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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsMurray 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…
DetailsBidding stepped up a notch at the Wodonga Blue Ribbon Weaner sale as buyers paid to $1275 for autumn drop Hereford steers. Selling agents Brian Unthank Rural, Paull and Scollard, Peter Ruaro Rodwells and Schubert Boers yarded 3773 Hereford, Hereford cross and Euro mixed sex weaners on Thursday, January 11. All categories across the board…
DetailsBuyers chasing weight-for-age were not disappointed at the Hamilton weaner sale, with prices hitting a top of $1319 for whiteface steers. Hamilton Independent Agents yarded 1492 Hereford and Hereford-cross autumn 2017 drop steers, weighing an average of 338kg, on Wednesday, January 10. Cattle were booked to Princess Royal Station, T.B. White & Sons, Landmark Leongatha,…
DetailsSouthern NSW steer finishers were out in force at the Wodonga Premier Hereford and Euro special store cattle sale, paying to 401c/kg for whiteface weaners. It was the first stand alone weaner sale for the selling agents, Corcoran Parker, Wodonga, with a yarding of 1870 Herefords, Black Baldies and Euro cross steers and heifers. Grown…
DetailsNSW steer finishers competed strongly on the top end Hereford calves at the 51st annual Elders and Landmark feature weaner calf sale, to result in prices hitting $1280. Selling agents Landmark and Elders yarded 3350 Hereford, Hereford cross, Black Baldy and Angus steers for the Hamilton fixture on January 9. Buyers were met with well-drafted…
DetailsGrass fed steer finishers bolstered by an export order resulted in prices topping out at 340c/kg for autumn drop Hereford weaners at Casterton on Tuesday. Selling agents Landmark Casterton yarded 2200 Hereford, Black Baldy and Angus weaners for their annual steer weaner sale. Pre-weaned Hereford cattle of known performance and genetics were highly sought after…
DetailsBackgrounders and lot feeders led the charge for whiteface weaners at Victoria’s Premier 62nd annual steer weaner sale at Casterton on Monday, paying to a top of $1200. The fixture was the circuit opener for the southern Australia weaner calf sales, drawing strong buyer demand from South Australia, Gippsland, the Riverina, central NSW and NSW…
DetailsLachy 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 the first of these workshops to be run in Australia. “I’m really pleased to be able to host one of these…
DetailsJON 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…
DetailsA 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…
DetailsThis 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…
DetailsKilograms 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…
DetailsA 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…
Details– 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.…
Details– 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…
DetailsLachy 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…
DetailsHerefords Australia, in conjunction with AGBU and ABRI have implemented a World First, multi-country Single Step genetic evaluation for the full multi-trait BREEDPLAN analysis, including fertility, growth, and carcass traits. The first EBVs to be calculated using the new Single Step system were released to Herefords Australia members on the 27th of October of this…
DetailsCawkers Well station at Wilcannia, NSW sold a line of Hereford weaner steers for $4.30/kg on Auctions Plus on Friday October 13th. The lot of 46 steers averaged 169.9 kgs, with a top weight of 230kgs. This is a great result considering the station has only received 80mm of rain in the last 12 months. Joel Townsing, owner of Cawkers…
DetailsHerefords Australia invites applications for the 2017 CM Hocking Memorial Scholarship. Applications will be considered from Australian citizens who are undertaking a course of study that will be applied to the breeding, care and maintenance of Hereford cattle and/or will be of benefit to the Australian Hereford industry. Applications are to be in writing and…
DetailsThere was an extremely strong contingent of Hereford exhibitors at this year’s Royal Melbourne Show, with many high quality animals on display. Brandon Sykes, of Mawarra B Hereford stud, Longford, had an exceptional show with his 14 month old bull; ‘Mawarra B Above and Beyond’. The young bull took out Junior Champion Hereford Bull and…
DetailsHereford genetics have excelled in this year’s prestigious Sydney Royal Beef Challenge. The unique, feedlot based competition is run by the RAS and held at Wilga Feedlot in Bellata. The competition represents all stages of the beef production process, from live assessment through to eating quality. Producers enter their cattle as a lot/team of six…
DetailsThis years Royal Adelaide Show Led Steer Championship Awards proved to be a very successful competition for Carolyn Mudge of Maildaburra Poll Hereford Stud and the students of the Karcultaby Area School. The competition was hotly contested, with 199 entries from 14 different breeds presented across a variety of classes. Carolyn’s steer, entry number 114…
DetailsALISHA FOGDEN, STOCK JOURNAL – THE grand champion female from the Wilson family’s Kerlson Pines stud at Keith “ticked all the boxes” for judge Jake Phillips in the Hereford judging on Friday, and had a “bright future ahead”. Two-year-old Kerlson Pines Last Day L24 had “good length of body, sound structure, good udder and was…
DetailsThe family of Herefords Australia member Gloria Glasser wish to notify the membership Gloria’s passing on Sunday 10 September 2017 at the age of 89 years old. Gloria was married to the late Don Glasser for 61 years. Don and Gloria started the Yagaburne Poll Hereford stud in 1954, which is still operating today 63…
DetailsThe annual Herefords Australia calendar is a fixture in many homes and offices across the country. Don’t miss this opportunity to have your stud or business featured in the 2018 calendar. Each month features a photo (selected through our calendar competition later in the year), and has room for two 11cmx4cm adverts at the bottom.…
DetailsWe regret to advise the passing of previous Past President of North East Poll Hereford Breeders Group and retired committee member of VPHA, Mr Peter Duffy, formerly of Taradale Poll Hereford Stud, Thoona. Peter’s funeral will be held at 10am on Friday 1 September 2017 at the Catholic Church in Benalla.
Dear Association Leaders and Members, We are happy to inform you that our website for the 15th European Hereford Conference in Hungary (15-20th September 2018.) is now available, with all the necessary informations about the conference. Please visit www.hereford2018.com or www.herefordhungary2018.com. We hope you can join us to the conference! RGS, Dr. István Márton general manager Hungarian Hereford, Angus, Galloway Association H –…
DetailsAll broad ribbons for the 2017 Royal Brisbane Show have found their way to Northern NSW at the end of Hereford judging last Friday. Judge Erin Waters, Andtravern Herefords in Lancefield Vic, had her work cut out for her as 71 exhibits were paraded for her careful consideration. Ahead of their annual bull sale next…
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