Brad Jeannot marked his return to the Regina Bull Sale after a nine year absence by consigning the top selling bull.
However, he was so busy making arrangements for all 10 Black Angus bulls he sold that he didn’t realize the $5,500 selling price for TJF Freedom 505 4T stood up as the top price of the day. Exalta Ranch, from Eddystone, Man., purchased the bull.
“I guess it’s an honour,” he said, when approached as the sale wound down March 17.
Triple J Farms of Langbank, Sask., last attended the sale in 1999 with a string of Hereford bulls.
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Jeannot, his son Kyle and daughter Kristen had a successful first showing of their black cattle. The top selling bull won its class, as did a couple of others. Triple J also showed the best pair of bulls.
Jeannot said he had a lot of traffic through the barn and 4T caught people’s eyes.
“He’s a calving bull with lots of performance,” he said. “He weighed in here at 1,468 pounds with a scrotal circumference of 37.5.”
Four of the Triple J bulls had the same sire and the consistency showed, he added.
A total of 42 Angus bulls sold for an average price of $2,775.
Prices were down a bit this year. The overall average was $2,826 on 146 lots, compared to $3,031 on 135 lots in 2007.
Jeannot said that’s likely because grain prices are high and feed costs are increasing.
“It’s just the way it is this year,” he said.
He added he would like to come back next year but that will depend on what others are doing. The sale is not as large as it used to be, and that has concerned organizers for several years.
Forty-three Red Angus sold for an average price of $2,976. DKF Red Angus of Gladmar, Sask., topped the sale with a $4,600 sale to Nielson’s Red Angus of Craik, Sask.
Thirteen Charolais bulls sold for an average $2,815. Crystal D Charolais of Balcarres, Sask., sold the high seller for $4,300 to Hagerty Livestock Ltd. of Stony Beach, Sask.
In the Hereford sale, Greg Freitag of Old Burchill Farm at Alameda, Sask., had the top selling bull. It went for $5,000 to Blaschuck Land and Cattle at Chaplin, Sask. A total of 19 bulls averaged $3,005.
Just four Limousin bulls went through the ring for an average $2,225. The high seller, consigned by Edwards Limousin of Craik, Sask., sold to Kyle James Hale at Plunkett, Sask., for $2,700.
The Simmental sale wrapped up the day with 25 lots selling for an average $2,622. The high seller, consigned by Double G Simmentals at Stalwart, Sask., was a $3,500 bull sold to Brian Hawk from Parkland, Alta.
The event also featured a sale into the United States, a first since BSE.
In the show ring a day earlier, a Red Angus bull from Kuntz Farms at Balgonie, Sask., took home supreme champion honours.
The breed champions were: Crystal D Ten Out of Ten 10T, from Crystal D Charolais; Square-D Kalium 141S Polled, from Square D Polled Hereford at Langbank, Sask.; EDW Turkey Buzzard 263T, from Edwards Limousin; SMW Tactics 81T, from Wagner Angus at Moose Jaw; and FTS Red Revelation 316T Polled, from First Time Simmentals at Edenwold, Sask.
