group photo of attendees at the Stars Leadership Conference

2025 Stars Leadership Conference

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

The Canadian Junior Limousin and Shorthorn Associations hosted another successful Stars Leadership Conference in Nova Scotia this February. This year’s event saw record participation, with 40 juniors attending from across Canada. The event kicked off with early arrivals viewing the pre-sort sale at the Atlantic Stock Yards in Murray Siding. The official conference itinerary began […] Read more

Sarah and Chad Hunt standing in an abbatoir with beef carcasses

Beef producers create their own supply chain in rural Ontario

When an abattoir closed in their area, Sarah and Chad Hunt saw an opportunity

When a new opportunity presents itself, sometimes farmers must take on the challenge. And sometimes it can also mean solving their own problems. When their local abattoir had to cut back on processing capacity due to the owner’s health problems, Sarah Hunt knew this would affect sales of their Limousin beef cattle in Pakenham, Ont. […] Read more


Grand Champion Showperson Rebecca Hess.

Limousin association news

Purely Purebred, news from the October 2024 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

Ray and Stacie Stanton received the Margaret Madgett Breeder of the Year Award from the Ontario Limousin Association. The Stantons operate Hillside Farm at King City and New Liskeard, Ont. Stanton began breeding Limousin cattle in 1978 with his father, Cliff. He currently chairs the board for the Royal Winter Fair. His leadership and direction […] Read more

Katie Brock (left) and Jocelyn Kennedy.

Limousin breeders announce scholarship and “Herd Building” winners

Purely Purebred, news from the February 2024 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

The Canadian Junior Limousin Association is excited to announce the winners of its first Herd Building Incentive Program. The program’s goal is to provide juniors with funds to purchase Limousin animals and genetics. It’s open to all association members and recent alumni up to age 25. The task was to create a video to promote […] Read more


Payne Livestock.

Canadian Limousin Association Awards of Distinction

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

The Canadian Limousin Association (CLA) recently bestowed its 2023 CLA Award of Distinction to two operations: Payne Livestock, and David Carson Farms and Auction Services Ltd.  (Below is a shortened version of a write-up by Ashton Hewson) Rocky and Debbie Payne celebrated the 24th anniversary of Payne Livestock in 2023. Located near Lloydminster, Sask., Payne […] 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.

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

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


Commercial breeding stock Limousin-influenced sale

Purely Purebred, news from the October 2022 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

Last November a female breeding stock sale was held at Dave Carson Auction Barn. This sale allowed breeders who have purchased purebred Limousin bulls from purebred Limousin breeders to offer their heifers to other commercial breeders. Last year’s sale was an excellent opportunity for farms to offer their good-quality Limousin-influenced female breeding stock. Because of […] Read more

Canadian Limousin Association members elected their board of directors this summer at their AGM in Sask­atoon (l. to r.): Laura Ecklund (interim GM), Carey Hirschfeld (director), Cody Miller (treasurer), Dan Darling (director), Wayne Burgess (vice-president), Matthew Heleniak (director), Erin Kishkan (past president), Amanda Matthews-Haywood (president). Missing: Joe Cooper and Mike Geddes.

Limousin breeders elect board of directors

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

The Canadian Limousin Association is excited to have Amanda Matthews-Haywood of Bragg Creek, Alta., serve as president. She represents a family history of board involvement and is the third generation of Highland Stock Farms to be elected as president of the CLA. The first was her grandfather, Donald C. Matthews, in 1981, followed by her […] Read more


CAA senior director of business development BC/AB Brian Good presents the 50-year CAA Heritage Award to Doug Munton (r) of Benchmark Angus.


Canadian Angus Association honours Munton family of Alberta

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

You can buy CCIA-approved RFID tags for your Angus-influenced cattle from the Canadian Angus Association. The Canadian Green Angus Tag Program is the largest branded tag program in the world. The tags visually and electronically identify the cattle as containing a minimum 50 per cent Angus genetics. As a Canadian Angus tag user you are […] Read more

A more rapid refinement of the EPD profiles can only be a good thing, says Jay Cross.

EPDs sped up

Considering the practical implications of BOLT EPDs

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