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2022 RAS BEEF CHALLENGE – FEEDLOT TRIALApril 27, 2023Rosedale genetics performed admirably in the 2022 Royal Agricultural Society’s Beef Challenge. In our 11th year entering the competition , Millner AG from Geurie won the Overall Individual Champion Animal in the Domestic section (70 Days on Feed) as well as Winning the Top Eating quality in the same section with a Charolais x Shorthorn team. The competition is a commercially focussed feedlot competition representing all stages of the process including live assessment, carcase judging, profitability and eating quality. [...]
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Rosedale Charolais Win 2021 NSW Beef SpectacularMay 13, 2022The 2022 NSW Beef spectacular turned out to be one of the most successful Feedlot and carcase trials we have been a part of that our breeding and genetic program is on track and performing well under real industry conditions.
Rosedale was successful in winning the Grand Champion team as well as the Reserve Champion team, an unprecedented event in the competitions 13-year history. To add some cream on top two other teams featuring Rosedale genetics entered by Michael and Jenny Millner finished 5th and 6th giving Rosedale sired teams 4 out of the top 6 places.
This years competition included 74 different teams from leading stud and commercial producers from Australia’s Eastern seaboard with entrants mainly from NSW but also some Victorian and Queensland Entries. The cattle are on a level playing field as they all enter Teys Jindalee feedlot at the same time at similar weights and ages. The cattle are fed for 100 Days under normal feedlot conditions HGP Free and then processed at Teys plant in Wagga on the same day. Points are allocated for not only feedlot weight gain but also Carcase qualities. [...]
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The 2017 Farmer of the Year AwardsMarch 6, 2018FORGET about paddock to plate: the Millner family have the beef industry wrapped up from source to main course.
The family, from central NSW, juggles running one of Australia’s biggest polled Charolais studs with a growing commercial enterprise and, more recently, a paddock-to-plate brand that is feeding the growing Asian appetite for quality beef.
The centrepiece of the operation, run across 6500 hectares in three districts at Blayney, Dubbo and Coonamble, is the Rosedale Charolais stud, founded in 1970 and the oldest registered Charolais herd in NSW selling more than 150 bulls a year.
The Rosedale herd comprises 400 registered Charolais females and 1200 predominantly Angus and Shorthorn commercial cows.
The stud cows are run at Blayney with the commercial herd split between Dubbo and Coonamble. It’s a strategic move aimed at drought-proofing the operation, according to brothers James and Robert Millner, who are in charge of the stud and commercial operations respectively.
The Rosedale herd is at the cutting edge of the industry with the use of science and technology paramount to the business. Breed pioneers when it comes to the uptake of Breedplan performance recording, the Millners have also used hybrid vigour as a way of lifting growth rates, and profits, both within their own herd and those of their clients.
In the commercial herd, the best 50 per cent of the steers and heifers are fattened on oat crops and lucerne silage, and sold to the Coles grass-fed program, with the remainder sent to a northern NSW feedlot where they are finished for the Millners’ Rosedale Ruby beef brand.
Rosedale Ruby started as “an exciting side venture” five years ago and has exceeded all expectations.
Throughput has grown from 50 cattle a month in 2012 to 600 now. China and Hong Kong are the biggest export markets for Rosedale Ruby, with Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Switzerland and the Middle East also prominent.
It is this worldly outlook, backed up by superior genetics, marketing and product, that makes Rosedale Charolais worthy winners of The Weekly Times Coles 2017 Beef Farmer of the Year. [...]
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New sire at RosedaleFebruary 18, 2018On 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. [...]
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2017 Coles Beef Farmer of the Year AwardFebruary 7, 2018A Huge honour to be awarded the 2017 Coles Beef Farmer of the Year award. Great recognition for years of dedication to a terrific Industry [...]
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Riverine Classic Beef ChampionsFebruary 6, 2018Delighted 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. [...]
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2017 Rosedale Sale ResultsMay 20, 2017Rosedale’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. [...]
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2017 Rosedale Sale ResultsApril 6, 2017Last 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. [...]
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Rosedale wins 2015 Sydney Royal Beef ChallengeApril 3, 2001Rosedale 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 [...]
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