MAY 2018 • COUNTRY LIFE IN BC Holstein auction sets new sale benchmark
Gavel drops at $120,000
by DAVID SCHMIDT ABBOTSFORD – With
today’s elite dairy cows valued at tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, it is common for them to have multiple owners, as owners seek to mitigate the risks and/or share in the rewards. But what do you do when one partner wants out and the other does not? For Westcoast Holsteins of Chilliwack, the answer was simple. When Quebequa Holsteins wanted to sell their half of Morsan Doorman Missy, a VG-88 two-year-old with a deep genetic and show pedigree and a potentially deeper future, they made Missy the feature of their Westcoast Classic Holstein Sale in Abbotsford, March 21. Missy did not disappoint, topping the now-annual sale with a full sale value of $120,000. Since Westcoast was only selling Quebequa’s half-interest, the successful bidders actually paid only $60,000. As is also becoming typical in these sales, the purchasers were themselves a
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Morsan Doorman Missy set a new record during the Westcoast Classic Holstein Sale in Abbotsford. TARS CHEEMA / BC HOLSTEIN NEWS PHOTO
partnership, led by the Crosbie family of Benbie Holsteins in Saskatchewan. It did not take Missy long
to prove her value. In the BC Holstein Spring Show the following day, Missy placed first among 24 cows in the senior two-year-old class. Missy was not the only animal to top the $100,000 mark. Aardema Sugar Moon, a
November calf with a huge genomic rating, was close behind, earning a final bid of $115,000. Displaying the international nature of these elite sales, Sugar Moon was consigned by Double A Dairy of Idaho. The two sales set new benchmarks for a public auction in BC as the prices for both Missy and Sugar Moon
North 40 bull tops Vanderhoof sale by CATHY GLOVER
VANDERHOOF – A Red Angus bull from the herd of Mike and Brenda Wheeler’s North 40 Red Angus topped the 43rd annual Vanderhoof Bull Sale on April 14. Red North 40 Eclipse 45E sold for $6,300.00 to Lucky 13 Ranch of Prince George. The bull was one of 10 North 40 consigned to the all breed sale. Thirty Angus bulls averaged $4,295.00. TK Cattle Co. of Vanderhoof
consigned the only Charolais on offer at the sale. Their top seller, one of two, sold to Ralph Hopkins, also of Vanderhoof, for $5,100.00. The two Charolais averaged $4,800.00. In the Hereford pen, a two-
year-old entry from Copper-T Ranch in Fraser Lake topped their sale. He sold to Keegan Scorgie of Beaverlodge, AB. for $5,000.00. Nine Herefords averaged $3,944.00.
The high selling Simmental
came from the Ron and Lois Crosby’s string in Vanderhoof and sold to Carroll Walker, also of Vanderhoof, for $4,600.00. Nine Simmentals averaged $3,866.00. The sale also featured three
groups of replacement heifers. Five polled Herefords
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from Copper-T averaged $1,650.00 each and went to Kyle Price in Falkland. Five black baldie replacement heifers from Vallee Creek Ranch in Houston sold for
$1,550.00 each to Darren Wruth of Vanderhoof. Matt’s Red Angus consigned the five Red Angus heifers and they sold for $1,425.00 to Bushwire Timber of Fort St James.
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were higher than the $92,000 paid for the top seller at last year’s Westcoast Classic, thus confirming the sale as one of the elite Holstein genetic sales in North America. In third place was another
November calf, Cedarwal Kingdoc Jitters, consigned by Cedarwal Farms of Abbotsford. With one of the highest
genomic rankings in the world, Jitters attracted a final bid of $49,000. In fourth place was Hez Bo
Atwood Ruth, a junior three- year-old consigned by T&L Cattle of Chilliwack. Ruth sold for $30,000. Overall, the sale averaged just a fraction under $9,000, about $1,700 more than last year’s sale.
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