RED DEER – A bull named Fully Loaded shocked its owners as they listened to the bids escalate to $70,000 at the annual Red Roundup sale in Red Deer Oct. 20.
The half interest in the two-year-old Red Angus bull was a record for the 35th annual event that draws buyers and contributors from across Canada.
Owned by Clayton and Corrine Gibson of Fir Mountain, Sask., with Terry and Sharon Adams of Forestburg, Alta., the new partners include Reed and Gay Crapo of Gem, Alta., Dennis Bjelland of Iddesleigh, Alta., and Dave and Tracee Vikse of Donalda, Alta.
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“We were expecting $50,000 so we were pleasantly surprised,” said Corrine Gibson. She and her husband own Six Mile Red Angus where they raise about 300 purebred Red Angus and 300 commercial cows.
The Gibson family first saw the bull as a calf at Red Roundup when it was named champion of the futurity show. They started to negotiate with the Adams and finally bought a half interest in the yearling at the Ter-Ron Angus annual production sale last year.
“He was actually my wife’s bull and we couldn’t decide if we should put him on the truck,” said Terry Adams, who runs about 250 Red Angus cows and 50 bred heifers.
Taking this bull on the road was the right decision since it has been winning shows ever since. This fall it will be seen at Farmfair in Edmonton, the National Angus show in Saskatoon, Canadian Western Agribition and possibly the National Western Stock Show in Denver if the United States border opens.
The Adamses have been coming to Red Roundup for about eight years and have won the grand champion futurity competition five times, including this year, where a son of Fully Loaded was selected as champion.
In the female portion of the sale, a record price of $18,000 was set for a bred heifer when Brox Stock Farm of Wetaskiwin, Alta., and Glengarry Angus of Cherhill, Alta., bought the consignment of Dennis and Shelly Ericson of Wetaskiwin, Alta.
Red Roundup is a pace setter event for the Red Angus breed with a popular futurity show and sale. This year’s sale total was $597,660 with an average $4,985 on 95 live lots. In addition, 18 embryo packages averaged $2,400 and 157 straws of semen averaged $250 per straw.
Each year, the sale offers embryo and semen packages, as well as a live heifer draw with all funds contributed to the Canadian Red Angus Promotion Society.
A record $100,540 was raised.
