Bringing back an annual hereford sale in the district was just one objective outlined by the Rainy River Hereford Association’s new executive during its annual meeting Friday night at the Devlin Hall.
Kim Jo Calder heads up the association as president, with Archie Wiersema as vice-president and Stacey Angus as secretary/treasurer.
Tony Weir, Glen Stafford, Carol Angus, and Greg Wager round out the rest of the board as directors.
“We feel we’ve gotten away from some of the things to promote our breed,” Calder said, noting the association had “fallen out of” having an annual hereford sale.
She said the sale used to focus mostly on purebreds, which might have been its downfall.
“[Herefords make] a very popular cross,” Calder said, noting a new hereford sale probably would not exclude its cross breeds with other cattle.
“There’s a lot of commercial opportunity,” she added. “We would like to hold [a sale] in conjunction with something else going on in the district but we have no particular date yet.”
The hereford association also wants to introduce the Andy Carpenter Memorial Award at the Emo fall fair this year. Calder said the award would be for herdmanship for those with entries in the beef barn.
Calder noted details of how the award will be handed out haven’t been “written in stone” yet although the association is leaning towards putting a ballot box out in the show barn and have people vote for the person they thought handled their animals best–not to mention keeping their stalls clean and acting hospitable to those seeing the exhibits.
Most of these details will have to be nailed down at their first executive meeting, Calder said, which probably won’t be until sometime early in the new year most likely before calving season begins.
The hereford association’s main purpose is to promote the breed of cattle they raise. Calder said the old British breed is very easy to work with and remains quite a popular barnyard animal.
“They’re an animal that survives better outside a barn than inside a barn,” she noted. “And the grading system is starting to favour this type of animal.
“It’s just a great breed,” she enthused.
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