2024 Droughtmaster Magazine

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At the time of compiling this publication, Far Northern, Northern, Western and one National Zone Director positions are under election.

SALES AND EVENTS MANAGER

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SPECIAL: Relive Beef 2024

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Front cover image: Sasha, Cliff and Edward Mylrea, Needmor Cattle Company with their Grand Champion Pen / Grand Champion Lot Fed Steers at Beef 2024. Picture: Kent Ward

PRESIDENT’S REPORT FROM CHAMPIONS IN THE SALEYARDS TO ‘KING OF THE RING’, DROUGHTMASTER IS BEEF’S DOMINANT FORCE

Todd Heyman | President | Droughtmaster Australia

WELCOME TO THE AUGUST 2024 edition of the Droughtmaster Australia Magazine, which focuses on our upcoming bull selling season while also sharing news from recent events, such as our breed’s excellent results from Beef 24.

Once again, we are proud to say that the Droughtmaster breed presented one of the best and most attended breed displays at Beef Australia.

I would like to thank and congratulate our staff, volunteers and members for their contributions and commitment to making our site at Beef 24 another wonderful experience for our members and guests.

In my opinion, one of the highpoints of Beef 24 was our breed’s representation in the Commercial Cattle Championships.

Droughtmaster and Droughtmaster cross cattle fared extremely well across grain fed and grass fed, steer and heifer classes, with the absolute highlight being Cliff and Sasha Mylrea, of Needmor Droughtmasters, Gogango, Qld exhibiting the Grand Champion pen with their purebred Droughtmaster steers. Those steers had to be seen to be believed. They were excellent representatives of the Droughtmaster breed. Thank you, Cliff and Sasha.

The Commercial Cattle Championships is the pinnacle of commercial cattle competitions across Australia. Since its inception in 1988, every three years commercial breeders have submitted their best commercial product for assessment from independent judges that have included industry leaders from the pastoral, feedlot, processing, wholesale and retail sectors of the beef industry.

Over the past 36 years, Droughtmaster cattle have dominated this format, winning

Grand Champion pens in 1991, 1994, 1997, 2003, 2006, 2012, 2015, 2018, and 2024.

These results are indisputable evidence of the long-term and current commercial relevance of the Droughtmaster breed to the red meat industry.

Crunching MSA data

On top of these excellent results, we are working on even more proof to support you in promoting your cattle to the broader industry.

Droughtmaster Australia is currently undertaking work with Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) to analyse meat standard (MSA) trends in Droughtmaster cattle to add further evidence that will support industry players to make informed commercial decisions.

This is a market leading and groundbreaking move which has many in the industry talking about the Droughtmaster breed.

Thanks to the help of those members who have participated to date, our Droughtmaster MSA project has been able to compile some initial Droughtmaster data analysis including MSA data, carcase traits and benchmarking.

We hope to be in a position where we can use this data to highlight to potential bull buyers, feedlots, finishers and supermarket chains the qualities that the Droughtmaster breed has regarding meat standards.

To assist with this, we need your help. If you are a stud or commercial breeder with MSA accreditation, please contact our office via the details you can find in this magazine.

Our office will talk to you about your Droughtmaster MSA data being added to the MSA project.

It should be noted that individual data will not be divulged to us or anyone else by MLA. The data will be collated by MLA with only summaries and analysis provided to Droughtmaster Australia.

No bull, this season will be exciting

The early indications for the 2024 bull selling season are that there are going to be some exceptional bulls hitting the market across the breed’s sponsored and private sales.

One thing I love is following Droughtmaster bloodlines as they come through the selling rings across the country. This year, I am excited to see what bloodlines are put forward in the new concept to be launched as an extension of the Droughtmaster National Bull Sale – the King of the Ring.

Vendors who offer at least three bulls in the sale will be given the opportunity to nominate one of their sires into King of the Ring at a cost of $5000.

Ten slots will be available in total and the highest priced animal, or King of the Ring, will receive a $25,000 prize pool, a trophy, and the option to choose their selling position for the following year’s sale.

The vendors of the second and third highest-priced bulls will receive prize pools of $15,000 and $5000, respectively.

This is an exciting opportunity to present the first slot sale within the Australian stud beef industry. This is a market leading and groundbreaking move which has many in the industry talking about the Droughtmaster breed and the Droughtmaster National Bull Sale, who otherwise would not be.

It is a bold “change-up” for the Droughtmaster National, which I am sure will have a cracking start in 2024.

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Stud Cattle Judging Commercial Component with Mort & Co Feedlot

Breed Dinner and other social activities for Droughtmaster members

CEO’s REPORT

Simon Gleeson | Chief Executive Officer | Droughtmaster

Australia

WHEN TOO MUCH BEEF IS NEVER ENOUGH

SINCE THE 2023 August edition, we have been heavily involved in sales, events and activities which I have outlined in my Annual Report column.

One of the major events not covered in the Annual Report was Beef 2024 at Rockhampton, Qld in May.

What an event it was!

Beef 2024 has certainly been a highlight for me during my five years at Droughtmaster Australia, considering the results in the commercial and stud competitions, the camaraderie shown by all members, the volunteers who presented cattle and assisted with our marquee, and the vibrant interactions around the Droughtmaster precinct between both domestic and international visitors.

I congratulate you all on the wonderful display and the way you portrayed the breed and the society. I have no doubt that our presence at Beef 2024 will reap benefits.

The week at Beef 2024 commenced in sensational style with Cliff and Sasha Mylrea winning the Grand Champion pen of purebred Droughtmaster steers in the commercial competition.

More than 1500 head across all breeds and from numerous producers and feedlots were entered into this highly prestigious competition. Winning this competition really demonstrates the commerciality of the Droughtmaster breed and stamps it as a frontrunner in the beef industry.

I would like to point out that there were also many other members who entered cattle into this competition and performed admirably. There is a full report contained within this edition on Beef 2024.

In the stud ring, the Droughtmaster breed was also well represented with just over 200 head nominated. With these numbers, the Droughtmaster breed was the second largest to participate at Beef 2024.

The stud cattle sheds appeared to be well attended by the public

and I thank all our members for presenting animals at the largest beef expo in the southern hemisphere during the week-long event where reports have indicated there were about 114,000 visitors.

Our marquee at Beef 2024 was the talking point for many at the event. The vision of the Beef committee led by Ken McKenzie created a spectacle with a series of events and activities, and a place for members to retreat and do business with fellow members and visitors.

A huge thank you to Carley Stieler, our Marketing and Events Coordinator for her tireless work in executing this event which requires 18 months of planning.

We are continually focussed on growing our geographical footprint across the country

Also, to Leigh Eleison , thank you. Both Carley and Leigh spent almost two weeks in Rockhampton preparing, setting up and running our marquee. Thank you to Robin and Linda Adams and their team from Cocobrew Express for partnering with us and supplying food and beverages. To our major sponsors, Zoetis, Williams Stockfeeds, Outcross, Hancock Agriculture, Ariat and Just Country, we thank you as well, along with all our other sponsors who supported us over the week.

R&D updates

Looking forward, I would like to take this opportunity to provide a brief update on some areas of focus and work in progress. The following are all consistent with our strategic plan, the Next Phase 2023-2025. Firstly, in terms of breed development, we have been working with Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) to analyse Meat Standards Australia (MSA) data from our commercial producers. You will recall that earlier this year we requested members provide us with their MSA number so that MLA could provide us with some insight into the overall

performance of Droughtmaster cattle from an MSA perspective.

It should be noted that MLA provided analysis on the data on an aggregate basis for the Droughtmaster breed, not on an individual producer basis.

While the data was useful and insightful, with more participants we would be able to provide a more accurate MSA picture for the Droughtmaster breed.

This recent analysis was an assessment of 58,000 carcasses from the turn-off of about 26 producers, over a 10-year period. In addition to this, we also provided MLA with MSA data from our BIN project which they have also analysed over a 10-year period. This work is ongoing, and I urge members to participate and/or assist with introducing us to producers who are selling Droughtmaster cattle to processors across the country. The intention of this work is to eventually publish an accurate MSA index for Droughtmaster cattle. I note some other breeds have already done this on their website and are using this MSA index in their discussions with domestic buyers.

As most of you are aware, we have been participating in the Repronomics and BIN projects for more than 10 years.

At the time of writing, we were working with MLA, the University of New England’s Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit and project lead John Croaker to extend these projects beyond the current arrangement’s end-date.

These projects have been vitally important for the breed as they have contributed data to BREEDPLAN directly and are a major factor in our transition to Single Step.

While these projects are a major source of data for BREEDPLAN, we would encourage members to participate to improve accuracies and our reliance on data from these projects into the future.

WHY DROUGHTMASTER IS IN A CLASS OF ITS OWN AT BEEF

Among the 13 Beef Australia events held since 1988, Droughtmaster cattle have won the commercial championships on all but four occasions, elevating Droughtmaster’s widely held status as the most commercially relevant breed in Australia.

By BRAD COOPER

CENTRAL QUEENSLAND beef producers, Cliff and Sasha Mylrea, are the latest Droughtmaster breeders to have their names etched on Beef Australia’s Commercial Cattle Championship honour board, continuing a tradition almost as old as the event itself. Their grand champion win emphatically strengthens Droughtmaster’s stamp on Beef Australia history, an event that was established in 1988 to acknowledge the historical contribution of the beef industry to the life of the nation.

While there was no party for Droughtmaster at the inaugural event in Australia’s bicentenary year, the breed would subsequently revel in the 1990s, owning the decade until the start of the millennium, before Ken and Kerry McKenzie, Yaralla, Blackwater, resumed the celebrations in 2003, blasting through (save 2009) with five extraordinary grand champion wins until 2018.

With a pause in the festivities in 2021, Droughtmaster, thanks to the

Mylreas of Needmor Cattle Co, Gogango, has returned to the winners’ circle in 2024.

The Mylreas’ win, which takes Droughtmaster’s share of grand champion sashes to 70 per cent over a 36-year span, also invites renewed discussion on whether the record cements Droughtmaster as the undisputed king of the commercial arena, given the event’s preeminent position as the southern hemisphere’s biggest stage for quality beef.

“I think Droughtmaster suits Central Queensland conditions better than any other breed that’s out there, and that’s their natural advantage coming into an event at Rockhampton in May when the weather is still warm and humid,” Cliff Mylrea told Droughtmaster Magazine when reflecting on the result.

By the time they get to Gracemere they are in prime condition.

“While we are over the moon with the result, we’re even happier with the message it sends to the commercial beef producer, which is if you invest in feeding Droughtmasters you’ll get the results every time, because they just keep hitting the specs that processors will pay for.”

“That humidity often puts many breeds off their tucker a bit, but the Droughtmaster just keeps eating in the feedlot and putting on weight.

Cliff said it was testament to the feedlot performance of Droughtmaster that his cattle were inducted close to Christmas last

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Sasha, Cliff and Edward Mylrea, Needmor Cattle Co, Rookwood, Gogango with their Grand Champion Pen and Grand Champion Lot Fed Steers at Beef 2024.

Picture: Kent Ward.

SIRE Selection

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FAIR AND SQUARE

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FINNICK 24mths LOT 05 P

FOURTEEN 23mths LOT 11 P

FARRIER PP 24mths

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year after experiencing a long dry spell through winter and spring.

“It was very dry here and we could easily have sold them all as feeders, but we didn’t have to wait too long to put them in the feedlot, and as it turned out, not long before they were inducted, we got a break and the season turned around from there,” Cliff said.

“These steers have certainly brought us good fortune.”

Fed at the Conaghan family’s Barmount Feedlot, Marlborough for 127 days and weighing an average of 704 kilograms, the Mylreas’ HGP-treated champion lot-fed steers won class 2, pen of 10 steers, with criteria of 640-760 kg, maximum four teeth, minimum 100 days grain-fed and export

compliant before progressing to grand champion judging.

As long-time competitors, the Mylreas had been near grand champion status before, especially in 2021 when they claimed the champion pen of lot-fed heifers, as well as the champion pen of crop or pasture-fed steers.

If you invest in feeding Droughtmasters, you’ll get the results every time.

Their record remains a positive omen for continuing Droughtmaster dominance, with fellow Central Queensland beef producers Mac and Gayle Shann, Cantaur Park, Clermont, taking out this year’s champion lot-fed heifers with their pen of 10 Droughtmaster/ Charolais-cross females finished on grain for 121 days at Paringa Gold Feedlot, Capella, owned by Phillip Reid and family.

Weighing an average of 578 kilograms, the HGP-treated heifers won class 5, pen of 10 heifers, with criteria of 500640 kg, maximum two teeth, minimum 70 days grain-fed and heavy trade market suitability.

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The creamy coloured Droughtmaster-Charolais cross females of Mac and Gayle Shann, Cantaur Park, Clermont were judged Beef 2024’s Champion Pen of Lot Fed Heifers.

Picture: Van Der Stoep Photography

While producing cross-bred calves from Droughtmaster females mated to terminal Charolais sires, Mac said he still gave credit to Droughtmaster genetics for generating animals with the capacity to thrive on marginal country off grass and finish strongly on grain.

These steers have certainly brought us good fortune.

“Plenty of people have entered Charbrays over time and by comparison they haven’t done as well, so in my mind that’s the Droughtmaster influence,” Mac said.

“We like the Charolais cross because it is a highly marketable product for the feedlots, although the lead of your straight Droughties would probably hold their own just as strongly in a feedlot environment.

“The ideal for us is highly fertile, feminine Droughtmaster breeders mated to highly muscled Charolais bulls so that we get that hybrid vigour in the first cross and they are then able to punch on, even when the conditions are tough

AU STRALIA

GRAND CHAMPION PEN

COMMERCIAL CATTLE CHAMPIONSHIPS

DROUGHTMASTER HAS WON 70% OF THE CHAMPIONSHIPS HELD SINCE 1988

DECADES OF DROUGHTMASTER DOMINANCE

and the country is poor, which for us is more often the case.”

Mac said there was no better place to test the resilience of Droughtmaster than their Lamont Droughtmaster stud and Cantaur Park commercial cattle and performance horse operation, dominated by highly phosphorus deficient ironbark and box breeder country, interspersed with patches of buffel but predominantly native grasses such as black and white spear grass.

“It was horribly dry at the end of last year and the protein just fell out of the country, so those girls went into the feedlot pretty lean,” Mac said.

“Unlike a lot of other places, we haven’t had a lot of rain over summer, so it was a real blessing to get them into the feedlot and out of our hair.”

While delighted with how their cattle presented, Mac said the most humbling experience was watching the fierce competition among processors bidding for his creamy coloured heifers, which he refers to as Charmasters.

“They seemed to be about 20 cents above a lot of the others in the saleyards later in the day. When the processors want them, it’s a fair indication you’re ticking the boxes and doing something right,” Mac said.

“A lot of them went to Kilcoy, a few to Nolan’s and some to Teys. Watching the cattle come through the runs looking prime and well-fed at that sale was just awesome and second to none to anything held in the world.

“It’s a real credit to the organising committee and something very special to be part of.”

Cli & Sasha Mylrea, Needmor Cattle Co, Gogango, Qld

Ken And Kerry McKenzie, Yaralla, Blackwater, Qld Nobbs Cattle Co, Duaringa, Qld (Droughtmaster Cross)

Ed & Carol McCormack, Dilga, Glenmorgan, Qld

STOCKLIVE ELITE

ROYAL FLUSH GLENLANDS IVF CATTLE REIGN SUPREME ON BEEF’S STAR-STUDDED TURF

No stranger to winning in the show ring, studmaster Darren Childs rates Beef 2024 as the most gratifying result since 2012 when bull, Glenlands Prince, was named supreme interbreed champion of the event, still the only Droughtmaster to have claimed the title.

By BRAD COOPER

CONSISTENCY AND DEPTH

In the months that have passed since Beef 2024, the words are receiving an additional workout in the wake of Glenlands being connected to all but three of the 17 sashes presented to winning exhibitors of Droughtmaster stud cattle in the Rockhampton

Already a formidable brand, Glenlands these days looms even larger in the world of stud cattle than perhaps at any other time in its history, thanks partly to a family succession plan that has effectively expanded

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Kirralee Streeter holds grand champion bull Glenlands D Freedom Fighter, with Nutrien Studstock’s Alistair Tippett and Dane Pearce, and judge Andrew Raff, King Island, Tas with associate judge Hannah Lehmann, Prenzlau, Qld. Picture: Kent Ward

YARALLA EUGENE

YARALLA ELI

YARALLA ELROND

YARALLA ERASMUS

YARALLA EMMERSON

to three enterprises under separate on-farm management, but still bound via a unified and sophisticated marketing strategy.

The home stud at Bouldercombe outside Rockhampton, started by the late Bruce Childs and his wife Val still operates with about 180 breeders.

Their sons Darren and Jason continue to build on the legacy, providing input and assistance to their mother, but with Darren and his wife Helen operating Glenlands D at Dianne Downs, Theodore and Jason and his wife Carissa operating Glenlands J at Alkira, Dingo.

When the Childs brothers and their partners combine in the same arena, the result can be an almost insurmountable Glenlands wall of quality stud beef, as illustrated in the Beef 2024 outcome.

Glenlands D walked away with 10 sashes, including grand champion male and female, while Glenlands J took four, including senior champion male.

Only the Nindethana stud (reserve calf champion female) of Bronwyn Betts at Camp Mountain in southeast Queensland and the Carrington family’s Rondel stud

(reserve junior and senior champion male) at Winton were able to prevent a Glenlands clean sweep. While accustomed to success in the show ring, Darren said the result was still thrilling and humbling given the quality presented in front of judge and renowned Angus stud cattle breeder Andrew Raff.

It’s great to see these mobile Droughtie cows. They’re loose skinned, fertile and functional.

Andrew Raff, Raff Angus, Tasmania.

“To have that much success on the day was amazing, especially to win the cow and the bull, which we’ve never done before,” Darren said.

“Winning with Prince, the Interbreed Champion male 12 years ago, that feeling was great.

“But the interbreed is difficult to judge and validate, so to be recognised among other quality Droughtmaster breeders, producing a breed we love and believe in, was incredibly special.”

According to Darren, Beef Australia is the “pinnacle of cattle showing”,

and therefore deserving of precise planning and rigorous preparation. Sometimes serendipity also plays its part in producing the near-perfect script.

Whiskey’s triple treat

Who could have foretold that grand champion female Glenlands D Esprit would continue the successful streak that her two IVF siblings Everest and English Rose would sensationally start last year?

For those not familiar with the backstory, Esprit is from the same flush that produced the stud’s biggest headline-grabbers of 2023, progeny from the pairing of Rondel Whiskey and heifer Glenlands D Bells ‘n’ Whistles.

Purchased in partnership at the 2020 Droughtmaster National Sale for $160,000, Whiskey’s first sons and daughters were offered at the annual Glenlands on-property sale at Bouldercombe last September.

As the Childs family expressed in the sale catalogue:

“Whiskey’s obvious sire appeal, hooded eye, tremendous muzzle, skin, and clean underline justified his worth, and a PP (homozygous

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eclipsed by the fierce bidding for Everest merely minutes later.

poll) as a bonus. We have joined him to some of our best and the results speak for themselves.”

The praise for Glenlands D Bells ‘n’ Whistles in the same catalogue was no less effusive: “We consider this cow the best we have bred to date, a true cornerstone female. Phenotypically and genetically blessed, her progeny are justifying our belief in her worth.”

Both descriptions would prove prophetic, with the pair’s highly fancied son Everest selling for a breed record of $320,000 to Johan Dannhauser, of South African Droughtmaster stud, Considerata (see story on page 43) and Samari stud, Hughenden, Qld.

Earlier in the sale, Glenlands D Empire State, another Whiskey son, was sold for $240,000 to the O’Neill family of Nyanda Pastoral, Rolleston.

It was a breed record held for only the briefest of moments,

All this action happened just 24 hours after English Rose, at $70,000, had re-set the Droughtmaster breed female record during the stud’s separate annual female sale, surpassing the breed’s previous female record of $42,500 posted in 2007.

Spirited performance

With that kind of pedigree, celebrity and colourful history, Esprit was a vital inclusion in the Glenlands D Beef 24 show team, despite having a baby calf at-foot, dropped only 10 days before the start of the event.

“Esprit’s win really completes the circle,” Darren said.

“To sell a bull like Everest and his full sister, at those breed record prices, is very rare.

“Now to have another sibling to both regarded this highly at Beef is rarer still. That’s the cherry on the cake.”

Grand champion bull Glenlands D Freedom Fighter is also hitting the

sweet spot of the stud’s breeding program, says Darren, with the bull’s genetic combination from Whodat, a Rambo son and 4457, one of their best donor cows going back to the line of Quartermaster.

“He is a bull that’s been in the making for a long time. His genetic make-up is where we are heading. He is the best of the Glenlands Quartermaster phenotype and the best of the Rambo phenotype,” Darren said.

He’s one of the better bulls we’ve bred. We think the world of him.

“To have a bull 950-970 kg at that age, not through scale but through length and capacity, and with a lot of early sexual maturity, beautiful sire’s head, and polled makes us feel he’s one of the better bulls we’ve bred.

“We think the world of him.”

Darren said if there were a pattern to the Glenlands D winners this Beef and the continuing success

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Tayla and Callan Childs hold grand champion female Glenlands D Espirit and her calf with Nutrien Studstock’s Dane Pearce and Mark Scown and judge Andrew Raff, King Island, Tas with associate judge Hannah Lehmann, Prenzlau, Qld. Picture Kent Ward

Image Credit: Julie Allen

of Glenlands overall, it has been their ability to use IVF to mass multiply the top end of their genetics over successive decades.

The majority of the Glenlands winners at this year’s Beef emerged from IVF programs.

“My father did some of the earliest ET work and Helen and I did some of the first IVF work in Droughtmaster going back more than 20 years ago,” Darren said.

“We have a core donor herd that is genetically very strong. To me, if anything, it’s the depth of that genetic strength – six, seven generations of consistent cattle breeding –which makes the difference due to the consistency of type and predictability of your cattle.

“People should never underestimate the strength that

Breed: Droughtmaster | Judge: Andrew Raff | No of Exhibits: 169

Calf Champion Male: Glenlands D Fort-Knox

Reserve Calf Champion Male: Glenlands J First Knight

Calf Champion Female: Glenlands D Fame & Fortune

Reserve Calf Champion Female: Nindethana Poppy

Junior Champion Male: Glenlands D Freedom Fighter

Reserve Junior Champion Male: Rondel Diesel

Junior Champion Female: Glenlands J Favourite

Reserve Junior Champion Female: Glenlands D Footloose

Senior Champion Male: Glenlands J Excalibur

Reserve Senior Champion Male: Rondel Double Shot

Senior Champion Female: Glenlands D Esprit

Reserve Senior Champion Female: Glenlands J Everlasting

Grand Champion Male: Glenlands D Freedom Fighter

Grand Champion Female: Glenlands D Esprit

Forty-four Droughtmaster breeders put 169 animals on the centre ring of the Rockhampton Showgrounds, one of the largest displays of stud cattle at the event. Picture: Olivia Wright.

TOP QUOTES

… FROM DARREN CHILDS

On having judges at Beef from outside your breed:

“I think it’s really important to have judges from outside the breed look at your cattle, especially judges who are at the top of their game with their respective breeds, as Andrew Raff is, because it brings a level of objective assessment into the process.”

On Droughtmaster’s future:

“The Droughtmaster breed is in a wonderful position in terms of where we fit in the industry and the opportunities that will be there for Droughtmaster in 10 years’ time. We want to make sure we’ve cemented our offering and our reputation to take advantage of this.”

On the importance of persistence:

“You’ve got to set your goals, have clear visions about what you want to breed and a clear understanding of your market, so you don’t get distracted by fads that come and go. You have to know where the industry is at, what they’re looking for and where your cattle need to be to meet those requirements.”

On breeding for results (outside the show ring):

“Without the commercial industry we are nothing. All the ribbons in the world don’t mean a thing if you don’t have the commercial support and runs on the board in the commercial world.”

On Droughtmaster’s point of difference:

“The place where Droughtmasters are fitting in is that middle of the road animal, the one that allows you flexibility in your program with enough Indicus content to be resilient to tick and fly and heat. They are low maintenance cattle that will become more relevant as labour shortages worsen and costs rise. You need an animal to do a lot of the work for you.”

On the best approach to breeding:

“For us it’s about producing that low maintenance animal that is market acceptable with a bit of flexibility. Don’t focus on one trait. A balanced approach to breeding to find the sweet spot in the middle is where you should aim.”

Picture: Kent Ward

SCRAMBLE FOR EGGS

WHY ACCELERATED BREEDING IS CREATING A FERTILE MARKET FOR FEMALE GENETICS

Increased accessibility to IVF is generating massive interest in elite Droughtmaster females with prices to match, prompting confident forecasts that soon there will be little difference from the money invested in bulls at the high-end of the catalogue.

By BRAD COOPER

A RECORD-PRICED Glenlands

heifer relentlessly pursued during the Beef Genetics in Focus Droughtmaster female sale remains the centre of attention on opposite sides of the country and overseas as progressive producers strategise on maximising her rich genetic potential.

The keen interest comes after West Australian studmaster, Ken Mutton of Fieldhouse Droughtmaster stud purchased Glenlands D Fancy Free for $80,000, a new breed record for a Droughtmaster female at auction.

It is the second time inside 12 months that Glenlands D has produced the recordpriced Droughtmaster female, with Glenlands D English Rose holding the previous record of $70,000 from the stud’s annual female sale last September.

Prior to that milestone, the breed record price had held for 16 years, set in 2007 when Glenlands Kineesha sold to David Torissi, Vitwood Droughtmaster stud, for $42,500.

The steep climb in record prices and the shorter interval between new benchmarks is fuelling speculation it won’t be long before top-price Droughtmaster females punch through the $100,000 mark and beyond, eventually soaring to achieve price parity with top-bred bulls.

The story of Glenlands D Fancy Free would suggest the speculation is right on the money.

Immediately after the sale at Beef 24 on the evening of May 8, it was widely assumed the recordbreaking heifer would travel west to the property of her buyer at Wickepin, in the WA wheatbelt region south-east of Perth.

Instead, the heifer never left Queensland, but travelled down the Bruce Highway to the Sunshine Coast property of Daniel and Teneale Sommer, of Sommer Droughtmaster stud, Maleny.

As the buyer of the sale’s secondtop price female, Glenlands J Favourite for $57,500 and one of the top bidders on Fancy Free, Daniel approached Ken the day after the sale to discuss options for alternative ownership arrangements. Both men ultimately agreed to an arrangement that resulted in Daniel buying the heifer and allocating Fieldhouse a share, with a portion of the balance on-sold to South African studmasters Chippy Watson , of Vova Genetics and Johan Pistorius , of On Top Droughtmasters, who had both travelled to Rockhampton to attend the event.

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The highly-prized Glenlands D Fancy Free, pictured on her home property at Dianne Downs, Theodore, Qld before she sold for record money at Beef 2024 and departed for South Africa. Picture: Kent Ward

Tuesday 24th September, 10am Emerald Saleyards

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At the time of writing in early June, the heifer had been flushed several times, with a portion of the fertilised eggs reserved for Fieldhouse and Sommer stud, while quarantine paperwork was being organised ahead of the heifer’s planned departure for South Africa via air.

With an interest in Thoroughbred racehorses, Daniel told Droughtmaster Magazine that he could see a time when the trade in bovine genetics would follow a similar path to that industry, where female genetics will be highly prized and fiercely contested, pushing up values accordingly at a rapid rate.

“The more affordable and accessible that IVF becomes and the more

uptake we see, we’re going to see this trend continue, with top females highly valued, scarcely available because people will want to hang onto the good ones, purchasing done in syndicates and genetics shuttled around the country and overseas,” Daniel said.

“It’s why we’re currently seeing sharp and dramatic movement in the female market, simply because flushing top-bred females gives you more opportunity to grow the quality and quantity of your progeny with more control and lower risk.

“It’s not at all far-fetched to envisage a day when high-end females will be just as highly valued as the high-end bulls due to their capacity to multiply the best sires and breeders of tomorrow.”

I’d say that down the track none of our sale animals will come from our naturally mated

breeders.

Daniel Sommer’s positive outlook for the female market couldn’t have been better illustrated than the buying preferences that emerged during bidding at the Droughtmaster Beef Genetics in Focus female sale hosted by agents GDL.

Studs represented included Almafi, Billabong, Glenlands, Jigsaw, Major, Medway, Needmor, Rondel, SC Grazing, Smithy’s, Sugerland and Wisetree.

The outcome showed 21 lots, including two lots of semen straws and one lot to ‘take your pick of the entire female herd’, offered by SC Droughtmaster stud, grossed $379,000 at an average of $18,071.

Forty-seven per cent of the gross takings were generated by three Glenlands lots:

• The 17-month-old record-breaker by Glenlands D Alabama out of Glenlands donor cow 2969

offered by Darren and Helen Childs , Dianne Downs, Theodore.

• Glenlands J Favourite, last year’s RNA reserve junior female and a polled daughter of Beef Australia 2021 grand champion Glenlands Bateman, from the stud of Jason and Carissa Childs , Alkira, Dingo.

• And an in-utero calf carried by a recipient cow from the IVF pairing of Rondel Whiskey and Glenlands D Bells ‘n’ Whistles, which sold for $40,000 to Rowan and Coralyn Smith , of Smithy’s Droughtmasters, Yangan, near Warwick in southern Queensland.

Also snaring attention was the quality offering of Jigsaw Faith, from the Jigsaw stud of Cody Hansen and Kellie Pickersgill , Geneva, Theodore.

Described by her breeders in the sale catalogue as a “donor worthy female”, the 20-month-old heifer with Oasis and Lamont blood on the sire line, and Hamadra on her maternal line, sold for $44,000 to Sasha Mylrea , Sashenka stud, Gogango, who has important duties for her new purchase.

“I liked her immediately when I inspected her pre-sale at Paradise Lagoons, just a structurally impressive female with really tidy lines, but with softness, length and capacity,” Sasha said.

“The plan is to flush her in our IVF program and to mate her naturally to the Seymour bull we purchased in partnership with Ken and Kerry McKenzie at the Droughtmaster National last year.”

“He’s a lovely bull and has really been doing his job and we’re very excited about his first calves that will start to drop from about August.”

Rowan Smith , who with his wife Coralyn purchased the in-utero calf plus the recipient cow from Darren and Helen Childs, said they were confident of recouping their investment regardless of the calf’s sex.

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MORE HEIFER SALE HIGHLIGHTS

• Volume buyer Blackstone Ranch, the operation of new Droughtmaster members Joseph and Julie Haber, Farleigh, compiled a trio of quality Rondel heifers outlaying a total of $29,000 to purchase Espresso ($8000), Ella Bache ($11,000) and Evening Star ($10,000), all polled females from the Carrington family’s stud at Anrod Station, Winton.

• Hamadra’s maternal line figured in another strong seller, with Major Golden Dream, a daughter

of the Droughtmaster National Sale’s top price heifer of 2016, Hamadra Golden Girl and sire High Country Freeland, offered by Matt and Rebecca Brooks , Major Droughtmaster, Wivenhoe Pocket sold for $15,000 to new Droughtmaster members Steven and Sarah Comiskey, Comiskey Droughtmasters, Maleny.

• Redroc Droughtmasters, Nathan and Naomi Desira , Goulburn, NSW took two on the night with $10,000 paid for Almafi Kitty, the first female offered in

three years by vendors James and Aleisha Pisaturo, Almafi Droughtmasters, Inga Downs, Dingo and $7000 paid for Billabong Mabel 459 offered by John and Catherine Hicks , Moura.

• David Torrisi, Vitwood Droughtmaster stud, Susan River, Qld bid strongly to be the underbidder on saletop Glenlands D Fancy Free and bought Smithy’s Giselle, a daughter of Glenlands D Whodat out of Glenlands D Destiny’s Child for $12,000.

Daniel Sommer, of Sommer Stud Droughtmasters, Maleny, Qld says the value of Droughtmaster females will only increase as more breeders like him accelerate the production of elite genetics through AI. Picture: Kent Ward.

The in-utero calf’s parentage is the same line that produced last year’s record-breaking bull Glenlands D Everest, which sold for $320,000 and former female record-holder Glenlands D English Rose, in addition to this year’s Beef 24 grand champion Droughtmaster female Glenlands D Espirit.

“With that kind of pedigree, we are pretty confident we will be ahead either way, and we have the added insurance as part of the terms and conditions that we’re guaranteed a live calf or our money back,” Rowan said.

“If it’s a bull, we’ll hang onto him for 18-24 months, collect straws from him for in-herd use and then put him out to market.

“If it’s a heifer she will go straight into our IVF donor herd.

“And while we don’t generally select on pedigree, instead preferencing phenotype, there’s not a Glenlands D Bells ‘n’ Whistles calf that we haven’t liked and that’s why we were attracted to that lot.”

Rowan said that in three years from a standing start, 50 per cent of the operation was now based on IVF production, with about 60 breeders naturally mated to bulls and 50 recipient cows reserved for embryo transfer.

“We have a small nucleus donor herd of about 12 females that we keep very close to home, and they rarely leave our sight – they are that valuable to us,” Rowan said.

“Our journey with IVF started when we bought the top-price Locarno Piper for $29,000 at the Gympie Female Sale in 2021, four years after establishing Smithy’s Droughtmasters in 2017.

“We realised the only way to improve our chances of making our money back was to multiply through IVF and she hasn’t disappointed.”

When asked if he and Coralyn evaluated females just as critically as the bulls given the importance of IVF to their operation, Rowan replied:

“Definitely, potentially more and more as we progress,” he said.

“And the more we get into it and see the depth and consistency we can multiply, I’d say that down the track none of our sale animals will come from our naturally mated breeders.”

The Beef Genetics in Focus sale was conducted by GDL.

Glenlands co-principal Darren Childs congratulates Coralyn and Rowan Smith, of Smithy’s Droughtmasters, Yangan on their purchase of the in-utero calf by Rondel Whiskey out of a Glenlands donor cow for $40,000.

Droughtmaster ca le are Australia’s natural wonder.

It’s an iconic beef breed with a reputation that is underpinned as a sustainable and a natural source of protein. The beef can be served as grassfed, or grain assisted where it boasts an earthy, hearty flavour with a tenderness that will melt in your mouth. Droughtmaster beef is prevalent across the country in households, restaurants, hotels and clubs. It is enjoyed with an array of salads or vegetables, complemented with a nice red wine or a premium lager.

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DROUGHTMASTER BEEF

NEXT GEN FUNDRAISING GOES INTO OVERDRIVE

A MASSIVE FUNDRAISING DRIVE at Beef 2024 will allow Droughtmaster Next Gen to continue developing young people in the beef industry in addition to supporting landowners doing it tough through a record-breaking contribution to charity organisation Rural Aid.

The rewards have come from the efforts of Droughtmaster Australia’s youth development team selling a variety of merchandise, including two designs of caps, pannikin mugs and new glass tumblers, in the Droughtmaster marquee during Beef.

Free items such as sunnies straps and stickers to help promote the Droughtmaster breed were also a big hit among the many visitors to the site.

More than 450 raffle tickets were sold to give visitors a chance of winning the new merchandise items combined with a Yeti prizepack worth more than $1000.

and ticket purchasers,” said Next Gen president, Lauren Finger, La Shae Droughtmaster stud, Taroom.

“This is a massive feat for our small committee.”

Funds were also raised for the Droughtmaster Next Gen bursary that will cover the registration, travel and accommodation for three people to attend the Young Beef Producers Forum in Roma, Qld from November 13-15.

“We’ve had great feedback from previous recipients, and we are excited to be offering the opportunity for a fourth consecutive year,” Lauren said.

“Applications for this bursary will open from Thursday, August 1 to Friday, August 30 with the successful candidates to be announced during our auction at Gracemere, CQLX on Monday, September 16.”

The September 16 evening function

“We had merchandise available for purchase in the Droughtmaster shed throughout the event. FarmFest was a great networking event for all who attended,” Lauren said.

“Both Beef 2024 and FarmFest were great to talk with the members, getting new ideas and informing them of what is yet to come with our little committee working tirelessly behind the scenes to evolve with our breed and industry.

Next Gen leaders, president Lauren Finger and treasurer Mikaela Gauci, MG Droughtmaster stud, Sarina.

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BEEF’S DYNAMIC DUO

Two rising stars of the breed already share a name, now they also share an experience of a lifetime thanks to the Droughtmaster Research & Education Foundation.

SOUTHEAST QUEENSLAND’S, Amy Wheeler, and Central Queensland’s, Amy Collins , have used words like “invaluable” and “inspired” to describe their week at Beef 2024.

The two women were the successful recipients of the 2024 Beef Experience bursaries, enabling their travel to and from Rockhampton, admission to the event, attendance at seminars of their choice; and funds to cover incidental expenses.

During the weeklong experience, they were each billeted with a Droughtmaster family that were on the grounds and exhibiting stud beef cattle at the event.

This afforded them the opportunity to be totally immersed in the program and to experience Beef from the inside.

The Beef 2024 Experience exposed the young women to many facets of the beef industry.

In the Droughtmaster compound, they were involved with the daily care, preparation and exhibition of Droughtmaster cattle, and interacting with visitors to the event who were inspecting the cattle under their care.

In addition, they attended the activities in the Droughtmaster marquee where they witnessed a record-breaking female auction, enjoyed a robust panel discussion addressing educational opportunities and challenges for youth in agriculture, and were able to meet and engage with other Droughtmaster members and breeders.

Beyond the Droughtmaster compound, they were exposed to many facets of the beef

industry through attendance at formal seminars and industry discussion groups, and visiting the numerous industry relevant displays and corporate stands that were available at the event.

A highlight of the Beef 2024 Experience for both young women was the opportunity to meet and engage with so many people involved in the breed and the broader industry.

Amy Collins, of Biloela, who is studying Agricultural Science at the University of Queensland and seeking to carve a future for herself in the beef cattle industry, identified the opportunity as ‘invaluable’.

Amy Wheeler, of Kandanga, who operates her own Droughtmaster stud, and is in her final year of school while completing a schoolbased traineeship as livestock

Amy Collins (left) and Amy Wheeler benefited from a week at Beef thanks to bursaries funded by the Droughtmaster Research & Education Foundation.

clerk at Nolan’s Meats in Gympie, was ‘inspired’ by the opportunity to meet other breeders that shared the same passion.

A particular highpoint of the Beef 2024 Experience for Amy Wheeler was meeting Western Zone Director, Olivia Wright from Munda Red Droughtmasters and discussing the ‘many differences’ encountered by Droughtmaster breeders ‘from the east to the west’ of our great nation.

For Amy Collins, it was attending two seminars, one which examined the beef industry on a global scale, and the other on innovations and investments in the industry.

Amy described the seminars as incredibly educational and applicable to her studies whilst fuelling her passion for the beef industry.

Both young women enjoyed their Beef 2024 Experience and are both enormously grateful to the Droughtmaster Foundation for affording them this opportunity.

Amy Wheeler said receiving the bursary had allowed her to experience the atmosphere and culture of Beef.

“It has given me the inspiration and drive to continue planning and improving my own herd and the Droughtmaster breed,” she said.

It has given me the inspiration and drive to continue planning and improving my own herd and the Droughtmaster breed.

For Amy Collins, the bursary provided her with an opportunity that she would not have otherwise been afforded.

According to Amy, during the week at Beef 2024 she had many opportunities to network, socialise, and learn more about the Droughtmaster breed, while still being able to exhibit in the breed classes and junior events.

Bursaries double the benefits

The Droughtmaster Foundation would like to thank Droughtmaster members present at Beef 2024 for welcoming both Amy Collins and

Amy Wheeler, and for contributing to what was a very positive experience for them both.

The Droughtmaster Research & Education Foundation was established in 1998 as a vehicle through which funds could be raised and apportioned exclusively for the purpose of advancing the education and skills of young people involved in the beef cattle industry.

The Foundation provides grants, bursaries and scholarships to young people pursuing formal studies and/or engaging in scientific research in this area.

Following the success of the inaugural Beef Experience bursaries offered in 2021, the Foundation announced earlier this year that it would award two bursaries that would enable two young people under the age of 25 years, to attend and actively participate in the exciting and innovative 2024 Beef Australia Expo in Rockhampton.

The response to the announcement was extraordinary, with the Foundation receiving several quality applications from young beef enthusiasts across the country.

BOYS GET CRACK AT ELITE STRAWS AFTER POOLING FUNDS

THREE YOUNG STUDMASTERS purchasing in a syndicate were among the successful bidders of semen from elite sires during Beef 2024 at the Straws for a Cause event now in its seventh year.

Riley and Thomas Seymour, from Seymour R and Seymour T studs, along with Mac Smith of Vale View M, pooled their funds to facilitate the purchase of one prized semen package from five elite stud sires.

The young men have plans to use their newly acquired package over their favourite stud females once they calve this season.

They are grateful that the Droughtmaster Research & Education Foundation and the semen donors were able to offer such a wonderful package.

“We extend our appreciation to all who have made this possible,” they said.

The Straws for a Cause initiative was launched in 2018 as a vehicle through which funds could be raised by the Droughtmaster Research and Education Foundation to support the education of young people involved in the beef cattle industry.

Two packages of semen including a mix of straws from five elite

stud sires were auctioned at the Beef Genetics In Focus Sale held during Beef 2024, raising a total of $26,000 for the noteworthy cause.

The Foundation is grateful to Droughtmaster members who generously donated straws this year, including High Country Rural (Laycock family), and RMT Syndicate (Riley, Mac and Thomas from Seymour R, Vale View M and Seymour T Droughtmaster Studs).

Other donors included: Oasis A (Oasis A Mouse); Simmons Cattle Company (Oasis A Bronco); Glenlands J (Glenlands J BB King); Lamont (Needmor Hyatt) and Nindethana & High Country (Rondel Whiskey).

Corporate sponsors who waived fees associated with the auction and the handling and movement of the semen included GDL, Just Genes, Rocky Repro, Beef Breeding Services and Cattle Breeding Services.

Mac Smith (left) and brothers Thomas and Riley Orphant are learning early about the power of combining forces to buy quality genetics.

WITH THEIR BULL HARRY POTTER, BURTON SISTERS SHARE MAGICAL BEEF

Continuing to elevate its celebrity status every three years, glittering Beef Australia has paved another path for Chelsea and Daisy Burton’s star to rise.

By BRAD COOPER

THE TOOGOOLAWAH SISTERS and their parents had big ambitions ahead of the May event to take 12 head to the Beef Australia showring but downsized the draft to eight just weeks before leaving for Rockhampton when family illness disrupted pre-show preparations.

The reduced number of exhibits had limited impact, with Chelsea and Daisy’s five animals from the six they originally nominated from their Yimin CD Droughtmaster stud yielding four class placegetters.

The girls’ achievement was twice as good as the result posted by their mum and dad, Allen and Michelle Burton, who had two animals from their Yimin stud place out of the three head they took to Beef.

“For her first time at Beef, Chelsea competed in junior judging and junior parader. She didn’t place; however, she had such a great time, met other young competitors, and learnt a lot of new skills,” Michelle said.

While growing their own stud in southeast Queensland, Allen and Michelle started the Yimin CD stud in 2020 to foster their daughters’ growing interest in stud cattle.

“They’ve taken a very keen interest in cattle and getting involved in their care almost from the time they could walk,” Michelle said.

“The minute they come home from school, the bags are down and they’re straight out in the paddock, checking the animals, and doing the feed-ups with dad. They know the routine very well.”

Unawed by the big occasion, Chelsea, 8, and Daisy, 7 (pictured facing page) demonstrated the same work ethic at Beef. Like other young studmasters intraining, they worked tirelessly every day to ensure their animals were kept in good order.

Coming home from Beef for the kids was like coming down from the clouds.

“They followed the golden rule that we also set at home, that you make sure your animals are fed and watered and looked after before you look after yourself,” Michelle said.

“We’re extremely proud, not only of how they worked but how they interacted with the public. Equally enthralled were the many children streaming through the Rockhampton Showgrounds’ gates, who took an instant liking to Chelsea and Daisy and their bull Yimin CD Harry Potter.

For the many children with next to no cattle experience, it was an opportunity to pat, brush

and even feed handfuls of hay to a young rising sire expressing the quiet temperament of the Droughtmaster breed.

“He had many photos taken with people and I guess he has his own special following now,” Michelle said.

Since returning from Rockhampton, talk in the Burton household has turned to Beef 27.

“Coming home from Beef for the kids was like coming down from the clouds,” Michelle said.

“We’re back into the reality of schoolwork and daily farming chores but they take it all in their stride.”

Despite the girls’ enthusiasm for more shows, Michelle says the outings in the latter half of this year will be limited as they take advantage of drier weather to ramp up hay production.

In between their jobs on the farm, Chelsea and Daisy will also find time to indulge other pursuits like swimming, dancing, and gymnastics.

“When your kids find a passion for something you have to back them 100 per cent,” Michelle said.

“At the moment their passion is the beef industry, but if that changes and they want to do something else, we’ll get behind that.

“We’re not forcing them to do this, but while they’re having fun with it, so are we, so there’s no good reason to slow down just yet.”

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Our special coverage of Beef 2024 ends with a photo finish in the Droughtmaster marquee.

Viertel, Two Okes Droughtmasters, Milford, Thomas McKenzie, Yaralla Droughtmasters, Blackwater, Edward Mylrea, Needmor Droughtmasters, Gogango and Darcy McKenzie, Yaralla D Droughtmasters, Coomoo.

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Droughtmaster stud operator Kerry McKenzie, Yaralla, Blackwater with Sharon and Greg Harms, Oakmore, Greenmount.

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Sarah Rose, Roselah Droughtmasters, Goondiwindi.

Daisy and Chelsea Burton, Yimin Droughtmasters, Biarra.

Jonathon Collins, (far left), Annandale Acres, Calliope, with his son Clayton, spend time with fellow Droughtmaster stud breeders, from left: Paul Heathwood and Michael Bardon, Piper’s Gully, Dallarnil, Ken Thompson, True Blue, Childers and Allen Burton, Yimin, Biarra.

Lauren Finger, La Shae Droughtmasters, Taroom with her nephew George Pisaturo, son of Almafi Droughtmaster stud principals James and Aleisha Pisaturo, Dingo.

Haylee Hughes, Kihayla H Droughtmasters, Grandchester & Paula Russell, Locarno Droughtmasters, Dingo.

Thapelo Setlalekgosi, Gaborone, Botswana, with Paul Laycock and Katrina Wallis, High Country Droughtmasters, Eskdale.

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Joseph and Julie Haber, Blackstone Ranch, Farleigh.

DROUGHTMASTERS HOLD THEIR OWN AT TOUGH FEB ALL BREEDS SALE

By KENT WARD

THE DROUGHTMASTER OFFERING

at this year’s February All Breeds Bull and Female Sale has held up against an erosion of buyer confidence that saw clearance rates and median values slip across the catalogue during the twoday event at CQLX, Gracemere. In a tough market, Droughtmasters held their own by claiming third position on the breed averages ladder closely behind Brahmans, which averaged $7090 for an 81 percent clearance from 67 bulls offered, and Charbrays, which recorded a $7237 average for a 95 percent clearance from 38 bulls offered.

In the Droughtmaster portion, 43 bulls averaged $7000 to sell to a top of $17,000 with honours going to Bryvonlea Xquenda (PP), a 32-month-old Glenlands D Ultimatum son presented by Brian and Yvonne Heck and family, Bryvonlea Stud, Glastonbury. Illustrating the challenge for vendors, last year 87 Droughtmaster bulls averaged $9384 in an 87 percent clearance to sell to an event record of $42,500.

Scanning 13/11 mm, 134 EMA and 5.9IMF, Xquenda went to Will and Jo Garrett , Langshaw Valley Stud, Langshaw. Xquenda was one of three Ultimatum sons that averaged $11,000.

Five Bryvonlea bulls averaged $8800, a superbly conditioned draft that included another of the Ultimatum progeny, the 33-monthold, 990 kg, Willis (P), scanning 16/13 mm, 139 EMA, and 6.0 IMF that fetched $10.000 from the Wales family, The Cedars, Biloela. Allan and Shiree Wenham Boiling Springs Stud, Bell sold three bulls to $16,000 to average $9667 to Ashley and Nicole Postlethwaite, Mt Christian. Setting an average of $9833 for his six was Andrew McKenzie, Hamadra Stud, Bluff. Hamadra’s draft of six topped at $15,000 for Meteorite, a 23-month-old, 738 kg Bryvonlea Ugo son with 9/6 mm on the rib, 126 EMA and 4.5 IMF selling to Jellinbah Station , Blackwater. Jellinbah accounted for five for an average of $10,600 from the Hamadra draft.

These included a $14,000 PP son of Vale View Arizona (P) and a pair at $10,000 each sired by retained homebred bulls, Jericho (P) and his sire, Bodaicious (S). David and Colleen Smith , Vale View Stud, Manumbar sold five bulls to a high of $15,000 setting up a $6200 average.

The top seller for the prefix was Fresco 2 (P) (By-Mingo Oscar (P)) (24-months) (834kg) (12/8mm) (144 EMA) (3.6 IMF) selling to Don and Robyn Roberton , ByMingo Stud, Coalstoun Lakes. Roger and Carol Webber, Tajana Stud, Cloyna marketed two bulls to $14,000 to average $9000.

Their top was Tajana Storm Boy (P) (Rockdale Marvelous (P)) (28-months) (907kg) (13/10 mm) (139 EMA) (5.9 IMF) selling to Chris Mahon , Bellfield, Moura who bought both bulls from Tajana. Also selling for $14,000 was True Blue Gus (P), offered by Ken Thompson and family, True Blue Stud, Childers.

Gus (Jembrae Fenton (P)) (25-months) (830kg) (13/10mm) (136EMA) (5.0IMF) sold to John Atkinson , Glenavon Stud, Yaamba. Two from True Blue set a $10,000 average.

The Carter family, Cedar Springs Stud, Kyogle, NSW sold bulls to $6000 while Chris Turner Maunsell Park Stud, Gympie secured a $5500 average for his pair topping at $7000 for a Glenlands D Quart (P) son.

The Scheiwe family, Toblo Stud, Marburg sold bulls to $4000 while the Spann family, Minlacowie Stud, Jambin set a $4200 average for their five topping at $5000.

Cec and Elaine Pelling , Fernleigh Stud, Theodore averaged $6000 for their pair selling to a top of $7000.

Doug and Juanita Birch , Birch Stud, Eidsvold sold a single entry for $4000 while Wantmore principals, Andrew and Jessica Welch ended with a $6500 average for two topping at $7000.

Jenny Simmonds , Marylands S Stud, Chinchilla averaged $6000 for her two topping at $8000 for a Glen Fosslyn Landmark (P) son.

The Orphant family, Seymour and Seymour T Studs, Gunalda ended with a $4500 average for their pair sold.

K Team Stud , Biloela sold their entry, Easton (Vale View Arizona (P)) for $4000 going to the White family, Marylands Stud, Quinalow.

One of the biggest supporters of the section was the Wight and Sibson families , Jellinbah Pastoral Company, Blackwater taking six for a $10,333 average. Banana Station Banana signed off on six for a $4500 average topping at $6000.

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Top price Droughtmaster Bryvonlea Xquenda (PP) with vendor, Brian Heck, Bryvonlea Stud, Gympie after selling for $17,000.

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REDSKIN HERD BULL TOPS HIGHLANDS SALE AT $29,000

A 26-MONTH-OLD herd bull from the Redskin Droughtmaster stud topped the 33rd annual Highlands Droughtmaster sale in March, delivering a power-packed rising sire with scale and depth to repeat buyers Ryan and Chloe Hodgkinson Cairo Cattle Co, Clermont.

A scurred son of Huntly Signature, the junior bull from Morinish near Rockhampton commanded the attention of his buyers with an impressive panel of figures, giving the Hodgkinsons confidence their investment will return handsome dividends once he is put to work.

“I think he’ll grow out into a big bull,” Ryan said after the sale.

“He has plenty of bone, a good underline, good across the top, and plenty of hindquarter.

“He’ll go straight for a spell and then we’ll line up some of our heifers and cows for him later in the year.”

Weighing 885 kg and scanning an eye muscle area of 140 square cm, and rib/rump fat measurements of 9/6 mm, the sale’s $29,000 top measured 42 cm around the scrotum, while scoring 80 per cent for semen motility.

Redskin 81 was among 17 herd bulls that sold to an average of $7647, just shy of the $7750 average posted by 28 registered Droughtmaster bulls that achieved a lower top price of $22,000.

Posting gross sale revenue of $347,000 across the Highlands catalogue, 45 of the 61 bulls offered sold at an average of $7711, $4201 below last year’s record average.

At least 89 per cent of the lots sold up to $10,000, delivering highly cost-effective herd improvers

Redskin Droughtmaster stud principal Ken Rutherford and Elders auctioneer Anthony Ball with Clermont beef producers Ryan and Chloe Hodgkinson, and their children Duke, 13, and Denbi, 10, buyers of sale top Redskin 81. Picture: Ben Harden.

for commercial and seedstock producers across Queensland.

As a result of the Highlands sale’s wide appeal, Droughtmaster bulls will be servicing females in the state’s north-west at Charters Towers, Julia Creek and Hughenden, key Central Queensland beef centres between Mackay and Rockhampton, including Clermont, Dysart, Moranbah, Belyando and Alpha, south-west to Charleville and in the state’s south-east corner at Mount Mee and Beaudesert.

Joining more than 20 registered bidders at the Clermont Saleyards, 128 viewers, comprising 16 registered online bidders, tuned into the sale via StockLive snapping up nine lots online at an average price of $8555.

As well as buying the top price bull, Cairo Cattle Co sold all four of their bulls for an average price of $6000, pleasing Ryan Hodgkinson.

“The sale result is definitely back a bit on last year’s result, but it’s just the confidence in the market that brought the clearance back a bit,” he said.

Vale View, Manumbar: five sold, $9200. Karragarra, Emerald: seven sold, $9857. Warrina, Ravenshoe: two sold, $7500. Calco, Rolleston: two sold, $7000. Almafi, Dingo: two sold, $5000. Cairo, Clermont: four sold, $6000. Redskin, Mornish: four sold, $11,000. Medway, Bogantungan: three sold, $7333. Huntly, Comet: eight sold, $6500. Strathfield, Clermont: four sold, $7250. Kenlogan, Clermont: two sold, $5000. Skye Droughtmasters: two sold, $6000.

“There seemed to be a lot of northern and western Queensland buyers active in today’s result, which was good

and not too many bulls stayed local, which is odd for this sale.”

Wayne and Ingrid York of Karragarra Droughtmasters, Emerald, offered the second top seller and top registered sire, Karragarra Tiktok, which sold to Anthony Anderson , Julia Creek, for $22,000.

The son of Skye Ford weighed in at 815 kg with P8/rib fat measurements 10/7 mm, an EMA of 136 sq cm and a 43 cm scrotal circumference.

Karragarra Droughtmasters also won the ‘Champion Pen of Bulls’ of the sale, which was judged by Alex Power, Lazy A Droughtmasters.

The champion pen, comprising Karragarra 1598 and Karragarra 1668, both sold for $10,000 to Dale Sibson , Dysart, part of a five-strong draft he purchased for an average of $8000.

Other commercial buyers who took home multiple sires included the O’Sullivan family, Jumba Holdings, Charters Towers, securing six bulls at an average price of $6166, and T and C Sypher, who bought five bulls at an average price of $5000.

• (Source: Queensland Country Life)

The Highlands Droughtmaster sale vendors raised $2250 for the Mackay-based CQ Rescue this year, with each vendor donating $50 from each bull sold to the helicopter rescue and medical retrieval service that operates as a lifeline to people across central and north Queensland.

POLLED BULLS DRAW SHARP BIDS FROM CLONCURRY BUYERS

Yet another complete clearance was achieved at the annual Cloncurry Bull Sale in late March.

By KENT WARD

VENDORS , Darren and Helen Childs , Glenlands D Stud, Theodore, and Anthony and Rachael Anderson , Eddington Stud, Julia Creek along with Eddie and Sharon Maxwell , Crown M Stud, Julia Creek saw 133 homozygous (PP) and heterozygous (P) polled bulls average $8075.

The catalogue was supported from a vast geographical area encompassing the central, north and northwestern regions of Queensland and the Northern Territory.

Market pacesetter at $21,000 was Glenlands D 10022 (PP). The 28-month-old by Glenlands D Bradford (Glenlands Quartermaster) hit the scales at 782 kg and delivered scans of 13 mm and 11 mm for P8 and rib fat, 142 cm2 for eye muscle area (EMA), and 4.7 per cent for intramuscular fat (IMF).

Taking the top seller was Queensland Rural, Charters Towers on behalf of Fairfield Station , Clermont.

Fairfield secured five in the sale, averaging $15,800 in a result that included the second top seller, the $19,500, Glenlands D 10010 (P).

The 27-month-old herd improver, sired by Glenlands D Ramsay (Glenlands D Hadleigh), weighed 870 kg and delivered scans of 9 mm and 6 mm for P8 and rib fat, 142 cm2 EMA and 4.3 per cent IMF.

Main support came from Fleetwood Station , Aramac whose operators selected 22 head from the offering for a $9864 average.

The top of their selection was a pen of four for $11,500 each. Rostron Grazing selected a total of 14 for two destinations, Leichhardt Station, Aramac and The Grove, Alpha for a $8184 average while Spreadborough Pastoral Company Spoonbill Station, Julia Creek picked up 10 for a $5100 average.

Charlie and Jackie Hawkins and family, Herbertvale Station, Camooweal returned taking nine for a $10,333 average.

Tipperary Station , Darwin, NT returned taking eight, averaging $6125 and topping at $8000 twice.

Ray Scott Pastoral Pty Ltd , Carso Gowrie Station, Charters Towers took seven for a $7143 average.

Argyle Pastoral Company, Argyle Station, Julia Creek ended with seven for a $4715 average while Kiernan and Co, Bygana, Clermont secured a line of six for a $11,833 average.

Topping the Kiernan and Co draft at $13,500 was a Glenlands D herd bull, D472.

The Simmons family, Clarafield Station, Julia Creek purchased six for a $4667 average with Jim and Betty Brown , Mayfield Station, Duchess returning to take six for a $5917 medium.

Top for the Eddington prefix was a two-year-old PP herd bull by the retained homebred bull, My Way, sired by Wolfang 12108 (P), selling for $17,000 to Peter and Carol Davies, The Nobbies, Cloncurry.

Top for the Crown M prefix was a $7500 lot by Glenlands D Bourne Again (P) selling to Woombool Grazing , Balaclava, Cloncurry. Woombool will be the home of three purchased lots that averaged $7000, while the Davies family operation signed off on a trio for an average of $9833.

FR Livestock , Maronan Station, Cloncurry took four to average $5833, while three head were consigned to Thunderbolt Grazing , The Springs, Aramac for a $10,000 average, topping at $12,000 for a Glenlands D herd bull.

Morr Morr Pastoral Company, Delta Downs Station, Normantown, bought three lots from the one pen at $5500 each.

The Fegan family, Kalashields, McKinlay also acquired a trio for a $8833 average.

Top of the Kalashields’ selection were two lots at $9500 each. All three were selected from the Eddington draft and included the sale opener, Eddington 4002 (PP) (24-months) (Ianbrae Biga).

• Agents: Hourn & Bishop Qld Pty Ltd., Kennedy Rural and simulcast on StockLive.

Top selling bull, $21,000 Glenlands D 10022 (PP) at the Cloncurry Bull Sale, bound for Fairfield Station, Clermont. Picture: Kent Ward.

BIG CASH SPLASH ON MUNDA REDS IN WA

Quality Munda Reds Droughtmaster sires flooded with cash as ongoing dry weighs heavily on the overall result of Western Australia’s largest single-breed stud cattle sale.

WEST AUSTRALIAN CATTLEMAN

Rob Jowett , Warrawagine Cattle Company, Warrawagine and Wallal Stations, Port Hedland, amassed a team of 34 stud and commercial Munda bulls with an outlay near $300,000 at an overall

average of $8809 to be the sale’s most influential buyer in April.

Southeast Queensland stud breeder Paul Laycock paid the top money of $38,000 for Munda Holy Smokes 4521, sired by a Garthowen Velocity

2 son, Munda Eight Ball 19-3551, and out of a Wajatryn Industry D5 daughter, Munda Becky 16-1137.

The honey coated double polled bull found favour with the principal of High Country Droughtmaster

BOTSWANA BUYER SNARES SALE’S

INTERNATIONAL BUYER Thapelo

Setlalekgosi, 3in1 Agric Consultancy Pty Ltd, Gaborone, Botswana, representing the government of the Republic of Botswana, was losing bidder on the two top-priced bulls, but it didn’t stop him from securing three double polled bulls.

He first paid $11,000 for a 818 kg low birthweight and gestation length Lisgar Dallas 14972 son and raised the bar paying $14,000 for the following bull, a SC Glencoe 17-5318 son which was the heaviest bull in the sale team at 846 kg.

But it was the gem found deep into the sale catalogue he raised his sights even further and paid the sale’s $19,000 third top price.

The mid-April 2022 born double polled bull was by Glenavon Tornado and out of a Kapalee 15-2544 daughter Munda 2665. It tipped the scales at 720 kg and recorded 1.16kg ADG with scans of 9 mm fats, 120 cm2 EMA and 5.9 per cent IMF.

The three bulls form part of a Republic of Botswana government incentive to fast track the growth and production

of the country’s beef breeding herd through artificial breeding programs using top genetics.

The program has seen Thapelo Setlalekgosi and his advisory team travelling the state and privately purchasing bulls and heifers from several studs earlier this year, including from Munda Reds.

Thapelo said the three new Droughtmaster bulls would be collected and used in purebred Droughtmaster embryo programs, with the embryos and semen offered to farmers at very affordable prices.

With the $38,000 top-priced bull, Munda Holy Smokes 22-4521 was Munda Reds Glencoe managers Ben and Olivia Wright, Stephanie Laycock, Max Wallis, Katrina Wallis and Paul Laycock, High Country stud, Munda Reds stud principal, Mike Thompson, and auctioneer Dane Pearce, Nutrien. Picture: Farm Weekly

stud, Toogoolawah, who purchased a further four bulls for commercial use, including three consecutively offered red double polled bulls by another Garthowen Velocity 2 son, Munda Commander 17-1643, costing $7000, $10,000 and $12,000.

Later in the sale, he bought a PH bull by an Oasis A Hudson son, Munda Done Good, for a steal at $6000.

Through the bidding of Kim Goad return stud buyer John Atkinson Glenavon Droughtmaster stud, Yaamba, Queensland paid the sale’s $31,000 second top price for Munda Hound Dog 22-4978, a powerful soft red PH bull by a Kapalee Game Changer son Munda Django 18-3178.

Out of a Hamadra Gatsby daughter Munda 2370, the mid-May 2022 born bull weighed 788 kg with one of the highest ADG in the sale team of 1.37 kg along with other raw data of 9 mm for both fats, 118 cm2 EMA and 5.4 per cent IMF. The top-priced sires were part of the 164 Droughtmaster bulls

“We look for bulls that carry themselves well with a lot of meat,” he said.

“We mustn’t forget these are beef bulls and we are looking for something beefy.

“The bulls are not high or short on their legs, they’re in between which means their offspring will walk all day in the paddocks in tough conditions.

“And we want the sheath as close to the stomach as possible because we have a lot of thorny vegetation which can cause damage.”

Thapelo said Munda Reds hosted Republic of Botswana president Mokgweetsi Masisi and several of his ministers in September last year who inspected the Munda Reds cattle and were impressed.

offered in April at Glencoe, Gingin, WA from Munda Reds principal Mike Thompson and family, stud managers Ben and Olivia Wright and the Munda Reds team.

Guest auctioneers Dane Pearce and Trent McKinlay, Nutrien Ag Solutions stud stock, Rockhampton, Queensland, and the Nutrien Livestock WA selling team sold 132 of 164 bulls (80 per cent) to gross more than $1 million, at an overall average of $7803.

While more bulls sold this year, values were well down on last year’s bolter of a sale that cleared 116 bulls at an average $12,228 overall.

Broken down, 53 of 80 Munda Reds stud bulls (66 per cent) bred at Glencoe sold at auction for an average of $11,509.

In the commercial line-up, 79 of 84 herd bulls (94 per cent) bred at Mundabullangana station, Port Hedland, sold under the hammer to average $5316.

Interest on the overlooked stud bulls was to prove positive for Munda Reds, with postsale negotiations lifting the clearance rate to 91 per cent and the sale average to $10,272.

Trent McKinlay said the Munda team presented a consistent line of quality bulls, which attracted strong investment despite tough seasonal conditions across WA.

“Compared to the stud’s past two sales the market was back which was no doubt a result of the bad seasonal conditions across most of WA and cattle prices being back on previous years,” he said.

“Most of the bulls sold to properties in the northern parts of WA, but like the past couple of years we did see good buying support from Queensland stud and commercial breeders again.”

Nutrien Livestock pastoral agent Daniel Wood represented a couple of bigger accounts.

He built a team of 20 commercial bulls at good value for $4500 each on behalf of Glen Gold , Alice Springs and seven commercial bulls costing to $8000 at an average of $6357 for return buyers Davis River Pastoral Partnership, Newman.

Fitzroy Crossing pastoralists Gogo Station secured 11 commercial bulls also at value for $4500 each, before setting its sights on the overlooked stud bulls following the sale, adding a further 10 bulls, finishing with a team of 21 bulls. Other notable accounts were return buyer KD Power Pastoral Pty Ltd, Busselton, finishing with five bulls (including two bulls following the sale) and paying to a $14,000 top price for a 704 kg double polled Oasis A Hudson son, along with $12,000 deep into the

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Thapelo Setlalekgosi, 3in1 Agric Consultancy Pty Ltd, Gaborone, Botswana, representing the government of the Republic of Botswana, with Botswana’s $14,000 bull, Munda Hit the Jackpot 22-4729 and Munda Reds Glencoe manager Ben Wright and Nutrien Livestock pastoral agent Daniel Wood. Picture: Farm Weekly

sale for a 728 kg double polled bull by a Kapalee Game Changer son, Munda Escapade 19-3566. Minch Pastoral , Gingin, averaged a healthy $12,333 for a team of three stud bulls, paying to $13,000 twice for sons of Kapalee Ajay 15-2144 and SC Western 17-5243 at the front-end of the sale. Bonney Downs Station , Nullagine (south of Marble Bar), collected seven bulls to average $5071 across the team of two stud and five commercial bulls.

Other interstate accounts were Jumba Holdings , Charters Towers, Qld with six stud bulls averaging $6667 and the Farmer family, SC Droughtmaster stud, Yaamba, Qld, who paid $15,000 for a new stud sire Munda Hold My Beer 22-4693. The 756 kg double polled late February 2022 born bull was by their own sire SC Western 17-5243 and out of a Garthowen Velocity 2 daughter Munda 20-4116 with scans of 11 mm P8 fat, 10 mm rib fat, 118 cm2 EMA, 5.4 per cent IMF and 40 cm scrotal circumference.

• Source: Farm Weekly via reporting from Kane Chatfield and Jodie Rintoul

VOLUME PURCHASE TREATS SICK KIDS

PROFILED IN A SPECIAL FEATURE in last year’s Droughtmaster Magazine, due to his plans to build a quality pipeline of Droughtmaster females for eastern state buyers, Rob Jowett’s haul at the Munda Reds sale included 19 stud bulls from $6000 to a top of $16,000 twice to average $11,053 and 15 commercial bulls averaging $5967. His winning $18,000 bid on the lead commercial bull, secured him the Telethon charity bull for the third consecutive year, where all proceeds are generously donated by the Thompson family to Telethon, a research institute focused on childhood diseases.

Rob Jowett (centre), Warrawagine Cattle Company, Warrawagine and Wallal stations, Port Hedland, was the sale’s volume buyer with a team of 34 stud and commercial bulls costing an average of $8809. Mr Jowett caught up with volume bull buyer sponsor Kylie Meloury, Virbac central WA and Munda Reds stud principal

NEW MEMBERS SECURE TOP PRICE BEFORE BEEF 2024 BUYING SPREE

A 14-MONTH-OLD HEIFER with strong Glenlands bloodlines fetched the $21,000 top price at the Droughtmaster National Female Sale in March, paid by new Droughtmaster members Joe and Jules Haber, Blackstone Ranch, Farleigh, Qld.

Offered by Jesse Barnes on behalf of his parents Wayne and Lana Barnes , principals of Waylanbar Droughtmaster stud, Emerald, Waylanbar Leanne is a daughter of Glenlands Utopia, out of Glenlands D 3725.

The sale at Gympie saw 139 of the 169 lots offered sold for an overall average of $5442, and a total of $756,500.

Of the 139 lots, three out of six joined heifers sold to a top of $4500 and average of $4167, and 136 out of 163 unjoined heifers sold to a top of $21,000 and an average of $5471.

This year’s 82 per cent clearance was 11 per cent down on results recorded in 2023, when the sale average was $5847 with a clearance of 93 per cent.

The Habers purchased their first three heifers at the sale, telling Queensland Country Life they would take their time to build their stud.

“Because we have a small property, we want to do it properly and we were looking for the best here and I think we have achieved that with the help of GDL,” Joe Haber said.

The Habers would make good on their promise weeks later when they bought a trio of exceptional Rondel polled females at Beef 2024 in Rockhampton.

(See story page 21).

BEEF

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The Howard family, Benjamin stud, North Aramara near Maryborough, Qld, paid the sale’s second topprice of $16,000 for Nindethana Omelia, bred by Bronwyn Betts and Michael Hawkins , Nindethana Pastoral, Camp Mountain, Qld.

Melanie Jensen Brown and Graham Brown from Sylvan Springs & RSVP Droughtmasters, Windera, Qld sold Sylvan Springs Pearl 1296 for the same money to KC Droughtmasters , Bauhinia Downs, Qld.

Selling agents: GDL, Elders and Nutrien.

• Source: Queensland Country Life

COMMERCIAL FEMALE HEIFERS TOP $1560

SIXTEEN ACTIVE BIDDERS online pushed prices for quality commercial Droughtmaster heifers to a top of $1560 at the Society sponsored Commercial Female Sale in May.

The online only sale hosted on AuctionsPlus saw heifers average $1391. Weaners sold to a top of $1500, matching the average paid for the weaner lots offered.

The sale grossed $326,000.

SUPPLY CHAIN’S DOMINANT FORCE

Farewell as President

Finally, this will be my last magazine update to you as President of Droughtmaster Australia. While I will be staying on in the role of Director for a further 12 months, it’s time for fresh legs in the role of President.

The last five years have been rewarding hard work. There have

been many highlights. Those that stand out are our 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2022, renewing the Society’s Strategic Direction, which was recognised last year when Droughtmaster Australia was awarded an Australian Business Award for Business Transformation, and our Beef 21 and Beef 24 event presence.

Without doubt, though, it has been working with a cohesive

and dedicated Board, excellent Company Secretary, exceptional CEO Simon Gleeson, wonderful staff and the many positive and engaged members that have motivated me to contribute my time and effort to this role for Droughtmaster – Australia’s Natural Wonder.

For that, I thank you all. See you at a Droughtmaster event soon. – Todd Heyman, President

Vendor Jesse Barnes, Waylanbar Droughtmaster with buyers Jules and Joe Haber, Blackstone Ranch, Farleigh with the top priced heifer, Waylanbar Leanne. Picture: Clare Adcock.

THE PLAN TO MAKE AFRICA, DROUGHTMASTER COUNTRY ROAR AMBITION

Twenty-six years after first exporting Droughtmaster genetics to South Africa, Glenlands is making a bold play to increase market share on the continent, shipping live animals, forging local partnerships, and building brand profile to capitalise on soaring interest in the breed.

By BRAD COOPER

DARREN CHILDS HAS a concise way of describing how events will unfold from Glenlands Africa, the new concept and brand launched in April to develop and market a quality Glenlands Droughtmaster herd within easy reach of key African markets.

According to the co-principal of Glenlands Droughtmaster stud, central to the plan is the support of the venture’s partners – Considerata South Africa, and Samari – a Johannesburg based company with investments in technology and agriculture in South Africa and Australia, including the stud herd they hold in Queensland heavily infused with Glenlands bloodlines.

Also critical to the strategy will be the partnership’s capacity to accelerate the breeding of a core Glenlands herd, starting with the live export via air of 12 maiden heifers from the Glenlands D stud, Dianne Downs, Theodore to the Considerata home property at Parys, Free State, about 100 km south of Johannesburg.

Once acclimatised, the heifers will be entered into an accelerated artificial insemination (AI) and embryo transfer (ET) program, flushed with semen from Considerata’s home-bred bulls

carrying Glenlands bloodlines and naturally mated to selected sires.

Semen straws and bulls purchased from the Queensland stud’s onproperty sales over the years, including last year’s record-breaking $320,000 acquisition, Glenlands D Everest, are also likely to form part of the genetic inventory.

“It’s been a dream of mine to start a nucleus Droughtmaster herd in South Africa,” Darren told Droughtmaster Magazine.

It’s been a dream of mine to start a nucleus Droughtmaster herd in South Africa.

“We’ve mapped out a breeding and growth program over the next three to four years, which will require us to be aggressive and highly controlled with our approach.

“This will be a purebred Glenlands herd, a source of new Droughtmaster genetics for South African beef producers.

“But the benefits will also spread further afield; we all have a strong belief in the potential of the breed’s value in South Africa and the wider footprint it can have across the African continent.”

With 800 registered Droughtmaster stud females and 200 recipient cows, Considerata is regarded as one of South Africa’s premier breeding operations for elite cattle genetics, projected to register 1000 calves this year.

It is certainly the biggest Droughtmaster stud on the African continent, with plans also advanced to further diminish the Simbrah influence in its commercial herd in favour of building an exclusive Droughtmaster stud and commercial operation.

“That is now within reach,” says Considerata owner Johan Dannhauser.

“I’m very upbeat about where the breed is headed here, not only for our own enterprise but really for the wider region.

“Having a full blood Australian herd is going to generate a lot of interest among cattle farmers not just in South Africa but across the whole African continent, particularly Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia and Botswana.”

Considerata’s growth story strongly reflects the momentum Droughtmaster has gathered in recent years, generating extra pace in late 2022 when it was declared a registered breed in South Africa.

According to Johan, Droughtmaster is now the fastest growing breed in the country.

“We’re closing in on 100 Droughtmaster breeder members in South Africa with about 13,000 registered animals under their management,” he said.

“Only two years ago, we had 40 members.”

South Africa has two dominant beef breeds with significantly longer histories in the country: the US developed Beefmaster that began in 1987 and the Bonsmara, developed from Afrikaner bloodlines established in 1936.

Regarded as South Africa’s own breed, Bonsmara is still the country’s biggest, with 321 breeder members and 123,000 registered animals. Beefmaster

has 172 members and 70,000 registered animals.

“But their numbers are trending down, while we are going up. Based on our current rate of growth I’m confident we will meet them very quickly in the future,” Johan said.

South African farmers like their red cattle.

Part of a long family line who have farmed on the Parys property since 1876, Johan’s confidence is bolstered by his acute understanding of African cattlemen and what they value.

“First of all, it’s the colour. South African farmers like their red cattle,” he said.

“It’s not that red cattle are any better, it’s just a preference.

“We have other red cattle here like the Brangus, the Santa or the Simbrah but they really are struggling with uniformity, the cattle look so different from one generation to the next.”

Johan said South African beef producers were incredibly strict on type and would cull hard to generate the right attributes with consistency and predictability.

“They have to be like this because our country is hard, variable, challenged by pests, diseases and predators and farmed intensively on smaller lots with grass that has poor nutrition,” he said.

“Red Brahman here used to be strong, but they are struggling to address the challenges our breeders face, particularly with fertility.

“So, this is where Droughtmasters are slotting in – they bring that

The entry of Glenlands into the African market with Considerata and Samari has a direct link to decisions that were taken more than 30 years ago in Australia and South Africa based on the Droughtmaster breed’s irrefutable performance.

JOHAN DANNHAUSER’S earliest assessment after first absorbing modest Droughtmaster numbers into his family-run operation was that it was a “no-brainer” to continue the investment and build the herd into a more significant concern.

“When we bought our first Droughtmaster bulls it was almost

an experiment to see what the bulls could do,” Johan recalls.

“We had some data on the other big red breed in South Africa, the Bonsmara. Our main target was to match or beat whatever they were doing.

“The result far exceeded our expectations. The Droughtmaster

weaners were 20 kg heavier than the Bonsmara weaners, and in the feedlot, they were 10-15 per cent better growers.

“Our future in Droughtmaster was decided – it was a no-brainer.”

The ‘experiment’ as Johan describes, was conducted in 2009, after the Dannhausers took

Studmasters Darren Childs and Johan Dannhauser look over Droughtmaster cattle on the Considerata operation near Johannesburg at Parys, Free State, in preparation for the launch of Glenlands Africa.

hardy Indicus influence, consistency of type and performance. The fact they are red just seals the deal.”

Cattle size to match seasonal and topographical variation is

over the core of the Considerata Stud, established by well-known stud auctioneer, breeder and founding member of the African Droughtmaster Cattle Breeders’ Society, Johan van der Nest.

Two decades earlier, van der Nest had visited Australia where the Droughtmaster’s heritability, uniformity and adaptability amid dry conditions, a time when most of the country was in the grip of a severe and stubborn drought, had left an indelible impression.

The experience gave him the confidence to take a punt on

also a major part of the criteria, Johan says, with beef producers seeking medium framed cattle to give them flexibility and cost-efficiency in converting.

imported Droughtmaster semen from Australia, classified as Beefmaster for use in Beefmaster cows to circumvent import protocols in a country where Droughtmaster was not a registered breed.

While the visibility of Droughtmaster as a brand may have been obscured, the genetic influence on the Beefmaster progeny was clear, prompting van der Nest to establish the Considerata stud and collaborate with other likeminded breeders to register the Africa Droughtmaster Cattle Breeders’ Society in Namibia.

I’m very upbeat about where the breed is headed here.

One of the Australian studs supplying semen under the Beefmaster arrangement through the 1990s, culminating in a shipment of live animals by air in 1998 – the last such consignment until this year – was Glenlands.

The burgeoning relationship meant Darren Childs, working in partnership with his brother Jason and their late father Bruce and mother Val, was a frequent visitor to South Africa and beyond, studying the market and learning from local producers, understanding their challenges and opportunities and what differentiated them from their counterparts in Australia.

As the Droughtmaster influence grew, both in herds and across the industry, support from Beefmaster members evaporated, causing the importations from Australia to stop.

Despite the short-term interruption, Darren believes the trade pause longer-term provided a bigger

“We don’t like our bulls over 800 kg,” Johan said.

“They need to be 700-800 kg ideally and the cows need to be 470-520 kg maximum.”

Johan said survivability was also at the top of the agenda.

There’s plenty of guys here who want to go to Australia to look at cattle…

“Our winters at Parys are extremely cold and dry. It’s not uncommon for temperatures to be 10-15 degrees below zero,” he said.

“The quality of the protein of the grasses is very low so they struggle to maintain their weight through the winter.

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benefit to the breed and the growing numbers of producers strengthening the Droughtmaster presence in their operations.

“The beauty of the hiatus is that it has allowed some very good South African cattlemen to mould the Droughtmaster into the phenotype that they need for their conditions and markets,” Darren said.

“In some ways the African Droughtmaster and the Australian Droughtmaster are different, but that’s market driven.

“Their top priorities are a moderate frame, length of body, early sexual maturity, structural soundness, and survivability.”

Darren said it was also testament to the strength and suitability of Droughtmaster in the South African market that sales and new memberships continued to grow in an environment where marketing options were limited.

That environment shifted considerably when Droughtmaster was officially registered as a breed in Africa after a decade of advocacy and lobbying, paving the way for further international expansion and collaboration.

It meant Darren and Johan and their business partners at Samari could seal the partnership that had its genesis in 2015 when Johan toured Glenlands and other Australian Droughtmaster operations for the first time.

“I liked Darren and his family immediately,” Johan said.

“We’re similar guys in our outlook and ethics and our businesses operate with similar techniques. Together we are now looking forward to seeing what we’ll achieve in Africa.”

Thanks to the work of Johan Dannhauser’s Considerata SA stud and other committed breeders, Droughtmaster is now the fastest growing beef breed in South Africa.

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“There are similar challenges in summer. Our grazing paddocks are very open grassland. There’s not a lot of shade, so they have to front up to the elements.

“And because the grass is poor and the farms tend to be much smaller than what you’d be used to in Australia, they are stocked far more densely.

“They have to be good converters off grass and in the feedlot.”

While the centre of the Considerata operation has its challenges, other parts of the region provide their own lessons in adversity.

The Dannhausers have a farm on the edge of Kruger Park to the north, with a mild climate, abundant trees, and no frosts.

“But we don’t farm cattle there because the lions would eat them,” Johan said.

Three hundred kilometres to the south of Parys is the desertlike Karoo region, suitable only for sheep and goats.

Further north, into Botswana and Zambia, the pest burden increases due to the greater volume of wildlife.

“Namibia is prime beef country like Rockhampton, where you can run different breeds without too

much challenge, but in Botswana and Zambia, you cannot graze anything but a Brahman or a Droughtmaster,” Johan said.

“But the Droughtmaster has the flexibility to do well in all those challenging areas and that’s why we’ve gone with Glenlands Africa, not South Africa. We’re focused on the whole continent, and we have guys from Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Angola wanting to come and purchase cattle.”

We don’t farm cattle there because the lions would eat them.

While Africa has several breeds developed for local conditions, such as Tuli, Nguni, Braunvieh and Drakensberger, in addition to Beefmaster and Bonsmara, Johan believes the Droughtmaster’s Australian heritage will prove no obstacle in the marketing.

“Some of the older generations can be stuck in their ways and they like the cattle that were developed for their markets, but the younger generation think differently,” Johan said.

“They are focused on performance and measuring gains and are more likely to take the attitude of ‘why stick with something just because it’s been around a long time but doesn’t deliver any improvements?’

“And there’s plenty of guys here who want to go to Australia to look at cattle, but they can’t afford the time.

“It’s a long flight and it’s a big country, so we’re bringing the best of Australian Droughtmaster cattle to them.”

One of the Glenlands heifers bound for South Africa, pictured at Dianne Downs, Theodore, Qld in May this year. Picture: Kent Ward

South African beef producers like their red cattle, but they also prioritise a moderate frame, length of body, early sexual maturity, structural soundness, and survivability to suit their country and markets.

UPCOMING SALES

August 24

High Country Sale, Eskdale

Big name sires stamp their authority on quality draft

More than 40 bulls and 30 females will be offered at the High Country annual sale, carrying the genetics of proven and upcoming sires such as the $160,000 Rondel Whiskey and Glenlands D sires Whynot, Bated Breath, Beginners Luck and Ventura.

High Country James Bond, Glen Fosslyn Idol, Bryvonlea Rambo, Valera Vale Kenworth, Bundy Eldorado, High Country Jameson and many other notable herd improvers will have their influence across the catalogue.

It is worth noting that:

• The female offering for 2024 consists of unjoined and joined females, offering buyers the chance to secure a female in-calf to Whiskey.

• New genetic packages and incentives for bulk buyers who attend will also be offered.

• The sale team has been prepped in the paddock on silage, hay, pasture and grain and have been running in hills, ticks, lantana and have been worked with dogs, horses and buggies.

• The bulls are morphology tested, fully guaranteed and DNA tested with free delivery available to all areas.

Information will be available both on the High Country Droughtmaster Facebook page and website www.highcountrydroughtmasters.com.au

Contact the vendors on 0428 094 456 for more information, or to request a catalogue or to preview the team before the sale starting at 11am.

August 30

Fitzroy Crossing Invitational Bos Indicus Bull Sale

Droughtmaster to dominate leading WA sale

Sixty-three Droughtmaster bulls from six leading studs will dominate the yarding in Western Australia’s Kimberley region, specifically suited to the northern market with all bulls polled or scurred, clean coated and carrying tidy sheaths.

Exhibiting quiet temperaments, bulls are not excessively fed and are regularly spelled enroute to the venue to ensure they present in great physical shape and are ready to work.

All bulls have passed a crush side semen test with morphology assessment and will include a full vaccination history, weights and carcase scans.

Long time vendors Don and Robyn Roberton , By-Mingo Droughtmasters; Steve and Claire Farmer, SC Droughtmasters; Lindsay and Lyn Philp and Inga Hayes , Sevenell & Lynsey Park Droughtmasters, and Michael and Tracey Flynn , Valera Vale Droughtmasters, will be joined by first time Queensland vendor Chris Turner, Maunsell Park Droughtmasters and WA vendors Ken and Shelly Mutton , Fieldhouse Droughtmasters.

Bulls can be inspected at the vendors’ home properties or enroute at Cloncurry, Qld, Katherine, NT or at the Fitzroy Crossing rodeo grounds, Fitzroy Crossing, WA from August 27.

This year’s sale will be available through AuctionsPlus or live on-site at 10 am on August 30. Catalogues are available from marketing agents, Northern Rural Supplies, Broome.

Contact: Sale marketing agent Ken Bryant , NRS Broome 0437 081 468 or Droughtmaster representative Steve Farmer 0428 347 555

UPCOMING SALES

September 5

Carnarvon Classic Bull Sale, Rolleston

New date, new saleyards combine to make history

Seventy-three bulls from vendors who have etched their names into the public record of success over more than a decade will be offered at the Carnarvon Classic Bull sale.

Oasis, Huntly, Calco and Karragarra represent a progressive and fair dinkum “no fuss” group that is focused on presenting a premium article to the Carnarvon district and surrounding areas.

Reliable quality, proven history and market-driven seedstock continue to underpin the values that brought these studs together to create the sale event and continue its success. The sale starts at noon at the Rolleston Saleyards.

September 7

Bunya Bull Sale, Coolabunia Selling Complex, Kingaroy Bunya bulls come with Breedplan boost

Eighty-five Droughtmaster bulls from 30 vendors have been catalogued for the 11th annual Bunya Bull Sale with the largest proportion ever backed by Breedplan data.

Selling agents Mark Duthie, GDL and Midge Thompson , Aussie Land & Livestock say buyers will be spoilt for choice again this year as the catalogue offers a large and diverse offering of genetics for their competition.

“Whether you’re chasing a bull to breed anything from vealers to bullocks or a new stud sire you should plan to attend this value for money sale,” Mark said.

Midge added that buyers could bid with confidence on bulls offering new and proven genetics in a sale with a reputation of offering the best bulls in the Burnett.

They said it was important for buyers to note that:

• All bulls will be vaccinated with a minimum of 5 or 7 in 1, 3 germ blood and 3-day sickness.

• All registered bulls will be offered with DNA sire verification, horn/poll and pompes testing.

• Bulls will be weighed, mouthed and scanned and will carry a minimum semen motility of 60 per cent.

• Bulls will be pre-treated for ticks and pre-scratched allowing immediate delivery to clean country following the sale as there is a clearing dip onsite.

• The sale vendors will offer free freight on all bulls purchased to six major southern Queensland centres including saleyards at Gympie, Biggenden, Eidsvold, Dalby, Toogoolawah and Beaudesert.

Bulls are available for inspection from 3pm September 6 at the Coolabunia Selling Complex.

Buyers will have the opportunity to attend the sale in person starting at 11am or alternatively use the Stocklive online bidding platform.

Selling agents: Mark Duthie, GDL, 0448 016 950 ; Midge Thompson , ALL, 0427 710 018

Sale contact: Graham Brown 0427 779 707

UPCOMING SALES

September 11

Piggott Bull Sale, Springsure

Bulls that are fit, not fat, define the Piggott family offering

The Piggott stud is offering 47 highly fertile, long, honest Droughtmaster bulls prepared for a long working life.

Of the 30 registered bulls for sale, six are by Aldinga Impossible, a son of exceptional sire Aldinga Davy Jones.

Redskin Longbrew is represented by eight sons that look like their sire, while the remainder are:

• Four sons of Aldinga Kindly (Aldinga His Nibs).

• Three sons of Aldinga Kirk (Sugerland Honda).

• Three Valera Vale sons (sires 430 & 457).

• Three sons of Calco Deputy; two sons of Gillmara 561; and the last son of Rosewood R Leroy.

• The sale is rounded off with 17 punchy herd bulls.

The Piggott stud principals trade on their reputation for producing highly potent bulls, achieved by culling for infertility, resulting in a cow herd that regularly records conception rates above 95 per cent.

All their sale bulls passed crush-side semen testing last year and are expecting another 100 per cent success rate when morphology results are returned before this year’s sale.

In 37 years of selling bulls at auction only two Piggott bulls have been returned.

Sale bulls are prepared on a meal-based ration which aids growth and shine, but not fat, aiding the stud’s reputation for producing robust bulls primed for work.

The sale at Springsure Showgrounds starts at noon.

September 12

Valera Vale Bull Sale, Augathella

Valera Vale

Data informed

selection offers bulls with real-world application

The Valera Vale on-property sale at Augathella starting at 11am offers more than 50 years of selection for fertility and performance in a real-world environment.

With proven performance in Western Australia’s Pilbara and Kimberley regions, as well as NT and Queensland, the draft is unique due to all lots presenting DNA genomic analysis regarding fertility and productivity drivers, according to stud principal Michael Flynn

“Born on the buffel and gently silage prepared for sale, Valera Vale offers bulls guaranteed to work from day one,” he said.

“These bulls are the lead of a pool of 1200 bull calves and are selected on phenotypic performance, structural soundness, dam reproductive history, temperament, DNA testing and genomic analysis.

The draft of 100 bulls is:

• All polled.

• Clear of all known double muscling genes.

• DNA analysed and sire verified.

• Morphology tested.

• Pompes and pesti PI clear.

• Provided with weight gain data and carcase scans.

• Provided with dam reproductive history.

• Sold with free delivery in Queensland to all major centres, with freight rebates interstate.

• Comprehensively vaccinated.

For more information visit www.valeravale.com.au

UPCOMING SALES continued

September 17 & 18

Droughtmaster National Bull Sale, CQLX Saleyards, Gracemere

King of the Ring crowns signature sale

The King of the Ring is an exciting addition to the 65th Droughtmaster National Bull Sale, Australia’s largest multi-vendor Droughtmaster sale.

Come along to the Drinks with Droughties to meet the vendors, have a drink and a meal. During the evening there will be a King of the Ring preview, while the Next Gen team hold their yearly auction, with sale proceeds going back into youth related activities. Drinks with Droughties commence at 5.30pm, September 16.

Full details on all Droughtmaster National Bull Sale activities are available on the Droughtmaster National Bull Sale 2024 page on the Droughtmaster website and on the Droughtmaster National Bull Sale Facebook page.

Buyers from the past three years will automatically be sent a hard copy of the catalogue.

To request a catalogue, visit the Droughtmaster website. Viewing of bulls will open from September 15.

September 19

Glenlands Annual Bull Sale, Bouldercombe

Commercial relevance paramount at Glenlands

Commercial relevance and market acceptance are the key drivers behind the 2024 Glenlands Genetics Sale.

The Childs family’s combined operations have catalogued 200 bulls at their annual on-property sale, Glenlands, Bouldercombe, starting at 9am.

The 2024 fully silage prepared sale team will be the one of the most youthful yet presented by the Childs families.

Early indications are that there has been further enhancement and improvement in areas such as performance, raw data, phenotype, genetic strength, potential sire material, commercial relevance, consistency and strength.

The cattle on offer are the result of a balanced operation, composing a performance proven herd forged over many years from rigorous assessment and client feedback.

A comprehensive list of additional data and information has been assembled by the prefixes, including DNA and sire verifications, poll tests, performance recorded data, dam breeding histories and fertility tests.

This year’s sale team is drawn from Australia’s largest performance recorded Droughtmaster prefix and represents a gene pool of 51 registered sires.

The 2024 offering will have 38 individuals bred from extensive IVF programs. These will be accompanied by sale team members bred via AI and natural mating, including members of the highly successful 2023 and 2024 regional, Royal and Beef Expo show teams.

UPCOMING SALES continued

September 23

Artesian Bull Sale, Blackall

Quality, price and location drive sale in Qld’s central west

With a new sale date, the 16th annual Artesian Droughtmaster Sale will be held at the Blackall Saleyards at 1pm.

Ninety-five quality sires from Clonlara, Yaralla, Needmor, Locarno and Western Red studs will be offered.

With genetics suitable for both stud and commercial buyers the sale has built a solid reputation among Queensland producers in terms of quality, price and location.

Selling agent: Nutrien or sale manager Dean Allen , Western Red, 0427 962 439

Follow Facebook for updates and the sale catalogue.

Online simulcast and bidding available via Stocklive.

September 24

Central Reds Sale, Emerald

Emerald’s finest 50 come with genetic diversity

Vendors have composed a quality, genetically diverse line-up of 50 bulls for the 2024 Central Reds Droughtmaster Bull Sale at the Emerald Saleyards starting at 10am, noting that:

• All bulls are offered with an accredited cattle vet bull soundness evaluation, semen test and structural assessment prior to the sale.

• A supplementary sheet will be available on sale day providing semen test results, scrotal circumference, weight, eye muscle area, IMF scans and poll gene test results.

• All bulls are pre-treated for ticks. Freight assistance will be available to some centres (conditions apply).

• Bulls will be available for inspection at the Emerald Saleyards from 4pm on September 23.

Further details including bull photos and videos can be found on the website www.centralreds.com

The Central Reds vendors would like to acknowledge their major partners, Central Isuzu/Wideland Group and Brown & Hurley Agriculture for their ongoing support.

Selling agents: Nutrien. Online bidding via Elite Stocklive Livestock.

September 26

Cap Droughtmaster Bull Sale, Gracemere

Top sires put quality draft in poll position for success

Seventy Droughtmaster bulls comprising 50 stud registered bulls and 20 top quality herd bulls, 85 per cent of the draft testing positive as homozygous and heterozygous poll bulls (PP and P) will be offered at CQLX, Gracemere at 11am.

Vendors John Atkinson, Glenavon Stud, and Duncan and Karen Geddes, CMC Stud, have invested heavily in top sires with a focus on practical commercial attributes over a long period.

The bulls have been prepared for sale on a silage ration and are semen and morphology tested, carcase scanned and come with full vendor guarantee.

Seventy-five per cent of the draft are 21–24 months of age and the remainder are 2831 months of age for purchasers who require older bulls to handle tougher conditions.

Sires represented include the ever-consistent Garthowen Wrangler and Huntly Thor. First season sires include $40,000 Redskin Monarch, $45,000 True Blue Eldorado and home bred Glenavon XABI.

UPCOMING SALES

September 27

Donaldson Family Sale, Bogantungan

Feed efficiency data included with 100-strong draft

One hundred quality young sires are catalogued for the annual Donaldson Family Sale at Medway, Bogantungan, comprising 80 ‘commercially connected’ Droughtmaster bulls.

This year individual feed efficiency data will be offered on most lots, identifying the best performers when it comes to driving feed conversion, profit and sustainability.

Stud principal Hastings Donaldson said it was the first time the comparison data would be available in a commercial bull sale in Central Queensland.

“Along with fertility, feed conversion is one of the major profit drivers in any herd,” he said.

“It is the type of data that can make a big difference to our clients’ herds and gives them another solid selection tool.”

Hastings said the value of consistency in type, coupled with an emphasis on a fit and healthy product, were again features of this year’s cohort of leading two-year-old bulls.

“Bulls will be presented in a fit and healthy manner prepared on a high roughagebased silage ration to enhance longevity and athleticism,” he said.

“We welcome visitors to walk among our bulls pre-sale in our large purpose-built pens, allowing prospective buyers a real chance to get a hands-on inspection and allow the bulls to exhibit natural disposition and structural soundness.”

All lots are vet checked, have relevant vaccinations and are guaranteed for fertility and temperament.

Pre-sale inspections: Craigywarren, Capella from September 1- 25 or at Medway, Bogantungan from September 25– 27.

Sale starts at 11am.

September 28

Droughtmaster Diamond Genetics Bull and Female Sale, Silverdale

A gem for registered sires, females, plus herd bulls and commercial breeders

The sale will offer buyers a diverse range of Droughtmaster genetics from more than 30 studs based throughout the southern corner of Queensland and northern NSW.

As one of the only multi-vendor events offering registered sires and females, plus commercial breeders and herd bulls, the sale is meeting the demand of buyers in southeast Queensland and northern NSW, where demand is growing for quality Droughtmaster cattle.

The Diamond Genetics Sale allows a range of stud breeders, both established and new members, an ideal opportunity to showcase the best the breed has to offer in a multi-vendor sale.

The sale ensures all animals presented to bidders will meet stringent fertility requirements and breed excellence guidelines.

Located on the Cunningham Hwy, Silverdale Saleyards has a clearing dip which will allow buyers the ease and confidence of transporting bulls and females into clean country in Queensland and northern NSW on the same day as the sale starting at 10am.

Selling agents: Hayes & Co

Contact: Peter or Landon Hayes , Hayes and Co, (07) 5463 8099 or sale coordinator

Justin Bowman 0407 938 684

UPCOMING SALES

October 12

Bullzeye Bull Sale, Nebo Saleyards

Central Queensland sale targets top-class herd improvers

Vendors are excited and ready for another top-class sale in the heart of Droughtmaster country.

Eight quality vendors will present 60 bulls, mainly comprising stud sires and some solid, impactful herd bulls.

For those that can’t attend the sale starting at 10am, online bidding is available via Stocklive.

Contact: Tony Dwyer, GDL, on 0427 589 437 or Rockhampton stud stock agent Georgie Connor on 0428 347 550

October 18

Droughtmaster Roma Bull Sale

Top genetics for all budgets, all buyers, old and new

A great team of vendors will offer 120 bulls at the 28th Roma Droughtmaster Bull Sale, where organisers are looking forward to welcoming their regular buyers and new faces.

The Droughtmaster Australia website, www.droughtmaster.com.au hosts a page dedicated to the sale where buyers will find the online catalogue, a button to request a catalogue, and links to photos and videos.

Viewing of the bulls will be from 3pm, October 17 followed by refreshments at 5pm, with the sale to start at 10am on October 18.

Online bidding will be hosted by Stocklive.

October 21

CQ Invitational Bull Sale, Gracemere

Around 60 bulls will be catalogued from nine vendors at the CQ Invitational Droughtmaster Sale at CQLX Gracemere on October 21 at 10am.

Being one of the last Droughtmaster sales for the year it is worth the wait. It is a value for money sale full of top-quality genetics with a truly diverse line of bulls on offer. Bulls with length and scale being two of the standout qualities of the draft.

Versatility is one of the key factors of this sale offering a broad selection of stud sire potentials, bulls with content or the lower grade bulls as well.

The sale will also be listed on the online platform through StockLive Elite.

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UPCOMING SALES continued

November 8

Monty Atkinson Genetics Sale (MAGS), Charters Towers

Buy

genetics that saw Droughtmaster win big at Beef’s

Commercial Cattle Championships

Bloodlines that injected quality and performance into Droughtmaster’s stunning results at the Beef 2024 Commercial Cattle Championships will be available for purchase when bidding begins at the Monty Atkinson Genetics Sale starting at 10am.

Affectionately known as MAGS, the sale will see bulls offered from studs such as Mungalla and Lamont, whose prime cattle placed in several classes, with Lamont, owned and operated by Mac and Gayle Shann , Cantaur Park, Clermont ultimately winning the Champion Pen of Lotfed Females with their Droughtmaster/Charolais cross pen.

The result not only illustrated Droughtmaster’s commercial relevance in the Australian beef industry but cemented its ‘natural wonder’ reputation and status as a breed well suited to different geographies and market specifications.

With the sale not held until November, catalogues and images of cattle were still being finalised as Droughtmaster Magazine went to press in July.

The catalogue and images are expected to be available in coming weeks via Elite Livestock Auctions.

November 30

Cream of the Crop, Coolabunia, Kingaroy

Seasonal outlook will spur strong bidding for elite breeders

One hundred registered Droughtmaster females will be keenly anticipated when the highly renowned Cream of the Crop Droughtmaster Female Sale gets under way at the Coolabunia Sales Complex from 10am.

Held on the eve of summer after enjoying expected favourable seasonal conditions during late winter and Spring, the sale is tipped to draw a solid buying panel at the event and online.

Last year’s sale results were in line with expectations, based on the cattle market at the time and seasonal conditions throughout most of Australia.

Widespread rain this winter and a strong seasonal outlook bode well for keen competition for quality females come sale day.

The sale continues to offer generous bulk buyer and outside agent rebates. Cattle will be scratched clean prior to the sale to allow immediate access to tick free areas.

Inspections are welcome from 3pm November 29.

The sale will be livestreamed, and online bidding facilitated through the Stocklive platform.

Agents: Mark Duthie, GDL, 0448 016 950 or Midge Thompson , Aussie Land & Livestock, 0427 710 018

Carnarvon Classic

Selling 28 Bulls 5 September

National Droughtmaster Bull Sale

Selling 15 Bulls 16 September Adam & Shelley Geddes 0427 500 413

LOT 167 OASIS A HOLLYWOOD

LOT 168 OASIS A RING THE BELL

LOT 175 OASIS A SMOKIN JOE

LOT 174 OASIS A KING OF BLING

PERFORMANCE RECORDING TAKES ITS NEXT MAJOR STEP

The Northern Breed Information Nucleus (BIN) genetics project based at Warraka Station, near Taroom in Central Queensland is entering its second decade where data on feed efficiency has been the focus in 2024.

AFTER TEN YEARS of trial work to provide growth and carcase data on the three largest tropically adapted breeds in northern Australia, the Northern BIN project moved into a new phase in 2024, consistent with its mission to further develop genomically enhanced EBVs.

With Droughtmaster Australia implementing Single-Step BREEDPLAN in October last year to upgrade breeding evaluation, the latest phase of work will continue to expand the data sets available for the new genetic analysis, where information on animal performance is captured, processed and analysed “in a single step” along with pedigree and genomic (SNP) information.

Central to the feed efficiency trials has been the deployment of Ceres smart ear tags on Droughtmaster, Brahman and Santa Gertrudis steers utilised across the northern project at Spyglass Station, north of Charters Towers and Brian Pastures near Gayndah, both Queensland Government research facilities.

Developed in Queensland, Ceres tags are equipped with accelerometer and GPS positioning technology.

The tags communicate with a series of low-level satellites to

upload data on animal location, behaviour, and movement.

Ceres has a licence from CSIRO to use the eGrazor software technology which interprets the accelerometer data into animal behaviour characteristics, such as time grazing, resting, ruminating, walking, drinking and other movements.

The data, along with daily animal behaviour profiles and estimated DMI data, will be analysed and feed efficiency values calculated.

Research conducted by CSIRO and NSW DPI has shown that dry matter intake can be predicted using the animal behaviour relationships.

Thirty of the No 23 (birth year) Brahman steers equipped with Ceres tags and 30 Droughtmaster steers, some with Ceres tags, were transferred to the University of Queensland’s Animal Science Precinct, Gatton.

Fitted with a CSIRO eGrazor collar, each animal’s tag is read when they feed at the feedlot trough, recording behaviour that is then continuously transmitted to eGrazor

algorithms which classify the animal’s exhibited characteristics.

The tags were due to remain on the Spyglass steers until May, when interim weights as well as final weights would be taken.

The data, along with daily animal behaviour profiles and estimated DMI data, will be analysed and feed efficiency values calculated.

This is the second trial of this nature conducted at UQ. The first with the Spyglass No 22 steers, which finished early last year, showed that the feedlot feeding behaviour classification is different to grazing behaviour classification.

This required major amendments to the eGrazor algorithm to accommodate a feedlot situation.

The Growsafe system is the industry standard for measuring feed intake and BREEDPLAN analysis of the feed efficiency Net Feed Intake (NFI) trait.

NFI values will also be calculated using Ceres tag DMI data and weight gain performance and correlated with Growsafe derived NFI values.

• This article adapted from an article originally published by project lead John Croaker.

TOO MUCH BEEF IS NEVER ENOUGH

You will note that we have restructured the costing for BREEDPLAN to now make it more affordable for member participation.

Growing our brand

We are continually focussed on growing our geographical footprint across the country as well as achieving 750 members and 40,000 registered females (over 20 months) by 2025. Our marketing and promotion strategy is heavily aligned to these goals. Now is the time to also inform you that recently we accepted an attractive offer from the Toowoomba Show Society to be the feature breed in March 2025. The offer is not only for stud cattle showing but will also include a commercial component with Mort & Co Feedlot.

Additionally, there will be a dinner and other activities for Droughtmaster members to be involved in.

The Society will be heavily supporting this event to maximise exposure for the breed, and I would urge you to participate in either the stud or commercial events.

There has recently been some discussion, budgeting and planning about increasing our presence in school agricultural curriculums.

We are investigating options to provide educational content to schools and working with these schools to provide resources where appropriate. We are still refining the scope for this project but are making solid inroads.

Additionally, we are sponsoring a paddock to plate concept with the Maleny State High School which will take place

later this year. Furthermore, we are planning to encourage greater school attendance at the Droughtmaster Futurity. Cheers to Leah Wall

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank Leah Wall for the contribution she has made in her role of Registrar, DNA Coordinator and Member Services at Droughtmaster Australia.

We wish Leah and her husband Denis all the best as the new owners of the Warra Hotel, about three hours’ drive west of Brisbane between Dalby and Chinchilla. I am sure Leah would be excited to see members call in, say hello, and have a drink (responsibly). We look forward to seeing many of you at upcoming events which include the Ekka, AGM, AgQuip and the Spring Bull sales.

– Simon Gleeson, CEO

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Dean Kiernan, Droughtmaster Breeder, Qld

Photo Credit: Dean Kiernan

AUCTIONSPLUS: HOW TO GET MORE BUYERS TO CLICK WITH YOUR CATTLE

The online cattle trading platform AuctionsPlus is more than just a digital channel to conduct business, but a tool for analysing the performance of Droughtmaster cattle, giving breeders valuable insights to help shape breeding and marketing strategies.

CENTRAL QUEENSLAND beef producer

Dean Kiernan started using AuctionsPlus in 2018 to help market his family’s purebred Droughtmaster herd.

“For us we were just looking at a smarter and more convenient way to sell our cattle,” Dean said.

“AuctionsPlus was getting some traction and we wanted to give it a go.”

Dean aims to sell 600-700 head of young cattle on the platform each year – usually between AprilJune – from Bygana Station, 150 km north-west of Clermont, Qld.

“We’ve also bought heifers and cows from everywhere in the state on AuctionsPlus,” he said.

Dean said the platform allowed him to take control of his own livestock marketing.

“We’ve had repeat buyers of our steers, but also had new buyers that would never have seen our cattle unless they had gone to our local saleyard,” he said.

Between AuctionsPlus and Facebook, the combined visibility is proving an attractive proposition.

“The biggest thing for us, especially with selling breeder quality females, is to get exposure,” Dean said.

“Even if someone doesn’t buy your cattle, they’re looking at them on the internet going, ‘oh, gee, that person has good cattle, or that country has some good cattle in that area’.”

Before presenting his cattle online, Dan spends a lot of effort tidying up the lines of his purebred EU and Teys Grassland accredited Droughtmasters.

He said there was no way to ‘paint one out’ as can happen in the traditional saleyard environment, so every article offered had to be well considered.

He said if other Droughtmaster breeders were thinking of listing on AuctionsPlus, the key thing to get right was leaving “no grey areas” when it comes to photographs, videos and temperament of the listed livestock.

“If they’re left guessing, that becomes less money buyers are willing to pay because it raises the possibility something may be wrong with the animal,” he said.

“Also, find a really good beast, like a standout beast, and get a really good photo of it – you want the photo to catch attention.”

Dean said his agent, Jake Kennedy, of Kennedy Livestock and Property, had done a lot of work in getting the photos and videos right.

“It seems to me that it’s one thing to put them all through the race and assess them, but you’ve got to go then spend the time getting the right photos and getting the right videos,” he said.

“If someone looks at them, there’s nothing worse than the wrong angle or shade covering a shoulder.

“Equally as important, videos of your cattle settled and walking in the yards shows their temperament.”

• For more information about selling Droughtmasters on AuctionsPlus visit www.auctionsplus.com.au

• Content for this article contributed by AuctionsPlus

CROSSBRED CATTLE SHOW THEIR SCREEN APPEAL

SALES DATA compiled during recent months indicates there has been a noticeable increase in the number of Droughtmaster-cross listings compared to purebred listings.

The trend suggests either a growing interest in crossbred cattle, or growing use of the AuctionsPlus platform by crossbred cattle buyers.

Listings for purebreds from February to May were also considerably higher than the preceding months.

Graphs illustrating price difference show a steady increase for purebreds, while crossbred prices have remained strong albeit with slightly more fluctuation.

Interestingly crossbred heifers have jumped sharply in average dollars per head, more than doubling in the latter half of the 2023 calendar year.

The throughput data per category reveals how different segments of Droughtmaster cattle have performed in terms of sales volume.

Purebred Droughtmasters exhibit a consistent throughput, indicating steady demand.

Crossbred throughput, however, shows more variability, potentially reflecting seasonal or market changes.

The graph of listings and purchase proportions highlights the relationship between listings and successful sales.

IRRESISTIBLE FORCE: WHY WOMEN ARE GRAVITATING TO DROUGHTMASTER

Whether starting out or starting over, a growing proportion of women are immersing their dreams and ambitions in Droughtmaster cattle, taking more than just the breed forward as they build new businesses, and, in some cases, new lives. Five women tell their story.

By BRAD COOPER

“If I didn’t do this, I think I’d go mad.”

Jenny Simmonds, 50, carer, single mum, carbon farming consultant, Chinchilla landholder and Droughtmaster stud breeder, has a direct way of clarifying what enables her to maintain a sound state of mind.

“It’s my cattle and my kids, and in so many ways the two go hand-in-hand,” she says.

“Yep, it’s full-on. I wear many hats. But I’m not alone.”

In the state’s far north at Kuranda, the picturesque tourist town inland

from Cairns, Nicole Karan is no stranger either to the relentless hat-swapping – whether that’s running her ageing parents’ lychee farm, working in a coffee shop in Mareeba, single parenting two primary school age boys, and, for the last three years, building a Droughtmaster stud.

While there’s a risk of such a busy schedule and responsibility weighing on anyone’s mental wellbeing and physically grinding them down, in Nicole’s words “there’s simply no time” to give it a thought.

“I’m pretty tough, nothing much really fazes me,” she says.

“My only regret is that I’m sorry I didn’t start with the Droughties much earlier.

“But in the scheme of things, it doesn’t really matter. The time you have now is the most important. You have to keep going at it and I’m 44, so I have plenty of time to get this right.”

Hitting 40 was also the defining milestone for twin sisters Kerri McKenzie and Kelli Smith, whose lives started in Bundaberg before they both settled with partners and careers in Central Queensland.

In 2017 the sisters embarked on owning and operating their K Team Droughtmaster stud when

Kuranda’s Nicole Karan is on a mission to get “better and better” three years into building her Vis Hill Droughtmaster stud in North Queensland.

living just over 200 kilometres apart, with Kelli in Biloela and Kerri inland from Rockhampton at Wildhorse Creek, near Bluff.

“There’s a quote that has always stuck with me – you can work for someone else on their dream or work for yourself and build your own dream,” Kerri says.

“Turning 40 was a turning point for me – I thought if I don’t do something now it’s not going to happen.

“Don’t think that your dreams aren’t achievable, because I’m here to tell you that they are.”

It takes a village

In the Sunshine Coast hinterland region, Theresa King at 77 is keeping alive the dream she started 32 years ago when she met Queensland pharmacist Brian King at a friend’s wedding in the US city of San Francisco.

A decade earlier in 1980, Brian had bought a 30-hectare block in the Mooloolah Valley between Landsborough and Nambour, where he was running an assortment of cattle.

We’re in the Droughtmaster community where the culture is naturally supportive.

After Theresa relocated from her native city of Portland, Oregon, where she worked in education for the US Pacific Northwest region, and the pair married in the early 1990s, the newlyweds slowly began to shape Brian’s still under-developed operation into what would later become Sandymount Droughtmaster stud.

“Everything we did we did together,” says Theresa, who prefers the more informal, Terri.

“I’m not sure I was a lot of help because in those early days, exchanging my office wear for overalls, I knew nothing.

“There were plenty of times I moved the wrong way, and the cattle would go off in another direction. But I soon learned and together we re-seeded paddocks, I drove the tractor spreading fertiliser and gradually took on more of the cattle work.”

Brian died in January 2022 after a long and stoic battle with a serious illness.

Taking control of his care and then grieving his loss, Terri drew even closer to Anne-Marie Whitehead, a daughter from Brian’s first marriage who drives more than five hours at least once a

month from northern NSW to help Terri manage Sandymount. The two women are now partners in Sandymount, and jointly make all decisions, including the recent purchase of three heifers.

Anne-Marie, who works a sheep and cattle operation with husband Ashley at Kings Plains near Glen Innes, is part of a closeknit support network of people who ensure Terri stays across the property’s maintenance and gets the help she needs.

“I’m surrounded by loving, supportive, knowledgeable, generous, helpful people and that makes all this possible,” Terri says.

Ian and Fiona Wild, of Wild’s Livestock Transport, Landsborough have helped in not only carting cattle off the property, but helping to select those that needed to be sold when the decision was made to scale back herd numbers after Brian’s passing.

There’s a neighbour who continues to deliver hay and complete odd jobs when required.

“And if I have an emergency, get bogged in the paddock, or have something heavy to lift, he’s here to help,” Terri says.

There’s also a livestock vet in the family close-by, and a 14-year-old girl named Tilly who calls in on Terri every day.

“She calls every morning to make sure I’m alive. Once that’s established, we’ll then work out what we’re going to do for the day,” Terri says.

“We clean out troughs and clean paddocks, and feed and treat

cattle. She knows my cattle as well as I do. I even named one of my heifers after her.”

Life’s biggest lessons

At Laurenvale, the property Jenny Simmonds bought 20 kilometres outside Chinchilla, the working Droughtmaster stud is providing a focus and comfort for Jenny’s two children, Jack, 15 and Katie, 14, who has her challenges with anxiety and depression.

Working with animals only reinforces how powerless we ultimately are to manage things in nature.

“They are my stock hands,” Jenny says.

“They are rural oriented little souls anyway, but everything about the cattle work just does so much for them.

“Of course, there’s the looking after your animals, getting them ready and preparing them for showing, which develops empathy, discipline, and a strong work ethic.

“And then there’s the people side of the exercise. Last year we took three heifers to FarmFest (in Toowoomba). We’ll do that again this year, showing cattle and meeting people.

“People of the Droughtmaster community are so helpful, and they are so supportive with the kids. That takes some pressure

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The running of Marylands S Droughtmaster stud is the common bond between Jenny Simmonds and her children Jack and Katie.

off, because let me tell you, mum doesn’t always know everything.”

Due to her parents Ray and Teresa White establishing Marylands Droughtmaster stud at Quinalow, near Dalby, Jenny describes the breed as “in her blood”, prompting the decision to go it alone under the Marylands S prefix.

Even with the help of her young stock hands and support of family and friends, working as a solo stud master wasn’t in the life plan prior to 2014, the year Jenny lost her husband Tim in a car accident near Glenmorgan.

“Tim and I had worked on stations all over Queensland and the Northern Territory and this was the connection we had – we liked quality cattle, quality dogs and quality horses,” Jenny says.

“We never had the money to buy the best of them, so we knew we had to breed the best to make our way.

“We were so keen to get started. We had our fencing business near Surat, we had our little family, we’d bought our first cows in 2013 and everything was going so right.

“Then just before the Easter weekend in 2014 Tim was driving home from a job, hit water on a causeway and the car just slid off the road.

“I hate Easter. It’s still the worst time of year.”

In addition to what cattle work is teaching her children, Jenny acknowledges the lessons she continues to gain from persisting at her profession and ‘showing up’ for her kids no matter how she might be feeling one day to the next.

“You learn a lot of humility when something, or someone, is ripped away from you quickly,” Jenny says.

My only regret is that I’m sorry I didn’t start with the Droughties much earlier.

“No matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, you’re never really in total control.

“Working with animals only reinforces how powerless we ultimately are to manage things in nature.

“All we can do is respond to what’s immediately in front of us and adapt. That gives me a lot of perspective.”

No place like home

Amid her grief, Terri acknowledges she has her good and bad days, but takes solace she is still living and working on the property she and Brian built together and remains in reasonably good health and fitness. She also has goals to maintain a high-quality registered breeding herd plus produce steers that she can take through to bullock weight and sell through local saleyards.

“I’ve had some friends back in the States ask me if I’ll be returning to the US. Why on earth would I do that?

“My life and my home are here, to take the ATV down the paddock and talk to the cows is the way I like to live. There’s no decision to make.

“I was always Brian’s first mate; we worked together but he ran the ship. Now I’m running it on my own, but I have these beautiful people around me, and these quiet cows to keep me company and to give me energy.”

Like Terri, Nicole believes working with Droughtmaster and the founding of her Vis Hill Droughtmaster Stud three years ago has been enriching and enlightening in equal measure.

Her decision, she said, was confirmed from the moment she bought a Droughtmaster stud bull, which started a consistent line of “really pretty cows”.

“I’ve learnt so much, and it’s great to have the cattle part of our business, especially for dad who’s now in his 80s and still does what he can around the farm, because we always had cattle around the place as kids,” Nicole said.

Managing a horticulture farming operation of 400 lychee trees, requiring regular pruning, watering, fertilising, spraying and then harvesting once a year in summer before exporting the fruit to China, Nicole is thankful for the easy-care nature of the Droughtmaster breed.

Sisters Kelli Smith and Kerri McKenzie, pictured at Beef 2024, are chasing their dreams as the driving force of K Team Droughtmaster stud.

“Definitely up here, that’s for sure. It’s hard, hilly country with a lot of pests, snakes, and lantana and only about 60 hectares of good grazing country,” she says.

“When I first looked at going into cattle I had some Brahman, but fertility was a problem. These Droughtie girls drop a calf and then another in 11 months’ time like clockwork. They’re just brilliant.

“I’m bringing in some new bulls and we’re getting calves with such length and depth. I just want to keep getting better and better.”

Against the odds

Continuous improvement is the plan for Kerri and Kelli, who are discovering the rewards of controlling their own business as K Team Droughtmaster stud.

With husband Andrew McKenzie, Kerri was among the driving forces of Hamadra Droughtmaster stud at Wildhorse Creek but never relinquished the goal of one day having her own stud.

She found the perfect ally in her twin sister Kelli, whose background was more performance horses.

“We might be twin sisters, but we’re best of friends as well,” Kelli says.

They also shared the desire to be financially independent and in control of their own security, something they’ve been able to achieve through working at the Dawson Anglo-American mine – Kelli as a blast hole driller and now mining engineer

“To take the ATV down the paddock and talk to the cows is the way I like to live,” says Terri King, Sandymount Droughtmaster stud,

In partnership with Andrew, Kerri was able to purchase her own property, Rosevale, Boolburra, near Duaringa in 2020.

About 35 stud females are kept at the new 140-hectare property of mainly buffel grass flats, while weaners and first-calf heifers are located at the Biloela property of Kelli and her husband Mark.

The focus, Kerri says, is now on growth and refining the physical traits of the Droughtmaster type they want to breed.

“I was always told it wasn’t achievable, so five years ago I went into the mines to make it work,” Kerri says, also reflecting on her years as a younger woman, working as a station cook around Windorah and Longreach and parenting a small child before she eventually landed at Hamadra where she

“You might have to sometimes follow a different path to make your dreams come true,” she continues.

“But I’ve done it, and I’m so excited about what our future now holds and what we can do with our cattle.”

Kelli adds that they have always worked for their rewards.

“We’re both very independent, strong-willed women. Yes, we have husbands, who are both supportive, but we’re not solely reliant on them,” she says.

“We’ll create our own dreams. And thankfully, we’re in the Droughtmaster community where the culture is naturally supportive.

“Everyone is always behind the person who’s tried their hardest to make it happen and achieved success, often against the odds.”

Mooloolah Valley.

Years may separate them, but Terri and her neighbour Tilly are proving a formidable duo maintaining the cattle and infrastructure at Sandymount in Queensland’s Sunshine Coast hinterland.

National Bull Sale National Bull Sale National Bull Sale 17th September 2024

Day 1 - Lots 116 - 124

CQLX Gracemere

Bryvonlea Yarraman(PP) Lot 118

Bryvonlea Xavion (HP)

Bunya Bull Sale 7th September 2024

Lots: 30 to 35

Coolabunia Sale Complex

JBAS 6

Pompes Free

Pesti Negative

Horn/Poll Tested

DNA Sire Verified

Bryvonlea Xacobe (PP)

THIRD GYMPIE CATTLE CAMP TO RUN NEXT YEAR

MEGA WIN: Barry McIntyre, of Tom Grady Rural presents Dakabin High’s Sarah Mega with the coveted Gympie Cattle Camp education bursary worth $500.

ANOTHER SUPER-SUCCESSFUL

Gympie Beef Group Cattle Camp has prompted the organising committee to confirm the camp will be held again next year in the Easter school holidays.

Nearly 100 enthusiastic participants between 5-25 attended the second annual event in April at the Gympie Showgrounds and Turf Club.

The aim of the three-day camp is to create and maintain interest in agriculture and related rural industries that serve the Australian beef supply chain.

Open to young people from all beef breeds, the program provided valuable opportunities for personal development and increasing selfconfidence through parading competitions, judging competitions, and public speaking, along with several novelty events designed to keep the camp fun and entertaining.

Day one was jam packed with educational sessions. The sessions were presented by industry professionals. These

professionals generously donated their time to support the camp.

Due to increased numbers, camp organisers split participants into eight different age groups.

These groups were led by an amazing group of young people.

Payton Jennings (Nolan Meats Livestock Buyer), Isacc Day (Mudloo Pastoral), Abbey McIntyre, Emma Franz (Nolan Meats), Dale McVicar and Katherine Rose (Traveston Downs and Amavale Droughtmasters), Hayden Pratt (Pratt Livestock Transport) and James Smith

These young people gave up their time to be part of the 2024 Cattle Camp. The group leaders provided the competitors with leadership and a fantastic Farm Olympics on night one of camp.

Jade Barrett (Konjuli GJ Droughtmasters) was on hand to capture all the camp activities on camera.

The committee appreciates the efforts of these wonderful young people.

Dave McCabe (Breffni Droughtmasters) provided a demonstration in cattle reproduction and artificial insemination. Dave supplied the students with his extensive knowledge and the use for his life-sized and anatomically correct practice cow.

Travis Luscomb did a clipping and grooming display, while Dr Justin Schooth kept the competitors interested with his animal health talks and Matt Becker highlighted the importance of good nutrition for our cattle.

Barry McIntyre (Tom Grady Rural) entertained the competitors with an interactive display of meat cuts. Competitors were given the opportunity to paint the different cuts on a very patient steer.

Shane Perry (Strathfield Droughtmasters) held a captive

CAPTIVE AUDIENCE: Cattle Camp participants are all ears as they listen to the various demonstrations.

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audience of competitors and parents during his informative cattle structure session.

Shane used live cattle and a selection of cattle bones to demonstrate the importance of structural soundness. Rob Orphant (Seymour Droughtmasters) and Dave Smith (Vale View Droughtmasters) provided valuable advice and instruction on leading and preparing cattle for the show ring.

Day 2 gets quacking

Day 2 was started with informative talks from John Mercer on what to look for when judging cattle.

John also reinforced the importance of structure and conformation and the way it impacts profitability. John spoke about bull selection and the marketing of breeding bulls.

Breeding bulls is the business of John and Roz Mercer at their Kandanga Valley Charolais and Charbray stud.

Day 2 was also our competition day. Older competitors mentored the younger competitors in handlers, prime and stud judging.

Brent Evens (JBS and Jen-Daview Limousin) informed the students what qualities he looks for in a good carcase animal. Brent then went on to judge the junior prime cattle judging competition.

John Mercer was the overjudge for the stud cattle judging.

Craig Dakin was the overjudge for the young handlers’ competition.

Day 2 concluded with an entertaining working dog demonstration by the Barrett family of Sean Evonne Grace and Jade, who used their team of working dogs to move a

group of ducks through a course and back into their cage.

Sean showed that by applying pressure and relief to the animal you can manoeuvre them to do practically anything you want. Sean then related this back to working with cattle.

Day 3 in focus

Day 3 was a little bit different than planned due to the wet weather and wanting to look after the grounds that had been so kindly loaned for the camp by the Gympie Show Society.

We were lucky to have Colleen Fricke (Vale View Droughtmasters) on hand to give an informative cattle photography session. Colleen showed the group how to take good photos to use in advertising and on websites.

Rob Orphant, Barry McIntyre and Isacc Day did a judging

demonstration to show that the same pen of cattle can be judged differently, if you can justify your reasoning.

Sean’s trivia was also a huge hit. The trivia enabled the competitors to show what they had learnt during the camp.

Public speaking activities enabled the competitors to use the skills and feedback that they had been given during the camp without the added pressure of competing.

The camp concluded with a sponsor’s lunch and presentations. The organising committee (Barry and Kelly McIntyre, Sean and Evonne Barrett, Rob and Kirstie Orphant Jim Viner and Molly Kelleher) were overwhelmed by the amount of support and sponsorship

The Gympie Beef Group Cattle Camp received. We would like to thank everyone for their support and for the tribe of parent helpers that made the event possible.

The competitors were treated to pizza and ice-creams while the presentations were held. There was a mountain of prizes to be awarded thanks to our generous sponsors.

The champions were:

Dawson Lahiff Thomas Orphant (Seymour T Droughtmasters), Mac Smith (Vale View M Droughtmasters), Heath Backhouse, Addison Cooke (Taruke A Droughtmasters), Riley Orphant (Seymour R Droughtmasters), Luke Day (Mudloo Pastoral) and Ivy Suendermann

Dakabin High retains grip on bursary

An education bursary of $500 is awarded to a competitor to use for further education or to attend workshops or courses in agriculture. This year’s award was sponsored by Greg and Alison Dakin . Greg was awarded a bursary

when he was young from the Gympie Beef Group and wanted to give back to young people.

A panel of judges made the unanimous decision to award the bursary to Dakabin High’s Sarah Mega , repeating the feat of her high school colleagues Noah and Lincoln Blattman who claimed the prize last year.

The committee would like to thank the Droughtmaster Society for supporting the camp. Droughtmaster Australia was a shirt sponsor and provided competitor bibs.

Many Droughtmaster Society members also sponsored the camp, and we appreciate all the support received. Sponsorship was received from Vale View, Bryvonlea, Binbirrim, Mudloo Pastoral, Konjuli and Seymour.

• Contributed by Kirstie Orphant

If

TOP BILLING:

Sean Barrett works his Kelpies on a group of ducks.

THUMBS UP: Children celebrate another successful Gympie Cattle Camp, confirmed for its third outing at Easter, 2025.

DROUGHTMASTER FUTURITY 2024

Nearing its fifth decade, the Droughtmaster Futurity continues to provide a stage and learning platform for young Droughtmaster members to hone their show skills, such as judging, parading and preparing cattle aged 20 months and younger. The photos below capture some of the colour and action from the event held in March annually at Toogoolawah, Qld. Pictures: JENNY UNDERWOOD.

DROUGHTMASTER’S NEW BREED STEPS UP TO FUTURITY CHALLENGE

Junior judge Amy Collins, Biloela.

Judge Anthony Ball with his associate Amy Wheeler, Kandanga, Qld.

Haylee Hughes, Kihayla Droughtmaster stud, Grandchester, Qld.

Georgie Weaver, Dartmoor Droughtmaster stud, Mt Kilcoy, Qld.

Junior stud member Amelia Cottle, Handa Droughtmaster stud, Haigslea, Qld.

Clancie Dull, working on behalf of John and Shannon Williamson, Cebella & Yellowwood Droughtmaster studs, Pimpama, Qld.

Droughtmaster’s new generation get schooled in the art of cattle showing by judge Anthony Ball, Elders stud stock agent, Malanda, Qld.

Esther Ruffo, Thommo Droughtmaster stud, Widgee, Qld.

TOOGOOLAWAH

LED STEER OR HEIFER

CHAMPION LED STEER OR HEIFER

Sponsored by: Nutrien Toogoolawah

Steer - Seymour Droughtmasters

RESERVE CHAMPION STEER OR HEIFER

Sponsored by: Ariat Australia

Steer “Terri” - Marlee Pianta

STUD CATTLE

CHAMPION BULL CALF

Sponsored by: Val Evans

Sylvan Springs Underbelly 1317Sylvan Springs Droughtmaster

RESERVE CHAMPION BULL CALF

Sponsored by: Seymours Toyota

Kenview Hudson - A & S Davenport

CHAMPION HEIFER CALF

Sponsored by: Elders

RSVP Utopia - RSVP Droughtmaster Stud

RESERVE CHAMPION HEIFER CALF

Sponsored by: South East Country Vets

RSVP Uptown Girl - RSVP

Droughtmaster Stud

CHAMPION BULL

Sponsored by: Bowman Park and Kihayla Droughtmasters

Kenview Gunner - A & S Davenport

RESERVE CHAMPION BULL

Sponsored by: GDL

Smithy’s Feldspar

- Smithy’s Droughtmasters

CHAMPION HEIFER

Norma Kammholz Memorial Trophy

Smithy’s Firefly - Smithy’s Droughtmasters

RESERVE CHAMPION HEIFER

Sponsored by: Cattle

Breeding Services

Vale View Georgia 2 - Vale View Droughtmasters

GRAND CHAMPION EXHIBIT

Sponsored by: Margaret Wilson, Truvalle Droughtmasters

Kenview Gunner - A & S Davenport

BREEDERS GROUP

Sponsored by: Nindethana Droughtmasters

1st: Seymour

PAIR OF BULLS

Sponsored by: Seymours Toyota 1st: Kenview

PAIR OF FEMALES

Sponsored by: Toogoolawah

Produce & Steel

1st: Seymour

SIRES PROGENY

Sponsored by: Kilcoy Global Meats

1st: Smithy’s - Oasis A Boomshakalaka

DAMS PROGENY

Sponsored by: Ariat Australia

1st: Kenview - Cebella Paisley

MOST POINTS FIRST TIME EXHIBITOR

Sponsored by: Droughtmaster Australia

C & L Schulz

MOST SUCCESSFUL EXHIBITOR

Sponsored by: Ariat Australia

RSVP Droughtmaster Stud

JUNIOR PARADER

Peewee - under 13 yrs

Sponsored by: Droughtmaster Australia

1st: Thomas Orphant

Junior 13 yrs & under 15yrs

Sponsored by: Droughtmaster Australia

1st: Riley Orphant

Intermediate - 15 yrs & under 16 yrs

Sponsored by: Droughtmaster Australia

1st: Katelyn Golinski

Open - 16 yrs & under 25 yrs

Sponsored by: Ray Phillips

1st: Chelsea Ferling

DROUGHTMASTER FUTURITY PERPETUAL AWARDS

Val And Neil Evans Youth Excellence Award

Thomas Orphant

Ray and Desley Phillips Youth Encouragement Award

Laila Riley

Truvalle Junior Herdsman Award

Chelsea & Daisy Burton

SCHOOL COMPETITION

Elizabeth Boughen Memorial Most Successful School Award

Warwick State High School

DROUGHTMASTER CAN’T ESCAPE FARMFEST LIMELIGHT

THE AWARD FOR BEST livestock display at Elders FarmFest 2024 has been presented to Droughtmaster Australia for the second year running, matching further accolades that were showered on Droughtmaster cattle in the showring of the Toowoomba event.

Droughtmaster Australia’s successful defence of the title came after completing renovations that were started in 2023, allowing for the construction of extra panels that will enable Droughtmaster members to exhibit unled cattle in two pens.

The panels, constructed by Ray White and Stan Sorley, who spent countless hours measuring, welding and building the structures, can be easily removed to give exhibitors the option of featuring led or unled cattle.

The award topped a successful event for Droughtmaster cattle and their exhibitors with Drew Weller starting the trend on Tuesday by winning Champion 16–19-year-old parader then Grand Champion

Parader, exhibiting Oakmore Wanita under the watchful eye of judge, Hayden Beattie.

Wednesday featured Oakmore Winchester, placing second in Tropical Senior Bull over 20 months in the Battle of the Bulls.

Thursday was a great success where Oakmore Droughtmasters took out the top three spots in the Tropical Junior Female Under 20 months class with Oakmore Krystal (1st), Oakmore Granda (2nd) and Oakmore Sentimental (3rd).

Oakmore Wanita exhibited by Oakmore Droughtmasters won Tropical Senior Female Over 20 months and then went on to win Champion Tropical Female.

The two days of judging took place under judge, Kelly Skillington who had the particularly difficult decision to pick the overall winner among the Angus female and calf, Limousin heifer and Droughtmaster, with Oakmore Wanita (Droughtmaster) ultimately victorious as the Fantastic Female Champion.

Droughtmaster volunteers who kindly donated their time to prepare the shed for the cattle and the marketing of the Droughtmaster brand included Ray and Theresa White, Marylands; Jenny, Jack and Katie Simmonds , Marylands S; Stan and Cameron Sorely, Alma; Lynsey and Lyn Philp, and Inga Hayes Sevenell and Greg and Sharon Harms, and Drew Weller, Oakmore.

This year saw a steady stream of Droughtmaster enthusiasts, fellow studmasters and inquiries for commercial Droughtmaster heifers over the three days of FarmFest.

Droughtmaster office staff Carley Stieler and Jacinta Brown were available to help set up and answer questions over the three days.

Next Gen attended selling merchandise, promoting young people within our breed and gathering ideas and information to increase membership and build on new events.

• Contributed by Sharon Harms

Droughtmaster Australia’s champion shed hands at FarmFest, from left: Drew Weller, Lauren Finger, Inga Hayes, Ray White, Katie Simmonds, Theresa White, Jenny Simmonds, Lyndsey Philp, Liesel Groves, Sharon Harms, Greg Harms, Stan Sorely and Cameron Sorely.

HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS

Annandale Acres Droughtmasters

GLENAVON Atkinson & Co

MT. OSCAR RJ & EM Baccon

WAYLANBAR WJ & LC Barnes

BIRCH DN & JA Birch

John & Estelle Baccon 0488 710 752

Wayne J & Lana C Barnes 0438 128 414

Douglas & Juanita Birch 0427 352 774

BROLGA VIEW Brolga View Droughtmasters AC & CJ Wesche 0408 720 535

LATROBE J Brown

Jody Brown 0428 139 677

GLENLANDS D Bygana Droughtmasters Ross Kiernan & Dean Kiernan 0439 788 431

CAIRO Cairo Droughtmasters

CALCO Calco Droughtmasters

WANDOO GE Carige

CARINYA Carrinyah Pastoral Co.

GLENLANDS J J & CL Childs

GLENLANDS V Childs

MOLAN A & M Clarke

Ryan & Chloe Hodgkinson 0408 169 674

Rebecca Farquhar 0428 843 193

Graeme Carige 0428 957 181

George & Loraine Bartolo 0427 507 177

Jason & Carissa Childs 0427 873 033

Val Childs 0417 009 724

Andew & Molly Clarke 0409 170 393

COLE VALLEY Cole Valley Droughtmaster Richard & Deborah Cole 0487 578 258

COLINTA Colinta Holdings Pty Ltd

Nick Clydsdale 0419 407 251

Annette Henwood

John Bowler

Peg Bowler

Neil Warne

Carol McCormack

Neil Donaldson

Lynn Tompkins

aa_droughtmasters@outlook.com.au

glenavonacco@hotmail.com

GRACEMERE bacco2@bigpond.com

EMERALD waylanbar@outlook.com

EIDSVOLD birchpastoral@westnet.com.au

WELCOME CREEK nettyandcam@icloud.com

LONGREACH jodyjoybrown@gmail.com

CLERMONT byganastation@gmail.com

CLERMONT cairocattleco@outlook.com

ROLLESTON admin@calcodm.com.au

BARALABA kcarige@activ8.net.au

NEBO carrinyahpark@bigpond.com

DINGO alkirastn@bigpond.com

BOULDERCOMBE val@glenlands.com

THANGOOL clarkepastoral@gmail.com

CAWARRAL coleglenstud@icloud.com

WOLFANG huntly@colinta.net

Prefix Membership Name Contact

DAWSON RIDGE Dawson Droughtmasters Kasey Dawson

0487 001 165 OOMBABEER kaseyDawson@outlook.com

DEE AARNN Dee Aarnn Droughtmasters Glenn & Denise Clarke 0419 662 804 SANDRINGHAM aarn74@hotmail.com

DEE VIEW Dee View Droughtmasters Wayne & Hilary Harth 0447 951 929 DULULU wayneh@callidevalleytoyota.com.au

DIAMOND HILL Diamond Hills Droughtmaster Darren Enniss 0447 571 293 ROSEDALE diamondhilldm@gmail.com

MEDWAY HW & SE Donaldson

KANGARIN NP Dudarko

ELJAY LJ Farquhar

F.C.C. Fernie Cattle Co

FERNLEIGH STAR Fernleigh Star Droughtmaster

RED RIVER TR Flohr

GADWELL Gadwell Grazing Company Pty Ltd

WETHERON D & J Garside

OASIS A AM & SM Geddes

CMC D & K Geddes

OASIS NN & RD Geddes

DOONSIDE WR & K Geddes

GLENCOE REDS Glencoe Reds

ARRAWARRA LC Greenhill

Hastings & Sandra Donaldson 0427 855 318 BOGANTUNGAN medwaygrazing@bigpond.com

Nick P Dudarko 0428 922 596 BILOELA kangarin@bigpond.com

Larry James Farquhar 0457 000 680 ROLLESTON admin@calcodm.com.au

Colin & Joy Fernie 0428 122 250 BLACKWATER ferniecattleco@outlook.com

Emily & Nathan Horne 0400 088 527 THEODORE enhorne23@gmail.com

Tomas Flohr 0473 118 960 NEBO trflohr@outlook.com

Daiman Everingham 0429 003 431 ALPHA d_everingham@live.com.au

Drew & Jade Garside 0459 692 825 CAPELLA wetheron@outlook.com

Adam Geddes 0427 500 413 DINGO shelley.92@live.com.au

Duncan & Karen Geddes 07 4984 4150 SPRINGSURE parklands.drg@bigpond.com

Noel Geddes 0416 678 874 WANDAL robyngeddes@bigpond.com

William & Kay Geddes 0418 343 151 JARDINE doonside@westnet.com.au

Lance & Kylie Stephenson 0414 745 158 COLOSSEUM glencoereds@gmail.com

Lasca Greenhill 0429 633 284 SARINA gg.lg.awa.y@bigpond.com

GUMVALE Gumvale Droughtmasters J.S Horne 0427 097 068 CARMILA gumvale4739@yahoo.com

GUNJARI Gunjari Droughtmasters Richard & Leanne Vella 0418 750 818 MT JUKES rl.vella@hotmail.com

KURRAWONG Hampson Family

SUGERLAND W & I Haviland

BILLABONG RJG & CM Hicks

BILLABONG-JC RJG & CM Hicks

JUSTEZ J & T Higgins

MA & EJ Hampson 0407 760 284 LAWGI DAWES matthampson@westnet.com.au

Will & Ingrid Haviland 0437 849 478 COOWONGA sugerland@bigpond.com

John & Catherine Hicks 0417 618 844 MOURA billabongbulls@bigpond.com

John & Catherine Hicks 0417 618 844 MOURA billabongbulls@bigpond.com

Justin & Terri Higgins 0407 131 092 KUTTABUL higg076@bigpond.com

CHIPAHILL Hillsborough Pastoral Co Pty Ltd Fred & Juleen Johnson 0417 609 883 BILOELA

ROCKDALE P PJ & KM Hinchliffe Peter Hinchliffe 0419 699 672 BOULDERCOMBE rockdalepdroughtmasters@gmail.com

ROCKDALE RK & CL Hinchliffe

Keith & Christine Hinchliffe 0499 220 722

BOULDERCOMBE hinchy58@bigpond.com

JIGSAW Jigsaw Droughtmasters Cody R Hansen & Kellie R Pickersgill 0498 199 428 THEODORE kellie094@gmail.com

DAWSONVALE R Johnstone Robert Johnstone 0448 266 577 BANANA dawsongrazing@gmail.com

JRS JRS Droughtmasters Rebecca & Justin Sutton 0407 704 379 MOUNT LARCOM jr.sutton@outlook.com

JUANDAH Juandah Droughtmasters Gavin Goerg 0409 624 843 ALTON DOWNS gavin.goerg@bigpond.com

K TEAM K Team Kerri McKenzie & Kelli Smith 0427 131 863 BILOELA kteamdroughtmasters@outlook.com

KALAMUNDA Kalamunda Droughtmasters DJ & Alana Cressard 0429 358 991 ORANGE CREEK a_teasdale07@hotmail.com

KALBAR Kalbar Pastoral Company Gavin Winten 0429 851 325 ALPHA gavinandanna@bigpond.com

KANIEL Kaniel Droughtmasters Daniel Boswood 0418 788 710 BARMOYA kaniel.droughties@bigpond.com

KENLOGAN Kenlogan Proprietors Andrew & Sonya Harvey 0427 835 196 CLERMONT kenlogan@bigpond.com

ELI PARK C Kirby Christopher Kirby 0417 807 533 EMERALD c.a.kirby@hotmail.com

WIN-D-LEE KR & SLD Busteed P/Ship Sheryn & Ken Busteed 0416 049 937 TARGINNIE whisperingwinds1@bigpond.com

L4 L4 Droughtmasters Colin & Candice Lawrie 0408 486 649 WESTWOOD cslawrie@gmail.com

LAGOON Lagoon Droughtmasters Alexander & Meghann Wilson 0429 169 395 DULULU mm.wilson@hotmail.com

LOCARNO Locarno Droughtmasters Paul Russell 0429 799 349 DINGO rustyandpaula1@bigpond.com

HUNTLY Mackay & Co Droughtmasters Sam & Jane Barton 0428 856 104 COMET huntly@b2m.com.au

MAREN Maren Droughtmasters

MARRINYA Marrinya

RU ALLEY R & R McGilvray

Matthew & Renee Mooney 0400 681 183 BLUE MOUNTAIN maren.grazing@hotmail.com

Anja & Andrew Urban 0427 737 302 MOUNT LARCOM marrinyafarm@bigpond.com

Rachel & Rob McGilvray 0409 575 437 CAIRDBEIGN rob@carnarvonpanelworks.com.au

LONGWAIT McHugh Droughtmasters Damien McHugh 0429 941 697 ROMA dtmequipment@outlook.com

HAMADRA AB McKenzie

Andrew & Kerri McKenzie 0439 826 275 BLUFF wildhorse14@bigpond.com

YARALLA KD & KL McKenzie Ken & Kerry McKenzie 0427 829 128 BLACKWATER kdklmckenzie@gmail.com

RAMARDOO RA McKenzie

TRAFALGAR DG Miles

Riley Andrew McKenzie 0408 493 223 BLUFF wildhorse14@bigpond.com

Doug Miles 0428 347 645 MORINISH trafalgarbulls@bigpond.com

MT WILGA Mt Wilga Pastoral Co Brant & Angie Bettridge 0407 161 565 ALPHA mtwilga@activ8.net.au

SAKENSHA S Mylrea Sasha Mylrea 0407 559 343 GOGANGO sasha1974au@yahoo.com.au

NEEDMOR CA Mylrea Cliff Mylrea 0428 873 066 GOGANGO cliffmylrea1@gmail.com

NOVA VIVO Nova Vivo Droughtmasters Lisa Williams, Brad Dorge & Tania Weston 0414 201 889 BOYNEDALE lisawilliams@austchems.com.au

NUNKERI Nunkeri Droughtmasters

NYANDA Nyanda Pastoral Company

FERNLEIGH C & E Pelling

STRATHFIELD Perry Pastoral Company

STRATHFIELD 9JE J Perry

Daniel & Shannon Williams-Roberts 0428 145 126 SPRINGSURE nunkeridroughtmasters@yahoo.com

John & Graham O'Neill 07 4984 4524 ROLLESTON nyanda1@antmail.com.au

Cec & Elaine Pelling 0400 088 527 THEODORE cecpelling@gmail.com

Shane & Wendy Perry 0427 836 005 CLERMONT admin@strathfieldbulls.com.au

Josh Perry 0458 983 510 WOOLEIN admin@strathfieldbulls.com.au

ALDINGA Piggott Pastoral Co. Terry Piggott 0409 265 410 ROLLESTON piggott@aldinga.net

TARANGUAY H Piggott

CALVERT PEAK DL & LM Pitt

BELLE VIEW L Polkinghorne

Hayley Piggott 0479 153 242 ROLLESTON piggott.hayley@gmail.com

David & Linda Pitt 0427 603 949 CAPELLA dpcattle@bordernet.com.au

Lacey Polkinghorne 0418 962 272 SEAFORTH laceypolkinghorne09@gmail.com

CALAANAH AK Powell Anna Powell 0428 322 272 MOURA akhicks@live.com.au

AP AW Price AW Price 0417 198 132 MOURA ap_droughtmasters@yahoo.com

CALIORAN M & R Purnell

Michael & Rosemary Purnell 0429 815 074 ALTON DOWNS m_t.purnell@bigpond.com.au;rdpurnell@ optusnet.com.au

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BELLARINE WJ & J Ramsey

RED WALI Red Wali

ROSEWOOD Rosewood Cattle Co

ROSS RM Rowlands

ROYAL HEART Royal Heart Droughtmasters

ECHO HILLS WG & KA Russell

REDSKIN KG & DK Rutherford

REDSKIN R R Rutherford

SC SC Droughtmasters

PARAWANGA RJ Scanlan

KENMAY R & K Scanlan

TARA VIEW JM, EG & C Scells

BLUE RIBBON D Schirmer

GLENN VALLEY DG & AL Schloss

SECOND SUNSET Second Sunset Droughtmasters

SWAN Shadyland Pty Ltd

LAMONT M & G Shann

KAPALEE LW & DH Sharpe

WJ & J Ramsey

0488 476 324

Toby & Emily Roberts 0403 176 182

Paul Connor 0437 550 244

Ross (Marty) Rowlands 0428 230 004

Daniel & Holly Dzundza 0408 779 211

Wayne Russell 0417 633 552

Ken & Debbie Rutherford 0427 373 502

Renee Rutherford 0409 058 632

Steven & Claire Farmer 0428 347 555

Rob & Karen Scanlan 0404 725 902

CROWNTHORPE billy.ramsey@hotmail.com

LOWMEAD etroberts@outlook.com.au

MORINISH SOUTH rosewoodcharbray@bigpond.com

BARCALDINE annie.w70@hotmail.com

SPRINGSURE info@penjobepastoral.com.au

SPRINGSURE echograzingco@westnet.com.au

MORINISH redskin@activ8.net.au

MORINISH renee.rutherford@bigpond.com

CANOONA scgrazing@gmail.com

AGNES WATER scanlanrobert@gmail.com

Robert & Karen Scanlan 0404 725 902 MT TOM scanlanrobert@gmail.com

Jeff/Elly/Chris Scells 0427 564 774 SARINA je.scells@bigpond.com

Donald Schirmer 0427 775 629

ROCKHAMPTON chrisgabel@hotmail.com

David & Alice Schloss 0407 789 737 GOOVIGEN davidgandalice@bigpond.com

Benjamin John Lloyd-Jones 0488 096 866

BERAJONDO benljones1176@gmail.com

Steven Swan 0428 972 371 MOURA swn65@bigpond.com

Mac & Gayle Shann 0407 835 246 CLERMONT gayle@cantaurpark.com.au

Lindsay & Dorothy Sharpe 0438 953 140 BILOELA ldsharpe@kapaleedroughtmasters. com.au

KIRALA KW & JE Shields & RF Upchurch KW & JE Shields & RF Upchurch 0429 878 191 SARINA RANGE jshar91@bigpond.com

SKYE Skye Cattle Company

PROLINE C & H Smith

MINLACOWIE Spann Family Partnership

WINGFIELD Spann Family Partnership

SPUR H Spur H Droughtmasters

JOKEN J Stevens

PALMVALE B Streeter

SWEET INA Sweet Ina Droughtmasters

TAHJ TAHJ - Al & Terre Mann

TARGINNIE Targinnie Holdings Pty Ltd

R AND R R Thompson

VITWOOD D Torrisi

MENDIP CG Vale

WAINAI Wainai Droughtmasters

KUPALA K & A Ward

WAYLANBAR J Waylanbar J

MT. OLIVE JB Weir

BRACKLYN R & W Werth

UNINDA B & B Wieland

LJ L Wilson

MOSTYNDALE K Woolcock

GREENACRES Woolein Pastoral

Libby Ingram 0427 764 321 ALPHA skyestation1@gmail.com

Clayton & Hayley Smith 0407 166 645 DUARINGA prolinepastoral@gmail.com

Jason & Samantha Spann & Nicole Mills 0408 002 154 GOOVIGEN jazbow85@yahoo.com.au

Nicole Mills 0428 910 874 JAMBIN spanndroughtmasters@bigpond.com

Tim and Helen Hutton 0438 957 238 BANCROFT hhutt78@gmail.com

Josh Stevens 0409 631 803 BANANA joshstevens96@outlook.com

Beth Streeter 0427 356 070

MARLBOROUGH palmvaleredbrahmans@bigpond.com

Alma & Andrew Tingle 0407 226 127 CANOONA sweetcattle7aj@gmail.com

Alan & Terre Mann 0467 803 248

Craig Butler & Shannon Hermann 0448 882 917

EMERALD ajm64@bigpond.com

CALLIOPE shannon.hermann@hotmail.com

Robert Thompson 0409 897 557 MARWOOD randrdroughtmasters@bigpond.com.au

David Torrisi 0419 744 364 DUNDOWRAN BEACH office@vitwood.com.au

Cyril Vale 0408 069 963

JERICHO mendiphills@bigpond.com

Bruce Jensen 0407 176 833 GARGETT sarahbone84@hotmail.com

Kieran & Annica Ward 0408 767 056

Jesse Barnes 0447 195 193

John Weir 0418 720 592

ALTON DOWNS bensonpastoral@gmail.com

YAMALA jtbarnes14@outlook.com

ALTON DOWNS mt.olive.806@gmail.com

Rosemary & William Werth 0428 953 193 MOURA bracklyn1@bigpond.com

Ben Wieland 0447 829 881

MIRIAM VALE b.wieland@hotmail.com

Luke Wilson 0419 746 018 MONTO luke-wilson84@hotmail.com

Kevin & Leesa Woolcock 0428 841 085 SPRINGSURE k.lwoolcock@bigpond.com

Fred & Jesse Rowe 0427 407 490 RANNES cooperdownsqld@gmail.com

YARALLA D Yaralla D Darcy McKenzie 0447 829 116 COOMOO ddkmckenzie@gmail.com

KARRAGARRA York Cattle Company Pty Ltd Wayne York 0458 823 931 EMERALD karragarra@yorkmail.com.au

CENTRAL ZONE • COMMERCIAL MEMBERS

RLM & DB Atkinson

Belyando Cattle Co

DL & W Brown

Christmas Creek Cattle Co.

DO & KE Dahl

M Dahl

Double J Red Droughtmasters

GP Edwards

Glenmara Holdings

G Halberstater

Junee Pastoral Pty Ltd

WD & CA Kenny

Kiernan & Co Pty Ltd

Lucas Cattle Company

Melandy Harvesting

MJ & JM Elliot

Sherri Philp

Robert LM Atkinson 0427 417 138

Dean Kiernan 0439 788 431

BARALABA rob@atkinsonpastoral.com

CLERMONT belyandocattleco@gmail.com

Donald & Wendy Brown 0427 608 021 LONGREACH latrobestation@bigpond.com

Bradley & Kerryn Piggott 0418 155 848

Desmond Dahl 0428 350 191

Michael Dahl 0429 693 582

Wade & Tracy Smith 0406 530 093

ROLLESTON office@christmascreek.com.au

BARALABA dkdahl@westnet.com.au

BARALABA dkdahl@westnet.com.au

MACHINE CREEK machinecreek@gmail.com

Greg & Donna Edwards 0427 833 187 WOWAN edwardswolfang@bigpond.com

Edward Maragna 0408 292 134

COLLESEUM glenmaraholdings@outlook.com.au

Gerard Halberstater 0408 799 620 KABRA gshalby@bigpond.com

Richard, Gaye, Nerida & Matthew Luck 0407 159 819

Warren & Carolyn Kenny 0427 611 279

DINGO juneestn@bigpond.com

GAYNDAH wajatryn@bigpond.com

Ross Kiernan 0419 675 035 CLERMONT kiernanross@gmail.com

Allan & Abbey Lucas 0498 240 779 MORNISH nallaby@bigpond.com

Melissa & Andrew Deguara 0400 391 098

Maurice & Jennifer Elliot 0429 854 277

Sherri Philp 0428 835 577

PINEVALE melandy@activ8.net.au

CALLIOPE jenandjim@bigpond.com

CLERMONT office@wyenagrazing.com.au

rsimmons6@bigpond.com

barrysoley@bigpond.com

shardaledroughties@bigpond.com

CENTRAL ZONE • JUNIOR MEMBERS

CHARDALE Chardale Droughtmasters

ANNANDALE ACRES C C Collins

ROSEWOOD R R Connor

DON RIVER Don River Droughtmasters

Dale Charles Micallef 0408 704 350

Clayton Collins 0421 834 622

KOUMALA dalemicallef05@gmail.com

CALLIOPE aa_droughtmasters@outlook.com.au

Riley Connor 0439 347 550 MORINISH rosewoodcharbray@bigpond.com

Miranda Schloss 0407 789 737

FERNVIEW Fernview Droughtmasters Tyler Mills 0438 999 946

GOOVIGEN mirandaschloss@icloud.com

RUBYANNA millsy_11@outlook.com

GLENLANDS R Glenlands R Ryan Childs 0427 642 342 DINGO ryan.e.childs@gmail.com

SUGERLAND O J Haviland

ARH A Hite

SKYE B B Ingram

GOLDSTONE J & A Lucas C/ Lucas Cattle Company

MG MG Droughtmasters

Jean Haviland 0437 849 478

COOWOONGA havijmoo@rgs.qld.edu.au

Aaron Hite 0407 139 851 BANANA kellyjoanjohnson@gmail.com

Blake Ingram ALPHA skyestation1@gmail.com

Jake & Ava Lucas 0498 240 779 MORINISH nallaby@bigpond.com

Mikaela Gauci 0419 771 488 SARINA mgdroughties@gmail.com

MILL VIEW Mill View Droughtmaster Everleigh Violet Noy 0480 462 286 MACKAY donnoy76@gmail.com

MOLAN T Molan T Droughtmasters Thea Clarke 0409 170 393 THANTOOL clarkepastoral@gmail.com

JUSTEZ GRANDIES A Moon

PANDORA M Richardson

Archee Moon 0407 131 092 KUTTABUL justez@bigpond.com.au

Matthew Richardson 0487 745 492 ALTON DOWNS matthew@concretecowboy.com.au

SKW SKW Droughtmasters Stirling Ward 0491 079 256 CANOONA stirlingward85@gmail.com

ASHWOOD M Smith

Matthew Smith 0439 678 561 COLOSSEUM epsmith@bigpond.com

R & RJ J Thompson Jarrad Thompson 0409 897 557 MARWOOD randrdroughtmasters@bigpond.com

R & R MAT M, A & T Thompson Madison, Abbie & Taylor Thompson 0409 897 557 MARWOOD randrdroughtmasters@bigpond.com

YELROTH Yelroth

Mack Thorley 0447 523 051 COLOSSEUM mack.thorley@gmail.com

FAR NORTHERN ZONE • STUD MEMBERS

WARRINA

ENDEAVOUR Endeavour Droughtmasters

julie_weatherwitch@hotmail.com

rachael.bowden@bigpond.com

buildersnorth@bigpond.com ELLISON PARK AJ & MM Ford

WYLANDRA M & J Gallo

EDEN ROAD Giueni Investments Pty Ltd Charles Giueni

tpol1@bigpond.com;mmdrof@gmail. com

mjgallo@bigpond.net.au

INNISFAIL accounts@giuenicorp.com.au

IONA IONA Droughtmaster Stud Michael & Stephanie Daly 0448 036 296 JAGGAN office@ionadroughtmaster.com.au

KANBRAE Kanbrae Stud Barry Shephard 0427 665 536 EAST PALMERSTON kanbrae@live.com.au

LEVERDALE AE & EE Lever Alan, Elaine & Paul Lever 0477 008 650 EURAMO leverdalestud@gmail.com

MARKEEN Markeen Droughtmasters Mark Williams 0407 031 906 FOSSILBROOK markeendm@gmail.com

EULUMA GW Rasmussen Gordon Rasmussen 0429 941 218 JULATTEN gwrassy@gmail.com

RIVERLAND Riverland Droughtmasters Garry W & Jillian E Little 0429 823 117 MILLAA MILLAA gwje.little@bigpond.com

DINNER CREEK F & C Shephard Fred & Carmel Shephard 0408 425 996 CLONCURRY dinner_creek@hotmail.com

TARA HILL Tara Hill Stud Padhraic McBride 0429 379 255 CRAIGLIE padhraic.mcbride1@bigpond.com

TROPICAL NORTH Tropical North Droughtmasters Roy Cox 0428 433 307 FRIDAY POCKET rmccarpentryfnq@gmail.com

VIS HILL Vis Hill Droughtmaster Stud Nicole Karan 0429 670 628 KURANDA nicole.k80@hotmail.com

WARRALEA Warralea Partnership Peter Bauer 0428 976 345 RAVENSHOE julie_weatherwitch@hotmail.com

BARRON VALLEY AL Williams

Amy Williams 0447 087 717

MALANDA jjwilliams5@bigpond.com

KEL-LEE JJ, KE & AL Williams JJ, KE & AL Williams 0418 755 279 MALANDA jjwilliams5@bigpond.com

KEL-LEE A KE Williams Kellie Williams 0417 950 133 MALANDA jjwilliams5@bigpond.com

FAR NORTHERN ZONE • COMMERCIAL MEMBERS

Gianasi

FAR NORTHERN ZONE • JUNIOR MEMBERS

FAR SOUTHERN ZONE • LIFE MEMBERS

FAR SOUTHERN ZONE • STUD MEMBERS

CLAYFIELD J Allan

ARKUNA Arkuna Droughtmasters

RIBY-GROVE CA & SP Bell

CANCO Canco Droughtmasters

CEDAR SPRINGS A AJ Carter

CEDAR SPRINGS PJ & WE Carter & Sons

COMMISSIONERS CREEK Commissioners Creek

DD B & M Duff

DUNROUGAN Dunrougan Droughtmasters

GREENVIEW DR & HL Green

HEITIKI JS & MA & TS Lloyd

COOLIBAH PJ & CE Mailler

MYGUNYAH Mygunyah Droughtmasters

REDROC RedRoc Droughtmasters

RIVERSTONE Riverstone Droughtmasters

Janet Allan 0447 844 112

Bernard & Barbara Tunsted 0428 791 224

Craig & Sue Bell 0412 606 485

Cameron Johnson 0487 459 988

Andrew J Carter 0427 759 836

Paul & Wendy Carter 0428 321 299

Debra Strong 0427 120 212

CURLEWIS clayfieldstud@gmail.com

UPPER CRYSTAL CREEK arkuna2484@bigpond.com

CORAKI EAST bellcs@bigpond.com

UPPER TAYLORS ARM cancodroughtmasters@gmail.com

KYOGLE andrewcarter_10@hotmail.com

KYOGLE pwcarter@skymesh.com.au

BLACK SWAMP debbiestrong60@gmail.com

Blake & Makayla Duff 0481 236 680 TOOROOKA theduffs@outlook.com.au

Sharon Morrison 0457 362 782

LANSDOWNE sharonmorrison1127@gmail.com

Daniel & Helen Green 0429 677 000 BACKMEDE dgreenview@gmail.com

JS & MA & TS Lloyd 0429 318 096

Pete & Clare Mailler 0427 265 707

Steven & Therese Moffitt 0437 670 790

Nathan & Naomi Desira 0438 336 237

Todd & Naomi Heyman 0448 725 060

DELUNGRA

BOGGABILLA clare_mailler@bigpond.com

MCCULLY'S GAP sandtmoffitt@skymesh.com.au

GOULBURN red_roc@outlook.com

GRAFTON todd.heyman1977@gmail.com

SITUATION Situation Droughtmasters Georgina Sheargold 0435 372 082 BINGARA g.sheargold@gjgold.com.au

STONEBRIDGE Stonebridge Droughtmasters Alex Gibbon & Paige Hodkinson 0431 072 982

CAPEEN CREEK Info@sbdm.com.au

THEG Theg Droughtmaster Troy Mitchell 0417 695 915 THORA tmitchell@ljhcoffs.com

TOORALI Toorali Droughtmasters Paul J & Jerah T Hart 0412 122 019 UKI hartjp@ozemail.com.au

JEMBRAE BW & LJ Warne

Brett & Leanne Warne 0415 257 720 LEEVILLE jembrae@bigpond.com

GEN Y E Warne Emma Warne 0499 558 818 CASINO jembrae@bigpond.com

FAR SOUTHERN ZONE • COMMERCIAL MEMBERS

Budda Station Pastoral Co

L & K Grasso

GR, DE & RA Idstein

Manuka (Cobar) Pty Ltd

David & Gail Russel 0418 636 050 COBAR david.russell@nutrienrussell.com.au

Len & Kaye Grasso 0423 671 453 CUNDLETOWN kandlgrasso@bigpond.com

Graeme & Diana Idstein 0407 155 146 GLOUCESTER coneacattle@gmail.com

Andrew & Megan Mosely 0429 477 930 COBAR megan@etiwanda.com.au

& Lyn Heyman

GRAFTON

diddilalaa@bigpond.com

wastey@bigpond.net.au TJ Tierney

Dr Trevor Tierney 0428 676 399 BONALBO Wilgaroi Pastoral

David & Maria Wall 0428 181 835 BELLATA wilgaroipastoral@gmail.com

FAR SOUTHERN ZONE • JUNIOR MEMBERS

MENABILLY T D'Elboux

PFR N & R Harper

and Roran Harper

ajdpcarey@outlook.com

BIGHT bennyrayinc@gmail.com

GLT Leithvale Sarah Kennett 0438 186 787 GRAFTON andrewken@me.com

EAGLEHAWK B Slade Brycen Slade 0457 489 852 CASINO brycenslade04@gmail.com

smithy210405@gmail.com

NORTHERN ZONE • LIFE MEMBERS

NORTHERN ZONE • STUD MEMBERS

PIONEER VALLEY D Agius

western_red@bigpond.com

rachael.ando@gmail.com

hillside18@outlook.com.au

greg.terressa.ford@bigpond.com.au

bostaurusdroughtmasters@yahoo. com.au

kirknie@bigpond.com

LISGAR

debella@activ8.net.au

RONDEL Rondel Droughtmasters Deleece Carrington Lakisha Muntelwit 0428 191

benpowermax@hotmail.com

anrod.rondel@gmail.com

SAMARI Samari Droughtmasters Bill Hawkins & Mark Ber 0427 484 998 HUGHENDEN admin@samaridroughtmasters.com

TELEMON JD & KJ Stewart-Moore Jack D & Kylie J Stewart-Moore 0427 211 516 HUGHENDEN kylie@dunluce.com.au

NORTHERN ZONE • COMMERCIAL MEMBERS

YL Cox

E.D. Cattle Company

JM Fegan

Fletcher Vale Pastoral Company

HC Pastoral Pty Ltd

Jersey Plains Pastoral Co Pty Ltd

Lake Lofty Pty Ltd

Melinda Downs Pty Ltd

The Nobbies Grazing Co

GA & MH Power

B & L Wetherall

Yvonne Cox 07 4785 3447 COLLINSVILLE

Frank Atherton 0427 003 500 LONGREACH frank@athertonpastoral.com.au

John Fegan 07 4746 8474 JULIA CREEK

Chris & Max Allingham 0477 875 816 BASALT max.allingham@outlook.com

Charlie & Jackie Hawkins 0427 004 463 HUGHENDEN malakoff@westnet.com. au;malakoffdowns@hotmail.com

David & Tracy Corbett 0417 781 396 CLONCURRY chumvale@bigpond.com

Donna Finger 0428 582 466 INJUNE billabalong@hotmail.com

Danny Locke 0427 159 664

CLONCURRY melindadowns@westnet.com.au

Peter Davies 0418 425 927 CLONCURRY thenobbies1@gmail.com

Garth & Maureen Power 0429 406 905 JULIA CREEK debella@activ8.net.au

Brett & Linda Wetherall 0411 193 762 PALMYRA palmyrak7u@activ8.net.au

NORTHERN ZONE • JUNIOR MEMBERS

SOUTH EASTERN ZONE • LIFE MEMBERS

moffattjosie@gmail.com;moffattag@ gmail.com

nameloc.j.a@gmail.com

157 MA MA CREEK vanessa.evans4@bigpond.com

CEDAR VIEW SR & LM Tompkins Stanley Tompkins 0417 647 558 VETERAN tompkinsls@gmail.com

SOUTH EASTERN ZONE • STUD MEMBERS

LORAYNE RA & LE Aitken

& Lorraine Aitken

loraynebellthorpe@gmail.com SS.ALLOWAY S Alloway Shane Alloway

WOODFORD shane_alloway@hotmail.com

SANDYMOUNT TR King & AM Whitehead Theresa King Anne-Marie Whitehead 0408 181 747 MOOLOOLAH trking2006@bigpond.com

AURORA Aurora Marcus Swan 0418 752 512 COOROY auroradroughties@gmail.com

WARARBA CREEK B & B Pastoral Pty Ltd

David Trask 0429 121 607 WAMURAN randv8@bigpond.net.au

BALMORAL RIDGE Balmoral Ridge Droughtmasters Peter & Heather Howes 0418 781 188

3 SISTERS G Bayliss

BALMORAL RIDGE john@firstforest.net.au

Geraldine Bayliss 0438 546 220 LAIDLEY NORTH alexj98@bigpond.com

BEYOND Beyond Droughtmasters Gary John Brennan & Angela Mazzaracca 0411 481 301 WOOLSHED ang.mazz471@gmail.com

BLACKSTONE Blackstone Ranch

PINE VALLEY D Blanckensee

BNT BNT Cattle Co

Mr Joseph & Mrs Julie Haber 0418 185 030 FARLEIGH jennifer.hinton@haberx.com.au

Dean Blanckensee 0455 244 485 KANDANGA bbvegies@bigpond.com

Barry & Tracy Hession 0418 431 215 KNAPP CREEK bnt@bntcattleco.com.au

NORMANTON PARK NL Boughen Noel Boughen 0418 799 398 ROSEWOOD normantonpark@bigpond.com

NORMANTON PARK P P Boughen

Penni Boughen 0417 751 444 ROSEWOOD penni-boughen@bigpond.com

BOWMAN PARK Bowman Park Droughtmasters Justin Bowman 0407 938 684 ROSEWOOD bowmanpark7@bigpond.com

BUNDY Bundy Droughtmasters Mitchell & Peter Fleming 0409 593 371 BUNDABERG sonia@motel24.com.au

CALICO LAKES Calico Lakes Droughtmasters DC & HT Henwood 0475 003 639 CALICO CREEK davidhenwood@hotmail.com

CAMBEWARRA Cambewarra Droughtmasters Bruce & Christine Bell 0499 666 014 ANDURAMBA brucechristine@hitmail.com.au

JEMCAR JP & JL Carter

AMBERWOOD WJ Catlow

Joanne Carter 0429 840 166 WIDGEE oakleigh.traders@bigpond.com

Bill & Win Catlow 0427 549 140 ROSEVALE w.j.catlow@activ8.net.au

CRAIGLEA Cedar Cattle Company Pty Ltd Jason Johnston 0427 460 161 OBI OBI craigleadroughtmasters@hotmail.com

WISETREE CJ & MK Chalmers

Clint & Melissa Chalmers 0428 187 815

COALSTOUN LAKES clintchalmers@outlook.com

BINBIRRIM C & K Christensen Christian & Katie Christensen 0414 318 407 MIVA Binbirrim@outlook.com

CLAYMORE Claymore Cattle Company AJ & BA Mickelberg 0487 495 987 BUDERIM bmickelberg@gmail.com

CME CME Droughtmasters

Warwick Thomas 0419 713 877 CAMBROON warwick.t@securcom.com.au

COLEYVILLE Coleyville Droughtmasters Brett A & Elizabeth G Mandelkow 0438 303 064 COLEYVILLE coleyvilledroughtmasters@gmail.com

COONDOO SPRINGS Coondoo Springs David Turton 0412 551 594 COONDOO dpt1210@gmail.com

CORUNDUM PARK Corundum Park Renata R Baczynski 0428 322 665 TIRROAN renrose.baczynski@hotmail.com

CRIBRUM Cribrum Pastoral Co. Andrew Percy 0408 335 951 PURGA andrew_percy@yahoo.com

CV CV Droughtmasters Jim & Rachael Mackenzie 0403 277 555 LOWER WONGA cvdroughtmasters@gmail.com

DAKOTA Dakota Droughtmaster Jason Titman 0419 795 218 NORTH ARM jtitman@integr8group.com.au

DARTMOOR Dartmoor Droughtmasters Georgie, Natasha & Trevor Weaver 0447 981 028 MT KILCOY natashal67@bigpond.com

DULBOLLA Dulbolla Beef Pty Ltd Troy Bremner & Hayley Bray 0407 368 730 RUNNING CREEK info@international-protein.com

EDEN SPRINGS Eden Springs Droughtmasters

RIVERGLEN Edwards Rural

FAROGAN VALLEY Farogan Valley Droughtmasters

GREYROCK J Gilbert

GILLMARA A & N Gillies

GLENNBURRI Glennburri Droughtmaster

GOLDEN RIDGE Golden Ridges Droughtmasters

Michael & Ann Rousseau 0414 582 066

Paul, Josh & Maddy Edwards 0418 200 694

REDBANK CREEK mike@supakwik.com

SILVERDALE jpedwards94@outlook.com

Nick & Sarah Hughes 0400 709 124 UPPER KANDANGA faroganvalley@outlook.com

Jennifer Gilbert 0427 146 867

Allan & Nadia Gillies 0428 865 321

SPRINGBROOK j2familytrust@gmail.com

MONDURAN awg773@hotmail.com

Josh Thring & Meghann Dunford 0417 327 166 TAKURA josh.thring43@gmail.com

Brodie Carmichael 0438 828 831

CROFTBY carmichaelentertainment@gmail.com

GOONDABARD Goondabard Droughtmasters Andrew Donaldson 0428 781 785 WIGHTS MOUNTAIN oceanviewbeef@gmail.com

GRANDVIEW Grandview Droughtmaster

GREY GUM Grey Gum Droughtmasters

LAKE MOOGERAH Gutzke Rural Holdings

WILLUNGA C & K Hanson

VIEW FIELD S & S Hauschildt

HAZELWOOD CA Hazelwood CA

BRYVONLEA BH & YB Heck

BRYVONLEA JBH J Heck

HESHEK Heshek Droughtmasters

NORFOLK CW & SJ Hesse

HILL TOP VIEW Hill Top View Droughtmasters

HILLDALE Hilldale Droughtmasters

BEELBI CREEK S & S Hillier

CANE LANDS NW Hinchliffe

KARAWAL W Hodgins

Greg & Dianne Anderson 0429 440 886

Craig, Adam & Michele Gee 0433 704 116

Phillip Gutzke 0437 635 165

BOONAH meandarraptyltd@bigpond.com

BEAUDESERT greygumdroughtmasters@gmail.com

SILVERDALE psgutzke@bigpond.com

Colin & Katrina Hanson 0400 644 341 TOORBUL katrinah08@y7mail.com

Shane & Sarah Hauschildt 0448 030 257

Clayton & Aishah Woods 0448 194 476

Brian & Yvonne Heck 0407 714 439

Joshua Heck 0409 732 676

Sherron & Paul Wauchope 0409 287 473

Corey & Sarah Hesse 0417 829 644

TALLEGALLA snshauschildt@hotmail.com

OBI OBI woodsman2012@hotmail.com

GYMPIE bryvonlea@activ8.net.au

GYMPIE joshua.heck@gdlrural.com.au

BROOLOO sherron@merakifarming.com.au

SUMMERHOLM norfolkdroughtmasters@gmail.com

Norman Parker 0432 568 711 THEEBINE htvdroughtmasters@outlook.com

Mark Austin & Robyn Hohenhaus 0428 494 275 MILBONG m.a.hohenhaus@gmail.com

Scott & Stacey Hillier 0427 597 145 TAKURA scottlea39@gmail.com

Neville Hinchliffe 0407 623 220 WOOLOOGA neville.canelands@gmail.com

Walter Hodgins 0431 058 525 BELLI PARK walter.hodgins@gmail.com

HONEY HILL Honey Hill Droughtmaster Ben Woodford 0499 169 444 FULHAM benn12345@outlook.com

DEEP CREEK BL Honor

JACKOBEN G Honor

Boyd & Glenda Honor 0411 549 102 NORTHGATE bnghonor@bigpond.net.au

Glenn & Kathy Honor 0439 684 150 YANDINA glennhhonor@gmail.com

HVD HVD Droughtmasters Ben & Roxanne Hallam 0423 838 747 TRAVESTON hallamcontracting@outlook.com.au

INFINITY Infinity Droughtmasters Maddison Brennan 0422 420 326 WOOLSHED maddison.brennan96@gmail.com

OMAROO J & Y Handy Holdings Pty Ltd Jason & Yvonne Handy 0409 278 679 ARMSTRONG CREEK yhandy@bigpond.com

JAMBA Jamba Droughtmasters Andrew & Amanda Major 0407 377 567 COLEYVILLE jambadroughtmasters@gmail.com

CRIMSON RIDGE J Janke

Jarryd Janke 0437 407 004 ROCKSIDE jarryd@rugbyfarm.com.au

JARAMIAH Jaramiah Droughtmaster Mark Lane 0400 888 126 MOOLOO maralielane@gmail.com

JNS JNS Droughtmasters Jessie Norris & Stephen Baldwin 0427 055 454 FERNY GLEN jessienorris001@gmail.com

JOMA Joma Droughtmasters Josh Edwards 0418 200 694 SILVERDALE jpedwards94@outlook.com

KALILY Kalily Droughtmasters Tracey & Shane Hart 0488 444 549 TRAVESTON kalilydroughtmasters@hotmail.com

JASANDA BR Kammholz and AB Turner Bevan Kammholz Amanda Turner 0409 899 597

CROWS NEST andrew.turner@originenergy.com.au

KARRABIN Karrabin Droughtmasters Warren Cross 0439 773 815 KARRABIN warren@skateparks.com.au

MARONGHI PARK JR & A Kazakoff JR & A Kazakoff 0438 153 196 Caloundra ajkazakoff@bigpond.com

KCT KCT Droughtmasters Melissa McEniery & Richard Walker 0432 621 104 AMAMOOR meldic@bigpond.com

KEATCON Keatcon Droughtmasters Peter & Jane Keating 0411 693 644

KONJULI Konjuli Partnership Sean & Evonne Barrett 0427 740 994

NEW FARM Koolyangarra Droughtmasters John Chalk 0417 304 643

KROSS COUNTRY Kross Country Droughtmasters

LANGSHAW VALLEY Langshaw Valley Droughtmasters

LAURGUS Laurgus Hills Droughtmasters

HIGH COUNTRY S S Laycock

HIDDEN VALLEY W Lee & D Lee

Matthew James Kross 0467 292 242

William & Joannah Garrett 0427 830 070

Brent & Lauren Knopke 0447 420 772

Stephanie Laycock 0428 094 456

William Lee & David Lee 0451 191 266

LITTLE ED Little Ed Droughtmasters Ben Bamford 0413 109 161

LOCHVIEW Lochview Droughtmasters

ROSE OF ACLAND D Love

SIMTO AC & CL Ludwig

IANBRAE PR Mackay

MAGNOLIA FARM Magnolia Farm Droughtmaster Stud

MAJOR Major Droughtmasters

ARAUCARIA SM & SR Mallet

MANCHESTER Manchester Grazing Company

Damian Gartshore 0438 384 870

David Love 0414 307 070

Anthony & Chantal Ludwig 0428 540 725

Paul Mackay 0417 304 643

Dianne, David & Katherine-Lee Butler 0419 652 730

Matt & Bec Brooks 0413 448 446

MONSILDALE keatcon@bigpond.com

WOOLOOGA blackdog@skymesh.com.au

MALENY chalkj@me.com

LOWER WONGA matthewkross1@gmail.com

LANGSHAW langshawvalleydm@outlook.com

BLENHEIM laurgushills@hotmail.com

ESKDALE stephanie@hclivestocksupplements. com.au

PEACHESTER supermum581@iinet.net.au

CHARLWOOD littleedfarms@gmail.com

CHARLWOOD damiang@idec.com.au

MORTON VALE theloveclan55@gmail.com

LAMINGTON cludwig2301@gmail.com

CONONDALE tandpmackay@westnet.com.au

BLI BLI kathy.b@edgeearlylearning.com.au

WIVENHOE POCKET bec@majordroughtmasters.com.au

Steve & Sally Mallet 0429 721 455 MALENY sireline8@bigpond.com

Ken Shaw 0407 137 571

MARULA Marula Droughtmaster Stud Barry Steven Geyer 0439 343 126

TALARINGA D & G Matthew

MAUNSELL PARK Maunsell Park

TINBEERWAH kjshawqld@gmail.com

DUGANDAN barry@skylightproperties.com.au

Dan & Geraldine Matthew 0407 595 359 GIN GIN talaringa15@gmail.com

Christopher Turner 0421 435 386 TAMAREE maunsellparkdroughties@live.com.au

MELKRO Melkro Droughtmasters Melissa Thiess 0415 936 205 WOLVI thiess1@bigpond.com

METEMON Metemon

MILLERWOOD Millerwood Droughtmasters

IRONHIDE S Mills

Jonathan Weller 0422 809 344 MARYS CREEK jonathan@bmwca.com.au

Glen L & Kimberley A Wood 0407 591 286 FASSIFERN VALLEY glkawood@gmail.com

Sabina Mills 0402 355 139

LAIDLEY CREEK WEST ironhidedm@outlook.com

JOMOCO J & P Mooney

Joseph & Peta Mooney 0477 451 961

GLADSTONBURY jdpamooney6977@gmail.com

MORNINGSTAR Morningstar Droughtmaster Stud David & Liza Jensen 0448 578 166 BUCCA dkjensen@y7mail.com

MORRWIL Morrwil Droughtmasters Peter Meiklejohn 0499 992 757 COOLOOLABIN morrwil@outlook.com

MT BRISBANE Mt Brisbane Pastoral Co Carli McConnel 0428 986 146 ESK office@mtbrisbane.com.au

MT WHITESTONE Mt Whitestone Droughtmasters

GLEN EYRE SD & NP Nelson

NEROHN Nerohn Pastoral Company

STONEY PINCH P & K Newlove

Richard Sutton 0434 157 900 MT WHITESTONE jo@suttonfarms.com.au

Stan Nelson 0419 296 131 ANTIGUA

John & Karen McKeon 0418 781 188 LAKE CLARENDON john@firstforest.net.au

Paul & Katie Newlove 0427 636 163 MAROON pnewlove2@gmail.com

CAMBROON PARK L Nichols Leonie Nichols 0487 231 545 CHERRY CREEK cambroonpark@gmail.com

NINDETHANA JEM Nindethana Jem Jackson Hawkins 0499 076 193 CAMP MOUNTAIN jacksonhawkins16@gmail.com

NINDETHANA Nindethana Pastoral Pty Ltd

NOORAMUNGA Nooramunga Droughtmasters

NOTABLE Notable Droughtmasters

CARNUDGE G & L Nugent

HAPPY VALLEY N & K O'Brien

Bronwyn Betts 0408 700 510 CAMP MOUNTAIN bronwyn@hawkins.com.au

Steve Patrick 0429 890 994 HARRISVILLE lighteningp@icloud.com

Neville & Tylen Wallace 0458 514 316 SOUTH KOLAN neville.wallace@bigpond.com

Greg & Linda Nugent 0402 411 716 DAYBORO carnudgestud@bigpond.com

Neville & Kathleen O'Brien 0428 949 462 PEACHESTER kobrien2@bigpond.net.au LYS Pandelyssi

PARKLANDS WS & JM Paulger

KEDAJA D & K Perry

PIPIKAU Pipikau Pty Ltd

PM PASTORAL PM Pastoral Pty Ltd

Pantelis Kekkov 0404 640 662 Rosevale pandelyssi@hotmail.com

Wayne Paulger 0407 460 167 KENILWORTH janway1@bigpond.com;bdp250@gmail. com

David & Karen Perry 0410 317 497 MT KILCOY david.karen71@gmail.com

Richard Baker & Jenni Anderson 0421 510 344 KENILWORTH richard218.rb@gmail.com

Stephen & Shannon Pyman 0419 991 488

PEACHESTER spyman@cdilawyers.com.au

PROVENCE Provence Droughtmasters Peta & Stuart Hayman 0414 965 053 ROSEVALE peta@yacatac.com

RANGEVIEW Rangeview Droughtmasters Mark R Pagett 0400 827 247 TRAVESTON rangeviewdm@iinet.net.au

HEITIKI R R & M Rankine

SILVA RAYNE LJ Rayner

Roger & Max Rankine 0408 161 015 SEVEN HILLS frrankine@gmail.com

Glenn Rayner 0427 024 416 WARRILL VIEW cgrayner4@bigpond.com

REESVILLE Reesville Droughtmasters Nick Colquhoun 0459 992 215 REESVILLE reesvilledroughtmasters@gmail.com

REYNOLDS HEAD Reynolds Head Droughtmasters Shaan Eldridge

0400 279 832 MOOGERAH rc3668@yahoo.com

RSVP RSVP Droughtmaster Stud Steven Pickering 0419 730 836 SAMFORD stevenpickering@hotmail.com

RUBYRED Rubyred Droughtmasters Lisa Brown 0455 501 963 STONEY CREEK lisabrown1306@gmail.com

CASTLEVALE SB Ryan

SQP Saddleback Pastoral

BIMBADEEN Samarsu Consultants

Shane B Ryan 0439 196 665 EAST IPSWICH sandjryan@bigpond.com

Wade Batty 0412 342 895 WILSONS POCKET wade@ecoqld.com

Bruce Whiteford 0412 453 322 WOOTHA brucewhiteford@bigpond.com

TOBLO BP & MJ Scheiwe Marnie Scheiwe 0410 706 871 MARBURG mscheiwe@bigpond.com

CHERYLEA C & L Schulz Clinton & Leah Schulz 0400 164 394 KANIGAN clintws1978@gmail.com

SEYMOUR Seymour Droughtmasters Robert & Kirstie Orphant 0407 616 247 GUNALDA seymour127@outlook.com

SMITHY'S Smithy's Droughtmasters Rowan Smith 0409 620 603 YANGAN rsmit24@hotmail.com

SOMMER Sommer Stud Droughtmasters Pty Ltd Daniel Sommer 0431 247 682 MALENY admin@djsommerhomes.com.au

KIVERTON D & E Spring

David & Elizabeth Spring 0408 441 279 HARLIN kiverton@optusnet.com.au

SPRINGDALE COTTAGE Springdale Cottage Droughtmaster Michelle Fraser 0412 988 521 SPRINGDALE michellefraser70@bigpond.com

STANMORE Stanmore Livestock John Ryan 0407 688 400 BEAUDESERT johnnyryan1994@gmail.com

MONSILDALE B & J Strahan

Brad & Jenny Strahan 0438 328 948

MONSILDALE brad@strahanconsulting.com.au

SYLVAN SPRINGS Sylvan Springs Droughtmaster Steven Pickering 0427 779 707 SAMFORD stevenpickering@hotmail. com;allstar84@bigpond.com

TARANAVALE Taranavale Droughtmasters Robert Ryan 0412 969 268 MOUNT MEE rob@rjrshopfitting.com.au

MICHICKI M, V & M Tate

Michael, Vicki & Melissa Tate 0408 189 112 CURRA michickidroughtmasters@outlook.com

OBI VALLEY N Tate Neil Tate 0417 639 067 WITTA obivalley@y7mail.com

THOMMO J Thompson

TRUE BLUE J JN Thompson

Jye Thompson 0427 625 218 WIDGEE thommo8725@hotmail.com

Jake Nicholas Thompson 0417 262 064 CHILDERS ken.thompson@bundaberg.qld.gov.au

THREE DAMS FULL Three Dams Full Droughtmasters Amanda & Roger Chittenden 0409 010 008 DUNDOWRAN roger.chittenden@wittenham.com.au

RBT R & B Toft

Richard & Bronwyn Toft 0419 023 735 FERNVALE rjtoft@hotmail.com

TOMAWILL Tomawill Droughtmasters Derek Mays 0413 081 492 TEMPLIN dandlmays@bigpond.com

TOPLINE Topline Droughtmasters

Brian & Lynette Thompson 0429 140 761 MT URAH conamore_03@hotmail.com

TOR Tor Droughtmasters Robert Fulker 0427 136 695 FERNVALE fulkerbob@gmail.com

TRAVESTON PARK Traveston Park

Ashley & Christine Trompf 0418 751 647 TRAVESTON ashleyt@noosatruss.com.au

TRUE BLUE True Blue Droughtmasters Ken & Julie Thompson 0428 921 004 CHILDERS ken.thompson@bundaberg.qld.gov.au

TWIN HILLS Twin Hills Droughtmasters Symon AW Duggan 0458 845 222 WOOLOOGA karasonptyltd@bigpond.com

TWO OKES Two Okes Droughtmaster Kurt Viertel 0411081496 MILFORD kurt@brotherandco.com

VANGUARD Vanguard Droughtmasters Jo & Justin Webb 0439 550 467 GILLA vanguarddroughtmasters@outlook. com

TRAVESTON HEIGHTS D & J Vella

David & Julie Vella 0418 189 404 HUNCHY djvella55@bigpond.com

DIAMOND C C Voss Cody Voss 0409 667 765 ESK cody.voss@outlook.com

WAHOO Wahoo Droughtmasters Royce & Karen Perrett 0427 721 723 UPPER KANDANGA wahooplumbingptyltd@bigpond.com

BLUEGRASS AW & MA Walker Allen Walker 0411 725 030 KILCOY bluegrassdroughtmasters@gmail.com

BIARRAGLEN JA & DA Walton

TENNINGERING NA & EF Ward

John & Debora Walton 0422 388 908 TOOGOOLAWAH waltonjd@westnet.com.au

Neville & Elizabeth Ward 0439 992 523 THE GAP wardbeth1@gmail.com

WARINGLE Waringle Partnership Paul Dingle 0417 944 496 MALENY waringle@bigpond.net.au

WARRILL PARK Warrill Park Pastoral Ty Bauer 0434 026 436

WANTMORE AT & JM Welch AT & JM Welch

WESTONVALE Westonvale Droughtmasters

PITT VALE G & N Wheeler

PITT VALE T TD Wheeler

YELLOWWOOD J & S Williamson

CEBELLA J & S Williamson

VALLEY-VIEW B, J & R Wilson

KENGOON EJS & EE Windley

WINDWHISTLE Windwhistle Droughtmasters

HAZELWOOD HE Woods & Family

WALKER jd_Bauer@live.com.au

230 989 KINGAROY jessica_cunningham15@outlook.com

Haack 0418 880 258

Garry & Natalie Wheeler 0448 803 318

andrewhaack@hotmail.com

KADANGA CREEK accounts@wheelerfarms.com.au

Thomas Wheeler 0455 554 782 KANDANGA tomwheeler1996@gmail.com

John & Shannon Williamson 0422 218 951 PIMPAMA johnwilliamson208@gmail.com

John & Shannon Williamson 0422 061 590 PIMPAMA johnwilliamson208@gmail.com shannon.williamson1208@gmail.com

Bruce & Jeanette Wilson 0438 196 654 BOONAH valliview@bigpond.com

John & Edwina Windley 0438 638 003 KALBAR e.windley1@bigpond.com

Kimla Waugh 0413 271 613 CAMP MOUNTAIN kimlawaugh11@gmail.com

Hazel Woods 0448 194 476 OBI OBI hazelwoods1@hotmail.com

WOODVALE Woodvale Droughtmasters Kirstin Wood 0447 831 898 ROSEVALE woodrural@gmail.com

YACKATOON Yackatoon Grazing Co. Gary Lower 0418 709 291 WANDOAN yackatoongrazingco@hotmail.com

SUNDERLAND JR & SL Yates

John & Sandy Yates 0416 287 717 CAMP MOUNTAIN j.yates1@bigpond.com

YS Yellowstone Droughtmaster Brian Roberts 0407 544 915 PIE CREEK broberts357@hotmail.com

YIMIN Yimin Cattle Trust Allen & Michelle Burton 0407 144 673

ZRD ZRD Droughtmasters

& Brooke

allenburton@yimindroughtmasters. com.au

brookesusanguest@gmail.com

SOUTH EASTERN ZONE • COMMERCIAL MEMBERS

tim.collins@ashvalestation.com.au

gainford@bigpond.net.au

glbisch@bigpond.com

chris@fourcee.com.au

bcoulter1009@gmail.com Exportech Pty Ltd

Fortrus Pastoral

wernerraspotnik@spaceframe.com

Paul McDonald & Luke Canty 0499 595 550 BELLS BRIDGE luke@fortrus.com.au

Hancock Agriculture Adam Giles 07 3456 5500 BRISBANE adam_giles@hancockagriculture. com.au

RJ & MJ Harvey

Invalaw Pty Ltd

Lotus Property Pty Ltd

G & H Mears

Raynbird Creek Pastoral

GB & DJ Shailer

Joshua Steinhardt

SW & LE Tincknell

Jim & Margaret Harvey 0427 635 830 ROADVALE harveym50@bigpond.com

John & Judy Mewing 0418 154 155 PADDINGTON jmewing@me.com

Thomas Stone 0407 465 531 KINGSHOLME tom@thealicia.com.au

Glen & Heather Mears 0477 775 327 GUNALDA merinda.droughtmasters@gmail.com

Angela & John Koek 0408 879 633 LACEY'S CREEK angelakoek@icloud.com

Gary & Desley Shailer 0408 857 220 KANIGAN gdshailer@gmail.com

Joshua Steinhardt 0421 831 046

ROPELEY uteman25rpm@hotmail.com

Stan & Linda Tincknell 07 4156 1553 AVONDALE

Whiston Whanau Trust Maryanne Whiston 0418 123 400 MT MEE maryanne@maryannebirch.com.au G & S Woodward

Graham & Susan Woodward 0466 328 087 MOUNT SAMSON woodwardclan@bigpond.com

SOUTH EASTERN ZONE • JUNIOR MEMBERS

KONJULI GJ G & J Barrett

VALWARRA B & G Bauer

Grace & Jade Barrett 0417 905 488

WOOLOOGA blackdog@skymesh.com.au

Benjamin & Grace Bauer 0419 840 079 MOUNT WALKER jd_bauer@live.com.au

BINBIRRIM A Binbirrim A Archie Christensen 0414 318 407 MIVA Binbirrim@outlook.com

BLUE VALLEY Blue Valley Droughtmasters Ella O'Neil 0466 099 823

THE BLOCK E Boughen

YIMIN CD C & D Burton

Elizabeth Boughen 0487 387 749

Chelsea & Daisy Burton 0407 144 673

CD CD Droughtmasters Caeb Cross 0498 789 009

BINBIRRIM JAC J Christensen

JIMBOOMBA ellaoneil247@gmail.com

ROSEWOOD normantonpark@bigpond.com

BIARRA allenburton@yimindroughtmasters. com.au

PEAK CROSSING caebcross270@gmail.com

Jack Christensen 0414 318 407 MIVA Binbirrim@outlook.com

CJB CJB Droughtmasters Cooper Bischoff 0429 878 448

CJ SILVERDALE CJ's Silverdale

HANDA H & A Cottle

AAKKA KJ Coulter

KENVIEW A & S Davenport

FOGGYHOLLOW JD Ebert

ORGULLO C Fagan

CARMINE S Holloway

KIHAYLA H H Hughes

KIHAYLA Kihayla Droughtmasters

NOBLE H & L Lehmann

Cooper Joseph Burt 0488 222 731

Heidi & Amelia Cottle 0409 789 119

BEAUDESERT labischoffsons@bigpond.com

SILVERDALE cburt1706@gmail.com

HAIGSLEA alltypemaintenance@bigpond.com

Kobi Jackson Coulter 0407 010 171 MOUNT KILCOY aakkastud@gmail.com

Amy & Scott Davenport 0429 877 050 LAIDLEY amydavenport2000@gmail.com

James Ebert 0404 050 483 MT BEPPO foggyhollow1@outlook.com.au

Cody Fagan 0488 414 891 GRANTHAM sporzy@bigpond.com

Sarah Holloway 0431 980 801 LEICHARDT carminedroughtmasters@gmail.com

Haylee Hughes 0456 418 797 GRANDCHESTER bowmanpark7@bigpond.com

Kiara Corinne Hughes 0421 563 438

GRANDCHESTER kiarahughes01@icloud.com

Hannah & Lachlan Lehmann 0439 803 253 PRENZLAU shane.lehmann@bigpond.com

MATTALBEN Mattalben Livestock Company Ben, Taleta, Matthew Maclean 0436 331 644

ROCKY CREEK Rocky Creek Droughtmasters

TRAVESTON DOWNS KL Rose

NORTH MALENY ksmaclean@bigpond.com

Jordan Ryan 0421 731 650 SAMFORD jryan8353@gmail.com

Katherine Rose 0427 775 936

TRAVESTON travestondownsfitting@gmail.com

MEMBER DIRECTORY

SOUTHERN ZONE • LIFE MEMBERS

SOUTHERN ZONE • STUD MEMBERS

YALE MJ & AE Ahern

ARAKETA Araketa Pty Ltd

ASBURY Asbury Droughtmasters Des Wheeler

CASHMERE JR & RS Atkinson

GLEN RUTH JR & RS Atkinson

info@truvalle.com.au

cameronsorley@bigpond.com

araketa@bigpond.com

dwheeler@maverickbio.com

cashmerecattleco@gmail.com

138 BARALABA cashmerecattleco@gmail.com

John R & Rebecca S Atkinson 0438 337 138 BARALABA cashmerecattleco@gmail.com

SEVENANGLE IM & D Atthow Ian & Donna Atthow 0429 632 413 MILLMERRAN sevenangle@bordernet.com.au

AUZDOWN Auzdown Droughtmasters Emma Thompson 0428 336 086 YANGAN emma@auzdowndroughtmasters.com

PIPER'S GULLY MJS Bardon Michael Bardon 0427 169 355 DALLARNIL pipersgully@bigpond.com

EKOTI LANE J Bartlett & L Wentworth Justin Bartlett & Leesa Wentworth 0400 367 481 MORGANVILLE els_beef@bigpond.com

BRIGALOW PARK Brigalow Park Droughtmasters George, Doris, Clinton & Letitia Sanderson 0455 681 670 WINDERA brigalowparkdroughtmasters@gmail. com

ALLSTAR G & M Brown Graham and Melanie Brown 0419 161 591 WINDERA allstar84@bigpond.com

BULLEN Bullen Farming Ken Bullen 0427 272 807 BEERWAH ken.bullen@live.com.au

BURNETT VIEW Burnett View Droughtmasters Jamie Johnson 0428 571 390 DRINAN burnettviewdroughtmasters@yahoo. com

OLD SARUM R Caldwell & J Murray Rachael Caldwell & Jake Murray 0439 617 614 IRONPOT rachaelcaldwell@icloud.com

CALDY Caldy Droughtmasters Jason & Geraldine Barnard 0409 267 474 KAPALDO gjpastoral@bigpond.com

CHRISTIAN Christian Stud Erin Christian 0467 348 285 MURGON erinchristian2007@gmail.com

WILGA V Claydon Valerie Claydon 0408 682 011 BONSHAW vaclaydon@bigpond.com

COOLY Cooly Droughtmasters

Owen R & Samantha M Hams 0428 651 719 ST GEORGE coolydroughtmasters@gmail.com

GLEN FOSSLYN Cooma Cattle Company Cameron & Cheryl Salter 0458 265 269 SURAT admin@coomacattleco.com.au

COORAGLEN Cooraglen Farming

BRUSH CREEK R & K Cope

CORMAC RD Cormac Rd Pastoral Company

BLACK GULLY TA Cormack

DOC'S T Dahtler

DALMALLY Dalmally Grazing Co.

URBAN W Daniels & B Le Cornu

AMAVALE Dawney & Rose

BAUPLE VIEW BC & LM Dionysius

DOWNUNDER Downunder Droughtmasters

TAFON Tony Ferris

VALERA VALE G, M & T Flynn

4 DEE'S G & W Ford

CANIA P & M Francis

Troy Naylor & Heather Currie 0427 722 106 NORTH MACLAGAN cooraglen@bigpond.com;heather. currie7@outlook.com

Ryan and Kate Cope 0429 349 016 TEXAS rosewooddowns@gmail.com

Rob McCarthy 0477 322 555 KIA ORA rob_mccarthy@live.com

Todd Alexander Cormack 0428 957 970 WINTON beyonce@blackgullydroughtmasters. com

Tyson Dahtler 0422 743 408 MONTO glendadahtler@gmail.com

Robert Brown 0428 268 328 LANGSHAW dalmallygrazing@gmail.com

Wayne Daniels & Beverley Le Cornu 0417 644 398 DALLARNIL urbandroughtmasters@bigpond.com

Jeff & Annette Rose 0427 684 721 CUSHNIE amavale1@bigpond.com

Beven & Lyn Dionysius 0417 731 655 GUNDIAH beven@dionysiustransport.com.au

Ashley & Sharni Harvey 0417 781 830 GOLDEN FLEECE sharnihouston@gmail.com

Tony Ferris 0447 830 484 CORINGA tafon1@yahoo.com.au

Michael & Tracey Flynn 0427 705 760 CHARLEVILLE michael@valeravaledroughtmasters. com.au

Gavin & Warren Ford 0427 654 884 MUNDUBBERA gavin@gavinfordmobiles.com.au

Paul & Mia Francis 0438 678 134 MOONFORD pmfrancis@bigpond.com

GIMLE Gimle Droughtmasters Stephen Greenalsh 0409 897 775 WALLAVILLE steveandnikola@hotmail.com

GLENEAGLE Gleneagle Droughtmasters Zoe Toyne 0422 878 687 BERAT ztpastoral@gmail.com

GRANITE DOWNS Granite Downs Droughtmasters Judi A & Ashley J Cullen 0410 406 129 WARWICK jacullen21@outlook.com

OAKMORE PARK L & R Harms Liam & Regan Harms 07 4697 1007 oakmorepark@gmail.com

OAKMORE S Harms

RIDGIE DIDGE C & H Heness

WHITE PARK MJ & GJ Henry

BENJAMIN LJ Howard

Sharon Harms 0413 583 084 GREENMOUNT oakmorepark@gmail.com

Christopher & Hailey Heness 0448 681 060 GOOMERI piggery79@hotmail.com

MJ & GJ Henry 0429 646 852 HODGSONVALE micnglen2@bigpond.com

Leslie Howard 0429 639 044 NORTH ARAMARA thelsmere@westnet.com.au

WINDY GULLY AJ & SA Irwin AJ & SA Irwin 0428 631 139 BELL ajirwin@skymesh.com.au

JAYBEES Jaybees Droughtmaster Stud Timothy Craig 0438 661 409 EIDSVOLD timcraigmpb@gmail.com

WYNWOOD JTG Irwin & Sons

GARTHOWEN Kinbacher Family

HORIZON GS Kleidon

STUART VALLEY V, ME & HW Knopke

CONDAMINE DJ & GM Kroll

TARUKE L & T Grazing

LA SHAE La Shae Droughtmasters

LAKE SIDE Lake Side Station

RENCASHA RH & P Leonard

LORMIST Lormist Droughtmasters

BREFFNI DE & RA McCabe

CLONLARA McCormack Family Trust

HIGH COUNTRY P & L Laycock Partnership

LYNSEY PARK LR & LJ Philp

SEVENELL LR & LJ Philp & IL Hayes

KARON R Pollock

CARLTON R & KA Pollock

SHELDANVIEW D & S Postlethwaite

GRASHAR GW & SL Rawlinson

BY-MINGO DB & RF Roberton

ALLURA J & A Roe

Adam Irwin 0428 631 139 BELL wynwooddroughtmasters@gmail.com

Ross Kinbacher 0459 699 275 BIGGENDEN kinbacher@activ8.net.au

Gavin Kleidon 0458 350 661

GULUGUBA g.kleidon@skymesh.com.au

Vince Knopke 07 4164 1133 KINGAROY knopkevh@hotmail.com

Dalvia & Greg Kroll 0427 095 988

CHINCHILLA

Tara & Luke Cooke 0438 221 558 TANSEY lukara04@gmail.com

Lauren Finger 0488 332 350 TAROOM lashaedroughtmasters@outlook.com

Sam McGarvie 0434 858 408 LAKESIDE sam@samsplumbingandgas.com.au

Henry & Pauline Leonard 07 4671 1820

GOONDIWINDI

Lorinda Barnett 0408 682 371 GAYNDAH lormist7gd@activ8.net.au

David E & Robyn A McCabe 0427 658 153

Ed & Gus McCormack 0429 656 814

CHINCHILLA wilgapark@hotmail.com

GLENMORGAN clonlaracattle@bigpond.com

Paul & Lisa Laycock 0438 788 201 ESKDALE stephanie@hclivestocksupplements. com.au

Lindsay & Lyn Philp 0427 621 365 BELL droughties@sevenell.com

LR & LP Philp & IL Hayes 0428 182 078 BELL droughties@sevenell.com

Ron Pollock 0409 873 858 ROMA polelec@bigpond.com

Robert & Kerri-Ann Pollock 0429 642 319 ROMA carltondroughties@bigpond.com

Daniel & Shelly Postlethwaite 0438 630 745 CORNDALE dandspos@gmail.com

GW & SL Rawlinson 0456 088 771 JANDOWAE grashar@activ8.net.au

Don & Robyn Roberton 0429 171 870 COALSTOUN LAKES donandrobyn@activ8.net.au

John & Anna Roe 0467 969 364

ROSELAH Roselah Droughtmasters Lawrence Sehmish-Lahey & Sarah Rose 0411 071 654

BEEFWOOD SA & NA Roth

Scott & Natasha Roth 0447 611 012

GHEERULLA johneroe5@bigpond.com

GOONDIWINDI roselah215@gmail.com

GAYNDAH scottntash4@bigpond.com

RULAWYNDAH Rulawyndah Droughtmasters Lacy-Jay Shelton & Michael Rice 0499 701 199 ELECTRA admin@rulawyndah.com.au

WIRRIGAI C Ryrie

WINGSTAR SK, TL, K & PL Sewell

MARYLANDS S J Simmonds

Charmian Ryrie 0409 729 355 PITTSWORTH barcoobrats@hotmail.com

Scott & Tracy Sewell 07 4654 5107

Jenny Simmonds 0400 466 036

SPEEWAH Speewah Droughtmasters Troy James Distant 0409 485 537

RODLYN RM & LA Sperling

MERRAWINDI KD, KD & JK Stower

3D KA & SE Terry

BORUA The Borua Cattle Trust

EVERSLEIGH Underwood Grazing Co

WALLACE VALE R & J Underwood

MORVEN gundare@bigpond.com

CHINCHILLA jennifer.simmonds@bigpond.com

INGOLDSBY troy@action-electrical.com.au

Rod & Lyn Sperling 0427 549 160 BELL

Kathy, Ken & Jim Stower 0428 954 145 MILLMERRAN halstead08@optusnet.com.au

Sally Terry 0427 417 392 HADEN sallyterry@bigpond.com

Richard Mark Story & Stephanie Mary Story 0418 778 634

BUNGADOO markstory.fws@gmail.com

Roger & Jenny Underwood 0488 417 385 WALLUMBILLA underwoods@activ8.net.au

Roger & Jenny Underwood 0428 417 120 WALLUMBILLA underwoods@activ8.net.au

VALE VIEW Vale View Droughtmasters David Smith 0438 788 110 MANUMBAR valeviewdm@bigpond.com

WALM-LEY D & S Walmsley

JOMEDAN RIDGE G & G Ward

GLENLANDS W Warrego AG

TAJANA Roger Webber & Family

David & Susan Walmsley 0447 261 852 CUSHNIE walmsleybuilder@hotmail.com

George & Gayle Ward 0419 964 618 NORTH ARAMARA jomedan@bigpond.com

John O'Kane 0417 613 632 WONDOAN john.okane63@gmail.com

Roger Webber 0477 006 762 MURGON hauraki47@activ8.net.au

BOILING SPRINGS AJ & SJ Wenham & Family Allan & Shiree Wenham 0428 790 211 BELL ajandsjwenham@bigpond.com

MARYLANDS RW & TM White

SOUTHERN ZONE • COMMERCIAL MEMBERS

Grazing

ray-white@bigpond.com.au

dart.pastoral.coy@bigpond.com

& HM Golden 0428 188 901 YULEBA goldengrazing@gmail.com

D & M Hertrick Dale & Marissa Hertrick 0418 721 896 UPPER YARRAMAN admin@hertricks.com.au MG & KL Jarvis Merv & Kay Jarvis

Kinbombi Station

Kurrajong Pastoral Holdings

C & N Mackay

LH & KM McMaster

& Ellen Cotter

Bywater

& Nelda Mackay

& Kate McMaster

521

mgjarvis32@icloud.com

cotcow@bigpond.com

kurrajong.pastoral@outlook.com

canabat@bigpond.com

jindabyne10@activ8.net.au

bpandmfowen@gmail.com

Risdon Stud Nicholas Suduk 0438 002 764 WARWICK nicholas.suduk@bigpond.com

G, J & J Williams

GL & MJ Wilson

Greg, Julie & Jacinta Williams 0427 616 928 SOUTHWOOD kurmalapc@bordernet.com.au

Greg & Meryl Wilson 0457 123 449

SOUTHERN ZONE • JUNIOR MEMBERS

mulgabrown@hotmail.com

amy.s.collins2710@gmail.com

tigmik6781@bigpond.com

lukara04@gmail.com

lukara04@gmail.com

lormist7gd@activ8.net.au

tomgraham05@icloud.com

droughtmaster85@gmail.com

nbslivestock@gmail.com

steinhardtak@datawave.net.au

valeviewdm@bigpond.com

WESTERN ZONE • LIFE MEMBERS

WESTERN ZONE • STUD MEMBERS

RIVER

YANDOO Haseley Ag

clinton@clinleeplains.com.au

vern@watimbersales.com.au

tim@haleriver.com.au

rohan.brown96@outlook.com

DEEP VALLEY G & J Hoskins Glen & Jodie Hoskins 0428 111 170 DONNYBROOK deepvalleyfarm@outlook.com

JAMINU Jaminu Droughtmasters David & Cinnamon Wright 0408 899 806 HAY denmarkfe@hotmail.com

REDWOOD Mia Mia Pastoral Pty Ltd JE, LP, BJ & TL Dorrell 0429 671 668 CARNARVON miamiastn@outlook.com.au

MUNDA Munda Reds Michael Thompson 0417 978 980 BEERMULLAH mundareds@outlook.com.au

FIELDHOUSE KR & SL Mutton Ken & Shelley Mutton 0428 881 067 WICKEPIN ksmutton2@bigpond.com

QUICKSILVER Quicksilver Droughtmasters Doug & Dani Giles 0427 720 010 NEWDEGATE quicksilver95@bigpond.com

RIVERMILL Rivermill Droughtmasters Neil & Ruth Gaden 0407 183 825 GRAHAM'S CREEK ruthgaden@topenddiesel.com.au

SAVANNAH

valmai@savannahgrazing.com WARRAWAGINE Warrawagine Cattle Co

stationadmin@warrawagine.com.au

WEST COAST West Coast Droughtmasters Ben & Olivia Wright 0400 109 858 GINGIN oliviatrading@outlook.com.au

WESTERN ZONE • COMMERCIAL MEMBERS

K & K Anderson Keith & Karen Anderson 0427 914

kjanderson371@bigpond.com

bernburra@bigpond.com.au

mike.munda@westnet.com.au Stamco Beef Pty Ltd Anne Stammers 08 9943 0582 CARNARVON kooline.station@hotmail.com The Garden Station Andy Hayes 0427 610 956 ALICE SPRINGS the.garden@skymesh.com.au

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

GM Agius Gerrard Agius 07 4954 3007

M & A Corones Michael & Angela Corones 0418 774 442

KS & LM Garland KS & LM Garland 0422 839 036

acorones@qldfg.com

klgarland01@bigpond.com

GDL Rural Nikita Duthie & Georgie Connor 0428 347 550 ROCKHAMPTON Nikita.Duthie@gdlrural.com.au

G Lay Gary Lay 0407 639 985 MACKAY garylay@matilda.net.au

JM Noonan Joe Noonan 07 4954 0126

Nutrien Stud Stock

Taryn Mitchell & Dane Pearce 0439 917 428

Grace 0409 656 472

R Steel Rupert Steel 0419 820 590

Landburd Station Craig Knight 0428 282 169

I Risley Ian Risley 0487 236 258

GA & KM Burton Gabrielle Burton 0411 159 267

AJ & LW Carman

G Gear & G Dodd

Tony Carman 0408 851 608

Greg Gear & Geoffrey Dodd 0419 021 138

D Hutton Dan Hutton 0475 918 762

Laboo Family Trust Justin Laboo 0414 125 530

ROCKHAMPTON dane.pearce@nutrien.com.au

johnlcox1@bigpond.com

rupert.steel@bigpond.com

crmal@bigpond.com

dodd.gear@bigpond.com

huttondan1@gmail.com

Elders

mat@rftsheds.com.au

HONORARY MEMBERS

Biloela High School Rebecca Allen

Mackay Christian College Murray Hair

Sarina High School Jon Eaton

St Brendans College Bill Oram

Malanda State High School David Kilpatrick

Tully State High School

Warren Giffin 0427 790 085

E Ball Earle Ball 0428 100 326

G Fletcher Gordon Fletcher

Manning Valley Anglican College Elizabeth Fell 0427 422 107

N & L Warne Noel & Lisa Warne 0488 025 002

Bowen State High School L Furnivall & G Busteed 07 4786 1500

DAFF/Spyglass Tim Grant 0455 873 318

Beenleigh High School Robyn Rolfe 0421 573 697

WEST

ralle84@eq.edu.au

bmcquakersilman@mccmky.qld.edu.au

the.principal@sarinashs.eq.edu.au

oramw@sbc.qld.edu.au

dkilp9@eq.edu.au

wgiff2@eq.edu.au

j.regan@mvac.nsw.edu.au

warnienoel@gmail.com

rrolf1@eq.edu.au

Dakabin State High School Fiona Lester 0436 679 654 DAKABIN flest4@eq.edu.au

Emmaus College Jane Egan 0427 323 589 JIMBOOMBA wgoss@bne.catholic.edu.au

South Eastern

Gympie High School Ian Johnston 0477 700 223 GYMPIE jhans239@eq.edu.au South Eastern

Ipswich Grammar School Richard Morrison 0427 254 379 WULKURAKA dbrown@ipswichgrammar.com

Kilcoy State High School Paula Mazlin 07 5422 4343 KILCOY

Maleny High Droughtmasters Vanessa Duffy 0438 873 888 MALENY vduff3@eq.edu.au

St Joseph's Nudgee College Troy Reynolds 0417 845 139

Toogoolawah State High School Ross Tinney 07 5423 4444

BOONDALL rwi@nudgee.qld.edu.au

TOOGOOLAWAH alync33@eq.edu.au

South Eastern

South Eastern

South Eastern

South Eastern

South Eastern University of Queensland Tom Connolly 0428 246 651 GATTON a.morris2@uq.edu.au

South Eastern West Moreton Anglican College Laura Edwards 0433 335 603 IPSWICH ledwards@wmac.com.au

Corinda State High School Lucas Abel 0448 950 823

South Eastern

CORINDA agtech@corindashs.eq.edu.au Southern Dept of Agriculture Fisheries & Forestry Tim Grant 0455 873 318

MacIntyre Droughtmasters Brett Hallett & Cassandra de Beer

Miles High AG Team Tony Manteufel

tim.grant@daff.qld.gov.au Southern

agriculture@goondiwindishs.eq.edu.au

Southern Monto State High School Lionel Cavenagh

the.principal@montoshs.eq.edu.au