OK... someone must have robbed a few banks!

The early bull sales in Western Canada have to be considered excellent success stories, and after 10 years of depressed cattle markets, crazy weather and wild swings in feed prices, I have to wonder where the money is coming from?  Three Simmental bull sales on Friday, Saturday and Sunday( today) have seen over 300 bulls sell for sale averages over $6000. The first sale had a top seller at $64,000, the second sale had a top of $23,500 and the sale today had a top of $82,000. There is one more sale tomorrow with a good offering of bulls as well, and these sales have all been within 100 miles of where I live. A couple of the historical reputation sales are yet to come in a few weeks so it is going to be an interesting spring.

This is a great year to be a Charolais or Simmental breeder.  Many of the bull sales haven't had a yearling bull sell for less than $ 3,000.  Even the strictly commercial bull sales are selling many bulls for$ 5,000 or more.  It seems the commercial bull buyers want their performance...

A good set of Charolais and Simmental Bulls is from Rolling D and High Bluff: http://www.charolaisbanner.com/cat11/famtrad/index.htm
It will be interesting to see how this bunch goes.