REGINA – When Brian Geis was still in college, he was often embarrassed
to tell his friends that his family raised Angus cattle.
The solid British breed was not fashionable until about a decade ago
and longtime breeders like the Geis family are now enjoying the
spotlight.
After his Red Angus cow-calf pair won the Beef Supreme Challenge at
Canadian Western Agribition, Brian and Kim Geis realized they had
arrived.
“It’s good promotion and it’s what you strive for. We’re tickled pink
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but it doesn’t make us any different people,” he said from his ranch in
Barrhead, Alta.
They had not shown often in the last 10 years but after they raised a
bull calf called Knight Hawk, friends convinced the self-effacing
couple to show him along with his mother, Samarie.
“The cow came off the pasture two months ago. She never wore a halter
before,” he said. “She’s just a basic range cow.”
Earlier at the Agribition Angus sale, a half interest in Knight Hawk
sold for $63,000 to Roger and Michelle Hardy of Midale, Sask., owners
of Soo Line Cattle.
The Agribition Angus sale averaged $5,067 on 92 lots for a sale total
of $466,200.
The Hardys run a large purebred operation as well as 200 commercial
cows crossed with Angus and Simmentals. The calf came back to Barrhead
after Agribition and will go to stud next month for semen collection.
“He’s going to be breeding cows. That’s what he is meant to do,” said
Roger Hardy, who also bought a half ownership in the champion mother
cow for $14,000 at the Red Roundup sale in Red Deer.
When Knight Hawk won the champion futurity show in Red Deer, people
started to notice the potential of this January 2002 calf.
The Geis family knew this summer they had a winning combination but did
not expect to sell either animal for so much money or achieve so much
at shows like Red Roundup, Farmfair in Edmonton or Agribition.
“We’re not in it to win,” said Geis. “We’re in it to enjoy and be part
of the atmosphere.”
