The Australian Poll Hereford Society Ltd
Charity in Armidale Dumaresq

Whether you need bulls, steers or heifers, Herefords will give you excellent feed conversion, hardiness, fertility, growth, plus the famed Hereford temperament that can help lessen costs. Herefords Australia is the organization representing the interests of stud and commercial Hereford breeders nationally. Herefords Australia’s strategic objective is To return the Hereford breed to a position of preeminence within the national herd, recognized as a best stud and commercial breed by all sectors of the Australian beef industry value chain.’ Herefords Australia provides a range of services to its Members to promote, keep and flourish the Hereford breed nationally including: Member services that comprise breed record administration, genetic testing and performance record management. Marketing and promotional programs that emphasis the pedigree performance and the commercial value of breeding Hereford beef cattle. Remember to only include one animal's hair sample per bag. As a sponsor this year we would like to further show our appreciation by putting together a stuffed A5 size catalogue which will include an advertisement of your choice. Skill to provide merchandise to be included in promotional bags received by each participant. These may include a NZHA Ambassador Tour, NZ Beef Expo, seed stock and commercial producers as well as other beef industry related organizations around the country. We want to keep producing high final bulls, sell leaner females through the store sales and hit market specs with our steers.’’. Emma is marketing and promotions officer for the Southern Hereford Youth Group and plans to support the Hereford breed to youth showing other cattle breeds. The family sold four decks or 64 cows, three to eight years, with calves, aged to four months. Three record top prices were set at the 2015 sales. The project provides breeders of Hereford cattle in Australia with a unique opportunity to benchmark their prospective elite sires in a structured progeny test program and aims to identify new generation sires that will improve the carcass and meat quality traits of the Hereford breed without compromising production and fertility traits in subsequent generations. Temperament can enlarge production costs and injury risks or it can improve productivity, performance and manageability. What does it malicious for the producer? The health of feeder cattle in feedlots remains an ongoing issue for feedlots, backgrounders and breeders and is a priority area for Herefords Australia. Ultimately any or all of these issues will diminish demand for your Hereford and Hereford irritable cattle within the feedlot industry and this in turn will impact the financial performance of all of our Members. Herefords Australia strongly recommends and advocates the conscientious preparation of your cattle for the feedlot. The MaxiStart Feedlot Ready Program is the best practice, Ore feedlot vaccination program designed to improve the health, welfare and performance of cattle in the feedlot environment. A goal for the breed should be to bring the age of bulls used closer to 2.5 years rather than 4.5 years. Use the young sires in a number of herds that have effective numbers of progeny in healthy described management groups 4. So, how were the white confront calves tracking on a cents per kilogram basis? This test shows predicted confidence of up to 98 for homozygous carriers of Poll (PP) in Hereford, and the undesirable Not Determined outcome is occurring in 7 of animals tested.