Our Family
Our Angus based herd is managed throughout the year to maintain and promote forage productivity through rotational grazing. We calve in late spring on open grass which is closer to nature’s cycle are back grounded with hay, fed out on pastures during the winter and rotate on grass pastures through the summer. We have an off-site watering system run by solar power from our dug out which we have set up in conjunction with the Crowfoot Creek Watershed group as a demonstration site. We also support Ducks Unlimited with a habitat riparian project on the wetlands that we pasture.
Rod currently sits as a director of the board for the Foothills Forage Association, a group which encourages a profitable and sustainable forage industry by providing an information network for southern Alberta forage producers. He also is a board member for the Wheatland Feeders Association, & volunteers for the Crowfoot CommunityAssociation.
We are also members and proud to supply our beef to Heritage Angus Beef. In October 2011, we travelled to Cologne, Germany to help promote and represent Heritage Angus Beef at the Anuga International Food trade expo Oct 8 – 12th 2011. See our blog for more about our trip to Germany!
Rod enjoys helping out with Jack’s hockey and baseball teams. In his spare time he also plays men’s recreational hockey, hunting, boating and fishing. Our family also performs with the Western Gunfighters Stunt Club who entertain throughout the summer at Heritage Park in Calgary for private functions.
Our children Jenna & Jack are very fortunate to be involved with the ranching life and have learned many skills. Whether it’s riding their horses to move cattle, sorting, assisting with calving births, driving the feed truck in winter or helping to bale & rake hay in the summer.
Jack is in Grade 10 and enjoys playing Hockey and is a member of the AAA Midget Raiders hockey team playing in the AMMHL league this season involving travel to Chestermere, Calgary, Red Deer, Lethbridge and Airdrie. He also participates in baseball, badminton, golf, and enjoys spending time hunting, boating, fishing & camping at the lake. He also has worked for the past two summers at the Strathmore Golf Course .
Jenna is in Grade 11 and plays Ringette for the Rockyford Ringers U19 team which requires travelling to Calgary, Red Deer , Edmonton, and Lethbridge for games and tournaments throughout the winter. She also volunteers her time to help on the ice with the younger levels of ringette at their practices. In the spring & summer she is involved with playing badminton, swimming, camping and boating at the lake. She also enjoys baking, reading, and working part time at Strathmore Home Hardware store. Both kids have also had previous years experience in 4-H.
Beth enjoys managing Jenna’s ringette team, volunteering at their school and the Crowfoot community, gardening & flowers, raising chickens & ducks, working and assisting with the management of the cattle & calving, riding, participating in ranch rodeos, playing ladies hockey, camping & boating. Beth also enjoys helping out and watching Jack's hockey team. She is also the office bookkeeper and coordinates the busy schedule for the family.
Rod currently sits as a director of the board for the Foothills Forage Association, a group which encourages a profitable and sustainable forage industry by providing an information network for southern Alberta forage producers. He also is a board member for the Wheatland Feeders Association, & volunteers for the Crowfoot CommunityAssociation.
We are also members and proud to supply our beef to Heritage Angus Beef. In October 2011, we travelled to Cologne, Germany to help promote and represent Heritage Angus Beef at the Anuga International Food trade expo Oct 8 – 12th 2011. See our blog for more about our trip to Germany!
Rod enjoys helping out with Jack’s hockey and baseball teams. In his spare time he also plays men’s recreational hockey, hunting, boating and fishing. Our family also performs with the Western Gunfighters Stunt Club who entertain throughout the summer at Heritage Park in Calgary for private functions.
Our children Jenna & Jack are very fortunate to be involved with the ranching life and have learned many skills. Whether it’s riding their horses to move cattle, sorting, assisting with calving births, driving the feed truck in winter or helping to bale & rake hay in the summer.
Jack is in Grade 10 and enjoys playing Hockey and is a member of the AAA Midget Raiders hockey team playing in the AMMHL league this season involving travel to Chestermere, Calgary, Red Deer, Lethbridge and Airdrie. He also participates in baseball, badminton, golf, and enjoys spending time hunting, boating, fishing & camping at the lake. He also has worked for the past two summers at the Strathmore Golf Course .
Jenna is in Grade 11 and plays Ringette for the Rockyford Ringers U19 team which requires travelling to Calgary, Red Deer , Edmonton, and Lethbridge for games and tournaments throughout the winter. She also volunteers her time to help on the ice with the younger levels of ringette at their practices. In the spring & summer she is involved with playing badminton, swimming, camping and boating at the lake. She also enjoys baking, reading, and working part time at Strathmore Home Hardware store. Both kids have also had previous years experience in 4-H.
Beth enjoys managing Jenna’s ringette team, volunteering at their school and the Crowfoot community, gardening & flowers, raising chickens & ducks, working and assisting with the management of the cattle & calving, riding, participating in ranch rodeos, playing ladies hockey, camping & boating. Beth also enjoys helping out and watching Jack's hockey team. She is also the office bookkeeper and coordinates the busy schedule for the family.
Our Family HistoryBeth’s great great grandpa emigrated to Edwardsville Illinois, USA from Hanover Germany in 1842. In 1909 his grandson moved his family to homestead east of Strathmore, Alberta, Canada with intentions of farming and raising cattle.
Our photo gallery to the right show a few photos from the early 1900's on the homestead. These old photos show Beth's grandfather - Harold Scheer - and his brother Norman hauling grain and herding cattle on the open Alberta range in 1917. Beth's father - John Scheer - carried on the tradition of farming and raising cattle on this same land. In 2003 Rod & Beth purchased her parents farm east of Strathmore. Beth and her family mark the fourth generation of farmers and ranchers on this land since her Great Grandfather originally homesteaded here in 1909. We were honored to celebrate our families' 100th centennial year in Alberta in August of 2009. We paid tribute to our pioneer families by dressing in pioneer costume and riding in Strathmore's rodeo parade. Our photo gallery features a few photos from that fun and meaningful day. We are thankful that we can live and raise our family in such a beautiful area that we are proud to call our home. |
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