Galloway Annual 2020 - 2021 Australian Galloway Association Inc President’s Report Luke Bonar Contents I come into 2020/21 as the in place for a national field newly elected President of the day and forum once travel Committee Members 2 Australian Galloway Association restrictions lift. and I look forward to facing the challenges ahead in the next I also wish to thank the Introducing Luke 3 twelve months. fantastic efforts put in place by Bonar the members of the committee On behalf on the committee and this year. Our committee all members I sincerely thank is a strong group of like- Flashback to the Fifties 6 the efforts and work put in place minded members that have a by the outgoing president Shane diverse range of background Smeathers. Shane has been the experiences and represent the Celebrating Success 9 president for the past four years whole of the Eastern Seaboard. and has led the AGA through Together working as a team, Ear Tattooing 12 many challenges that have been we can utilise the next twelve thrown at us. months to further strengthen our association and help all Roads to Recovery 13 This year has seen the our members increase their unpredictability of the worldwide knowledge and understanding pandemic COVID, which has of the Galloway breed. We Members List 17 shut most of the Agricultural have been busy reviewing shows and field days that we all the existing By-laws, Code use as a promotional platform of Conduct and other forms Balytyckle Miniature 24 and for social gatherings and documents to ensure that Galloway Stud between members. All members they all remain relevant to the at one stage or another in the Association. I am also excited past years had to deal with the to soon be able to share the Royal Show Roundup 27 terrifying nature of drought, fantastic efforts put into place flood, and bushfires. None for our updated commercial Miniature Galloway 28 of which make farming life pamphlet. As always, our EO, pleasant or easy, and has lead Sallie Wadley has put in some Cattle - Origins and to some heartbreaking decisions incredible efforts to ensure that Height by some of our members to the wheels of the Association keep running smoothly. downsize stock numbers. In DNA Sampling 31 order to help try and preserve some of the wonderful genetics I hope that you enjoy this that we have, it has been great year’s annual. There are a Stocking Rates and 32 to see members capable of couple of articles that have DSEs Explained carrying extra stock numbers appeared in previous annuals, purchase the genetics that were but as we have had many new on offer. members join the Association Semen List 34 over the past several years, we Unfortunately, we were unable thought it would be beneficial to hold our usual AGA AGM, to include them again. but embraced the restrictions and challenges to hold our Best wishes to all our members AGM via teleconference. It was for a good season across the disappointing that not everyone next twelve months. was able to access the meeting, but the committee has plans Luke Bonar Australian Galloway Association PO Box 42, Westbury, Tasmania, 7303 P: 0400 952 510 Int: +61 400 952 510 E: [email protected] www.galloway.asn.au Front cover photo: Torcroft Macey, picture taken by Judy Tricker 1 Back cover photo: Galloway herd in NSW, picture taken by Shannon West Australian Galloway Association Inc. Committee Members President Vice President Luke Bonar Shane Smeathers 126 Valley Road 199 Hayes Road Sidmouth Tas 7270 Millfield NSW 2325 M: 0408 556 355 M: 0438 934 983 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Vice President Treasurer Cameron Woolfe Carole Simpson PO Box 2398 PO Box 3 Bakery Hill Vic 3354 Kangaroo Ground Vic 3097 M: 0421 050 674 M: 0412 610 267 E: clanwoolfebelties@gmail. E:[email protected] com Committee Committee Ian Bull Josh Keech 1199 Carbone Road Cedar Brush Creek NSW 2259 Corbie Hill NSW 2715 M: 0413 644 604 P:02 6955 6355 E: [email protected] M:0428 723 184 Committee Committee Joanne Tesoriero Sallie Wadley 42 Wyanbah Road 3480 Meander Valley Road Whitlow NSW 2404 Westbury Tas 7303 M: 0477 236 498 M: 0428 974 718 E: [email protected] E: [email protected] Advertisers Index Balytyckle Miniature Galloways 16 Mbuyanhanda Stud 16 Freedom Rise Galloways 8 Murrinoak Miniature Galloways 16 Glenblairie Belted Galloways 8 Spring Rises Belted Galloway Stud 20 Karandrea Galloways 23 The Cattle Shop 27 Kybella Pastures Mini Galloways 30 Windaroo Miniature Galloway Stud 33 Lazy B Galloways 32 Year Tattoo 2020: R 2021: S 2022: T 2 Introducing Luke Bonar AGA President We asked Luke some questions were due to lamb. (The sheep Lazy B Florance with dam Lazy so you can get to know him and we have today are still from B Xanadu X22 discover his thoughts on various that same line of ewes.) The topics. money made from the lambs was introduced to Galloway was then used to purchase my cattle. Brian and Christine 1. Your Background? first Galloway female: a white Medcraft have always been great Galloway that I bought from supporters of the junior handlers I was born in Launceston, Brian and Christine Medcraft of programme in Tasmania and Tasmania as the youngest Skytor Galloways in 1997. My had lent the school four black of four kids with three older family has always been involved Galloway females to use for sisters. My family has always in showing cattle at the local the show season. This was my had a hand in agriculture. When shows, but I have also dabbled introduction to the Galloway I was born my parents had in showing chooks and canaries Family and led to my purchase a farm which ran registered during my teenage years, but of the white heifer a couple Murray Grey cattle and showing cattle has always been of years after. Gradually my Corriedale sheep. We moved a favourite pastime. parents dropped away from when I was 2 or 3 years old to Murray Greys to focus on an orchard which we ran for 2. Your involvement with cattle? the Lazy B Galloways and many years before going back breeding Galloway cattle. to a productive cattle farm in I have been involved with and We had standard Belted and Sidmouth. Around 8 or 9 years been around cattle for as long solid Galloways and several old, I used to sell Christmas as I can remember. I showed miniature Galloways for a time trees for pocket money. The cattle from my parents’ Murray before moving to focus more trees came from an old pine Grey stud and joined the local on the standard solid coloured tree windbreak that grew on the school cattle handlers group as Galloways and Belted Galloways. orchard. With the money I made soon I was old enough to do We have more recently added selling trees I bought my first so. It was through the junior a small number of registered line of Corriedale ewes which handler’s programme that I Angus cows to the mix. They are run under the stud name Lazy B Angus and are under my two daughters’ supervision. (We should mention here that Luke, although too modest to mention it, represented Tasmania as the state champion twice in the national finals of the junior handlers competition - in Sydney in 2007 and Melbourne in 2009 - if you’re in need of a handler and Luke’s around, he’d do a great job!) 3. Your Family? I met my wife Emily 14 years ago in 2006 at the Royal Launceston Show while showing cattle. Emily’s parents still to this day run the Quarterway Angus Stud at Scottsdale, a small town in the North East corner of Tasmania. The stud was started over sixty years ago by Emily’s grandfather Lance Emily, Lucy, Luke and Ellie Bonar Hall and has now built up to a 3 large holding of registered and the customer after it has been had been chosen to carry over commercial Angus production. custom cut by our butcher. We for fattening, are sold on to The Halls also grow vegetable find it is a popular process for Greenhams. We usually plant and cereal crops across several families as the bulk price of a couple of paddocks down properties. Emily and I became meat is more affordable than for Autumn feed and are busy engaged in 2011 and in 2012 buying smaller amounts through getting machinery ready for the were married in Launceston. a supermarket. We keep our upcoming hay/silage season. We welcomed our first daughter sales area relatively small from Ellie in May 2014 and second the north east of Tasmania 6. What is your biggest farming daughter Lucy in November across to Devonport to help pet hate? 2015. We look forward with the profitability of the business great excitement to welcoming rather that travel state-wide. Easy! Electric Fencing. Or rather our third child early in 2021. We find that the Galloway cattle the electric fencing shorts. They We run our Galloway cattle have great capabilities to grow are something that can either on a farm at Sidmouth (in the out early whilst not taking away be a five-minute fix or can beautiful Tamar Valley about 40 the tenderness and marbling of take up a whole day. We have kilometres north of Lauceston) the meat. They are certainly not certain cattle on the farm who and have plans to extend our a breed of cattle than requires a are quite adept at telling when farming platform over the long period of time to grow and a fence is not performing at its coming years.