The BMO Junior Beef Extreme at Canadian Western Agribition has 70 classes and about 100 junior exhibitors
At the interbreed female beef show at Canadian Western Agribition, the animals shown must be owned by the junior or their family.
The champions from each breed return on the last day of the show for the announcement of extreme female champion, in the BMO Junior Beef Extreme.
This year it consisted of 70 classes and about 100 junior exhibitors. The show contained all the breeds at Agribition. Commercial cattle were included.
The winner was Riley Bohrson and his Black Angus heifer, RL Black Pearl 49K ET, exhibited by Bohrson Marketing Services. Reserve extreme champion female went to Lane Steen of Steen Angus and his female, Red Steen Dynamint 21K.
“A once in a lifetime experience, actually, with that heifer of ours,” Bohrson said about winning the Junior Beef Extreme. “It was really cool to be able to win it. Very fortunate, one of my last year’s showing in the junior show, too.”
Bohrson grew up on the family farm in Hanley, Sask. After high school graduation, he moved to Alberta where he worked for his uncle, who owns Bohrson Marketing Services.
Now, Bohrson manages his uncle’s Angus operation. A big part of this job is showing his cattle.
“I run his whole cattle operation. I run his farm,” Bohrson said. “Showing, breeding, everything like that.”
He attends many of the different beef shows in the circuit for his uncle’s operation, and had a good feeling about his heifer when entering the beef extreme competition.
“We had a pretty nice heifer,” he said. “It was good. I was really hoping to just win my division and then winning overall was just like the cherry on top.”
He said the winning heifer is a very quiet female, and one his younger cousins have no problem showing.
“We get lots of compliments on her everywhere we go.
“The best Angus female I’ve ever shown in my life.”
With Bohrson’s time in the junior shows coming to an end, he is setting his sights on something bigger, like so many other cattle producers do at Agribition: the CN Beef Supreme.
“One of my main goals, I’ve had it for a while now, is winning the whole supreme at Agribition,” he said.
Agribition was held in Regina from Nov. 20-25.
