WORDS BY JEFF GAYE
The calves came home to win the RBC Beef Supreme Challenge
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“We loved her maternal look and the fact that she
RBC Beef Supreme Challenge Champions.
that found her first and then asked us to partner.”
“Echo” (PM Echo 8'16) is the RBC Supreme
DMM International 54D, a bull co-owned by
wo calves that were bought at Canadian Western Agribition in 2016 are the reigning
Champion Female, a Bar-E-L Natural Law daughter owned by Blair’s Ag of Lanigan, Saskatchewan and Carlos Ojea Rullán from Argentina.
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was a little green,” he said. “Carlos was the one
Glen Gabel Angus and Miller Wilson Angus of Bashaw, Alberta, is the RBC Supreme Champion Bull. “International” was a child prodigy—he
“We purchased her from Tanya Belsham [of Poplar
was shown as a calf alongside his mother in 2016,
Meadows Angus] as a heifer calf in the Power &
winning the Supreme Champion Female as a
Perfection Sale at CWA in 2016,” said Kevin Blair.
cow-calf pair.
Top Stock Magazine / Spring 2019
