bulls from western Canadian breeding programs. “He outperformed a lot of the other [bulls they raised], and we thought that if we wanted to go west that was what we wanted,” says Enright. The family aims to make the trip west to Agribition every other year, and in alternating years they take cattle to the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville, Kentucky—a shorter trek for them than traveling to Regina. “Something worked this time; we hit both this year just because we thought we had cattle good enough to go to both shows,” he states. Both Agribition and the North American
are ideal venues for different aspects of the Enrights’ breeding program and marketing channels. “Where we’re located, we can sell more show heifers, and for us to go down to Louisville, Kentucky, that’s more of a market we’re pushing with the show heifer end of it. We’ve sold a lot of cattle down there… If you’re in the show heifer business, that’s the show to go to,” says Enright. “It’s always nice, every once in a while, to see how you compare with the bigger guys down there.” In terms of the Canadian beef industry, Agribition is an important stop for doing business with western beef producers, a key market for Enright
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