History of Northern Livestock Sales

HISTORY OF NORTHERN LIVESTOCK SALES, LLOYDMINSTER

The Lloydminster Stockyards first operated in the early 1950s as the Union Stockyards. In the Th 1960s Weiller-Williams took over the market and ran it until 1975 when the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Livestock Division purchased it. The Wheat Pool changed the name of its livestock division to Heartland Livestock after acquiring livestock markets in Manitoba. The marketing centre moved to the current location in 1994. Brent Brooks was a key negotiator in purchasing the land from the famous Justamere Farms. The market operated under the Heartland Livestock banner until 2017. At that time, the Brooks family acquired the Lloydminster and Prince Albert auction markets and combined with their market at Meadow Lake, successfully expanded Northern Livestock Sales. Over the years the market in Lloydminster has been upgraded and expanded to accommodate a capacity of over 6000 feeder cattle. Lloydminster runs two regular sales per week on Monday and Thursday. There are seasonal special sales from bred cows, replacement heifers and purebred productions sales. The Brooks family has revived the Lloydminster market making it the fastest growing livestock auction in western Canada. Brent Brooks has built a team of respected livestock marketers to serve the cattle producers of both Saskatchewan and Alberta. The Brooks family and their staff are proud to serve the cattle industry and look forward to future growth at Northern Livestock Sales.

HISTORY OF THE LMAC

On May 18, 1979, in Winnipeg, a group of forward thinking auction market owners decided to form a national organization. Emerson Gill of Grand Bend, Ontario was nominated as the first chair of the organization. The meeting attracted market operators from British Columbia to Prince Edward Island. In the past, the terminal markets across Canada held a monopoly on the livestock auctions. Terminal markets in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary and Edmonton The terminal markets had their own organization that did not allow independent operators to join. With more and more rural auction markets opening, the terminal markets were losing their monopoly on the livestock auction business. The terminal markets finally realized that the rural markets were here to stay and agreed to investigate the possibility of forming a new organization that would represent all livestock markets. o The first annual meeting of the Livestock Markets Association of Canada was held in June, 1980 Th with 43 people in attendance. LMAC continues to grow in members and is the recognized as with w the national voice of the livestock-marketing sector in Canada. Today the Livestock Markets th Association of Canada still represents the majority of the livestock auctions across Canada. Associat Members of provincial livestock marketin Members f pr g associations that are in “good standing” are automatically members of LMAC. utomat mber MAcally mem