Grant Moffat Herd Builder Award recipients

Kayla Zamrykut, a 20-year-old producer from Rorketon, Braden Calvert, a 16-year-old producer from Carberry, and Raina Syrnyk, a 16-year-old producer from Ethelbert were the 2011 recipients of the Grant Moffat Herd Builder Award. Grant Moffat, Holmsyde Charolais, Forrest, went missing in August, 2006. Funds generously donated by cattlemen, friends and relatives across the country were

Manitoba Live Cattle Exported To Kazakhstan

Cattle are returning to the wide-open steppes of the former Soviet Union, and some of them are coming from the wide-open Canadian prairie. Ron Batho and Albert Rimke, purebred breeders from Oak Lake, recently sold 20 bred Hereford yearling heifers that were part of a recent shipment that were mustered from local ranches, packed into


Information Key To Giving Feedlots What They Want

Henry Rosing is a straight-ahead commodity beef producer. He’s not hormone free. He’s not organic or natural. He doesn’t differentiate his beef as a specialty product. He doesn’t supply niche markets. Yet his production methods are such that feedlot buyers in Eastern Canada are willing to pay in the top end of the price range

What’s Up – for May. 6, 2010

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 May 1 – Fun fair and stick horse rodeo for South Central Autism Spectrum Disorder Family Support Group, 1 to 4 p. m., Keen Ridge Equine Centre, Darlingford. For more info call Brenda Seward at 204-242-2101 or Dianne Munroe at 204-822-4587. May 5-7 – Canadian Meat


What’s Up – for Apr. 29, 2010

Please forward your agricultural events to [email protected] call 204-944-5762 May 1 – Fun fair and stick horse rodeo for South Central Autism Spectrum Disorder Family Support Group, 1 to 4 p. m., Keen Ridge Equine Centre, Darlingford. For more info call Brenda Seward at 204-242-2101 or Dianne Munroe at 204-822-4587. May 5-7 – Canadian Meat

Glen Nicoll – for Mar. 5, 2009

Glen Nicoll is unable to cover livestock markets from his regular perch in the auction mart bleachers these days, but last week was able to take in the Ashern Auction Mart sale over the Internet. U. S. beef cow inventory as of the beginning of 2009 is down a million from the year earlier at


Livestock Cattle –Angus

LIVESTOCK Cattle Holstein LIVESTOCK Cattle Various ORGANIC Organic Grains Livestock Cattle Black Angus 3 PB REG. BLACK Angus bulls born Feb. 2004, $1500 each or $4000 for all 3. Phone: (204)735-2340, Starbuck. 3-YR OLD PB BLACK Angus bull, birth weight 98-lbs. (204)836-2293. Leave message. 4 PB BLACK ANGUS heifers for sale. Call Phil at Penrose