Portiek Simmentals

04/12/2026

Second sale day is done and gone. We are very grateful for the interest, bidders and buyers of our bulls!

Thankyou to everyone that helped make the sale happen. VJV Auction Co. Rimbey Cattle Sales and all their staff. Dean Edge Andrew Releeder Garren Skeels and Tracy Gardner for the great meal.

Also big thank you to Brendan Anderson for helping haul all the bulls into sale and helping bring the ones home that will be here until it’s time for them to go to work.

And of course big thank you to my wife Krishanda Portiek for making the catalogue and everything else she does through out the year with the cows between pasture checks, sorting, feeding, gate monkey, heat checking, and slipping through the mud when we’re ai’ing cows on standing heats. And on and on.

Also big thank you to parents for all their help with the cows as they are involved with all the same tasks as Kris.

Thank you to Mack Stout and Stefon Beechinor for the pictures.

Plans are underway for next years 3rd annual sale and the calves are getting put in the cows for the fourth annual sale.

I look forward to delivering all the bulls from bc through out Alberta and even into Saskatchewan.

Cheers for now

Gary

04/07/2026

Sale is 4.5 hrs away. Hope to see you at vjv Rimbey. If you can’t make it there will be online bidding through vjv and Dlms

https://www.vjvauction.com/rimbey

https://www.dlms.ca/

Catalogue at https://canva.link/4g759814typnmu6

04/07/2026

Tomorrow’s sale order scrotal measurements and today weights and diluter results

04/04/2026

Sale day is very near. Come join us for our second annual bull sale at 5pm Tuesday April 7th. There will be a catered lunch at 3:30. BULL SALE STARTS AT 5:00 pm. Looking forward to seeing everyone there. If you can’t make the sale please contact Dean Edge Garren Skeels or Andrew Releeder. There numbers are in the magazine. There will be online bidding through DLMS and VJV
Bull videos are also on vjv and Dlms websites.

Magazine link

https://canva.link/4g759814typnmu6

Dlms link

https://issuu.com/cattlevids/docs/portiek_simmentals_annual_bull_sale_-_rimbey_ab?fr=sNmY3NzgzNDU5MDE

Vjv link

https://vjv.auctionmarts.com/lots/gaZzYWxlSUTZJGFkNWNkNjgxLWViNWUtNDhmZi1hYmQ1LTRhNGUwYmQyMTE5Mw

03/28/2026

We are 11 days away from sale time. Come join us at VJV Auction Co. Rimbey Cattle Sales with Dean Edge Garren Skeels Andrew Releeder

There is online bidding through VJV and Dlms.

Videos are also on vjv Rimbey and Dlms

03/24/2026

Sale videos are up on DLMS now.

https://www.cattlevidsviewer.ca/events/27342_040726_CV_2026Spring/

Catalogue at

https://www.canva.com/design/DAHEE4M8EA4/jJTTIsmFl7Xg3h6yQ72Eaw/view?utm_content=DAHEE4M8EA4&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=hf208095ab2

03/22/2026

Any MR NLC SUPERIOR S6018 semen straws out there for sale?

03/22/2026

03/21/2026

Would you like to see some bull videos? Head on over to vjv.com and check them out.

Here is the link

https://vjv.auctionmarts.com/lots/gaZzYWxlSUTZJGFkNWNkNjgxLWViNWUtNDhmZi1hYmQ1LTRhNGUwYmQyMTE5Mw

Catalogue link

https://www.canva.com/design/DAHEE4M8EA4/jJTTIsmFl7Xg3h6yQ72Eaw/view?utm_content=DAHEE4M8EA4&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=hf208095ab2

03/19/2026

Courtesy of Dlms we now have a issuu copy of sale catalog. Watch for videos to be on dlms soon.

Portiek Simmentals Annual Bull Sale - Rimbey, AB

03/18/2026

What is actually in that pack of ground beef?

Have you ever wondered how many cows are in that one pack of ground beef you just bought?

The answer isn’t one.
It’s not even two.

The average pound of ground beef sold at the grocery store can contain meat from up to 100 different cows.
Not all from one, either.
A huge percentage of the beef labeled “Product of USA” is imported.

Yep.
It can be born, raised, and slaughtered in another country, shipped here frozen, and as long as it’s repacked in the US, they can slap that sticker on it.

That “fresh” ground beef you bought?
It could be from Brazil.
Australia.
Mexico.
A mix of countries and a mix of animals.

There’s no law that says they have to tell.
No law that says how many cows.
No way to trace it back to one steer, one ranch, one pasture.

Just a label and a price tag.
And yet we wonder why nothing tastes like it used to.

Real beef should not be a mystery.
It should be from one animal, not a supply chain.

When you buy beef from a small farm, you’re buying a steer that more than likely had a name
A pasture with rich history.
A family with skin in the game 🍔

12/22/2025

It’s kind of officially oh no