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Next generation
Nathan Rees, 13, was the youngest competitor at this fall’s North
Okanagan Plowing Match in Armstrong and operated the oldest tractor, a 1937 McCormick Deering.
PATTI THOMAS PHOTO Strong appetite for female purebreds at fall sales
by CATHY GLOVER PRINCE GEORGE – Two
upstart Angus sales in northern BC this fall have set the bar high for purebred breeders, drawing large audiences and record- setting prices.
The Shades of Autumn sale at the Belsham Farm in Houston, October 7, was described as a “barnburner” by one cattleman. Two maternal half sisters sold for more than $18,000 each. Royce and Joanne Cook of Williams Lake paid $18,750 for lot 12b, PM Polly 94’16, while lot 12a, PM Polly 85’16 sold for $18,500 to Canadian Donors and Brooking Angus. In all, 24 bred heifers
averaged $8,333 while 29 heifer calves averaged $5,440. A nice selection of prospect
steers averaged $2,367. The BC Angus Elite Female
sale a week later at Harvest Angus in Prince George also had a good turnout despite “treacherous” road conditions during the first winter snowstorm of the season and the unexpected loss of their sales manager, Rob Holowaychuk. Holowaychuk, whose cattle marketing firm Optimal Bovine has managed some of Canada’s largest purebred sales, died of a heart attack just nine days before the sale.
A black heifer calf consigned
by Tom Dewaal’s Harvest Angus topped the sale. Lot 2B, Harvest Blackbird Jo Jo 209E, sold to Triple L Angus of Saskatchewan for $9,000. Harvest also sold an embryo calf, due in January, for $7,000 to Jon Fox and Ken Ayer.
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Todd Marchant and Pam McGuinness of
Schochaneetqua Angus sold two black heifers to Royce and Joanne Cook. They paid $8,500 and $5,500 respectively for lot 60, Schochaneetqua Treackle 624D, and lot 57, Schochaneetqua Miss
Cindy 625D. Two Heart of the Valley
bred heifers will also stay in BC. BnH Cattle Co. of Kamloops paid $7,250 for lot 40, Red Pacific Lexi 32D, and $6,750 for lot 48, Red Pacific Anexa 9D. Another bred heifer from Brad and Aleta
Chappell’s herd on Vancouver Island, lot 36, Red Pacific May 22D, sold for $6,750 to the Sanfords at Nine Mile Ranch in Quesnel. Elite’s sale average on 34
bred heifers was $4,523 and $3,346 on 26 heifer calves for a sale average of $4,013.
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The buyers supporhe buyers support and competitiveness at our live auctions makes BC Livestock yards some of the most competitive market places in all of Western Canada.
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