Beef

John Roberts puts his in-calf heifers out on hilly country to get them fit before calving. As a result, he says, he doesn’t pull many calves.With his wife Fay, Roberts runs up to 600 head of black cattle at Braidwood, NSW. They moved out of Herefords in the 1980s and are now constantly on the lookout for incremental improvements that will add to the bottom line.Two years ago, after a chance meeting with a vet who was a proponent of Fixed Time Artificial Insemination (FTAI), Roberts decided to gi…

The volume and value of Australian beef semen sales are rising rapidly this year.Domestic and export demand for Australian beef genetics is up, according to seed stock supplier ABS Australia.ABS beef product manager Bill Cornell said Australia’s declining cow numbers and positive outlook for beef was behind the surging sales.Read more and listen to snippets of interviews of Bill Cornell and ABS General Manager, James Smallwood, with Rosemary Grant, ABC Rural reporter on the website here.

It was a day of breaking records at the Thompson Family’s Millah Murrah Angus Bull Sale on 3rd September. The massive crowd was privileged to witness history being made with the highest priced Angus bull ever sold in Australia at an auction that also recorded the highest sale average of any breed ever in Australia.The high selling bull, Millah Murrah Tex K35 (now renamed Millah Murrah Kingdom K35), sold at the record setting price of $150,000, to a syndicate including ABS Australia, Wither…