- Fred Taylor: challenged yet content
by Lee Gunderson January 2010
Fred Taylor cooks the Sterling Silver ribeyes for the Hamilton Angus sale every fall. You can bet they're the best you've ever had. He's the man who wrote the rules for both the Calgary Stampede Steer Classic and the Certified Canadian Angus beef program. And he's the head grade inspector for the Canadian Beef Grading Agency (CBGA) at Cargill... more
- Prairie Heritage Beef has "branded beef" battle scars
by Bonnie Warnyca January 2010
While the bulk of producers nationwide continue to muse about whether or not increasing our domestic slaughter capacity and/or joining a value chain offers the promise of financial stability to the beef sector, there are a few that are wading in those muddy waters.
After visiting Canadian Premium Meats, the meat processing plant at... more
- Rena Hordos
by Bonnie Warnyca January 2010
Rena Hordos counts her 2009 Grand Aggregate win at the Canadian National 4-H Youth Judging held at Canadian Western Agribition as her greatest achievement to date! "Sometimes when I wake up and think about the award, I just can't believe that I really won," she exclaims. "The $2500 scholarship will help pay my tuition at the University of Regina.... more
- Canadian Premium Meats caters to niche marketers
by Bonnie Warnyca December 2009
As if the discovery of BSE in the Canadian cattle herd wasn't enough to dampen the export ability for both Canadian beef and bison, the charred remains of the Edmonton slaughter plant a year later, left Canadian Rangeland Bison Inc. without an Alberta EU certified and federally inspected slaughter plant through which to market their customer's... more
- Risking the dream
by Bonnie Warnyca December 2009
As a kid growing up on a small dairy farm in Switzerland, Armin Mueller fantasized about some day raising buffalo that were so much a part of the popular North American western movie culture.
Today, under the name of Pilatus Farms near Bentley, Alberta, Mueller and his wife Rita not only raise bison (buffalo), but is a partner in a... more
- Levi Hull
by Bonnie Warnyca December 2009
The oldest of three boys, Levi Hull grew up on a commercial cattle ranch near Willowbrook, just west of Yorkton, Saskatchewan.
From after school until bedtime during January and February, young Levi's job was to check for newborn calves. "Calving was my favorite time of the year even though it was a lot of work," he says with obvious... more
- Creating stability
by Bonnie Warnyca November 2009
Don't tell these northern area cattle and grain producers that helped to raise the roof on Plains Livestock Inc. that there's a recession and that the livestock industry isn't high on the list of good investments. Back in the fall of 1997, local area farmer, Randy Reed and a handful of other like-minded farmers met to develop a marketing plan to... more
- Roberta Templeton
by Bonnie Warnyca November 2009
Roberta Templeton's first memory of being amongst her family's horned Hereford cattle isn't even her own memory. "My family likes to tell the story of me when I was about two years of age and an angry momma cow tossed me in the air," says Roberta, as she verbally shrugs off the possible danger associated with the situation. "It really was no big... more
- Valleyhills Angus perform under pressure
by Helen McMenamin November 2009
Performance under pressure is the best way to identify top producers - animals that will improve your herd, says Brian Edwards, of Glaslyn, Sask. He and his wife, Elaine, continually challenge their Valleyhills Angus, both red and black, cattle to calve easily, then bring in a good calf every year and breed back on time at their ranch in the... more
- Yancy Crosier: livestock ID ambassador
by Lee Gunderson November 2009
It was 1998 and a young man named Yancy Crosier had a livestock supplies sales and distribution business in B.C. He was interested in livestock ID and happened to go to Australia in his search of new technology. He met a man there by the name of Garry Edwards who happened to be the sales manager for a company called ALEIS (Australia). ALEIS... more
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