April 2013

Volume 1, Issue 2 Bulkley Valley Cattlemens Corral

Despite the snow on the
ground this morning,
the green grass
underneath promises
that spring is on its way.
Mark your calendars!
The BVCA is hosting
another Field Day on
June 1
st
at Lemieux
Creek Ranch (20264
Morden Road in
Quick).
The format will be
similar to last year, with
information sessions in
the morning John
Stevenson, the new
Regional Agrologist
2013 Field Day

will be there, equipment
representatives from
Huber and Kuhn will
speak to the use of
power harrows, and
there will be GPS
demonstration. Lunch
will be provided by
donation.
The equipment
demonstrations will be
in the afternoon. Huber,
Grassland, LS Tractor
and Leon (Noble) are
some of the dealers who
have committed to
attending. The focus
will be on power

Dates to
Remember:

June 1
st
BVCA
Field Day

August 3
rd
10
th

Smithers
Centennial
Homecoming
Houston
Recycling takes
silage plastic!

Cost: $20 per
mini bag

2266 Nadina
Ave N, Houston

250-845-2590

Hours:
10am4pm
Tues thru Sat

No cleaning
required!


harrows and manure
spreaders. Two
power harrows
Kuhn Agricultural
Machinery and
Maschio will be
there. Leon (from
Saskatchewan) is
bringing two manure
spreaders (vertical &
horizontal beaters).
Everyone is
welcome! The day
will start around
10am, and end
around 4pm. The
coffee will be on
see you there!
When: June 1
st

Where: Lemieux Creek Ranch
20264 Morden Road in Quick
Time: 10am to 4pm
Lunch provided (by donation)

Bulkley Valley Cattlemens Corral
More information on Growing
Forward 2 programs in BC can
be found at:
www.gov.bc.ca/agri
A new five-year
Growing Forward
bilateral agreement has
been signed. The focal
points of the new
agreement are:
Innovation energy &
waste management,
advancements in plant,
animal and food
Growing Forward 2

BC Beef for BC Markets
Page 2 of 3
science, new product
development and
commercialization,
improvements in soil,
water and air quality,
and climate change
adaptation.
Competitiveness &
Market Development
biosecurity, food safety,
traceability & premises
identification, and farm
animal welfare.
Adaptability and
Industry Capacity
business knowledge &
strategic adaptation,
industry capacity
building, and
sustainable agriculture
management.

The Pleasant Valley Cattlemens Association is hosting two Business Risk Management
workshops:
PST AND ITS PAPERWORK on May 6
th

Houston Seniors. Centre (3250 14
th
St W)
6:30pm7:30/8:00pm
$5.00 per person to cover costs
PREDATOR VERIFICATION on May 11
th

Houston Library (3150-14
th
Street)
1:00pm4:30/5:00pm
$10.00 per person to cover costs
Please RSVP to Linda Dykens (250-845-3013 or lindadykens@xplornet.com) or Sandy Anaka
(250-696-3624 or sanaka@xplornet.ca)
BC Beef for BC
Markets is a joint effort
of the BC Assn of
Abattoirs and the BC
Assn of Cattle Feeders
to develop a network
and data base of BC
beef producers,
finishers, abattoirs and
secondary producers.
The goal of the network
is to share information,
improve meat quality in
line with market
demands and develop
effective marketing and
distribution systems. A
BC grading system,
similar to the Federal
system with color
accommodations for
grass fed beef will be
delivered by certified
graders in each abattoir.
BC Beef for BC Chefs
will provide an online
ordering tool which will
enable chefs to purchase
beef on a carcass basis
direct from
producer/processor
teams and obtain a cost
per serving calculation
based on their cutting
instructions. Sharon
Kerr is currently
helping build the data
base that will give a
picture of the capacity
for each of the three
stages of production
(cow/calf,
backgrounding, grass
finish/grain finish) and
abattoir capacity.
Please give her a call,
(250) 846-5412, if you
would like to have your
information included in
the data base. The
information collected
will be used solely
within the BC Assn of
Abattoirs to benefit
producers and abattoirs
through an e-mail data
base to share
information on
marketing and
distribution.




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Just a Cowboy
The Bulkley Valley
Cattlemens Association
has been serving this area
since 1962. The purpose
of the BVCA is to
promote and protect the
business of raising and
marketing cattle, to assist
the development of the
local cattle industry, and
to liaise with government
and non-government
bodies with respect to
farm practices relevant to
raising cattle.


About Our Organization
Bulkley Valley
Cattlemens Assoc.
Box 415
Smithers, BC
V0J 2N0


Were going to be on
the Web!
Coming soon in
2013!




A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture
in British Columbia when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him
out of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and
YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly
how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing
herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to
his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet,
where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he
then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-
resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it
to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been
processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through
an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after
a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized
HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586
cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with
amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your
business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Member of Parliament from Ottawa ", says Bud.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even
though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew,
to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment
bought with taxpayers dollars trying to show me how much smarter than me
you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living -
or about cows, for that matter.
This is a herd of sheep
Now give me back my dog.
Bulkley Valley Cattlemens Corral