Cattle Call February 2018 OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SASKATCHEWAN HEREFORD ASSOCIATION Canadian Mail Product Agreement No. 40012604
The Breed You Can Trust
Misty Valley Farms 42ND ANNUAL PRODUCTION SALE of Quality Horned Herefords Wednesday, February 7th, 2018 1:00 p.m. MST, at the Ranch 60 LONG YEARLING BULLS Bred to be rugged and durable, these bulls sell semen tested and guaranteed. Includes 10 top quality bulls from Lanni Bristow. 50 BRED REGISTERED HEIFERS An excellent group of females, representing many of our present herdsires. 65 BRED COMMERCIAL HEREFORD HEIFERS Home raised and bred to light-birthweight Horned Hereford bulls. REGISTERED & COMMERCIAL HEIFER CALVES From the top of Mark Law's heifer crop.
649D is a deep bodied bull with plenty of muscle and thickness. His sire is a real traveller, a sure breeder, and our deepest bodied herdsire. His mother is a consistenly good producer.
Come early to look at the cattle, and join us for lunch at 11:30 a.m. M.S.T. For more information or catalogues, contact: Harold Tel: 306-893-2783 Cell: 306-893-7225 Mark Law 204-526-5818
882D is a well muscled son of the long-bodied Lilybrook 121A bull. His Canadian bred mother is from a very productive cow family.
Whether you have a straightbred or crossbred operation, we’ve got bulls that fit.
Sale Day Phone: 306-893-2775 mvf@sasktel.net R.R. #1 Maidstone, SK S0M 1M0
Maurice Tel: 306-893-2737 Cell: 306-893-7365
Lanni Bristow 780-614-1268
20 km North of Maidstone on Highway #21, 6.5 km West on Highway #303, then 6 km North on Range Road #3241 OR 38.5 km East of Lloydminster on Highway #303, then 6 km North on Range Road #3241
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LF 4009
ACE
DALLAS 27D
KTD
BRITISHER 48D
NUGGET LAD 25D WA 11Y DRESSLER72D Premier Hereford Breeders Lock Farms
Stan & Susan Lock P: 306-753-2229 C: 306-753-7884
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Davies Ranch
Keith Davies P: 780-826-5431 C: 780-826-0383 kdavies@mcsnet.ca
Ace Herefords
Ayrey Hereford Farms
ace_herefords@hotmail.com
ayreyherefords.com bwayrey@hotmail.ca
Brady and Chantel Moncrieff P: 306-228-2239 C: 306-228-9177
Bill & Wendy Ayrey P: 306-753-2500 C: 306-753-7040
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Box 12 , Evesham, SK S0L 1B0 bwayrey@hotmail.ca PH: 306-753-2500 Cell: 306-753-7040 www.ayreyherefords.com
Bill & Wendy Shana, Jinaye & Kendall
35-40 Heifer Calves sell at the Premier Sale
72D
82D
103D
11D
23D
54D
Cattle For Sale at: 6th Annual Premier Hereford Bull Sale February 5th, 2018- Lloydminster, SK East Central Bull Sale – March 16, 2018 Shorncliff, AB and By Private Treaty 55D
58D Located on Hwy 14, 3½ miles East of Evesham, Sk or 8 miles East of Macklin, Sk
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Producing the Right Kind Year after Year!
He Sells! BLAIR ATHOL 10Y BLITZ 43D
NJW 73S W18 Hometown 10Y ET x Square-D Report 539R
Junior Bull Calf Champion
BROTHERS Sell! C&T 106A DEACON 4D
MHPH 521X Action 106A x Ernst Nitrogen 916
He Sells!
He Sells!
HAROLDSON’S SCC RENEGADE 43E
GLENLEES 102 CODE RED 104E
Renegade 21C x Victor 521X
BNC W18 Wonder 102B x TH 200J 63N Tundra 110X
Wilson Lees He Sells!
Value Added Bull Sale Friday, April 6, 2018
Right Cross Ranch Sales Facility Kisbey, SK 2 PM sale start time 5% Volume Discount on 2 or more bulls Free Delivery within 300 miles
Blair Athol Farms Duncan & Val Lees 306-577-9703 Jeff & Grace Lees 306-577-1375 www.blairatholfarms.com
Glenlees Farm George & Annette Lees 306-455-2612 Corey & Tasha Lees
Haroldson’s Polled Herefords Chad Wilson 306-577-1256 www.haroldsons.com
C&T Cattle Co. Chris & Tina Lees
306-577-9971 www.glenlees.com 306-577-7370 Kurt Lees
306-421-8318
For more information or catalogues contact T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd - 306-933-4200 - info@tbarc.com
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Association News
From the SHA Office
Marilyn Charlton, General Manager
Happy New Year! Best wishes to everyone as we head into 2018. Another year seems to have flown by and with it was a busy year for the association. Congratulations to the Bowie family on receiving the Legacy Award from the Canadian Hereford Association. Their story truly represents the commitment to family, ranching, the environment and yes “Herefords” that has continued through the generations. Read their story starting on page 22 of this issue. Special thank you to the Saskatchewan Junior Hereford Association members that came to Agribition to help out with the Hereford Show. This coming year will be a busy year for the juniors as they gear up for hosting the 40 th Anniversary of Bonanza in Saskatchewan in 2019. As part of the kick-off to their funding raising, Hills Galore Stock Farm, the Pawlitza family, donated the pick of their 2018 heifer calves as the first lot in the Agribition Hereford sale. Thank you to Bar Pipe Hereford Ranch, Okotoks, AB for purchasing the donation lot for $7,000. 100% of the proceeds from the sale goes directly to the Saskatchewan Junior Hereford Association to be used for Bonanza 2019. Another successful Agribition is in the books with the transition into the new International trade Centre that not only housed livestock but was the new home for the livestock show arena. It will take some getting used to as any change does, but it certainly is long overdue in terms of facility improvements.
Double Deuce Acres, Regina, SK., selected by the Red Coat Membership Ticket holder Magnum Ranching of Frenchman Butte, SK. The Board will be getting together in January to review the past year and set the budget for the year going forward. We are pleased to see that registrations and transfers are up from the previous year and memberships numbers have not declined. Plans will also be made for the SHA annual general meeting that is held now the third week of June each year. Watch for further details on date and time for this meeting. Our deepest sympathy, thoughts and prayers go out to those families that have lost loved ones. The Bieber family on the passing of John Bieber; the Holmes family on the passing of John Holmes; and the Bygrove family on the passing of Peter Bygrove. They will all be dearly missed. Braun Ranch, Simmie, SK purchased the Cody Sibbald Donation Lot at CWA consigned by Triple A Herefords, Moose Jaw, SK for $8,500. Proceeds from the sale of the heifer are donated to the Cody Sibbald Legacy Fund, a junior program that promotes youth passionate about agriculture. By the time you receive this copy, the bull sale season will be just around the corner. The quality of the genetics on offer has never been better, so if you have not already put a Hereford bull to work in your pasture, now is the time. Good luck everyone with a successful bull sale and calving season!
Until next time. Thanks to the many volunteers, sponsors and exhibitors who make the Hereford show at Agribition such a success with your commitment and support – it is appreciated by all of us! Presentations were made during the show at Agribition. The Cliffs Farm, Joe Vey Jr., and HMS Hi-Cliffe were presented with the 2017 MOE Gold Sire Award for TCF JVJ TIF Goods 305A. David Reid was presented with his CHA Director plaque and 50 year oin from the Canadian Hereford Association President Doug Mann. Thank you David for the many years of commitment to the Saskatchewan and Canadian Associations!
Cattle Call FEBRUARY 2018 ISSUE Canadian Publications Mail Product Sale Agreement No. 40012604 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Saskatchewan Hereford Association Box 713, Weyburn, SK S4H 2K8 Phone: 306-842-6149 Fax: 306-842-0296 Email: skhereford@sasktel.net Website: www.saskhereford.com
Congratulations to the winner of the 2017 Red Coat Classic, Double Deuce Reiss 69E an entry of Double Deuce Cattle Call - February 2018 Cattle Call – October 2018
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Carlrams Ranching Ltd 9th Annual Bull Sale ~ 2:00 'Sask Time'
Thursday – February 8, 2018 On the farm – 5 miles north of Cut Knife, SK Be our guest for a prime rib lunch at noon before the sale!
60 Hereford Bulls
10 Black Angus Bulls
Big natural ranch raised bulls – No feet trimmed - free delivery 500 miles Semen tested … guaranteed.
Carlrams 339Y STD Volt 192D
CRLad 72A132D Lad 302D CR 72A
Carlrams 32A STD Lad 86D
CR 72A Lad 132D
When traveling in NW Saskatchewan please stop in. Coffee is always on! Cal 306-398-7343 Carl & Dalynn 306-398-7879 Robin & Randy 306-823-3912 www.CarlramsRanching.com Cut Knife, Saskatchewan, Canada
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SHA President’s Report - Stephen Myer
Greetings to all you Hereford enthusiasts out there. I hope everyone had a wonderful, although it may have been chilly, holiday season and 2018 has started off with the universe smiling down on you. It won't be long and we'll be in the thick of bull sale season. The Hereford female sales and bull sales that happened last fall and early winter showed some good demand and subsequent sale averages. The calf markets have definitely been higher than the previous year and that seems to be helping the market for our Hereford genetics. Progressive Hereford breeders are reaping the rewards of an increase in demand for their highly maternal, long lasting, and efficient cattle that cross well with almost any other breed. Speaking of cross-breeding there has been some feedback online to the Canadian Hereford Associations new program, Hereford Plus. The program is aimed at adding value and labelling those good half Hereford calves as Hereford. No doubt our board will be discussing this at our future meetings and we welcome our members to contact us and their Saskatchewan representatives to the Canadian Hereford Association, and use our annaul meeting in June to send any messages to our national board. The Agribition shows and sales were succesful again this past year. The number and depth of quality Hereford cattle in the barns was a great display of our breed. Congrats to all the champions and everyone for showing up. The sale averages for T Bar C's Agribition Hereford sale were up and I think some new records may have been set. The new facilities in Regina worked pretty well, kudos to the Agribition team for making things work. The Saskatchewan Hereford Association's main fundraiser, the Red Coat Classic, broke our sales record this year. Thank you to all producers. Congrats to Double Deuce Acres for getting their heifer chosen by the main ticket draw winners, Magnum Ranching and to Blair Athol for get the nod for people's choice. The board continues to explore new options for a home for the Red Coat Classic show in the array of Agribition's packed schedule. Ideally we need ring space right after our show ends. With the dynamics of cattle showing, the length of time to judge, the changing number of cattle from year to year, and the availability of space at Evraz Place we are fighting an uphill battle. We thank the Red Coat exhibitors for working with us in this regard and for your continued support of the show. This edition of Cattle Call may be one of our largest to date. We appreciate everyone who chose to advertise. This magazine has come a long way over the years under the wing of our General Manager. Together with the advertising, the comprehensive coverage of everything Hereford that happens in this province makes Cattle Call a great tool for our breed. In closing, best of luck to everyone for the rest of the winter, start and end of calving, and those who are selling Hereford genertics in the upcoming sale season.
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Selling Two Year Old & Yearling Hereford Bulls
ANL 23B Tahoe 46A 4E ANL C HAR T100 Tahoe 86 ET 23B X TH 89T 743 Untapped 425X ET Reserve Champion Senior Bull Calf
Live In Our New Sales Facility In Steelman, SK
Brooks 425X 29Z Untapped 37E TH 89T 743 Untapped 425X ET X Haroldson’s JVJ Master 18L 8W
BRKS 10D Sire: TH 122 71I Victor 521X ET Brothers Sell!
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KKL 80C Sire: TH 113W 11X Hi-Tech 17A Sons Sell!
KKL 105D Sire: TH 113W 11X Hi-Tech 17A Brothers Sell!
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AKJA 68E ANL C HAR T100 Tahoe 86T 23B X FCC 3T Ransom 7W BW: 97 lbs. ADJ 205 WW: 909 lbs.
AKJA 139E
AKJA 5E
Loewen All Star 4A 10C X SHF Tahoe R117 T100 BW: 88 Lbs. ADJ 205 WW: 632 lbs.
KCF Bennet Impact B541 X SHF Manning W18 Z22 BW: 70 lbs. ADJ 205 WW: 846 lbs.
AKJA 108E Loewen GHC 33T Axiom B52 ET X GHC-Taboo Coalition 52U BW: 100 lbs. ADJ 205 WW: 757 lbs.
AKJA 33E Loewen GHC Top Chef B64 ET X MHPH 101S Umpire 118U BW: 89 lbs. ADJ 205 WW: 814 lbs.
AKJA 17E Loewen GHC Top Chef B64 ET X BBSF 101N Wrangler 29W BW: 94 lbs. ADJ 205 WW: 954 lbs.
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AKJA 10E KCF Bennett Impact B451 X GHC Atlas Beefman 135Z BW: 83 lbs. ADJ 205 WW: 734 lbs.
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EVENTS Stockade Roundup - November 1-4, 2017 Horned Show Results Female Show Senior Champion Bred Heifer – LF 4009 Daisy 25D – Lock Farms Ltd., Macklin, SK Reserve Senior Champion Bred Heifer – H70 Quantock Alma 658D – Hill 70 Quantock Ranch, Lloydminster, SK Senior Champion Female – MJT 495Y Cindy 105C – MJT Cattle Co. Ltd., Edgerton, AB Reserve Senior Champion Female – SS-Topline Miss Canada ET 323C – SS Cattle Company, Irma, AB Junior Champion Calf – SS-Topline Ms Canada ET 60E – SS Cattle Co., Irma, AB Reserve Junior Champion Calf – LF 4009 Lass 164E – Lock Farms Ltd., Macklin, SK Senior Champion Calf – RG 5511 Pixie 707E ET – Rocking G Land & Cattle Co., Gull Lake, SK Reserve Senior Champion Calf – RG 5511 Candy 705E ET – Rocking G Land & Cattle Co., Gull Lake, SK Grand Champion Female - MJT 495Y Cindy 105C – exhibited by MJT Cattle Co. Ltd., Edgerton, AB Reserve Grand Champion Female - RG 5511 Pixie 707E ET – Rocking G Land & Cattle Co., Gull Lake, SK
Bull Show Junior Champion Calf – SS-Topline Canada Excel 323E – SS Cattle Co. Irma, AB Reserve Junior Champion Calf – LF 4009 Elmer 159E – Lock Farms Ltd., Macklin, SK Junior Champion Bull - MJT Red 205D – MJT Cattle Co. Ltd., Edgerton, AB Reserve Junior Champion Bull – ACE Nugget Lad 25D – Brady Moncrieff, Senlac, SK Senior Champion Bull – H WR Sustainable 5511 ET – Rocking G Land & Cattle Co., Gull Lake, SK Reserve Senior Champion Bull – Big-Gully 102 Hurley 271C – Big Gully Farm, Maidstone, SK Grand Champion Bull - H WR Sustainable 5511 ET – Rocking G Land & Cattle Co., Gull Lake, SK Reserve Grand Champion Bull - Big-Gully 102 Hurley 271C – Big Gully Farm, Maidstone, SK
Grand Champion Horned Female
Reserve Grand Champion Horned Female
Grand Champion Horned Bull
Breeder's Herd 1st: MJT Cattle Co. Ltd., Edgerton, AB Get of Sire 1st: Lock Farms Ltd., Macklin, SK Pair of Bulls 1st: Brady Moncrieff, Senlac, SK
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EVENTS Polled Hereford Show Female Show Junior Champion Bred Heifer – Haroldsons SCC Madonna 95D – MJT Cattle Co. Ltd., Edgerton, AB Reserve Junior Champion Bred Heifer – Top-50 Dezire 19D – Top-50 Livestock, Lashburn, SK Senior Champion Bred Heifer – JDH Ms 20R Victor 33Z 55D ET – Jacey Massey, JM New Trend Cattle Co., Strathmore, AB Reserve Senior Champion Bred Heifer – Manchester 106A In Style 651D – Manchester Polled Herefords, Seclac, SK Senior Champion Female – M-R 75Z High Society 44C – Torch View Cattle Company, White Fox, SK Reserve Senior Champion Female – Top-50 Classy 1C – Top-50 Livestock, Lashburn, SK Junior Champion Calf – LF 48A Chrome 161E – Lock Farms Ltd., Macklin, SK Reserve Junior Champion Calf – NCX Miss Ellie 70E – NCX Polled Herefords, Brosseau, AB Intermediate Champion Calf – Top-50 Ecko 5E – Top-50 Livestock, Lashburn, SK Reserve Intermediate Champion Calf – HMS Hi-Cliffe Elladora 134E – HMS HiCliffe, Outlook, SK Senior Champion Calf – Manchester 106A Raven 712E – Manchester Polled Herefords, Senlac, SK Grand Champion Female - JDH Ms 20R Victor 33Z 55D ET – Jacey Massey, JM New Trend Cattle Co., Strathmore, AB Reserve Grand Champion Female – Top-50 Ecko 5E – Top-50 Livestock, Lashburn, SK Bull Show Junior Champion Calf – HMS Hi-Cliffe 305A Everest 10E – HMS Hi-Cliffe, Outlook, SK Reserve Junior Champion Calf – LF 48A Eeyore 155E – Lock Farms Ltd., Macklin, SK Intermediate Champion Calf – HMS Hi-Cliffe 94B Emperor 170E – HMS Hi-Cliffe, Outlook, SK Reserve Intermediate Champion Calf – Manchester106A Everest 732E – Manchester Polled Herefords, Senlac, SK Senior Champion Calf – Hi-Cliffe 13X Enforcer 14E – HMS Hi-Cliffe, Outlook, SK Reserve Senior Champion Calf – M-R 308B Proud 403E – Torch View Cattle Co., White Fox, SK Junior Champion Bull – MLL 10Y Rocky ET 225D – MJT Cattle Co. Ltd., Edgerton, AB Reserve Junior Champion Bull – H GO Hometown 104 ET – Rocking G Land & Cattle Co., Gull Lake, SK Senior Champion Bull – HMS Hi-Cliffe 305A Commando 64C – HMS Hi-Cliffe, Outlook, SK Reserve Senior Champion Bull – Remitall-W GD Lawless ET 37C – Manchester Polled Herefords, Senlac, SK Grand Champion Bull - MLL 10Y Rocky ET 225D – MJT Cattle Co. Ltd., Edgerton, AB Reserve Grand Champion Bull - HMS Hi-Cliffe 305A Commando 64C – HMS HiCliffe, Outlook, SK Breeder's Herd 1st: HMS Hi-Cliffe; 2nd: Lock Farms Ltd. Get of Sire 1st: HMS Hi-Cliffe; 2nd: Manchester Polled Herefords; 3rd: Lock Farms Ltd. Pair of Bulls 1st: Lock Farms Ltd.; 2nd: HMS Hi-Cliffe Cattle Call - February 2018 Cattle Call – February 2018
Grand Champion Polled Female
Reserve Grand Champion Polled Female
Grand Champion Polled Bull
Reserve Grand Champion Polled Bull
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EVENTS Edam Fall Fair – 2017
CWA Hereford Show – November 24, 2017
Ranchers Choice Steer Grand Champion – Horse Hill Land & Cattle – sold $1800 Reserve Champion – Brennan & Melissa Weitzel – sold $1625 Average - $1603
Judge: Jonathan Thomason, Rush Lake, SK
Propect Steer Grand Champion – Bill Laclare – sold $1300 Reserve Champion – Ella Grant – sold $2400 Average - $1780 Ranchers Choice Open Replacement Heifers Grand Champion – Daniel Demontarnal – sold $1700 Reserve Champion – Mitch Wall – sold $1500 Average - $1433 Prospect Heifer Grand Champion – Corey McFarlane – sold $2100 Reserve Champion – Devon Fox – sold $1450 Average - $1640 Pen of 3 Open Heifers Grand Champion – Horse Hill Land & Cattle – sold $1475 Reserve Champion – Doug Marjoram – sold $2100 Average - $1464 Pen of 5 Open Heifers Grand Champion – Lone Spruce Ranching – sold $1300 Reserve Champion – Doug Marjoram – sold $1975 Average - $1439 Pen of 3 Bred Heifers Grand Champion – Kobes Bros. - sold $2100 Reserve Champion – Scott MacNab – sold $2375 Average – $2279 Pen of 5 Bred Heifers Grand Champion – Scott MacNab – sold $2500 Reserve Champion – Roach Ranching – sold $2550 Average - $2542 People's Choice Cow/Calf Pair Grand Champion – Brent Blais – sold $1500 Reserve Champion – Robert Blais – sold $1600 Average - $1450 Pen of British Bulls Grand Champion – McKevitts Angus Reserve Grand Champion - Jake Pilke Pen of European Bulls Grand Champion – Serhienko Cattle Company Reserve Grand Champion – Black Gold Simmentals People's Choice Pen of Bulls was exhibited by Serhienko Cattle Company Overall sale gross was $350,225 on 205 head of cattle.
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Polled Hereford Show Junior Division Heifer Calf Haroldson's Marvel ET 56E – Haroldson's Polled Herefords Reserve Junior Division Heifer Calf Haroldson's Marvel ET 56E – Haroldson's Polled Herefords Senior Division Heifer Calf Harvie MS Medonte 32E – Harvie Ranching Reserve Senior Division Heifer Calf Haroldson's SCC Lassie 21E – Harvie Ranching Junior Champion Female BNC Glenlees 429 Nellie 71D – Glenlees Farms & Blairs.Ag Reserve Junior Champion Female GRLZ Miss Tap 75D – Haroldson's Polled Herefords Senior Champion Female BNC 14Z Star Maker 69C – Glenlees Farms & BNC Polled Herefords Reserve Senior Champion Female C & T Z81 Dara 75C – C & T Cattle Co., Dawson Foy & Ross Madsen Grand Champion Female BNC Glenlees 429 Nellie 71D – Glenlees Farms & Blairs.Ag Reserve Grand Champion Female GRLZ Miss Tap 75D – Haroldson's Polled Herefords Junior Division Bull Calf Haroldson's SCC Renegade 43E – Haroldson's Polled Herefords & Starry Cattle Company Reserve Junior Division Bull Calf Haroldson's Renegade 21C 92E – Haroldson's Polled Herefords Senior Division Bull Calf Haroldson's JVJ Royal 24E – Haroldson's Polled Herefords & JVJ Farms Reserve Senior Division Bull Calf ANL 23B Tahoe 46A 4E – ANL Polled Herefords Junior Champion Bull MLL 10Y Rocky ET 225D – MJT Cattle Company Reserve Junior Champion Bull KJ BJ 719Z Truman 695D ET – Harvie Ranching, RSK Farms & Jensen Bros. Senior Champion Bull RSK E 2046 Digby ET 20C – RSK Farms & Elkhe Herefords Reserve Senior Champion Bull Remitall-W 50 Shades ET 12C – Holmes Farms, Remitall West & Double J Polled Herefords Grand Champion Bull RSK E 2046 Digby ET 20C – RSK Farms & Elkhe Herefords Reserve Grand Champion Bull MLL 10Y Rocky ET 225D – MJT Cattle Company Breeder's Herd – Haroldson's Polled Herefords Junior Get of Sire – Haroldson's Polled Herefords Get of Sire – Haroldson's Polled Herefords Cattle Call - February 2018 Cattle Call – February 2018
EVENTS Premier Breeder & Exhibitor: Haroldson's Polled Herefords Polled Herdsman Award – Copper Creek Ranch Horned Hereford Show Champion Heifer Calf RG 5511 Pixie 707E ET – Rocking G Land & Cattle Reserve Champion Heifer Calf RG 5511 Candy 705E ET – Rocking G Land & Cattle Junior Champion Female Triple A Bam's Daisy 7D – Triple A Herefords Reserve Junior Champion Female T Bar K Tanya 5D – T Bar K Ranch Senior Champion Female MJT 495Y Cindy 105C – MJT Cattle Company Reserve Senior Champion Female BCD 323S Kenzie 217Z – Brad Dallas Grand Champion Female
RG 5511 Pixie 707E ET – Rocking G Land & Cattle Reserve Grand Champion Female
Triple A Bam's Daisy 7D – Triple A Herefords
CWA Bull Pen Alley Champion Pen of Hereford Bulls – exhibited by McCoy Cattle Co., Milestone, SK Reserve Champion Pen of Hereford Bulls – exhibited by Lone Pine Cattle Services, Vibank, Sk.
CWA Commercial Cattle Sale Results 90 Open Replacements averaged $1,720.83 195 Bred Heifers averaged $2,732.69 Total sale $687,750.00
Canadian Western Agribition - RBC Supreme Challange 2017 Congratulations to Big Gully Farm, Maidstone, SK who made the Top Ten Finalists in the RBC Supreme Challenge with their bull Big-Gully 102 Hurley 271C. Big-Gully 102 Hurley 271C was also Grand Champion Hereford Bull at Farmfair International, Edmonton, AB; Reserve Grand Champion Horned Bull at Stockade Roundup, Lloydminster, SK and Reserve Grand Champion Horned Bull, Canadian Western Agribition 2017.
Champion Bull Calf Big-Gully 5001 Leverage 371E – Big Gully Farm Reserve Champion Bull Calf Big-Gully 301 Intensity 211E Junior Champion Bull GH 5Z Marten's Rock 344D – Nelson Hirsche Purebreds & Peter Martens Senior Champion Bull H WR Sustainable 5511 ET – Rocking G Land & Cattle Co. Reserve Senior Champion Bull Big-Gully 102 Hurley 271C – Big Gully Farm Grand Champion Bull H WR Sustainable 5511 ET – Rocking G Land & Cattle Co. Reserve Grand Champion Bull Big-Gully 102 Hurley 271C – Big Gully Farm Breeder's Herd – Rocking G Land & Cattle Co. Junior Get of Sire – Rocking G Land & Cattle Co. Get of Sire – Rocking G Land & Cattle Co. Premier Breeder & Exhibitor: Rocking G Land & Cattle Co. Horned Herdsman Award – Rocking G Land & Cattle Co.
David Reid was presented with his Director plaque from the CHA by CHA President, Doug Mann (L) and CHA Executive Director, Stephen Scott (R) for his service to the Canadian Hereford Association Board. David also received his 50 year pin. From all of us at the SHA, thank you David for your dedication and commitment to the Hereford breed in our province!
Congratulations The Cliffs Farm, Joe Vey Jr., and HMS Hi-Cliffe for being presented 2017 MOE Gold Sire Award for TCF JVJ 11X TIF Goods 305A. Cattle Call - February 2018 Cattle Call – February 2018
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22 Annual Red Coat Classic $10,000 Grand Prize Winner! DOUBLE DEUCE REISS 69E Exhibited by: Double Deuce Acres, Regina, SK Grand Prize Draw Winner: Magnum Ranching, Frenchman Butte, SK
Red Coat “Classic” People's Choice Pick Thank You to our Sponsors! Buehringer/Merial – Harvey Duke - Ryan Manchester Deep South Animal Clinic – Courtney Cochrane Co-op Feeds – Skelton Cattle Co. Zoetis – Kenneth Craig - Kaitlyn Polegi & Mark McMurphy Merck – Marc Lehmann - Chad Dixon Canadian Hereford Association – Steve Hordos Elanco – Cayley Brown - Ben Lodoen Saskatchewan Hereford Association – Triple H Farm Ltd. KLR Polled Herefords – Twin View Polled Herefords Ultra Beef – Jordan Martinson Pattison Ag. - Tina Lees Alta Genetics – Ross Madsen
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Sponsored by: Noble Johnston & Associates RU BA 156C Beyonce' 271E Exhibited by: Blair Athol Farms, Arcola, SK
Thank you to all the Red Coat “Classic” Exhibitors, Sponsors, Volunteers and those who support by purchasing membership tickets!
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MARK OF EXCELLENCE HEREFORD SHOW 2017 CANADIAN WESTERN AGRIBITION
CWA Hereford Show & Red Coat “Classic” Volunteers CWA Hereford Show Chairman Corey Lees & Chad Wilson Red Coat “Classic” Chairman Matt Lohner & Karen Wagner Jonathan Thomason, Judge Bonnie Thompson, Barn Boss Shannon Brost Jamie O'Shea Kari Fawcett Dale Shillington Daryl Kirton Darwyn Wilms Garrth Charlton Jacob Onyschuk Lenna Wilson Drew Henderson Sask Junior Hereford Association Lyal Heidecker Dr. Carmen Millham Murray & Bridget Andrews Stephen Myer Thank You! Reception Sponsor JJ Trucking, Arcola, SK Red Coat “Classic” People's Choice Noble Johnston & Associates
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THANK YOU! CWA MOE HEREFORD SHOW SPONSORS & VOLUNTEERS Our Show Sponsors HORNED HEREFORD SHOW Champion Classes Big Gully Farm Diamond J Cattle Co. Triple A Herefords Lohner Herefords Class Sponsors Lamontagne Holdings Misty Valley Farms Anderson Herefords J Embroidery Mission Ridge Herefords PK Herefords Rocking G Land & Cattle T Bar K Ranch Craig's Ranching Co. Ltd. Garrett Ranch Ltd. Canadian Hereford Digest Northwest Hereford Club Livestock Media Plus Alta Genetics
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CORBIELL HEREFORDS “Last Chance Bull Sale” Thursday, February 15, 2018 1:00 pm at Silver Sage Arena, Brooks, AB 50 Two year old Horned Hereford Bulls on offer! Semen Tested - Halter Broke – Fully Guaranteed
C 81Y Misty Sunrise Lad 116D This moderate framed, thick, good haired, yellow bull is as good as we can make him. Outstanding cow family and his sire MVF 81Y's progeny was highly sought after at our dispersal! Don't miss this Herd Sire Prospect!
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This is as good a set of bulls as we've ever offered. Even though this is our last sale, our same no nonsense guarantee still applies. Call or write for a catalogue or stop to see the bulls anytime.
BRAD & TAMMY, TY & MELISSA 403-734-2111
Box 337, Cluny, AB T0J 0S0
Brad's Cell: 403-934-8714 www.corbiellherefords.com
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Ty, DVM: 403-934-0297 Email: trinityranch.corbiell@gmail.com
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Selling 30 Polled Sons of Trait Leaders - More Performance - More Maternal - Great feet & udders - Complete performance information All bulls sold privately at the ranch Sires Represented:
This is what we raise!
PCL Zircon 719T 25Z PCL Yukon R117 ET 49Y PCL Homegrown Balance 8Y 33B MHPH 101S Umpire 118U MHPH 521X Action 106A
MSU TCF Revolution 4R KCF Bennett Revolution X51 SHF All Star 42X A191 ANL C HAR T100 Tahoe 86 ET 23B
Doug & Wanda Mann
Box 1256 Swift Current, SK S9H 3X4 P: 306.773.7136 C: 306.741.1265 E: w_mann@xplornet.ca
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Bowie Ranch Honoured with CHA Legacy Award The prairie winds of south western Saskatchewan constantly rework the sand dunes on the Bowie Ranch and amid this ever changing landscape, one constant has remained, Hereford cattle have always grazed here. “Herefords have proven themselves here in the past 100 years,” says Jon Bowie, a fourth generation rancher. “They do very well in this country.” These days, the Bowie Ranch at Piapot, Saskatchewan, is home to a straight-bred commercial Hereford herd managed by Jon, his parents Ian and Eleanor and wife Tracy. “Herefords look after themselves”, says Ian. “There is not a lot of work in them.” The Bowie Ranch history extends back to 1812 when 27 year old J.A. (John) Bowie left Collingwood, Ontario for Pincher Creek, Alberta. A chance stop at Piapot led to a change of plans when J.A. saw potential in the area and decided he had come far enough west. He homesteaded seven miles south east of Piapot and being an entrepreneur with some experience in storekeeping, he purchased the Tompkins Supply Company's store in Piapot that same year. Living on his homestead, he drove back and forth to town with a horse and buggy, opening the store at 7 a.m. and closing around midnight. In 1913 he returned to Collingwood and married Ada Frances White, the daughter of his former employer and bookkeeper at her father's store. Once the homestead was proved up, the couple moved to town and moved in to living quarters above the store. The present-day ranch site in the Great Sandhills was established in 1917. A manager was hired and the Bowies 22 22
started raising cattle and horses northwest of Piapot. The Mackie Ranch was also purchased and sheep were raised there until 1928. This land was eventually traded for the Beattie place closer to town. More land was added in the 1930s as A.J. bought out families that found it tough to eke out a living in the sandhills. He got out of the horse business with the onset of merchanized farming and concentrated on raising commercial Hereford cattle. The first purebred Herefords were bought in 1938 at the Burns dispersal sale and cows were added from the Alex Mitchell dispersal and the Hines dispersal. J.A. and Ada Frances had twin boys, Don and Lloyd and a daughter Marian. Lloyd passed away in 1922 – the same year J.A. was diagnosed with Diabetes. This was a death sentence in 1922 as he was given only six months to live. J.A. survived, however – a beneficiary of ground breaking research at the University of Toronto. Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin in 1921 and successfully treated their first diabetic patient in January 1922 with the insulin extracted from the pancreases of cattle. J.A. did not ultimatley pass away until 1961. Don went to the University in Saskatoon and joined the family business in 1940 after a year spent working on a ranch survey for the Economics Branch of the Dominion Government. He helped with both the ranch and the store and purchased some purebred cattle of his own. His mother Ada Frances was also very interested in livestock and had a few purebed cattle of her own. She kept the books for both the store and the ranch up until her death in 1970. Don married Julia Splett, a teacher from Medicine Hat in 1947 and commuted to the ranch on a daily basis to confer with ranch managers and oversee ranch operations. Don and Julia had two sons, Ian and Bruce.
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Bowie Ranch In 1971, Ian returned home after graduation from the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan to pusue his ambition of ranching. At his side was his new wife Eleanor, a fellow agriculture student at the U of S. “I
astute businessman, sat and listened to them explain the benfits of a good cross breeding program and then said … “Well you know, somebody has to have that good solid base. I think we'll just keep doing what we are doing.”
was majoring in poultry and Ian hates birds! We did get a few hens and a rooster for a wedding present but they didn't last long,” says Eleanor laughing.
Skip ahead a generation and Ian recalls broaching the subject of cross breeding again, this time with his son Jon and daughter Elayna. “I thought we should start breeding Angus but both the kids nixed the idea,” says Ian.
Ian and Eleanor were the first of the Bowies to actually live full time on the ranch lands in the sand hills. The ranch manager at the time considered Ian a “town kid” but it didn't take him long to prove himself. Ian and Eleanor had two children – son Jon and daughter Elayna. “Don's heart was here at the ranch, but Julia was a storekeeper's daughter and a storekeeper at heart so Don made sure the store continued so that she was happy,” Eleanor explained. Don did, however, remain an integral part of the decision making on the ranch up until two days before his death. “He had a ranch truck and commuted and if he wasn't out, he phoned every night to see what we were up to,” says Ian, adding that his dad never thought of the ranch as work. Full of enthusiasm, Ian and Eleanor has a new vision for improving the ranch's breeding program when they first arrived at the ranch. “We came back from University filled with Professor Red Williams' hybrid vigour lectures,” says Eleanor.”I mean literally full of it; just full of it!” Charolais were just introduced to Canada and the Bowie Ranch had a really good Hereford base. Ian's dad, an
The Bowies need 35 to 50 acres per cow/calf unit and carefully manage their grass for dry years. Eleanor explains that as ranchers, they have had to learn to live in symbiosis with the land. Bowies ranch is a 'one iron' operation. Calving starts the first part of April and calves are overwintered to grow not to be fattened. They are then summered in the sand hills. They used to take a few groups of heifers to a fall sale at Swift Current, Saskatchewan and the same Ontario buyer bought them. He would then show a group of Bowie heifers at the Royal Winter Fair. “He never placed out of the ribbons with our calves,” says Eleanor proudly. They have been selling their yearlings on TEAM (The Electronic Auction Mart) for the past 20 years and are justifiably proud of having repeat customers for their cattle. They keep their own replacement heifers and breed them to Longhorn bulls the first year, for ease of calving. “We have friends down south that we help at branding and they are always looking for good Hereford heifers for replacements. They laugh because it is so hard to find a good solid Hereford because everyone is keeping them
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now,” says Jon. “Our cattle aren't handled a lot here. They are close to free as you can get and as close to organic as you can get with good management,” says Eleanor. The Bowies use horses for major livestock handling jobs which keep those handling jobs as stress-free as possible.
The ranch provides diverse habitat for over 20 rare and endangered species. It is in the Great Sandhills region which covers 1,900 square kilometres in South Western Saskatchewan. Underlying fine sand deposits were originally laid down by glacial meltwaters. The sand dunes are modified and remodelled by the wind and are often stabilized for a time with vegetation, until the wind opens them up again.
Eleanor talks about bull buying. “You look at their feet and legs and then consider body type. If they don't have good feet and legs they aren't going to make it here,” she says. Bull buying duties now fall to Ian and Eleanor who make this an annual fatherdaughter excursion to bull sales. The Bowies raised many of their own bulls but also sold registered bulls at Maple Creek and Swift Current bull sales, as well as at the Red Carpet Sale in Saskatoon.
“The grass in our winter field is as good as bales when it is cured off,” says Ian. “We winter graze a lot but the grass is like wire. It needs moisture to make it palatable.” Most years the Bowies won't start winter feeding until the New Year and they have gone as long as March without having to feed hay. They are on the edge of the chinook zone, so they can be forced to start feeding early if the chinook winds cause too much ice to form.
Most of their hay is produced on an irrigated flat south of Piapot. It is gravity flow irrigation so maintenance of dikes and ditches is important and the whole system is dependent on run off and creek flow. Hay is augmented with pellets to overwinter calves. Pellets are distributed by a neat little trolley system with a hopper bottomed cart that is easy to push back and forth on a rail.
Lightning caused a prairie fire in 1984 that destroyed everything but Ian and Eleanor's house. They lost over 3,000 fence posts, one third of their hay, one third of their pasture and 13 head of cattle. The community rallied around to help the Bowies rebuild. After the fire, Eleanor says they had 30 to 40 people at the ranch every day for a month. The local Lions Club rebuilt their corrals.
Surprisingly, water is not a big issue in the sand hills and the Bowies have been phasing in solar pumps where they don't have power. They only have one working windmill left, down from 13 in past years. They dig shallow sand point wells with the deepest being only 25 feet. Good rain the last five years has brought ground water levels up. Most of the surface water on the ranch is alkaline but they do have a couple of springs.
“Our vet was one of our hired men at the time and he cancelled his College so he could help us put our lives back together,” says Eleanor. “That's the kind of loyalty Ian has generated.”
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After the fire, the Bowies bought bigger equipment, put electric wire up to feed and changed their corral design for better cattle movement. The resulting efficiencies
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Bowie Ranch allowed Ian and Jon to run day-to-day operations where it once took four men. The registered purebred part of the operation was discontinued about ten years ago to further streamline operations. They kept their purebred females in the herd but started running them as commercial cows. One highlight of their tenure in the seedstock industry was the purchase of the high selling bull at the Calgary Bull Sale in 1962 to Ada Frances Bowie for $7,500. It was so newsworthy for a woman to be purchasing a bull that it was noted in the Calgary Herald. Eleanor refers to the strong women who “blazed a trail for the rest of us.” Don's sister Marion – daughter of A.J. Bowie – completed a Bachelor of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, worked in the legal department of the Airforce in WWII and had a career in legal department of the National Harbours Board in Ottawa. Their mother, Ada Frances, is also described as a strong woman. The same could be said for Eleanor, who was the first woman to ride on the ranch with the men and the first to drive machinery and help hay. She still pitches in where needed and clearly has a great respect and love for the land she has called home for 47 years. Jon's wife Tracy is the present-day bookkeeper on the ranch. “Tracy does an awesome job, is on top of it and knows what's going on,” says Eleanor, who now appreciates spending more time with their grandchildren Morgan and Cadie – the children of Jon and Tracy.
Both Ian and Eleanor's children remained in agriculture in Saskatchewan – an unexpected surprise, they say. Jon's sister Elayna was the third generation of the Bowies to attend the University of Saskatchewan to obtain a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, following in the footsteps of her grandfather Don and her father Ian. She now lives on a mixed farm at Outlook with her husband Barry where she looks after the cattle and haying part of the operation. Jon is a talented photographer and is committed to recording everyday life on the ranch for future generations. From preserving family photos to recording present-day activities, he wants to document how ranch life has changed through the generations for his children and their children. Jon and Ian reflect on those changes and after initially thinking that times haven't changed that much, decided that perhaps they have. Cattle used to be sold to an order buyer and shipped by rail from a siding at Piapot, they are now sold electronically. Calves are still dragged to the fire to be branded, but branding irons are heated over propane now and calves are dehorned, vaccinated and tags with RFID tags. One thing that hasn't changed? Bowie Ranch is still a Hereford operation and a worthy recipient of the Canadian Hereford Association Legacy Award.
Photo Jon Bowie
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GWG Polled Herefords Box 314, Imperial, SK S0G 2J0 Tel: 306-963-2638 Cell: 306-963-7947 Fax: 306-963-2648 Email: gwg.farm@sasktel.net
Check out our sale offering ...
DMG – 9D Stout long bodied bull out of a bull called Timber. His mother Glitter 38B is pretty good. Has large scurs. Low BW 80lbs.
DMG – 45D Stockman 45D is a grandson of the great BBSF 101N Wrangler 29W bull. He has a 86lb BW so could be used on heifers
DMG - 13D
DMG 23D
Maybe the best Volt 36W son we have raised. Long bodied and deep ribbed. BW 92lbs.
DMG 50D Another Volt 36W son we really like. Sound, athletic and attractive. Use him with confidence. BW 98lbs.
This stout Volt son has lots of potential. Deep ribbed with a 90lb BW.
DMG – 54D The youngest 36W bull on offer. Mid March birthdate and 96lb BW. 42T calved her last calf at age 10 and all were bulls.
These bulls will sell at the
Canada's Red, White and Black Bull Sale March 17, 2018 at Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK DMG - 52D Typical Volt 36W son. Long bodied, deep ribbed and dark red. BW 92lbs. A full brother sold last year into the excellent herd of Bill Potts, Morse, SK
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Bulls also for sale by Private Treaty
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W H E R E Q UA L I T Y R U N S G E N E R AT I O N S D E E P ! SELLING OFF THE FARM Over 40 BULLS
Two Year Olds, Fall and spring born yearlings Broad topped, quiet, semen tested, you pick, we deliver! SQUARE-D STRYKER 496D Sire:15Z DOB: Mar 19/16 BW: 102 lb U, WW: 800 lbs, YW: 1100 lbs PIGMENT LT: 10%, RT: 10%
SQUARE-D REBEL 425D Sire: 8X, DOB: Mar 17/16 BW: 85 lbs U, WW: 745 lbs, YW: 1070 lbs PIGMENT LT: 10%, RT: 50%
SQUARE-D COMMANDER 326D Sire: 15Z, DOB: Mar 10/16 BW: 80 lbs U, WW: 710 lbs, YW: 1070 lbs PIGMENT LT: 10%, RT: 80% SQUARE-D GOLDRUSH 780D Sire: 69B, DOB: Apr 1/16 BW: 80 lbs U, WW: 790 lbs, YW: 1060 lbs PIGMENT LT: 50%, RT: 50%
SQUARE-D CHIANTI 759D Sire: 69B, DOB: Mar 13/16 BW: 112 lbs, WW: 840 lbs, YW: 1160 lbs PIGMENT LT: 90%, RT: 90%
SQUARE-D BRIAR 770D Sire: 8X, DOB: Apr 21/16 BW: 90 lbs U, WW: 720 lbs, YW: 1010 lbs PIGMENT LT: 100%, RT 100%
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JIM & LORI DUKE & FAMILIES
306-538-4556 Cell 306-736-7921 RR 2 Langbank, SK SQUARE.D@SASKTEL.NET WWW. SQUARE-DPOLLEDHEREFORDS.COM WATCH FOR PICTURES ONLINE Cattle Call - February 2018
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10th Annual Bull Sale April 5, 2018 at the Ranch 80 Bulls Selling 13 – Two Year Old Hereford Bulls 12 – Yearling Hereford Bulls
CWA Reserve Junior Champion Horned Female T Bar K Tanya 5D Many half brothers to sell in sale
Kevin & Kim Dorrance, Jordan, Sydney & Brock Tom & Irene Dorrance Phone: 306-739-2944 Kevin's Cell: 306-577-9861 Box 389, Wawota, SK S0G 5A0 Email: dorrance@sasktel.net
22 – Two year Old Red Angus Bulls 33 – Red Angus Yearling Bulls
CWA Reserve Champion Pen of Angus Bulls 2018 Highest WPDA Angus Pen of Bulls They sell in our sale along with many half brothers
T Bar K Solo Cup 2A Powerful Herd Bull – Sons Sell
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New Hereford EPD Evaluations As time marches on the influence of technology impacts us all; from cell phones to online services we are constantly moving to make improvements in efficiency and access for members. Our EPD analysis system has been relatively unchanged for 20 years and now we are on the verge of launching a new system (named BOLT) that will provide the best breeding tool box we have had to date. In the next month, the CHA and American Hereford Association (AHA) are planning to launch this new EPD evaluation. However, given that some EPDs may change with this new system, if development cannot be finished before the start of the bull sale season the launch will be held off until early spring so as to not disrupt bull sales by having members publishing EPDs: some under the old system, some under the new. Here’s what this new technology is allowing us to do: BOLT Measures Genomic Effects Better BOLT will incorporate genomics into the evaluation in a more precise fashion when compared to how we utilized genomics in the past. With the new system only the most influential markers for each trait are used; this improves the accuracy of the genomic prediction.
will be just that: accurate. For the most part EPDs will remain relatively similar to what they were previously, however there are some traits that have been modified and will look different. Two of the most noticeable changes will be seen in CE and MCE. The new model will change to give us the ability to use more calving data for these traits however they will still be interpreted as the percentage of calving difficulty seen in two year old females. As well, the range of extremes for CE/MCE has been made larger so that cattleman can better select for calving ease bulls. Another noticeable change will be the accuracy of EPDs. Even bulls that had high accuracy evaluations previously may see a slight decrease to their accuracy because the accuracy numbers in the past were approximated, not a true accuracy, as they will be now. With this release of the new EPDs we will also be releasing exciting new EPDs that will provide cattleman with more breeding tools to select for: Sustained Cow Fertility and Teat and Udder conformation. Watch for more information coming from the Canadian Hereford Association on the new BOLT EPDs.
Fee Schedule Change for 2018
BOLT Separates Traits
The new fees which take effect January 1, 2018.
In the past, secondary traits had influence over the trait of interest because several traits were correlated with each other to arrive at the current EPDs. Now, individual traits have been separated as much as possible from other traits, to allow for better selection on the trait of interest.
After 10 years with no increase in these registration fees, the board has implemented a $5 increase to each of the first 3 age categories:
BOLT Uses a Data Cut Off to Remove Bias Performance data has been cut-off at 2001 which is when Whole Herd Reporting began. Any data recorded before that date has been removed from the evaluation. This will have an effect on the accuracy of old bulls and potentially their EPDS, if they have no progeny born since 2001. This does not change the ranking of bulls but it does remove potential bias that could be seen in the data before whole herd reporting began.
Under 6 months of age $25.00 6 months of age and under 12 months of age $35.00 12 months of age and under 18 months of age $55.00 Therefore, the best way to save money on registration fees is still to register early! Also, Young Gun memberships are now $75, and will be automatically renewed January 1, along with the Annual memberships.
BOLT Calculates Accuracy Differently In the past, our genetic models could only estimate accuracy. This was the best tool at the time but with BOLT, accuracy can be truly calculated and not just estimated. In most cases in the past accuracy has been overestimated-new accuracies 30 30
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Eligibility of Animals • For animals to be recognized as Hereford Plus, they must meet one of the following criteria for eligibility:
Hereford Plus Program Purebred Hereford genetics are adaptable to all environments and produce marketable and profitable cattle. Using Purebred Hereford genetics in a crossbreeding program yields the best results as Purebred Hereford cattle are truly that – purebred through and through. With nobreed up strategies or percentage cattle recognized in the Hereford herd book, Hereford genetics are the farthest outcross you can get – more than any other breed out there today. The docility, do-ability and adaptability of Hereford genetics will meet the demands of any environment. Stamped with a White Face, buyers know these cattle were bred to perform and exceed expectations. Now, the Canadian Hereford Association will be providing identification and genetic services to producers who are in the market of creating Herefordinfluenced breeding replacements for commercial cow herds and feeder cattle. Hereford Plus participants receive: • Ability to record the lineage of Hereford Plus animals in participating herds to improve future mating decisions, maintain heterosis and make genetic improvement in a commercial cowherd • Record calving ease, weights, teat and udder scores and carcass data (etc.) • Online access to Economic indexes and EPDs on individuals or groups of cattle that program participants are looking to market (steers, heifers and bulls) • Access to parentage and a variety of genetic tests 5160 Skyline Way NE. Calgary AB. T3B4N6 • 403-275-2662 • herefords@hereford.ca Hereford Plus Program Details: Animal Identification: • All animals recorded in the Hereford Plus program must be legibly tattooed with herd letters, animal number and birth year letter (ex. ABC 123F)
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* Breeds considered to be dairy type will not be an eligible parent of Certified Hereford Plus progeny ¹ Hereford Plus is NOT a “breed up” appendix of the Canadian Hereford Registry. Hereford Plus animals will remain within the category of Hereford Plus. There is no method by which to breed these animals up to Purebred Hereford Status
Data Recording Requirements: • All Hereford Plus participants will be required to take part in Total Herd Enrolment DNA Requirements: • All Sires are required to have a DNA profile on file at the CHA designated laboratory • All AI Sires are required to be Sire and Dam verified • Hereford Plus Donor Dams are required to be genotyped (Sire and Dam verified) • Hereford Plus ET calves are required to be Sire and Dam verified At any time, the Canadian Hereford Association may request a spot check on Hereford Plus animals. Fee Schedule Fees are planned to be similar to that of the CHA’s Purebred Hereford Fee Schedule, and will be released at the launch of the program. Frequently Asked Questions When will this program begin? Slated for release in the first quarter of 2018, the CHA will make members aware when the infrastructure is completed to allow for Hereford Plus animals to be entered through an Online format. Hereford Plus is an online based program, some minor pieces of the programing may be completed on paper at the outset of the program, however the goal is to move all parts of the Hereford Plus program to an online format. The CHA will require program participants to complete their animal recording and data recording online. 31 31
When can I start recording cattle into Hereford Plus? Any 2018 born calves that meet the eligibility criteria (mentioned above) can begin to be recorded into the Hereford Plus program. Cattle born before 2018 cannot be entered into the Hereford Plus program, however they can be parents of Hereford Plus offspring in the future, if they meet the criteria mentioned above. Can my Hereford Plus animal “breed-up” to Purebred Hereford status? Hereford Plus is a program to recognize the value of using Hereford genetics in a crossbreeding program. Animals that are recognized as Hereford Plus are crossbred cattle, and therefore, will NOT have the ability to breed-up to Purebred Hereford. The Canadian Hereford Constitution outlines the rules of eligibility to the Purebred Herd book. Hereford Plus cattle do not meet these requirements, and therefore, will not be admitted into the Canadian Hereford Herd book. Is my Hereford Plus Participation fee a membership in the Canadian Hereford Association? Hereford Plus is a program being offered by the Canadian Hereford Association. Participants in the program will need to pay an annual participation fee. This participation fee is not a membership in the Canadian Hereford Association. Hereford Plus participants will not have voting rights at provincial or national Annual meetings as they are not members of the Association as per the Canadian Hereford Association’s definition of membership in the CHA Constitution.
Correction: Appologies to Wesley Van Caeseele who was missed as a Four Star Breeder in the last issue.
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We focus on developing sound, athletic two year old bulls that can go out and service cows. Our bulls graze all summer on native grass and fall graze until November; allowing them to grow and develop.
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1:00 pm - Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, SK
The best part of our bulls are their mothers - Functional, easy doing, good uddered cows that must perform under ranch conditions. 2017 was a tough year, with the drought. Cows had to walk a LONG ways for water. The girls came through!
Partners in building your success! MURRAY, BRIDGET & LUKE ANDREWS 306-631-9271 OR 306-694-5821 RUSSELL & FAYE ANDREWS 306-693-2687 MOOSE JAW, SK
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Triple-A 1229 Dakota 70D - AHSJ 70D
Triple-A Bam’s Dylan 85D - AHSJ 85D
Triple-A 12A Dusty 2D - Polled - LRA 2D
Triple-A 1229 Dakota 58D - PUT 58D
Triple-A 028 Donnie 4D - AHSJ 4D
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Triple-A 47R Digger ET 12D - AHSJ 12D
Thank you to the bidders and buyers that supported us at the Square-D Sale, Agribition Sale and Season Finale. Special thank you to Standard Hill Livestock for purchasing a group of 30 bred heifers by private treaty!
Two year old and yearling bulls sired by the following herdsires will sell at Canada’s Red, White & Black Bull Sale and off the farm.
NJW 144Y 174X Diablo 180A
Grandview CMR Mr Dom 86P Y332
Remitall-W Closing Time ET 10B
Remitall-W Rio Lobo ET 26C
NJW 33TB 100W Trust 163Z
Haroldsons Delta ET 69A
Harvey Duke: 306-536-4490 Bradley Duke: 306-737-3980 Larissa Lupul: 306-209-9333
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Offering at the 2018 Red White and Black Bull Sale: HEIDECKER DANIEL ET 8D — January 9 2016 Sire: MCCOY 55M ABSOLUTE 49S X SOD FELTONS LEGEND 242 Dam: JVJ MISS THUNDERETTE 3X HEIDECKER DAVI 11D — February 3rd 2016 Sire: SQUARE-D TORTUGA 953T X SOD HARVIE LADIES MAN 4L Dam: TWIN-VIEW 4L GIA 101Y HEIDECKER DUFF 37D — March 21 2016 Sire: HEIDECKER ADRENALIN ET 15Z X SOD McCOY 55M ABSOLUTE 49S Dam: MCCOY 49S MOXIE 84W
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Sire of HEIDECKER DANIEL ET 8D Sire of Dam (SOD) of HEIDECKER DUFF 37D
Thanks to the CJHA board and Bonanza committees who have given us many opportunities and have organized great junior shows throughout the years. See you in July in Weyburn, Saskatchewan for Bonanza 2019!
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Synthetic Meat Unlikely to Impact Protein Market in Near Term Many hurdles remain for cultured meat, the largest of which are related to commercial viability, consumer acceptance, and regulatory issues. The impact of protein products derived from plant sources, insects or cultured animal cells on livestock and poultry demand is not expected to be significant in the foreseeable future, according to a new report from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange Division. However, these technologies bear watching. “Cultured meat developers are in a race to match price and quality to traditional meat offerings, CoBank says. “Products currently in development are prohibitively expensive and years away from widespread commercial viability.” “The future success of alternative meat lies squarely with rising global demand for protein rather than a battle for the existing market share of animal protein food products,” Trevor Amen, an economist with CoBank, said in the article. “The road to commercial viability and consumer acceptance of cultured meat is long and this type of product is unlikely to have a marked effect on traditional animal protein demand through at least the next decade.” The alternative protein category is certain to grow in the coming years, allowing pathways for more diversified protein products. However, the alternative protein market will be overshadowed by the current retail market size of $49 billion in sales for the entire meat and poultry category. Commercial Viability and Consumer Acceptance Rising global incomes will continue to drive consumers to a higher protein diet, says Dennis DiPietre, and economist from Columbia, Mo. CoBank says global gross domestic product is projected to grow by $38 trillion from 2016 to 2030, generating a 46% increase in meat and poultry consumption. Technology companies and alternative protein providers are exploring new protein products. “The timeline for commercial viability of cultured meat products remains the greatest unknown,” said Amen in the article. “The consensus projection points to an initial market 38 38
introduction in the next 3 to 5 years, most likely in restaurants and specialty stores and offered at a premium price to traditional meat offerings.” Supermarket adoption of these products is projected to take another 2 to 3 years as the technology becomes more affordable and acceptable to consumers. Technological and Regulatory Hurdles CoBank believes the timing and degree of market penetration for meat alternatives will largely depend on advancements in technology that reduce price and improve quality attributes. “In addition to start-up companies, we’re seeing agribusiness leaders investing in research and development projects surrounding meat alternatives,” said Amen. “Similar projects are also underway in China, Israel, Japan and France.” Newly created cultured meat products will also need a regulatory framework before entering the market. Both the FDA and the USDA are closely monitoring developments in the cultured meat industry. It is unlikely that the agencies will rule on terminology that can be used to describe and market cultured meat until the technology is more developed. A brief video synopsis of the report “Lab-grown Cultured Meat - A Long Road to Market Acceptance” is available on the CoBank YouTube channel. JoAnn Alumbaugh
Cattle have gotten so big that restaurants and grocery stores need new ways to cut steaks If you’ve dined at a steakhouse recently or grilled rib-eye for dinner, you may have noticed a curious trend: Steaks are getting thinner. As U.S. beef cattle have ballooned in size, experts say, restaurants, grocery stores and meat processors have had to get creative in how they slice and dice them up. Increasingly, that means thinner steaks — as well as more scrap meat and “alternative” cuts designed to make the most of a bigger animal. The cattle industry argues that it provides cheaper and more plentiful beef from fewer cattle. But there’s emerging evidence that Americans dislike the changes to their steaks. And that could hurt the beef sector in the long-run. Cattle Call - February 2018 Cattle Call – February 2018
cattle chat “If you buy a steak, you have a picture in your mind of what it should look like,” said Josh Maples, an agricultural economist at Mississippi State who has studied the new cuts. “If you make that thinner, or you cut it in half — for many people, that ruins the eating experience.” It’s no secret that beef cattle are getting bigger — for decades, federal policymakers, academic researchers and industry scientists have striven to beef them up. What may be less obvious to many consumers is how those larger cattle lead to thinner steak cuts. According to Department of Agriculture data, the weight of the average beef cow hovered around 1,000 pounds until the mid-'70s, when advances in genetics, nutrition and growth-promoting hormones began to produce larger animals. Since 1975, the weight of the average cow at slaughter has increased by roughly nine pounds each year — from 996 pounds in 1975 to a whopping 1,363 pounds in 2016. (“Cow” technically refers to adult females, only, but is used colloquially for cattle in general.) As a result, experts say, U.S. ranchers now produce more beef at a lower cost than they did 40 years ago, even though herds have shrunk by 13 million. But larger cattle also means larger muscles. For restaurants and grocery stores, that has proved a challenge. “It’s a lot more work for our meat-cutters, I’ll tell you that,” said Travis Doster, the spokesman for Texas Roadhouse, a steakhouse chain with more than 400 locations. The issue, Doster and others say, lies in the growing diameter of cows’ muscles: things like the longissimus, from which rib-eyes, top loins, sirloins and chuck eye are cut. In a forthcoming study in the journal Food Policy, Maples and two co-authors found that as cattle grew, the surface area of the average rib-eye grew roughly two square inches — or two postage stamps — between 1991 and 2016. Those larger muscles result in massive, expensive portions if they’re cut to a traditional one- or 1½-inch thickness. As a result, said Davey Griffin, a professor of animal science at Texas A&M, restaurants and grocery stores have changed how they cut and market steaks. The most common adjustment, especially among mass-market chains, is to simply slice traditional cuts thinner. But over the past several years, there’s also been a movement toward “alternate” cuts and cutting methods. At Texas Roadhouse, for instance, in-house butchers don’t just slice a tenderloin into coins to make filets; they may also cut around the edges of those coins, and throw the scraps in kebabs or chili, Doster said. Cattle Call - February 2018 Cattle Call – February 2018
Beef industry organizations, such as the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, have also promoted novel cuts that break the old mainstays down into smaller portions. Instead of a traditional rib-eye, which slices across two cow muscles, butchers are separating the muscles and selling them as rib-eye cap steaks and rib-eye filets, Griffin said. Griffin, who runs a popular quarterly workshop about the basics of butchery, has found that chefs are generally receptive to the new cuts. “But you still have a lot of consumers who say ‘that’s not a rib-eye, that’s not a sirloin,’” Griffin said. “So it doesn’t work for everyone.”For the food and cattle industries, that remains the big, unanswered question: whether consumers will adapt to the new and different steaks that larger cattle entail. Maples’s recent study has bad news on that front: In a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. beefeaters, he found nearunanimous dislike for “the thinnest cuts of steak.” The jury is still out on the new cuts like rib-eye cap steaks and filets.Griffin, the Texas A&M professor, predicts consumers will simply have to adjust. Cattle have been trending in this direction for years, he said, and all signs suggest that traditional steaks will continue to get larger. Caitlin Dewey
Sask. may consolidate meat inspection The Saskatchewan government is considering a single meat inspection system for slaughter plants currently covered by two different ministries. According to Volume 2 of the Provincial Auditor’s report released Dec. 12, the health ministry inspects 80 facilities and the agriculture ministry inspects 10.The health ministry uses public health officials to examine facilities, while agriculture uses third party inspectors to examine the meat produced at the plants for which it is responsible. There are also federally inspected plants, and farmgate sales aren’t inspected at all. The auditor’s office had previously raised concerns about uninspected meat making its way to market, and in 2012 recommended that the province consider updating its regulations. Saskatchewan is the only province that has two systems. “Having two ministries responsible for this task increases the risk that the government will not know how many animals are slaughtered in the province or how much meat enters he food chain without being inspected,” said the 2017 report. 39 39
cattle chat Tim Macaulay, director of environmental health in the health ministry, said work has been done on implementing auditor recommendations, but they are on hold until a decision is made about the inspection system. For example, the auditor has recommended that the health ministry draft new slaughter plant standards. “Our proposed standards are more in line with what agriculture requires,” Macaulay said. “Our goal is to ensure the meat products are safe for the people of Saskatchewan, but we need to be looking closely at what are the implications with any direction that we’ll consider going towards.” The auditor also recommended more frequent inspections and making the results of them public. Macaulay said the Public Health Act was amended in 2016 to allow for regulations to be developed, but again this hinges on the final meat inspection system.
animals in question, CFIA sais – but the agency reiterated it's still possible that a source for these specific infections won't ever be found. CFIA has depopulated the six infected animals' index herd, plus the highest-risk herds that co-mingled with the infected herd. The premises where the infected animals lived have been cleaned and released from quarantine, while four other premises that held co-mingled herds remain under quarantine, with no cattle, until cleaning and disinfection are complete, CFIA said. Agency-approved cleaning and disinfection also require a 45-day waiting period of warmer temperatures. Once any of those premises is restocked with cattle, CFIA said, it will test the new herds after periods of six and 18 months.
Trace-in herds' quarantines to be lifted as lab results come in
So far in this investigation, CFIA said, about 11,500 animals associated with the infected, co-mingled, trace-out and trace-in herds have been destroyed, with compensation paid to their owners. About 26,000 animals have been released from quarantine.
On-farm testing work has wrapped on all cattle herds that supplied animals in the past five years to an Alberta herd that turned up six cases of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in the fall of 2016.
Genetic analysis of the TB strains in the six infected animals showed they were all infected with the same strain, but that it wasn't the same as any strain ever previously detected in Canadian domestic livestock or wildlife or people.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported it has completed on-farm testing of those “trace-in” herds, which inlcude about 15,000 animals in all. Testing of “trace-out” animals – that is, any animals that left the infected index herd in the past five years – is also “largely complete with no additional cases to date”, CFIA said. One trace-out herd remains under quarantine.
Rather, CFIA said previously, the strain of TB identified in the six confirmed cows was found to be closely related to a strain first found in cattle in central Mexico in 1997, making it “unlikely” that wildlife is the source of the Alberta outbreak.
A decision is expected next year.
Bovine TB probe's on-farm testing work complete
According to CFIA, 71 trace-in premises will be tested, including 35 in Saskatchewan, 33 in Alberta and three in Manitoba. So far, 52 trace-in premises, including 25 in Saskatchewan, 24 in Alberta and three in Manitoba, have been released from quarantine. The remainder of the trace-in premises will be released as laboratory and post-mortem test results are received, the agency said. The agency's TB investigation has been underway since September last year, when Canadian officials got notice from the US Department of Agriculture that a cow from Alberta had tested TB-positive at a US slaughter plant. The trace-in herds in this investigation are being tested to see if they were the source of the infection for the six TB-positive
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The source of a TB infection can be “difficult to identify”, the agency noted – especially with cases that occur far from places where bovine TB is known to be present in wild animals.
What's a bull really worth? There are places where it makes sense to cut costs, Buying a bull isn't one of them. “The investment in a higher priced bull that can contribute to imporved production of more market-acceptable calves and better weaning weight for the cow-calf prodcuer is not that costly when numbers are put into perspective for calves sired and as a percent of the breeding cow's total annual cost”, says Jim McGrann, noted agricultural economist and Texas A&M University professor emeritus. He now owns Ranch Management Economist, a ranch business consulting
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cattle chat firm. Patrick Gunn, Extension beef specialist with Iowa State University, explains that bull battery typically represents less than 10% of annual cow costs for the herd, while the difference in returns between good and below-average sires for traits of interest could be 15% or more. How Much is A Good Bull Worth? “I can't stress enough the value in optimizing your marketing goals through proved male genetics, regardless of cost,” Gunn says. In fact, he considers buying bulls for commercial use that excel in economically relevant traits an unparalleled investment opportunity. Basic bull value - $10,000 For a Commercial Bull? Bulls bring value to the commercial cowherd via three primary avenues. First is getting a cow herd bred by any bull. “Sometimes you get what you pay for,” says Matt Spangler, Extension beef genetics specialist at the University of Nebraska Lincoln (UNL). “Using a bull without any known EPDs is risky, given that you have no idea what his genetic potential is. Using a bull that might be cheaper, but that does not excel in traits that are drivers of profit for you, can end up either slowing progress or eroding progress that you have made.” Next is building the genetic potential of the cowherd over time. “The bulls used over the past several years contribute greater than 80% of gene flow in a self-replacing herd,” Spangler explains. “Consequently, bull selection drives the progress that can be made by commercial producers.” Finally, bulls determine the relative market value of calves sired. Estimating that value may be tricky, but more toolls these days are designed to help simplify the determination. Consider EPD-based economic selection indexes. “Economic selection indexes can provide a tool to compare bulls in terms of their potential differences for net profit,” Spangler says. “These are the most valuable tools to help producers understand the economic value of choosing a given bull. However, this assumes that producers use an index that truly fits their breeding objectives. Producers that retain replacement heifers should use an index that has this assumption rather than an index that assumes all offspring will be fed through the feedlot.” For that matter, it pays to understand the relative weight of various traits in chosen indexes. As an example, if marbling is paramount to you, be sure the carcass-based index you Cattle Call - February 2018 Cattle Call - February 2018
consider places commensurate weight on marbling versus other carcass traits. Sifting the differences. Figuring the net return of one bull versus another revolves around both ultimate breeding cost and the value of their calves. “In making the decision between bulls, you need to really think about what you're getting for your buck,” says Matt Stockton, a UNL agricultural economist. “What's this bull going to give me versus this other one in terms of calf value?” Stockton developed the Bull Value Cow-Q-Lator (CVC) several years ago, which helps users consider differences between bulls based on their total cost and the estimated value difference in the calves they sire. As an example, ity helps users see whether a bull costing $30 more per calf is returning at least that much more value. On the cost side of the equation, the CVC considers such things as purchase price, feed cost, salvage value and ultimate replacement cost. In terms of calf value, users estimate the added average dollar difference they expect from calves sired by the bull. Yes, that's subjective, but necessarily so. What's valuable in one herd and to what degree is unlike another. Plus, Stockton notes, “Every producer manages differently. As a result, they'll get a different response from the same genetics.” Likewise, McGrann developed the Herd Bull Investment and Cost Analysis several years ago. It's a decision aid that addresses comprehensive cost on one side of the ledger. On the other, expected calf revenue is based on weaning weight and price. Both of these aids serve up results such as the annual service cost per cow and per calf weaned, as well as other metrics to gauge the economic differences between bulls. “Calculated cost per calf and per hundredweight of calf weaned per cow exposed are good indicators to compare bull investments,” McGrann says. “The number of calves required to pay for the bull is a good indicator to monitor the investment.” “I think producers need to pay attention to what it costs to get a cow bred; not just bred, but the cost of getting a calf sired by that bull.” Stockton says “With bulls representing 50% of the genetic s of the program (single year, no replacements), you cannot afford to give up genetic progress in your herd at the expense of cheap bulls that don't match or advance your production goals,” says Gunn. 41 41
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It’s the depth and uniformity in the cowherd that will give you the consistency in your bull’s progeny! Offering Long Yearling Bulls 61 by Private Treaty, 15 at Calgary Bull Sale March 1st, 10 at Medicine Hat Bull Sale March 14th Offering a big group of coming Yearling Bulls
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8th Annual Rancher’s Bull Sale Tuesday, February 13, 2018
60 - 2 year old bulls 10 purebred bred heifers 35 commercial bred heifers
Videos available by January 31.
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Sale Barn at Holloway Farms
13215 HWY 599, Castor, AB HOLLOW 98A BTM 28D
Sale Date! Tuesday February 13, 2018 HOLLOW 60A KAZAAM 13D
Come by and check out our sale prospects! The coffee pot is always on. Anthony & Samantha Plett Ph: (403) 376-2282
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Join Us on February 9, 2018 at Carlrams Ranching Ltd. 9th Annual Bull Sale at the farm 5 miles North of Cut Knife, Sk at 2:00 'Sask Tme' On Offer: Horned & Polled Hereford Bulls – Black Angus Bull – Baldie Open Replacement Females
Visitors Always Welcome! Randy 306-823-7091 Robin 306-823-3912 Bos 429, Neiburg, Saskatchewan ramsay_rr@hotmail.com
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SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR HEREFORD ASSOCIATION The Saskatchewan Junior Hereford Association held their annual meeting on January 14 th in Regina, SK. After some fun on the bowling lanes, the juniors got to business addressing projects of the junior association. A new executive was elected: President: Carlie McKim Vice President: Megan Nicholas Secretary: Jesse Procyk Treasurer: Jillian Just SHA Liasion: Morgan Millham & Jillian Just
CJHA National Delegates: Morgan Millham & Emma Nicholas SJHA Adult Advisors: Karen McKim & Carmen Millham Business part of the meeting concentrated on organizing Bonanza 2019. Weyburn Fair Grounds has been confirmed for the site with discussions on hotels and food. An outline of committees needed were presented and members volunteered for positions. If you are interested in volunteering for Bonanza 2019, please give Karen McKim 306-436-4616 or Carmen Millham 306-867-4231 a call.
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If you are involved in a company and would be interested in our Corporate Sponsorship levels, please contact Jeff Lees at 306577-1375: Carmen Millham at 306-867-4231 or Kristina at 306621-9874. We can customize the sponsorship packages to meet your company's needs!
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SALE RESULTS Take The Lead Bid Off October 7 & 8, 2017 – Hepburn, Sk Sale Management: Kurtis Reid Sale Results Purebred Heifer Calves averaged $3,600.00 Live Lots averaged $3,250.00
Hereford Harvest October 20, 2017 – Vibank, Sk Auctioneer: Chris Poley Sale Management: T Bar C Cattle Co. Sale Results 20 Bred Heifers averaged $3,452.50 17 Heifer Calves averaged $3,972.22 1 Cow/Bull Calf Pair averaged $6,200.00 1 Cow/Heifer Calf Pair averaged $6,100.00 2 Cows averaged $2,675.00 10 Embryos averaged $735.00 41 lots grossed $148,700.00 averaged $3,626.83 High Selling Heifer Calves Lot 31 – HMS HFC 305 Elizabeth Swan 27E purchased by JRP Herefords, Fillmore, SK for $6,250.00 Lot 43 – M-R 4C Shiraz 44E purchased by Lone Pine Cattle Services, Vibank, SK and Kirby Polled Herefords, Belwood, ON for $5,750.00 High Selling Bred Heifers Lot 30 – HMS Hi-Cliffe 10Y Daffodil 7D purchased by MJT Cattle Co., Edgerton, AB for $6,500.00 Lot 29 - Airriess-Acres Fantasy 37D purchased by Til-Toba Herefords, Tilston, MB for $4,500.00 High Selling Cow/Heifer Calf Pair Lot 4 & 4A– Kirby-Lone Pine Sybil 813Y purchased by Airress Acres, Wadena, SK and her calf Kirby-Lone Pine Sybil 813E purchased by Torch View Cattle Co., White Fox, SK for $6,100.00 High Selling Cow/Bull Calf Pair Lot 3 & 3A– XLP HH 1131W Nadia 539Z purchased by Rock N Roll Herefords, Kendal, SK and her calf XLP 707B Fame 593E purchased by Lost Valley Ranch Ltd., Ponteix, SK for $6,200.00 High Selling Cows Lot 5 – MC 306U ringleader 1116 purchased by Flyer Cattle Co., Brandon, MB for $3,250.00 Lot 54- Square-D Tanya 793 purchased by Square D Polled Herefords, Langbank, SK for $2100.00
ANL Polled Herefords & Guests October 21, 2017 – Steelman, Sk Auctioneer: Chris Poley Sale Management: T Bar C Cattle Co. Sale Results 31 Bred Heifers averaged $5,313.33 20 Heifer Calves averaged $4,320.00 1 Cow averaged $2,500.00 3 Cow/Heifer Calf Pairs averaged $6,733.33 55 live lots grossed $268,500.00 averaged $4,881.82
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High Selling Heifer Calves Lot 41 – Blair's AXA Nellie 20E was purchased by RSK Farms, Brandon, MB and Steven Knutson, Wapella, SK for $16,000.00 Lot 6 – ANL C HAR 420A Melissa 53C 5E was purchased by Craig & Tricia Wilgenbusch, Midale, SK for $6,500.00 Lot 50 – BNC Glenlees 80B Chelsea 86E was purchased by Day Maddox, Carmel, IN, USA for $5,500.00 High Selling Bred Heifers Lot 26 – ANL 425X Elsie 58A 51D was purchased by Crittenden Brothers Polled Herefords, Imperial, SK for $9,250.00 Lot 19 - ANL 17A Stacey 3536A 122D was purchased by Blairs.Ag Cattle Co., Lanigan, SK for $9,000.00 Lot 43 - AXA X51 Ultimate 522D was purchased by A.X.A Polled Herefords, Hampton, NB for $9,000.00 High Selling Cow/ Heifer Calf Pair Lot 52 & 52A – BNC 14Z Playtoy 233C was purchased by KTCT Polled Herefords, Portage La Prairie, MB and her calf BNC Glenlees 156 Playtoy 4E was purchased by Jim Rosploch, Lake Villa, IL, USA for $9,000.00 Lot 11& 11A – ANL C 23Z Astrid 43A 88C was purchased by Troop Herefords, Grace City, ND,USA and her calf ANL C 420A Astrid 88C 43E was purchased by Rockeman Herefords, Donnybrook, ND, USA for $6,000.00 Lot 12 & 12A – ANL 425X Ms Extra 92A was purchased by Brost Land & Cattle, Irvine, AB and her calf ANL 80C Miss Extra 92A 38E was purchased by Spring Mountain Farm Ltd., Beaverlodge, AB for $5,200.00 High Selling Cow Lot 46 – SVF Zippedy 8Z was purchased by Dan Dick, Abbotsford, BC for $2,500.00
C & T Cattle Co. & Guests “Take The Next Step” October 21, 2017 Kisbey, SK - Auctioneer: Chris Poley Sale Management: T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd. Sale Results 41 Bred Heifers averaged $3,546.34 8 Heifer Calves averaged $3,787.50 1 Cow/Heifer Calf Pair averaged $6,800.00 50 Live Lots Grossed $182,500.00 And Averaged $3,650.00 High Selling Heifer Calves Lot 3 – C&T KL 106A Dahlia 26E sired by MHPH 521X Action 106A purchased by Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords, Mississauga, ON for $7,500.00 Lot 16 – McCoy 53A Connie 108E sired by McCoy 70Y Skyfall 53A purchased by Cgurch Ranch, Calgary, AB for $6,250.00 High Selling Bred Heifers Lot 20 – McCoy 641Z Golden Girl 160D sired by McCoy W18 Champaign ET 641Z purchased by RSK Farms, Brandon,MB and Steven Knutson, Wapella, SK for $7,500.00 Lot 15 – C&T 106A Babs 43D sired by MHPH 521X Action 106A purchased by Remitall West, Olds, AB for $7,000.00 Lot 14 – C & T 218Z Dahlia 71D sired by MHPH 118U Zappa 218Z purchased by Pahntom Creek Livestock Ltd., Swift Current, SK for $6,500.00 High Selling Cow/Heifer Calf Pair Lot 26 & 26A – KLR Janice 2C sired by MHPH 521X Action 106A purchased by Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords, Mississauga, ON and her calf KLR Janice 8E sired by MHPH RCY Bentley2181B purchased by C & T Cattle Co., Arcola, SK for $6,800.00
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Canadian Western Agribition Hereford Sale
October 22, 2017 Arcola, SK - Auctioneer: Chris Poley
November 23, 2017 Regina, SK Auctioneer: Chris Poley Sale Management: T Bar C Cattle Co.
Sale Management – T Bar C cattle Co. Ltd. Sale Results 42 Bred Heifers averaged $5,292.86 19 Heifer Calves averaged $8,739.47 3 Embyro Lots averaged $1,400.00 61 Live Lots Grossed $392,550.00 and Averaged $6,366.39 High Selling Heifer Calves Lot 48 – Haroldsons WS Lassie 21C 37E sired by Haroldsons Renegade ET 21C purchased by Arthur Polled Herefords, Alida, SK for $32,000.00 Lot 53 – Haroldsons Marvel ET 53E sired by R Leader 6964 was purchased by Steven Knutson, Wapella, SK for $31,000.00 Lot 2 – Blair-Athol 0124 Ramona ET 44E sired by RST Time's A Wastin' 0124 purchased by Kris Gordon, Kisbey, SK for $15,250.00 Lot 54 – Haroldsons Marvel ET 58E sired by R Leader 6964 purchased by Remi Mitchell, Francis, SK for $13,000.00 Lot 51 – Haroldsons SCC Lassie 21E sired by R Leader 6964 purchased by Ottawa Valley Hereford Farm, Olds, AB for $10,500.00 High Selling bred Heifers Lot 58 – Haroldson's HLV Marvel 38B 82D sired by Haroldson's Apothic 521X 38B purchased by Steve Knutson, wapella, SK for $14,500.00 Lot 55- Haroldson's SCC Marvel 200Z 1D sired by Churchill Red Bull 200Z purchased by LV Farms Ltd., Midale, SK for $14,000.00 Lot 56 – Haroldson's Tory 704X 73D sired by AXA Golden-Oak Xceed ET 704X purchased by Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords, Mississauga, ON for $15,500.00 Lot 10 – Blair-Athol GMPH 475 Bailey 2D sired by TH 89T 755T Stockman 475Z purchased by Kevin Boll, Fillmore, SK for $10,000.00 Lot 12 – Blair-Athol CS Ava 4D sired by Churchill Stud 3134A purchased by Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords, Mississauga, ON for $10,000.00
Square D Herefords Production Sale October 23, 2017 Langbank, SK Auctioneer: Ryan Dorran Sale Results 36 Bred heifers averaged $3,378.00 11 Heifer Calves averaged $3,536.00 7 Bull Calves averaged $5,936.00 2 Cow/Calf Pairs averaged $6,800.00 4 Embryos averaged $1,000.00 56 Lots Grossed $230,158.00 - Averaged $4,110.00 High Bred Heifers Lot 40 – Square-D Jan ET 189D purchased by Kootenay Polled Herefords & North Bluff Farms for $10,000.00 Lot 55 – WCC 69A Jessica 6801D purchased by Garilynn Morris for $6,000.00 Lot 47 – WCC 180A Spirit Queen 6323D purchased by Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords for $5,300.00 High Selling Heifer Calves Lot 19 – Square-D Dixie 326E purchased by Blaschuk Land & Cattle for $7,000.00 Lot 1 – Square-D Kitty 773E purchased by Ava Bieber for $4,400.00 High Selling Bull Calves Lot 9 – Square-D Scoop 755E purchased by Wascana Cattle Co. for $9,250.00 Lot 4 – Square-D Maxx 558E purchased by Old Burchill Farm for $7,000.00 Lot 5 – Square-D Stetson 298E purchased by King Ranch for $6,000.00
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Sale Results 2 Bull Calves averaged $23,000.00 9 Heifer Calves Averaged $7,805.56 4 Bred Heifers averaged $9,437.50 11 Embryos averaged $931.82 46 Units Semen averaged $153.91 15 Live Lots Grossed $171,330.00 and Averaged $10,266.67 High Selling Bull Calf Lot 101 – Haroldson's AH Encore 6964 4E sired by R Leader 6964 purchased by Steven Knutson, Wapella, SK; Double Deuce Acres, Regina, SK; Adam Dales, Cargill, ON; NCX Polled Herefords, Brosseau, AB; Lone Spruce Polled Herefords, Walkerton, ON for $41,000.00 High Selling Bred Heifers Lot 103 – Manchester 106A In Style 651D sired by MHPH 521X Action 106A purchased by Jay Holmes, Semans, SK and Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords, Mississauga, ON for $12,000.00 Lot 104 – RSK SCK 190Z Ms Xkeona ET 381D sired b y NJW 78P Twentytwelve 190Z ET purchased by Blair.Ag Cattle Co., Lanigan, SK for $11,000.00 Lot 105 – WCC 69A Jessica 6181D sired by Harolkdson's Delta ET 69A purchased by 3-D-L Farm, Abbotsford, BC for $10,000.00 High Selling Heifer Calf Lot 110 – Blair's Nellie R117 3E sired by Haroldsons WLC Rhino ET 48Y purchased by AXA Polled Herefords, Hampton, NB for $16,000.00 Lot 108 – Harvie Ms Medonte 32E sired by Harvie Boardwalk ET 212C purchased by Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords, Mississauga, ON for $10,000.00
Big Gully Farm On-Farm/Online Sale December 14, 2017 - Maidstone, SK High Selling Bull Calves $13,000 - Lot 9 - Big-Gully 5001 Leverage 371E - Buyer: Lock Farms $9,000 - Lot 15 - Big-Gully 5001 Blacklist 966E - Buyer: CP Herefords $8,750 - Lot 11 - Big-Gully 109 Salvation 753E - Buyer: Leeson Hereford Farm $8,750 - Lot 12 - Big-Gully 10Y Revenant ET 6E - Buyer: Twin View Polled Herefords $8,250 - Lot 14 - Big-Gully 301 Intensity 211E - Buyer: Ron Symes $7,500 - Lot 10 - Big-Gully 109 Retribution 281E - Buyer: Darcy Frankl $7,500 - Lot 16 - Big-Gully 109 Retaliation 181E - Buyer: Remi Mitchell High Selling Two-Year Olds $11,250 - Lot 1 - Big-Gully 2011 Sandpoint 470D - Buyer: Dale & Joanne Janzen $9,000 - Lot 2 - Big-Gully 102 Laramie 113D - Buyer: Remi Mitchell
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schedule of events UPCOMING SHOWS & SALES & EVENTS
JANUARY 27
MC Quantock “Canada's Bull Sale”, Lloydminster, SK
FEBRUARY 3 5 6 7 8 10 13 15 16 23 23-25 28
Hill 70 Quantock Ranch “Barn Burnin' Bull Sale”, Lloydminster, SK 6th Annual Premier Bull Sale, Lloydminster, SK Bannerland Production Sale #19, Livelong, SK Misty Valley Farms 42nd Annual Production Sale, Maidstone, SK 9th Annual Moving On Bull Sale, Carlrams Ranching Ltd., Cut Knife, SK MJT Back To the Basics Bull Sale, Edgerton, AB 8th Annual Rancher's Bull Sale, Castor, AB Corbiell Herefords “Last Chance Bull Sale”, Brooks, AB XTC Ranches 36th Annual Bull Sale, Eastend, SK Standard Hill Connection, Maidstone, SK 34th Annual Spting Steer & Heifer Youth Show, Regina, SK McCoy Cattle Co., & Beck Farms Bull Sale, Regina, SK
MARCH 4 9 13/14 17 18 24 25
Pride of the Prairies Bulls Sale, Lloydminster, SK Braun Ranch Ready Bull Sale, Simmie, SK 60th Annual Medicine Hat Spring Bull Sale, Medicine Hat, AB Canada's Red, White & Black Bull Sale, Moose Jaw, SK ANL Polled Herefords Annual Bull Sale, Steelman, SK Stockman Select Bull Sale, Moose Jaw, SK Best of the Breeds Bull Sale, Yorkton, SK
APRIL 5 5 6
Crittenden Bros. Polled Herefords Supplying the Seed Bull & Female Sale, Imperial, SK T Bar K Ranch Annual Bull Sale, Wawota, SK Wilson/Lees Annual Bull Sale, Kisbey, SK
MAY 1
Deadline for June Issue of Cattle Call
JUNE TBA
Saskatchewan Hereford Association Annual General Meeting
Box 713, Weyburn, Saskatchewan S4H 2K8
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Phone: 306-842-6149
Fax: 306-842-0296
skhereford@sasktel.net
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breeder DIRECTORY
es Bernie 306-658-4535 : 306-948-9663
River Bridge Ranch
Bill PH:306-658-4 50 ustin : 306-951-0034
TOP 50 LIVESTOCK C
Box 475, Maidstone, Sk S0M 1M0 “Breeders of Quality Registered Herefords” David & Maxine (306)893-2838
Bernice (306)893-2846
Donnie & Kerry (306)893-2548
P.O. Box 93 Lashburn, SK S0M 1H0 Home: 306-285-2426 Email: top50kids@gmail.com
BIG GULLY FARM THE LEACHMAN'S Frances, Lance, Shari & Tyler Box 535, Maidstone, Sk. S0M 1M0 Ph/Fax: 306-893-2879 Frances Cell: 306-893-7001
Saskatchewan Hereford Association Stephen Myer, President Marilyn Charlton, General Manager Box 713, Weyburn, SK S4H 2K8 Phone: 306-842-6149 Email: skhereford@sasktel.net
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advertisers INDEX OF ADVERTISERS
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Ace Herefords …............................................................... 3 Airriess Acres …............................................................... 52 ANL Polled Herefords ….................................................. 10 Ayrey Hereford Farm …................................................. 3/4
Lilybrook Herefords …..................................................... 43 Lock Farms Ltd. …............................................................. 3 Lone Pine Cattle Services …........................55/Back Cover LV Farms Ltd. …................................................. Back Cover
M B Bieber Herefords …......................................... Back Cover Big Gully Farm ….......................................................... 52 Blair Athol Farms …........................................................ 5 Braun Ranch …........................................................... 18/19 Brooks Farms …........................................................... 10
Martina Herefords ….................................................... 52 McKerricher Cattle Co. …............................................. 52 Medicine Hat Spring Bull Sale ….................................... 45 Mission Ridge Herefords …............................... Back Cover Misty Valley Farms …................................................ 2/52 MJT Cattle Co. …............................................................. 42
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C & T Cattle Co. …........................................................... 5 Canada's Red, White & Black Bull Sale ….......... Back Cover Canadian Hereford Association …................................... 33 Carlrams Ranching Ltd. …............................................... 8 Craig's Ranching Co. …................................................. 52 Corbiell Herefords …..................................................... 20 Crittenden Bros. Bull & Female Sale ….......................... 11
Phantom Creek Livestock …........................................... 21 Premier Hereford Bull Sale …........................................... 3
R Rock-N-Roll Farm …........................................... Back Cover River Bridge Ranch …................................................... 52
S D Davies Ranch …................................................................ 3
Six South Acres ….............................................. Back Cover Standard Hill Livestock …......................................... 29/52 Square D Polled Herefords …......................................... 27
F Flicek Hereford Ranch …................................................. 46
G Garrett Ranch Ltd. …............................................... 45/52 Glenlees Farms …........................................................... 5 GWG Polled Herefords …............................ 26/Back Cover
H Haroldsons Polled Herefords …...................................... 5 HMS Hi-Cliffe ….................................... 52/54/Back Cover Holloway Farms Ltd. ….................................................... 44
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T T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd. …................................................. 48 T Bar K Ranch ….............................................................. 28 The Cliffs Farm …........................................................... 52 Top 50 Livestock …....................................................... 52 Torch View Cattle Co. …................................... Back Cover Triple A Herefords ….................................................. 34/35 Triple H Farm Ltd. ….................................... 37/Back Cover
W Wascana Cattle Co. …................................. 36/Back Cover Wilson Lees Value Added Bull Sale …............................. 5 Wunderbar Polled Herefords …..................................... 52
JRP Polled Herefords …...................................... Back Cover
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Sons Available For Purchase From These Two Bulls 2015 RBC Supreme Challenge Top Ten Finalist
Two Time National Reserve Grand Champion Bull
“THE GOODS”
“SAMMY”
Bulls available at Canada's Red, White and Black Bull Sale on March 17 at Johnstone's Auction Barn, Moose Jaw, Sk and For Sale By Private Treaty Check out our website www.hmshicliffe.com to view each bull.
HMS HI-CLIFFE 305A EVEREST 10E Sire: TCF JVJ 11X The Goods 305A BW: 76lbs. Dam: HMS HCF 29W Blue Diamond 170B
HI-CLIFFE 13X ENFORCER 14E Sire: Hi-Cliffe Sammy 13X Dam: GHC Miss Karen 108S
BW: 88lbs.
HMS HI-CLIFFE 94B EMPEROR 170E 170 Sire: Ultimate 94B BW: 82lbs. Dam: SHPH 66W Clarette 170Z
Hunter, Morgan & Sydney HMS HI-CLIFFE 305A COMMANDO 64C
Carmen & Brenda Millham
Sire: TCF JVJ 11X THE GOODS 305A Dam: HI-CLIFFE XCEL 64X Thank you to J-Bar-B for purchasing Commando
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Box 382, Outlook, SK S0L 2N0 C: 306-867-4231 C: 306-270-5524 Website: hmshicliffe.com Email: carm.dvm@sasktel.net
HMS HCF 305A ELIZABETH SWAN 27E Sire: TCF JVJ 11X THE GOODS 305A Dam: BA CHANTILLY LACE 27B Thank you to Jesse Procyk for purchasing Elizabeth Swan
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Canada’s Red, White and Black Bull Sale March 17, 2018 · 1:00 PM
Johnstone Auction Mart, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Breeds Represented: Polled Hereford Horned Hereford Red Angus Black Angus Limousin Charolais Simmental
Consignors • • • • • • • • • •
Lone Pine Cattle Services Six South Acres LV Farms Bieber Herefords GWG Polled Herefords Wascana Cattle Co. Mission Ridge Herefords Torch View Cattle Co. Rock -N -Roll Farm Triple H Farm Ltd.
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JRP Herefords Eden Meadows Farm Flying F Ranch Craigs Simmentals & Charolais Coulee Crossing Cattle Co. Glennie Brothers Triple H Cattle Co. Blue Sky Charolais Clipper Cattle Co. Gold-Bar Livestock HMS Hi-Cliffe
Check canadaredwhiteblackbullsale.weebly.com
for more information regarding the final list of contributors and the bulls consigned. Follow the sale on Facebook for updates.
For information regarding Canada’s Newest Bull Sale please contact Rob O’Connor, Lone Pine Cattle Services Telephone (306) 550-4890