The first few chords of Michael Jackson’s Thriller played through the speakers Nov. 1 as champion cows and calves entered the ring at Lloydminster’s Stockade Roundup.
Judge Rob Garner ultimately chose a 2,045-pound Black Angus, shown by Jennifer Jones of Lloydminster, as the female supreme winner.
“I raised her from a calf when she was a bred heifer,” Jones said.
“She won quite a few shows and she won the first lady classic in Regina in 2011. Since then, she’s kind of been my little pet. And this year (I) got a calf that I really liked, very fancy, so I’m ready to take her out for the rest of the fall.”
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Farmfair and Canadian Western Agribition are the next stops on the circuit for Jones and her winning cow.
That’s also the plan for Rocky and Debbie Payne of Payne Livestock in Lloydminster, who won the bull supreme grand champion with their 2,230-lb. Limousin.
“It’s a pretty prestigious show to win because there’s lots of good cattle here,” Rocky Payne said. “The top end is luck of the draw, right, because all of the different breeds, everyone out there, is kind of a winner.”
Payne said he plans to sell the bull at Agribition.
“It’s obviously good to win because it’s good promotion. Hopefully it’ll help him sell and it promotes our name and all that.”
Earlier in the day, the final rounds of the purebred cattle shows featured Limousin, Red Angus and Black Angus.
Agriculture manager Sam Hardstaff of the Lloydminster Exhibition Centre said this year’s event saw an increase in exhibitors, with about 300 cattle on show.
“In previous years, 2002 and 2003 (it was) slow,” she said.
“The cattle industry wasn’t quite strong in this area and in ’02 and ’03, numbers were down and now it’s coming back to be strong.”
Breed champions and reserve champions:
Limousin: Grand champion female, Greenwood Limousin, Lloydminster; reserve, Cottage Lake Livestock, Stony Plain, Alta.
Grand champion bull, Payne Livestock; reserve, Greenwood Limousin.
Red Angus: Grand champion female, Wright Livestock, Melfort, Sask.; reserve, Vikse Family Farm, Donalda, Alta.
Grand champion bull, Nielson Land and Cattle Ltd., Craik, Sask.; reserve, Wright Livestock.
Black Angus: Grand champion female, Jennifer Jones; reserve, Justamere Farms Ltd., Lloydminster, Sask.
Grand champion bull, Avelyn Angus, Leduc, Alta.; reserve, Jayden and Jaxon Payne.
