Uploading Videos to Animals
We are now able to upload videos, in addition to images, to individual animals on our system. The cost is $11/animal and the preferred formats to send them videos in…
DetailsMember Communications Survey
Last week, all members were sent an online survey link from The Leading Partnership, who is currently preforming the Herefords Australia Review. Your participation in this survey, and the call for submissions, is…
DetailsHigh Market Compensates For Drought In Northern Australia
Purebred feeder steers are commanding 360c/kg on-farm in Queensland markets despite producers struggling with drought conditions. Drillham Hereford breeder Tom Nixon sold 12-16 month-old Hereford steers, pasture finished, to Lloyd…
DetailsHerefords Out To Prove Grainfed Suitability In Gate 2 Plate
Herefords are among the 59 teams competing in this year’s Harvey Beef Gate 2 Plate Challenge in Western Australia. A team of two purebred steers and a heifer have been…
DetailsCM Hocking Scholarship Benefits Young Beef Industry Leaders
Two young leaders in the Australian beef industry have been announced as winners of the prestigious CM Hocking Memorial Scholarship from Herefords Australia. South Australians Georgie Beighton, of Penola, and…
DetailsWestern District Feature Sales Wind Up With Whiteface To $1394
The run of heifer weaner sales in Victoria’s Western Districts wound up on Thursday with restockers and lot feeders paying to a top of $1394 for whiteface cattle. Vendors were…
DetailsLot Feeders And Restockers Set Pace At Casterton With 403c/Kg Top
Lot feeders set the pace in the whiteface pens at the Elders and Landmark combined heifer weaner sale on Thursday, with Herefords hitting $1330. Selling agents yarded 1800 Hereford, Black…
DetailsRestockers Battle Over Breeder Lines To Push Prices To 406c/Kg
Whiteface seedstock heavyweights went head to head to snap up a large portion of the Hereford offering at the Hamilton All Breeds Heifer sale on Wednesday. Yarram Park’s Western District…
DetailsVale Ella Robinson
The family of Herefords Australia Life Member Ella Robinson wish to notify the membership of Ella’s passing on Monday 16 January, 2017. Funeral services will be on Friday 20th at…
DetailsHerefords Continue To Fire In Benchmark Weaner Sales For 2017
So how did the Hereford breed track this year across the week of the opening weaner sales in Victoria? The fact the western districts is among the few places in…
DetailsNSW Buyers Push Prices To $1570 For Hereford Weaners At Hamilton
NSW steer finishers competed strongly on the top end Hereford calves at the 50th annual Elders and Landmark feature weaner calf sale, to result in prices hitting 416c/kg – 76c/kg…
DetailsBackgrounders And Lot Feeders Push Steers To $1517 At Casterton
Backgrounders and lot feeders led the charge for whiteface weaners at the Elders Casterton 62nd annual steer weaner sale on Friday, paying to a top of $1517. The selling agents…
DetailsHereford Steer Weaners Finish The Week At 464c/Kg At Wodonga
A solid week of weaner sales across southern Australia culminated in Hereford steers peaking at 464c/kg at the Wodonga Blue Ribbon Weaner Sale on Friday. Buyers remarked on the strength…
DetailsHereford Steer Weaners Top At 454c/Kg At Wodonga Feature Sale
The Hereford juggernaut rolled on as the run of Wodonga weaner sales opened on Thursday with autumn drop steers peaking at 454c/kg and grown steers hitting $1650. Victorian grass fed…
DetailsHereford Weaner Steers Hit $1580 At Hamilton Feature Sale
Hereford producers celebrated the market boom today at the Hamilton Hereford feature weaner sale with prices hitting $1580. Hamilton Independent Agents yarded 1651 Hereford and Hereford cross steers, with the…
DetailsNorthern Buyers Snap Up Hereford Steers To 430c/Kg At Casterton
Grass fed steer finishers fired the opening salvo in the southern Australia weaner calf sale circuit, paying up to 430c/kg for Hereford calves at Casterton today. A shortage of cattle…
DetailsProgeny Assessed Under Herefords Australia’s Black Baldy Trial
The first Black Baldy steers are due to be processed this autumn under the Herefords Australia crossbreeding trial in Tasmania. The trial is set to generate controlled, accurate data on…
DetailsWhiteface Demand Rolls Around The Nation’s Store Markets
With New Year celebrations over, Herefords finished 2016 on a high with whiteface steers hitting 502c/kg and F1 vealer mothers topping at $2950 in the nation’s store markets during December.…
DetailsWhiteface Breeders Ride the Wave of A Record Year
Whiteface breeders have set the markets alight this year with bulls worth an additional $5.2 million sold under the hammer, and store weaners ringing the bell at 681c/kg. Commercial whiteface…
DetailsBouyant Market Points to Whiteface Weaner Success in 2017
Grass finishers, lot feeders and processors will have almost 18,000 whiteface steers to select from in the opening week of the 2017 Victorian weaner sales circuit. With improved seasonal conditions…
DetailsWorld’s Biggest Cattle Station To Be Stocked With Whiteface
The decision to stock the world’s biggest cattle station, Anna Creek, with Hereford and Black Baldy cattle was a huge vote of confidence in the whiteface market, according to breeders.…
DetailsMt Widderin Dispersal Tops At $2600 While Steers Remain Strong
As selling centres wind down for the Christmas break, Hereford breeders topped at $2600 and whiteface steers hit 502c/kg in markets this week. The highlight for the week was the…
DetailsHereford Teams Enter NSW Beef Spectacular Feedback Trial
Three teams of purebred Hereford steers have entered the 2017 NSW Beef Spectacular Feedback Trial. The 112-day feedlot trial is conducted at Teys Australia’s Jindalee feedlot in southern NSW, drawing…
DetailsSale Topping Genetics On Offer At Mt Widderin Dispersal
Restockers will be presented with an opportunity this week to secure highly regarded pregnancy-tested-in-calf females upon the dispersal of a prominent Victorian commercial herd. The Mt Widderin European Union-accredited herd…
DetailsPre-Christmas Demand Remains Solid For Whiteface Cattle
With few sales left before Christmas, buyers competed strongly on whiteface cattle last week to push Hereford steer weaners to 467c/kg and Black Baldy steers to 458c/kg. At Wodonga, the…
DetailsStaff Changes – Registrar
Dear Members, It is with significant regret that I have to inform the membership that both Amanda Graham and Tessa Frew will be leaving the staff of Herefords Australia at…
DetailsHereford Breeders Come To The Aid Of Dairy Farmers In Bull Project
Hereford breeders are coming to the aid of Victorian dairy farmers in crisis through a beef bull aid project. Under the project, co-ordinated by Igniting Change and Elders Bendigo, up…
DetailsThe New Approach to Johnes Disease in Cattle
The new, national approach to Johne’s disease (JD) in cattle – the BJD Framework – offers a fresh approach to the management of the endemic disease. It focuses on managing on-farm…
DetailsVote Counts from General Meeting
Dear Members, Roberts and Morrow have now provided Herefords Australia with the final vote counts on the motions put forward to the General Meeting held on 1st December 2016 at…
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