REGINA – It may be exciting to win champion banners, but the proof of a winning program is in the money.
“Banners don’t pay the bills,” said Peter Boake after he sold a half interest in a bull for $20,000, to a consortium of buyers at the Canadian Western Agribition Shorthorn sale. They obtained half semen interest and shared possession in a young bull named Alta Cedar Code Red 24S born in February 2006.
Also from Alta Cedar was a February 2006 heifer that sold for $14,000 to Popes Oilseed Services of Bashaw, Alta. It was a half sibling to the high selling bull.
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Last year, Boake brought the second high seller to Canadian Western Agribition and it was also sired by the same bull, Alta Cedar Signature 119N.
Peter Boake is the grandson of Alta Cedar founders Bill and Edith Boake and as a young person he is helping the breed make a comeback. The Boakes established the farm and name in 1958.
“There have been many generations of Shorthorns raised there,” Boake said. With him, the farm is now in the hands of the fourth generation.
The Shorthorn sale had 46 lots with a gross of $133,550 and an average price of $2,903.
At the Shorthorn show, E & D Cattle Co., Balcarres, Sask., along with Braden Clegget had the grand champion Shorthorn female while Hill Haven Farm of Duntroom, Ont., held reserve.
The grand champion bull was Fantasy Lane Shorthorns of Rockwood, Ont., and the reserve bull came from Star P Farms of Humboldt, Sask.
At other purebred shows, competition was strong.
The grand champion horned Hereford female was from Triple A Herefords of Moose Jaw, Sask., and the reserve was from Adam Hirsche Herefords and
Angus of High River, Alta.
The Hirshes also won grand champion bull, which is owned in partnership with Rocking G Land and Cattle Co. of Gull Lake, Sask. The reserve bull was from Wild Bear Herefords and Bar Pipe Farms both of Okotoks, Alta.
The grand champion polled Hereford female came from ANL Polled Herefords at Steelman, Sask., Beck-Powell Polled Herefords and 3-D Cattle Co.
The reserve bull and female were entered by Remitall Cattle Co. of Olds, Alta.
The top polled bull was from Medonte Highlands Polled Herefords, In Heat Syndicate of Mississauga, Ont.
The grand champion Salers cow was from McCoy and Miller of Didsbury, Alta., and the reserve was exhibited by Hauser’s Cattle Co. of Neudorf, Sask.
The grand bull was from Spring Coulee Salers of Carstairs, Alta., and the reserve was from JOC Salers of Kenaston, Sask.
