Burnt River Ranch

09/16/2025

Eating George’s Hogget Chops while sitting on George’s Tanned Pelt. 👑

09/06/2025

09/04/2025

An unlikely species when talking about romance, but let’s talk about sunflowers metaphorical significance when it comes to marriage.

Sunflowers have a unique capability to draw up a wide array of toxins from the soil, from lead to arsenic to radioactive chemicals.
This shows how when we come into marriage, our base soil can often be infiltrated with “toxins”, with old baggage from past relationships, childhood trauma, generational dysfunction, unhealthy coping mechanisms, and all sorts of other factors.
Like a sunflower, over time as we grow together and suck those toxins out of that base soil, we improve our communication, create better habits, ditch those that don’t serve us, and remove old baggage poisoning our “base soil”.
This hard work of a sunflower yields a new soil that is clean and healthy, able to sustain life far better than previously. Their thick, deep roots aerate the soil and allow good things to come back.

For any trouble that may try to invade your marriage, a sunflowers little secret weapon is allelopathy, which is that it can stop other nearby plants from growing, and that leaves room for it to flourish and for its seedlings to grow. When thought of in the context of marriage, this represents how we must prioritize our marriage above all else. Above those who try to pit us against one another or who try to cause issues in our relationship. We must seek each other first and look out for us as partners. Only then will our relationship thrive and allow our kids to thrive too.

Out of that cleaned earth, it grows into the sky on a very strong stem, just as we grow a very strong bond to support each other on our journey. Through all of this effort of cleansing the soil, it takes those not so pretty things that once infiltrated the soil and morphs them into an absolutely gorgeous bloom of sunshine. It shows us how out of adversity, we can come together as partners and develop a better and more powerful connection that rises above and w**ds out all those toxins that we started with, to create something strong, and wise, and beautiful.

08/29/2025

Phoebe the Land Whale 🐳 is sporting her fancy new custom earring from JL Livestock 🤩

Her steer calf Ned is a good looking little bu**er and growing like a w**d!

08/15/2025

Prairie Hog Country featured us and our Hereford pigs in their latest issue!

It’s pretty cool to see our pigs in their magazine, and share a bit of our journey with other pig enthusiasts!

08/14/2025

Holy moly

Another sale for the record books at Tuesday’s sale with just under 1600 head sold through the ring. Week after week, the market gets higher and higher! Some backgrounding feedlots are eager to place some fresh calves early, making the competition fierce on the light calves!

430lb Steer calves $845.00cwt
330lb Steer calves $950.00cwt
268lb Steer calves $1065.00cwt
200lb Steer calves $1100.00cwt

443lb Heifer calves $725.00cwt
416lb Heifer calves $735.00cwt
320lb Heifer calves $810.00cwt
260lb Heifer calves $955.00cwt

Yes! That is correct! The light calves selling for $10 and $11 per pound!

The yearlings also sold very well!
1005lb Steers $430.00cwt
906lb Steers $471.50cwt
812lb Steers $501.00cwt

1009lb Heifers $401.00cwt
914lb Heifers $431.00cwt
865lb Heifers $448.00cwt
828lb Heifers $454.50cwt

We sold the dispersal for Vetsch Farms, a super set of red cows with May born calves alongside. The top end of this herd traded up to $7800 per cow/calf pair!.

Next week’s sale is looking to be another good one with 250 yearlings already consigned from one ranch!
Give us a call if you would like to consign to our upcoming sales!
Have a great week!
Levi Pedgerachny
587-987-1250

08/13/2025

Garlic is harvested for the year and curing in the barn for the next few weeks.

We had a good harvest this year and should have lots to eat and lots to plant for next year!

I’m going to be curing and planting all the little bulbils from the scapes as well so we can slowly build up our garlic inventory.

08/12/2025

We have locally raised pork, pork fat, and raw dog food!

August 11-17 is Alberta Local Food Week 🚜🌽

Our hard-working local farmers produce some of the best quality foods you can find, with the highest standards of food safety, animal care, biosecurity, and environmental stewardship. Support your local farmers and shop local, this week and every week. 🛍️