Spring Coulee · Cardston County · Alberta Canada Canada Farm-direct beef shipping now open
Four generations · Since 1902

Grain & cattle, raised on the same prairie.

The barley we grow is the barley our Black Angus eat. That’s why our beef tastes like Alberta.

1902First furrow turned
4thGeneration farming
Black AngusGrain-finished herd
Spring CouleeSouthern Alberta
Our Story

One family, one section of prairie, four generations deep.

In 1902 the first Bar XT family broke ground southeast of Lethbridge, near the hamlet of Spring Coulee. They learned the rhythm of chinook winds and dry-land grain the hard way — and they stayed.

Today the same family farms thousands of acres of barley, wheat and canola, and runs a herd of Black Angus finished on that home-grown grain. Nothing about it is industrial. It’s a way of life passed down at the kitchen table.

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The Bar XT home place
What We Raise

Two harvests from one home place.

Black Angus Beef

Pasture-raised, grain-finished on our own barley, and sold farm-direct by the box. Quartered, custom-cut, flash-frozen.

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Prairie Grain

Quality malting and feed barley, hard wheat and canola raised on dry-land prairie since 1902 — the foundation of everything here.

SEE THE FIELDS
Come Back Often

The farm, live — all year round.

Little windows into the seasons that give folks a reason to check in again and again.

Calving Watch

A live count of this spring’s calves with the pasture cam — and you can help name one.

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Harvest-O-Meter

Watch acres come off through August as the combines roll. Updated from the field.

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Chinook Tracker

Sky cam and live temperature when the warm winds come over the Rockies.

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“We don’t farm the land so much as belong to it. Every box of beef we ship carries a little of this prairie with it.”

— The Bar XT Family · Spring Coulee, Alberta