Royal Canberra Show 2012 RESULTS: Class 289 – Bull over 8 months & not over 12 1st: Southern Star Geronimo, TR & CR Starr Class 292 – Bull 26 months & not over 18 1st: Elizabethfields Bozley F8, DR SE Johnson & Ms MA Hunter 2nd: Michaelong Shadow F32, T Street 3rd: Shellgardi Mr Faithful,...
The Gippsland Murray Grey Breeders Group have supported the Stock and Land Autumn Beef Week for the last five years. This year the group spread our wings further by inviting several other breeds and breed representatives to join us in mounting a combined Beef Display and Spectacle at Lardner Park, the home of Gippsland Field...
Supreme Murray Grey Exhibit – Cullenya Frazer Murray Grey breeders kicked off the 50-year celebration of the Murray Grey Beef Cattle Society at the Hamilton Beef Expo last week. Exhibitors from across Victoria and South Australia came together under judge Corey Ireland, Wagga Wagga, NSW. Mr Ireland was impressed by the class of the heifers...
The newly formed North Eastern Murray Grey Breed Promotion Group held another successful farm day. Liam Cardile from BeefXcel, Holbrook explained to the group how progressive breeders are using independent structural assessment and ultra sound technologies along with Breedplan to improve the quality their herds. Liam is a breed accredited structural assessor and scanner. The...
It was an early Christmas present for commercial Murray Grey breeders at the Corryong store sale in the lead up to Christmas, with large crowds lining up during the auction of commercial Murray Grey cattle. Buddy Alekna from Khancoban, VIC, purchased Murray Grey cows and calves for $1150 during the sale, pictured with Peter Sutherland....
The GeneProb analysis interrogates the pedigree of each animal and calculates the probability that the animal is a carrier for each genetic condition from the known DNA information of their ancestors. For example, if an animal’s dam had been tested free of the genetic condition but the sire was a known carrier, the animal would...
In an extraordinary sale at Warnambool on November 25 two lanes of 138 mixed-age Murray Grey cows and calves we were under the hammer to one buyer for $1150 for the lot. They were sold by Brett McKenna, Yarrambah and purchased by Damien Minogue, Rodwells Leongatha for S&K Hogan, Woodside. They were bought for breeding,...
2011 has seen the auction of the 4th Wagga RSL Club Willians Hill School Charity Steer, donated by the Wagga RSL Club make a whopping $13,500. This Murray Grey steer was the Reserve Champion heavy weight steer at the Wagga Wagga Show, weighing in at 495Kg. The steer then went up for auction at the...
Former Murray Grey Youth Ambassador Ian McConnell has been named the Cattle Council’s Rising Champion to represent young Australia beef producers at the International Livestock Congress and Western Stock Show in Denver Colorado in January 2012. The Murray Grey breed was well represented at this year’s awards with Lauchie Cole, part of the Woodbounr Murray...
Woodbourn Murray Grey and Angus Stud, Cressy TAS, hosted what can only be described as a successful practical field day. Presented by the Southern Beef Technology Services (SBTS) team, this was the first time a field day of its kind has been conducted by the SBTS team in Tasmania. One hundred and twenty beef breeders...
