First day of Canada World Forum is a great success

The British have landed in Canada this week for the World Angus Forum. During the farm visits the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Soceity Presdient William McLaren has been feeding back his thoughts on the farm visits. Read his thoughts on Day One.

A group of 29 British delegates have arrived early in Canada before the world forum, which should see the largest British delegation to attend a world forum abroad to see some of Albertas leading herds. The trip was organised by Eddie Gillanders.

The British delegates land at Miller Wilson's DMM herd.

After a good flight out and a good rest we started out on our first day of seeing herds and what a start we have going to see the DMM herd of Miller Wilson (150 cows) which was the top show herd in Canada last year – we were all hugely impressed with a  tremendous show of cattle.

 Their team for the show next week really impressed us all on the trip. These cows are moderate framed but not small, but they carried great fleshing ability and good feet and legs. Many of these cattle have progeny in the UK as Miller Wilson exports many embryos a year. 

Gumbo Gulch Creed 94S

The herd carries a large amount of TC Stockman blood and there new bull pictured is a TC Freedom son.  The cows out at pasture were also good working cows and our group liked their breed character and thickness a lot. The Red Angus cattle were equally as outstanding in my opinion. 

DMM dyna Blackcap 304P

DMM Red Sten Essence 42G

They don’t have many, but what they do have is quality good sized cows. The red cow pictured was show female of the year as a 2 year old and also as a 10 year old – now that takes some doing. The Miller family then laid on a BBQ for us which we all appreciated.

Our next stop was LLB Angus and we were hosted by the Brown family who showed us round their herd which has over 1000 cows and have the largest bull sale in Canada each year. Cattle were also on show from Cottage Creek Angus. 

LLB Allin 387T

LLB is a more performance herd using many of the top bulls from Canada and America, the cows were of good size and length, not in the same condition as DMM as they are desperately needing rain. We saw a lot of nice cow and calf pairs and a couple of their stock bulls which were deep fleshed bulls of moderate size.

One Free Wheeler was reserve male champion at Agribition last fall. We were then all treated to another BBQ which again was well appreciated, but I think we will not all be having such a large breakfast tomorrow as we did today. As we left the rain started to come down which is much welcome. The group have had a great first day and the Millers and Browns have looked after us so well which we all thank so much and are looking forward to tomorrow when we will see Argwen and Belvin Angus as well as heading to the National Junior Show.