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On the wrong side of the record but nonetheless we are very happy with our new sire. Congrats to Mt William Charolais for putting together a strong lineup of bulls and well done on a great result.

A Huge honour to be awarded the 2017 Coles Beef Farmer of the Year award. Great recognition for years of dedication to a terrific Industry

Delighted to win Riverine Classic Beef ? Champions at the 2017 NSW Feedlot Trial.

These steers were Charolais/Angus and in a field of over 90 entries. The steers also performed strongly in the weight gain and profitability section of the trial.

Rosedale’s 2017 Bull sale was a successful one with buyers from 4 states competing for the Rosedale’s well known moderate framed, soft and easy doing Bulls. Buyers came from New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia.

58 Charolais polled bulls were lined up for sale with 40 of these being homozygous polled, the biggest offering ever in Australia. The top priced bull went to Palgrove Charolais who purchased a homozygous polled yearling bull by Rosedale H168, Rosedale Manson for $16,000.

Two bulls both made $15,000 and one of these went to Lawlor Pastoral in Queensland and the other to Calmview Charolais from the Northern Rivers.

The Charolais Bulls averaged a Rosedale High of $7660 with over half the offering selling between $4,000 and $6,000. Clerkness Pastoral took home 6 charolais bulls and lead the volume buying on the day for the purebreds.

The Rosedale Composite Bulls also sold to strong demand with a top price of $12,000 to Mark and Trudy Altus. Average price was $6,400. Branga Plains at Walcha secured 6 composite bulls to lead the volume buying.

Nine PTIC heifers sold to $3,500 and averaged $3,200.

Last Friday was Rosedale’s Annual Southern Sale held at Yea with guest Victorian vendors Tambo River Charolais and Riverstone Charolais. A good crowd was on hand to see a 96% clearance with 25/26 bulls being sold to an average price of $5020.

The top Price bull was lot 1 Rosedale Legal selling for $8,500 to return buyer Garrison Cattle Company who put together a strong draft of bulls on the day. Legal was a polled son of Rosedale First Class with excellent all-round carcase scans and an IMF Score of 5.2%.

Other Sale highlights included Rosedale Layback another First Class son who sold to the Field’s of Tasmania for $8,000 and also boasted an IMF score of 5.2%. The Field’s also purchased Tambo River Legend, a Sparrows Eldorado son for $6,500.

All bulls sold to commercial clients from a variety of areas which was pleasing to see.

Rosedale Charolais where crowned Champions at the 2015 Sydney Royal Beef Challenge. A Team of Charolais/Angus Heifers won the Champion Domestic Pen, a great result with over 240 head of cattle in the Domestic Catergory supplied by leading producers from New South Wales and Queensland.

The Champion team of heifers also won the Live Assessment part of the competition and receieved maximum Carcase points as well as averaging 1.9kg/Day over 70 Days HGP Free. The combination of High weight gain performance and the Ability to meet carcase quality criteria is what we strive to achieve with our Charolais Genetics and it is great to see these results coming through in our commercial program. These are the key traits to improving the profitability of any breeding herd or feeding program.

Rosedale Charolais Genetics also Featured heavily in the Yeild section of the trial with Rosedale coming first and second in the Domestic section of the Trial with a pen of Charolais x Shorthorn and Charolais x Angus Steers. A rosedale team also won the yeild section of the Export section of the trial with a team of Charolais x Angus steers that yeilded 58% after 100 Days on Grain.

When selling cattle direct to processors yeild can play a significant role in profitability to the producer as well as the meat works. We have recently seen the introduction of Yeild based payments by Teys Australia which highlights the significance of this trait. Rosedale clients are well situtated to take advantage of such moves by the cattle industry. Our track record of data collection and proven genetic performance in the commercial world is second to none and we will always continue to put our product to the test