Justin recently earned an Agriculture Diploma as a graduate of Ridgetown College but school is something he says he always coasted through.

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has always been cows,” says Lasby.

“That’s my priority.”

Most of Justin’s friends and former college classmates are also involved in production agriculture but many of them are into cash crops, he says.

Cattle production is what Lasby loves most and when it comes to looking for work, he highly recommends doing

Shirley, have been 4-H leaders for the past 10 years and Justin and his siblings have been active in several clubs since that time. Justin himself has been president of his local beef club for the past seven years.

While participating in just one Bonanza show at Lindsay, Ontario, Justin has also been a Junior Hereford

Hereford heifer calf and has been hooked on Herefords ever since.

Starting young has its rewards. So does Justin’s dedication to the art of showmanship. At the 2005 Royal Winter Fair’s Scotiabank Classic Junior show – the largest of its kind in the country, with 300-400 competitors – Justin was named Grand Champion

“There are opportunities in agriculture. You just have to make your own.”

- Justin Lasby what you love to do. His role in the cattle business, Lasby says, he never questioned. “ The r e a r e op p or t u n it ie s i n agriculture,” says Lasby. “You just have to make your own.”

Justin’s grandparents, who once hosted t he Easter n Canad ian Hereford Prestige Centre, were longstanding Shorthorn breeders in a region northwest of Toronto. His father, David Lasby, raised a Hereford heifer in his last year of 4-H and has since been ensconced in the world of purebred Hereford production, more recently as farm manager at Grosvenor Farm, where the family still lives and keeps its own herd.

Justin’s grandmother Maisie, his uncles Bob and Bill and his aunt Cathy Lasby, are quite supportive of Justin and his siblings and are very involved in the agricultural and livestock industry.

Both Justin’s parents, David and

Association member for many years, attending many Ontario Hereford Beef-A-Rama shows.

The junior Hereford experience, says Justin, helped him break out of his shyness. Still with a quiet demeanor, Justin’s confidence has grown along with his experience showing cattle among industry seniors and peers, and in the face of the public at large expositions and small fairs.

Cattle shows and his junior Hereford experience also instilled in him a good work ethic, he says. Competitive by nature, Justin knows the hard work and many hours that go into getting cattle ready for the show ring. He says he has also really appreciated the networks of people he has been fortunate to connect with by getting out to shows.

Justin began showing cattle with his parents’ help at the age of two with a Simmental bull calf. The year after, he says, he showed a Tex Prime Time

showperson. In 2009, he climbed to the top of the same competition, b ei ng n a me d R e s er v e Gr a nd Champion showperson.

Justin currently works as farm manager, seven days a week, at a 200cow purebred Angus operation near Schomberg, also north of Toronto. He and his father alternate working there on weekends. The work has given Justin extensive experience traveling into U.S. herds, where his boss, the herd owner, maintains several partnerships in cattle.

In the spring, Justin traveled south to a U.S. sale in which he consigned four live animals, one pregnancy and some semen. The Ontario operation also has cattle at an embryo transfer centre in Kansas. Justin regularly travels into Tennessee, Virginia and Kansas. The farm he works for, like many purebred operations in southern Ontario, markets many females into U.S. herds. Their bull

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calves will also likely go south to find an appropriate market.

“I put everything I’ve got into it,” says Justin, talking about his enthusiasm for the business he is in. He comments that he has had a lot of good people supporting him into the business.

Justin sees himself in a farm

BEN COTÉ

Ben Coté is all heart. That’s what he puts into his cattle enterprise. At 27 years of age, he has already experienced a lifetime of challenges. His parents divorced early in his life. His mother re-married Norman Taylor of Maple Hill Farm, so thankfully, Ben continued living a life on the farm, to which he was accustomed. But when he graduated from high school, a fire took down the main barn on the home farm. They calved out 60 cows in the woods that

management role for a while but says his ultimate goal is to manage his own operation, with his own Hereford cows, in the Shelburne area where he grew up. It’s beautiful country there, he says. Obstacles to getting there, Justin identifies as, rising fuel and input costs. Nevertheless, he’s

plotting the line to get there, any way he knows how.

and just last year, he suffered the devastating loss of his first child, at 25 weeks of gestation.

Lifetime events and tragedies don’t necessarily define us. But in Ben’s case, they made him truly question why he’s here and what his life’s occupation should be. When their barn burned down, Ben had to decide if he had a future on the farm. This was his chance to get out. But when things burn down, Ben builds them back up. That’s where Ben’s love of cows comes in.

of the night so he can go out to check calving cows, he’s excited to do so.

He moved from a herd of 30 to 35 cows in his younger days, to his stepdad Norman Taylor’s operation of about 40 cows.

After graduating from high school, he attended agricultural college in St. Hyacinthe, the city which hosted the 2010 Bonanza and Hereford Week in Canada. There, he studied farm management (Exploitation D’Entreprises Gestion Agricoles) for three years.

Lifetime events and tragedies don’t necessarily define us. But in Ben’s case, they made him truly question why he’s here and what his life’s occupation should be. year, from December through March, managing only to lose a couple. They were close enough to the house to be able to keep a watchful eye on the cowherd, with constant checking.

That was 2004.

Ben and Norman rebuilt a shelter through the winter months and Ben won’t soon forget the frozen finger tips while trying to hammer nails into frozen wood on the windy hill that is home to the main farm.

More recently, Ben has come through a life-threatening health scare

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“Agriculture, c’est pas un profession; c’est un mode de vie,” he says. (“Agriculture – it’s not a profession; it’s a way of life.”)

“It’s a hard way to make a living,” he says. “You’re in it from your toes up to your neck in a lifetime commitment,” he says. But he underlines that he is certain that it is the life for him.

What does he like about it?

He says he likes being his own boss and working with cattle every day.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t do it, he says.

When his alarm rings in the middle

While in school, he worked at a packaging manufacturing plant, while he and Norman managed the cowherd, which had grown, by then, to 75 cows.

Ben worked for another four years at the same plant but then had to make a decision whether or not to invest more in that business or to carry on the farm operation full-time.

With family support and financial assistance from government sources, he chose the latter.

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graduation from agricultural college, are awarded $40,000 over a five-year period, to help establish themselves in an agricultural enterprise. To satisfy the requirements of this program, young Quebec farmers must already own at least 20 per cent of the farm and must be earning at least 60 per cent of their income from farm sources.

Ben and Nor man went about establishing a limited partnership with Maple Hill Farm (un Société Collect if, en f rançais ) , which established Ben’s ownership at 60 per cent. The tractors, machinery, barns

the summer months, they run an intensive rotational grazing system.

The cowherd now numbers 135. It consists of 70 purebred Herefords and 10 Angus cows, while the balance are commercial black baldy cows. The herd used to be half Hereford and half Angus but as Ben puts it, with the Angus, you get two or three animals in the herd that are docile while the rest are more flighty. But with the Herefords, it’s the opposite. So he increased the Hereford contingent in his herd.

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as the Quebec government reaches out to support its serious young farmers, it challenges them with increasingly strict environmental regulations.

The government will pay half the cost but Ben is now being forced to build a manure pit on his operation.

New environmental regulations, which apply to start-up herds only and not to Ben, in this case, stipulate that cows are not permitted outside the barn during the winter months.

They are permitted in a yard adjacent the barn, only if the yard is concrete and if the barn yard has a manure

Just as the Quebec government reaches out to support its serious young farmers, it challenges them with increasingly strict environmental regulations. and cows are all part of Ben’s 60 per cent interest. Additional land was purchased by the partnership, which is leased to both owners. Maple Hill Farm is located about an hour’s drive southeast of Montreal in the scenic Eastern townships.

Norman has sold his manufacturing enterprise and is now semi-retired, which allows him to help Ben more with the farming operation. During

Ben judging Hereford show with stepdad Norman

says Ben. He says he’s even finding more muscle shape in the Herefords these days than he is with a lot of terminal breeds that have “gone black.”

Ben’s main market is feeder calves.

While an auction mart is not far from the farm, he has usually been able to sell calves directly from the farm to local feedlots.

But challenges there are aplenty. Just

holding tank into which slurry can drain.

During the summer months, a license must be obtained to acquire more cows than a specific stocking rate allowed. Cows must also be fenced out of streams and woodlands.

All the while, beef production doesn’t have a big impact in the big picture, nationally, says Ben. So there is always the challenge to find markets,

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especially on the purebred side. Ben and Norman will host their first purebred production sale at the farm on October 22nd.

Another challenge relates to the lifestyle that comes with all cowboys.

It was difficult for Ben to find a girlfriend who not only understood his lifestyle but who was okay with it. He sees the same thing happening with his friends. Only about a third of his graduating classmates have found partners willing to tough out a life in agriculture.

Ben has been with Karen now for four years. They have grown stronger as a couple since the loss of their baby to spinal bifida last year.

Their devastating loss made Ben reevaluate what is most important to him. And he says he is less easily angered.

His future in the industry looks better than it did a couple years ago, he says. Right now, he’s just making the payments on the farm while his girlfriend looks after their personal expenses. Quebec’s farm income stabilization program at least allows him to cover expenses over cost of

production, he says.

Ben came up through the ranks in 4-H and the junior Hereford association, though neither organization has much strength in the province of Quebec, he says. Shows were not very competitive, he says. But he did manage to attend Bonanza 1993 in Richmond, Quebec.

The opportunity to meet people that he wouldn’t otherwise is what he appreciated most about his junior activities.

Opportunities are, however, few and far between for youth in agriculture in Quebec, according to Ben. He sees a lot of kids from farming backgrounds give up on farming as a way of life.

“They don’t want to work their [bottoms] off for nothing,” he says.

Not to mention the lifestyle that it affords their respective families. Up to 30 or sometimes 40 of his fellow college buddies still get together once a year, he says.

Wher e i nvolvement i n ot her organizations is concerned, Ben is not politically motivated.

“On est un peu echut,” he says about young folks his age, meaning they are

discouraged when it comes to politics and the ability to have any say, even though they would certainly like change. He said this in the context of going into the recent national election.

But determined to make it work, somehow, Ben certainly is. Together, he and Karen are expecting their second child in November.

Registered and Commercial Horned Herefords Box 25, Landis, Saskatchewan S0K 2K0 Email: grltd@yourlink.ca Bill & Luke (306) 658-4750 Verne (306) 658-2022

Wes, Bernie, Dustin, Cody & Austin Phone: (306) 658-4535 Cell: (306) 948-9663

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Edna Nixdorff 403-948-5229

Email mnhereford@platinum.ca R.R. 2, Airdrie, Alberta T4B 2A4

Austin Cell 403-200-4781

Located from Big Hill Springs turnoff on Hwy 2, 6 mi. E. & 1/4 mi. S. or from Trans Canada Hwy. 14 mi. N. on Conrich turnoff 73

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A View Fit For A Prince!

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2011. Come Come pick pick your your favorite favorite son! son!

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Thank you to all of our buyers.

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You’re invited to see what’s in our pastures and to Enjoy The View!

Eugene, Norma, and Leonard Poholka

Ph: (780) 696-3878 Leonard’s Cell: (780) 898-9590 Fax: (780) 696-3777

Box 325, Breton, Alberta TOC OPO Email: bretonwest@gmail.com http://bretonwestherefords.com

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Misty Valley Farms Buyers 2011: George Larre-Paradise Hill, Sk. Finley Cameron-Lion’s Head, Ont. Hay Creek Ranching Ltd.-Maple Creek, Sk. Terry Albers-Loon Lake, Sk. Douglas Lake Cattle Co.-Douglas Lake, BC Odden Ranch-Groundbirch, BC Jim Ross-Mistatim, Sk. MN Herefords-Airdrie, Ab. PFRA-Regina, Sk. Williamson Ranch-Mankota, Sk. Ron Gervais-Brightsand, Sk. Karla Crandall-Alonsa, Mb. Crandall Ranch-Winnipegosis, Mb. Carl Beland-Denholm, Sk. Diamond J Cattle Inc.-Makwa, Sk. Bowie Ranch-Maple Creek, Sk. David Monk-Ashern, Mb.

Lorne & Beverly Kusler-Maple Creek, Sk. Bar T Ranch-Earl Grey, Sk. Bergmaier Farm & Ranch-Meadow Lake, Sk Fraser River Ranching-Williams Lake, BC Brynjac Farms-Knutsford, BC Ron Trefiak-Shell Lake, Sk. Errol Verbeek-Evansburg, Ab. Nels & Terri Nixdorff-Airdrie, Ab. Wilson Blair-Lanigan, Sk. Donnie Mitchell-Maidstone, Sk. Lanni Bristow-Heinsburg, Ab. Bob Gristwood-Loon Lake, Sk. Bill LaClare-Edam, Sk. Lawview Herefords-Cypress River, Mb. Crone Herefords-Hardisty, Ab. Carlrams Ranching-Cutknife, Sk. Jesse Bannerman-Mervin, Sk.

Garrett Ranch-Landis, Sk. Eureka Herefords-Eureka River, Ab. Dexter Slugoski-Loon Lake, Sk. XTC Herefords-Lethbridge, Ab. Whitby Farms-Lucky Lake, Sk. George LaClare-Edam, Sk. Gordon & Shelly Craig-North Battleford, Sk. Fenton Hereford Ranch-Irma, Ab. Peggy Herman-Bindloss, Ab. Pat Markevich-Waseca, Sk. Ed Goehring-Schular, Ab. Larre Ranching-St. Walburg, Sk. Patrick Grose-Inwood, Mb. Dale Stewart-Ripley, Ont. Bobbie Doepker-Maidstone, Sk. Calerdon Cattle Co.-Vegreville, Ab.

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All of the Herefords featured on these two pages appear in breeder advertisements in this issue. Match the faces with their names, identify them by picture number on a separate piece of paper and mail, fax or email it to the CHA office.

Be sure to let us know your name, address, phone number as well! Note that some images have been enlarged or shrunk to fit the space but none have been flipped. The deadline for entries is November 1, 2011. A winner will be drawn from all of the correct entries submitted and will be announced in the January 2012 Performance Edition of the Digest. *Credit may used towards any Digest project, including Digest advertising, sales catalogues, business cards, brochures or any other promotional material. The certificate is non-transferable & cannot be exchanged for cash.

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Cowboy Connection Web 2.0 - Getting Your Feet Wet in the Social Media Pool

By Catherine A. Brown

Go there to read. Go there to snoop around a little for a while. Go online to experiment and just get your feet wet. It’s free. And you can do so without commitment or obligation to participate or contribute in any way. If social media is a vehicle that might help you in business, there’s only one way to find out.

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“The challenge for farmers is to isolate and then focus on those tweets of relevance to them and their business,” says Campbell, who assures producers that there are in fact more and more ways to funnel the content that’s relevant to their businesses or their lives.

If you’re observing from the outside or just starting to get your feet wet, the

updates, market f luctuations or whatever else you choose.

“If you’re stuck and not sure how to do somet h ing , just type it into YouTube and you will be surprised at what you can find,” says Campbell. Dozens of how-to videos come up that walk you through many

If you’re observing from the outside or just starting to get your feet wet, the coolest thing about Twitter, according to Campbell, is that you can sign up for Twitter without being involved at all.

Twitter is now one of the most popular forms of communication on the planet. More than 200 million users send out more than 65 million “tweets” daily.

“It’s a pretty cool tool and I personally think it has the most practical application for the agricultural industry,” says Andrew Campbell, former Hereford breeder and owner of Fresh Air Media, at the Canadian Association of Farm Advisers’ annual conference in June.

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coolest thing about Twitter, according to Campbell, is that you can sign up for Twitter without being involved at all. Some Ontario farmers he knows follow the tweets of local agronomists who talk about local conditions or pest issues and how they might be resolved.

Farmers and ranchers can easily follow just a few key people or experts in their “fields” of interest on their iPhones or Blackberries, outside their homes or offices.

If you sign up for it, you can receive instant text messages for weather

tasks, he says. And “all of a sudden you have become more productive.”

“Agri-business is now using YouTube effectively to show new equipment and to demonstrate new products,” he says.

YouTub e v ide o s a l so of fer a t remendous oppor t un it y to personalize a website.

“How I see it,” says Campbell, “is [virtually] every young farmer is on FaceBook.” These are the same people

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that are modernizing todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farms and ranches, he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Social media is not just a fad,â&#x20AC;? says Campbell. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reality.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twitter is a place for immediate i n for m at ion e xc h a ng e, wh i le Facebook pages offer the chance t o c r eat e r el at ion sh ip s w it h c u s t o m e r s ,â&#x20AC;? w r i t e s A l l i s o n Finnamore, an agricultural and business communicator based in New Brunswick, in FCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AgriSuccess

â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a choice on whether we do social media,â&#x20AC;? says Erik Qualman in his now famous â&#x20AC;&#x153;Social Media Revolutionâ&#x20AC;? YouTube video. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The question is how well we do it.â&#x20AC;?

Of course, you do have a choice. Social media is not for everyone.

But consider that 1.5 million farmers are online globally and that 93 per cent of marketers use social media, according to Qualman, whose most bold statement of all is that social

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involve knowing where the deep end starts. So take baby steps until you scope out the lay of the land. That involves some exploring.

Sign up for RSS Feeds (Really Simple Syndication), with your favourite news sources, companies or organizations.

It means that you are requesting updates whenever anything new appears on that site. It allows you to get the latest information from the

â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re stuck and not sure how to do something, just type it into YouTube and you will be surprised at what you can find,â&#x20AC;? says Campbell. Dozens of how-to videos come up that walk you through many tasks, he says.

And â&#x20AC;&#x153;all of a sudden you have become more productive.â&#x20AC;? magazine.

Facebook is used for keeping in touch with friends as well as marketing yourself. Businesses use it as a tool to connect with consumers, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often a great way to find out about special promotions, updates and contests from your local retailers and dealers that arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t available elsewhere.

The best part is that you do not necessarily need to have a Facebook account to check out their pages.

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube make up what farm journalist Lilian Schaer calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;the big threeâ&#x20AC;? social media sites.

Since its inception in 2002, LinkedIn has bu i lt t he worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest professional network on the internet with more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories.

It is an online network connecting people professionally and is a social media home base for lots of businessto-business contact and conversation.

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Consider the stats. About 24 million OF MILLION #ANADIANS ARE NOW online, with about 17 million of those using social networks like Twitter and Facebook. There are nearly 600 million users of Facebook worldwide.

About 75 per cent of farmers use online banking and more than half are using the internet to communicate with agri-business in making purchase decisions, according to Campbell.

mediaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ROI (return on investment) is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;your business will still exist in five years.â&#x20AC;?

Thirty-seven is the average age of social media users and almost half of all internet users aged 50 to 64 will use social media in some shape or form, according to Lillian Schaer in her recent presentation to the Alberta Farm Animal Care conference. h)N THE LAST YEAR THERE WAS AN PER cent increase in the number of 50 to 64-year-olds using social media,â&#x20AC;? she says. In other words, the perception that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for young people is far from the truth.

And consider this added fact.

According to Campbell, many developing countries are skipping the laying down of phone lines and are going directly to cell phones, using them as sources of information, even before they have access to electricity.

They go into town once a week to charge their phones.

There is currently a downward trend in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s participation in organizations, according to Ontario Farmer publisher and editor-in-chief, Paul Mahon. But there is an upward trend line in online communications. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are still well connected,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t traveling to be elbow to elbow.â&#x20AC;?

The bottom line is, social media is a tool that allows you to connect with your customers. It has been called â&#x20AC;&#x153;word-of-mouth powered by technologyâ&#x20AC;?.

Getting Started

Getting your toes wet might also

sites you are interested in without having to constantly check back and search for new content or news. It allows you to avoid signing up for the company or organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newsletter.

Most news-related sites and blogs have this option.

[To sign up for RSS Feeds you will need an RSS reader program. An easy and free one to use is Google reader.

Search for it at google.com. Most sites will walk you through the steps to add them to your RSS feed. You just need to copy and paste the appropriate URLs into the program.]

Find out where conversations about your industry are taking place. Ask people this question in person.

Identify the most active hubs and communities in your industry.

Once you find these places, Seth Godin, author of The Essential Guide to Social Media, advises that you listen, observe and pay attention to relevant conversations, to whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s participating, what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re saying, the information they are looking for, their impressions and conceptions, their patterns and their behaviors. Doing so will also increase your comfort level within online social media communities.

He suggests taking the time to explore the following tools for listening-in on these conversations: For Blogs and Conversations: â&#x20AC;ş Googlealerts.com â&#x20AC;ş Blogplus.com â&#x20AC;ş Ask.com â&#x20AC;ş Blogsearch.google.com â&#x20AC;ş Technorati.com

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Quick Reference For Social Media Terms Web 2.0: term coined by O’Reilly

Media in 2004 to describe blogs, wikis, social networking sites and other Internet-based services that emphasize collaboration and sharing, rather than less interactive publishing (Web 1.0). It is associated with the idea of the Internet as a platform.

Blog: websites with dated items of content in reverse chronological order, self-published by bloggers; much like magazine articles or commentaries, sometimes called posts.

Chat: interaction on a website, with a number of people adding text items one after the other, into the same space at (almost) the same time. A place for chat – chat room - differs from a forum because conversations happen in ‘real time’, rather as they do face to face.

Content: text, pictures, video and any other meaningful material that is on the internet.

Face-to-Face (f2): used to describe people meeting offline. While social media may reduce the need to meet, direct contact gives far more clues about people than you can get online.

Online interaction is likely to be richer after f2f meetings.

Forums : discussion areas on websites, where people can post messages or comment on existing messages asynchronously. Before blogs developed, e-mail lists and forums were the main means of conversing online. Forum discussions happen in one place, and so can be managed and facilitated in ways that blog conversations can’t, because these are happening in many different places, controlled by their authors.

Friends: on social networking sites, are contacts whose profile you link to in your profile. On some sites, people have to accept the link. In others, not.

Instant Messaging (IM): is chat with one other person, using an IM tool like AOL Instant Messenger, Microsoft Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger. The tools allow you to indicate whether or not you are available for a chat, and if so, can be a good alternative to e-mails for a rapid exchange. Problems arise when people in a group are using different IM tools that don’t connect. One way around this is to use a common Voice-over IP tool like Skype that also provides IM.

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Links: the highlighted text or images

that, when clicked, jump you from one web page or item of content to another. Bloggers use links a lot when writing, to reference their own or other content. Linking is another aspect of sharing, by which you offer content that may be linked, and acknowledge the value of other people’s contributions.

Lurkers: people who read but don’t contribute or add comments to forums. About one per cent of people contribute new content to an online community, while about nine per cent comment and the rest lurk.

Platform: the framework or system within which tools work. Examples include mobile phones, or software that has different modules like blogs, forums and wikis in a suite of tools.

As more and more tools operate on the web, rather than on your desktop, people refer to the internet as the platform.

Podcast: an audio or video content that can be downloaded automatically through a subscription to a website so you can view or listen offline.

Post: an item/comment on a blog or forum.

RSS: Really Simple Syndication. It allows you to subscribe to content on blogs and other social media and have it delivered to you through a feed.

Tags: keywords attached to a blog post, bookmark, photo or other item of content so you and others can find them easily through searches and aggregation.

Threads: strands of conversation.

On an e-mail list or web forum they will be defined by message about the same subject.

URL: Unique Resource Locator – the technical term for a web address.

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP):

enables you to use a computer or other internet device for phone calls without additional charge, including conference calls. By using headphones and a microphone, you can also free you hands to use instant messaging to keep a shared note of conversations, or use other virtual presence tools. You can use VOIP to do interviews for Podcasts. The bestknown VOIP tool is Skype.

Wiki: a web page, or set of pages, that can be edited collaboratively. The best-known example is wikipedia, an encyclopedia created by thousands of contributors across the world.

For Blog Communities: › Blogged.com › Bloglines.com › CoComment.com › Tangler.com Connections specific to Twitter: › Tweetscan.com › Hashtags.org › Twemes.com › Twitterlocal.com › Summize.com › Twitterdeck.com For Social Networks: › Facebook.com › MySpace.com For Niche Networks: › Ning.com (to create your own social website) › Crowdvine.com (to build a social network) › LinkedIn.com › Plaxo.com (an address book) For Videos: › YouTube.com (has the 2nd largest search engine next to Google) Search your field of interest for relevant activity within each one.

Resources

Going back to the idea of joining Twitter just to “listen in” for a while, these are the steps you need to take: Go to www.twitter.com to sign up first. Then search the Twitter site for the name of your community or province to find local users. “Chances are, you’ll find someone you know or someone you’ve heard of, like local media or producer organizations,” says Finnamore. “You can then check out who they follow and choose to follow some of the same people or groups.”

Take Lillian Schaer’s account, for example. Go to: www.twitter.com/ foodandfarming.com and see who she is following.

You can also search the Twitter site by topic. Click the “who to follow” tab and it will walk you through searches of keywords and suggest other Twitter users, says Finnamore.

Team Twitter up with your cell phone for added convenience. If you’re set up to receive text messages, you can turn on text message alerts for some, or all, of the people you follow, says Finnamore.

See the October Digest for ideas and suggestions for putting these tools to use in your marketing program

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Online Resources To Explore For Beginners

On YouTube › Social Networking in Plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc&feature-fvsr › Blogs in Plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI&feature=channel › RSS Feeds in Plain English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU

Other Useful Online Resources › › › › ›

www.contantcontact.com (free 60-day trial; learn the lingo; watch videos; read pointers.) http://www.mailchimp.com www.comF5.com (video embedded e-mails) http://www.google.ca/services (Google Business Solutions for free websites and a wealth of online business tools.) http://www.whatisrss.com and http://en.wikipeida.org/wiki/RSS

Agriculture & Livestock Sites & “Agvocacy” blogs › › › › ›

http://agchat.org http://agchat.org/2011/06/agvocacy_is_for_everyone.html www.steerplanet.com BuyHereford.com Herefordmarketplace.com

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Managing Genetic Abnormalities A North American Hereford Genetic Abnormality Policy encourages producer participation

By Catherine Brown Saskatchewan Hereford breeders Doug and Wanda Mann of Phantom Creek Livestock recently DNA profiled their entire Hereford cowherd in order to identify carriers of known genetic defects. The Manns run 200 cows, half of which are commercial. Doug Mann says he didn’t think there were specific bloodlines in his herd that he needed to check out. He simply thought it prudent to be informed about any possible genetic mutation that might be at play in his herd.

Out of about 100 Hereford cows, four turned up as carriers. As it turned out, three of those four where purchased animals.

Doug talks about his strategy to deal with these results in a matter-of-

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cheaper than testing individuals year after year, he says.

Going forward, Doug says if he selects bulls that are proven non-carriers, he shouldn’t have to test calves every year.

Neither does he plan to cull his carriers. One of the “positive” cows will run with an Angus bull while the others will be bred Hereford. The bull calves on the “positive” cows will automatically be castrated. And that’s okay, says Doug, since he normally produces more bulls than he can sell anyway. Part of his strategy will also be to test the female offspring of the cows that tested “positive”.

“I don’t recommend a search and destroy strategy,” says Doug. Some bloodlines have a lot to offer,

witnessing many years of linebreeding within the industry, Doug says he has yet to ever witness a calf born with one of the listed genetic defects within the Hereford breed.

“There is a lot of misunderstanding about genetic defects,” says Doug.

“People are scared of the unknown.”

He mentions the fact that some breeders are deciding to DNA profile their animals independent of the association. But he says the more information we can circulate among the members of the Canadian Hereford Association (CHA), the more informed all breeders’ decisions can be.

“It might hurt some bull sales,” Doug admits. But in his experience, commercial producers, at least, are

“I don’t recommend a search and destroy strategy. Some bloodlines have a lot to offer, regardless of DNA profiles showing genetic mutations. You just have to identify and manage them.” - Doug Mann fact, relaxed tone. As large animal veterinarians, both he and Wanda are familiar with simple recessive traits and Doug says these traits are nothing to be alarmed about. In fact, they are easy to breed out of the herd, he says.

The first important step is to identify them. That might be a significant expense in the first year but it’s

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regardless of DNA profiles showing genetic mutations. “You just have to identify and manage them.”

Identifying genetic mutations has simply become part of Phantom Creek’s management program; a due diligence, of sorts, which goes a long way to herd and breed progress.

In all his years in veterinary practice and as a purebred Hereford breeder,

paying little to no mind to the genetic defects of the breed.

Alberta Hereford breeder, Andy Schuepbach, of Lilybrook Herefords Inc, is chairman of the CHA’s pedigree committee. He himself is profiling 50 of his most influential animals, to take advantage of the CHA volume testing discount. He is starting with bull mothers and other prominent

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females. At the time of writing, results were still not confirmed.

“To me, this is not a big deal,” says Schuepbach, in reference to genetic mutations within the breed. “The value in testing is in the ones that show up negative,” he says. “The positives are also not a problem.

We simply need to get rid of them or breed around them.” Doing so is ensuring breed progress, he says.

Part of the problem, he says, is the stigma attached to pedigrees that become labeled as carriers. But he points out that all breeders are in this together. “The more people get used to testing, the more comfortable they will be with it,” says Schuepbach.

Montie Soules, managing partner of

continue to breed her to free bulls and test the progeny,” says Soules.

“We then go forward to make breed improvement with her progeny that test free for the genetic defect. To throw away superior individuals that can make a positive impact on breed improvement is not necessary today with the DNA test.”

Star Lake uses herd sires tested free of known genetic defects in its program, according to Soules.

When intense single-trait genetic selection produced the dwarfism gene in cattle in the early 20th century, before the time of DNA technology, many carr iers were ultimately verified and sourced through the willingness of open-minded breeders,

“It is [also] well to remember that there are perfectly clean cattle in many carrier lines.

Even full brothers of well-recognized carriers have been proven clean in several instances.”

- L.P. McCann in Battle of the Bull Runts Star Lake Cattle Ranch, an American Hereford operat ion located in Oklahoma, says he believes defects can be managed with minimal impact.

“These problems are not the downfall of a herd or breed, if they are identified and managed with responsibility,” says Soules in an explanation of the subject on the ranch’s website.

Genetic abnormalities are present in all cattle breeds, most of whose r e s p e c t iv e a s s o c i at ion s h av e strategies to identify and control them as much as possible. The Canadian Angus Association, for example, monitors for 13 genetic defects, compared to CHA’s current three.

“Defects are occurring with what geneticists call ‘moderate’ frequency among a variety of breeds,” reports the American Hereford Association (AHA).

“How do we manage these genetic defects?” asks Soules. “It is a breeder’s responsibility to identify individuals with problems and then manage them accordingly.”

“If we have a cow that is a carrier and she is good enough, we will

according to L.P. McCann in The Battle of the Bull Runts.

“Had it not been for their willingness to face the situation and support the necessary search and research, it is quite possible that the breed might not have survived,” says McCann, in reference to the Hereford breed at the time.

“It now seems like a bad dream, from which a great industry has awakened to find itself the successful conqueror of an almost over-powering disaster,” says McCann.

That was nearly half a century ago. Today, the CHA partners with the AHA with regards to a North Amer ican Genetic Abnormalit y Screening policy.

“This is very important because of the trade in genetics between the two countries and the sales dollars to breeders on both sides of the border,” says Gordon Stephenson, CHA general manager.

“Breed associations from other count r ies are now request ing that imported genetics be free of known genetic abnormalities,” says Stephenson. “The CHA has to sign such documentation and we can

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only do so if the tests have been conducted.”

Stephenson adds that there is no point in having a screening policy unless the results are made public and shared with the membership, which they are, on the CHA’s website and within the Canadian Hereford Digest.

“We’ve worked to help develop genetic tests and we’re recording carriers in pedigrees, but we’re allowing Hereford seedstock breeders to take responsibility and use the tools available to them,” Hereford breeder Bob Harrell is cited as saying, as AHA President, in the association’s official publication, Hereford World.

In the same article, University of Nebraska geneticist Matt Spangler says “it’s no longer necessar y to eliminate an entire bloodline t hat m ig ht ha r b or a defe c t , thereby forfeiting its otherwise valuable contributions to genetic improvement.”

Spangler goes on to describe a strategy to manage genetic defects.

He advises seedstock producers to determine the status of animals having a large inf luence on the breeding herd, including all A.I. sires and donor dams and then to determine the status of natural service sires.

Managing Genetic Abnormalities from The Canadian Hereford Association

Section C The “Agreement for Sale of Purebred Herefords” and the corresponding “Terms and Conditions” document has now been revised to include a Genetic Defects Policy. The policy reads as follows; 1. Seller will be responsible for informing buyers of all known information relative to genetic abnormalities.

2. Buyer will assume all risk associated with the purchase of known and unknown genetic abnormality carrier animals provided the seller has disclosed all known information relative to said genetic abnormalities.

3. Seller is not responsible for any new genetic abnormalities that are recognized by the Canadian Hereford Association after the sale of an animal or genetic material.

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“Starting with the most influential animals will determine to what extent further testing may be necessary,” he says. “For example, testing of replacement females is unnecessary if their parents have been tested and found free of known genetic defects.”

Spangler advises against culling cows found to be carriers, when problems can be avoided by mating them with bulls known to be non-carriers. “Nor should carrier bulls be thrown away,” he says. “They can be marketed for terminal use, with full disclosure by

many carrier lines. Even full brothers of well-recognized carriers have been proven clean in several instances,” says McCann in Battle of the Bull Runts.

The AHA reminds its members that “individuals of every breed, or species for that matter, possess recessive genes for characteristics or traits seldom expressed.” Typically these are masked by dominant traits, it says. But defects are expressed when an individual inherits the associated recessive gene from both parents.

Only two of those represent breeders who are unhappy with the CHA’s policies.

“Once most breeders understand the abnormalities,” says Stephenson, “they are satisfied they can manage the situation with minimal economic loss.”

DNA markers for genetic traits that are giving breeders more information to help them be better breeders, will continue to provide information about both the good traits and the bad traits, as Soules points out.

“Once most breeders understand the abnormalities,” says Stephenson, “they are satisfied they can manage the situation with minimal economic loss.” the breeder.”

For commercial cattlemen, the best way to avoid genetic defects is to have a good crossbreeding program, according to Darrh Bullock of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture.

Research long ago established that a genetic mutation can only be produced when both parents are involved as carriers of a specific recessive gene.

“It is [also] well to remember that there are perfectly clean cattle in

“Consider ing t he intensit y of genetic selection practiced in recent years and expanded application of reproduction technologies, the potential for increased homozygosity has increased,” says the AHA. That means it is also very likely that more recessive defects will emerge.

Stephenson cautions against jumping to conclusions when herd animals turn up as carriers. Out of 2,400 DNA tests to-date in which 174 carriers have been identified, Stephenson has fielded about a dozen phone calls.

“As genetic selection progresses, breeders will be able to select for other health-related traits such as cancer eye or prolapses,” says Doug Mann. “And every breed continues to have its own conditions to deal with.”

The CHA has a mandatory genetic abnor ma l it y sc reen i ng pol ic y for t h r e e non-let h a l g enet ic abnormalities, which applies to all animals submitted for DNA testing, including A.I. sires, ET calves, donor dams and walking bulls.

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Symptoms of Abnormality

Hypotrichosis (Hairlessness)

Partial to almost complete lack of hair. Affected calves are often born with very short, fine kinky hair that may fall out leaving bare spots or areas particularly susceptible to rubbing. The condition may vary in expression as the animal matures and is usually less noticeable in older animals. The haircoat color will sometimes appear ‘frosted’ or ‘silverish’. Tail switch may be underdeveloped.

Simple autosomal recessive.

Diluter/Rat-tail

The dilution gene causes cattle with black coat color to be diluted to grey, and red to be diluted to yellow. Rat-tailed calves are usually mouse grey, have short, curly and sometimes sparse hair and lack normal tail switch development

Dominant.

Idiopathic Epilepsy

Age of onset (occurrence of the first seizure) can be variable, ranging from birth to several months of age. Occurrence and persistence of seizures may be influenced by environmental stressors such as temperature extremes (e.g. extreme cold during calving) or increased physical activity (e.g. processing at vaccination or weaning). Upon initial onset of seizures calves may appear to walk with a stiffened, irregular gait. During seizure episodes individuals will typically lie on their side with all limbs extended in a rigid state. Manual flexing of the limbs is possible, but return to the extended position occurs after several releases. Seizure episodes may last from several minutes to more than an hour.

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Autosomal recessive.

No anatomic abnormalities or histologic lesions detected.

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Agreement For Sale Of Purebred Hereford(s)

Terms & Conditions

The Canadian Hereford Association has a standard form, which can be used as an agreement between a buyer and a seller for the sale of purebred Herefords. These Terms & Conditions are often used as a reference in sale catalogues as part of sales management terms for conducting a purebred sale.

The idea in providing these Terms in the Digest is to inform our members who may not be aware such a document exists, and that you do have access to an agreement which may serve your marketing purposes in the future.

We invite members to make use of these Terms & Conditions. Order forms from the CHA office or download a copy from www.hereford.ca/registry.asp.

1. CONTRACT: The following terms and conditions shall constitute a binding contract between the buyer and seller unless otherwise agreed-to in writing.

2. BUYERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RISK: At the time of sale an animal becomes the immediate risk and property of the buyer unless otherwise agreed to in writing.

3. LIABILITY: Under no circumstances shall the seller be responsible for more than the purchase price of an animal. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no incidental expenses such as feed, care, loss or delay of calf crop, veterinarian expenses, loss of use of money, etc. shall be charged by either party when making settlement. All transportation charges on an animal returned to the seller (and if applicable back to the buyer) shall be for the account of the buyer.

4. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Any written or verbal announcement made at auction sales shall take precedence over the material previously circulated (i.e. catalogue). When a confirmation of purchase slip or an agreement is used at auction, it is strongly recommended that all changes be written on the same, prior to the buyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signature.

5. TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP: In all sales wherein the animal sold is represented as registered, the seller (at his expense) must, within six months of date of sale, provide to the buyer, a duly transferred registration certificate for that animal as prescribed by the Canadian Hereford Association.

6. PARENTAGE TESTING: The buyer of an animal may at his or her cost and discretion have an animal parentage tested in the manner prescribed by the Canadian Hereford Association. If testing confirms parentage different from that indicated at the time of sale, then the seller must offer an adjustment to the buyer within 30 days of receiving written notice of such difference by double registered mail or personal delivery. If the buyer refuses the adjustment or does not receive one, then the seller shall forthwith refund the entire purchase price plus testing costs, to the buyer upon the return of the animal to the seller.

7. BREEDING GUARANTEES GENERAL: All animals are sold as guaranteed breeders, except under one or more of the following conditions: 92

a. when sickness, injury, malnutrition or any other condition occurs after the date of sale such that in the opinion of a licensed veterinarian, the fertility of the animal in question is impaired; b. on a female used for embryo transplant; c. on a female subjected to drugs or substances used for estrus control; d. on a female when sold under 6 months of age and in a package with her dam. (When sold under 6 months of age as an individual, the breeding guarantee applies). e. on a female when sold with her suckling calf (under 6 months of age) as a unit. When sold with a suckling calf 6 months of age or older either separately or as a unit, the breeding guarantee applies).

No guarantee is made or implied regarding the ability of a female to produce embryos unless specifically announced or agreed to in writing.

FEMALES Should a female prove to be a non-breeder after being inseminated and/or exposed to a bull (known to be a breeder) for a period of 4 months, the buyer must report same in writing to seller by double registered mail or personal delivery within 6 months of the first insemination or exposure to the bull. This notice must be supported by a written report from a licensed veterinarian. The seller shall have the right to prove the female a breeder within four months of the buyer returning the female to the seller. If the female is not pregnant (as determined by a veterinarian) at the end of this 4 month period, then the seller shall forthwith refund the full purchase price to the buyer. a. Open Females: If a female is sold as open and is subsequently proven to be pregnant at the time of sale then the buyer must notify the seller in writing by double registered mail or personal delivery. This notice must be supported by a written report from a licensed veterinarian. The seller shall, within 30 days of receipt of such notice, offer an adjustment to the buyer. If the buyer refuses adjustment or does not receive one, then the seller shall forthwith refund the full purchase price to the buyer upon the return of the female to the seller. b. Bred Females: A female exposed to or served by a bull or inseminated less than 45 days before sale date is deemed not to be safe in calf and indeed if proves to be open, no adjustment is necessary from the seller. c. Safe in Calf Females: A female exposed to or served by a bull or inseminated 45 days or more prior to sale is deemed to be safe in calf. Should the female prove not to be safe in calf, the buyer must report the matter

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to the seller in writing by double registered mail or personal delivery within 30 days of sale. This notice must be supported by written report from a licensed veterinarian. Within 30 days of receipt of such notice, the seller shall offer an adjustment to the buyer. If the buyer refuses the adjustment or does not receive one, then the seller shall forthwith refund the full purchase price to the buyer upon the return of the female to the seller.

If a female proves to be in calf to a bull other than the service bull disclosed or to a service date other than disclosed at the time of sale, and if the buyer wants an adjustment, the buyer must report such matter to the seller in writing by double registered mail or personal delivery. Within 30 days of receipt of such notice the seller shall offer an adjustment to the buyer. If the buyer refuses an adjustment or does not receive an adjustment then the seller shall forthwith refund the full purchase price to the buyer upon the return of the female (and calf if calved) to the seller.

PREGNANT RECIPIENTS If a pregnant recipient is proven to be any of the following: (a) open, (b) in calf to another mating, (c) in calf to the same mating but due other than the date corresponding to the implant date, (d) in calf resulting in a natural calf for the recipient, then the purchaser must report same to the seller in writing by double registered mail or personal delivery, within 30 days of discovery. This notice must be supported by a written report from a licensed veterinarian.

Within 30 days of receipt of such notice, the seller shall offer an adjustment to the buyer. If the buyer refuses an adjustment or does not receive one, then the seller shall

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forthwith refund the full purchase price to the buyer upon the return of the female (and calf if calved) to the seller.

MALES All males sold at six months of age or older are guaranteed to be breeders by the age of 15 months.

When a bull over 15 months of age proves to be a nonbreeder after being exposed to females known to be breeders, the buyer shall report the matter to the seller in writing by double registered mail or personal delivery within 3 months of date of first exposure. This notice must be supported by a written report from a licensed veterinarian.

In the event such notice is served, the seller shall have the right to prove the bull a breeder. This must be done within 60 days of the date the buyer returns the bull to the seller.

If the seller fails to prove the bull a breeder within 60 days (as supported by a written veterinarianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report) then the seller shall forthwith refund the full purchase price to the buyer.

No guarantee regarding the freezing ability of a bullâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s semen is made or implied in the sale of a bull unless specifically announced or agreed to in writing.

8. GENETIC ABNORMALITY POLICY a. the seller will be responsible for informing buyers of all known information relative to genetic abnormalities. b. buyer will assume all risk associated with the purchase of known and unknown genetic abnormality carrier animals provided the seller has disclosed all known information relative to said genetic abnormalities. c. seller is not responsible for any new genetic abnormalities that are recognized by the CHA after the sale of an animal or genetic material.

Download a form for the Agreement For Sale Of Purebred Hereford(s) at www.hereford.ca/registry.asp

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The Canadian Hereford Association and its Marketing Committee encourages all breeders to transfer bulls to their commercial customers, which puts your customers on the mailing list to receive the commercial issues of the Digest.

salesresults sales index Hill 70 Quantock Ranch “Barn Burnin’ Bull Sale” .............................................. Page 96 Bannerlane Sale #12 With Guest Consignor: Garrett Ranch............................ Page 96 Misty Valley Farms 35th Annual Production Sale............................................... Page 97 12th Annual Midwest Horned Hereford Sale ....................................................... Page 98 2nd Carlrams Ranching Annual Moving On Bull Sale........................................ Page 98 MJT Cattle Co. Ltd. Hereford and Angus 17th Annual “Back to the Basics” Bull Sale ................................................................................ Page 99 JoNomn Hereford Ranch Bull & Female Sale ...................................................... Page 99 Pine Butte Ranch 16th Annual Production Sale .................................................. Page 100 Ulrich Hereford Ranch 5th Annual Bull & Female Sale ...................................... Page 100 Anderson Family Herefords 29th Annual Production Sale ............................... Page 101 Holloway Farms Ltd. First Annual Production Sale ......................................... Page 101 Beck Farms & McCoy Cattle Co. Bull Sale ........................................................... Page 102 Lloydminster’s 92nd Annual Bull Show & Sale Pride of the Prairies .............. Page 102 Calgary Bull Show & Sale ....................................................................................... Page 103 Regina Bull Show & Sale......................................................................................... Page 104 Standard Hill Connection Black Angus & Polled Hereford Bull Sale .............. Page 104 53rd Annual Medicine Hat Spring Bull Show & Sale .......................................... Page 105 56th Annual East Central Bull Sale ........................................................................ Page 106 2011 Fraser’s Total Performance Bull Sale........................................................... Page 106 32nd Annual Bulls Eye Sale ..................................................................................... Page 107 7th Annual Ranch Ready Bull Sale......................................................................... Page 107 Harvie Ranching 2nd Annual Bull Sale ................................................................. Page 108 Stockman Select Bull Sale ...................................................................................... Page 108 WLB Livestock Spring Bull Sale ............................................................................ Page 108 7th Annual Focus on the Future Bull Sale ANL Polled Herefords/Wheatland Cattle Co. ..................................................... Page 109 Wilson Lees Value Added Bull Sale ...................................................................... Page 109 Southeast Sask Breeders 37th Annual Bull Sale .................................................. Page 109 102nd Annual Lacombe Bull Sale ........................................................................... Page 110 Lundar’s 43rd Annual All Breed Beef Cattle Show & Sale................................. Page 110 74th Annual Williams Lake Bull Show & Sale ..................................................... Page 111 19th Annual Cattleman’s Choice Hereford Bull Sale & Commercial Heifer Sale .......................................................................................... Page 112 2011 Livestock Markets Association of Canada’s Annual Convention and Auctioneer Championship...Page 112 95

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Hill 70 Quantock Ranch “Barn Burnin’ Bull Sale”

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46.5 Two Year Old Hereford Bulls $3,270.00 46.5 Hereford lots grossed $150,550.00

February 5, 2011 At the Ranch, Lloydminster, Alberta Auctioneer: Col. John Blacklock

Top Sellers Two Year Old Hereford Bulls $7,500 Lot H-400 – H70-QUANTOCK PT400 (1/2 Interest) Buyer: Double RN Ranching Corp., Lloydminster, AB Sire: H70-QUANTOCK FR 244P SOD: VTH 32F SANDMANADVANCE 93J $6,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot H-412 – H70-QUANTOCK FP 412P Derek Tallmadge, Meadow Lake, SK F-R 552 LAD 5P F-R 123G LAD 96K

$5,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot H-476 – H70 QUANTOCK RKY 876W X SH DIAMOND 03L F-R 123G LAD 96K

$5,250 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot H-420 – H70-QUANTOCK PT 420W X H-70-QUANTOCK FR 244P AD 83D VOLTAGE LAD 27J

$5,200 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot H-392 – H70-QUANTOCK BH 392W Derek Tallmadge, Meadow Lake, SK KSU BOUNTY HUNTER 611 F-R 123G LAD 96K

$5,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot H-426 – H70 QUANTOCK HS 426W X AGA 22B RED DOMINO 10R AD 83D VOLTAGE LAD 27J

$4,600 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot H-349 – H70-QUANTOCK PT 349W Diamond J, Makwa, SK H70-QUANTOCK FR 244P H70-QUANTOCK LM 76G

$4,600 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot H-383 – H70-QUANTOCK TF 383W Diamond J, Makwa, SK H70-QUANTOCK FR 244P F-R 123G LAD 96K

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Bannerlane Sale #12 With Guest Consignor: Garrett Ranch

25 Two Year Old Hereford Bulls $3,434.00 7 Hereford Bred Heifers $2,571.00 1 Purebred Heifer Calf $1,300.00 33 lots grossed $105,150.00 averaging $3,186.00 40 Commercial Bred Heifers $1,478.00 10 Commercial Heifer Calves $968.00

February 8, 2011 At the Farm, Livelong, Saskatchewan Auctioneer: R.C. (Bob) Balog

Top Sellers Two Year Old Hereford Bulls $6,400 Lot 2 - BANNERLANE 232 EXTRA STD 13W Buyer: Kozlinski Ranch, Provost, AB Sire: BBSF 6P SPORT 232S SOD: C 80G L SARGENT 78K $5,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 3 – BANNERLANE 232 EXTRA DOM 15W 3L Cattle Co., Naicum, SK BBSF 6P SPORT 232S C 80G L SARGENT 78K

$4,800 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 9 – BANNERLANE 232 EXTRA GEN 60W Douglas Lake Cattle Co., Douglas Lake, BC BBSF 6P SPORT 232S C 80G L SARGENT 78K

$4,750 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 20 – BANNERLANE 232 EXTRA GEN 117W

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$4,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 4 – BANNERLANE 232 EXTRA DOM 27W Glen Grant, Frenchman Butte, SK BBSF 6P SPORT 232S BANNERLANE 18C STD LAD 95G

$4,250 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 32 – GR 140P SUPER RIB 90W Ian Bowie, Piapot, SK FE 172M SUPER RIB 140P BANNERLANE 87D STD LAD 47H

$4,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

3L Cattle Co., Naicam, SK BBSF 6P SPORT 232S DLR 254E STANDARD 37L

Lot 14 - BANNERLANE 232 EXTRA DOM 86W

Purebred Heifer $3,900 Lot 23 – BANNERLANE 598R MISS STD 5W Buyer: Jesse Bannerman, Mervin, SK Sire: JNHR STANDARD LAD 598R SOD: MVF 656 65U STD DOMINO LAD 87D

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Misty Valley Farms

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44 Two Year Old Hereford Bulls $3,214.00 36 Bred Heifers $1,990.00 3 Heifer Calves $2,150.00 83 lots grossed $222,250.00 averaging $2,678.00 70 Commercial Bred Heifers $1,518.00 5 Commercial Heifer Calves $1,000.00

February 9, 2011 At the Ranch, Maidstone, Saskatchewan Auctioneer: R.C. (Bob) Balog

Top Sellers Two Year Old Bulls $5,100 Lot 12 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MVF 610S SILVER STD LAD 106W Buyer: Diamond J, Makwa, SK Sire: YV 232N RED SILVER LAD 610S SOD: CHR GOVERNOR GENERAL 104H

$4,700 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BAR-OM 104S STD LAD 603W Lorne & Beverly Kusler, Maple Creek, SK AGA 21M STANMORE 104S MVF SILVER BRITISHER 703N

$4,600 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 38 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BAR-OM 32S CHANCE 629W Terry Albers, Loon Lake, SK DIAMOND-T 1K LAD 32S MLR ALKALI LAST CHANCE 16P

$4,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 3 - MVF 57S STAN LAD 32W Douglas Lake Cattle Co., Douglas Lake, BC MW TURBO POWER 57S WINDIMUIR 5G CLUNY 177M

$5,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

George Larre, Paradise Hill, SK AGA 21M STANMORE 106S RIVERBRIDGE 53H LAD 67M

$5,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MVF 106S STAN BLANCHE LAD 3W Finely Cameron, Lions Head, ON AGA 21M STANMORE 106S WINDIMUIR 5G CLUNY 177M

$4,700 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 19 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MVF 161R STD BRIT LAD 205W MN Herefords, Airdrie, AB MN 532H BRIT VALLEY 161R MVF 25G VOLT BRIT LAD 237K

Bred Heifers Lot 72 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MVF 21R STANDARD DOMINO 512W $4,600 Buyer: Errol Verbeek, Evansburg, AB Sire: MHH 826M STAN LAD 21R SOD: AGA 79H BRIT DOM ET 70N

$4,700 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 21 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; MVF 57S SILVER TURBO LAD 214W Bowie Ranch, Maple Creek, SK MW TURBO POWER 57S RIVERBRIDGE 53H LAD 67M

$3,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

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34 Two Year Old Bulls $3,297.00 2 Heifer Calves $2,575.00 7 Bred Heifers $2,172.00 43 lots grossed $132,450.00 averaging $3,080.00 30 Commercial Heifers $1,563.00

12th Annual Midwest Horned Hereford Sale

February 10, 2011 Lloydminster Exhibition Grounds Auctioneer: R.C. (Bob) Balog

Top Sellers Two Year Old Bulls Consignor: Michael Newman & Family $6,000 Lot 17 – MHN 11S LAD 2W Buyer: YT Bar Ranch, Czar, AB Sire: WINDIMUIR 37N LAD 11S SOD: AGA 22B RED DOMINO 43P Consignor: LO Herefords $5,250 Lot 9 – LO 931N ASTER LAD 27W Buyer: Lindsey Franklin, Marwayne, AB Sire: MN 30L ASTER LAD 931N SOD: FE 254E RIBSTONE 18L Consignor: Sky Track Ranch $5,200 Lot 51 – STR 603S WRANGLER 908W Buyer: Reid Nichols, Heinsburg, AB Sire: STR 303N SHAWNEE 603S SOD: RH FUTURE KING LAD 38M Consignor: Sky Track Ranch $4,900 Lot 49 – STR 72S WYATT 901W Buyer: Darren Hannis, Paradise Hill, SK Sire: XTC 157 DUALLY 72S SOD: FE 254E RIBSTONE CHOICE 144K Consignor: LO Herefords $4,200 Lot 3 – LO 140S STD LAD 11W Buyer: Lindsey Franklin, Marwayne, AB Sire: SGC 124N STANDARD 140S SOD: FE 147F RANCH STD 114L Consignor: River Bridge Ranch $4,100 Lot 33 – RIVERBRIDGE 79L LAD 74W Buyer: Darren Bacon, Marwayne, AB Sire: RIVERBRIDGE 53H LAD 79L SOD: HALL 84Y SUPER DERM LAD 4J

Consignor: Michael Newman & Family $4,000 Lot 16 – MHN 11S LAD 1W Buyer: Tom Knutson, Wapella, SK Sire: WINDIMUIR 37N LAD 11S SOD: LP JASPER 01J LUKE 42L Consignor: Michael Newman & Family $4,000 Lot 20 – MHN 32S DOMINO LAD 9W Buyer: Bob Russell Sire: MN 30L STN’D DOMINO 32S SOD: MN 64F MISCHIEF LAD 022M

Heifer Calves Consignor: River Bridge Ranch $3,100 Lot 38 – RIVER BRIDGE 33T LASS 25X Buyer: Corbiell Herefords, Cluny, AB Sire: C 4R TRANSFORMER 33T SOD: RIVERBRIDGE 53H LAD 79L Bred Heifers Consignor: LO Herefords $3,400 Lot 14 – LO 140S STD LAD 19W Buyer: Misty Valley Farms, Maidstone, SK Sire: SGC 124N STANDARD 140S SOD: ADJ 84G BRIT DOM 27M Consignor: Michael Newman & Family $2,500 Lot 24 – MHN 32S STANDARD LASS 21W Buyer: Misty Valley Farms, Maidstone, SK Sire: MN 30L STN’D DOMINO 32S SOD: BVHF DUSTER SPECIAL 20D

2nd Carlrams Ranching Annual Moving On Bull Sale

AVER AGE

28 Two Year Old Bulls $3,802.00 4 Hereford Bred Heifers $2,375.00 32 lots grossed $115,950.00 averaging $3,623.00 57 Commercial Heifers $1,160.00

February 11, 2011 At the Ranch, Cut Knife, Saskatchewan Auctioneer: Louis Balog

Top Sellers Two Year Old Bulls Lot 12W – CARLRAMS 174S RIBSTONE 12W $8,500 Buyer: Hillsvale Colony, Cut Knife, SK Sire: SGC 76P ROYAL AMIGO 174S SOD: LCI 157K RIBSTONE 87P $8,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 33W – CARLRAMS 28T STD RIP 33P Holt Colony, Irma, AB SNS 3M BIG RED DANDY 28T KGB STANDARD LAD 11F

$5,750 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 103W – CARLRAMS 174S DURACELL 103W

Lakeview Colony, Unity, SK SGC 76P ROYAL AMIGO 174S CARLRAMS HUGO 48H

$5,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 145W – CARLRAMS 83S VOLT 145W Peter & Yvonne Danilkewich, Meadow Lake, SK LCI 157K RIBSTONE 83S CARLRAMS HUGO 48H

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$5,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 230W – CARLRAMS 28T 230W Hillsvale Colony, Cut Knife, SK SNS 3M BIG RED DANDY 28T K 61Z SUPER LAD 15E

$5,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 46W – CARLRAMS 9P STANDARD 46W Willow Park Colony, Tess, SK CARLRAMS ROUGHNECK 9P CARLRAMS 13U SON 16G

Bred Heifers Lot 53W – CARLRAMS 174 HUGO PRIDE 53W $2,900 Buyer: Neal Church, Calgary, AB Sire: SGC 76P ROYAL AMIGO 174S SOD: CARLRAMS STAR VOLT 14M $2,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 64W – CARLRAMS 16S SPARK 64W Randy & Robin Flicek & George Kolylak, Neilburg, SK ZZB 32P KING 16S CARLRAMS 87D SON 94L

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MJT Cattle Co. Ltd. Hereford & Angus 17th Annual “Back to the Basics” Bull Sale With guest: Aspen View Angus

34 Two Year Old Hereford Bulls $4,200.00 70 Two Year Old & Yearling Black Angus$3,625.00 17 Two Year Old Red Angus $3,438.00 121 lots grossed $454,961.00 averaging $3,760.00 17 Purebred Black Heifers $1,611.00 10 Commercial Bred Heifers $1,475.00 40 Commercial Open Heifers $1,070.00

February 12, 2011 At The Ranch, Edgerton, Alberta Auctioneer: John Blacklock

Top Sellers Two Year Old Hereford Bulls $20,500 Lot 311 – MJT TOTAL ET 311H (MAGNUM) Buyer: Langford Herefords, Texico, NM, Adams Hirsche Herefords, High River, AB and Perks Ranch, Rockford, Ill. Sire: MJT CENTURY 264P SOD: RS NITRO 77K $13,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot MJT TOTAL ET 332W (KILO) Langford Herefords, Texico, NM, Adams Hirsche Herefords, High River, AB and Perks Ranch, Rockford, Ill. MJT CENTURY 264P RS NITRO 77K

$9,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 356 – MJT SKY LAD JR 356W Evergreen Farms, St. Paul, AB MJT SKY LAD 182S RS NITRO 77K

$7,100 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 379 – MJT SKY LAD 379W 4 Hearts Cattle Co. Ltd., Vermilion, AB MJT SKY LAD 182S DUNROBIN 603 10K

$6,600 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 326 – MJT RAFTSMAN ET 326W Hadwin Ranching Ltd., Consort, AB HARVIE RAFTSMAN 16R MJT CENTURY 264P

$6,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 328 – MJT ROBIN LAD 328W Darren & Tannis Priest, Paradise Hill, SK STD 84J PRINCE STONE 4S RS NITRO 77K

$5,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 355 – MJT SKY JR 355W OC Ranch Ltd., Hardisty, AB MJT SKY LAD 184S REMITALL PILGRIM 93P

$5,200 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 370 – MJT STONE 370W OC Ranch Ltd., Hardisty, AB STD 84J PRINCE STONE 4S JNHR SILVER STANDARD 396M

$5,100 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 350 – MJT SKY JR 350W Turtle River Ranch, Mervin, SK MJT SKY LAD 184S REMITALL PILGRIM 93P

$4,900 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 390 – MJT GOLD 390W Bob Gristwood, Loon Lake, SK MJT TOTAL 332T REMITALL PILGRIM 93P

JoNomn Hereford Ranch Bull & Female Sale

AVER AGE

44 Two Year Old Bulls $3,269.00 4 Three Year Old Bulls $3,175.00 25 Purebred Bred Heifers $2,222.00 75 lots grossed $212,106.00, averaging $2,905.00 6 Commercial Hereford Heifers $1,700.00

February 17, 2011 NBI, Clyde, Alberta Auctioneer: Travis Rogers

Top Sellers Bulls $10,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 21 – JNHR RED BRITISHER 821W Brost Land & Cattle Co., Irvine, AB FA 121M BRITISHER 224S BANNERLANE RIBSTONE STD 42P

Bred Heifers $3,250 Lot 69 - JNHR BRIT LASS 814 W Buyer: Ayrey Farms, Evesham, SK Sire: FA 121M BRITISHER 224S SOD: FE 42M DANDY RIBSTONE 54R

$6,900 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 9 – JNHR BANDIT 664W Seutter Cattle Co., Sherwood Park, AB BANNERLANE RIBSTONE STD 42P JNHR STANDARD LAD 211J

$3,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 62 – JNHR BRIT LASS 731W Ayrey Farms, Evesham, SK FA 121M BRITISHER 224S JNHR SILVER STANDARD 435M

$5,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 26 – JNHR DANDY 777W Joe Scherloski, Gerald, SK FE 32P DANDY RETURN 82T JNHR STANDARD LAD 329J

$3,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 51 – JNHR RIBSTONE LASS 460W Hawkeye Ranching, Cypress County, AB RE 42M DANDY RIBSTONE 54R FE 135D BRIT DOM 84G

$4,750 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 4 – JNHR SILVER STANDARD 452W Rainy Creek Herefords, Bently, AB JNHR SILVER STANDARD 435M JNHR DIAMOND 99D

$2,900 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 75 – JNHR MARVEL 767W Garry Gurtler, North Star, AB REMITALL TIMBER 122T JSF 60 NATE 7N

$4,250 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 35 – JNHR RED STANDARD 822W Kevin Semler, Picardville, AB JNHR STANDARD LAD 402P BANNERLANE RIBSTONE STD 42P

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Pine Butte Ranch

30 Two Year Old Bulls grossed $108,600.00, averaging $3620.00

16th Annual Production Sale February 19, 2011 B.C. Co-op Yards, Kamloops, British Columbia Auctioneer: Larry Jordan

Top Sellers Two Year Old Bulls Lot 24 – PINE BUTTE DOUBLE MO LE 119W $5,100 Buyer: Douglas Lake Cattle Co., Douglas Lake, BC Sire: AGA 46E BRITISHER 32T SOD: AGA 13G GENERAL 114L $4,600 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Mike Bayliff, Alexis Creek, BC PINE BUTTE 5N DOMINO LAD 91T PINE BUTTE 48 SILVER LAD 90J

$4,300 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Frolek Cattle Co Ltd., Kamloops, BC AGA 46E BRITISHER 32T AGA 20J STANMORE 21M

$4,200 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 7 – PINE BUTTE 141 SILVER 38W Seven O Ranches Ltd., Edmonton, AB AGA 167L SILVER 141S MN 974Y DOMINO LAD 102F

$4,100 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 5 – PINE BUTTE STANDARD LAD 26W Fred Bowers, Kamloops, BC MN 239H STAN LAD 46R DIAMOND T 28L LAD 15P

Lot 30 – PINE BUTTE MO LE DOMINO 177W

Lot 21 – PINE BUTTE STANMORE LAD 97W

Ulrich Hereford Ranch 5th Annual Bull & Female Sale

AVER AGE

32.75 Two Year Old Bulls $3,165.00 14 Registered Bred Heifers $1,707.00 9 Registered Bred Cows $1,553.00 55.75 lots grossed $141,525.00, averaging $2539.00

February 21, 2011 Balog Cow Palace, Lethbridge, Alberta Auctioneer: R.C. (Bob) Balog

Top Sellers Two Year Old Bulls $4,600 Lot 119W – AGA 114L GENERAL 119W Buyer: Heritage Ranching, Medicine Hat, AB Sire: AGA 13G GENERAL 114L SOD: AGA 121G STANMORE 20J $4,300 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 32W - AGA 114L GENERAL WHOPPER 32W (3/4 Interest) Esterman Herefords, Wellfleet, Nebraska AGA 13G GENERAL 114L AGA 22B BRIGADER 53L

$4,100 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 33W – AGA 20S BIG OAK 33W Gordon Rogers, High River, AB S BIG OAK 20S ET CTY EXTRA 335C

$4,100 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 40W – AGA 32T BRITISHER 40W Carrier Lumber, Prince George, BC AGA 46E BRITISHER 32T AGA 46E BRITISHER 47R

$4,000

Lot 87W - AGA 26R WHAM HAMMER 87W (1/2 Interest 1/2 Possession) Les Dunmire LFF 5L JACK HAMMER 26R AGA 1S OLD DOMINO 44K

Buyer: Sire: SOD: 100

$4,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 52W – AGA 81S RIBSTONE 52W Arnold Kruger, Sundrie, AB AGA 4P RIBSTONE 81S AGA 13G GENERAL 114L

Registered Bred Heifers $2,300 Lot 16W – AGA 26T MISS JARROD 16W Buyer: Dugdale Ag. Co. 2000 Ltd., Vulcan, AB Sire: CC 77J JARROD 26T SOD: AGA 656U STANDARD ET 101J $2,300 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 112W – AGA 26R MISS HAMMER 112W Dugdale Ag. Co. 2000 Ltd., Vulcan, AB LFF 5L JACKHAMMER 26R AGA 34Z STANDARD ET 10K

Registered Bred Cows $1,900 Lot 35 – AGA 97J MISS RED EXTRA 35R Buyer: Mark Law, Cypress River, MB Sire: AGA 22B BRIGADER 97J SOD: AGA 13G GENERAL 114L

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Anderson Family Herefords 29th Annual Production Sale

37.5 Two Year Old Bulls $4,211.00 37.5 lots grossed $157,900.00, averaging $4211.00

February 22, 2011 Balog Cow Palace, Lethbridge, Alberta Auctioneer: R.C. (Bob) Balog

Top Sellers Two Year Old Bulls $11,000 Lot 108W - FA HARLAND BRITISHER 108W (3/4 Interest) Buyer: Parkvista Herefords, Parkside, SK & Keith Davies, Lacorey, AB Sire: CJH HARLAND 408 SOD: FA BRITISHER 59G $7,700 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 28W – FA HARLAND BRITISHER 28W Conway Herefords, Foremost, AB CJH HARLAND 408 DUNBROBIN SOLITAIRE 721W 82B

$6,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 39W – FA 39S BRITISHER 39W Dugdale Ag Co. 2000 Ltd., Vulcan, AB BANNERLANE 251N STANDARD 39S RAR 3X BRITISHER ADVANCE 4D

$5,700

Lot 236W - FA 52S BRITISHER 236W (3/4 Interest) Chris Roppel, Kipling, SK CH 41K SUPERB 52S K 64H RIBSTONE LAD 109L

Buyer: Sire: SOD:

$5,600 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 100W – DA 52S BRITISHER 100W Dugdale Ag Co. 2000 Ltd., Vulcan, AB CH 41K SUPERB 52S FA SUNDANCE BRITISHER 2E

$5,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 238W - DA 39S BRITISHER 238W (3/4 Interest) Leeuwenburgh Angus, Lethbridge, AB BANNERLANE 251N STANDARD 39S K 64H RIBSTONE LAD 109L

$5,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 201W – DA 39S BRITISHER 201W Kozlinski Ranch, Provost, AB BANNERLANE 251N STANDARD 39S DA BRITISHER 121M

$5,200 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 104W – FA 166S BRITISHER 104W Allin Ranches, Mallorytown, ON DA 56L BRITISHER 166S DA BRITISHER 121M

Holloway Farms Ltd. First Annual Production Sale With consignor Blume Ranches Ltd.

AVER AGE

25 Two Year Old Bulls $2,802.00 3 Purebred Bred Heifers $1,700.00 2 Open Yearling Heifers $1,450.00 30 lots grossed $78,050.00, averaging $2,602.00 54 Commercial Bred Heifers $1,315.00

February 24, 2011 Blume Ranches Sales Barn, Castor, Alberta Auctioneer: R.C. (Bob) Balog

Top Sellers Two Year Old Bulls $7,300 Lot 42W - Wabash 69 Ribstone 42 Buyer: Battle River Ranch, Marsden, AB Sire: RH STANDARD RIBSTONE LAD 69S SOD: BP 146D SANDMAN 108J

Bred Heifers $1,700 Lot 21W – WABASH STELLA 21W Buyer: JoNomn Hereford Ranch, Clyde, AB Sire: WABASH 88S SANDSTONE 47T SOD: WABASH PREIMIER 63R

$5,300 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 34W - Wabash Homefire 34W Mock Ranch, Consort, AB WABASH 12 HOMERUN 47P WABASH STAR DONALD 22

$1,700 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 32W – WABASH RHODA 32W Bannerlane Herefords, Livelong, SK WABASH SANDMAN 111S WABASH PREMIER 63R

$4,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 5W - Wabash 69 Ribstone 5W Kalendorfer Farms, Killam, AB RH STANDARD RIBSTONE LAD 69S WABASH 31 HOMERUN 44M

$1,700 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 9W – WABASH STELLA 9W JoNomn Hereford Ranch, Clyde, AB WABASH 88 SANDSTONE 47T CH 64H NORTHLANDS 9N

$3,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 27 - Hollow River Boy 27W Roworth & Cameron, Czar, AB RIVERBRIDGE 79L LAD 19R WABASH SANDMAN 34M

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Beck Farms & McCoy Cattle Co. Bull Sale

AVER AGE

20 Hereford Yearling Bulls $3,408.00 4 Hereford Two Year Old $3,500.00 24 Hereford Bulls grossed $78,750.00, averaging $3,424.00

February 26, 2011 Regina, Saskatchewan Auctioneer: Chris Poley Sale Management: T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd.

Top Sellers Hereford Yearling Bull $6,100 Lot 71- MCCOY 60U JETSTREAM ET 95X (1/2 Interest and Full Possession) Buyer: Les Schick, Ormiston, SK Sire: C&T 12R BOBCAT ET 60U SOD: RU 20X GALAXY 58G

Hereford Two Year Old Bull $4,500 Lot 83 - MCCOY 30N APPLAUSE ET 99W Buyer: Twin View Polled Herefords, Strathclair, MB Sire: GHC NEVER LOOK BACK ET 30N SOD: RU 20X GALAXY 58G

Lloydminster’s 92nd Annual Bull Show & Sale Pride of the Prairies

7 Polled Hereford Bull lots grossed $24,500.00, averaging $3,500.00 12 Horned Hereford Bull lots grossed $35,300.00, averaging $2,942.00

March 7, 2011 Lloydminster Exhibition, Lloydminster Auctioneer: Dan Skeels Judge: Garth Rancier, Killam, AB

Grand Champion Polled Bull

Grand Champion Horned Bull

Lot 102 - K-COW WANTED 737W Sire: K-COW SHOOTER 3S

Lot 115 - PHF 78S LARIAT 78W Sire: LPG 329J ASTER LAD 78S

Reserve Grand Champion Polled Bull

Reserve Grand Champion Horned Bull

Lot 99 - STRL 409 BEAUVALLON 713W Sire: JUSTAMERE 25E FASHION 409U

Lot 112 - KTD RED DOMINO LAD 19W Sire: DUNROBIN 70N SANDMAN 82R

Consigned By: K-Cow Ranch, Elk Point, AB Sold for $5,900.00 to Rafter BT Farming, Dewberry, AB

Consigned By: Sampson’s Thunderbird Ranch Ltd., Lloydminster, AB Sold for $4,000.00 to Vegreville Conlony, Vegreville, AB

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Consigned By: Parkvista Hereford Farm, Parkside, SK Sold for $5,200.00 to Turtle River Ranch, Mervin, SK

Consigned By: Keith Davies, LaCorey, AB Sold for $4,100.00 to Phil & Susan Howard, Vermilion, AB

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Calgary Bull Show & Sale

58 Bulls $2,200 - $3,499 26 Bulls $3,500 - $4,499 15 Bulls $4,500 - $5,499 18 Bulls $5,500 - $7,000 6 Bulls $7,001 & greater 123 Hereford Bulls grossed $522,600.00, averaging $4249.00

March 2 & 3, 2011 Calgary Exhibition & Stampede, Calgary, Alberta Auctioneer: R.C. (Bob) Balog Judge: Wayne Mrnak, Mrnak Hereford Ranch, Bowman, ND, USA

Grand Champion Bull

Reserve Grand Champion Bull

JENRAN WYATT EARP 13W Sire: CHURCHILL DOMINO 211

BCD 345S WACHTER 998W Sire: GH ADAMS 438P LAD NN 345S

Consigned By: Jenkins Ranche, Twin Butte, AB Sold for $6,000.00 to Red Willow Colony, Stettler, AB

Top Volume Buyers Miller Ranches Ltd. - Hanceville, BC Guenthner Ranch - Consort, AB

Top Sellers

Consignor: Lilybrook Herefords Inc., Claresholm, AB $21,000 Lot 84 – LBH 39T STERLING 53W Buyer: Upstream Ranch, Taylor, NE Sire: CC 77J STERLING 39T SOD: K 64K RIBSTONE LAD 157K Consignor: YV Ranch, Airdrie, AB $17,500 Lot 14 - V 232N SILVER STONE 923W Buyer: Misty Valley Farms, Maidstone, SK Sire: AGA 167L SILVER 232N SOD: SNS 109L SILVER STONE 81N $15,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Bar Pipe Hereford Ranch, Okotoks, AB AGA 167L SILVER 232N STR STD 87D DOMINO LAD 67F

$7,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 19 – YV 490 BIG BO 957W Lake Bend & Cattle Co., Bashaw, AB OB BODACIOUS 490 SNS 109L SILVER STONE 81N

$6,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 20 – YV 82R SILVER STAR 973W W A Ranches Ltd., Calgary, AB SNS 40L RED SILVER 82R OB BODACIOUS 490

Lot 18 – YV 232N SILVER EDITION ET 943W

Consignor: Fenton Hereford Ranch Inc., Irma, AB $15,000 Lot 111 – FE 18S ASTER LAD 37W Buyer: Pahl Livestock Ltd., Medicine Hat, AB Sire: LO 931N ASTER LAD 18S SOD: WINDY-HILL COLOSSAL LAD ET 15J Consignor: Eureka Hereford Farms Inc, Eureka River, AB

$10,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 22 – EHF 6S BRITISHER LAD 11W MN Herefords, Airdrie, AB LO 931N ASTER LAD 6S DP BRITISHER AGA 46E

Consignor: Bar Pipe Hereford Ranch, Okotoks, AB $10,000 Lot 27 – BP 144P STANDARD LAD 50W Buyer: Sky Track Ranch, Lloydminster, SK Sire: K 68L STANDARD LAD 144P SOD: K 61Z SUPER LAD 45D

Consigned By: Dallas Farms, Bowden, AB Sold for $6,500.00 to Mrnak Herefords, Bowman, ND

Pipeline Grazing Co-op - Medicine Hat, AB Peterosa Exports Ltd. - Calgary, AB John Simkin - Veteran, AB $7,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 31 – BP 144P STANDARD LAD 147W Lilybrook Herefords Inc., Claresholm, AB K 68L STANDARD LAD 144P STANDARD 16E RIBSTONE 64H

Consignor: Corbeill Herefords, Cluny, AB $6,500 Lot 63 – C 98S WINDFLL 64W Buyer: Granum Colony, Granum, AB Sire: DUNROBIN FEDMAN 98S SOD: DUNROBIN 921J CENTURY 51L $6,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 66 – C 98S SKY WALKER 4W Ridder Hereford Ranch, Callaway, NE DUNROBIN REDMAN 98S DUNROBIN 603 87J

$6,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 69 – C 31S WIND FIRE 16W Mark Haueter Herefords, Oregon, WA MHH 66N SUNRISE LAD 31S VEDAN 180H SABRE LAD 110K

$6,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 67 - C 23S WAGON BURNER 11W Gary Harwood, Strathmore, AB 13N SILVER BRITISHER LAD 23S VEDAN 180H SABRE LAD 110K

Consignor: MN Herefords, Airdrie, AB $6,300 Lot 130 – MN 26R STD LAD 128W Buyer: Jones Hereford Ranches, Balzac, AB Sire: MHH 22L BRITISHER LAD 26R SOD: MVF 25G VOLT BRIT LAD237K Consignor: Dallas Farms, Bowden, AB $6,000 Lot 39 – BCD 259P WARREN 970W Buyer: White Lake Colony, Nobleford, AB Sire: BBSF 124J L STD LAD 259P SOD: K 64H RIBSTONE LAD 10N

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Regina Bull Show & Sale

31 Two Year Old Hereford Bulls$3,398.00 1 Yearling Hereford Bull $2,000.00 32 lots grossed $107,350.00, averaging $3,354.00

March 12 & 13, 2011 Evraz Place, Regina, Saskatchewan Auctioneer: Brent Carey Judge: Wade Beck, Lang, Saskatchewan

Grand Champion Bull

Reserve Grand Champion Bull

XLP 101S SHOWTIME 48W Sire: BNMPHP 13P HEAT 101S

MEADOW-ACRES 62P BANDWAGON 13W Sire: BLAIR-ATHOL THE BIG SHOW ET 62P

Consigned By: Lone Pine Cattle Services, Vibank, SK Sold for $4,750.00 to Steve Hordos, Raymore, SK

Consigned By: Meadow-Acres Farms, Lampman, SK Sold for $6,000.00 to Blaschuck Land & Cattle, Chaplin, SK

Top Sellers Consignor: Square D Polled Herefords, Langbank, SK $5,750 Lot 114 – SQUARE-D CANYON 128W Buyer: Blaschuck Land & Cattle, Chaplin, SK Sire: GHR TAURUS 4J 42T SOD: REMITALL KEYNOTE 20X

Consignor: GWG Polled Herefords, Imperial, SK $3,800 Lot 101 – GWG 25N TARTAN 33Q Buyer: Dwight A. & Kathy Rasmussen Sire: GWG 4L RADAR 25N SOD: JWH ONLINE 98H

Consignor: Six South Acres Ltd., Milestone, SK $4,600 Lot 137 – OVHF CK 69T WAGES 7W Buyer: Jason & Jill Kress, Kendal, SK Sire: HARVIE TRAVELER 69T SOD: NS KENO 005

Consignor: Meadow-Acres Farms, Lampman, SK Lot 132 – MEADOW-ACRES 62P STRIKER 94W $3,800 Buyer: Flying E Enterprises, Candiac, SK Sire: BLAIR-ATHOL THE BIG SHOW ET 62P SOD: ANL 57G MATADOR 55M

Consignor: Wascana Cattle Co., Regina, SK $4,000 Lot 107 – SQUARE-D DYNAMIC 9826W Buyer: Blaschuck Land & Cattle, Chaplin, SK Sire: SQUARE-D LOGAN 209P SOD: SQUARE-D MR MARKET 126L

Standard Hill Connection

Black Angus & Polled Hereford Bull Sale

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Two Year Old Hereford Bulls grossed $30,000.00, averaging $3,529.00 54.5 Total lots grossed $168,750.00, averaging $3,096.00

March 13, 2011 Standard Hill Angus Sale Barn, Maidstone, Saskatchewan Auctioneer: Jerry Hewson

Top Sellers Two Year Old Hereford Bulls $4,700 Lot 56 - SHPH 274S BARON 66W (1/2 Interest) Buyer: Robert B. Gristwood, Loon Lake, AB Sire: REMITALL SULTAN 274S SOD: PDM 29L PERFORMER 57P $4,300 Buyer: Sire: SOD: 104

Lot 60 – SHPH 7S POWERPLAY 102W Manchester Farms, Senlac, SK SQUARE-D PAT 2N 7S SHPH 68L ARISTOCRAT 63N

$4,200 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 57 – SHPH 41R TOWER 86W Albert Morin, Edam, SK HINTERLAND ARCHITECT 41R SHPH 81F MAGNETRON 52M

$3,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 52 – SHPH 7S SHOCKWAVE 33W Donna Beutler, Leduc, AB SQUARE-D PAT 2N 7S SHPH 63N SYNERGY 29R

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53rd Annual Medicine Hat Spring Bull Show & Sale

62 Two Year Old Hereford Bulls $4,326.00 2 Yearling Hereford Bull $4,875.00 64 lots grossed $277,950.00, averaging $4343.00 34 Bulls $2,400 - $3,499 11 Bulls $3,500 - $4,499 10 Bulls $4,500 - $5,499 9 Bulls $5,500 & greater

March 14 & 15, 2011 Medicine Hat Exhibition Grounds, Medicine Hat, Alberta Auctioneer: R.C. (Bob) Balog Judge: Ian Glass, Chaplin, SK Top Volume Buyers Remount Grazing Association Pipeline Grazing Co-Op

Grand Champion Bull

Reserve Grand Champion Bull

BP 101T STANDARD DOM LAD 63W Sire: STANDARD 68L DOM LAD 101T

LBH 52N SILVER PRIDE 256W Sire: LBH 52N SILVER PRIDE 256W

Consigned By: Bar Pipe Hereford Ranch, Okotoks, AB Sold for $12,500.00 to Fenton Hereford Ranch, Irma, AB and JoNomn Hereford Ranch, Clyde, AB

Consigned By: Lilybrook Herefords, Claresholm, AB Sold for $5,250.00 to X Bar X Ranch, Sentinel Butte, ND, USA

Top Sellers Consignor: Lilybrook Herefords, Claresholm, AB $12,500 Lot 66 – LBH 39T STERLING 138W Buyer: Misty Valley Farms, Maidstone, SK & Mark Law, Cypress River, MB Sire: CC 77J STERLING 39T SOD: LCI 157K RIBSTONE 107R $9,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 69 – LBH 45S ASTER LAD 196W Stauffer Farms, Eckville, AB LO 931N ASTER LAD 45S LBH 38E SILVER PRIDE 52N

$5,100 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 64 – LBH 39T STERLING 100W Finstad Ranching, Etzikom, AB CC 77J STERLING 39T LCI 157K RIBSTONE 107R

Consignor: Pahl Livestock, Medicine Hat, AB $11,500 Lot 86 – PAHL 3S WESTPOINT 40W Buyer: SNS Herefords, Airdrie, AB Sire: PAHL 90P SPADE 3S SOD: TH 118G SILVER BRIT LAD 179K Consignor: Brost Land & Cattle Co., Irvine, AB $8,000 Lot 48 – BBSF 4S WASHINGTON 406W Buyer: Ayrey Hereford Farms, Evesham, SK Sire: BP 29M ADMIRAL ET 4S SOD: PDHR 38E SILVER LAD 105G $6,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 47 – BBSF 4S WAYSIDE 255W Drowning Ford Grazing Association, Schuler, AB BP 29M ADMIRAL ET 4S 96 STAR DONALD 33Z

Consignor: XTC Herefords, Lethbridge, AB $7,750 Lot 99 – XTC 7N VAQUERO 81N Buyer: Lock Farms Ltd., Macklin, SK Sire: MN 64F BRITISH LAD 7N SOD: XTC DUBEAU LAD 45P $6,750 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 98 – XTC 13S REGENT 17W Lock Farms Ltd., Macklin, SK AMARADA KINGDOM LAD 13S VIKING 254E RIBSTONE ET 12M

Consignor: YV Ranch, Airdrie, AB Lot 81A - YV 232N SILVER EDITION ET 943W $5,750 Buyer: River Bridge Ranch, Maidstone, AB Sire: AGA 167L SILVER 232N SOD: STR STD 87D DOMINO LAD 67F $5,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 80A - YV 81N SILVER STANDARD 20X Glass Land & Cattle Co., Chaplin, SK SNS 109L SILVER STONE 81N AGA 656U STANDARD ET 124J

$5,250 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 82 – YV 732T HEAVY WEIGHT 991W Pipeline Grazing Co-op, Medicine Hat, AB YV 81N HEAVY WEIGHT ET 732T SNS 67F SKY LAD 75K

Consignor: Conway Herefords, Foremost, AB $5,250 Lot 33 – CFH 699S CANNON 908W Buyer: Isabel Leighton, Ponoka, AB Sire: CFH 479P DANDY 699S SOD: LCI 157K RIBSTONE 91N Consignor: Hawkeye Ranching, Irvine, AB $5,200 Lot 52 – HAWKEYE 157K WINCHESTER 8W Buyer: Clint & Darryl Brost, Consul, SK Sire: K 64H RIBSTONE LAD 157K SOD: CH 69G KINGDOM 64K $5,100 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 49 – HAWKEYE 75K SKY LAD 19W Drowning Ford Grazing Association, Schuler, AB SNS 67F SKY LAD 75K K 45D SUPER LAD 106G

Consignor: Little Poplar Grove Herefords, Forestburg, AB

$5,100 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 55 – LPG RAMS 47P LAD 21W Clint & Darryl Brost, Irvine, AB CARLRAMS 139L STD VOLD 53S LPG INDEPENDENCE 26E 47P

Consignor: Bar Pipe Hereford Ranch, Okotoks, AB $5,000 Lot 43 – BP 120S GOLDRUSH 168W Buyer: Pipeline Grazing Co-op, Medicine Hat, AB Sire: THE SNIF 279J GOLDRUSH 120S SOD: BV THESNIF 99Z 627F 105

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27.75 Two Year Old Bulls $3,202.00 1 Yearling Bull $1,800.00 28 lots grossed $90,650.00, averaging $3,153.00

March 18, 2011 Dryland Trading Corporation, Veteran, Alberta Auctioneer: R.C. (Bob) Balog Judge: Andy Schuepbach, Claresholm, AB

Grand Champion Bull

Reserve Grand Champion Bull

WINDIMUIR 82S PRINCE 134W Sire: MN 30L PRINCE DOMINO 82S

PWC 10T SUPERMAN 74W Sire: DBHR 77J TRAVELLER 10T

Consigned By: Westgard Windimuir Herefords, Sibbald, AB Sold for $3,600.00 to Roy Farms, Youngstown, AB

Top Sellers

Consignor: Ace Herefords Ltd., Senlac, SK $4,300 Lot 23 - ACE SCULLY LAD 16W (3/4 Interest) Buyer: Brent Smith, Carmangay, AB Sire: DUNROBIN 200L SCULLY 25R SOD: RVH TOP BRASS 17K

Consignor: PWC Herefords, Hughenden, AB $4,000 Lot 1 – PWC 82K KAPTAIN 70W Buyer: Roworth & Cameron, Czar, AB Sire: C 82F MICKS KAPTAIN 82K SOD: K&B SUMMIT 4064 1 ET

Consigned By: PWC Herefords, Hughenden, AB Sold for $3,500.00 to Kozlinski Ranch, Provost, AB Consignor: Fenton Hereford Ranch Inc, Irma, AB $3,600 Lot 27 – FE 1S GOLD STANDARD 139W Buyer: Allan Code, New Brigden, AB Sire: RH GOLD STANDARD LAD 1S SOD: BOY 32F SANDMAN 12N Consignor: CP Herefords, Huxley, AB $3,500 Lot 20 – XH 43M STAR LAD 8W Buyer: Jim Hines, Dewberry, AB Sire: HUXLEY 6K STAR LAD 43M SOD: BCD 82H MERCEDES 216M

Consignor: Diamond T Herefords, Oyen, AB $3,900 Lot 26 – DIAMOND-T 29S LAD 12W Buyer: Doug Fawcett, Consort, AB Sire: DIAMOND-T 124J LAD 29S SOD: WINDIMUIR 31Z STD LAD 141C

2011 Fraser’s Total Performance Bull Sale

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24 Two Year Old Hereford Bulls $3,663.00 56 Angus Bulls (Yearlings & 2 Year Olds) $4,388.00 80 lots grossed $333,650.00, averaging $4,171.00

March 21, 2011 Bow Slope Shipping Association, Brooks, Alberta Auctioneer: Ross Annett

Top Sellers Two Year Old Hereford Bulls $5,500 Lot 25 – DW SILVER 30S LAD 107W Buyer: Sandum Farms, Hussar, AB Sire: DW SILVER MOON LAD 30S SOD: DW MR VICTOR 23H $4,400 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 12 - DW STANDARD 268P LAD 58W Douglas Lake Cattle Co., Douglas Lake, BC LBH 73L STANDARD 286P DW 13X LAD 4C

$4,400 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 18 - DW 77J SUPER LAD 86W Douglas Lake Cattle Co., Douglas Lake, BC CC 129D SUPERMAN 77J CC 7Z LAREDO 182E

$4,300 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 26 - DW SILVER 30S LAD 110W Blake Ranch, Nanton, AB DW SILVER MOON LAD 30S CH 64H NAVAHO 8N

$4,200 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 21 - DW SILVER 207N LAD 96W Newell Grazing Association, Newell, AB AGA 35J SILVER LAD 207N HR ROBIN HOOD 52F

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32nd Annual Bulls Eye Sale

32 lots grossed $114,300.00, averaging $3,572.00

March 22, 2011 Bow Slope Shipping Association, Brooks, Alberta Auctioneer: Ross Annett

Top Sellers Consignor: Corbiell Herefords, Cluny, AB $5,400 Lot 5 – C 23S Walter 28W Buyer: Jean Lamson, Hanna, AB Sire: 13N SILVER BRITISHER LAD 23S SOD: WABASH 108 SANDMAN 99L

Consignor: Pierson Ranch, Wardlow, AB $5,100 Lot 36 – PIERAN CASS LAD 50W Buyer: Tide-Creek Ranch, Jenner, AB Sire: TIDE-CREEK 28H NISKU LAD 11N SOD: LLL 30F KEYSTONE 84K

$4,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

$4,900 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 32 – PIERAN CASS LAD 14W Little Poplar Grove Herefords, Forestburg, AB TIDE-CREEK 28H NISKU LAD 11N DBHR 124J STANDARD 33M

$4,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 31 – PIERAN POSITIVE LAD 11W Minor Cattle Co., Bindloss, AB PIERAN 33M PLENTY LAD 17S 2T STERLING 34G

Lot 3 – C 11S SKY BRITISHER 22W Webbalta Ranch, Veteran, AB LFF 3L SKY BRIT LAD 11S BCD 6K MARK LAD 209M

Consignor: Tide Creek Herefords, Jenner, AB Lot 16 – TIDE-CREEK 1S CLASSY X LAD 22W $5,100 Buyer: Terril Pierson, Wardlow, AB Sire: TRIPLE-A 59K SCOOTER 1S SOD: PIERAN PROMISE LAD 28H $5,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 17 – TIDE-CREEK 259R ADVAN LAD 23W Olsen Ranch, Jenner, AB BBSF 114L RATTLER 259R TIDE-CREEK 8F MANOLA 21M

$4,800 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Newell Grazing Association, Brooks, AB TRIPLE-A 59K SCOOTER 1S GREENORE NEW STANDARD 37F

$4,600 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 20 – TIDE-CREEK 1S LOLLI BOY 30W Ken Kundert, Hilda, AB TRIPLE-A 59K SCOOTER 1S PIERAN PROMISE LAD 28H

Lot 18 – TIDE-CREEK 1S CANADIDA BOY 24W

7th Annual Ranch Ready Bull Sale

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26 Two Year Old Hereford Bulls$4,038.00 20 Yearling Hereford Bulls $3,610.00 46 lots grossed $177,200.00, averaging $3,852.00

March 24, 2011 Mankota Stockmen’s Weigh Co., Mankota, Saskatchewan Auctioneer: Donnie Peacock

Top Sellers Consignor: Gillespie Herefords, Wymark, SK $10,250 Lot 20 – DON 24P SUPER DANDY 15W Buyer: Glass Land & Cattle Co., Chaplin, SK Sire: DONORAH 77J SUPER LAD 24P SOD: DONORAH 412 DANDY’S LAD 1J

Consignor: Braun Ranch Ltd., Simmie, SK $7,100 Lot 1 – BR 52U STANDARD 181X Buyer: Church Ranch, Balzac, AB Sire: DBHR 129S UNLIMITED 52U SOD: CC 56M SULLIVAN 42R

$7,750 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 21 – DONORAH 9N DANDY LAD 50W Little Poplar Grove Herefords, Forestburg, AB DON 3G DANDY LAD 9N CC 129D SUPERMAN 77J

$6,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 3 – BR 33H LAD 20X Square D Herefords, Langbank, SK F-R 8020 LAD 33H AGA 44C SILVER 167L

$6,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 24 – DONORAH 631S SUNSHINE LAD 44W

White Farms, Shaunavon, SK YV 232N SUNSHINE LAD 631S DONORAH 77J SUPER DANDY 17P

$6,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 8 – DBHR 4S ULTRA DANDY 38W Derek Tallmadge, Meadow Lake, SK DBHR 35N ULTRA LAD 4S CC 129D SUPERMAN 77J

$5,800 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 23 – DON 631S SUNSHINE LAD 16W Kelvin & Donna Zorn, Maple Creek, SK YV 232N SUNSHINE LAD 631S CC 129D SUPERMAN 77J

Consignor: PK Herefords, Canora, SK $5,500 Lot 42 – PK 66T WILDCAT 63W Buyer: Little Poplar Grove Herefords, Forestburg, AB Sire: FA 121M BRITISHER 66T SOD: RH 52G BRITISHER LAD 6L 107

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Harvie Ranching 2nd Annual Bull Sale

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21 Yearling Hereford Bulls $4,186.00 23 Charolais Bulls $3,887.00 9 Simmental Bulls $2,744.00 54 lots grossed $202,000.00, averaging $3,811.00

March 28, 2011 At the Ranch Olds, Alberta Auctioneer: Ryan Dorran

Top Sellers Hereford $8,100 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 37 – HARVIE TRAVELER 85X Coulee Crest Herefords, Bowden, AB HARVIE TRAVELER 69T GOLDEN-OAK 4J MAXIUM 28M

$5,750 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 28 – HARVIE T-BONE 121X Brian Jackson, Rocky Mountain House, AB HARVIE DAN T-BONE 196T REMTIALL ICON 24K

$5,750 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 30 – HARVIE RICOCHET 32X Jim Rosenberg, Iowa, USA HARVIE DAN RICOCHET 167U MC RANGER 9615

$5,400 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 46 – HARVIE AXA SUPER DUTY 6X Cameo Herefords, Grand Prairie, AB REMITALL SUPER DUTY 42S PRL 425E LAD 500K

$5,250 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 24 – HARVIE LADIES MAN 37X Pelton Polled Herefords, Holiday, ND HARVIE LADIES MAN 4L WILGOR 55K NORTHEASTERN OL 2N

$5,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 26 – HARVIE TOP CUT 57X DaKitch Hereford Farms, Ada, MN HARVIE DAN T-BONE 196T OVHF 20X MASTER KEY 5H

$5,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 32 – HARVIE RICOCHET 56X Ken Prichard, Camrose, AB HARVIE DAN RICOCHET 167U CCR 57G STAMINA ET 199S

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Stockman Select Bull Sale

7.66 Yearling Hereford Bulls $4,478.00 18 Two Year Old Hereford Bulls$3,717.00 26 Angus Bulls $3,371.00 51.66 lots grossed $188,850.00, averaging $3,656.00

March 29, 2011 Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Auctioneer: Ryan Dorran

Top Sellers Triple- A Herefords $9,400 Lot 27 – TRIPLE A 1T WEATHERMAN 73W Buyer: Marcel & Linda Ruest, Admiral, SK Sire: TRIPLE A MAX’S TURBO ET 1T SOD: GH NEON 17N $7,300 Buyer: Sire: SOD: $5,600 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 1 – TRIPLE A 1T CHROME 66X (1/3 Interest) Big Gully Farm, Maidstone, SK TRIPLE A MAX’S TURBO ET 1T TRIPLE A 122K KICKOFF 122K Lot 11 – TRIPLE A 329J WILLY 38W Diamond J Cattle Co. Inc., Makwa, SK JNHR STANDARD LAD 329J CCKC GENERAL STAR 53F

$5,300 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 2 – TRIPLE A 122K X-BOX 11X Bar Kay Cee Angus, Spy Hill, SK TRIPLE A 122K KICKOFF 122K MHF ROYAL BEN 16F

$5,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 3 – TRIPLE A MAX’S NICKEL ET 6X Superior Canadian Livestock, Regina, SK TRIPLE A 87J MAXIMUS 4M CHURCH FLAME 307 2ET

$5,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 16 – TRIPLE A 22T WATERBOY 11W Wolf Creek Livestock, Wolseley, SK TRIPLE A MAX’S TOBASSCO 22T RH STANDARD STAR LAD 14M

WLB Livestock Spring Bull Sale

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12 Yearling Hereford Bulls 18 Yearling Simmental Bulls

March 29, 2011 At the farm, Douglas, Manitoba Auctioneer: Jerry Kanewischer

Top Sellers $6,700 Buyer: Sire: SOD: 108

Lot 23 – WLB HOME PAGE 83T 40X Scott Mannle, Whitewood, SK WLB ELI 10H 83T CS BOOMER 29F

$5,100 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 22 – WLB WINCHESTER BULL 83T 65X Tyler Farms, Cutknife, SK WLB ELI 10H 83T HAROLDSON WLB MUTUMBO ET 72M

$3,525.00 $3,205.00

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7th Annual Focus on the Future Bull Sale

ANL Polled Herefords/Wheatland Cattle Co.

8 Yearling Hereford Bulls 7 Two Year Old Hereford Bulls 1 Simmental Flush 22 Simmental Yearling Bulls 8 Wheatland Synergy Bulls 6 Pen of 3 Commercial Heifers

$3,563.00 $3,043.00 $40,000.00 $10,136.00 $5,813.00 $3,154.00

March 31, 2011 Alameda, Saskatchewan Auctioneer: Chris Poley

Top Sellers Hereford Bulls $8,500 Lot 1 – ANL HAROLDSON’S 83T ELI 61X Buyer: Arthur Polled Herefords, Alameda, SK Sire: WLB ELI 10H 83T SOD: ANL 2K SPECIALIST 7N

$4,600 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 2 – ANL 83T ELI ET 19X Lazy T Cattle WLB ELI 10H 83T HF 4L BEYOND 36N

Wilson Lees Value Added Bull Sale

AVER AGE

30.84 Yearling Hereford Bulls $3,427.00 2 Two Year Old Hereford Bulls$2,700.00 1 Yearling Angus Bull $2,400.00 33.84 lots grossed $113,500.00 averaging $3,354.00

April 8, 2011 Kisbey, Saskatchewan Auctioneer: Chris Poley Sale Management: T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd

Top Sellers Bulls $12,500 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 9 - HAROLDSON’S TRUMP 16R ET 32X (2/3 Interest) Topp Herefords, Grace City, ND and ANL Polled Herefords, Steelman, SK HARVIE RAFTSMAN 16R REMITALL HOLLYWOOD 37H

$5,300 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 13 - HAROLDSON’S CRUISE 122L ET 26X Crone Herefords, Hardisty, AB REMITALL ONLINE 122L HAROLDSON’S RAIDER P183 ET 2Z

$5,300 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 35 - GLENLEES 743 GENERAL 17X Spring Mountain Stock Farm, Beaverlodge, AB CRR ABOUT TIME 743 BNMHPH 13P HEAT 101S

Southeast Sask Breeders 37th Annual Bull Sale

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8 Hereford Bulls 8 Fall Hereford Open Replacement Heifers 23.5 Charolais Bulls

$2,981.00 $1,331.00 $3,902.00

April 9, 2011 Square D Sale Site, Langbank, Saskatchewan Auctioneer: Don Oberg

Top Sellers Hereford Bulls $3,500 Lot 35 - SQUARE-D STRATHMORE 466W Buyer: Kevin King, Corning, SK Sire: GHR TAURUS 4J 42T SOD: LJR 186A BEN 175K $3,200 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

$3,200 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 39 – SQUARE-D YOURLINK 735W Trevor Airiess, Wadena, SK WILGOR 55K NORTHEASTERN 0L 2N SQUARE-D JAG 530G

Lot 36 – SQUARE-D ADDITION 860W Ralph Wasylyniuk, Raymore, SK WILGOR 55K NORTHEASTERN 0L 2N SQUARE-D JAG 530G

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102nd Annual Lacombe Bull Sale

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13 Polled Hereford Bulls 14 Horned Hereford Bulls

$3,354.00 $2,814.00

April 12, 2011 Central Alberta Agricultural Society, Lacombe, Alberta Auctioneer: Dan Skeels Judge: Leonard Poholka, Breton West Herefords, Breton, Alberta

Grand Champion Polled Bull

Grand Champion Horned Bull

LOT 21 - CUTBANK 23L CUSTER 48W Sire: CUTBANK 117F CUSTER ET 23L

LOT 13 – RC 51S MAGNUM LAD 76W Sire: CC 56M MAGNUM 51S

Reserve Grand Champion Polled Bull

Reserve Grand Champion Horned Bull

LOT 29 – GLENROSE 1S WENDELL 63W Sire: GLENROSE 8E SWEEPSTAKES ET 1S

LOT 11 – HUXLEY 6K RED LADDIE 4W Sire: BCD 721G KING 6K

Consigned By: Mick Kubinec, Three Hills, AB Sold for $4,500.00 to Krauss Bros.

Consigned By: Glenrose Polled Herefords, Camrose, AB Sold for $2,900.00 to Ed Grumbach, Bentley, AB

Consigned By: Rainy Creek Herefords, Bentley, AB Sold for $3,700.00 to Glen Lepard, Erskine, AB

Consigned By: CP Herefords, Huxley, AB Sold for $4,000.00 to Ronnie Jones, Erskine, AB

Lundar’s 43 Annual All Breed Beef Cattle Show & Sale rd

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11 Yearling Hereford Bulls 8 Two Year Old Hereford Bulls 5 Purebred Hereford Heifers

April 16, 2011 Lundar, Manitoba Auctioneer: Buddy Bergner Judge: Ben Fox, Justamere Herefords, Dauphin, Manitoba

Grand Champion Bull

Reserve Grand Champion Bull

LOT 29 – RAWCLIFFE 7P PRIDE 4W Sire: BLAIR-ATHOL HE DA MAN 49T

LOT 20 – MERIDIAN BIG OAK LAD 19X Sire: AGA 20S BIG OAK 30U

Consigned By: Rawcliffe Grange Stock Farm, Rasser, MB

Sold for $4,000.00 to Ron & Brenda Jansson, Moosehorn, MB

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Consigned By: Meridian Farms, Hodgson, MB Sold for $2,600.00 to Jack Cruise, Lundar, MB

$2,482.00 $2,550.00 $1,370.00

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74th Annual Williams Lake Bull Show & Sale

41 Two Year Old Hereford Bulls $3,294.00 7 Yearling Hereford Bulls $3,143.00 48 lots grossed $157,050.00, averaging $3272.00

April 15, 2011 Williams Lake, British Columbia Auctioneer: Wilf Smith, Larry Jordan, Wayne Jordan Judge: Wayne Jordan, Williams Lake, British Columbia

Grand Champion Bull

Reserve Grand Champion Bull

LOT 131 – LFH TALENT 18T 32W Sire: LFH TALENT 279R 18T

LOT 128 – LFH TRIDENT 279R ET 5W Sire: GH RAMBO 279R

Consigned By: Little Fort Herefords, Little Fort, BC Sold for $4,500.00 to Silverado Cattle Co., Okotoks, AB

Consigned By: Little Fort Herefords, Little Fort, BC Sold for $3,400.00 to Fraser River Ranching, Williams Lake, BC.

Top Sellers Consignor: Deanfield Ranch, Kamloops, BC $7,100 Lot 122 – DEANFIELD 96K STANDARD 3W Buyer: DT Motley Farms, Czar, AB & Quentin and Erin Motley, Czar, AB Sire: JHR 177D STANDARD LAD 96K SOD: RMJ SOLITAIRE POWER HOUSE 20B $5,750 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 125 – DEANFIELD 18P STANDARD 11W Ardills Ranch Ltd., Fort St. John, BC DEANFIELD 18K STANDARD 18P JHR 117D STANDARD LAD 96K

$4,800 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 123 – DEANFIELD 96K STANDARD 7W Pickard Creek Ranch, Williams Lake, BC JHR 177D STANDARD LAD 96K DONORAH 2D ALAMO GRCO 3F

$4,100 Buyer:

Lot 127 – DEANFIELD 18P STANDARD 15W DT Motley Farms, Czar, AB & Quentin and Erin Motley, Czar, AB DEANFIELD 18K STANDARD 18P JHR GOLDEN STANDARD LAD 31B

Sire: SOD: $4,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 124 – DEANFIELD 96K STANDARD 9W Chimney Creek Hereford Ranch, Williams Lake, BC JHR 177D STANDARD LAD 96K DONORAH 2D ALAMO GRCO 3F

Consignor: Benwyn Farm Ltd., Progress, BC $4,400 Lot 112 – BENWYN GENERATOR LAD 98W Buyer: Ardills Ranch Ltd, Fort St. John, BC Sire: SNS 139L GENERATOR’S STAN 49P SOD: JNHR 84G BRITISHER 254K $4,200 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

$4,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 108 – BENWYN PRAIRIE LAD 49W Sharpe Lake Ranch, 70 Mile House, BC BCD 140L PRAIRIE LAD 708S LGHF WAYNE 63M

$4,000

Lot 110 – BENWYN MAKER STANDARD LAD 57W Richard Heaton, Quesnel, BC JNHR SILVER STANDARD 550S HR MAKER 234J

Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Consignor: Little Fort Herefords, Little Fort, BC $4,400 Lot 136 – LFH WARRIOR 711T 51W Buyer: Pickard Creek Ranch, Williams Lake, BC Sire: YV 81N SILVER STONE 711T SOD: C STANMORE JOURNY 105J $4,300 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 127 – LFH TALENT 18T 1W T Michon, Quesnel, BC LFH TALENT 279R 18T LBH 114L GENERAL 171N

Consignor: Richardson Ranch, Tlell, BC $4,100 Lot 139 – TLELL SS X-MAN 1X Buyer: Tanya Belsham, Houston, BC Sire: TE TAUMATA SUPERSTAR SOD: CCR 57G STAMINA ET 199S $4,000 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 138 – TLELL 25T WRENCH 35W Gardner Ranch, Horsefly, BC TLELL 15R TATER 25T REMTIALL ICON 24K

Lot 111 – BENWYN PRAIRIE SILVER LAD 66W

Guy Bambauer, Vanderhoof, BC JNHR SILVER STANDARD 550S NN 12F PRAIRIE LAD ET 8H 111

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AVER AGE

19th Annual Cattleman’s Choice

14 Two Year Old Bulls $2,886.00 3 Yearling Bulls $2,500.00 17 lots grossed $48,300.00 averaging $2,841.00 23 Commercial Hereford Heifers $976.00

Hereford Bull Sale & Commercial Heifer Sale April 18, 2011 Heartland Livestock, Swift Current, Saskatchewan Auctioneer: Donnie Peacock

Top Sellers Consignor: Steinley Farms Ltd., Parkvue Polled Herefords, Swift Current, SK $4,100 Lot 10 – PARKVUE 52P WALDEMAR 15W Buyer: Carman Wilcox, Stalwart, SK Sire: BAR-RZ 4L PLUTO 52P SOD: OBF VALOR 10K

Consignor: Dale Wilms, Emerald Springs Polled Herefords, Swift Current, SK $3,500 Lot 4 – EMERALD-S SARG 10W Buyer: Bill Potts, Morse, SK Sire: MCCOY 55M APOLLO 54S SOD: GOLDEN-OAK 28M DIESEL 12P

Consignor: Gordon Gustafson, GWG Polled Herefords, Imperial, SK $3,900 Lot 24 – GWG 82S BRODA 10W Buyer: Needham Brothers, Piapot, SK Sire: HF 36N SHOCKWAVE 82S SOD: GWG MISTER TAKOMA 19B

Consignor: Darwyn Wilms, Emerald Springs Polled Herefords, Swift Current, SK $3,300 Lot 9 – ES WALKER 1W Buyer: GWG Polled Herefords, Imperial, SK Sire: MCCOY 55M APOLLO 54S SOD: DR WORLD CLASS 517 10H

$3,600 Buyer: Sire: SOD:

Lot 25X– GWG 25N FAGAN 13W Ken and Ward Bakus, Morse, SK GWG 4L RADAR 25N HF 10H RANGER 37L

2011 Livestock Markets Association of Canada’s Annual Convention and Auctioneer Championship Brennin Jack (right) of Heartland Livestock Services, Regina, receives the Canadian Champion Livestock Auctioneer buckle, sponsored by the Canadian Limousin Association, from Mike Geddes, General Manager, Top Meadow Farms, Clarksburg, ON. Each year, the breed associations take turns presenting the Championship buckle and this year the Canadian Hereford Association was presenting the 5th place buckle which was awarded to Calvin Kuepfer from OLEX at Waterloo.

The Canadian Hereford Association, along with the Angus, Charolais, Limousin and Simmental Associations also presented the host auction market, Ontario Livestock Exchange with a print for their efforts in hosting the 2011 LMAC Convention.

The Canadian Hereford Association, along with the Angus, Charolais, Limousin and Simmental Associations also presented the host auction market, Ontario Livestock Exchange with a print for their efforts in hosting the 2011 LMAC Convention.

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showresults show index Saskatchewan Junior Hereford Beef-A-Rama ..................................................... Page 114 Ontario Junior Hereford Beef-A-Rama ................................................................. Page 115 2011 Canadian Bull Congress Show ..................................................................... Page 117

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show results

Saskatchewan Junior Hereford Beef-A-Rama June 25, 2011

Rob and Dawn O’Connor, Vibank, Saskatchewan

Conformation Class Judge: Levi Jackson!

2 Year Old Female with Calf and Senior Champion Female 1ST - S7R 609 SALLY 14W

Heifer Calf 1ST - S7R 26W SALLY 2Y

Alexis Decorby

Alexis Decorby

Mature Cow with Calf

2 - XLP 101S REESE 500Y

1ST & Reserve senior champion female HAROLDSON’S JVJ REESE ET 5S

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Justin Dickie

Shane Dickie

Junior Yearling Heifer

2ND - AR SANDSTONE MISS 231N

1ST - SVPH 1R PATTI 160 X Alexis Decorby

Senior Yearling Heifer 1 - GLENLEES 101N PEARL 14X ST

Emma Lees

2ND - SVPH KRYSTAL 104X Alexis Decorby

Aivry Eidem

Bull Calf

Reserve Champion Bull MHPH 2N WEBSTER 1131W Shane Dickie

Best 3 Head from a Family ALEXIS DECORBY

1ST - XLP HH NASDAQ 120Y Aivry Eidem

2ND - XLP 326N STOUT 135Y Paige Flaman

Yearling Bull 1ST - HAROLDSON’S MOOMBA 45P 15X Landon Dickie

2 Year Old Bull 1ST - S7R R117 NORTHSTAR 17W

Grand Champion Commercial Female DYLAN GRIEVE WITH LOIS

Alexis Decorby

Champion Yearling Heifer and Grand Champion Female

2ND - MHPH 2N WEBSTER 1131W Shane Dickie

GLENLEES 101N PEARL 14X Emma Lees

Steers Born in 2010 Grand Champion and 1st - ZOMBO Emma Nicholas

Grand Champion Bull Reserve Champion Yearling Heifer and Reserve Champion Female SVPH KRYSTAL 104X Alexis Decorby

S7R R117 NORTHSTAR 17W Alexis Decorby

Reserve Grand Champion and 2nd - PETE Dylan Grieve

Steer Born in 2011 1st - Justin Dickie with SPEEDY 114

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Grooming Class

Judge : Levi Jackson

Showmanship Class Judge : Kerry Gaillard Pee Wee

Photography

Hereford cattle only

Pee Wee

Photography

1. Emma Nicholas 2. Aivry Eidem

Hereford cattle with 1 + person

Pee Wee

Intermediate

1. Lexie O’Connor

1. Dylan Grieve 2. Alexis Decorby

Art Collage Pee Wee

1. Emma Nicholas 2. Aivry Eidem

Junior

Pee Wee

2011 Grand Aggregate Lexie O’Connor

1. Lexie O’Connor

1. Lexie O’Connor 2. Megan Nicholas

Junior

1. Emma Lees 2. Megan Nicholas

Art Cattle Poster

1. Lexie O’Connor 2. Kalla Nicholas

Art Hand drawn Pee Wee 1. Megan Nicholas 2. Lexie O’Connor

Open Judging

Judge : Levi Jackson

Junior

Academic Classes

1. Aivry Eidem

Pee Wee

Judge: Andree McNeely

Public Speaking Pee Wee

Photography

1. Emma Lees 2. Lexie O’Connor

Junior

Junior

Commercial Hereford Event

1. Megan Nicholas 2. Lexie O’Connor

1. Emma Nicholas

Junior

Pee Wee

Literature Non-Fiction

1. Emma Nicholas 2. Aivry Eidem

1. Lexie O’Connor

1. Aivry Eidem 2. Angel Southwind

Intermediate 1. Dylan Grieve 2. Shane Dickie

Ontario Junior Hereford Beef-A-Rama July 1-3, 2011

Homestead Herefords, Ennismore, Ontario

Showmanship

Junior Showmanship

Intermediate Showmanship

Junior Champion

Intermediate Champion

Junior Reserve Champion

Intermediate Reserve Champion

Judge: Tom Coulter

Pee Wee Showmanship

Renee Finlay, Enniskillen, ON

Jared Ball, Coldwater, ON

Pee Wee Champion

Katie Elmhirst, Indian River, ON

Owen Elmhirst, Indian River, ON

Kyra McConnell, Orillia, ON

Pee Wee Reserve Champion Toree Finlay, Enniskillen, ON

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Senior Showmanship

Champion Commercial Animal HOMESTEAD RICKI

Exhibited by Clayton Coupland Sponsored by Brent & Jennifer Palsson

Bred & Owned Champion Bull Senior Champion

Patrick Leahy, Lakefield, ON

CB 57U BAM BAM 103Y

Conformation Judge: Brad Gilchrist

Exhibited by Caylynne Brown Sponsored by Ontario West Zone

Grand Champion Female Senior Reserve Champion Ashley Baker, Madoc, ON

Grand Champion Showperson Patrick Leahy, Lakefield, ON

Sponsored by The Cornishs’ at Milma Hereford Farms

HF 74M LIMELIGHT LADY 42P

Bred & Owned Reserve Champion Bull

Exhibited by Caylynne Brown

Sponsored by Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords

CB 57U CAN DOO 102Y

Exhibited by Caylynne Brown Sponsored by Nuhope Farms

Reserve Grand Champion Showperson Jared Ball, Coldwater, ON

Sponsored by Ottawa Valley Hereford Zone

Commercial Judge: Brad Gilchrist

Bred & Owned

Reserve Champion Female

Judge: Tom Coulter

CB 533P FOOLISH FLO 401X Exhibited by Caylynne Brown Sponsored by Thurston Livestock

Grand Champion Steer STEER

Bred & Owned Champion Female

Exhibited by Patrick Leahy Sponsored by Corp Creek Farm

CB 533P FOOLISH FLO 401X

Grand Champion Bull

Exhibited by Caylynne Brown

Sponsored by the Ontario Hereford Association

PORTER’S 101N MAJOR MAKER 1X Exhibited by Ashley Baker

Sponsored by HC Custom Farming

Reserve Champion Steer HOMESTEAD XRATED 8X

Bred & Owned Reserve Champion Female

Sponsored by East Central Ontario Hereford Zone

SNBR MS 4R REVA 111Y

Reserve Champion Bull

Sponsored by Homestead Herefords

Exhibited by Caylynne Brown

Exhibited by Kyra McConnell

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CB 57U CAN DOO 102Y

Sponsored by River Valley Polled Herefords

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show results Ontario Junior Hereford Beef-A-Rama Continued

Best 3 Head from a Family Exhibited by Caylynne Brown

Grand Aggregate The Neil Reavie Memorial Award Kyra McConnell, Orillia, ON

Thank you to all Beef-A-Rama 2011 Sponsors Balsam Grove Farms Jim Angus Batty Polled Herefords Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords Breeders of Wellington County Marbren Farm Brent and Jennifer Palsson NBG Polled Herefords Cedarwood Polled Herefords Nuhope Farms Chula Vista - Casey and Jill Van Kessel Ontario Hereford Association Corp Creek Farm Ontario West Zone Country Lane Farm Ottawa Valley Hereford Zone Dalmuir Farms River Valley Polled Herefords Double H Cattle Company Shady Birch East Central Ontario Hereford Zone

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Sinnibar Stock Farms ECO Junior Hereford Association Spring Valley Farm EJM Polled Herefords Strath-Brae Farms Elm-Lodge Polled Herefords The Cornishs’ at Milma Hereford Farms Evelyn Gillies Theodore & Shirley McCracken Gerry Cornish Thurston Livestock HC Custom Farming Yarmie Firewood Homestead Herefords Smoky Joe’s Butcher Shop Lindsay Livestock Exchange John Sullivan Plumbing Mel Davis Squirrel Creek Farm Supply Victoria Feed Horse & Hound

Another successful Beef-A-Rama was held July 1-3, 2011 at Homestead Herefords, home of the Cavanagh family. A total of 40 Ontario Junior Hereford Association members participated in the weekend’s events including, public speaking, art, literature, photography, judging, great griller, showmanship, bred & owned, commercial and conformation classes. Saturday evening the East Central Ontario Hereford zone hosted the juniors, their families and friends for a fabulous dinner and dance with a live band. As always, our sponsors and volunteers made this event possible. Thank you for your continued support!

2011 Canadian Bull Congress Show January 21 - 22, 2011

Camrose, Alberta

These two bulls came to the top while competing against 20 bulls from all breeds. The most interesting fact is that, of the 20 bulls that were competing for champion, 10 of them were Hereford. Way to go Hereford breeders!

Champion Senior Bull

Reserve Champion Senior Bull

JoNomn Hereford Ranch, Clyde, Alberta

Fenton Hereford Ranch Inc, Irma, Alberta

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general manager’s report Canadian Hereford Association

By Gordon Stephenson

G EN ER A L M A N AG ER , CA N A D IA N H ER EFO R D A S S O CIATI O N

The World Hereford Conference (WHC) is now less than a year away. Nine active CHA committees are working on event preparations.

Brad & Erin at the CHA office have been developing WHC communications and the WHC website link from www.hereford.ca .The site has received significant traffic to-date.

The conference schedule consists of four components: A pre-conference tour, the Calgary Stampede, the cattle events at Olds, Alberta (a 45 minute drive north of Calgary), and the post conference tours. Attendees are invited to participate in the entire program or to select the activities which suit their individual time schedules.

The pre-conference tour will start in Vancouver on July 8th, after which the B.C. Hereford Association, along with Henry and Vilma Braun and Copper Creek Ranch, will host cattle and social events on July 9th. The tour will follow with a visit to Douglas Lake Ranch, the largest commercial cattle operation in Canada, with 7,000 mother cows. Banff, Canada’s famous first national park, will be the next stop, on route to Calgary.

The year 2012 marks the 100th Anniversary of the Calgary Stampede, therefore reciprocal sponsorship and programming has been planned with Stampede officials.

Three major activities planned in conjunction with the Stampede, include a $10,000 sponsorship for the Grand Champion Hereford Steer, Hereford Cattle and displays in the Beef Trail Educational Area throughout the Stampede event, and the WHC Technical Session, which will have speakers from around the globe speaking on Beef Industry and Hereford topics. The WHC Planning Committee looks forward to a large entry of Hereford The WHC Planning Committee steers to compete for the $10,000 Grand Championship prize. looks forward to a large entry of Hereford steers to compete for the $10,000 Grand Championship prize.

WHC cattle events will be held in Olds, which has some of the best livestock facilities in Alberta. On Monday, July 16th, these events kick off with the WHC Junior Bonanza show and junior events.

Out-of-country and out-of-province juniors can use cattle from the barns, to increase participation and the announcer will give credit to the owners of the animals loaned to these juniors.

July 17th features the open show, with separate divisions for Polled and Horned animals.

Wednesday, July 18th is Ranch Day, featuring a pen show with three classes of combined horned and polled cow-calf pairs and classes of combined pens of three horned and polled yearling bulls. Herd bulls will also be displayed.

Limited edition Bronzes will be awarded to the Grand Champions for both open and pen shows.

The Post-conference tour will include stops in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. Saskatchewan tour stops include a Hutterite Colony, the RCMP Training Centre and Museum in Regina and a barbeque and cattle social at Crittenden Bros. The Manitoba tour includes a visit to the Agriculture Canada Research Station and supper at RSM Polled Herefords at Brandon.

Tour participants then fly to Toronto and travel to the Orangeville area on Monday July 23rd, where the Ontario Hereford Association is planning a full day of activities. On Tuesday, July 24th, the WHC tour will end with a visit to Niagara Falls.

Trucking Assistance Program A trucking assistance program for WHC exhibitors outside of Alberta will pay $50.00 per head on cattle from Saskatchewan and B.C., $75.00 per head for Manitoba and $100.00 per head for Ontario/Quebec. Funds will be paid directly to the exhibitors. The maximum amount budgeted for this purpose is $15,000. Therefore, depending on entry numbers, assistance may be pro-rated.

We regret that while financial support was dually considered for transportation from the Maritimes, the extra distance makes it cost-prohibitive.

Semen Marketing Opportunities To maximize marketing opportunities where semen sales are concerned, breeders are advised to have semen collected and available for sale at the time of the Conference. It takes about (4) months to go through testing and collection procedures and breeders are advised to use the New Zealand export health template.

Check CHA’s online WHC resources for up-to-date information. Pricing information will be available prior to year-end. Otherwise, I am happy to answer any of your questions personally.

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rapport du directeur général Association Canadienne Hereford

Par Gordon Stephenson

D I R ECT EU R G ÉN ÉR A L D E L’A S S O CIATI O N CA N A D I EN N E H ER EFO R D

La conférence mondiale Hereford approche à grand pas, elle débutera dans moins d’un an pour être exact. Il y a neuf sous comités qui travaillent pour la préparation des diverses événements dans le cadre de la conférence.

Au bureau de l’association Hereford, Brad et Erin se concentrent sur le développement de la communication, entre d’autre un nouveau lien dédié à la conférence à partir de notre site web principal soit www.hereford.ca. Nous avons déjà reçu un bon volume de trafique sur cette page.

Le programme consiste en quatre étapes : un tour pré-conférence, le Stampede de Calgary, les concours d’animaux à Olds, Alberta (environ 45 minutes au nord de Calgary) et un tour après-conférence. Les adhérents sont invités à participer au programme en entier ou en partie(s), selon leur disponibilité et leurs intérêts.

Le tour pré-conférence débutera à Vancouver le 8 juillet 2012 suivi d’une journée tenue par l’association Hereford de la ColombieBritannique et les propriétaires de Copper Creek Ranch; Henry et Vilma Braun, qui combinera des animaux en exhibit et une festivité champêtre le 9 juillet. Le tour se continuera à Douglas Lake Ranch, où on retrouve le plus grand troupeau commercial du Canada soit 7000 vaches en production. Il y a aura un arrêt à Banff, situé dans un parc national majestueux en route vers Calgary.

Le Stampede de Calgary célébrera son 100ième anniversaire en 2012. Nous profitons donc de commanditaires réciproques qui souhaitent supporter le centenaire du Stampede et notre conférence à part égale pour faire que ces deux événements grandioses soient des succès mémorables.

Il y aura trois activités conjointes avec le Stampede soient un grand prix de $10,000 pour le grand champion bouvillon Hereford, des bovins Hereford et des kiosques Herefords exposés dans le c adre du « C at tle Le comité de planification espère avoir un très grand nombre de bouvillons Trail », un salon interprétatif de l’élevage bovine et les en compétition pour le grand prix de $10,000. sessions techniques qui sont le cœur de la conférence. Celleci rassemblera des conférenciers mondiaux qui adresseront des sujets pertinents concernant la production de bœuf et la race Hereford. Le comité de planification espère avoir un très grand nombre de bouvillons en compétition pour le grand prix de $10,000. À partir du 16 juillet, les jugements d’animaux pur-sang se dérouleront à Olds, où la société d’agriculture possède de très belles installations. On commencera avec le Bonanza et les diverses compétitions pour les juniors.

Nous encourageons les juniors de l’extérieur à participer avec les animaux sur les lieux. Les propriétaires de ces animaux empruntés seront soulignés par le maitre de cérémonie tout au long des compétitions.

Le jugement général se tiendra le 17 juillet où les Hereford polled et ceux à corne seront présentés séparément. Mercredi le 18 juillet est notre journée “ranch” où les animaux seront présentés sans licou (libres) et jugés en groupes. Nous combinerons les animaux polled avec ceux à corne pour les trois classes de pairs vache/veau, et les classes de groupes de trois taureaux d’un an.

Nous invitons aussi les éleveurs à exposer leurs taureaux de service. Des sculptures de bronze seront offertes aux gagnants du jugement général et celui de groupe.

Le programme se terminera avec le tour après-conférence qui inclura des visites en Saskatchewan, au Manitoba et en Ontario.

En Saskatchewan, les participants visiteront une colonie Huttérite, le centre de formation pour la Gendarmerie Royale du Canada à Regina et un méchoui chez les éleveurs Hereford Crittenden Brothers. Le Manitoba offre une visite à la station de recherche d’Agriculture Canada et un souper chez RSM Polled Herefords à Brandon. Les gens s’envoleront ensuite vers l’Ontario pour une journée d’activités dans la région d’Orangeville lundi le 23 juillet, organisé par l’Association Hereford de l’Ontario. Le tour et la Conférence Mondiale Hereford se termineront aux Chutes Niagara le 24 juillet.

Programme d’assistance au transport Les exposants d’animaux venant de l’extérieur de l’Alberta recevront une assistance monétaire fixée par tête. Les animaux provenant de la Saskatchewan et de la Colombie-Britannique recevront $50 par tête, ceux provenant du Manitoba recevront $75 par tête tandis que les animaux de l’Ontario et du Québec ont droit à $100 par tête. Le paiement sera versé directement aux exposants. Toutefois veuillez noter que le budget pour l’assistance au transport est de $15,000 total. Si le nombre d’inscriptions dépasse les attentes, il est possible que les fonds soient distribués différemment.

Faire la mise en marché de semence Nous vous conseillons de faire récolter les taureaux que vous désirez promouvoir aux visiteurs, avant que la conférence commence.

Il y a des délais d’environ 4 mois pour la qualification de semence pour l’exportation ce qui peut être un obstacle lors de la négociation d’une vente de semence. Nous vous suggérons d’utiliser le protocole sanitaire de la Nouvelle Zélande pour qualifier la semence partout au monde. De plus amples renseignements se trouvent sur la page web de la conférence ou adressez vos questions directement à l’association canadienne Hereford.

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By Rob Flack Ron Wells President Rob Flack

O N TA R I O H ER EFO R D A S S O CIATI O N S EC R E TA RY/ M A N AG ER

Secretary/Manager Ron Wells

Managers Report In taking a look back over the first six months of Ontario Hereford Association happenings in 2011, the first change that stands out in our mind is the rising interest in the purchase of Hereford breeding stock. This has been very apparent by the number of inquiries from across the province and also by private treaty sale reports of both bulls and females.

Many of our breeders in Ontario have exported cattle to Russia this year with the prospects of additional orders in the current year.

It is evident that people in the beef industry are continuing to take a serious look at their input costs in relation to their returns and the time span in turnover. It certainly is not a time for our purebred breeders to sell their cull cattle to the new generation of breeders. We need to keep a strong genetic base with the imperfections eliminated in order to maintain and increase demand for the most sought after bloodlines within our breed. If you do not have production records and figures to answer your

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prospective buyers today, along with integrity and knowledge of the needs of the purchaser, then you are not going to be an industry leader in supplying the market.

As an association, we do know that your advertising is reaching the public via the Ontario Beef Magazine with your reference ads and have had a high percentage of results from this. The Ontario Hereford News also continues

of completing your transfer paperwork following the sale of purebred animals.

This is a time in which we need to take extra care of our customers and go beyond our call of duty, let alone do our duty in following ethical business practices. Let’s not lose the very thing that keeps you and me in business.

Let’s be leaders in the breeding stock business in every respect, and then we can say ‘Our customers came back’.

The first change that stands out in our mind is the rising interest in the purchase of Hereford breeding stock. This has been very apparent by the number of inquiries from across the province and also by private treaty sale reports of both bulls and females. to offer you the opportunity to reach a broad spectrum of the industry, so keep your name and product visible in order to be in the marketplace.

I cannot over-emphasize the importance

The Association held its annual general meeting at Ottawa in February at which time our new Junior Ambassador, Cassandra Gorrill, was chosen. The guest speaker was Robert Lang , semiretired professional agrologist, who has worked in more than one hundred and fifty countries for international development agencies and has provided technical seminars in virtually every continent for a broad spectrum of agriculture.

In sync with the association’s business plan, the new board of directors was formed with Rob Flack positioned as President for the third year to continue implementation of the three-year plan for the association. Rob highlighted that the association has balanced the books for the past year and is endeavouring to increase the membership that remained on par for 2010. Our association has

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The Canadian National Hereford Show will be held at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto in 2013, and the Canadian Annual

President’s Message Dear OHA Members, Stronger cattle prices and an increasing OHA membership are two positive signals that have Ontario Hereford breeders off to a great start in 2011.

We were very well hosted by the Ottawa Valley Zone for our 2011 annual meeting last February in the nation’s capital.

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look forward to publicly thanking Barry and his family at the Royal Winter Fair, this November, for their support and use of Hereford seedstock.

With exciting plans in place for the World Hereford Conference in Alberta next year, the OHA looks forward to hosting a unique post-conference tour in Ontario. A visit to Niagara Falls, a cattle demonstration at the Orangeville Fair Grounds, an evening summer social featuring “Foodland” Ontario cuisine

In keeping with the objectives set forth in the OHA Business Plan, we are pleased to report positive results from the Ontario West Zone amalgamation, an increase of twelve new members in Ontario since the beginning of the year and the recognition of Barry Osterndorff and Family of Elmwood, Ontario, as our Commercial Cattleman of the year.

General Meeting and Bonanza will be held in Ontario in 2014.

By the time of publication, the OJHA Beef-A-Rama show will be history for the year, as we anticipate the activities of that great week-end in July. Plan now to be a participant in our Mark of Excellence Shows across the province and in the Ontario fall sales. Don’t forget the Eastern National Hereford Show at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair on November 5, 2011.

Ron Wells, Manager, Ontario Hereford Association

Dr. Lang & Burt Grundy

2012 OHA-AGM and Junior Meeting to be held at the Holiday Inn, Hotel & Conference Center in Guelph, Ontario, April 13-14, 2012. The later date (April vs. February) was chosen to encourage greater attendance and participation.

In keeping with the objectives set forth in the OHA Business Plan, we are pleased to report positive results from the Ontario West Zone amalgamation, an increase of twelve new members in Ontario since the beginning of the year and the recognition of Barry Osterndorff and Family of Elmwood, Ontario, as our Commercial Cattleman of the year. We

2011 Ambassador Award Recipients

and dynamic musical entertainment, will ensure our foreign guests enjoy top class hospitality.

On behalf of the OHA board of directors, please enjoy a pleasure-filled and safe summer.

Rob Flack, President, Ontario Hereford Association

Ontario Show Bull of the Year Elm-Lodge Twitter ET 70W: Award presented by Robert Thurston (left) to Grant Elmhirst Ontario Show Female of the Year Hill’s Delilah 146X: Awarded to Hill’s Polled Herefords

RTV500 Kubota side-by-side The OHA is selling tickets for a draw to be made after the 2011 Royal Winter Fair Hereford show for $20/ticket.

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provincial reports MANITOBA

By Stephanie Kopeechuk

The Manitoba Hereford Association (MHA) held its Annual General Meeting on January 8, 2011 at the Royal Oak Inn. One new director was added to the Board and that was Cody Allison. The rest of the Board of Directors remains the same, with one out-going director, Keith Troop, who was thanked for his hard work and dedication to the association.

The MHA honored its 2010 Commercial B reeder of the Year at the AG M banquet. A steel metal gate sign of a

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open females and yearling bulls.

This is a great opportunity to market our breeding stock overseas and we hope to see more of these export opportunities in the future. One small repercussion was our inability to hold the MHA Bull & Female Sale this spring, as the numbers just weren’t there to make a sale feasible.

The MHA is having its display board re-designed. Phil & Vivian Jones from Penrose Farms, continue to travel throughout Manitoba to different

the Ronald Sangster Memorial Bull & Female Class. The winners of these classes qualify for the Royal Bank Supreme Class at Canadian Western Agribition in the fall.

Nearly 40 head of cattle represented Manitoba at this year’s Bonanza. We honour the enthusiasm of our Manitoba juniors. Several of our Manitoba directors were also present at Bonanza in Saskatoon, which coincides with Hereford Week in Canada and the CHA’s AGM.

Once again, several of our Manitoba Hereford breeders attended the Manitoba “Ag Days” which is held at the end of January at the Keystone Center in Brandon. There were more Hereford bulls displayed this year at the Bull Congress than there have been in the past several years. This event is one of the highest attended agricultural shows in Manitoba and is a great way to display and market bulls.

Hereford bull was presented to Ruth Zahorodny (Zahorodny Ranch), which is located on the north end of Peonan Point, Manitoba. This presentation was also re-done at the Lundar Bull Show & Sale on April 16, 2011.

Once again, several of our Manitoba Hereford breeders attended the Manitoba “Ag Days” which is held at the end of January at the Keystone Center in Brandon. There were more Hereford bulls displayed this year at the Bull Congress than there have been in the past several years. This event is one of the highest attended agricultural shows in Manitoba and is a great way to display and market bulls.

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Hereford events with the display board and promotional materials.

They attended the Hereford influence sales at Virden, Ashern and Brandon, the Manitoba Beef Producers Annual General Meeting and the Manitoba Grazing School. Phil and Vivian put a lot of effort into promoting the Hereford breed and their hard work is very much appreciated.

It was interesting to note that we were the only breed display at the Manitoba Grazing School and there was only one other breed display at the Manitoba Beef Producers meetings. We hope that our new display will generate even more interest in the breed.

The MHA Summer MOE Show was held at Harding, Manitoba on July 22nd, 2011. The Harding Fair offers

The 2011 MHA Field Day, to be held on Saturday, August 27th, 2011 will be hosted by AM Ranching and Batho Farms Ltd. of Oak Lake, Manitoba. This field day has MOE Show status and will be offering heifer calf, bull calf, bred yearling, cow/calf, Breeder’s Herd, and Get of Sire classes.

The MHA Fall MOE show will be held in November, in conjunction with the Manitoba Livestock Expo.

The M HA will be printing a new Hereford Directory and plans to have it completed prior to the World Hereford Congress in 2012. If you are interested in advertising in our new directory, contact any one of the Manitoba directors for more information.

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By Marilyn Charlton President Chris Lees

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General Manager Marilyn Charlton

The Southwest Hereford Zone hosted the Saskatchewan Hereford Association’s Annual General Meeting on June 11, 2011 at Swift Current.

Elected to the Saskatchewan Hereford Association Board of Directors to serve a three year term were: Karen Lischka, of Steelman, Greg Barber, of Leslie, Saskatchewan, Stephen Myer, of Maidstone and Doug Mann, of Swift Current. Chris Lees, of Arcola, was reelected as President and Doug Mann was re-elected Vice President.

Elected to the Canadian Hereford Association (CHA) Board of Directors are David Reid and Doug Mann. The association would like to thank Garth Charlton and Harvey Duke for their efforts and time spent at the national

delivers sustainable results in terms of strengthening the organization and increasing its growth potential. The board continues to examine directional changes necessary for greater profit, so that it can reinvest wisely into the future of the organization.

Structural changes to the SHA board were made at last year’s annual meeting so that board members are now elected to serve a three-year term, eliminating zone representatives to the board. Zones will continue to have a structure and Hereford promotion events are still encouraged on a regional level.

The Southeast Hereford zone hosted its annual meeting on April 17 where Henry Taylor and the Hogberg family were honoured. Plans are in place for this

November. We are pleased to announce that We s H udson from Harrison , Arkansas has accepted our invitation to judge the show. Red Coat Membership tickets are now on sale and can be purchased from the SHA office or any board member. We invite everyone to join us in Regina, Saskatchewan, from November 21st to the 26th, 2011.

The association will be producing a 2012 Breeders’ Directory in time for the World Hereford Conference of the same year. We encourage SHA members to take advantage of the opportunity to advertise their farms and breeding programs in this directory, along with any other relevant information.

As I write this repor t, we all look forward to Hereford Week in Canada

The association will be producing a 2012 Breeders’ Directory in time for the World Hereford Conference of the same year. We encourage SHA members to take advantage of the opportunity to advertise their farms and breeding programs in this directory, along with any other relevant information. level on our behalf, to ensure that our breed remains strong within the industry.

Directors currently on the Board are: Gordon Gustafson, of Imperial, David Reid, of Saskatoon, Jeromy Charlton, of Weyburn, Chad Wilson, of Wawota, Gordon Craig, of North Battleford, Dale Shillington, of Prince Albert, and Grant Crittenden, of Watrous, Saskatchewan.

The Saskatchewan Hereford Association (SHA) reported a profit for the year ending 2010 –a result of the Board’s long-term planning efforts for the organization. These efforts demonstrate that a realistic and relevant budget

zone’s annual MOE (Mark of Excellence) Field Day to be held on August 13th at the farm of Clay Enterprises, Wapella, Saskatchewan.

The Northwest Hereford Club held its annual meeting on February 25th at North Battleford, where Buddy Leachman was presented with the club’s Breeder of the Year Award. This zone will be hosting its annual Field Day on August 11th at the farm of Carl & Dalynn Ramsay of Cut Knife, Saskatchewan.

The SHA will once again host the Canadian National Hereford Show at C a n a d i a n We s te r n A g r i b i ti o n i n

and Bonanza 2011 in Saskatoon this July.

Thank you, in advance, to everyone who contributed to the success of this event!

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By Nels Nixdorff A LB ER TA H ER EFO R D A S S O CIATI O N PR E SI D EN T & Michele Rutledge A LB ER TA H ER EFO R D A S S O CIATI O N M A N AG ER Manager Michele Rutledge

President’s Message Greetings from me, my wife Terri, and our sons Hal, Adam and Coleman.

Preparing this report has given me the opportunity to reflect on the past year as an Alberta Hereford Association board member and as a Hereford breeder in general.

Over the past year, we have seen a huge upswing in demand for good quality bulls. It seems like everywhere I go, someone is asking me about bulls. I believe we are at the beginning of a great trend for our breed and the cattle industry as a whole. At every bull sale I was at in the last year, optimism and

Alberta Hereford Breeders’ Directory that will be available in February 2012.

We produce a new directory every four years. The Canadian Hereford Digest is once again undertaking this project on our behalf. Make sure you are a part of it and place your ad by contacting Brad Dubeau at the CHA and Digest office.

Our Junior Hereford members had a wonderful show at Synergy at Olds in July, with attendance higher than ever.

Bonanza was also supported with great enthusiasm from Alberta. Our parent adviser Justine (Simpson) Gardner gives the juniors a youthful energy that is contagious and is greatly appreciated.

Remember, there will be a big Junior

Over the past year, we have seen a huge upswing in demand for good quality bulls. It seems like everywhere I go, someone is asking me about bulls. sale averages were tremendous.

If we want to make sure this trend continues, we will have to make sure we continue to improve our cowherds.

Remember, if good quality females are produced from the bulls you sell, you will have a happy customer that will continue to come back. We are in the bull selling business but . . . . it’s all about the mamma.

As members of the Alberta Hereford Association’s Board of Directors our main job is to promote our breed. We are always looking for new ideas from our Alberta membership or from anyone in Canada.

I believe it is a major step forward that our breed now owns our official breed publication. Watch for our new updated

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sh ow during th e World H ereford Conference in Olds in 2012.

The World Hereford Conference is coming upon us very quickly. Full efforts from this point forward will be made to make sure this virtually ‘once in a lifetime event’ is well used to promote our breed to Alberta, Canada and the world. Remember, this event is not just for purebred breeders. We want maximum coverage and we need to ensure we welcome as many commercial breeders as we can to this great event.

Please invite your family, friends, neighbors and all cattle enthusiasts.

By the time the WHC is here in 2012 it will have been 36 years since it was here last so it truly is a rare opportunity.

In closing, I would like to thank our

Secretary/Manager, Michele for all her hard work, time and patience in the past year. Onward and upward and see you all down the road!

Nels Nixdorff

Managers Report So far, 2011 has been another busy, productive year. The Northern Alberta Hereford Club was present at the Canadian Bull Congress in Camrose.

Besides having a booth, the club took part in the Steak Challenge. Although the Herefords did not win any prizes at the Steak Challenge this year, this is always a friendly, competitive event.

The Hereford booth at the Calgary Bull Sale was a busy place. Hundreds of cups of coffee were given away along with popcorn and homemade cookies.

Thanks to those who brought cookies to the booth. Our cookies and popcorn truly set us apart as a breed and visitors to the booth marveled at this small gesture of hospitality.

Our spring radio ad campaign was well received. We focus on spring bull sales for these radio spots and we attempt to reach as far across the province as possible.

We received many requests for 4-H breed recognition awards this spring.

The print this year is Bernie Brown’s ‘A Promising Future’. As well, the AHA office has given away quite a few additional promotional items for those 4-H members who have won Grand Champion, Reserve Champion or Best Rate of Gain honours at the club, district or regional level with a Hereford or Hereford influence 4-H project.

At press time, the AHA was busy planning its Annual General Meeting for 2011. This year’s combined event with

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the Keith Gilmore Foundation Charity Golf Classic took place on July 6th and 7th at Hanna, Alberta. The East Central Hereford Club co-hosted the AGM and distributed the following honours: Purebred Breeder of the Year: Little Poplar

the largest bull calf futurity in Canada and last year featured 175 bull calves. Watch for Field Day results in the next Digest!

Plans are underway for the 4th annual Hereford Genes Event. This has proven to be a successful event and has brought

Our spring radio ad campaign was well received.

We focus on spring bull sales for these radio spots and we attempt to reach as far across the province as possible.

welcomes your suggestions on new marketing strategies. Please approach any AHA board member (Board of Directors are listed on our website: www.Albertaherefords.com ) or the AHA office with your ideas.

Michelle Rutledge

Grove Herefords of Forestburg Hall of Fame: Clark and Byrne Huston of Sibbald Commercial Cattleman of the Year: Triple M Farms of Acadia Valley Dan and Gwen Aebly hosted a Lobster Boil after the afternoon meetings.

The 17th Annual Hardisty Field Day hosted by the Northern Alberta Hereford Club is scheduled for August 19th, 2011. This is

new life to Farmfair. More details will be available as the date approaches.

We are excited about our new Alberta Directory to be mailed in February 2012.

All Alberta Hereford Association members will be included in the directory but you can also place an ad at a reasonable rate.

Contact Brad Dubeau at the office of the Digest for more information!

The Alber ta Hereford A ssociation

Hall of Fame: Clark and Byrne Huston of Sibbald

Purebred Breeder of the Year: Little Poplar Commercial Cattleman of the Year: Grove Herefords of Forestburg Triple M Farms of Acadia Valley

President: Nels Nixdorff Manager: Michele Rutledge RR2, Airdrie, AB T4B 2A4 Box 570 Hardisty, AB T0B 1V0 Ph (403) 948-5604 Fax (403) 948-3300 Ph (780) 888-2813 Fax (780) 888-2814 Email: nnixdorff@efirehose.net Email: abherefords@xplornet.com Website: www.albertaherefords.com 125

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By Bob Gowans PR E SI D EN T O F T H E B C H ER EFO R D A S S O CIATI O N The 2011 Spring Bull Sales showed h i g h e r s a l e ave r a g e s a n d m o r e optimism than has been witnessed for some time. This was evident in all breeds. The annual Pine Butte Horned Hereford Bull Sale led off in BC and was held at the Kamloops BC Livestock yards on February 19th. Thirty 2-yearold bulls averaged $3,620 with a top price of $ 5,100, paid by the Douglas Lake Cattle Company. Bulls sold to both

DT Motley Farms and Erin and Quentin Motley of Czar, Alberta.

There were 91 bulls on test at the Lazy B Test Center at Fort Fraser BC, of which 26 were Herefords from four breeders. Test began in October 2010 and ended March 4th with an average pen gain on the Hereford bulls of 3.21 pounds.

The Yellowhead Hereford Breeders held their 31st AGM in Vanderhoof on

11th and was hosted by the Prince George, Nechako Valley and Quesnel Cattlemens Associations. Brad Dubeau from the CHA attended the convention and set up the Hereford Booth. He was assisted by Trevor and Janice Tapp of Copper-T Ranch from Fraser Lake, BC. Brad was able to come a couple of days early and visited several ranches in the area before the meeting.

The booth was in a good location, had

Charly Belsham from the Central BC Test Centre reported that the quality of Herefords has continually improved since he started the Test Centre 16 years ago. new and repeat buyers.

The Vanderhoof Invitational Bull Sale was held on April 9th with 56 bulls selling. Ten Hereford bulls averaged $2,580. The high selling Hereford bull was a yearling bull consigned by Richardson Ranch and sold for $3700 to Oistein Vannebo from Prince George, BC. There were 130 bulls of all breeds sold at the 74th Williams Lake Bull Sale for an average of $3,079. Of these, 48 were yearling and two-year-old Herefords, and they averaged $3,272.

The show was judged by Wayne Pincott from Buffalo Creek, BC. The Grand Champion, LFH Talent 18T 32W was consigned by Little Fort Herefords of Little Fort, BC and sold for $4,500 to Silverado Cattle Co., Okotoks, Alberta. The Reserve Grand Champion, LFH Trident 279R ET 5W was also an entry of Little Fort Herefords and sold for $3,400 to Fraser River Ranching of Williams Lake, BC. The high seller was Deanfield 96K Standard 3W, consigned by Deanfield Ranch of Kamloops, BC and sold for $7,100 to

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the evening before the Vanderhoof Invitational Bull Sale on April 8th.

Charly Belsham from the Central BC Test Centre reported that the quality of Herefords has continually improved since he started the Test Centre 16 years ago.

It was announced at the meeting that long standing friend and member, Graeme Johnstone, was unable to attend for health reasons. Graeme passed away on April 27th in Smithers, BC. He was a founding member of the Yellowhead Club. Graeme never missed a field day or MOE Show in which the club was involved. He was the backbone of the Bulkey Valley Exhibition Hereford show and the club will hold this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show in his memory. Graeme will be missed by all who knew him.

The Thompson Valley Hereford Club held its Christmas dinner and AGM on November 20th in Tappen, BC. The West Coast Club also its their AGM in the late fall.

The BC Cattlemens Association held its AGM in Prince George on June 9,10,&

many visitors, and Brad, Trevor and Janice felt it was well worthwhile.

Thanks to all of them.

The 1st annual Pacific Invitational AllBreeds Female Sale is set to take place on Saturday, October 1st, 2011, at the Williams Lake Stock Yards at 1:00 p.m.

This sale will showcase some of BCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier purebred genetics and is open to all registered cattle breeds. There will be a small selection of prospect steers on offer as well.

This event was spearheaded by Jack Brown, BC Angus Association Fieldman.

Jack is the chairman and there is one representative from each breed to form the committee. This is a new concept in BC, which we are hoping will generate some new excitement in the seedstock industry.

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By Bobby Jo Hickey M A R ITI M E S H ER EFO R D A S S O CIATI O N S EC R E TA RY Greetings from the East!!

First and foremost, I would like to introduce the new Maritime Association: 2011 Executive: President: Phillip Thorne Vice President: Gordan Raymond Manager: Bobby Jo Hickey 2011 Directors: Nova Scotia: Brian Trueman, Andy Carter, Mary Dewar.

New Brunswick: Bruce Hickey, Gordan Raymond, Phillip Thorne.

Prince Edward Island: Ernie Pippy, Hubert Proud, Brendan Crane.

In April, we had a good sale of Herefords at the Nappan Bull Test Station, coming from all three provinces.

We welcomed a few new members this year, bringing our total to 58 members.

In the last weekend of May, we welcomed Gordon Stephenson to our meeting held in Sussex, New Brunswick. The meeting was hosted by Gordon and Allison Raymond, of Earlybird Farm.

The Southeastern Hereford Club hosted a great weekend for the Junior Show while the adults attended the annual meeting. During the weekend, one of the events was a tour of Mrs. Dunsters’ Donuts. Everyone had a great time and we wish to send out a HUGE THANK YOU to the organizers of the weekend and everyone who helped out.

Last summer, during the last week of August and the first week of September, there were a few more than 150 head of cattle being shown around the Maritimes at different exhibitions. We are anxiously waiting to see what kind of numbers we can pull up this summer. There will be five Mark of Excellence (MOE) Shows held throughout the Maritimes this summer and all exhibitors are anxiously awaiting the start of the show season.

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By André Beaumont

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En 2010, les éleveurs du Québec furent bien heureux de votre visite pour le 150 ième anniversaire de la CHA et le Bonanza 2010 à St-Hyacinthe, du 14-17 juillet, 2010.

Ce fut un grand succès, merci à tous ceux qui ont participé: les commanditaires, les jeunes de partout, les parents, les organisateurs et surtout la famille de Paul et Jennifer Mastine.

Nous souhaitons bonne chance au Bonanza 2011.

Les éleveurs du Québec nous représenterons lors des expositions cet été dans six expositions MOE. Voir les résultats sur notre site internet: www.herefordquebec.ca .

La finale a eu lieu le 8 octobre à Victoriaville, pour la douzième édition de l’Expo Bœuf, avec des herefords du Québec, du Nouveau-Brunswick et de l’Ontario.

Ce printemps, il y a eu une seule entrée de Station d’épreuve,

soit à Asbestos 1, avec 13 taureaux. L’encan a lieu le 26 février, 2011 avec une moyenne de vente de 2350$. Les stations sont une belle vitrine pour la race, pour faire la comparaison avec les autres races. Les résultats des “gains” et des ventes sont disponibles sur www.agrireseau.qc.ca .

Cette automne ont vous attend au deux ventes de Hereford: soit la vente de production de Triara le 2 octobre, 2011 et la première vente chez Norman Taylor et Ben Coté, le 22 octobre, 2011.

Nous poursuivons notre promotion d’un bon d’achat de 1000$ parmi les acheteurs de taureaux en 2011 et nous rajoutons 1000$ pour les acheteurs de femelles, applicable sur un autre achat en 2012.

We were delighted to host many of you last year for the 150th CHA anniversary and 2010 Bonanza in St-Hyacinthe July 1417. Thanks to your participation, our sponsor support, our organizing committee, parents and juniors, the event was a huge success. Special thanks to Paul and Jennifer Mastine and their family for their hard work. Best of luck to all at Bonanza 2011.

The Quebec Hereford breeders had the opportunity to show at six MOE shows last summer. We invite you to check out the results on our website at www.herefordquebec.ca. The grand finale took place at Expo Boeuf in Victoriaville on October 8th where Herefords from Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick competed.

There were 13 Hereford bulls on test at the Asbestos Test

Station and they sold at the first bull sale on February 26th, 2011 for an average of $2350. Bull test stations continue to be the main marketing venue and an opportunity to compare ourselves with other breeds. Performance results and prices are posted on line at: www.agrireseau.qc.ca We would like to invite you to the two Hereford production sales in Quebec this fall. The first one will be at Triara on October 2 and the last one is that of Norman Taylor and Ben Coté scheduled for October 22, 2011.

We are continuing with our buyer’s incentive program by drawing a $1000 credit among all 2011 bull buyers and we have added another $1000 credit to be drawn among all female buyers. The credit is applicable on a Hereford purchase in 2012.

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By Kaitlyn Reid Hello everyone!

It has been my pleasure to serve as your president for the past year and an honour to be part of the largest junior association in Canada!

D e l e g a te s f r o m a c r o s s C a n a d a brought enthusiasm and ideas from their respective regions to our annual National delegate meeting, which took place in March in Calgary, Alberta.

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Western Agribition events.

Bonanza 2011 - “Bridging Friendships” - is our National Junior Hereford Show.

This show, which took place from July 27th to the 30th, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan , is always full of excitement, friendly competition a n d o p p o r tu n iti e s to b u il d n ew friendships. Over 275 animals were entered in this competition, exhibited by approximately 150 juniors from

events where they are present.

All breeders, be advised that a junior in your area will soon be calling to ask you to renew or purchase an ad in the 2012 CJHA Calendar. These calendars will be distributed to all members across Canada.

The CJHA is excited to be part of the upcoming 2012 World Hereford Conference. The World Hereford Conference Junior Bonanza will be

All breeders, be advised that a junior in your area will soon be calling to ask you to renew or purchase an ad in the 2012 CJHA Calendar. These calendars will be distributed to all members across Canada. programs and projects and discussed ways to attract new members.

The CJHA has had a busy year preparing for many different events, such as the Heifer lottery, Auction and Bonanza.

The Heifer lottery draw will take place on Saturday, July 30th, during the Bonanza banquet. Make sure that you have paid your annual activity fee in order to be eligible to participate in this great event and for your chance to win a credit towards the purchase of a Hereford female from a participating sale or breeder. Watch for updates on our website for a complete list of participating sales and breeders, at http://www.hereford.ca/juniors.asp .

The CJHA Auction is one of the council’s main fundraisers that allows us to offer many programs and activities to our members. The silent auction (also a live auction) will start off with many exciting items at Bonanza. Bids can be submitted to one of the national delegates (contact info on CJHA website, as listed above). Watch for additional items to be auctioned in support of the CJHA during Canadian

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across Canada and the USA. The “Future of the Breed” Scholarships will be presented by the Council during Bonanza 2011. The 2011Honour Roll inductees will also be presented at the

held in Olds, Alberta in July of 2012.

More details will be available in our fall newsletter.

I look forward to seeing many of you at this year’s Hereford Week in Canada

The 2011 Semen donation program was a success with overwhelming support from Hereford breeders across Canada. Thank you for your support! It generated a lot of participation from juniors across Canada. awards banquet. Stay tuned for more details and see our fall newsletter for more information.

The 2011 Semen donation program was a success with overwhelming support from Hereford breeders across Canada. Thank you for your support! It generated a lot of participation from juniors across Canada.

Juniors, remember to thank the breeders who donated semen, at

and Bonanza 2011 in Saskatoon!

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact me or any of our national delegates.

Our contact information can be found on the Hereford website.

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Honour Roll Memorial Scroll

The Canadian Hereford Association honours individuals who are recognized as leaders in the development of the Hereford breed in Canada.

The Award is not limited to Hereford breeders. Guidelines for the award recognize that many persons on the perimeters of the Hereford industry make outstanding contributions as employees, elected representatives, research scientists, livestock specialists, etc. For these reasons, it is the intention of the Canadian Hereford Association to consider everyone associated with the Hereford industry in making such awards.

We place on the Honour Roll those living persons who we feel have been most instrumental in the well being of the industry. A Memorial Scroll recognizes leaders who have passed on.

It is not a coincidence that those persons who have made an outstanding contribution to the Hereford industry are also very much involved with their families in community affairs. In many instances, while we know them best for their leadership in the Hereford industry, they are also leaders in other phases of agricultural production.

The assistance and knowledge of such men and women improves the well being of everyone who comes in contact with them. Many of our Canadian Hereford industry leaders have been recognized nationally and internationally for their unselfish dedication to the improvement of life for their fellow man.

The Board of Directors, CANADIAN HEREFORD ASSOCIATION

Memorial Scroll Orville “Orval” Troop Orval Troop was born in 1926 in the Burnside district, west of Portage, Manitoba.

Orval began his education in Burnside’s oneroom school, and completed his education at Portage Collegiate.

Orval lived and farmed his whole life in the district where he was born. In his teens, Orval purchased his first Hereford heifer from Dr. Dixon of Bagot, and another from Marvin and Roy Treffry. Those two heifers were the foundation of his herd, Trumac Herefords. The Trumac operation ran over 200 cows at its peak. The Trumac name originates from the combination of Troop and McConochie, Orval’s last name and that of his first wife Helen.

Orval grew up in a time when horses were still commonly used in the fields. He took pride in his pioneer heritage, and loved to pass

on stories about the threshing gangs, horses, machinery, and necessary skills from that era. He was a regular participant in local and regional ploughing matches, and took top prize on numerous occasions. He also had a team of Belgians that he used on the farm and showcased in driving competitions at local fairs. As late as the 1970’s, he still had a working binder and taught his family to make and stook sheaves just like the pioneers.

Sports were a lifelong passion for Orval. He particularly loved hockey, curling, fastball, baseball, slowpitch softball, and participated in community leagues for many years. He was a founding member of the Burnside Curling Club in 1948, which remains active today.

After the formation of the Burnside Historical Committee in the late 1980’s, Or val ser ved as VicePresident and an active collector of information about the early days of the Burnside District. Orval spent many volunteer hours assisting the Burnside Curling Club, Burnside

Historical Committee, and the local 4-H clubs; where he led the 4-H Seed Club and volunteered with the Poplar Bluff 4-H Beef Club. He also served as Deacon, and later Elder of the 7th Day Adventist Church in Portage, which he helped build.

As a cattleman, Orval traveled frequently to sales throughout western Canada. He loved Alberta and Saskatchewan, and made at least two trips “out west” every year to attend Hereford sales and shows. Every fall, he would travel to Alberta with his friend Bob Kerr to sales, often bringing home a new herd sire prospect. A highlight trip for him was the National Western Stock Show in Denver, where a bull he owned an interest in was being shown.

In 1989, Orval had a Mark of E xcel lence show at Por t age Exhibition named in his honour.

He was recognized for 50 years in the Hereford industry at the Good As Gold Sale in 2000. Orval was involved with the South East Hereford Zone in Manitoba, as well as the Manitoba Hereford

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Orval was held in tremendous

regard by all who knew him. When his sons, Doug and Keith, donated a heifer in his memory to the Manitoba Hereford Association, the heifer brought over $4000.00 When Orval passed away on August 30, 2009, the Hereford breed lost

a great ambassador and friend.

It is with great respect that the Canadian Hereford Association inducts Or val Troop into its Memorial Scroll.

Honour Roll Donald Cross Donald Cross was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1932. His family’s histor y is intertwined with the foundation of the province of Alberta, with Donald’s grandfather, A.E. Cross moving west to work on the Cochrane Ranch in 1884. A.E. subsequently established the a7 Ranche and Calgary Brewing and Malting Company. Donald’s father, James (J.B.) Cross, established Bar Pipe Farms in 1953 along the Sheep River. Donald attended Strathcona School in Calgary, Alberta and Appleby College in Oakv ille, Ontario. He obtained his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta in 1954 and his MBA from the University of Western Ontario in 1958. Donald and his wife, Shan have four children and four grandchildren.

Donald’s business career began with the Calgary Brewing and Malting Company in Calgar y, followed by Canadian Breweries in Toronto. He was also active in the hotel business located in both the North West Territories and British Columbia. He served as a longtime director and past president of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede. Donald is also a past president of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce and the Ranchman’s Club. The community involvement doesn’t end there; Donald and Shan are very active in the Millarville community as well. In addition to facilitating the amalgamation 130

of the Millarville Racing & Sports, the Priddis/Millarville Agricultural Society, and the Race Track Hall Association (while he was President of the Racing Society), Donald and Shan were active with the historic Christ Church at Millarville. Donald is currently the President of Probus Club of Calgary.

I n a d d i t i o n t o D o n a l d ’s ex t raord inar y commun it y involvement, he has played an active role at Bar Pipe Farms (now Bar Pipe Hereford Ranch, under the management of his son, Jay) since its inception. He was instrumental in the establishment and management of the Hereford commercial herd at the Millarville farm. The Millarville operation eventually became a purebred herd with the purchase of the Pirmez Creek herd from Earl Harwood.

Bar Pipe’s initial focus was its November production sale, but that soon expanded to include the Lethbridge & Calgary Bull Sales. The Bar Pipe name has long been synonymous with superior herdsires. Repeat customers from across Canada and the United States attended Bar Pipe’s production sale, which ran for over 50 years. Bar Pipe’s string at the Calgary Bull Sale has produced many Champions, Reserve Champions and Division Champions. The high selling bull at Calgary Bull sale carried the BP prefix at least 5 times in recent memory. Influential herd sires raised by Bar Pipe include BP Red Standard 137W, who left landmark sons and daughters throughout Canada and BP Regal Masterpiece ET 350X, who became a foundation sire of the Colyer herd in Idaho.

BP Sandman 146D’s progeny have grossed over $200,000 in sales to date. Bar Pipe females have also shown their worth in many herds.

Of special note is BP 146D Lady 30L, whose son, BCDO 326N, was the Supreme Champion bull at Agribition in 2005.

The gates at Bar Pipe have been opened time and time again to Hereford breeders from around the world. Donald and his father always ensured Bar Pipe’s excellent hospitality. Bar Pipe hosted a special function at the World Hereford Conference in 1976, as well as numerous tours and field days – including the Canadian Hereford Association’s Annual Meeting in 2004. Bar Pipe has always been a tremendous supporter of the CJHA and the Keith Gilmore Foundation, where Donald was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for 20 years.

Donald and Shan have traveled extensively across the USA, Britain and Australia, fostering personal relationships and marketing not only their own cattle, but Canadian cattle. They have attended the Royal Easter Show in Sydney, and were regular attendees at the National Western Stock Show in Denver as well as all the major Canadian cattle shows.

Bar Pipe receives a large number of international visitors each year, who often tour other Canadian operations during their visits. The BP prefix is prominent in many countries throughout the world.

It is with great pleasure that the Canadian Hereford Association inducts Donald Cross into its Honour Roll.

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Honour Roll Ted & Mina Serhienko

Ted Serhienko was bor n in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1948, and grew up on a small cattle and grain farm at Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan. Mina was born in Holland, and later immigrated to Canada, where she was raised on a dairy farm outside of Balzac, Alberta. Ted graduated Blaine Lake Composite High School in 1966, and went on to attend the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Agriculture for one semester. Mina graduated from high school in Airdrie, and furthered her education at SAIT, as a Dental Assistant. Ted and Mina have four children and ten grandchildren.

Ted spent many of his younger years as an accomplished cattle fitter. In fact, it was these skills that enabled the financing of his herd of Polled Hereford cattle, established under the name of T Bar C Cattle Company, Ltd. In late 1979 through 1980, Mina worked at the Canadian Hereford Association office under Duncan Porteous. Together, Mina and Ted established Totally Tropical Interiors, a silk f loral design company in Saskatchewan, which they owned and operated for over a decade.

The dispersal of the Polled Hereford herd did not mark the end of Ted’s involvement in the Hereford breed and cattle industry, but rather, a different beginning. Ted began a marketing firm under the same name, T Bar C Cattle Company, which has been highly successful.

Managing sales in eight provinces, Ted has marketed purebred

breeding stock, semen and embryos around the world for almost three decades, while Mina manages the business end of the operation. They were heavily involved with sourcing Hereford females for the first of several live exports to Russia.

Hereford sales remain the core of the business, but T Bar C is well recognized in other breeds as well.

T Bar C is currently involved with over 50 sales annually and employs a staff of 10 people.

Ted has judged shows throughout North America, including Canadian Western Agribition, the RBC Beef Supreme Challenge and the First Lady Classic.

Ted and Mina founded Today’s Publishing, a publishing company devoted to livestock marketing. In addition to the complete design and production of magazines for the Hereford and Ang us breeds (Herefords Today and To d ay ’s A ng u s A dv a nt ag e ) , Today’s Publishing is responsible for numerous sale catalogues, brochures, and the publishing of the Limousin Voice. Today’s publishing was also responsible for one of the first semen reference catalogues, “The Bulls of the Breed,” which has been imitated many times over.

Ted and Mina also established the website “Buyagro.com,” which is Canada’s largest multi-breed marketing website. T Bar C also designs and hosts websites for many producers across the cattle industry.

During his fitting years, Ted taught livestock fitting and preparation classes throughout the province.

Ted has served on the Prairieland Exhibition Agricultural Committee, as well as the board of directors of Prair ieland Exhibit ion for two terms. He also chaired the Saskatoon Fall Fair, where he established the Cinderella Classic – the first all-breed heifer jackpot show to be judged by women in the livestock industry. In addition,

he founded the Steer Marketing Committee for junior activities, enabling the business community to have greater involvement with 4-H and the regional steer show and sale. Ted is a committee member of the RBC Supreme Challenge at Canadian Western Agribition and a long time volunteer for both Agribition and Prairieland Exhibition.

Ted and Mina, as well as the whole T Bar C staff, are heavily committed to Canada’s juniors. They attend and promote junior activities across the country, as well as donating their time, money and often semen to various junior projects and endeavours. T Bar C’s support for youth in agriculture is highlighted by the T Bar C Invitational Golf Tournament, which hosts its 4th annual tournament this year. All profits are returned to youth in agriculture, which includes the junior breed associations and the Junior Beef Extreme at Canadian Western Agribition. The past three tournaments have raised in excess of $100,000 for youth in agriculture.

It is with great pleasure that the Canadian Hereford Association inducts Ted & Mina Serhienko into its Honour Roll.

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CJHA Honour Roll Kaitlyn Reid Kaitlyn Reid w a s b or n in Reg ina, Saskatchewan

and has lived in Saskatoon since 1999.

She is currently attending the University of Lethbridge in the Health Sciences Faculty, with a Public Health Sciences major. Living in the city only increased Kaitlyn’s interest in the family farm, The Cliffs Farm, which is Canada’s oldest Hereford operation. She has been extremely active in the management of the family farm, ever since she received her first Hereford heifer of her own.

Kaitlyn has been an active CJHA member for 13 years. Kaitlyn has attended 10 Bonanzas, served as President, Treasurer, and

Secretary of the Saskatchewan Junior Hereford Association, and is currently the CJHA’s President.

In 2007, Kaitlyn took home the Intermediate Grand Aggregate award. She has been instrumental to the success of the Calendar and Semen Donation projects in past years, and is looking forward to Bonanza 2011 in Saskatoon.

Kaitlyn is an active member of her 4-H club, and is heavily involved in 4-H District #22 executive. She volunteers at a women’s shelter in Saskatoon and with the Macroie Music Medley, was manager of her high school football team, assisted with school tours at the Saskatoon Fall Fair, and is also a member of the Canadian Charolais Junior Association.

Kaitlyn attends many shows and sales every year and has consigned her own cattle to the Sask Proud

Sale, Lloydminster Bull Sale, and The Pasture Ready Bull Sale. She exhibited the Champion Heifer Calf at Bonanza 2007 in Truro, as well as being an accomplished cattle judge and public speaker, with the awards to prove it. Kaitlyn also attended the U.S. Junior Nationals in 2003. Kaitlyn’s dedication to the breed, young people, and the CJHA is very much appreciated.

Congratulations, Kaitlyn!

CJHA Honour Roll Jocelyn Templeton Jocelyn Templeton was born in Lethbridge, Alberta and grew up on her family’s farm southeast of Coaldale. A fifth generation Alberta farm girl and third generation Herford breeder, much of Jocelyn’s life revolves around Hereford cattle.

She is currently attending the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) in the College of Agriculture, and has plans to apply to the faculty of Education. She hopes to assist in bringing the Green Certificate Program and Classroom Agriculture Program to Saskatchewan, and aid in educating future students about the agriculture industry.

Jocelyn has been an active CJHA member for 15 years. She has

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attended eight Bonanzas, served as Treasurer, Secretary, and VicePresident of the Alberta Junior Hereford Association, and a past CJHA President. She was heavily involved in the fundraising efforts for Bonanza 2008, and organized the CJHA’s first 50/50 draws in 2009.

She was heavily involved in 4-H, and still volunteers her services to 4-H whenever possible. The various 4-H and CJHA awards she has garnered are too numerous to mention. She also served on the Kate Andrews High School Student Council in various positions, and is an active member of the U of S’s Ag Club’s Event Planning Committee.

Jocelyn owns as many cattle as she is allowed at her family’s operation, XTC Hereford Farms.

She has had great success with her herd. Highlights include her bred & owned bull selling at the Medicine Hat Bull Sale in 2008 for $15,000, and

the high selling heifer at the Amigo Sale in 2010. Jocelyn traveled to New Zealand, and wrote articles for Hereford America about her travels.

She also attended the National Western Stock Show in Denver during her tenure as CJHA President to foster a relationship between the Canadian and American Junior Hereford Associations.

Jocelyn’s dedication to the breed, young people, and the CJHA is very much appreciated. Congratulations, Jocelyn!

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FUTURE OF THE BREED CJHA “Future of the Breed” Scholarship Winners This scholarship is presented annually to deserving CJHA members. This year the number of scholarships bestowed was increased to four, $500 awards. Applications are available at www.hereford.ca and applications must be postmarked by May 15th of the year of application. Congratulations to Jay Rimke, Rosie Templeton, Wyatt Hanson, and Michelle Schuepbach, the 2011 “Future of the Breed” recipients!

Jay Rimke has been an active CJHA member for 9 years. He has attended eight Bonanzas, and participates in the Semen Donation program every year, to which he credits his show ring success with his Herefords. He has attended 12 provincial MOE (Mark of Excellence) shows in Manitoba, bringing home the Champion Female from the junior show on two separate occasions. Jay plans to attend Olds College in Alberta for the Agriculture Management program this fall.

Rosie Templeton has been an active CJHA member for 13 years. She has attended six Bonanzas, and is an active member of the Alberta Junior Hereford Association, serving as a Delegate, Treasurer and Secretary. She was heavily involved in the organization of Bonanza 2008 in Medicine Hat, and was also the Premier’s Award winner in 2009, which is Alberta’s most prestigious 4-H award. She is currently enrolled at the University of Alberta, in an Agriculture Business Management major.

Wyatt Hanson has been an active CJHA member for 14 years. He has attended many Bonanzas and is very active with the Alberta Junior Hereford Association and the AJHA provincial show. He organized all of the judges for Bonanza 2008 in Medicine Hat. Wyatt is currently the Vice-President of the AJHA and is an incoming CJHA National Delegate.

He plans to attend the University of Redlands in California for a Bachelor of Science in Global Business this fall.

Michelle Schuepbach has been an active CJHA member for 4 years. She attended her first Bonanza in Medicine Hat in 2008, and has attended every Bonanza since, often with her own Bred & Owned cattle. She has served the Alberta Hereford Association as a Delegate, Secretary and Treasurer. She is a CJHA National Delegate, as well as the CJHA Secretary. Michelle plans to attend Mount Royal University to obtain her Bachelor of Nursing degree this fall.

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4-H achievements Featuring successful Hereford and Hereford Influence projects Send your results to erin@hereford.ca

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Best Rate of Gain Exhibited by: Morgan Hull Club: Fort Saskatchewan 4-H Beef Club, Alberta

Thorsby & District Beef Show Interclub Reserve Champion Female Exhibited by: Jennifer Peterson Club: Thorsby 4-H Multi Club, Alberta

Thorsby Multi Club Champion Steer Exhibited by: Jennifer Peterson Club: Thorsby 4-H Multi Club, Alberta

Thorsby Multi Club Reserve Champion Steer Exhibited by: Justin Peterson Club: Thorsby 4-H Multi Club, Alberta

Grand Champion Hereford Female, Reserve Supreme Champion Purebred Female & Grand Champion Purebred Showman for the heifer show at 4-H on Parade

Reserve Grand Champion 2 year old cow/calf pair at 4-H on parade Exhibited by: Cody Coleman Club: Sundre 4-H Club, Alberta

Top Hereford Steer at the Vancouver Island 4-H Beef Spring Show Exhibited by: Hope Lewis Club: Comox Valley 4-H Beef Club, British Columbia

Reserve Champion for the Irvine Beef Club Exhibited by: Erica Brost Club: Irvine 4-H Club, Alberta

Exhibited by: Brandon Fraser Club: Jumping Pound 4-H Beef Club, Alberta

Champion 2 Year Old for the District and Reserve Champion for the Regional Show Exhibited by: Erica Brost Club: Irvine 4-H Club, Alberta

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Champion for the Irvine Club and Rate of Gain winner for the Irvine Club Exhibited by: Nicona Brost Club: Irvine 4-H Club, Alberta

Lakemere 4-H Club Reserve Champion Steer and High Rate of Gain Exhibited by: Johanna Livingstone Club: Lakemere 4-H Club, Alberta

Reserve Champion Steer of the Oakville 4-H Beef Club Reserve Grand Champion at PortageEx in Portage la Prairie Manitoba Exhibited by: Amy Troop Club: Oakville 4-H Beef Club, MB

â&#x20AC;˘Grand Champion Junior and Open Steer - Taber Fall Classic â&#x20AC;˘Reserve Champion Jackpot - Medicine Hat Pen Show â&#x20AC;˘Champion Junior Steer - Olds Spring Classic â&#x20AC;˘C.R.Y. Class Winner, Olds, AB â&#x20AC;˘Grand Champion - Irricana 4-H Beef and Multi Club â&#x20AC;˘Intermediate Grand Champion - 4-H on Parade â&#x20AC;˘Grand Champion Overall - 4-H On Parade, â&#x20AC;˘Grand Champion Intermediate Showmanship â&#x20AC;˘Grand Champion - Drayton Valley Jackpot â&#x20AC;˘Champion Hereford Influence Steer - Steer Classic, Calgary Exhibition & Stampede â&#x20AC;˘Class winner at Lloydminster Stock Show Exhibited by: Coleman Nixdorff Club: Irricana 4-H Beef & Multi Club, Alberta

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Canadian Hereford Association 2010 year-end statistics Year

Registrations

Transfers* Annual Members

1988

43,161

21,864

4,535

1989

49,850

22,037

4,435

1990

40,141

19,221

3,945

1991

35,045

16,212

3,727

1992

35,187

16,307

3,587

1993

36,263

15,121

3,426

1994

36,573

14,358

3,262

1995

31,866

13,550

3,095

1996

31,228

11,519

2,886

1997**

26,776

11,519

2,537

1998**

26,928

11,320

2,377

1999**

25,504

11,132

2,200

2000**

28,856

11,117

2,086

2001**

25,552

8,039

1,945

2002**

23,393

8,383

1,767

2003**

19,259

6,735

1,749

2004**

16,621

5,192

1,579

2005**

17,531

5,845

1,308

2006**

15,839

6,078

1,202

2007**

11,962

5,529

1,126

2008**

17,964

7,506

1,014

2009**

15,038

5,483

970

2010**

13,100

5,662

934

*Includes Title Transfers up to & including the year 2000 *Title Transfers for 2001 - 1,930 Title Transfers for 2002 - 1,006 Title Transfers for 2003 - 638 Title Transfers for 2004 - 200 Title Transfers for 2005 - 814

Annual Young Guns Active Life Junior Total 146

BC 86 1 2 61 150

AB 260 12 55 142 469

SK 289 18 54 130 391

**Includes Foreign Registrations

Title Transfers for 2006 - 637 Title Transfers for 2007 - 502 Title Transfers for 2008 - 282 Title Transfers for 2009 - 306 Title Transfers for 2010 - 686

MB 81 4 15 46 146

ON 220 18 11 170 419

PQ 53 0 0 42 95

MP 45 2 1 52 100

Total 934 55 138 643 1,770

2010 % Growth -3.71% 14.6% -2.1% -2.6% -2.7%

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Financial Situation 5 year Comparison 2006 1,433,250 1,075,698

2007 688,257 946,067

2008 860,662 982,252

2009 995,607 972,895

2010 1,026,667 1,019,341

357,552

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22,712

7,326

Cash A/R Inventory Prepaid Expense Investment (short) Capital Assets Investment (long) Assets Liabilities Balance

(31,764) 264,295 53,728 3,316 115,981 599,079 144,852 1,149,487 102,466 1,047,021

(13,661) 26,173 43,265 14,520 81,746 602,276 164,059 918,378 129,167 789,211

(160,413) 37,712 39,006 15,425 117,081 554,924 164,059 767,794 100,173 667,621

(219,612) 69,255 38,047 33,813 119,960 611,137 164,541 817,142 126,809 690,333

(26, 941) 54,620 27,818 45,821 0 583,418 150,000 834,736 137,077 697,659

Current Assets Current Liabilities Working Capital Ratio

437,320 134,230 303,090 3.26

165,704 142,828 22,876 1.16

209,224 260,586 (51,362) 0.80

261,075 346,421 (85,345) 0.75

158,291 194,050 (35,759) 0.82

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Registration (by age of animal) and Transfers by Province â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2010

BC Male Female Alberta Male Female Saskatchewan Male Female Manitoba

0-6 mo.

6-12 mo.

538 173 365 3,785 1,599 2,186 1,821 573 1,248 919

97 41 56 1,591 584 1,007 1,163 417 746 359

12-18 mo.

27 7 20 214 90 124 197 51 146 44

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Foreign

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Title Transfers

9 5 4 140 53 87 104 34 70 84

0 0 0 12 9 3 22 7 15 1

671 226 445 5,742 2,335 3,407 3,307 1,082 2,225 1,407

266 160 106 2,309 1,166 1,143 1,615 571 1,044 428

1 1 0 435 45 390 203 3 200 19

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180

132

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145

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Female Ontario

739 898

227 252

26 53

71 16

1 26

1,064 1,245

283 661

18 25

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178

46

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100

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Female Quebec Male Female Maritimes Male Female TOTAL Male Female

720 305 99 206 262 60 202 8,528 2,862 5,666

206 87 25 62 28 8 20 3,577 1,253 2,324

35 26 9 17 7 4 3 568 197 371

14 13 1 12 0 0 0 366 108 258

17 0 0 0 0 0 0 61 25 36

992 431 134 297 297 72 225 13,100 4,445 8,655

561 216 49 167 167 27 140 5,662 2,218 3,444

24 1 0 1 2 1 1 686 51 635

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breed builders 2010 Members who have registered 50 or more head in 2010 ADAMS HIRSCHE, HIGH RIVER AB ANL POLLED HEREFORDS, STEELMAN SK BAR PIPE HEREFORD RANCH, OKOTOKS AB BENWYN FARM LTD, PROGRESS BC BERT ANDERSON, SCEPTRE SK BROST LAND & CATTLE CO LTD, IRVINE AB CARL LEE RAMSAY, CUTKNIFE SK CONWAY HEREFORDS, FOREMOST AB CORBIELL HEREFORDS, CLUNY AB COULEE CREST HEREFORDS, BOWDEN AB CRAIG DOUGLAS BRAUN, SIMMIE SK CRITTENDEN BROS, IMPERIAL SK D W HEREFORDS, HUSSAR AB DARRYL ANDERSON, AETNA AB DAVID JOHNER, MAIDSTONE SK DOENZ RANCHES LTD, WARNER AB DOERKSEN FARMS, GEM AB DOUBLE N RANCH, SUNDRE AB DOUG & WANDA MANN, SWIFT CURRENT SK DUNCAN LEES, ARCOLA SK EUGENE S & NORMA E POHOLKA, BRETON AB FENTON HEREFORD RANCH INC, IRMA AB FLOYD ANDERSON, AETNA AB FRANK E HAY, PIPESTONE MB GARRETT RANCH, LANDIS SK GREGORY C RAMSAY, CUT KNIFE SK GUILFORD FARMS, CLEARWATER MB GUILFORD HEREFORD RANCH, CLEARWATER MB HAROLDSONS POLLED HEREFORDS, WAWOTA SK HARVEY DALE DUKE, REGINA SK HARVIE RANCHING, OLDS AB HILL 70 QUANTOCK RANCH LTD, LLOYDMINSTER AB HOLLOWAY FARMS, CASTOR AB JAMES SPENCER DUKE, LANGBANK SK JIM & GEORGINE WESTGARD, SIBBALD AB JO NOMN HEREFORD RANCH, CLYDE AB JOHN VANCISE, STAYNER ON JUSTAMERE FARMS LTD, DAUPHIN MB

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LILYBROOK HEREFORDS INC, CLARESHOLM AB M N HEREFORDS, AIRDRIE AB MC COY CATTLE COMPANY LTD, MILESTONE SK MC INTYRE RANCHING CO LTD, LETHBRIDGE AB MEADOW-ACRES POLLED HEREFORDS, LAMPMAN SK MJT HEREFORDS, EDGERTON AB NELS & TERRI NIXDORFF & FAMILY, AIRDRIE AB NYLE & CLINT STROMSMOE, ETZIKOM AB PETER ULRICH, CLARESHOLM AB RIVER VALLEY POLLED HEREFORDS, NEWBURGH ON ROBERT TRUTHWAITE, HODGSON MB S NIXDORFF & SONS, AIRDRIE AB SPRING MOUNTAIN STOCK FARM, BEAVERLODGE AB STEWART G CRONE, HARDISTY AB V AND G POLLED HEREFORDS, MELVILLE SK W E MC DONALD, STRATHCLAIR MB WILLIAM A LAMPORT, BALZAC AB XTC HEREFORD FARMS LTD, COALDALE AB

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New Annual Members, Young Guns & Junior Members 2011 Maritimes Leonard & Winston Allen Oxford, NS

Jerry Bryans Bobcaygeon, ON

Jeff & Karen Beitz Nicole, Allison & Beverly Booth Hanover, ON Jolicure, NB John J Manion Makayla Hunter Wellington N Conn, ON Saint Martins North, NB Nathan Robins Windy Hill Farm Roseneath, ON Wheaton Settlement, NB Owen C T Grundy Kemptville, ON Quebec Melissa Brandrick Tyler Jackson St. Joachim, QC Sunderland, ON Scott Mastine St. Francois-Xavier, QC

Ontario Ashley Baker Madoc, ON Brandon Dales Cargill, ON Cameron Jackson Sunderland, ON Carter Wilson Arnprior, ON Cedar Creek Herefords Durham, ON Charsha Farms Castleton, ON Cole Warner Omemee, ON David Ross Guelph, ON Daniel Luke Leahy Lakefield, ON Duane & Linda McKinley Brockville, ON Hailey Griffin Haliburton, ON Hills Hereford & Angus Rockwood, ON Jamie & Tara McCann Madoc, ON

Dawson Foy Arcola, SK Dylan Alexander Grieve Fillmore, SK Emma Lees Arcola, SK Justacre Farms Yorkton, SK Hanna Fish Ogema, SK Harlow Lees Arcola, SK

Harley Libke William C Moore & Susan Berndt Dundurn, SK Chesterville, ON Jillian, Emma & Mathew Just Manitoba Yorkton, SK Justamere Holdings Ltd Kaitlyn Polegi Ste Rose du Lac, MB Jedburgh, SK Lanus Dueck Kalla Nicholas Arborg, MB Milestone, SK Wendell & Michelle Martens Kidson Ranch Kleefeld, MB Wawota, SK Woodrose Farms Kolin Piwarski Woodlands, MB Weyburn, SK Xports International Inc Kyla Lees Clearwater, MB Arcola, SK

Saskatchewan Austin Sentes Raymore, SK Ayla James Duke Langbank, SK Cheyenne Catley Craven, SK Christin Dianne Dixon Arcola, SK Codee Kopelchuk Canora, SK Country Log Ranch Middle Lake, SK Dale & Joanne Janzen Dalmeny, SK

Kylee Anne Dixon Arcola, SK Levi Boutin Whitewood, SK Olivia Denomie Kuroki, SK Rena & Kayla Hordos Raymore, SK Samantha Sentes Raymore, SK Shanina Libke Dundurn, SK Shayla Endicott Kyle, SK Sheldon Wyatt Kisbey, SK

Stephanie Daniels-Reid Saskatoon, SK Tye Catley Craven, SK

Alberta Alameda Acres Wembley, AB Alfred Brundige Bonnyville, AB Brooklyn Van Sickle Irma, AB Crystal Leighton Mayerthorpe, AB Garilyn Morris Innisfail, AB Gray Catherine Fenton Irma, AB Hawkeye Ranching Cypress County, AB Jazlyn Beaudin St Paul, AB Justin Bacon Olds, AB Lake Bend Land & Cattle Co Ltd Bashaw, AB Paige Van Sickle Irma, AB Simpson Ranching Limited Calgary, AB Ron & Crystal Leuschen Consort, AB

British Columbia Jahshua Gillespie Horsefly, BC Kari Lynn Dundass Knutsford, BC Pyy Ranch Vanderhoof, BC Stable Way Farm Grand Forks, BC

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Hereford Farewells Marge Fraser January 11, 1938 - January 6, 2011 It is with regret that the Canadian Hereford Association announces the passing of Marge Fraser on January 6th, 2011 at the Foothills Country Hospice. Many loving family members were in attendance to see her pass peacefully.

Marge is survived by her husband Doug of thirty-three years, her son Brad (Debbie, Matthew, Meaghan), her stepson Murray (Kelly, Jayden, Kim, Cassidy, Tanis, Jackie), her stepdaughter Laurie (Will, Claire, Emma), her sister and very good friend Betty Seagrave, and her family John Jr. and Shelly, Sandy and Wayne, Anne and George, and Danielle.

She was predeceased by her father and mother John and Elizabeth Druhaloczki, two brothers John and Joe Druhal, her daughter Belinda and her brother-in-law John Seagrave. The things we will miss are - her garden, her love of nature and its occupants, her love of grandchildren, her presence and ability to make everyone feel that this life on earth was a good place to be. Marge and her husband Doug owned and operated Fraser Farms, Okotoks, AB where they enjoyed their many years of raising top quality Herefords . Margie, your husband will miss the good night and good morning kiss that he became accustomed to every day of our thirty-three years together.

Jock (John Robert) Blacklock October 13, 1921 - January 23, 2011 It is with regret that the Canadian Hereford Association announces the passing of Jock (John Robert) Blacklock.

Jock was born October 13, 1921 in Maymont, Saskatchewan and passed away peacefully on January 23rd, 2011 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Jock was predeceased by his beloved Mabel two years ago on January 30th, 2009.

After growing up in Maymont during the Thirties, Jock attended the University of Saskatchewan and graduated from the College of Agriculture in 1943. During a short illness at Saskatoon City Hospital, Jock met Mabel Barry, a nurse, and they married in June, 1946. After a brief time with the federal governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Agriculture Department, Mabel and Jock decided to pursue an opportunity they saw for a new, young livestock auctioneer based in Western Canada. Following a ten-day auctioneering course in Iowa, Jock returned home and Blacklock Auction Service was established, followed by Saskatoon Auction Mart in 1961 and the development of a significant Purebred Hereford herd on their farm east of Saskatoon. Even with their demanding business concerns, Mabel and Jock were dedicated parents to their large family, active in the community and their church, and frequent hosts of large gatherings of friends and family on the farm. Jock retired in 1986 after selling the 35th Calgary Bull Sale of his career, which was held in his honour, and from there, Mabel and Jock threw themselves into additional volunteer activities, with great interest in bird watching, and time with their children and grandchildren. Jock was inducted into the Saskatchewan Agriculture Hall of Fame in 1995. Blacklock had been named a member of the Canadian Hereford Association Honour Roll and was given a place of honour in an auction display at the Western Development Museum in North Battleford. Mabel and Jock moved to Prince Albert in October 2007 to Good Shepherd Villas so that they could remain together.

Mina Noble November 19, 1920 - January 24, 2011 It is with regret that the Canadian Hereford Association announces the passing of Mina Noble on January 24, 2011 at the High River Hospital at the age of 90. She was born at Youngstown, Alberta and spent the majority of her life in the Okotoks area. Her final days were spent surrounded by her family. She was predeceased by her husband Jock (2006), son-in-law and granddaughter, Ralph and Heather Rasmuson (1993) as well as seven siblings. Mina will be lovingly remembered by her children Linda (Herb) Doll, Moosomin, SK, Carol (Rick) Fulowski, Blackie, John (Rhonda) Noble, Bow Island and Isabelle (John) Berns, Moosomin, SK; eleven grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren, sister May Roantree, brother-in-law Axel Field and numerous nieces and nephews. Mumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heartwarming smile, love, kindness and generosity were an inspiring example to all. She was a great supporter of 4-H, United Church Women, East Longview Hall, Women of Unifarm, Okotoks Historical Society and Alberta Hereford Belles. She loved to pick berries, make mouth-watering pies, garden, help with ranch chores and enjoy all the activities of the family.

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Leonard Finstad September 26, 1931 – February 1, 2011 It is with regret that the Canadian Hereford Association announces the passing of Leonard “Len” Wilhelm Finstad.

Len passed away on Tuesday, February 1, 2011, in his 80th year. He was beloved husband of Helen Finstad of Pendant d’Oreille, AB. Leonard also leaves to cherish his memory his children, Dianne (Ron) Harder, Shari (Mel) Reimer (children, Dayton, Austin and Paige); Lee (Lynette) Finstad (children, Taylor and Casey); three brothers, Ken (Joann) Finstad, Norman (Barbara) Finstad and Mervin Finstad; his sister, Marie Pearson (Ken Schacher) as well as numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents Margit and Oscar Finstad.

Leonard was born in Medicine Hat. The family farmed and ranched in Pendant d’Oreille, where he developed a love of the land and livestock at an early age. Len graduated from SAIT’s agricultural mechanics program, which he put to good use for three years working with International Harvester in Manitoba. He also attended the Baptist Leadership Training School in Calgary, where he met his future wife Helen Hisey. They were married in Stouffville, Ontario in 1960, and celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last September.

Len settled on the home ranch, and enjoyed many years of raising good cattle, farming and building up the business with his brother Norman. Now into its fourth generation, Finstad Ranching received the Alberta Century Farm and Ranch Award in 2009.

Len was a great father, supporting his children in sports and 4-H, and enjoying family holidays together. He has been an inspiration and model of love to their spouses, and a loving ‘Poppa’ to his five grandchildren. Leonard was a dedicated member of the Orion Evangelical Free Church, serving in every position from Sunday School teacher, to chairman of the Board over the years. He was a strong supporter of the current project to construct a new church building.

He was also active in his community, and numerous agriculture organizations, always willing to serve where needed. Many groups benefited from his time, wisdom and dedication. Len also kept up to date on issues and ideas, and was widely respected as an advocate for land, cattle and range issues.

He loved to fish, golf, ski, curl and spend time enjoying God’s creation. Leonard was a man of faith who impacted many people.

Mary Simpson April 2, 1921 – February 13, 2011 It is with regret that the Canadian Hereford Association announces the passing of Mary Simpson, a highly respected businesswoman and rancher in the Grand Valley north west of Cochrane, Alberta,. Mary passed away peacefully at her ranch on February 13, 2011 with members of her family at her side. Mary was predeceased by her husband, Jack Simpson (1984), with whom she started the Simpson Ranch. Born in Leicestershire, England, Mary (Bass) moved with her family to Gibbons, Alberta, in 1930. An exceptionally intelligent and well-read young woman, Mary completed high school in Edmonton and studied mathematics and sciences at the University of Alberta.

She met Jack, a University of Alberta engineering graduate, at the beginning of the war and their romance continued to their marriage in 1945. Mary and Jack moved to Calgary in 1947, started a family, and expanded the life partnership through Jack’s work with Burns and Dutton Concrete and Construction Company Limited. B&D ultimately ended under the control of Jack Simpson and the name was changed to CANA Construction. In 1956, Jack and Mary made a huge leap of faith and created Simpson Ranching to the north west of Cochrane. Throughout their years together, Mary and Jack operated as a team, supporting each other, planning ahead and jointly making the sacrifices that would lead to success. Throughout the world, Mary’s straightforward personality earned her the admiration of a diverse range of people, from South American generals to the Cochrane ranch hands. “The most important thing is to be yourself,” she frequently replied when asked how she attracted so many friends. Mary is survived by her daughter, Barbara Kerr (Barney) of the Bahamas, and her son, John Simpson (Jollean Hancen) of Cochrane. She is also survived by six grandchildren Tara McTaggart (Neil), Kelly Kerr, Barbara Von Hahn (Chad), Patrick Kerr, Christie Simpson (Jeremy Van Staalduine) and Luke Simpson, four great-grandchildren, and brother, Russell Bass (Dorothy). Mary was predeceased by her brother, John Bass and his wife Muriel.

Mary asked that a Celebration of Life be held when the grass is green. You may forward condolences through www.mcinnisandholloway.com. In lieu of flowers if friends wish, memorial tributes may be made directly to The Children’s Hospital Aid Society (CHAS) Box 900, Calgary, AB T2P 2M7 www.chascalgary.ca .

William Kidson 1919 - February 25, 2011 It is with regret that the Canadian Hereford Association announces the passing of William Kidson, beloved husband of Geraldine Kidson, Wawota, Saskatchewan, at 91 years of age. William was predeceased by his father’s first wife Eliza Maude Kidson in 1902, his parents, William and Lillian Kidson, three sisters: Emma in childhood, Mary Allenden, Laura Wilton and brother-in-law Cliff Wilton and one nephew Glen Wilton. William is survived by his loving wife Geraldine, and Geraldine’s family; Shirley (Blake) Paulson, Saskatoon and Evelyn Petterson, Wawota and also Geraldine’s grandchildren and great grandchildren, brother-in-law Bill Allenden, Toronto, nieces and nephews: Marjorie (Don) Migneault, Saskatoon and their family: Lauriel (Scot) McDougall; Shelly ( Ken) Migneault; Shawn (Amanda) Migneault, and Curtis( Shelayne) Migneault: Carol (Don) Smith, Kipling and their family: Kevin (Penny) Smith; Cherie (Allen) Broughton also his great nieces and nephews. Larry (Tina) Wilton, Toronto and their son Logan; Wilma Fehr, Toronto and her family Scott and Brandy Fehr: Harold (Arcelli) Allenden, Toronto and their family Mary and Kelly Allenden.

William and his wife Geraldine joined the Canadian Hereford Association in 1985, raising registered Hereford cattle.

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Hereford Farewells Byron Douglas Curry November 7, 1965 – April 24, 2011 It is with regret that the Canadian Hereford Association announces the passing Byron Douglas Curry of Wentworth, on Sunday, April 24, 2011 in Colchester Regional Hospital, Truro, Nova Scotia. Born in Amherst, Byron was the son of Douglas and Betty (Patriquin) Curry of Wentworth. He was active in hockey, having grown up in the Amherst Minor Hockey system, playing on many rep teams. He later played for the East Hants Penguins Junior team. He followed his playing days by coaching the Cumberland Night Hawks Minor Junior and later the Amherst Midget Bombers to provincial hockey championships. He was a member of the Canadian Hereford Association, Canadian Angus Association, Knights of Pythias, Oxford, and the Wentworth Fire Dept. Byron was also a director of the Cumberland County Exhibition. He worked at various jobs over the years, most recently with the Department of Transportation in Wentworth. Byron is survived by his parents, his daughters, Breanna Curry, Wentworth; Alicia Curry, Kentville; sister, Diane Morin, Cornwall, Ontario; nephews, Stephan (Christine) and Joel (Lynsey); niece, Marcia Morin; grand niece, Isabella; grand nephews, Jacob and Reilly. Byron actively supported his daughter Breanna’s involvement as a member of the Canadian Junior Hereford Association.

Philip William Schleihauf May 28th, 2011 It is with regret that the Canadian Hereford Association announces the peaceful passing of Philip William Schleihauf at Babcock Community Care Centre, Wardsville on Saturday, May 28th, 2011. Philip William Schleihauf of Rodney in his 92nd year. Predeceased by his dear wife Mae (Murray) in 2002. Lovingly remembered by his son Ken (Cheryl) of Sarnia, daughter Carol Pepper (Bert) and son Kevin (Rosanne) all of Rodney. Dear grandfather of Chris (Annette), Chad (Tara), Ben, Brandon and Molly and great grandfather of 6. Survived by his brother Douglas (Jean) of St. Thomas and several nieces and nephews. Predeceased by his sister Margaret Monroe. Philip was active in the development of the various Hereford associations as well as in community affairs.

In 1959, he was elected to the board of the Middlesex-Elgin Hereford Club; from 1966 - 1970 he served as the first president of the SouthWestern Ontario Hereford Zone; in 1970, acted as a director on the board of the Ontario Hereford Association serving as its president in 1975. For nine years, Philip was a director of the Canadian Hereford Association and acted as president in 1980. While president he presided at the opening of the new Canadian Hereford Association building; in 1980 he was a delegate to the eighth World Hereford Conference in Uruguay and in 1984, was inducted into the Canadian Hereford Honour Roll.

Donald James Craig November 3, 1931 - June 19, 2011 It is with regret that the Canadian Hereford Association announces the passing of Donald James Craig who was born November 3, 1931 at North Battleford, SK and passed away June 19, 2011 at North Battleford, SK. Jim is survived by his loving wife of 54 years, Genny ; children: Jurine (Henri),Albert, Gordon (Shelley) and Richard (special friend, Monique); grandchildren: Curtis, Darrell (fiancé, Ivy and children); Kerri (Chris), Jaylene, Brett, Ashleigh (special friend, Nathan), Cassandra; Jamie (special friend, Trent), Lindsey (Shane), Dana (special friend, Mark), Dallas; Tiffany (Jason), Melissa (Marc), Jessica, Melissa; great-grandchildren: Kailee, Brett, Layla, Leah, Ryan, Tristen, Denai; one sister, Joyce Luckey; nieces, nephews and cousins. Jim was predeceased by his parents, Millar and Gladys Craig; his brother, Lloyd Craig and brother-in-law, John Luckey. Donald James, known as Jim to friends in the Hereford industry, was the third generation to live on Craig’s Ranching Co. Ltd. which was started in 1900 by his grandfather.

Jim hosted production sales in the last 1950’s, sold Hereford heifers in the 1970’s internationally and consigned to Battleford, Spiritwood and Lloydminster bulls sales. He was active in his community with Battleford Ag Society, 4H leader, RM Councillor and Reeve, just to name a few.

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Hereford EPD Averages Fall 2011

CE (%)

BW (lbs)

WW (lbs)

YW (lbs)

Milk (lbs)

TM (lbs)

MCE (%)

SC (cm)

CW (lbs)

Stay (%)

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67.0

15.0

35.0

0.5

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86.3

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120.0

0.18

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3.6

43.3

70.9

16.6

38.2

0.8

0.7

89.3

-0.2

134.6

123.2

0.23

0.002

0.03

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Oh Crap!!

his story goes back a number of years, to nineteen fifty three.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll try and remember the course of events and how it was told to me.

Jim Cunningham was twelve years old and ready tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; take on the world.

His Pa and him was doinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chores and hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how the tale unfurled.

Early April, spring in the air, the barnyard was gettinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; soft. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This yard is surely startinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to stink!â&#x20AC;? Jim pondered with evâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ry waft.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking Jim should tell the yarn â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;casinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; I miss some details. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cause hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where stuff gets outta hand and evâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;rything derails! â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pa had hauled a couple loads with the mare and her colt of three.

They was steppinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; up real nice so Pa handed the reins to me.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now Sonâ&#x20AC;? he says, with voice quite firm, â&#x20AC;&#x153;ONE thing you need to know.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care how bad the wreck, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you EVER LET GO!!!â&#x20AC;?

Proud as punch I take the reins and step up behind the crap.

The stone boat starts out smooth enough and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a happy chap!

Everything was goinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; smooth, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;twas like the thing had wheels.

The pin popped out and the double tree hit the colt square in the heels!

Things got suddenly western, the horses in full flight.

Consequences nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;er crossed my mind as I faced a horrible plight.

My Paâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stern warning in my ears to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;never, ever let go!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; My mouth was filled with manure as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m madly screaming â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;WHOA.â&#x20AC;?

Jerked off my feet I ploughed head first through that stinkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, crappy mess and after a gallop through barnyard soup I finally come to rest.

Them horses came to a screachinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; halt outside the olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; barn door.

My Pa couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak, he was doubled over anâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lettinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; out a roar.

My boots was full, my shirt and pants was covered with permanent stains There was crap in my hair, my teeth, my eyes but I STILL HAD THE REINS!!!

I werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allowed in the house that day â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;till I stripped off all my clothes anâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; I think they went to the burninâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; barrel but only Mama knows.

Pa was proud of my tenacity and promised a new factor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Next time we clean the barnyard Son, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll let you drive the tractor!!â&#x20AC;?

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Carlrams Ranching Ltd. .....................................................4 Catalyst ...........................................................................155 Chestermere Herefords ................................................ 153 Church Ranch .................................................................. 20 Conway Hereford Farms .................................................57 Copper Creek Ranch ...................................................... IFC Corbiell Herefords .......................................................... 30 Coulee Crest Herefords.................................................. 80 Crone Herefords...............................................................62

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Dallas Farms .............................................................55, 153 Davis Rairdan Embryo Transplants Ltd. ......................155 DB Quarter Horses ...........................................................93 Dorbay Polled Herefords ...............................................154 Dorran, Ryan ...................................................................155

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Mahjam Farm..................................................................154 Manitoba Hereford Association ...................................154 Maple Hill Herefords ....................................................... 61 Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords .............................3 Misty Valley Farms ..........................................................76 MN Herefords ...................................................................73 Moccasin Flat Ranch ..................................................... 153 Myalta Farms .................................................................. 153

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S. Jones & Sons............................................................... 153 Sampsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Thunderbird Ranch Ltd. ............................ 153 Scott Alta Farms ............................................................ 153 Skelton Cattle Co. ..........................................................154 SNS Herefords ......................................................... 56, 154 Square D Herefords ......................................................... 14 SS Cattle Company Inc. .................................................154 Standard Hill Polled Herefords..................................... 161 Stauffer Farms Ldt. ......................................................... 42 Stith, Dale .......................................................................155 Stockmens Insurance ....................................................155 Stromsmoe Herefords and Black Angus .......................82

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Pre Conference Tour Come Celebrate The New Hereford The pre-conference tour will start in Vancouver on July 8th, after which the B.C. Hereford Association, along with Henry and Vilma Braun and Copper Creek Ranch, will host cattle and social events on July 9th. The tour will follow with a visit to Douglas Lake Ranch, the largest commercial cattle operation in Canada, with 7,000 Hereford mother cows. Banff, Canada’s famous first national park, will be the next stop, on route to Calgary. •

WHC Cattle Events

Semen Sales

The cattle events kick off on Monday, July 16th, 2012 with the WHC Junior Bonanza show and junior events. Cattle events are being held in Olds, which has some of the best livestock facilities in Alberta.

To maximize marketing opportunities where semen sales are concerned, breeders are encouraged to have semen collected and available for sale at the time of the Conference. •

July 17 th features the open show, with separate divisions for Polled and Horned animals.

Wednesday, July 18th is Ranch Day, featuring a pen show with three classes of combined horned and polled cow-calf pairs and three classes of combined horned and polled yearling bulls. Herd bulls will also be displayed.

Limited edition Bronzes will be awarded to the Grand Champions for both open and pen shows. •

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The Calgary Stampede Centennial 2012 marks the 100th Anniversary of the Calgary Stampede. Reciprocal sponsorship and programming has been planned with Stampede officials.

Sunday, July 15, 2011 will be a free day to take in the Rodeo and Chuckwagon finals at The Calgary Stampede. •

Post Conference Tour The Post-conference tour will include stops in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. Saskatchewan tour stops include a Hutterite Colony, the RCMP Training Centre and Museum in Regina and a barbeque and cattle social at Crittenden Bros. The Manitoba tour includes a visit to the Agriculture Canada Research Station and supper at RSM Polled Herefords at Brandon.

Tour participants then fly to Toronto and travel to the Orangeville area on Monday July 23rd, where the Ontario Hereford Association is planning a full day of activities. On Tuesday, July 24th, the WHC tour will end with a visit to Niagara Falls. •

Come Celebrate The New Hereford

BBSF 6P SPORT 232S 11 Sons averaged $4,011.00 in our February Sale. A great set of daughters retained

MVF 161R STD BRIT LAD 108U $14,000.00 MVF sale topper. Top calves on the ground. Canadian Pedigree.

JNHR SILVER STANDARD 501T Calgary Grand Champion 2009 Outstanding sons will sell February 2012, including BANNERLANE 501T STD 8X, our best yearling in recent years.

4HANK YOU TO OUR 3ALE BUYERS s %0$S !VAILABLE s 3ALE AT THE &ARM “Our promise to you.....Quality cattle” Bill & Ruth Bannerman (306) 845-2445

Box 148 Livelong, SK S0M 1J0 email:bannerlane@littleloon.ca

Rob & Joanne Bannerman & Sons Ph/Fax: 306-845-2764 Cell: 306-845-7790