Millarville-Stockland 4-H Beef Club

Club Reporter: Danielle Bradish
Millarville-Stockland 4-H Beef Club held their first meeting of the year on October 12th. This meeting was a re-organizational meeting for all the club members to meet with the old and new members. At this meeting we decided on who our executives should be. For our President we have Brent Arkes who was vice president last year. Our new Vice President is Shaelynn Brogden; our new Secretary is Reil Lowry; our new Treasurer is Carson Campbell; our new Club Reporter is Danielle Bradish; our new Historian is April Jardie; our new District Rep is Olivia Smith.
We have a large club this year with eighteen club members and three Cleaver Kids. Club members are Ben and Brent Arkes, Danielle Bradish, Ethan Beck, Finn Blatz, Shaelynn Brogden, Carson and Elizabeth Campbell, Hunter Egeland, Josh French, Amy and April Jardie, Lars Lang, Reil and Nolan Lowry, Carlie Meyer, Wyatt Runge and Olivia Smith. Our Cleaver Kids are Emma Campbell, Sage Runge and Justin Watkins. With our Cleaver Kids we have sheep projects instead of the standard cattle project. With all the positions filled we ended our first meeting of the new 4-H year.
The clubs next event was weigh-in at Black Diamond Land and Cattle Company on November 6th. The weather started out cold but turned into a beautiful day with lots of sunshine. All the steers and heifers looked healthy and fit as they walked out of the trailers. Thanks to the excellent handling equipment provided to us we were able to tag and weigh all our projects. Weigh-in went smoothly with only a couple of exceptions due to excited animals. The steer's average weights were in a good starting range for 4-H Beef material. Everyone seemed to have a good time helping to tag and weigh all the calves. With all the animals back in their trailers weigh-in was over and everyone left.
Millarville-Stockland 4-H Beef Club gives a big thanks to Black Diamond Land and Cattle Company for letting us use their facility.