RIDGEHAVEN BREEDING EXCELLENCE
Ridgehaven Poll Dorsets is a family run stud at Cudal aiming to breed rams that sire profitable prime lambs. With a focus on combining visual traits, such as structure and muscle shape, with performance recording systems, Ridgehaven rams are consistent and balanced throughout the whole drop.
This year’s sale offer an outstanding lineup of rams, showing early growth and maturity, depth of carcass and structural soundness. Inspection of the rams can be arranged prior to sale day on Thursday, 14th September.
BULLS AT SOUTHERN STAR
Southern Star Rural (SSR), a Senepol stud based in Canowindra, have on offer a number of Senepol, Senepol x Angus and Senepol x Charolais bulls for sale on farm. This year a number of SSR bulls will be sold through the 5 Star Senepol Sale at the Gracemere Saleyards near Rockhampton, Queensland on Monday, 18th September at 11am.
Clayton and Sarah Maynard started the stud in Canowindra in 2010 and decided to run Senepol’s as their family in Jambin, Queensland have the largest Senepol herd in Australia. Clayton saw the opportunity to introduce the Angus and Charolais breeds from NSW and cross them with the Senepol, predominatly from Northern Australia, to come up with a cross-bred Senepol x Angus (Senegus) and Senepol x Charolais (Senelais).
COOTA PARK SALE
The Coota Park Blue-E 2017 annual on property production sale is on Tuesday, 5th September at 2pm in Woodstock, near Cowra. On offer are 50 bulls and 20 cows and calves. Coota Park Blue-E cattle are known for their hybrid vigour, efficient conversion of grass to meat, low methane and growth yield marbling efficiency. Blue-E’s are a line of Angus x Shorthorn cattle developed by Jon, Harvey and Barbara Wright of Coota Park, Woodstock. The Blue-E
concept was initially conceived by Jon after many years working as cattle manager at the Trangie Research Centre in NSW. The research considered the value of feed conversion to the beef industry.