The Braford Society Annual General Meeting was held in Casino, New South Wales on the 5th and 6th of November. Little Valley and Glynnelly studs hosted the event with approximately 80 people in attendance. Property inspections took place on Saturday and Sunday morning. The meeting was held after lunch on Saturday in the Dryaaba Hall and following was a lovely dinner at the Clydesdale Steakhouse. A charity auction took place with various items on offer and a total of $5,000 was raised for the local Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service.

There is one new Board Member and some minor changes in Vice Presidents.
Stuart Dingle (President)
Russell Kenny (Vice President)
Steve Donovan (Vice President)
Dan Galloway (Treasurer)
Robert Hoffman
Craig Knauth
Tim McNamara
Ben O’Connell
Rhonda Ryan
Daniel Treloar
Larry Acton (Patron)

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Following on from a very successful New Dimension Sale the National Sale at Rockhampton had another outstanding result with new purchasers being active and return buyers making their presence felt.

Top price bull was $48,000 and was achieved by two studs. Ascot Stud of the Galloway Family Banana sold Ascot Lucky to Little Valley Brafords Casino and Carinya Brafords sold three lots for the equal top price Carinya Atlanta and Carinya Artie who was purchased by the Meek Family of Augethella and Carinya Advance who was purchased by Helen Hunt of Budgerie Brafords of Coonamble, both long-time supporters of the Amor Family. Carinya Stud member Jackie Amor believed that this year’s draft of bulls was possibly the best the Stud had presented. Second top price of $46,000 was achieved by the Galloway Family for Neimen Luke who was purchased by Little Valley and Glynnelly Studs of Casino in partnership. There were several other bulls which sold in the $40,000+ price range which is an indication of the strength of the sale. Top price female was $9,000 for Winvic Tammy from the Marks Family Clermont who was purchased by the Galloway family Banana. Second female top price was $8,000 for Winvic Sabina PP R082 who was purchased by Baroma Brafords, NSW.

The top ten bull averages

Carinya Brafords 13 av. $36,538
Down Fall Creek Brafords 2 av. $28,750
Neiman Brafords 5av. $27,600
Little Valley Brafords 10 av. $21,900
Strathgyle Brafords 6 av. $21,666
MCN Brafords 8 av. $20,625
Glynnelly Brafords 3 av. $18,666
Sunnylawn Brafords 10 av. $17,100
Ascot Brafords 10 av. $17,000
Ashby Brafords 5 av. $14,800

Image 1: Lot 156 Ascot Lucky 543 (PP) ByBaroma Downs Paul 396 (P) 31 mths. Purchased by the Bennetts for $48,000. 

Image 2: Winvic Tammy PP R084. Purchased by the Galloway family for $9,000.

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The 2022 New Dimension Sale held at Bell saw the largest crowd in the sales history attend and record prices were set.

Top price in the bull section was achieved by the Carinya stud selling Carinya Aberdeen for $42000 to the Meek family of Augethella, second top was achieved by Little Valley Grazing Casino selling Little Valley Nutella for $20000 selling to Glenrowan Grazing Morven. In the female section top prIce was achieved by MCN Brafords Bell for MCN Florence 016 selling to Lewis Cammack Kilcoy. Overall sale results were Carinya Stud Three bulls av.$25000, seven females av.$4321, Ashby Stud two bulls av.$13000, seven females av. $4750, Downfall Creek Stud three females av. $4750, Nungil Stud one bull av.$7000, Loch Lomond Stud two bulls av. $7500, Little Valley Stud four bulls Av. $13250, two females av.$7000,Strathgyle Studone bull av.$10000, three females av.$3916, MCN Stud one bull av. $14000, six females av. $5458, Sunnylawn Stud two bulls av. $11500, two females av. $3750,Glynnelly Stud two females av. $4000 , Banyula Stud two bulls av.$11000, Rarcamba Stud ten females av. $3425. After many years of being a vendor at the New Dimension Sale, this was the last time that Scott and Veronica Skerman of Rarcamba presented cattle for sale, and the New Dimension would like to thank them for their participation over that time.

Image 1: Lot 3 (New Dimension Sale) Carinya Aberdeen (PP) – sired by Carinya Nebraska (P) – Age 33mths / Weight 1030 kg / P8 fat 15mm – Rib fat 12mm / EMA – 140 square centimetres / Scrotal 42cm.

Image 2: Top priced heifer at the 2022 New Dimension Sale. MCN FLorence was purchased for $8,000 by Lewis Cammack.

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2022 National Braford Sale will be held at CQLX Gracemere on Monday 12th September. Start time is 10am.

View the Sale Catalogue here.

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ACM SIRE SHOOTOUT WINNER – SUNNY LAWN FELIX 1473 (P)

Sunny Lawn Braford stud of Clifton, Queensland has taken out the 2022 ACM Sire Shootout. Neil Pacholke and Leanne Ridley were excited and shocked by the win. They believe that Sunny Lawn Felix 1473 (P) is an outstanding 22-month-old Braford bull but never thought he could take out the top title with 53 bulls entered from across Australia.

The competition is an online opportunity to promote stud’s top bulls that are for sale during 2022. It is judged over three sections – Bos Indicus, British and European breeds by three judges. The top five placegetters from each section are then judged by the three individual judges in the Interbreed final. This year saw the Braford bull from Sunny Lawn come out on top, as the only bull to earn points from each judge.

Sunny Lawn Felix 1473 (P) born 29 August 2020 is a homozygous poll son of Donrinda K026 Kentucky who has bred well in the Sunny Lawn herd. Felix has that extra muscle expression, length, balance, structural correctness and sire appeal that has earned him attention not only throughout the Braford breed but also by cattle breeders in general.

Felix 1473 was Junior Champion at the St George Braford Feature Show held in May, and was also a part of the winning pair of bulls. He was joined by Sunny Lawn Dresden 1484 (P), who was Junior and Grand Champion Female of the feature show at 17 months, and Sunny Lawn Dresden 1449 (P) who was Reserve Senior Champion Female to win the Breeders Group. Dresden 1449 (P) then went on to win the Supreme Exhibit at FarmFest 2022 held at Toowoomba.

Sunny Lawn bulls will be sold at the two upcoming Braford sales. They have two bulls and two females for the New Dimension Braford Sale held in Bell on 28 August 2022. For the National Braford Sale held in Rockhampton on 12 September Sunny Lawn has 10 high-quality bulls for sale. Sunny Lawn Felix 1473 (P) is Lot 166 at the National Braford Sale.

“We were excited by the win and truly humbled to see years of breeding being recognised”.

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Neil Pacholke and Leanne Ridley of Sunny Lawn Brafords, Clifton QLD, were thrilled to be awarded the Supreme Exhibit at this year’s FarmFest competition.

Sunny Lawn Dresden 1449 along with her heifer calf, Sunny Lawn Dresden 1522 were on display at the Braford site over the three days of FarmFest and was entered in the Fantastic Female Competition on the Thursday of the field days.

She was successful in winning the Senior Tropical Female section, then went on to be awarded the Fantastic Female of FarmFest.

She then went out for the Supreme Exhibit award, against the Champion Battle of the Bulls winner, an angus bull exhibited by K5X Angus, Steve Hayward and Kelllie Smith of Allora Qld.
Judge Hillary O’Leary spoke positively of both exhibits, and in the end our Braford cow and calf unit was awarded the Supreme title due her structural correctness, length, depth and beautiful udder on the cow. He stated that her calf was outstanding.

Dresden 1449 is 30 months and her calf, 5 months old, have been successful previously with Senior Champion Braford Female at Pittsworth show. At the Braford feature show held at St George at the start of May, she was Reserve Senior Champion Female and apart of the Pair of Females and Breeders group winning teams for Sunny Lawn.

Females like this do not come along regularly, with such an amazing udder and structure with femineity. Her calf is a true credit to her.

We are so proud of this win and thank all the sponsors and organisers of the competitions at FarmFest 2022.

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Femininity, Fertility and Braford Futurity was the mission of the day

Peter Dingle from Mount Perry officially declared the 2nd Elite Braford Breeders Sale Day open. Once again it was a fabulous day in many ways: Great community promotion for Gayndah to host a cattle sale with cattle bidding from as far away as the Emerald, Rockhampton, Warwick and Casino NSW.
“This year’s sale results were better than last years with an increase in average price per head and the overall quality of the line-up of PTIC, registered and commercial heifers was very good. This is what every beef seed stock producer strives for and this was reflected by a $2,250 increase in the top price from last year and an overall increase in heifer sale average price by $703. The top priced registered and commercial heifers were sold by Harriett Valley Brafords, Russell, Donna, Bec, Jeff and Dan Kenny from Gayndah. The top priced registered Heifer, Harriett Valley Victoria (p) sold for $8,000 to Jason Phillips Toowoomba. The top priced Commercial heifer, Harriett Valley 83 (p) sold for $7,000 to Larry and Beth Acton, Riverton Gracemere.

“It is always wonderful to see so many of the next generation little cattle kids at the sale too. They are our future for sustainable agricultural and forestry production. On that note I would like to thank Agforce QLD for sponsoring a fabulous morning tea provided by Down Right Delicious Catering and for the Gayndah State School for cooking up a great BBQ lunch for all the vendors. The whole community benefits from events like this.”

Congratulations to all the Vendors: Stuart and Janelle Dingle, Chase water Mt Perry; Art and Ness Bambling, Penwhaupell Gayndah; Jill and Dan Galloway, Ascot Neimen Brafords Banana; Mal and Sandra Kenny and Boys, Abernethy Brafords Gayndah; Russell, Donna, Bec, Jeff and Dan Kenny, Harriett Valley Brafords Gayndah; Julianne Munn and Glen Hanson, Dark Patches Glastonbury; Peter Parnell, Coograli Brafords, Maleny and the Webster Family, Goomora Brafords Gympie.

Thank you to our all our sponsors and guest sponsor Wendy Pfeffer from Rabobank and Adrianna Potts from Virbac Mundubbera were also in attendance. Many thanks to the Jordan family from Norco with sponsorship and a great price for the new selling ring and for the Dingle family for supplying labour and equipment.

Congratulations to Greg, Lyn, Lee and Shelly Webster from Goomboorian, Gympie on celebrating 3 generations of Websters, 50 years to Goomora Braford Stud breeding. Thank you to Jill Galloway who presented a beautiful award, accepted on behalf of the family by Greg. Last year the Webster family had a personal best selling Goomora Falcon for $30,000 at the National Sale to the Comerford Brothers, Turrawulla Nebo. Best wishes in your future endeavours from the Australian Braford Society family.

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2021 saw us sell our first bull at the New Dimension Sale held at the Bell showgrounds. Our bull, Alderside JJ after a successful show career, headed to Bell for the annual sale hosted by the South Queensland Braford Promotion Group. With a strong market, we were excited to be invited to be a first time vendor at the sale. The New Dimension Sale is a favourite event of ours each year on the calendar and is a credit to the group that organise it. The volunteers that work tirelessly behind the scenes before the sale do an amazing job and the sale ran seamlessly. Our bull JJ hit the scales on Friday at 929kg and had IMF 5.5 and EMA of 134 making him one of the top scanning bulls at the sale.

Friday night, we had an entertaining evening, having dinner and a few beers with everyone, and enjoyed some live music and an auction to raise money. Everyone had a great night and set the feeling for an enjoyable day ahead.

Well the butterflies hit Saturday, as we put the finishing touches on our bull and made sure he was clean and ready for the sale ring. With the pre-sale breakfast and formalities done it was down to business with the crew from Elders looking after our Bull Sale.

After a quick but intense bidding session, we were over the moon to have Alderside JJ purchased by Andrew and Wendy Whittaker, from Warwick, where he will be used as a stud sire for $12,000. We also made a purchase with another quality Strathgyle heifer heading home to our stud.

Image: Andrew and Wendy Whittaker with Stuart Brown and Alderside JJ.

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