HTA Charolais Bull Sale - Rivers, MB

MARCH .25. 2026

AT THE FARM, RIVERS, MANITOBA - SALE TIME 1:30 PM DST

THANK YOU HTA CHAROLAIS ANNUAL BULL SALE

AS YOU LOOK TO FIND YOUR NEXT

A FEW THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND:

THE SALE IS A VIDEO SALE IN OUR HEATED FACILITY WITH THE BULLS PENNED JUST OUTSIDE FOR VIEWING.

PLEASE BE OUR GUEST FOR LUNCH ON SALE DAY. COME EARLY TO VIEW THE BULLS.

PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SCHEDULE A HERD TOUR ON A DAY AND TIME CONVENIENT FOR YOU.

WE ARE HERE TO HELP. PLEASE GIVE US A CALL IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR WOULD LIKE TO OTHERWISE DISCUSS THE BULLS ON OFFER.

FROM THE DESK AT T BAR C

On behalf of the team at T Bar C, it is our pleasure to welcome you to the HTA Charolais Bull Sale, proudly hosted by the Shawn and Tanya Airey family. If your breeding program is driven by performance and payweight, this is an offering that deserves serious attention.

HTA Charolais has assembled a powerful, high-performance set of herd bulls built to add real pounds and real value. These are bigbodied, heavy-muscled, rugged bulls that combine scale, growth, and herd sire presence. The kind that push the scale down at weaning and continue to add value through the feeding phase.

For commercial cattlemen, this group offers the opportunity to add stretch, muscle shape, and performance that translates directly into increased calf crop revenue. For purebred breeders, these bulls bring performance-driven genetics and herd bull character capable of elevating a program and adding true growth power to the next generation.

CHRIS POLEY 306-220-5006

BEN WRIGHT 519-374-3335

SHANE MICHELSON

403-363-9973

LEVI RIMKE 204-851-4515

The Airey family has developed these bulls to maintain their natural shape and integrity, ensuring they are ready to go out and cover cows and handle the job. They are built with the mass, dimension, and performance expected from a program committed to raising cattle that work in the real world.

In today’s market, added performance is rewarded. The right herd sire can have a significant financial impact on your operation — and the bulls in this sale are designed to do exactly that.

We encourage you to study the catalogue carefully and reach out to the Airey family or any of us at T Bar C if we can assist with your selections. We look forward to seeing you on sale day.

Charolais ANNUAL BULL SALE

MARCH 25, 2026 :: AT THE FARM, RIVERS, MANITOBA :: SALE TIME 1:30 PM DST

Sale Time by Region

AB & SK - 12:30 PM

East Coast - 3:30 PM

ON/PQ - 2:30 PM

BC - 11:30 AM

Sale Staff

Auctioneer

Chris Poley 306-220-5006

Ringside

Shane Michelson 403-363-9973

Ben Wright 519-374-3335

Levi Rimke 204-851-4515

Andrew Reeleder 403-848-1260

Sale Day Phones

Shawn Airey 204-724-8823

Tanya Airey 204-365-0850

*or any of the T Bar C Sale Team

Watch & Bid Online

www.DLMS.ca

Mark Shologan 780-699-5082

Sale Management

T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd

306-933-4200 www.TBARC.com

Insurance

The bulls become your responsibility as soon as they are sold.

Keystone Livestock Insurance

Lois McRae 204-728-3058 or 204-573-5192

Travel

Westjet flights are available to Brandon, MB - 30 minutes from the sale location.

Video Sale

Please come early to view the bulls as they will not be going through a sale ring. The sale will be a video sale, inside our heated barn, with the bulls being sorted and penned right outside the barn for your viewing. We welcome you to the farm prior to the sale to view the bulls and the rest of the cowherd, if you cannot make it to the sale or would like more time.

Sight Unseen Purchases

We are committed to helping you find the right bull for your program. If you are unable to attend the sale, or come to view the bulls, please give us a call.

Semen Tests

All bulls will be semen tested, measured and evaluated by a licensed veterinarian. Scrotal measurements will be available sale day.

American Friends

We will ensure all health tests required for export are completed at the Buyer’s expense and will work together with you regarding delivery. Exchange rates will be announced at the start of the sale.

Delivery

Free delivery up to 300 kms. Take your bull home sale day and appreciate a $100 discount.

Volume

Discount

2 Bulls - 2% Discount

3 Bulls - 3% Discount

4 or more Bulls - 5% Discount

Videos of the bulls will be available to view online at www.htacharolais.com or www.buyagro.com

Directions:

From Rivers, MB: travel west on Highway 25, turn right onto Road 70, continue west to Road 128 (dead end), turn north (right) on Road 128, Sale barn is ¼ mile north on the west (left) side.

From Oak River, MB: Travel south on Provincial Road 354 to Road 71, turn east (left) and travel 2 miles to Road 128, turn south (right) and travel ¾ mile. Sale barn is on the west (right) side of the road.

From Virden, MB: Take Highway 259 to Road 128, turn north (left) and travel 1 ¼ miles, Sale barn is on the west (left) side of the road.

PROGRAM our

We are a family run operation that have been raising Charolais cattle for over 50 years and we are extremely passionate about it. Our mission is to consistently produce top quality Charolais bulls, that add performance and value to herds of all breeds. Our program at HTA is built on years of carefully selected genetics and is just that...a program. We don’t follow fads. We stick to the basics of what Charolais should be – a performance breed. Our goal is to be in the business for a long time and we hold ourselves to a high level of honesty and integrity.

The fundamental building blocks of our program is our females. As you look through the pedigrees, you will find many repeat cow families for good reason. Years and years of strategic breeding and selection have built our current cowherd of 160 breeding females. We strive for mothers that are sound structured, efficient, fertile and motherly with quality udders and good dispositions. Great bulls come from great cows. It starts with vigorous calves that are born unassisted and hit the ground and grow. Calving ease is a priority. Vigorous calves born unassisted IS calving ease. We prioritize unassisted born calves that are up in minutes looking to nurse their mothers.

We do not have time (or patience) for helping calves get up or suck. Our replacement heifer pen is just as important as the bull pen. This is the future of our herd. We focus on providing appropriate nutrition for proper development and fertility and not to carry extra condition. We breed for 60 days only to keep fertility high. Disposition is a main priority to us. We handle our cattle on foot and in a low stress manner. The quiet dispositions are one of the first things that people notice when visiting our herd. Bottom line, we expect a lot from our herd. Calving ease, vigour, growth, confirmation and structure, fertility, disposition, efficiency... We are constantly looking for

new genetics to improve our cowherd, but finding genetics that meet all of our criteria is no easy task. You can bet the bulls we breed our cows to have been very carefully and strategically selected. We spend many hours selecting genetics and strive for the best. Never single-trait selecting. We run a strict quality control program and cull hard. We only keep the best and cull the rest. Quality over quantity.

Nutrition and exercise are an important part of our herd health management at HTA. Cows are put to pasture June 1st and graze as late in the fall as possible. We carefully manage the land so as not to overgraze pastures. Cows are then fed barley silage and barley straw and expected to walk to water until Christmas, when they are brought in for calving. After calving, their diet is supplemented with rolled barley for energy for milking and in preparation for rebreeding. Chelated minerals –including summer, winter and breeding formulations and free choice salt blocks are provided year-round.

Calves are weaned in the fall and fed free choice hay. We start them on oats and the bull calves are then moved onto an oat-based ration focused on proper development and longevity. Heifers are fed rolled oats and barley with the focus being on providing proper nutrition for growth and fertility. We don’t want the bulls or heifers to carry extra condition. We want the bulls to be in prime condition to go out and work, and the heifers to breed (at 14-15 months of age) and continue to grow and mature and reach their potential. Calves are weighed at birth, at weaning. and at 1 year of age, to monitor growth performance and weights are recorded. Cows are weighed going onto pasture each year.

Vaccinating is an integral part of the HTA herd health management. Calves are given Toltrazuril at 1 week of age, Bovishield Gold 5 (BVD, IBR, PI3, BRSV) and Covexin 8 before going to pasture.

Bovishield Gold One Shot and Covexin 8 booster at weaning. Cows are given Bovishield Gold FP5 and Scourguard prior to calving and Covexin 8 before going to pasture every other year.

We are continuously appraising the cows, bull and heifer pens and culling. We cull for many reasons to keep the quality high. If a bull or heifer does not meet our expectations, has structural issues, or a bad disposition, etc., they are culled. We are proud of the progress we have made in our herd and the direction our program is headed.

We invite you to come for a visit, tour the herd and to talk cattle anytime. We enjoy the opportunity to visit with you about our program as well as your program. We know our cows and the bulls and you know your cows – together we can find the right bull to fit your herd. Success can be measured in many ways. One of our measures is our high percentage of repeat customers. Our customers are the most important part of our business!

1. An average cow of any breed should be able to calve 7% of her body weight.

2. Most Charolais cows will weigh between 1400-1800 lb., expected calf weight to range from 98 to 126 lb.

3. Most Red Angus cows will weigh between 1200-1600 lb, expected calf weight range 84 to 112 lb.

4. Calving ease is MORE important than birth weight because a longer sided calf may calve easy, but the birth weight is higher.

100K TESTING & WHY IT IS VALUABLE

EPDs contain information from an animal’s pedigree, performance data and now, possibly DNA, which is used directly to calculate the EPD for that animal in each specific trait. The use of DNA testing (100K test) in the EPD calculation allows us to dramatically increase the accuracy of the EPD.

These Genomically Enhanced EPDs (GEPDs) allow us to better predict the genetic potential for animals that are tested, particularly in young cattle (i.e. yearling bulls) that do not yet have any offspring to evaluate.

The 100K test is roughly equivalent to the reporting of:

- 25 offspring from the tested animal when calculating birth weight

- 15 offspring from the tested animal when calculating weaning weight

- 8 offspring from the tested animal when calculating yearling weight

The 100K test also identifies differences the pedigree alone cannot predict. Full siblings were always assumed to share 50% of their DNA, based on average. The use of the 50K test works to understand the ancestral source of DNA. Evaluations have shown the range of shared DNA can be as low as 35% to 65% or higher. Instead of 25% from each grandparent, it has identified that 30% or more may come from a single grandparent and much less from others.

Thank You TO OUR 2025 BUYERS

BAR J CHAROLAIS

BAR M7 FARMS *

BRENT BURT

BRIAN SILLEN

DARCY LAW

DARRELL & ROXANNE JOHN-SON *

DARREN SMITH

DESTINY CATTLE COMPANY

DOUBLE H FARMS

DUFAYEL CATTLE CO LTD

DUNNING FARMS

DURMAC FARMS LTD *

EFFERTZ KEY RANCH, USA

FERME LOUBER, PQ

G & D RIGLIN FARMS

GARRETT SMITH

HARD ROCK LAND & CATTLE CO

HARPER CREEK CHAROLAIS

JARRET GEISEL

JASON TEEPLE, ON

JASON TURETSKY

KEN & CINDY ROUTLEDGE

LLOYD PODAIMA

MCCORMICK FARMS LTD *

NASHCO FARMS INC, USA

PAUL RYDEN *

R & G MCDONALD LIVE-STOCK

RAMMER CHAROLAIS *

RANDY BRYANT *

RIDDELL FARMS

TD SAQUET FARMS LTD.

TERRY SLIWORSKY *

TRINAL FARMS LTD., ON VALLEYS END CHAROLAIS, SK

WENDT & MURRAY FARMS LTD, AB * DENOTES VOLUME BUYERS

Hulk Hogan’s sire, Game Day, was one of the highest selling bulls in Canada in 2020. The consistency, disposition and performance was very appealing to us. Hulk has met every expectation we had of him. He has added hair, depth of body while keeping the performance and consistency we look for. His sons have been well received and his daughters are proving themselves as great mama cows and we look forward to seeing what the future holds for these females in our herd.

Spiderman is an Astroid son we raised out of one of our best cow families and retained for our own herd use. Whether on heifers or on cows, Spiderman calves hit the ground and grow. Calves are born easy and with lots of vigour that gets them up and sucking quickly. Spiderman passes on his length, depth of body and growth. His daughters have great dispositions, beautiful udders and are good mamas. Don’t let Spiderman’s milk EPD worry you. We have several daughters milking in our herd with tremendous udders. Just look at the weaning weight on lot 3. Spiderman held our highest selling sire group in 2024.

HTA ASTROID 603D

HTA SPIDERMAN 9103G

HTA HOT STUFF 484B HTA CONTENDER 605D

JULIET 813F HTA JULIET 123Y

HTA 595N :: PMC907841 :: 1/26/2025 :: HOMO POLLED :: WHITE

HTA ASTROID 603D

SPIDERMAN 9103G

HOT STUFF 484B

MAT. BROTHER HTA Rawhide 4158M

HTA 5102N :: PMC907850 :: 1/29/2025 :: HOMO POLLED :: WHITE

HTA ASTROID 603D HTA SPIDERMAN 9103G

HOT STUFF 484B

Coyote Creek was a high selling bull in our 2024 Bull Sale. We kept a semen interest in him to allow us to use him in our AI program. Out of High Class, who we have used for many years in our herd because of their consistency, performance and female and herdsire making ability alike. And out of a picture-perfect, Conrad daughter. Great footed, perfect uddered and consistent producer at 10 years of age. Adding Coyote Creek to our breeding program was a no-brainer. The first sons on offer are worth the look. Consistent, good growth, good footed and docile.

We added Governor to our AI program. Governor was Lindskov Thiel Ranch’s high selling bull in 2022 at $220,000. He exhibited a great look, performance and a good structured dam with a great udder. Calves are big-hipped, deep bodied, easy fleshing, and have good dispositions.

Badge is the sire of Governor. We were impressed with the offspring we seen in Canada and decided to add him to our AI program and we are glad we did. This is a strong group of calves on offer. A consistent group with lots of hair, middle and good feet under them

River is a Duty Free son from the reputable Palmer Charolais operation. Duty Free needs no introduction. His sons have been well received all over the country both in purebred and commercial operations. River has worked well in our heifer pen and on cows. He did not see much service as a yearling and therefore we only have 2 sons on offer, both out of first calf heifers. Stay tuned as there will be many more off this young herdsire on offer in the future.

TERMS

TERMS & conditions

The terms of the sale are cash or cheque, payable at par at the sale location. The right of property shall not pass until after settlement has been made; no invoicing on buyers in attendance unless previous arrangements have been made. Every animal sells to the highest bidder and in cases of disputes, the auctioneer’s decision will be final. Announcements from the auction block will take precedence over the printed matter in the catalogue. Current exchange rates will be announced sale day. All monies are in Canadian funds.

CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION

Each animal will carry papers issued by the Canadian Charolais Association unless otherwise stated. A certificate of registry duly transferred will be furnished to the buyer for each animal after payment has been made.

PEDIGREE ESTIMATES

Pedigree Estimates (PE) are created on the projected mating of the animal’s sire and dam based on averages of the two, creating estimated values that do not hold the same accuracy of actual EPDs issued from the association and should be used as such.

HEALTH

All animals in the sale have met all necessary health requirements.

GUARANTEE

Each animal becomes the purchaser’s risk immediately after the animal is sold. All animals in this sale will be sold under the terms and guarantees set forth by the Canadian Charolais Association with regard to health, freedom from defects and from both reproductive and specific genetic unsoundness.

LIABILITIES

All persons attend the sale at their own risk. The seller, facility owner and sale manager assume no liability legal or otherwise, for any accidents that occur. It is understood that T Bar C Cattle Co. (2013) Ltd. is acting only as a medium between buyer and seller and is not responsible for any failure on the part of either party to live up to his obligations. Neither does T Bar C Cattle Co. (2013) Ltd. assume any financial obligations to collect or enforce collection of any monies between parties and any legal action that may, in exceptional cases, be taken must be between the buyer and the seller. T Bar C Cattle Co. (2013) Ltd. assumes no responsibility for any credit extended by the seller to the buyer. The buyer must look to the seller for fulfillment of all guarantees and representations made hereunder.

DELIVERY

Every assistance will be given in getting your purchases home. Each animal becomes the risk of the purchaser as soon as sold.

PHONE, MAIL, WIRE BIDS

Bidders unable to attend the sale may phone, wire or mail their bids and instructions to the sale manager, auctioneer or special representatives. Bids must be received in sufficient time prior to the sale.

INSURANCE

We strongly recommend that insurance is purchased for full value.

ERRORS

All announcements at sale time, written or oral, supersede any written material in the catalogue.

T Bar C Cattle Co. Ltd.

Box 2330

Warman, SK

S0K 4S0