REGINA — It was a hot time in the old Hereford barn at Canadian Western Agribition, when the breed celebrated the event’s high seller.
Competitive bidding from the stands, on the phone and online resulted in a Hereford bull calf from Haroldson’s Polled Herefords of Wawota, Sask., fetching $70,000.
Medonte Highland Polled Herefords of Ontario and NCX Polled Herefords of Westlock, Alta., acquired full possession and two-thirds interest.
A flush was also sold on the bull’s dam for $2,000.
Harvie Ranching of Olds, Alta., sold a bred heifer for $33,000 to Steven Knutsen of Wappella, Sask.Â
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Two Angus sales were held.
The Nov.23 Masterpiece sale averaged $4,546 on 49 lots.
The high seller was a heifer calf from Hamilton Farms of Cochrane, Alta., and went for $21,000 to Grand River Angus of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The Nov. 25 Power and Perfection sale offered 47 lots and averaged $11,021.
A mature bull consigned by Boss Lake Genetics of Stony Plain, Alta., sold online for $23,500.
The top selling bred heifer was consigned by Perrot Cattle Co. of Alameda. Sask. Greg and Anne-Marie Perrot offered a buyer’s choice.
Blairs.Ag of Lanigan, Sask., and a partner from Argentina bid $22,000.Â
The Charolais sale offered 29 lots to average $5,624.
A young Charolais female from Prairie Cove Charolais of Bowden, Alta., sold for $15,000 to Clearwater Charolais of Rocky Mountain House, Alta. This heifer is a half sister to Prairie Cove’s grand champion bull from this year’s Farmfair International and Agribition.
Thirteen lots averaged $6,535 at the Gelbvieh sale.
Rodney Hollman of Royal Western Gelbvieh in Innisfail, Alta., sold his grand champion bull for $8,500.
He also won the futurity bull championship at Agribition and sold the yearling for $14,000 to Dan Larson of Minnesota.Â
The Limousin sale offered 14 lots to average $7,396. The high-selling bred heifer went for $15,500 to Bryan Bonney of Norfolk Cattle of Tillsonburg, Ont.
Two high-selling heifer calves sold for $10,000 each, and a bull calf sold to Florida for $7,000.
The Shorthorn breed also had a lively sale with an average of $3,869 on 28 lots.
Craig and Carrie Braun of Simmie, Sask., had the high selling Shorthorn with a roan bull calf that sold to Matlock Stock Farm for $12,500. The Brauns also sold another heifer for $12,000.Â
The Simmental sale offered 32 lots to average $8,102. The high-selling bred heifer, which was consigned by Hilltop Holdings of Radville, Sask., sold for $20,000.
The Speckle Park sale had 23 lots, and the high seller was a bred heifer at $26,000 with a third interest to a breeder in Great Britain. A bred heifer from Riverhill Farm, owned by Barry and Elaine Ducherer of Neilburg, Sask., fetched $26,000 from buyers Sid and Anne Hillier in Great Britain. The consignor offered buyer’s choice. The remaining heifer sold for $16,500 to Wrangler Farms of Westlock, Alta. and Outback Farm of Sturgeon County in Alberta. Embryo packages were sold to buyers from Australia and New Zealand.
