If you are looking for top-quality local beef the upcoming Moose Jaw Inter 4-H Beef Steer Sale is the place for you. 

Members of the four 4-H Clubs in the Moose Jaw area will gather at the Moose Jaw Exhibition Grounds to showcase the fruits of their hard work over the past year. Members will receive awards and speak with attendees about their work with 4-H Clubs before putting their steer up for auction on Sunday at 3:30. 

The event officially gets underway on Friday with a weigh-in at Duncan Barns for the nearly 40 steer that are set to hit auction. Once the weigh-in is completed, the approximately 60 members who raised the animals will get to work preparing them to be presented in Sunday’s sale. 

The children have put countless hours of work to make the sale possible, starting back in the fall of last year when they selected their calves. The months since then have seen the children handling all aspects of the animal's care; ranging from daily feeding and managing their bedding to training them to walk with a halter. 

“These kids really bonded over that period of time,” said Kelley Howe, one of the organizers. “It’s the hundreds of hours they spent with these calves from last fall until Sunday.” 

Over those hundreds of hours, the calves will have grown to between 1,100 and 1,800 pounds. 

“The kid’s goal is to bring a finished beef to town,” Howe said. “Not all of them will get there, but the lion’s share will.” 

The 4-H Beef Steer Sale is the grand finale for the year’s programming and puts the ranching knowledge the children have acquired into practice.