JON CONDON – BEEF CENTRAL JBS Australia will launch a new Hereford breed-specific brand in January, under the company’s Great Southern Farm-Assured Program. The new Boss Hereford beef brand will carry all of the attributes of JBS’s Great Southern stable of grassfed brands, but with the addition of a breed identity. About 20 percent of…
A young beef industry leader aspiring to make a difference has been announced as the winner of the prestigious CM Hocking Memorial Scholarship from Herefords Australia. South Australian Courtney Lallard, of Macclesfield, will receive the scholarship bursary to undertake studies to benefit the Australian Hereford industry. The scholarship embodies the love of Herefords and a…
This year’s Dorrigo Show held on the 25th and 26th of November, proved to be a very successful affair for a team of Te-Angie Hereford heifers and their PLC handlers. The team was comprised of Te-Angie Innovation (RGOM073), Te-Angie Statuesque (RGOM045), Te-Angie Necklet (RGOM077), and Te-Angie Silver (RGOM027). Together they took out the top four…
Kilograms of beef and dollars per head return are the profit drivers in a whiteface enterprise in central NSW. Peter Moore, of Bathurst, uses Euro bulls over whiteface females in an opportunistic beef operation when the season and market dictates. For Mr Moore, his Blink Bonnie Merino stud takes centre stage so the cattle have…
A focus on eating quality within their commercial whiteface herd has prompted a central NSW family to enter one of the nation’s biggest feedback trials. The Hayes family run a Poll Hereford herd at “Ettlesdale’’, Caloola, on the NSW central tablelands, and are first time entrants in the Beef Spectacular 2018 Feedback Trial at Teys…
– JENNY KELLY, The Weekly Times STEER weights and solid prices were the main points to emerge from the first major southern weaner sale, held at Yea. Bidding reached a top of $1340 for Poll Herefords and $1330 for Angus calves in a yarding of 2000 weaners, which were mostly February, March and April drop.…
Sale Date: 27/11/2017 No. Offered: 106 Cows and Calves and 40 Heifers No. Sold: 106 Cows and Calves and 40 Heifers Average Price: For 106 Cows and Calves $5,656 for 40 heifers $3,800 Top Price: For Cows and Calves $13,000 and for Heifers $7,500 Name of Top Price Animal: Top Price Cow: Chester Jessie G51,…
– Kim Woods Yard weaned, bunk trained, socialised and pre-vaccinated whiteface cattle are a sought after item for a major southern NSW feedlot. Teys Australia Jindalee feedlot, at Stockinbingal, also prefers their whiteface cattle to be medium framed and with a genetic propensity to marble. Jindalee general manager Shane Bullock told Herefords Australia the market…
Sale Date: 25th October 2017 No. Offered: 27 females and 1 bull No. Sold: 25/27 sold Average Price: $1630.80 Top Price: $2650.00 Name of Top Price Animal: Hunter Lakes Irish Rose J14 (AI) (P) with heifer calf at foot. Sire of Top Price Animal: Hunter Lakes Gambler G119 (AI) (ET) (P) Purchaser of Top Price…
Lachy and Lou Day, of Days Whiteface, Bordertown, South Australia will be hosting one of the first MLA “Bred Well, Fed Well” cattle workshops on the 22nd of January 2018. This will be one of three workshops being hosted in SA and one of the first few to be run in Australia. “I’m really pleased…
