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COUNTRY LIFE IN BC • NOVEMBER 2019 The future in beef looks like a slam dunk


Fun fact: Did you know that the guy who invented the game of basketball was a Canadian farm kid? Yes, James


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Naismith (1861) was raised on the family farm in Almonte, ON. In his early years, he struggled at school but was a gifted farmer.


Naismith attended McGill


University in Montreal where he obtained a BA in physical education in 1888 and excelled as a multi-sport athlete. In 1891, he accepted a job as a PE teacher at the YMCA training centre in Springfield, Massachusetts. Shortly after commencing work, his supervisor challenged Naismith to invent a new indoor game that


Musings by LIZ TWAN


would keep a rowdy youth group entertained throughout the coming winter months. The first basketball game was played in December 1891. The sport has since exploded in popularity and is now played worldwide. For those who fear I have lost it and am


wildly out of context, hang in there. I am about to make a three-pointer! We acknowledge that


performance athletes require protein to build the energy required to sustain physical performance at intense levels. Correct? What if we could supply that protein? Beef up all the basketball players in China, perhaps? What kind of numbers are we talking? According to GlobalTV financial analyst Michael Campbell, 300 million people play basketball and another 500 million watch basketball


(it takes energy to cheer) in China alone. Wow! There is a staggering market there; we just have to get the ball in the court, dribble carefully and keep the play alive while we attempt to penetrate the zone!


Elite sale highlights


Tom De Waal of Harvest Angus hosted the BC Elite Angus Sale in Prince George, October 11, with several guest consignors. They served up a wonderful steak lunch prior to the sale and once all those gathered had been 'well-fed and watered,' the bidding commenced. The high-selling lot was a


flush from Primetimes 814U Keepsake 50'10, a picture- perfect female De Waal bought from Prime Time Cattle as a calf and has since given him seven calves. The flush sold for $4,750.00 to Northline Angus out of Ardrossan, AB.


Harvest’s high selling bred


heifer, Harvest R Blackbird 433F, is also Alberta bound. She sold for $3,750.00 to Lorenz Angus in Markerville. Guest consignor Lazy B Livestock out of Grand Prairie fancied one of De Waal’s heifers. They paid $3,400.00 for Harvest Echo 532G, making her the top selling heifer calf at the sale. The high sellers from Jack and Shannon Trask’s Rafter SJ Angus were Red Rafter SJ Fayette 25G and Red Rafter SJ MS Crowfoot 55G. They sold for $3,000.00 each. Kevin and Nickie Thompson of KN Farms sold five females at $2,400.00 and $2,500.00 each, and Trevor Binks and Melanie Klassen of Lazy B had a high seller in lot 42, Red Rafter SJ Fayette 25G. She sold for $3,000.00. De Waal reports bred


heifers averaged $2,350.00 while calves averaged $1,900.00.


Calf sales


The BC market-places have been alive with action in the past few weeks with the bulk of the calves available for sale peaking in mid to late October. The start of November will bring bred- cow sales, which always draw large crowds of bidders, buyers and looky-loos. The pens were packed with


over 2,500 head of quality cattle at BC Livestock’s Vanderhoof yard, October 11. Mountain View Ranch (Vanderhoof) brought 616 lb. steer calves that traded to 210.00; 556 lb. steer calves at 215.00 and their light pen of 486 lb. steer calves reached 225.00. Their heifers at 546 lb. brought 188.00; the 503 heifer calves went at 191.50 and the 416 lb. heifer calves hit 203.50. The Blackwell family watched as their 568 lb. steer calves hit 211.75; the 477 lb. steer calves went to 225.00; 400 lb. ones brought 236.00. The heifers brought 186.25 for the 552 lb. group; they received 195.00 for 458 lb. heifers and 220.00 for the 369 lb. There were a few yearlings


on offer. Deer Horn Ranch of Vanderhoof had 848 lb. Angus-X heifers sell at 174.00. Clayton Steiner (Fraser Lake) watched as his 1,073 lb.steers sold at 167.75; his 958 lb. steers went for 180.00 and his 1,079 lb. heifers stopped at 157.00. The 910 lb. heifers traded to 170.00.


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Manitoba gathered at BC Livestock in Kamloops, October 15, for the chance to purchase premium loads of calves. Ken and Linda Allison watched their 865 lb. steer calves reach 200.00. Karl and Carson Bischoff contributed 730 lb. Simmental/Red Angus Cross steer calves that sold at 209.75. The 589 lb. steer calves hit 217.50 while their 662 lb. heifer calves stopped at 184.00. A lighter group of heifer calves (629 lb.) went for 187.50. Copper Creek Ranch watched their 600 lb. Angus steer calves ring in at 207.25; the 539 lb. steer calves hit 215.00 while the 521 lb. heifer calves brought 190.25. 8-Mile Ranch trucked in


two liner loads. A load of 900 lb. Angus steers fetched 186.75; a draft of their Red Simmental-X 600 lb. steer calves stopped at 210.00 and the lighter 547 lb. steer calves sold for 215.75. Walter Bopfinger brought


in Char-X steer calves weighing 620 lb. that sold at 211.00; 809 lb. Char-X steer calves traded at 202.00 and his Char-X heifer calves weighing 647 lb. sold at 192.00.


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