REGINA — Kyle and Brittany Boss are new generation cattle producers who are willing to work hard and make a name for themselves in the competitive purebred world.
Boss Lake Genetics is a going concern, in which the young couple have taken on three breeds of beef cattle and are excelling.
Brittany had Limousin at her family home in Alberta’s Parkland County, and her new husband, Kyle, who is from Nebraska, had Angus. They recently added Simmental.
Three breeds are more work, she admits.
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“We enjoy it. It is challenging at times, but we like to be challenged,” she said at Canadian Western Agribition, which was held in Regina, Nov. 20-25.
“We like good cattle.”
It has been a good year.
They won Limousin show female of the year with Boss Lake Day Dreamer and have been collecting banners wherever they enter her.
“It has been a very humbling last few years, and I hope we can continue and take our program to that next level,” she said.
“That is the trickiest thing. We do feel like we hit the ground running, but you’ve got to maintain the speed or run faster.”
On the Limousin side, Day Dreamer won national Limousin female champion at Farmfair. The same cow was champion at Lloydminster Stockade Roundup and Olds Fall Classic and stood reserve at Agribition.
At Agribition, they won Sim-mental bull calf champion and a junior champion. On the Angus side, they had intermediate champion bull calf.
During the Power and Perfection Angus sale held Nov. 24, they sold a half interest, full possession in a bull to Miller Wilson Angus of Bashaw, Alta., and Lewis Farms of Spruce Grove, Alta. for $44,000.
It was the intermediate calf champion and is named Boss Lake Pedigree 722E, sired by SAV Pedigree and HF Echo 206Y from the Hamilton Farms line.
At the Lloydminster Stockade Roundup at the beginning of November, they had the reserve grand champion Simmental female.
The two divide their workload between Alberta and Nebraska. Brittany is the show person and Kyle does the behind the scenes work.
They are probably one of the younger couples in the show barns but see themselves as the next generation of competitive new breeders.
“They (young people) are keen and smart and their understanding of the beef industry is on point,” she said.
“We love being challenged and we learn every day. I am a firm believer that if you think you are ahead of the game ,then you are behind the game,” she said.
Every day is another step toward improvement.
“It is a job 365 days a year, and Kyle and I wouldn’t have it any other way,” she said.
They sell purebred bulls by private treaty and started an online female sale in October.
