Free Angus Classifieds & Breeder Directory in the Angus Market

Be sure to check out the improved Everything Angus classifieds at the new Angus Market - you'll find everything from upcoming sales, live cattle, semen & embryos to real estate and services. If you have something to sell, trade or offer that would be of interest to Angus breeders in Canada, this is the place to start. And it's all FREE - brought to you by Everything Angus & Angus World.

Why free? We are Angus breeders too. Every once in a while isn't it nice to get something for nothing for a change? We think so, and hope you use and enjoy.

Welcome to AngusCanada.ca (almost)

You may notice a few new logos appearing in the websites EverythingAngus.com, AngusWebMail.ca & AngusWorld.ca as we prepare to launch our new consolidated website aptly named AngusCanada.ca. The completed site will truly be "One location. One click. Everything Angus." Well, several clicks to be truthful, but all from the same starting page.

We've been working for quite some time to get a new "Angus Market" with free classifieds (up to 4 photos and 100 words) and a Breeder Directory (1 photo & 50 words) and it's almost complete - in English with French to be available. Just a few server inconsistencies yet to figure out and it is ready to roll.

Also included will be a new calendar format where more details about your events can be included. Both the Angus Market and Angus Calendar have been configured to help promote your events to the Angus world - and all for free.

Of course, all this software and work does have a cost, so we would like to thank those breeders and companies who have supported our sites with paid advertising, Angus Webmail, e-Catalogues & ads (now called e-Features). This is what keeps us going in the wee hours of the night along with countless cups of coffee. The integration of all our sites means these ads & features will now appear on ALL of them for maximum exposure.

We will make an announcement when the site goes live so get prepared now. List the semen & embryos you may have available, dust off those show supplies that have been sitting around unused, or get ready to advertise your next litter of puppies. If it is of interest to Angus Breeders in Canada, you can list it on the Everything Angus Market. Hope to see you using it soon!

You can help - please vote

You may have previously read of the work by Gloria Fantin (G A Fantin Services, Alberta Beef) rescuing and relocating parrots at the World Parrot Refuge located on Vancouver Island. The refuge provides a permanent home for pet parrots that have been abandoned or can no longer be looked after by their owners. The Pepsi Refresh Project (www.refresheverything.ca) is offering funds to proposals which receive the most votes, and the Parrot rescue is one of those in the running for $25,000 - which would help feed the sanctuary's 800+ birds for about 6 months.

You can help by registering on the site and voting for the refuge. While there are lots of worthwhile projects in the running for a variety of funds, the World Parrot Refuge is certainly worth supporting. You can vote for them at: www.refresheverything.ca/helpfeedtherefugeparrots. Vote daily!

Guard your RFID credit cards

RFID technology is very familiar to cattle breeders, and it could become popular with electronic thieves with nasty intentions as well. Watch this video and then check your credit cards to be in the know and on guard. Part One can be viewed HERE. Be sure to watch Part 2 HERE (where it says 2 RFID credit cards can cancel out each other's signal). Thanks to Val for passing this on.

MVF Dispersal is now history

501 lots, 600 head and 8.5 hours later and the MVF Complete Dispersal is now history. The Virden Auction Mart was SRO (standing room only) from the beginning of the sale and almost to the end. Buyers from across Canada, the US and overseas. Complete details will follow.

Off to the MVF Dispersal

A dispersal with the depth of quality and quantity found in the Mountain View Farms herd doesn't happen very often. So I will soon be off to beautiful downtown Virden, Manitoba (leaving the cows at home in very capable hands) to join the many others who make the trek to watch Canadian Angus history in the making. 77 years in the Angus business is quite an achievement and deserves a proper celebration!
Hope to see many of you there and that the weather cooperates. If by chance you are driving a trailer from Alberta to Virden, there's a wee miniature donkey in need of a ride at Cooke Livestock. See the classifieds at EverythingAngus.com for details if you can help out.

Canada's first fully-featured app for ag news

Now available for BlackBerry smartphones and soon for iPhone and Android platforms: Canadian farmers can now track weather, futures markets and agriculture news on their smartphones using a free mobile application from Farm Business Communications. Find out more HERE.

Wine fed cows get the green light

It is being reported on The Province Blog and in Country Life that innovative Sezmu Meats has gotten the green light from CFIA to continue providing their unique wine-fed beef. Good to hear - mmmm - Angus beef self-marinated in wine . . . Read the blog HERE.

Apologies . . .

You may have noticed updates being a bit tardy on Everything Angus lately and please accept apologies for that. Much of the past two weeks has been spent transitioning to a professional email service for Everything Angus Web Mail announcements. Over the summer major changes were made to the majority of Internet Service Provider spam settings which forced the move. Keeping up with technology is a full time job requiring a degree to just be able to understand the terminology used (not gonna happen here!) so the best move was to work with the experts.
The bulk of the change has now been made and after a good night's sleep, things should be back to normal.

Watch for one other upcoming change to the Everything Angus Classifieds and Calendar. The soon to be launched site section will offer a self-serve buy-and-sell solution to Angus breeders, and all for free!

"Steer Your Deere"

If you're into tractors AND computer games you can try out "Steer Your Deere" on Agriculture.com to "Navigate a John Deere 8R Series tractor down an obstacle-strewn path" and try out the new ACS steering system (do people actually buy brand new tractors???) You can play it HERE. 
Hint: forget the obstacles and go for the ACS so you can actually steer!