A two-year-old cow named Shameless Jackie set a Canadian Limousin sales
record when it sold for $80,000 during an international auction July 6.
She sold open to a syndicate of buyers from Ontario, Colorado and
Oklahoma at a special auction during the international Limousin
congress.
Breeders from 17 countries filled the sales tent at Calgary’s Heritage
Park to bid on live animals and packages of frozen embryos. The 56 lots
averaged $14,808.
It was an outstanding day for Ontario Limousin breeder Kym Anthony. He
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left the sweltering heat of southern Ontario for the international
Limousin congress in Calgary with great expectations. Those were met
with the sale of his cow and a red yearling bull for $66,000 to a
consortium of Canadian buyers.
“It was a wonderful, wonderful sale,” he said.
Anthony owns Top Meadow Farms at Clarksburg, Ont., where he runs 400
Limousin and 60 Black Angus cows. In addition to developing elite
purebred animals, the farm has started a program to sell all natural
beef. The meat is sold to gourmet restaurants and health food stores in
southern Ontario.
He expected this cow to do well after he sold a half interest in one of
her siblings for $52,000 at his farm production sale last fall.
The buyers were getting a pricey pedigreed female, and buying into a
cow family with a good past and a promising future, he said.
“She comes from a great cow family and is a daughter to one of the best
bulls in the breed,” said Anthony. “She has a tremendous future that
everyone can see if they have seen her first calf.”
Other sale animals and embryos went to Australia, Brazil and Mexico,
plus the American states of California, Tennessee, Minnesota, Virginia
and Kentucky.
The Limousin show held later in the day at the Calgary Stampede saw the
grand champion bull banner go to Highland Stock Farms of Calgary.
The grand champion female and reserve champion bull came from Greenwood
Limousin of Lloydminster. Anderson Limousin Farm of Bethune, Sask.,
entered the reserve champion female.
The Limousin breed arrived in Canada in 1968. The breed has grown into
one of the five largest in Canada. It has become known as a carcass
breed and has won the carcass competition for 24 consecutive years at
Regina’s Canadian Western Agribition.
