Quentin and Anne Stevick were both raised in the agricultural arena. Quentin's parents farm near Des Lacs, N.D. and also used to run a Purebred Black Angus operation. This is the herd that "QAS Traveler 23-4"'s dam came from as a 4-H heifer for Quentin.

Vern & Donna Stevick are always present at the Bar 15/Stevick Angus Sales, and usually Vern is cooking the "Steak Fondue" at the meal after the sale. They have been honored with several agricultural awards in their home state of North Dakota. Anne's folks; Wes & Dix Alm, of Claresholm were the original Bar 15 Ranch Ltd. owners. That ranch is now owned and operated by Anne's brother, Glen, and is run as a commercial cow/calf operation, and Country Vacation. Wes was one of the first to breed his commercial cows to Simmental in Canada (1968), and imported quite a few females from Switzerland in the 1970's. Anne & Quentin took over the Fullblood Bar 15 Simmental cowherd in 1981; when they bought their first ranch on the Castle River. Prior to that they worked for Highfield Stock farms at Okotoks, AB.

Wes has remained active and is always at the sales and available to the Stevick's for advice and moral support. He also designed and helped build their shop/sale ring/calving barn. Anne says: "Our herd is truly a "mixed Marriage" of Angus and Simmental, and no other breed. Raising good seedstock is in our blood, since both of us are from families who have a long history in the Purebred cattle business, Quentin's dad was in the Angus business in 1949, and Anne's dad was a pioneer of the Simmental Breed. A long-standing joke at our place is that an Angus cow (the dam of QAS Traveler 23-4) made the down payment on our first ranch, but the Simmental cows have paid the bills ever since!"

All jokes aside, though, the crossbred Angus-Simmental cow is the ideal commercial cow for our high country ranch; located at the foot of the Eastern Slope of the Rocky Mountains. In fact, the best investment we have made was the purchase of a commercial herd of Angus based Simmental cross cows in 1986 from Quentin's dad. All of our present Purebred Black and Red Simmentals have been bred up from that base. We also are able to replenish our half blood base form our Purebred Angus herd. We use AI one cycle of breeding and then turn a Simmental bull in with the Angus cows. These commercial cows also provide us with a recipient base for our embryo transplant program.

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