A pen of black baldy steers from Waverly Run in Big Springs NSW have shown the Whiteface advantage by being awarded Reserve Champion pen for feedlot performance in the recent Beef Spectacular Feedback Trial. The competition is judged in two parts: feedlot performance, and carcase performance, with overall placings awarded at the completion of both…
Colleen Holliss of Lotus Herefords passed away on the 22nd of February. Colleen was instrumental in the establishment of Lotus Herefords. She was very active in her local community, including the CWA and the Northern Hereford group. Her passions were family, Hereford cattle, and gardening. She is survived by husband Oliver, sons Tony & Craig,…
Herefords Australia would like to inform members that Mr Bill Tanner, formerly of Hillcrest Herefords passed away on the 21st of February. Hillcrest was established in 1946 by the Tanner family in Willow Tree. Bill Tanner was chairman of the Australian Hereford Society from 1973 – 1978, and was one of the longest standing council members,…
A leap of faith by a small group of Hereford producers in Victoria’s pristine Mitta Valley has turned into a vibrant and expanding grass fed beef brand. Mitta Valley Beef began in a small way in April at five carcases a week and has since been formalized as a producer-owned co-operative supplying a dozen carcases…
HANNAH POWE – THE LAND Over 114 participants competed at the 2018 Hereford Northern NSW Youth Show at the Inverell showgrounds from January 5 to 7. Kianma Poll Hereford owner, Kierin Martin, Narromine, judged the cattle. Champion bull went to Neridah New Direction N010 and reserve champion bull was Tybay Merlot M004. The steer section…
Well-bred autumn calving heifers topped at $1860 and Black Baldy cows and calves at $2440 in a rapidly softening market at the Wodonga Annual Beef Bred Female store sale. Quality PTIC autumn calving heifers tracked $250 behind last year, and the majority of cows and calves sold below split value. Selling agent Albury Wodonga Stock…
Whiteface restockers went head to head to secure a large portion of the Hereford offering at the Hamilton British Bred heifer weaner sale on Wednesday. Yarram Park’s Western District Pastoral Company and Jigsaw Farms, Hamilton, were among the dominant players on the well-bred top end March/April 2017 drop heifers. Selling agents, Hamilton Independent Stock Agents,…
So how did the Hereford breed track this year across the week of the opening weaner sales in Victoria? Despite a wet, difficult winter reducing weaning weights, western district producers still turned on a show, with big drafts of well-bred one-mark, weaned and European Union accredited calves on offer. The yarding of 8488 whiteface cattle…
The run of whiteface weaner sales finished the week at Wodonga on Friday with autumn 2017 drop steers hitting 377c/kg and heavy heifers up by $50 a head. Selling agents Elders and Landmark yarded 2934 Hereford, Black Baldy and Euro cross cattle for the NLVX Wodonga Premier Annual Grown and Weaner sale. The week finished…
Murray Porter would like to inform Herefords Australia members of the passing of his father, James (Max) Porter. After several illnesses over the last 2 years, he passed peacefully at the Epworth Hospital, Geelong on the morning of Sunday the 7th January. Max had been a Poll breeder since the 70s with the Polaris Stud…
