
Tag Archives Charolais

Farm writer and political fundraiser Mark Kihn passes
After a long struggle with cancer, Mark Kihn, the former owner and publisher of the Charolais Banner, has died. Outside the beef industry, Kihn is likely best known for his work fundraising for Stephen Harper, rustling up over $3.5 million for Harper’s two leadership campaigns.

News from the world of Charolais cattle
Purely Purebred, news from the March 2024 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
The Charolais Banner has been tracking the purebred Charolais female sale trends for 30 years. Last year saw the second-highest gross at nearly $7 million, and the second-highest average. There were 31 sales which had females in them and is the most sales since back in the 1990s. In total, the 959 lots averaged $7,195 […] Read more
Record Charolais bull sales
Purely Purebred, news from the June 2021 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
Charolais bull sales set 40-year records this season, as reported in the May issue of the Charolais Banner magazine. “The fall of 2020 and spring of 2021 bull sales recorded the highest average ever in the 40 years we have been compiling these results,” states publisher Helge By. “This indicates to me that Charolais were […] Read more

Saskatchewan Charolais honours McKenzie Ranch
Purely Purebred, news from the February 2021 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
The Saskatchewan Charolais Association is proud to announce that the 2020 Commercial Breeder of the Year award goes to McKenzie Ranch at Delisle, Sask. McKenzie Ranch is run by David McKenzie and his wife Leanne along with their son Tyson. Brothers Kolton and Clayton are not far away when help is needed, along with David’s […] Read more
Canadians represent at World Charolais Technical Conference in Ireland
Purely Purebred with Mike Millar: News about you from the September 30, 2019 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
At the recent World Charolais Technical Conference in Ireland, Candace By of Regina, Sask., was re-elected as secretary for her fourth term. Brendan Scheiwe of Australia was elected president. Also elected were Kamil Malat (vice-president), Czech Republic; Dominique Loulerge (vice-president), France; and Cécile Lainé (treasurer), France. Besides many from Ireland who took part in parts […] Read more

Grand Champion Bull and Female honours awarded
Purely Purebred with Mike Millar: News about you from the December 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
The 2016 National Charolais Show was a resounding success at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, Ont. The Ontario Charolais Association (OCA) hosted 46 breeders that exhibited 105+ animals. Cattle were sorted November 4 by Kasey Phillips, Waskatenau, Alta., and sparks flew at the National Charolais Sale that averaged $9,400. Compliments to the OCA […] Read more

Simmental bull ‘Wheatland Kill Switch’ sells for $210K
Purely Purebred with Mike Millar: News about you from the May 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
Garner Deobald of Hodgeville, Sask., was elected president of the Canadian Beef Breeds Council at the group’s recent annual meeting in Calgary. Roger Peters of Red Deer is vice-president. They are joined on the board by new director Mel Reekie and returning directors David Bolduc, Bruce Holmquist, Rod Remin, Stephen Scott, Rob Smith and Byron […] Read more

Champions by design
Club-calf fever spreads across the West
Money-strip blaze, chrome, super hairy, freaky hairy, oh so stout, stylish, high in volume, show-ring swagger, long-spined, deep-sided, sweet-fronted… If you couldn’t be there, the catalogue descriptions of genetics on offer at Canadian Western Agribition’s first-ever Champions by Design club-calf genetics sale gives a glimpse of the excitement surrounding the emerging club-calf industry on the […] Read more

Heifers by the hundreds
Primrose Livestock has set up a heifer station in Saskatchewan
Calving out 900 heifers is demanding work at the best of times. Factor in a nasty Saskatchewan winter without so much as a hint of a southern Alberta chinook to melt the mountains of snow in 2014, and it’s a remarkable feat for an operation in its first production cycle. Kyle Primrose, who hails from […] Read more

Canadian National Grand Champion, two years running
News about you from the Jan. 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen
Highland Stock Farms of Bragg Creek, Alberta & Payne Livestock of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, are the proud owners of the completely undefeated for two years Canadian National Grand Champion Limousin Bull and two-time Canadian Limousin Show Bull of 2013 & 2014 — RPY PAYNES DERBY 46Z (see photo at top). He was named Grand Champion Limousin […] Read more