Beef 2021

Beef 2021: Shorthorns, Charolais and Brahmans share interbreed crowns

Fiona Myers, 10/05/2021

INTERBREED honours at Beef 2021 went to the Shorthorn, Charolais and Brahman breeds.

In a State versus State and Bos Indicus versus Bos Taurus battle, the top bull was a Shorthorn, the top cow a Charolais and the top team Brahmans.

The interbreed awards were the culmination of three days of judging of 1400 cattle from 331 studs which saw the honours hotly contested.

Judge Brett Kinnon from Clermont, Queensland, judged the top bull and female, and selected his interbreed champion bull as the Shorthorn entry, which knocked off the top Brahman.

Nic Job with the Supreme Champion Male Royalla Ventura at Beef 2021.

The Shorthorn bull was Royalla Ventura, aged 34 months, weighing 1152kg with an eye-muscle area of 132 square centimetres. It was exhibited by Neilson, Sue and Nick Job, from the Royalla Shorthorn stud at Yeoval, NSW.

Mr Kinnon said he chose the Shorthorn bull for its extreme length and “a lot of carcass”.

The other breeds in the final line-up included Santa Gertrudis, Romagnola, Charolais, Charbray and Angus.

Breeder Nick Job from Royalla at Yeoval, NSW, said the bull had already joined two groups of females at the stud before heading up to Beef 2021.

Royalla Ventura was also shown at this year’s Sydney Royal, weighing 1080kg, yet had gained 72kg and 4mm of fat in a few weeks to tip the scales at 1152kg at Rockhampton.

“Ventura was sired by Royalla Rockstar, whose sons have made $38,000 and a bull which will have calves in seven countries this year,” Mr Job said.

The dam, Royalla Marcia H257, also has international connections with a flush sold at the Auctionsplus online genetics sale during Beef 2021 for $6000 to a buyer from North Dakota.

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Sam Parish, holding the Beef 2021 Champion Bull, with Royalla Shorthorn principals Sue, NIck and Neilson Job, Yeoval, NSW, and judge Brett Kinnon from Clermont, Queensland.

It was a stellar result for the Job family, who celebrate 50 years of breeding Shorthorns this year and it was the first time they had won the interbreed crown at Rockhampton.

The bull has already returned home to a paddock of cows and will have semen collected after the natural joining, with international interest in the bull already strong even before it took the major title at Rockhampton.

Meanwhile it was a case of déjà vu for the interbreed cow award when the Price family’s Moongool stud at Yuleba, Queensland, made it back-to-back wins with their exhibit Moongool Radical 26.

Radical was a three-year-old heifer with its first calf at foot which weighed 380kg and was praised by Mr Kinnon for its “huge volume, a lot of maternal traits and walks nicely”.

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Owner Ivan Price said the back-to-back championships added to a nearly $15,000 bull sale average last spring in a change of fortunes for his enterprise.

“It had been fairly challenging before that with the tough seasons, but it’s been a much better six months for us,” he said.

Moongool Radical 26 was judged the reserve junior champion heifer at 12 months at the Brisbane Royal Show in 2019 and was only beaten at that fixture by another heifer from Moongool.

Radical 26 was sired by the full French Charolais bull Flabas which Mr Price picked out of a catalogue, and her dam has Silverstream Evolution in her parentage.

And while ET programs for his Charolais herd had largely been put on hold due to the tough seasons, Mr Price said he would run a program with his interbreed winner.

The champion group was a Brahman team exhibited by Nobbs Cattle Company, Duaringa, Queensland.

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