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2021 Simmental & Red Angus National Show and Sale
Entries are now open for the 2021 Show and Sale
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If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the office or any of the committee:
Stuart… Continue reading
Pasture-fed system pays off for Bendings
GREEN POWER: Mark and Caterina Bending, of Manjimup in Western Australia, are raising Simmental-Angus crossbreds on pastures and investigating options for vertically integrated supply chains.
Western Australian beef producers Mark and Caterina Bending have been strategically… Continue reading
Quiet, calm Simmental X progeny please Joneses
Calm and quiet: Pictured, in August, 2020, is one of the Springside Simmentals bulls Des and Wendy Jones purchased privately in September last year. The Joneses are currently running eight bulls from the stud in total.
Office update
Over the next few weeks I’ll be transitioning more registration and DNA work to Kayla at the Genetic Hub as I’ll be taking annual leave for a few weeks at the end of February.
Therefore, when you send emails to… Continue reading
Office update: Xmas break
Xmas hours: The office will be open during the break unless it’s a public holiday as I’ll take leave a bit later. Our Registrar will be on leave from 4th – 8th January.
Thank you to the membership for your… Continue reading
Simmental Miss World win to Valley Creek Jewel
By Hannah Powe
NEW South Wales Simmental breeders have come away with top honours in a world-class online cattle competition.
Stuart and Samantha Moeck of Valley Creek Simmental stud at Bowral were the exhibitors of Valley Creek Jewel who was… Continue reading
An historic overview of the Simmental Fleckvieh breeds in non-European countries
Australia imported the first Fleckvieh semen in 1972 from bulls which a Scottish AI station imported from Germany. Here the popular Scottish Herod, out of the great Bethina (which I admired often) from the Ulm breeding area. [Scottish Milk Marketing… Continue reading
British Simmental embryos exported to Australia
By Simmental UK
In another sizeable pedigree Simmental export, 32 embryos from the noted Kilbride Farm herd of WH Robson & Sons, Ballyclare, Northern Ireland, have been exported to Australia and the Knox Farms Simmental Fleckvieh herd of Jeff &… Continue reading
Genetic Hub office moves to Wagga Wagga
The Genetic Hub business is a new collaborative business model developed by the Shorthorn Beef, Simmental Australia and Australian Limousin Breeders Group boards and is designed to provide registration, database management, accounting, communication and corporate governance requirements for breed societies.… Continue reading