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CANADIAN WESTERN AGRIBITION | SPECKLE PARK SALE
Speckle Park famous
for colour, quality
High selling Speckle Park heifer sold for $10,000
BY BARBARA DUCKWORTH
CALGARY BUREAU
REGINA — Jason Goodfellow has
seen Speckle Park cattle gain international
recognition since the first
embryos from the unique breed went
to Australia in 2005.
Those first packages of genetics
were sold at Canadian Western
Agribition, and buyers have returned.
About 300 to 500 embryos have
been exported per year, and there are
now 2,500 females in Australia, where
Speckle Park is valued as a carcass
breed.
“They have surpassed us,” said
Goodfellow, who has been involved
with the breed all his life.
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“We gave them enough to keep
them coming back,” he said.
The Australians have crossed the
breed with Brahmans. The resulting
animal maintains the distinctive black
and white colour but loses the neck
hump and has ears that are less floppy.
The goal is to improve meat quality.
“This is the only beef breed that can
colour up,” he said.
“They can look at it from a distance
and know it has Speckle Park in it
because of the colour pattern.”
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Jason Goodfellow of Nielburg, Sask., leads in his Speckle Park bull to the show ring for the supreme
championship. He has been selling Speckle Park genetics to Australia and Great Britain. | BARBARA DUCKWORTH PHOTO
Goodfellow has created Six Star
Speckle Park at Neilburg, Sask., to
market the breed around the world.
At this year’s Agribition sale, Redneck
Ranch of Odessa, Sask., sold a
package of five embryos for $4,250 to
Brookway Farm of Dorset, England.
The breed was created in Canada
AGRIBITION WINNERS AND HIGHLIGHTS
Charolais sale
• A bred yearling heifer topped the
sale. The double polled female
was the entry of Wilgenbusch
Charolais of Halbrite, Sask., and
sold for $8,000 to Elder Charolais
of Coronach, Sask.
• A special offering came from
Gilliland Bros. of Carievale, Sask.
Bidders were invited to bid on the
pick of the 2012 bred heifer crop.
This year the farm had 40 heifers
to choose from and the successful
buyer is allowed to make the
selection after the calves are born
next spring. White Cap Charolais
of Moose Jaw, Sask., was the buyer
at $7,750.
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and is gaining acceptance as a carcass
breed.
“People are using these not necessarily
for the colour but because they know
they can get a good carcass,” he said.
Goodfellow has 100 purebred cows
and a major flushing program.
“A lot of these females get flushed
• In total, 17 lots were on offer and
averaged $4,424.
Gelbvieh sale
• A yearling bull sold for $30,000.
Consigned by Royal Western
Gelbvieh of Innisfail, Alta., the
bull, RWG Yikes 1512, will be
going to Prairie Hills Gelbvieh at
Gladstone, North Dakota. Royal
Western, owned by Rodney and
Tanya Hollman, offered a choice
of eight yearling bulls selling
a full possession and half semen
interest.
• Prairie Hills also bought a
heifer calf from Royal Western for
$9,000.
• Fir River Livestock of Hudson Bay
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four times a year,” he said.
“No other breed does that but we
have to, we have no choice.”
Goodfellow had the high seller with a
heifer at the Agribition sale. It went for
$10,000 to Gerald Watchell of Lloydminster.
The 17 lots averaged $3,869.
Hereford judge Justin Morrison casts a gaze onto the lineup at Agribition’s Friday show. Morrison said the competition among the British breeds at Agribition was tougher than in recent
years. He said the investments that producers have been making in Hereford genetics are paying off at shows and in bull sales. | MICHAEL RAINE PHOTO
bought a female for $8,750. It
was a 2006 cow from Fladeland
Livestock of Gladmar, Sask.
• In total, 16 lots were sold for an
average price of $7,243.
Limousin sale
• The Limousin sale offered 21 lots
that averaged $5,617. The high
seller came from Payne Livestock.
It was a black, polled heifer calf
that sold for $9,800 to Eden
Meadows, Zenger, Sask.
Simmental
• An Ontario bred heifer topped
the sale. The entry from Billy and
Juanita Almhirst, owners of Indian
River Cattle Company in Ontario,
was a young red female that sold
for $22,000 to Ken and Mark
Dimler, owners of Double Bar D
Farms at Grenfell, Sask.
• A red and white bull born in Jan.
2012 fetched $16,000. Consigned
by Black Gold Simmentals of
Lloydminster, Sask., its new home
will be with Lee and Tina Robson
of Rimbey, Alta., who own Lockhart
Valley Simmentals.
• A solid red, polled heifer, also
born in January 2012, sold for
$10,750 to LaBatte Simmentals of
Gladmar, Sask., and Oberle Bros.
of Shaunavon, Sask. It came from
Erixon Simmentals of Clavet, Sask.
• Sale average was $5,966 on 22 lots.