Days Globetrotter L107 shot straight to the top at the 2016 Adelaide Royal, taking out the junior and grand champion bull, and supreme Hereford exhibit. Shown by Lachy and Lou Day, Days Whiteface, Bordertown, SA, the June 2015 drop bull was sired by Days Elaborate J59 and out of Days Blissful J25. Mr Day said…
Gippsland steer finishers competed strongly on Hereford weaner and yearling steers at Bairnsdale, with prices hitting 446c/kg. Bairnsdale & Associated Agents yarded mixed sex weaners, unjoined heifers, and cows and calves for the August 26 sale. Heavier cattle sold to slightly easier rates than last week’s Greenwood Livestock sale, while the lighter cattle sold to…
Nose to tail products from organic Hereford cattle are being snapped up by Asian, Middle East and US consumers. OBE Organic sales and production executive Kirsty McCormack said organically certified Hereford carcasses were attracting a premium above the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator. Miss McCormack said demand was outstripping supply with Hereford producers encouraged to transition…
Horned and polled bulls will be judged together for the first time at the Herefords Australia National Show and Sale at Wodonga next year. The event, to be held on May 10-11, will feature the reintroduction of the intermediate classes but the sale will remain junior and senior categories only. Judging will be moved back…
Yearling Hereford steers have topped at 431c/kg at the Gippsland Regional Livestock Exchange store cattle sale. Selling agents Greenwood Livestock yarded 1000 grown and weaner steers, heifers, and cows and calves for the August 19 fixture held at Sale, Victoria. The sale was interfaced live with AuctionsPlus. Topping the grown Hereford steers was vendor Glen…
Yearling Hereford steers hit an impressive $2237 at the Tamworth Prime Cattle Sale in northern NSW yesterday. The sale, conducted by Tamworth Livestock Selling Agents Association, yarded 1079 head – up from 725 last week. A highlight of the sale was the cull bull prices, with a Hereford bull topping the category on $3165. Weighing…
Hereford cows have topped at 388c/kg and weaner steers at 450c/kg at last week’s Dubbo store sale in central western NSW. Widespread rain drew a strong crowd, resulting in a solid market on the reduced yarding of 845 head at the sale on August 5. MLA’s National Livestock Reporting Service quoted the steer and heifer…
Cootharaba Vaucluse K9 showed his class to trump the line-up at the 2016 Brisbane Royal Show to be sashed grand champion Hereford bull. Exhibited by Ian and Anne Galloway, Cootharaba Herefords, Roma, Qld, the 2014-drop bull was also sashed as the senior champion Hereford bull. Vaucluse was sired by Glendan Park Empire E002 and is…
A Hereford cross steer was sashed grand champion led steer and sold under the hammer for an impressive $22/kg dressed weight at the 2016 Brisbane Royal. The 10-month-old Limousin-Hereford cross steer was exhibited by Chris and Michele Law, Hunday Herefords, Quirindi, NSW, and was sashed as middleweight champion and grand champion led steer. The couple…
A Hereford cross steer was deemed as the most suitable carcass for the domestic market in the 2016 Gympie Carcass Classic. The yearling Hereford-Droughtmaster cross steer was part of a team of five head entered in the competition by Brian and Lyn Thompson, “Conamore’’, Mt Urah, Queensland. The couple run a Droughtmaster herd of 350…
