REGINA – A risk paid off for a group of Saskatchewan Red and Black Angus producers who held their first production sale since borders closed to Canadian cattle.
Two sales Nov. 28 of bred heifers and calves brought favourable results for the Prairie Lily and Southern Belles sales groups.
The Prairie Lily sale involved 21 consignors from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The selection of red and black heifers went on a grass program at Roger and Michelle Hardy’s place at Midale, Sask., during the summer and their performance was monitored. The sale of 73 lots averaged was $1,740.
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There was a full house at Regina’s iHeartland Auction for the Southern Belles sale involving Hardy’s Soo Line Cattle Co., Keith and Linda Kaufmann’s South View Ranch of Ceylon, Sask., and Clayton Gibson of Six Mile Red Angus of Fir Mountain, Sask.
The sale average for the 61 lots of Red Angus bred heifers and calves was $2,600.
Plans for the sales started in the fall of 2002 with plenty of optimism.
Red Angus were hot commodities and the cattle market was buoyant. The sale date was set for October but when the May 20 announcement of bovine spongiform encephalopathy shut down borders it was decided to move the sale ahead to coincide with Canadian Western Agribition when a large contingent of potential buyers would already be in the Regina area.
“We wanted to capture the crowds,” said Corrine Gibson after the sale.
Her husband’s family is among the original red breeders at their Fir Mountain spread, where they run about 250 purebreds and 400 commercial cows.
The other partners, Soo Line and South View, have been in the red business for about 10 years.
