The winds that blow through Antelope Butte Ranch, located roughly 200 kilometres south of Calgary where the mountains meet the Prairies, are volatile — like the price of beef.
Today prices are up and the wind is down.
"Sometimes you do well. Sometimes you don't. These are good years right now," said Hugh Lynch-Staunton as he walks into a fenced area where his bulls are kept from the 1,000 cows who pasture in fields out of sight.
Lynch-Staunton's grandfather bought the first piece of land here in the corner of Alberta in 1886, and the family has grown the operation to become one of the biggest cattle ranches in the country.
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