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TITLE REPORT 2021 TRIENNIAL MAGAZINE 1 2021 CONTENTS CONTACT Council PRESIDENT CAMERON CUTLER Cutler family Partnership Gazette VIC T: 0488 020 588 E: [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT /TREASURER ADERIAN NIXON Weetalabah Gelbvieh, Dulacca QLD T: 0427 110 544 E: [email protected] Breeding Gelbvieh JUNIOR VICE PRESIDENT / for the Gulf Country SECRETARY ELLA ANDERSON CIR-PONDS Gelbvieh, Mayberry, TAS 8 T: 0488 099 322 E: [email protected] Meet Your Council .........................................4 President’s Report ........................................7 YOUTH COORDINATOR Feature by Michael and Tracie Borg .........8 CHRIS THERON Around the Country ...................................10 Golden Oaks Gelbvieh, Eden Creek, NSW Queensland ......................................10 T: 0437 767 607 Victoria / Tasmania .........................11 E: [email protected] Western Australia ..........................12 Youth .............................................................14 BREED DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Youth Report ....................................14 ANNIE MINEHAN Snapshots Kevlor Gelbvieh, Miles QLD New Zealand Scholarship ............14 T: 0499 247 213 Youth President ...............................15 E: [email protected] A Brief History ............................................16 Snapshots ....................................................18 COUNCILOR JOHN PUGH Farm Health from the Ground Up ..........20 Summit Gelbvieh, Narrikup, WA T: 08 9853 2011 18 Getting to the roof of the problem, E: [email protected] and fixing it ..................................................21 Gelbrah, Early Proof of Potential ............22 YOUTH PRESIDENT Gelbrah Goes North...................................22 ALEACEA NIXON DNA Parentage Tests ...............................24 Mickey Mouse Gelbvieh T: 0409 741 818 32 TSUS at a Glance .......................................25 E: [email protected] International .................................................26 Semen Inventory ........................................28 Cover photo Australian Breeder Directory ..................30 Aleacea Nixon from the Gelbvieh Youth Jesse’s Journey Jesse’s Journey ............................................32 Competition. “All butts, nuts and guts”. Advertising Rates ......................................34 3 COUNCIL MEET YOUR COUNCIL A move to South West Victoria in Early 2015 to work for Moyle Pathfinder was a chance to work for a large scale Angus SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT / Stud selling in excess of 500 bulls a year, PRESIDENT TREASURER a great opportunity! Every female was Cameron joined through AI, then backed up by the Aderian Cutler best bulls we could get our hands on, Nixon in most cases they themselves were in AI catalogues. We ran three bull sales a year in South Australia, Victoria and y name is Cameron Cutler, and Queensland. In addition to the cattle we ello, fellow Gelbvieh breeders Mhave the honour to be the current ran 3000 Sheep, turning off prime lambs Hand beef producers. I have been President of the Australian Gelbvieh with a small flock of Merinos on the side. involved with Gelbvieh cattle since Association. It has been a great meeting my wife Julie over 20 years ago. opportunity to serve on council the past In 2016 I purchased a farm near Hamilton, My grandfather was Arch Nixon from four years as the council have continued where I ran commercial cattle and trade the famous Nixon family, of the Hereford to work hard together to take the breed lambs, whilst beginning to gather the Breed and I have been around cattle my forward. I currently work for Semex foundation cattle for my Gelbvieh and entire life and no stranger to stud cattle Australia both as an area manager and as Red Angus herds. I was lucky enough and the cattle industry. When not on the Beef Product Support. I’m able to meet to secure Gelbvieh donors from Helen farm, I am a Mechanical Engineer and with industry leaders and breeders alike Berecry, one of which started her life at work within the gas industry in SE QLD. and discuss all things beef cattle. Ebony Lodge and was sold as a led heifer at the dispersal. Throughout 2018, 2019 My family and I own properties around My journey with Gelbvieh has been lifelong. and 2020 we completed a large scale Dulacca and run 70 Gelbvieh females, It began for me at Ebony Lodge Gelbvieh flushing program and in the Spring 2020 along with about 40 Hereford cows. We and Red Angus near Willow Grove in implanted embryos in every commercial run the very successful Weetalabah Victoria where my parents were managers female on the place. Spring 2021 will be a Gelbvieh stud and have won many for nearly 20 years. I was extremely exciting time as we calve both embryo and Champion awards at Brisbane show and lucky to be able to be part of some great AI calves and see the first of our Balancer Beef Expo over the past 15 or so years. open days, Beef Weeks and probably cattle hit the ground. Late in 2020 we also In 2016 we travelled to USA and Canada my favourite time of the year being the secured some embryos from Canada which to meet other Gelbvieh Breeders and to annual production sales that we ran. We will be implanted in the Spring 2021. The find the next leading sire for us. The first did some big AI and embryo programs long term plan includes having a bull sale of those calves are starting to make a big and had some of the best Gelbvieh sires in 2026, and buying commercial progeny impact in Australia. I have enjoyed the in the industry make there mark in the back from clients for backgrounding and past 3 years on the Australian Gelbvieh herd which made it a exciting place to be commercial breeding purposes. We will council as Vice President and this past growing up in. continue to run commercial cattle and trade year as Treasurer. I look forward to my lambs alongside the stud business. continued involvement with the breed Upon the dispersal of Ebony Lodge I and what the future leads to. I believe became manager of Neerim View Gelbvieh The future for Gelbvieh cattle in the Gelbvieh have untapped potential and Red Angus owned by Colin and Australia is strong. It is in the hands of all due to their incredible temperament, Leanne Flanagan. In my time there we did Gelbvieh breeders to continue to breed softness, ease of fleshing, milking ability some extensive AI programs using the in a progressive manner. Commercial and structural correctness. Feel free to best sires we could find. Our plan being to acceptance in the marketplace will be call me anytime for a chat or to talk about calve all the Gelbvieh heifers to Red Angus a big part of that. I am a firm believer the breed as I love talking about Gelbvieh sires for a first calf (Balancer calves) and that progressive, industry relevant cattle and their many benefits and advantages. then AI them based on the calving ease, of any breed can hold there own in the udder quality, docility and structure once Beef industry here in Australia. Gelbvieh we graded them post calving. This gave cattle have had long term success here us a great run of Balancer bulls and heifers in Australia in feedlot trials, carcase to use in our program, steers for carcase competitions and the marketplace and competitions but also increased the quality have no doubt that will continue on that of the Gelbvieh herd. trajectory if breeders continue to work hard. 4 AUSTRALIAN GELBVIEH ASSOCIATION 2021 TRIENNIAL MAGAZINE COUNCIL MEET YOUR COUNCIL JUNIOR VICE PRESIDENT / YOUTH SECRETARY COORDINATOR Ella Chris Anderson Theron work in two vastly differently I am part of the family business and I hris Theron was born in South Africa, I industries, I am a Clinical Psychology manage the breeding program for my Cwhere he spent school holidays and working with children and families family’s beef herd, as well as our small some weekends on their mixed game and conducting developmental assessments stud operation. With the support of beef farming operation. After moving to to identify developmental delays, mental my brother we have established the Australia in 2014, he chose Northern Rivers health issues and neurodevelopmental ‘Cir-Ponds’ Gelbvieh stud, which runs (Kyogle) as the most suitable location for conditions such as Autism Spectrum alongside the commercial herd. The continuing his dream in providing a loving Disorder. However, I am also a farm produces weaners as part of a home for much-loved cattle, while generally passionate farmer raising beef cattle supply chain for the Cape Grim branded spending his work week in Brisbane. and advocating for the industry. The beef for Greenham Tasmania. We see family property ‘Circular Ponds’ is home the longevity and continued success of With his beautiful wife Mercia and to our Gelbvieh and Murray Grey cattle Gelbvieh cattle as being crucial to not their young daughter Larissa he runs a raised on grass and never fed grain for only our business but that of the growing commercial black Angus operation alongside Cape Grim Beef. I have a number of roles number of producers who invest in a small Gelbvieh stud. Chris’ dad, Chris Snr, involved in the Tasmanian Farmers and the breed. keeps a watchful eye over the property and Graziers Association, Tasmanian Women greatly delights in welcoming the Gelbvieh x in Agriculture and on the Research One of the benefits of working off farm Angus calves, and we’re quietly working on Development and Adoption Committee and in a non-agriculture sector has converting him to 100% Gelbvieh (but don’t for the Cattle Council of Australia. been hearing directly from consumers tell him!) and establishing a much greater I have spent my whole life around cattle, insight into their perspectives of our Chris has been serving on the Gelbvieh I’m passionate about Gelbvieh cattle. My industry. It also led me to establish the council since May 2018, and was elected family first starting to use Gelbvieh bulls ‘Cir-Ponds Gelbvieh and Murray Grey as youth coordinator in 2020 with his major as part of our commercial herd to create Stud’ Facebook page in order to share focus being the youth camp.