REGINA (Staff) – The commercial cattle sale grossed $945,529.58 at Canadian Western Agribition last week on sales of 954 head. Entries were up by 280 head from 1993. Consignors sent 454 head of bred replacement heifers to the sale, 190 more than last year.
Feeder steers averaged $782.31 per head; feeder heifers $757.77; open replacement heifers $771.46 and bred replacement heifers $1,227.20.
Feeder steers
Ken and David Rea of Marengo, Sask., sold their grand champion pen of 10 feeder steers for $1.18 per lb., while multiple-winner Duane McCaffrey of Edam, Sask., sold the reserve grand champion pen at $1.06.
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Calvin and Sandra Knoss of Rockglen, Sask., topped the feeder steer sale, selling a pen of 20 and a pen of 10 for $1.2850 per lb.
Duane McCaffrey’s grand champion feeder heifers, a pen of 10, sold for $1.0350, while the reserve grand champion, a pen of five, also exhibited by McCaffrey, sold for $1.1450.
McCaffrey also took home the grand champion banner in the open replacement heifer class with his pen of 10 Red Angus/Hereford cross heifers. They sold for $925 a head. Reserve grand champion open heifers went to Bob and Norma Watson of Wolseley, Sask., also with a pen of 10, that sold for $875 a head.
McCaffrey topped the open replacement sale, with his reserve champion pen of five Red Angus cross heifers at $950.
Bred heifers
Grand champion and reserve grand champion in the bred replacement class went to the Watson’s at Wolseley. Wolf Creek Livestock (Scott Watson) took grand champion with a pen of 10 red baldie heifers bred to Red Angus. They sold for $1,400 per head. Bob and Norma Watson’s reserve grand champion, a pen of five black baldie heifers bred back Aberdeen Angus, sold for $1,225.
The high-selling pen of heifers went to a pen of five entered by the Catley Hereford Ranch of Craven, Sask. They sold for $1,800 a head. Blair Farms of Drake, Sask., sold its pen of five for $1,650. Windmill Simmentals of Moosomin, Sask., sold its pen of five for $1,550.
All three of these top-selling pens were exposed to Red Angus bulls.
