Calvin Lamport, along with his sons Layne and Cole and daughter Kayla, got to see a quad birth in early March at their farm at Alida, Sask. The five-year old Charolais cross cow had birthed twins two years in a row so it wasn’t too surprising when Calvin pulled three calves from her. The bonus calf came about a half hour after the new family was put into a fresh pen. They weighed 50, 47, 46 and 46 pounds a couple of hours after the birth.

Cowboy politics

News Roundup from the April 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

Beef Farmers of Ontario BFO is looking forward to another year of advancing its Beef North initiative as well as projects in southern Ontario, all aimed at expanding the province’s cow herd by at least 100,000 head. That’s the number of calves needed just by the Ontario Corn-Fed Beef value chain to meet its requirements […] Read more

Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and Beef Farmers of Ontario elect new presidents

Newsmakers from the April 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

Cow-calf operator Dan Darling of Castleton, Ont., was elected president of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association last month. Third-generation rancher David Haywood-Farmer of Savona, B.C., is the new vice-president while Dave Solverson of Alberta moves to the past president’s chair in the CCA’s new executive. Matt Bowman is the new president of Beef Farmers of Ontario […] Read more


History: The Association in the Early Days

History: The Association in the Early Days

Reprinted from the March 1947 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

History: The Association in the Early Days By R. G. Mathews, Everett, Washington ‘It was in the Fall of 1896 that Stockmen from all over what is known as southern Alberta, but which at that time was the SW Corner of the North west Territory, gathered together in the old Town of Macleod, with the […] Read more