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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year THE BEEF SHORTHORN OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE BEEF SHORTHORN SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA HOME OF THE AUSTRALIAN SHORTHORN www.beefshorthorn.org.au DECEMBER 2019 Merry Christmas & Happy New Year ! www.beefshorthorn.org.au The Federal Secretary Beef Shorthorn Society of Australia PO Box 199 Rutherglen Vic 3685 Phone: 0419 319 990 Email: [email protected] PRESIDENTS REPORT & Rob Smith located in Sheffield and the Walsh family of Ledgerwood, both located in Tasmania. The conference itself was very worthwhile and held at the Graham Research Centre on the campus of Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga. Speakers from around the world delivered very informative and interesting presentations sharing ideas and common passions directly linked to Shorthorn cattle. I strongly urge you to mark your diaries to attend the next World Shorthorn conference to be held in the UK in 2022. This occasion will celebrate 200 years of the Coates Herd Book for the breed – something which our Society can proudly boast still records pedigreed Beef Shorthorn cattle closely aligned to this herd book. Dear All, To those members who also made a contribution in the show ring, I express my grateful thanks. By all accounts it has been a very busy year Given the seasonal conditions the cattle for our breed and the Society. There have been presented both at the Sydney Royal and Royal significant achievements in the show ring, Melbourne Show were exemplary. carcase competitions and the involvement of our members during the World Shorthorn Congress I congratulate David Spencer on his Life tour. Membership to the Society; as most of you know David has been a long-standing member of The Society continues to enjoy a unique Council and this award acknowledged his tireless partnership with JBS Australia (Australia’s largest efforts in promoting and delivering outcomes for beef producer and marketer); premiums remain both the Society and breed. to be paid for eligible shorthorn cattle. A list of JBS buyers can be found on the Society’s As we approach the close of another year, website. stressful and worrisome as it has been for most of us, we must look forward with optimism. The World Shorthorn Congress tour has Our breed stands in very good stead and will concluded and I take this opportunity to thank continue to be sought after by a wide array of those members of the Society who opened their beef producers. properties to showcase their breeding program to our international guests. The Deepdene stud I have attached to this report the presentation of Daryl and Ann Clark was very well received I made on behalf of the Society to at the World with most guests wanting to visit longer; on Conference. I wish you all a safe and happy display were purely grass fed bulls, cows and Christmas. calves and a mob of superfine merino sheep. Daryl delivered a very engaging welcome giving a Marion Spencer historical account of the holding. Other members President to welcome the tour party were Rodney Rouse “BEEF SHORTHORNS” THE POINT OF IT ALL Today, many people regard history as unimportant. a virtue in cattle being horned. The true rationale That is unwise. Lessons once learned can be is that the entire genetic profile of cattle registered forgotten, likewise hard-won benefits. So it is with in the Beef Shorthorn Herd Book of Australia has cattle-breeding. It is a risky business to ignore the been maintained. That cannot be said of any other past, or to dismiss it as irrelevant to modern-day group of registered shorthorn cattle. The cattle link issues. That is because cattle-breeding which can directly with nearly 200 years of pedigreed history. stand the test of time requires an appreciation of For that reason, these cattle are a unique resource the past, as well as an eye to the future. available to shorthorn cattle breeders worldwide, a resource which should be attractive to breeders The Beef Shorthorn Society of Australia, which with an understanding of history. is the oldest of the societies presently registering shorthorn cattle of the beef type in Australia, None of this is to say that the registration treasures the past, but is not a slave to it. Next requirements of Australian Beef Shorthorns are year will be the Society’s centenary. preferable to the registration requirements of other shorthorn cattle societies. It is only to say that Beef Originally formed as the Shorthorn Society of Shorthorns in Australia are a unique and valuable Australia, the Society took over publication of the genetic resource in the breeding industry. Shorthorn Herd Book of Australia in 1921. The first volume of that herd book had been published in The Beef Shorthorn Society of Australia Herd 1918 under the auspices of the Royal Agricultural Book has another utility. Many of the foundation Society of Victoria. Volume 1, and other early females mated with poll bulls over the years since volumes, recorded pedigrees both of Australian- the establishment of what is now the Shorthorn bred cattle and Coates’s Herd Book cattle which Society of Australia in 1935 were registered had played a part in Australian breeding. Beef Shorthorns. In such cases, the long-term pedigrees of today’s cattle are only accessible via Construction of the herd book was a mammoth this Society’s herd book. task, involving reconstruction of pedigrees going back to the late 1840s – the first pedigreed Two matters interrelate with what I have said is the shorthorn having been imported in about 1827. irrelevance of horns for the sake of horns. First, as a The guiding light for registration was Coates’s management tool, and with the Society’s approval, Herd Book standard, part of which recognized that most Beef Shorthorns are dehorned. Second, shorthorn cattle were just that - cattle with short the Society established the Australian Shorthorn horns. Comet, for instance, the standard bearer for Herd Book, which was first published in 1974. the very successful Thousand Guineas program, There is no requirement that Australian Shorthorns was a horned shorthorn. He can be found in a be horned, and indeed the vast majority are not. number of the pedigrees of cattle registered in the This herd book has made use of foundation, Beef Shorthorn Herd Book of Australia. Shorthorn and Poll Shorthorn females, crossed mainly with poll bulls. Ever since that herd book was first published – it is now the Beef Shorthorn Herd Book of Australia Let me say something about the Society’s progress – part of the standard for registration has been over the last several years: that the animal be horned. But the rationale for maintaining that requirement has changed. The • Membership has increased. The Society is not original rationale was that the requirement was large, but has members in every State, and in present in the parent herd book. the Northern Territory. Much later, that requirement disappeared in England. But the Beef Shorthorn Society of • In part, the increase in membership has been Australia did not follow suit. It would be a nonsense attributable to the Society’s active involvement to suggest that the Society has maintained a in the Thousand Guineas program. That requirement that cattle be horned because there is program has enormous potential benefits both “BEEF SHORTHORNS” THE POINT OF IT ALL for JBS and for breeders of shorthorn cattle. • The Society’s new website has been online The product has gained clear market since 2017. In addition, a topical ‘In the News’ approval. The main issue faced by the program is regularly emailed to members. is reliability of supply. This has been impacted by the drought which has affected • The Society’s Rules have been amended so as much of pastoral Australia for upwards of to address modern means of communication. three years. Increase in supply can be forecast with some confidence. The drought • For several years now, Beef and Australian must end, and breeders of other British cattle Shorthorns have been exhibited together have been putting in shorthorn bulls. with (Poll) Shorthorns at the Sydney and Adelaide Royal Shows. Sensible • A recent trend in Beef Shorthorn breeding has arrangements have ensured that the cattle been the use of semen from bulls bred in were identifiable. Exhibitors have been very Australia before the introduction of Irish and happy with the camaraderie which they have American blood over the past 25-30 years, and experienced. It is highly likely that there will be also the use of semen from British bulls bred combined judging at the Melbourne Royal from to the traditional Coates’s Herd Book standard. 2020. These developments mirror the situation This marriage of bloodlines appears to be at shows in Tasmania and regionally. achieving good outcomes. In conclusion I take this opportunity to acknowledge • The Society is financially secure. It has no and thank those members of the combined breed outstanding financial commitments, and it has societies who have extended their welcome to money in the bank. conference delegates at their properties, to those who exhibited at the Royal Melbourne Show and to • The Society maintains a fee structure which those who made a contribution to the organization is as small as it can be for breeder members. of this the 16th World Shorthorn Conference. A calf registration fee is for all of life. There are no recurrent fees. Marion Spencer President, Beef Shorthorn Society of Australia PLEASE NOTE – EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY! UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ALL SECRETARIAL PAPERWORK IS TO BE FORWARDED TO SECRETARY PO BOX 199 RUTHERGLEN VIC 3685 DIARY DATES AUTUMN BEEF WEEK 29 January- 5 February ROYAL CANBERRA SHOW 28 February – 1 March SYDNEY ROYAL EASTER SHOW 3 – 14 April (Tentative Judging Date) (Saturday 4 April) BEEF AND AUSTRALIAN SHORTHORNS IN THE SPOTLIGHT AT MELBOURNE Numbers were only moderate, but quality was very heifer, SF Ace’s Cherry; Reserve Junior Champion high in the showing of Beef and Australian Shorthorns female was the rising 14 months of age Meadow Vale at this year’s Melbourne Royal.
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