Successful Angus Youth Foundation Auction

Six sons of the super marbling sire Alloura Get Cracking G10 sell in Queensland this Friday 27 September 2019.  The bulls will be sold at the Australian Topstock Bull Sale at the Huntington Sale Complex at Taroom from 10am, as part of a line-up of twenty Alloura sale bulls.  Online bidding will be conducted by Elite Livestock Auctions. Alloura Get Cracking G10 continues to produce outstanding progeny.  They are thick, deep-bodied, and always stand out for their excellent structure and good

This year we are selling bulls in three locations: in NSW, Tasmania and Queensland.  We specially selected twenty bulls for a multi-vendor sale in Queensland conducted by Australian Topstock.  These bulls go up for auction on Friday 27 September 2019 at 10am at the Huntington Sale Complex at Taroom. The bulls for the Taroom sale have been grown out in Queensland and are well acclimatised.    The line-up includes six sons of the high marbling sire Alloura Get Cracking G10 and all offer

It’s calving time at Alloura.  We place a strong emphasis on calving ease genetics in our breeding program to ensure that we limit the incidence of calving difficulty.  This continues to pay off for us, and for our clients with very low reports of calving difficulty, including in heifers.  Calving difficulty is a major source of financial loss in the beef cattle industry.  This includes the loss of calves and heifers as well as other costs associated with calving difficulty such as veterinary

Alloura cattle are on the move!  The extended drought conditions in NSW have continued to challenge us and our cattle operation, and have prompted a serious re-think of how we manage our breeding herd.  We have always made extensive use of lease and agistment properties alongside our main property at Yass in NSW. As part of these arrangements we have been extremely fortunate over the last fifteen years to have some of our cattle herd located on Flinders Island in Tasmania. Unlike much of

Congratulations to Angus Australia for working to advance beef cattle genetics in Australia for the past 100 years!  We were thrilled to attend the recent Angus Australia national conference to celebrate this important milestone.  There is no doubt that after 100 years, Angus are 'leading the way' as reported by the The Land. The Angus breed has certainly come a long way over the last 100 years in Australia.  In terms of numbers, Angus cattle now represent about 25% of the national cattle herd

The drought is unrelenting at Alloura.  Summer may have passed but the heat continues, the rain is absent, water reserves are still diminishing, the moisture profile of the soil is at an all time low and there's been no pasture growth for quite some time.  It has also been a long while since I last created a new post.  I have been hoping for a good news story to emerge from the dust but alas, there is none.  There are however, always lessons to be learnt.  Mark and I have reflected a lot

We recently hosted a producer tour at Alloura as part of the 2018 MLA Red Meat Conference. It was a great opportunity to present our thoughts and ideas about the power of genetics to other cattle producers and industry players.  As a stud producer, we see our job description as focussing on two key tasks: (1) producing genetics that influence and create genetic improvement; and (2) assisting clients to select genetics that will produce cattle to suit their production system, environment and

It was a busy but very exciting week at Alloura. On Thursday, we hosted a Producer Tour as part of the MLA Red Meat 2018 Conference Program. The focus of our presentation was on how we use Angus BREEDPLAN to produce genetics with accurate, reliable, predictable data to meet producers' target markets and production systems. The MLA described us as harnessing genetics to produce functional, structurally sound cattle with high calving ease and superior carcase attributes. They quoted us a

Selecting a bull for your cattle breeding operation is the most influential factor in making genetic progress in your herd.    The bull you mate with your cows or heifers this year will contribute about 50% of the genes for the calves born next year - that is, half of their productive potential is determined by the genetics of the sire you choose. If you run a self-replacing herd however, the genetics of the cows and heifers in your herd are also influenced by the bulls you've used in the