REGINA – The Masterpiece Angus sale is one of the showcase events for Canadian Western Agribition.
This year more than 400 bidders and onlookers crowded into the stands to view the production of some of Canada’s best red and black herds.
The sale on Nov. 23 averaged $5,153 on 99 lots, with the top seller going to Rob and Gail Hamilton. This Cochrane, Alta., ranch has been riding the Angus wave for many years at shows across Canada promoting its black cattle. It later went on to win the supreme champion female at the show finale on Nov. 26.
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Its first lot was a heifer that went for $19,500 to Swan Creek Angus in Ontario.
The icing on the cake was the Agribition high seller at $45,000 for a half interest and half possession in a bull calf named HF Kodiak to Roger Hardy of Soo Line Angus at Midale, Sask., and Geis Angus at Barrhead, Alta.
One of the attractions is the possibility this bull’s semen is eligible for export to Europe because it will likely be IBR negative, said Hardy.
Canadian breeders have had problems entering the European market in the past because of this disease and since many vaccinate for it, positive antibodies appear even though the animal is healthy.
“We’ll use him lightly,” said Hardy.
He joined Forsyth Ranch of Tompkins, Sask., in buying Beverly Hills Centennial 503, another bull calf with American outcross bloodlines for $40,000, gaining a two-thirds interest and full possession of the bull.
This youngster was consigned by Shane and Tammy Castle who own Beverly Hills Angus near Swift Current, Sask.
The mother of that eye-catching bull went for $40,000 to Forsyth Ranches where 20-year-old Mark Forsyth plans to add the females to his herd of 25 purebred Black Angus.
He farms with his parents Morley and Mel and they raise 300 commercial cows, 100 purebred Angus cows, 800 ewes and farm 4,000 acres of organic cereal grains and legumes.
At the Black Angus show, the grand champion female was from the consortium of Hamilton Farms, Leonard and Sandra Kesteven, Continental Angus and Dr. Gordon Atkein. The reserve grand female was from Remitall Cattle Co., Olds, Alta.
The grand champion black bull was also from Hamilton Farms and Peak Dot Ranch, Wood Mountain, Sask. The reserve went to Adams Hirsche Herefords and Angus, High River, Alta.
At the red show, the grand champion female was from Jackson Cattle Co, Sedley, Sask., and the reserve was from Cinder Angus, Barrhead, Alta.
The grand champion red bull was the entry of Brylor Ranch of Pincher Creek, Alta., Glengary Ranch and Nick and Lorraine VanGaalen. The reserve bull was from Ter Ron Farms of Forestburg, Alta.
