Bar 5 News Nov/09: New web design and reorganization of web site. 2010 Sales visitor

Welcome to Bar 5 Stock Farms Ltd.

Bar 5 was established in 1969, by a group of 5 Manitoba ranchers of Shorthorn & Hereford cattle, Bar 5 imported more than 100 Simmental breeding females from Europe during the 1970's and developed a cross breeding program to upgrade from British based cows to 7/8 or more Simmental Breeding stock. In 1978, Bar 5 sold off most of the percentage cattle and focused on the Fullblood Simmental herd until 2002. In 2002, Bar 5 moved to introduce a Designed Maternal Crossbreeding system to offer our customers 5 different bull options:

1. Elite Fleckvieh - SA and Polled
2. Elite Red Angus
3. Elite Angus
4. Hybrid bulls - two breed cross bulls from these breeds of half to 7/8 percentages
5. Stabilizer Bulls - three breed or more crosses of these breeds, including some Gelbvieh blood

To assist our clients to drive their commercial production or Elite production the desired level of performance, we developed and implemented a three prong selection policy and committed ourselves to a disciplined program of:

1. Genetic Ancestory - sire line and cow families
2. Physical assessment - phenotype, actual measurements and ratios & indeces
3. Genetic Evaluations - BIO multi breed ABC comparative EPDs, Breed Association EPDs, and DNA markers