Thousands of visitors attended this year’s Manitoba Ag Ex in Brandon.
There was close to 1300 head of livestock through the Keystone Centre during the four-day event.
Ross Jermey, owner of Spruce Ridge Stock Farms in Ashern, was at the show, he says business was good.
“We go to quite a few shows in the course of a year and this show here has been one of the better shows, in terms of spectators through the barns. We’ve had read cattle people coming through the barns and looking at the cattle. We’ve actually been able to do quite a bit of business here in the stalls."
Manitoba Ag Ex Co-Chair Dallas Johnson says that four or five years ago the show had 300 head of cattle and now they hosted close to 800 head.
“It’s been a great show, there’s lots of cattle,” Jermey said. “We had the National Angus show here and there was, I believe, 200 head here just for the Angus show alone. It was just a great show. We’ve had cattle from all over western Canada here and it was very competitive.”
Organizers say they had exhibitors from as far as Quebec and British Colombia.
The Manitoba Superhorse had a successful show and sale with over 30 thousand dollars in cash and prizes awarded.
