Bill and I were married in 1962. We started out farming and ranching south of Bindloss, Alberta with 4 cows and a quarter section of farmland and a quarter section of grass. Since then, we have purchased more land and grew our herd. We raised three sons; Tom (wife Vianne) who have 2 children, son Ty (Sage) and daughter Tia (Dom). Allen (wife Gwen) who have three children, daughter Shelby (Andrew) and their son Alden; daughter Ashley (Kirk); and son Riley (Brooke). Our third son JJ (wife Ronnilee) who have three children, daughter Shayla (Nick), son Walker and son Westin.

In 1979, Frank and Helen Fowlie were dispersing their purebred horned Hereford herd. They were always such good friends and neighbors so we decided we would start a purebred herd and bought one good cow. That cow had three heifers in a row. Frank said she never had a heifer for him, only bull calves. Then we bought a purebred heifer at a community fund raiser in Bindloss that the Fowlie family donated. Clarence and Betty Rinker sold us four cows and eight bred heifers when they began cutting back their purebred herd. Later in 1990 when they dispersed their herd, we bought a cow family from them. We built up our purebred herd and sold bulls at the Medicine Hat Bull Sale every year from 1982 to 2007.

In 1994 we sold one of our herd sires to Hugo and Hurazio Hernandez from Argentina, South America when they came to the ranch and bought him. This was the only bull we ever sold that had to be shipped on a boat to the buyer and then we had to look for another herd sire.

Bill and I judged at Mankota Bull Sale together and I judged at Hardisty and Cereal. Always enjoy going to the Hereford Bull sales and we met so many good friends over the years there. We really enjoyed helping the 4H Beef and Horse clubs in our community with halter breaking, trimming and showing. Had a few achievement days on the ranch for the local clubs. Judged at Medicine Hat, Brooks, Bassano and Oyen achievement days. We were presented with the Friends of 4H award in Medicine Hat in 2000. We were very grateful of the district to do that.

Bill passed away in 2006. It was then my family and I decided to disperse our purebred herd in November with our good neighbors Lloyd and Linda Fowlie, we started together so we ended together. Our prefix still shows up down the line in the pedigrees which is comforting to see.

I am still ranching with the help of my son JJ, his sons Walker and Westin and JJ brother-in-law Dwayne. Besides our commercial Hereford cross cows, we run some yearling Hereford cross steers. We sell the yearling steers every August weighing around 1000lbs. I help at some of the bull sales, enjoy meeting up with long time friends and always seem to find some new friends too. The ranch is now operating under HHH Cattle Ltd.

Thank you to the Hereford Association for nominating us for this award.
It is a great honor to have been chosen.
- Peggy Herman