MAY 2017 • COUNTRY LIFE IN BC


Big show, big money


$100,000 in prize money draws entries from California, Prairies


Stories by DAVID SCHMIDT ABBOTSFORD – It’s


amazing what money can do. Through the efforts of


Westcoast Holsteins, the BC Holstein Branch and a long list of generous sponsors, the BC Holstein Spring Show was able to offer a record prize pool of $100,000. The amount was double that available at last year’s show and resulted in almost double the entries from last year, making it the largest and richest dairy cattle show ever held in BC – and probably the largest in Canada this year. In addition to the BC entries, the show attracted cattle from as far away as Saskatchewan and California. Assisted by his sister,


Melanie, acclaimed judge Pierre Boulet of Quebec made the selections as he looked at over 200 animals in a series of large, hotly-contested classes. In the end, Boulet gave a huge seal of approval to Wendon Holsteins’ breeding program.


The Alberta breeder was named the show’s premier breeder. They showed both the quality and depth of their program by bringing two groups into the breeder’s herd class, placing first and fourth among the seven entries. Each group must include three animals exhibited in the show, at least one of which is still owned by the breeder.


That they placed first in the class came as no surprise to anyone at the show as Boulet had earlier selected Wendon Goldwyn Diode as the senior and grand champion and best bred and owned, followed closely by Wendon Dempsey Prude as the reserve senior and reserve grand champion. Diode is still owned by Wendon, earning the $10,000


grand prize for the Chalack family. Prude, the grand champion


of last year’s BC Spring Show, is owned by Westcoast Holsteins of Chilliwack and earned the prominent local show string the $5,000 prize for the reserve championship. Westcoast was named the show’s premier exhibitor after also showing the reserve intermediate champion, Duhibou Fever Piranha, the junior champion, Jacobs High Octane La Liann, and the junior group of three class. Named the intermediate champion was Crestomere Golden View, shown by T & L Cattle of Chilliwack. Earning the reserve junior championship and best junior bred and owned ribbons was Skycrest Atwood Diamond, shown by


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There’s nothing intermediate about these champions at the BC Holstein Spring Show in Abbotsford, March 23. In the picture, from left to right, are Alyssa Vanderkooi, reserve intermediate champion Duhibou Fever Piranha led by Tyler Dorion for Westcoast Holsteins of Chilliwack, intermediate champion Crestomere Golden View led by Pat Conroy for Tom and Laurie DeGroot of T&L Cattle of Chilliwack and judge Pierre Boulet of Quebec. DAVID SCHMIDT PHOTO


Skycrest Holsteins of Alberta. Other exhibitors in the championship rounds were Benbie Holsteins of


Saskatchewan, Cedarwal Farms of Abbotsford, Mike Podschadly of Pitt Meadows, Martin Rypma of Abbotsford,


Robella Holsteins of Saskatchewan, Sheila Sundborg of Quebec and Zimmer Holsteins of Alberta.


Record price set at BC Holstein sale


ABBOTSFORD – The third annual Westcoast Classic Holstein sale in Abbotsford on March 22 was one of the best dairy genetics auctions ever held in BC. With 95 consignments paraded through the ring, it was certainly the biggest! It also set a new record price for a public dairy auction in BC. That was $92,000, which


Pete Maljaars of Chinook Dairy Services in Chilliwack paid for Westcoast Beemer Prude. Consigned by sale organizers Westcoast Holsteins of Chilliwack, the six-month old daughter of Pol Butte MC Beemer has an impressive pedigree. Her dam, Wendon Dempsey Prude, was the grand champion of both the BC and Calgary Spring Shows in 2016 and was named reserve grand champion of the 2017 BC Spring Show the


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day after the sale. The price is a little deceiving, as Westcoast agreed to buy back a half- interest in the calf following the sale. Two other consignments


sold for over $30,000. Tim Abbott of Connecticut agreed to pay $36,000 for a first choice daughter of Jacobs Gold Liann, a four-year-old named the honorable mention all-Canadian and reserve all-American two-year- old in 2015. Westcoast


Holsteins will breed Liann to a “mutually agreeable sire” and Abbott will have first choice of her female offspring. Westcoast Holsteins then used some of the proceeds from the top two sales to buy back Westcoast Doorman Cash for $35,000. An excellent cow with three Superior Lactation awards, Cash was from Westcoast Holsteins breeding but had been owned by John Sunder of Deroche and Ravendale Holsteins of


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Agassiz. Very close to the $30,000 mark was Westcoast Avalanche Redhot. The yearling heifer moved from Westcoast Holsteins to nearby T & L Cattle for a final price of $29,000. Average for the sale was $7,300, the second highest average ever for a BC public auction. Only the national Holstein convention sale in 2009 exceeded that mark for a sale average.


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