It’s here — the magazine you’ve all been anticipating for the past 12 months. Our 2023 edition of the AngusPRO magazine is printed and in your rural mailboxes. This secondContinue reading “AngusPRO Magazine 2023”
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Starting with the end in mind
Who eats beef, and what do they expect from it? Mark Mitchell is owner of Broadleaf. Established in 1988, Los Angeles-based Broadleaf is a niche protein supplier, importing New ZealandContinue reading “Starting with the end in mind”
IMF – the factor that gives beef the qualities consumers love
Stock with the right genetics, raised on a meticulously applied feed regime, will result in beef carcases with the intramuscular fat (IMF) that consumers demand.
Diners choose beef for the flavour, smell and feel when they are eating a premium cut. While multiple factors are necessary to produce beef with the required level of IMF, in simple terms high IMF in an animal results from the interplay between genetics and nutrition.
Logical principles key to effective breeding programmes
Producing ‘better’ animals by improving their genetics is the goal of breeding. For most ‘better’ would be classified as more productive or generating higher returns.
Animal breeding programmes have three primary components: an objective, programme design and animal selection, which covers the ‘what,’ ‘how’ and ‘who’ necessary to improve your cattle.
AngusPRO Education Module – 4 May
It’s almost bull selling time. Careful selection of the most appropriate bulls offers a considerable opportunity to increase productivity and profitability within a beef breeding enterprise, with each bull having the potential to produce hundreds of progeny during its breeding life — The right decisions will pay their dividends!
Money for Marbling
Te Pa Station represents a single cog in a wheel that is one of Aotearoa’s largest farming operations, the Maori-owned Atihau Whanganui Corporation. That wheel is responsible for about 70,000 sheep, 4000 beef cows, 700 dairy cows, 3000 beehives and 728 hectares of woodlots on an area totalling 44,000 hectares.
Jimmy Doolan is manager at Te Pa, which is 4200ha of effective sheep and cattle country. Big enough to give him some power of persuasion in the processing marketplace and big enough to keep him “bloody busy”.
There are three stations within Te Pa—Pah Hill, Omerei and Ngapuke.
AngusPRO Education Module – 13 April
The bull buying season is coming up next month so it’s time to refresh yourselves with everything you need to know to ensure you can make educated decisions when purchasing. Do you have a good grasp of the direction your bull breeder is taking their herd, and therefore yours?
Get to know what direction your bull breeder is going in, because if they are going nowhere, you will go nowhere with them.
Weekly Genetics Review: How often should you change your bull breeders?
The choice of a sire will be reflected over several generations in a herd. While most producers are considering the genetics of the sires they are purchasing, where that bull comes from and who bred him are key considerations in the selection decision.
Angus Australia’s Autumn Bulletin 2023
The 2023 Autumn Angus Bulletin by Angus Australia is now available to view online. The Angus Bulletin is a quarterly publication with a print run of 4,500. Each issue containsContinue reading “Angus Australia’s Autumn Bulletin 2023”
What’s The Beef?
Angus Australia recently participated in four workshops across New Zealand, provided for beef breeders focused on growing the understanding of the role of genetics in their herd. As well as presentations by Angus Australia extension team members Jake Phillips and Nancy Crawshaw, attendees also heard from guest speakers on nutrition, commercial adoption of genotyping products and market trends and signals for New Zealand beef in the United States.