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182 saleable animals and 33 purebred bulls at 25th Edam Fall Fair

The 25th annual Edam Fall Fair is in the books and was a great success once again. With 182 saleable animals, along with 11 pens of three purebred bulls, you couldn’t have asked for a better day.

The 25th annual Edam Fall Fair is in the books and was a great success once again. With 182 saleable animals, along with 11 pens of three purebred bulls, you couldn’t have asked for a better day. The weather was decent and the crowd was on par with other years. The annual craft and trade show was held in conjunction with the cattle show.

This year the judges were the father and son team of Tom and Scott Hougham of Frenchman Butte. Ring man duties were the responsibility of Steven Seabrook. Announcing the classes and winners were Henri Blaquiere and Gerald Latendresse.

The results of the show are as follows.

Class 1, 10 entries, Rancher’s Choice Steer: grand champion – Coyote Mountain Tarentaise (Bill LaClare) of Edam; reserve – Doug Marjoram of Speers; third – Carter Cole of Edam and fourth – Rebecca Kobes of Edam. The high sellers in this class were owned by Carter Cole and Doug Marjoram fetching $2,250 each. The average for the Rancher’s Choice steer class was $2,043.75.

Class 2, five entries, Prospect Steer: grand champion – Corey McFarlane; reserve – Coyote Mountain Tarentaise; third – Poplar Dell Shorthorns (George LaClare); fourth – Coyote Mountain Tarentaise, all of Edam. High sellers in this class were owned by Corey McFarlane and George LaClare fetching $2,100 each. The average for Prospect Steer class was $1,930.

Class 3, 19 entries, Rancher’s Choice Open Replacement Heifer: grand champion – Ryan Roach; reserve – Kobes Brothers; third – Don Cole; fourth – John and Apryl Grant, all of Edam. The high seller was owned by Doug Marjoram fetching $2,350 and the average for the Rancher’s Choice Heifer class was $1,713.16.

Class 4, three entries, Prospect Heifer: grand champion – Coyote Mountain Tarentaise of Edam; reserve – Autumn Seabrook of Turtleford; third – Gory Farms (J. Gory & Son) of St. Walburg. The high sellers were owned by Coyote Mountain Tarentaise and Gory Farms fetching $1,650 each with the average being $1,608.33.

Class 5, 14 entries for a total of 42 animals, Pen of Three Open Heifers: grand champion – Ryan Roach; reserve – LaClare Land and Cattle Company (Brent LaClare and Adrian LaClare); third – Collen Cole; fourth – Andrew Russett, all of Edam. High selling pen was owned by Doug Marjoram fetching $2,125 per animal and the average for Pen of Three Heifers being $1,728.57.

Class 6, nine entries for a total of 45 animals, Pen of Five Open Heifers: grand champion – Ryan Roach of Edam; reserve – Doug Marjoram of Speers; third – Lone Spruce Ranching (C. Blaquiere & Sons) of Edam; fourth – Kobes Brothers of Edam. The high selling pen was owned by Doug Marjoram bringing in $2,650 per animal and the average of the Pen of Five Heifers was $1,922.22.

Class 7, six entries for a total of 18 animals, Pen of Three Bred Heifers: grand champion – Gerry Wolfe of St. Walburg; reserve – Duane McCaffrey of Edam; third – Windmill Stock Farm (Doug Johnson) of Shell Lake; fourth – Silver Willow Ranch (John Roach) of Edam. The high selling pen was owned by Windmill Stock Farm at $2,900 per heifer and the average worked out to $2,620.33.

Class 8, four entries for a total of 20 animals, Pen of Five Bred Heifers: grand champion – Duane McCaffrey of Edam; reserve – Scott Macnab of Mervin; third – Silver Willow Ranch of Edam; fourth – Windmill Stock Farm of Shell Lake. The high selling pen was owned by Windmill Stock Farm fetching $3,600 per heifer and the average was $3,012.50.

Class 9, 12 entries, People’s Choice Cow/Calf Pair: grand champion – Brad Cole; reserve – Ryan Roach, both of Edam. This class was held on Friday night with Charlene Bannerman winning her choice of heifer. The heifer chosen was Adrian and Kyra Edwards’ entry and went to her new home at the Bannerman farm. This left 11 to go through the sale ring with the high seller owned by Brad Cole fetching $2,100 and the average working out to $1,684.09.

Class 10, eight entries, Pen of Three Purebred Bulls (British): grand champion – Triple L Angus (Randy Tetzlaff) of Viscount; reserve – Jancliff Angus (Jeff Jamieson) of Edam; third – Standard Hill Livestock (Stephen and Christine Myer) of Maidstone; fourth – Double P Angus (Jake Pilkey) of Lloydminster.

Class 11, three entries, Pen of Three Purebred Bulls (Exotic): grand champion – Red Willow Ranch Ltd. (Darren and Josh Tyler) of Cut Knife; reserve – Peters Simmentals (Bill, Virginia and Tiffany Peters) of Perdue; third – Konrad Seabrook of Turtleford.

Once again three names were drawn from the hat of the grand and reserve winners to judge the bulls. The lucky exhibitors this year were Scott Macnab of Mervin, Doug Marjoram of Speers and Bill LaClare of Edam.

There were also ballots for the People’s Choice Pen of Three Bulls tabulated. The winning pens are: grand champion – Red Willow Ranch Ltd. of Cut Knife, reserve – Peters Simmental of Perdue, third – Jancliff Angus of Edam, fourth – Triple L Angus (Randy Tetzlaff) of Viscount.

This year’s rink calves were sold before the bred heifers sold with only three calves to sell. These were brought in by: Bernard LaClare – heifer weighing 513 pounds and selling for $1,200; John Roach – steer weighing 733 pounds and bringing in $1,800; and Kobes Brothers – heifer weighing 568 pounds and fetching $1,375. The proceeds from these calves go to help pay expenses for the Edam Community Centre.

Draws made at the end of the day were for a barbecue donated by Drop Anchor RV Park (Louis McCaffrey) and won by John Grant. Two 25th anniversary vests were drawn for among the exhibitors and won by Windmill Stock Farm of Shell Lake and Joe Cole of Edam. There was also the fall fair 4-H scholarship presented to Kelsey Cox of Maidstone. Congratulations to the winners of the draws and classes.