Wow! What a difference from last year. We put up atleast four times as much feed as we did last year. Making right around Three thousand hay and Green feed bales, as well as putting up a thousand tons of silage. This will be the first year since we moved here that we did not have a below average hay crop so was very much needed. I can not say it was all fun though as the haybine was testet heavily. I have never and will probably never spend as much time unplugging as I did this year. It was unreal to see the Swaths barely squishing through the back of the haybine. I think the best dyrying down time we had this year was probably seven days with some hay laying a long time. As many are saying the hay is not testing up to the quality of normal with lack of protien, so will probably look to add some pellets this year of a protien supp for young cattle on the place.

Pictured is our best field this year. Off 75 acres we took around 402 bales weighing about 1450lbs. Giving us around 5.36 blaes/acre

We had our local Ranch Rodeo the other day. It's a great event which brings out tons of local support to see there family members in action. This year I was on a team with Scott Schroeder, Harry Friesen. and Brad Funk. We did not fair so well but still really enjoyed ourselves.

Pictures by Laura Peterson

Well this is always a fun 4 day event where we get to see lots of friends. The numbers were down some this year but still a very good set of cattle all the way through. It Started with the purbred shows were Champion Angus bull was won by Southland Angus and Female. The next day was Jack pot day where Champion heifer was won by Six Mile Red Angus and Champion Steer was won by us. The most exciting part for me though is 4-H steer show were all the kids from our club finally have the chance to put all there hard work up to the test. Our club had the best go yet in our only four years of exsistance. In the Champion Angus class we had six steers which we thought was great! Overall our club had Champion by my brother Mason and reserve was Matt Dierkson out of 130 steers thought it was pretty good feat.

Trevor Dierkson a good friend and bull customer had five steers in the show that come from his place and they were Grand and reserve while the other three finished with two firsts in class and one fourth. He was very excited! As were we for him as that says a lot for the hard work and dedication he put into building such a great herd.

First Picture is of Mason Steer

Second picture is of all the Steers coming from Trevor Dierksons Ranch. 

Ashley Woodward has just begun starting her own little herd of Registered Angus Cows. She is a very hard workin fun energetic girl. We really enjoy her helping us out and her buying her first cattle from us. This year she had Champion Female in the Regional 4-H Show in Maple Creek, Sk with a heifer she purchased from us last fall. Congrats to her again!

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Had a really good turn out for our local club show this year. For our club being only in its third year i was super impressed with the quality and weight of the steers. All the kids have learn't so much and this is a great warm up for our regional show. This years judge was Wyatt Burnett and he did a superb job. The kids learnt a lot from him which is what we want from our judge. Champion Steer was won by my brother Mason and Reserve Steer was Justin Castle both steers were sired by a bull from our program. Champion female was Bodie Castle and Reserve Josie Rampton.  Thanks to all that supported and came out for the day!