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Left to right: Codee Kopelchuck, Daniel Schuepbach, Emma Lees, Megan Nicholas, Emma Cross.
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Young Hereford breeders chosen to represent Canada

Purely Purebred, news from the May 2025 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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The Canadian Hereford Association is excited to announce the two teams chosen to represent Canada at the World Hereford Conference Young Breeder Competition in Kansas City, Missouri, this October. The first team, Team Red, includes Megan Nicholas, Brandon Fraser, Daniel Schuepbach and Emma Cross. The second team, Team White, consists of Codee Kopelchuk, Emma Lees, […] Read more
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Simmental breeder recognized, B.C. breeders awarded

Purely Purebred, news from the March 2023 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Richard Meyers of Minton, Sask., was honoured during Agribition’s commercial cattle show last fall. Meyers has been raising purebred Simmentals for 50 years in Canada. He and his family started with Simmentals in 1970 with some Swiss-imported heifers and also expanded into purebred Red Angus in the early 1980s. Congratulations, Richard, on this milestone. Welch […] Read more
Bobby Hull’s interest in Hereford cattle began as a child during family drives through the countryside.
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Bobby Hull remembered by seedstock breeders

Purely Purebred, news from the March 2023 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Bobby Hull passed away recently at the age of 84. Best known as an NHL star, Hull was also an avid Hereford breeder who did look over the fence at the Simmental breed. As part of the All-Star Simmental Breeders syndicate, they bought the bull Bar 5 Catalyst 238E for $68,000 and renamed him Achilles […] Read more
B Bar/VLE Matrix, an embryo calf resulting from a partnership with B Bar Cattle from Lucky Lake, Sask., and the 2021 Grand Champion Limousin bull at Canadian Western Agribition. Wayne is on the halter and Anne is on the far left.
Beef Cattle, Features

Partnering to produce high-end purebreds

This Alberta couple is working with seedstock producers from across the country to buy pedigreed females with potential to be donor cows

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An Alberta couple’s passion for investing in top breeders has helped produce high-quality Limousin and Hereford cattle in Canada and they don’t even own a farm.  “We didn’t have the capital to buy a place and cattle,” says Anne Brunet-Burgess. “We started slowly, but got really involved in 2015, with Wayne’s nephew Justin, who was […] Read more
Hereford Tour attendees study the cattle at Big Gully Farm near Maidstone, Sask.
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Hereford breeders gather in Sask.

Purely Purebred with Mike Millar: News about you from the September 30, 2019 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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175 juniors from across Canada attended the national junior Hereford show — Bonanza 2019 — in Weyburn, Sask., from July 31 to August 3. Two hundred and seventy-five head were entered in the open show and were judged by Clinton Morasch. Grand Champion Female went to Emma Lees with GLENLEES 27C REVA 32F and the […] Read more
Our cover image, and history profile subject, W. A. Crawford-Frost, from the April 1951 issue of Canadian Cattlemen.
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History: Breeder Brings Fame to Canada

Reprinted from the April 1951 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Breeder Brings Fame to Canada By Chas C. Clark, High River, Alta. ‘When W. A. Crawford-Frost of Nanton says “I have always concentrated on the Calgary bull sale as being of paramount importance” there is perhaps more than a little touch of sentiment in this observation, because his boyhood impressions of Alberta were linked to […] Read more
A more rapid refinement of the EPD profiles can only be a good thing, says Jay Cross.
Beef Cattle, Features

EPDs sped up

Considering the practical implications of BOLT EPDs

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For Jay Cross of Bar Pipe Hereford Ranch, Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) play a significant role in breeding functional cattle. “Particularly in the last 10 years, we have recognized that an increasing number of our customers are driven by EPDs,” says Cross, who ranches at Okotoks, Alta. The Hereford breeder, whose family has raised cattle […] Read more
2017 Saskatchewan Simmental Association Commercial Breeder of the Year.
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Purebred Breeders of the Year awarded

Purely Purebred with Mike Millar: News about you from the February 2018 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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At Canadian Western Agribition, the Saskatchewan Simmental Association recognized their Commercial and Purebred Breeders of the Year. Black Gold Simmental made up of the Noble family, Randy and Vanessa Noble and sons Ryley and Toby, was awarded the 2017 Purebred Breeder of the Year and Andy Hofer from Spring Creek Colony, 2017 Commercial Breeder of […] Read more
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History: Twenty-five years in the saddle with Hereford cattle

Reprinted from the March 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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By Bert Sheppard Articles by eminent college professors of animal husbandry on beef cattle production appear periodically. These men gained their knowledge and theories from books from their association with agricultural schools and from interviews with the packing house fraternity. On the other hand, very little has been written by cowmen, who learned their lessons […] Read more

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