EDMONTON – Carlos Ojea Rullan has travelled the world searching for the best cattle genetics and the Speckle Park breed has caught his eye.
“It’s the first time I saw them. Right now I’m just trying to learn a little bit about them,” the Argentine breeder said. “It looks like something interesting.”
Ojea Rullan video recorded part of the Speckle Park breed show at Edmonton’s Farmfair, held Nov. 4-13, to show cattle producers in Argentina.
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Speckle Park was developed in Saskatchewan and granted official breed status in 1993.
Ojea Rullan is one of South America’s largest cattle breeders and owns one of its largest genetics companies, responsible for the genetic decisions on 300,000 head a year.
He raises Black Angus cattle on his ranch just outside Buenos Aires and consults for 18 cattle companies in Argentina.
Stacy Felkar, agriculture event and international marketing manager for Northlands, which organizes Farmfair, invited Ojea Rullan to the show to have a look at Canadian cattle genetics and possibly buy semen and embryos.
It takes good animals to catch Ojea Rullan’s eye as he makes his way through the cattle barns looking for the right combination of blood lines and genetics.
“Right now the level of cattle in Argentine is so high we really have to find outstanding cattle,” he said.
“I always have buyers for really outstanding, good cattle.”
Ojea Rullan believes Canadians have the best Hereford cattle in the world, but Argentina and the United States have the best Black and Red Angus.
