REGINA – High averaging purebred sales are a regular occurrence for Canadian Western Agribition where five figure bids are common for bulls, females and packages of semen and embryos.
Limousin breeders Rocky and Debbie Payne entered 15 head in the show and were rewarded when a half interest and full possession in their bull calf sold for $24,000 to E.M. Tedford of Estevan, Sask.
Named Payne’s Dynamo, it was high seller of the sale and was also grand champion bull at the Limousin show.
“We were hoping we would do well,” said Debbie.
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They started Payne Livestock at Lloydminster in 1999, developing a herd of 100 red and black Limousin cows developing thick polled cattle.
“Our customers want both colours,” she said.
They use artificial insemination to introduce new genetics and sell their bulls privately and at events like this.
Also at the sale, Pinnacle View Limousin of Quesnel, B.C., sold 15 straws of semen from its bull named Time Traveler for $15,000. The Time Traveler Syndicate was the buyer.
Greenwood Limousin of Lloyd-minster sold a yearling bull for $12,000 to Pine Haven Farms of Ontario.
Overall, the Limousin sale offered 19 lots that averaged $6,066 with a sale total of $115,250.
Many of the shows had small offerings but prices were respectable throughout the week-long event.
The Charolais had 16 lots in their sale with an average sale price of $3,638. Sales totalled $58,200.
The high seller was a 2008 heifer from Elder Charolais Farms of Coronach, Sask. It sold for $9,200 to Derek Walter of Saskatoon.
The grand champion Charolais bull was the entry of Prairie Cove Charolais of Bowden, Alta., and reserve went to Steppler Charolais of Miami, Man. The grand female was from Braydon Paget and Cameron Peckham of Bowden. The reserve was the entry of Horseshoe E Charolais of Kenaston, Sask.
The Gelbvieh show saw Davidson Gelbvieh of Ponteix, Sask., win the grand champion female award and reserve bull. The reserve female came from Vale Country Ranch of Theodore, Sask.
Royal Western Gelbvieh of Innisfail, Alta., took grand champion bull.
The Gelbvieh sale presented 18 lots for a sale total of $82,625 and a $4,509 average. The high seller was a 2008 heifer that went for $30,000. It was consigned by Fir River Livestock of Hudson Bay, Sask. Vern Pancoast of Redcliff, Alta., was the buyer. Pancoast also purchased a yearling heifer for $8,000 from Eyot Valley Ranch of Millet, Alta.
The Speckle Park sale offered eight lots that totalled $17,100 to average $2,138.
The Hereford sale’s high seller of $28,200 was for a bull calf consigned by WLB Livestock of Douglas, Man. It sold to the Shapely Syndicate of Douglas.
At the polled Hereford show, the grand champion female and bull were exhibited by Double J Polled Herefords of Maidstone, Sask. The reserve female was entered by ANL Herefords of Steelman, Sask.
The reserve bull was from Square D Polled Herefords of Langbank, Sask.
The horned Hereford grand champion female was the entry of Adams Hirsche Herefords of High River, Alta., while the reserve went to Triple A Herefords of Moose Jaw. Triple A had the grand champion bull and the reserve was awarded to Big Gully Herefords of Maidstone, Sask.
