Sales results from Canadian Western Agribition for Nov. 13

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Published: November 14, 2013

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The national Speckle Park sale was held at Canadian Western Agribition Nov. 13.

The high seller was a heifer born March 2013 from Johner Stock Farms of Maidstone, Sask. It sold for $10,500.

Sale lots were sold across Canada and the United States.

The unofficial sale average saw 10 live lots total $94,500 to average $6,300.

One flush sold for $6,400, 13 embryos averaged $976 per lot and two semen lots averaged $130.

The Simmental sale offered a good selection of red and black females on Nov. 13.

The unofficial sale result saw 26 lots that totaled $153,850, which averaged $5,698.

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The high seller was a heifer born February 2013. Consigned by Mader Ranches of Carstairs, Alta., it sold for $12,500 to High Country Simmentals.

The second high seller came from Boundary Ranch at Robsart, Sask. It was an open heifer born in January 2013 and sold for $11,500 to Terron Ranch of Forestburg, Alta.

The Angus Masterpiece sale was also held Nov. 13. The high selling lot at $10,500 was the second pick of the 2013 heifer calves from LLB Angus owned by Lee, Laura and Jackie Brown as well as Tim and Trish Henderson of Erskine, Alta.

The sale offered 49 lots for a total $22,950 to average $4,590.

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Barbara Duckworth

Barbara Duckworth

Barbara Duckworth has covered many livestock shows and conferences across the continent since 1988. Duckworth had graduated from Lethbridge College’s journalism program in 1974, later earning a degree in communications from the University of Calgary. Duckworth won many awards from the Canadian Farm Writers Association, American Agricultural Editors Association, the North American Agricultural Journalists and the International Agriculture Journalists Association.

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