Newsletter for the week ending 12 November 2004
WA Field
Days
The following Limousin Studs
will be on display in the Landmark Stud Beef Cattle Field Days in WA next
week.
Day 1 15
November Downderry
Day 2 16
November Palmdale, Shannalea
Day 5 19
November Aldgate, Unison, White Valley
Full details and directions
are available from the 4 November issue of Farm Weekly.
Wanted -
High Content Commercial Heifers
Have had a call from a
commercial breeder at Jondaryon in Queensland looking to buy good quality
Limousin heifers for his commercial herd. If you have suitable heifers
for sale in southern Qld please contact the office.
Solid
Trade In
One of the great benefits of
Limousin bulls is their "trade in" price when they reach the end of
their often considerable working life.
Kurboo Limousins sold two old
Limousin bulls weighing 1063kg at Forbes Saleyards on Monday for 190 c/kg or
$2,028 each. That represents a very good trade in price.
Interbreed
in Tasmania
Allan and Anita Dixons
Lintwood Limousin Stud took out the Supreme Interbreed Cow Award at the
Launceston Royal Show a couple of weeks ago. The winning cow
Lintwood Polled Xotic is a 29 month old FTL Double Agent daughter which had a 6
month calf at foot.
Exotic is following in the
footsteps of her mother Lintwood Sunshine who won the interbreed cow award at
Launceston for two successive years.
Lintwood also performed well
in the bull sections at Launceston winning Junior and Grand Champion Limousin
Bull and Reserve Junior Champion Interbreed Bull with Lintwood Your
Kidding a Lintwood Very Impressive son.
The Junior female title was
taken out by the Jones family's Badger View Yvette by SLDJ Polled Equity from
Badger View Tina.
Bridgewater
Sale Topper
Allan and Anita Dixon have
also had success in the saleyard with a Limousin X vealer weighing 453kg
selling for 214 c/kg or $969 at Bridgewater Saleyards recently.
From Stock
& Land
Across most markets,
better quality B2 vealers, and yearlings which weighed 320kg to 420kg made
mostly between 196 c and 215 c/kg. However at Pakenham last Monday,
livestock agent Everitt and Seeley Pty Ltd, offered two lines of Limousin cross
vealers of top quality. Partner Michael Everitt said, "Sue Gray of
Main Ridge, and Newlyn Farms of Merricks, sold 16 vealers each".
These vealers were of
excellent quality, and all made between 200 c and the market top of 230.6
c/kg. Mr Everitt said "these calves were no older than 10
months," and three steers sold together weighed 418kg.
Don't
Forget
The Ben Darroch
Annual Production Sale including 45 females, 21 young bulls and 5 embryo
packages is on at 1.00pm next Thursday 18 November on farm at the Ben
Darroch Stud.
Judging by the amount
of activity on the Ben Darroch web catalogue there is considerable
interest in the sale.
Performance
Data
Make sure you have all of
your animals registered or recorded in time to submit performance data by
3 December for the next Limousin BREEDPLAN analysis.
We now have two more
"experts" at submitting registrations and performance data via the
web once they received a little coaching from the ALBS office.
Welcome
A big welcome to new Limousin
studs which have joined the Society over the last month or so.
Greg & Chris Bell of
Wondai Qld
Chris Francis at Cooroy Qld
Simon McCarthy at Mt Sampson
Qld
Orchard Hills Limousin Stud
(Mick Mintoff) of Orchard Hills NSW
Attucrat Pastoral Co. (Peter
Gale) of Albury NSW
LA & GS Edwards of Bunyip
Vic
RA & ML O'Hara of Bayles
Vic
Yours in Limousin
Alex McDonald