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THE BEEF SHORTHORNOFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE BEEF SHORTHORN SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA HOME OF THE AUSTRALIAN SHORTHORN

The Federal Secretary Beef Shorthorn Society of AustraliaPO Box 199 Rutherglen Vic 3685 Phone: 0419 319 990 Email: [email protected]

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www.beefshorthorn.org.au DECEMBER 2019

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PRESIDENTS REPORT

Dear All,

By all accounts it has been a very busy year for our breed and the Society. There have been significant achievements in the show ring, carcase competitions and the involvement of our members during the World Shorthorn Congress tour.

The Society continues to enjoy a unique partnership with JBS Australia (Australia’s largest beef producer and marketer); premiums remain to be paid for eligible shorthorn cattle. A list of JBS buyers can be found on the Society’s website.

The World Shorthorn Congress tour has concluded and I take this opportunity to thank those members of the Society who opened their properties to showcase their breeding program to our international guests. The Deepdene stud of Daryl and Ann Clark was very well received with most guests wanting to visit longer; on display were purely grass fed bulls, cows and calves and a mob of superfine merino sheep. Daryl delivered a very engaging welcome giving a historical account of the holding. Other members to welcome the tour party were Rodney Rouse

& Rob Smith located in Sheffield and the Walsh family of Ledgerwood, both located in Tasmania.

The conference itself was very worthwhile and held at the Graham Research Centre on the campus of Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga. Speakers from around the world delivered very informative and interesting presentations sharing ideas and common passions directly linked to Shorthorn cattle. I strongly urge you to mark your diaries to attend the next World Shorthorn conference to be held in the UK in 2022. This occasion will celebrate 200 years of the Coates Herd Book for the breed – something which our Society can proudly boast still records pedigreed Beef Shorthorn cattle closely aligned to this herd book.

To those members who also made a contribution in the show ring, I express my grateful thanks. Given the seasonal conditions the cattle presented both at the Sydney Royal and Royal Melbourne Show were exemplary.

I congratulate David Spencer on his Life Membership to the Society; as most of you know David has been a long-standing member of Council and this award acknowledged his tireless efforts in promoting and delivering outcomes for both the Society and breed.

As we approach the close of another year, stressful and worrisome as it has been for most of us, we must look forward with optimism. Our breed stands in very good stead and will continue to be sought after by a wide array of beef producers.

I have attached to this report the presentation I made on behalf of the Society to at the World Conference. I wish you all a safe and happy Christmas. Marion SpencerPresident

Today, many people regard history as unimportant. That is unwise. Lessons once learned can be forgotten, likewise hard-won benefits. So it is with cattle-breeding. It is a risky business to ignore the past, or to dismiss it as irrelevant to modern-day issues. That is because cattle-breeding which can stand the test of time requires an appreciation of the past, as well as an eye to the future.

The Beef Shorthorn Society of Australia, which is the oldest of the societies presently registering shorthorn cattle of the beef type in Australia, treasures the past, but is not a slave to it. Next year will be the Society’s centenary.

Originally formed as the Shorthorn Society of Australia, the Society took over publication of the Shorthorn Herd Book of Australia in 1921. The first volume of that herd book had been published in 1918 under the auspices of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria. Volume 1, and other early volumes, recorded pedigrees both of Australian-bred cattle and Coates’s Herd Book cattle which had played a part in Australian breeding.

Construction of the herd book was a mammoth task, involving reconstruction of pedigrees going back to the late 1840s – the first pedigreed shorthorn having been imported in about 1827. The guiding light for registration was Coates’s Herd Book standard, part of which recognized that shorthorn cattle were just that - cattle with short horns. Comet, for instance, the standard bearer for the very successful Thousand Guineas program, was a horned shorthorn. He can be found in a number of the pedigrees of cattle registered in the Shorthorn Herd Book of Australia.

Ever since that herd book was first published – it is now the Beef Shorthorn Herd Book of Australia – part of the standard for registration has been that the animal be horned. But the rationale for maintaining that requirement has changed. The original rationale was that the requirement was present in the parent herd book. Much later, that requirement disappeared in England. But the Beef Shorthorn Society of Australia did not follow suit. It would be a nonsense to suggest that the Society has maintained a requirement that cattle be horned because there is

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a virtue in cattle being horned. The true rationale is that the entire genetic profile of cattle registered in the Beef Shorthorn Herd Book of Australia has been maintained. That cannot be said of any other group of registered shorthorn cattle. The cattle link directly with nearly 200 years of pedigreed history. For that reason, these cattle are a unique resource available to shorthorn cattle breeders worldwide, a resource which should be attractive to breeders with an understanding of history.

None of this is to say that the registration requirements of Australian Beef Shorthorns are preferable to the registration requirements of other shorthorn cattle societies. It is only to say that Beef Shorthorns in Australia are a unique and valuable genetic resource in the breeding industry.

The Beef Shorthorn Society of Australia Herd Book has another utility. Many of the foundation females mated with poll bulls over the years since the establishment of what is now the Shorthorn Society of Australia in 1935 were registered Beef Shorthorns. In such cases, the long-term pedigrees of today’s cattle are only accessible via this Society’s herd book.

Two matters interrelate with what I have said is the irrelevance of horns for the sake of horns. First, as a management tool, and with the Society’s approval, most Beef Shorthorns are dehorned. Second, the Society established the Australian Shorthorn Herd Book, which was first published in 1974. There is no requirement that Australian Shorthorns be horned, and indeed the vast majority are not. This herd book has made use of foundation, Beef Shorthorn and Poll Shorthorn females, crossed mainly with poll bulls.

Let me say something about the Society’s progress over the last several years:

• Membership has increased. The Society is not large, but has members in every State, and in the Northern Territory.

• In part, the increase in membership has been attributable to the Society’s active involvement in the Thousand Guineas program. That program has enormous potential benefits both

for JBS and for breeders of shorthorn cattle. The product has gained clear market approval. The main issue faced by the program is reliability of supply. This has been impacted by the drought which has affected much of pastoral Australia for upwards of three years. Increase in supply can be forecast with some confidence. The drought must end, and breeders of other British cattle have been putting in shorthorn bulls.

• A recent trend in Beef Shorthorn breeding has been the use of semen from bulls bred in Australia before the introduction of Irish and American blood over the past 25-30 years, and also the use of semen from British bulls bred to the traditional Coates’s Herd Book standard. This marriage of bloodlines appears to be achieving good outcomes.

• The Society is financially secure. It has no outstanding financial commitments, and it has money in the bank.

• The Society maintains a fee structure which is as small as it can be for breeder members. A calf registration fee is for all of life. There are no recurrent fees.

• The Society’s new website has been online since 2017. In addition, a topical ‘In the News’ is regularly emailed to members.

• The Society’s Rules have been amended so as to address modern means of communication.

• For several years now, Beef and Australian Shorthorns have been exhibited together with (Poll) Shorthorns at the Sydney and Adelaide Royal Shows. Sensible arrangements have ensured that the cattle were identifiable. Exhibitors have been very happy with the camaraderie which they have experienced. It is highly likely that there will be combined judging at the Melbourne Royal from 2020. These developments mirror the situation at shows in Tasmania and regionally.

In conclusion I take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank those members of the combined breed societies who have extended their welcome to conference delegates at their properties, to those who exhibited at the Royal Melbourne Show and to those who made a contribution to the organization of this the 16th World Shorthorn Conference.

Marion SpencerPresident, Beef Shorthorn Society of Australia

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DIARY DATES AUTUMN BEEF WEEK 29 January- 5 February

ROYAL CANBERRA SHOW 28 February – 1 March

SYDNEY ROYAL EASTER SHOW 3 – 14 April (Tentative Judging Date) (Saturday 4 April)

BEEF AND AUSTRALIAN SHORTHORNS IN THE SPOTLIGHT AT MELBOURNE

Numbers were only moderate, but quality was very high in the showing of Beef and Australian Shorthorns at this year’s Melbourne Royal. Held on Sunday 29 September and in conjunction with the World Shorthorn Conference, judging was very well attended.

Spectator interest was high. Peter Falls, ‘Malton’, Finley judged all shorthorn cattle. Everyone agreed that he did an outstanding job, his commentary clearly explaining the decisions which he made.

In Beef Shorthorn judging, the Morningtime Stud of David Ashley and Grandchildren was dominant. Morningtime exhibited the Supreme Exhibit, Morningtime Kiribati’s Blossom 4, a 44 months of age cow with roan bull calf at foot. This cow has enormous capacity. She was Champion female at Melbourne last year. She relegated to Reserve Senior Champion Morningtime Nantucket’s Dame Melba, a 5 years old cow with young heifer calf at foot. The judge commented that there was little between these two exhibits.

The Senior Champion female defeated the Junior Champion heifer, the under 12 months Morningtime Nagambie’s Blossom 2, who relegated to Reserve Champion Spencer Family Princess Moselle.

Morningtime also exhibited the Junior and Grand Champion Bull, the roan Morningtime Queensferry. This bull, at 18 months of age, weighed 798 kgs, with an EMA of 108 and scan of 15/10. He relegated to Reserve Champion Morningtime Queensbury, who at 19 months and 2 weeks of age weighed 846 kgs, with an EMA of 108 and scan of 19/13. Bulls of this scale for age have not been seen at Melbourne in recent years.

Queensferry, sired by the 1980 Sydney Champion Marrington Minstrel, is the 2018 drop calf out of this year’s Supreme Exhibit.

Out of the broad ribbons in the junior bull classes was Morningtime Quito, winner of the under 12 months class. This bull weighed 552 kgs, had an EMA of 75, and scanned 9/5.

In the Australian Shorthorn judging, the broad ribbons were shared between Scott Bruton, ‘Roly Park’, Lake Boga, and Bev and Robyn Harris, ‘Meadow Vale’, Clarkefield.Junior and Grand Champion Female, and Supreme Exhibit, was Scott Bruton’s Roly Park Porsha, a well grown and beautifully proportioned heifer of 19 months. In her class she defeated a quality Spencer Family

heifer, SF Ace’s Cherry; Reserve Junior Champion female was the rising 14 months of age Meadow Vale Rock Angel P15, a daughter of Spencer Family Zephyr M220, who is obviously breeding extremely well for Meadow Vale.

The Junior Champion Bull was Meadow Vale Quid P12, another Zephyr calf. Outstanding for even construction, and with an excellent EMA, he relegated to Reserve Champion Meadow Vale Quartz P16, who got the nod over Scott Bruton’s Roly Park Pluto, a 19 month old son of Emross Gold Kopy K3.

Senior and Grand Champion bull was Roly Park Tasmania. This massive roan bull, aged a little over two and a half years, was Reserve Junior Interbreed Champion at Melbourne in 2018.

In the Interbreed judging, Australian and Beef Shorthorns did very creditably. Roly Park Tasmania, and the Roly Park Group of 3 were called out. In the judging for Junior Champion Bull, three shorthorn cattle placed in the first six in a field of eighteen. The Shorthorn entry placed first, the Australian Shorthorn fifth and the Beef Shorthorn sixth. This underlines the quality and depth of shorthorn cattle in Australia.

RASV President’s MedalCongratulations to Life Member David Ashley on recently being awarded the President’s Medal; the award was presented at the Opening Ceremony of the 2019 Royal Melbourne Show. Pictured from Left to Right is RASV President Mr Matthew Coleman, the Governor of Victoria The Hon. Linda Dessau and David Ashley.

2019 Royal Melbourne Show

RESULTSClass Entry ExhibitorBeef Shorthorn

Heifer 9-12 months 1st Morningtime Nagambie’s Blossom 2 D Ashley & GrandchildrenHeifer 16-20 months 1st Spencer Family Princess Moselle Spencer Family 2nd Hillview Miss Duchess S PughJunior Champion Morningtime Nagambie’s Blossom 2Reserve Champion Spencer Family Princess Moselle

Cow or Heifer 24-36 months 1st Glenmount Queenie L&C ShannonCow over 36 months 1st Morningtime Kiribati’s Blossom 4 D Ashley & Grandchildren 2nd Morningtime Nantucket’s Dame Melba D Ashley & GrandchildrenSenior Champion Cow Morningtime Kiribati’s Blossom 4Reserve Senior Champion Morningtime Nantucket’s Dame MelbaGrand Champion Female Morningtime Kiribati’s Blossom 4 Bull 9-12 months 1st Morningtime Quito D Ashley & GrandchildrenBull 16-20 months 1st Morningtime Queensferry D Ashley & Grandchildren 2nd Morningtime Queensbury D Ashley & GrandchildrenJunior Champion Bull Morningtime QueensferryReserve Champion Morningtime QueensburyGrand Champion Bull Morningtime Queensferry

Best 3 Head 1st Morningtime D Ashley & GrandchildrenBest 2 Heifers 1st Morningtime D Ashley & GrandchildreBest 2 Bulls 1st Morningtime D Ashley & GrandchildreSupreme Beef Shorthorn Exhibit Morningtime Kiribati’s Blossom 4Most Successful Exhibitor D Ashley & Grandchildren

Australian ShorthornHeifer 9-14 months 1st Meadow Vale Frances Rock Angel P15 Harris Family 2nd Meadow Vale White Rose P18 Harris Family 3rd Spencer Family Patsy B Princess Tia Spencer Family 4th Spencer Family Approvals Bling It On Spencer Family 5th Roly Park Poppy S BrutonHeifer 14-20 months 1st Roly Park Porsha S Bruton 2nd Spencer Family Ace’s Cherry Spencer Family 3rd Roly Park Priya S BrutonJunior Champion Heifer Roly Park PorshaReserve Champion Meadow Vale Frances Rock Angel P15Grand Champion Roly Park Porsha

Bull 9-14 Months 1st Meadow Vale Quid P12 Harris Family 2nd Meadow Vale Quartz P16 Harris FamilyBull 14-20 months 1st Roly Park Pluto S Bruton 2nd Roly Park Pheonix S BrutonJunior Champion Bull Meadow Vale Quid P12Reserve Champion Meadow Vale Quartz P16

Bull over 30 months 1st Roly Park Tasmania S BrutonSenior & Grand Champion Roly Park TasmaniaJunior Pair 1st Harris Family 2nd Roly ParkBest 3 Head 1st S Bruton 2nd Harris Family

Grand Champion & Supreme Australian Shorthorn Exhibit Roly Park PorshaMost Successful Exhibitor S Bruton

VACC Breeder Member of the Year 2019

Kim Falls, Suzanne Clarke and Andrea Falls presenting the RT&YE Falls Most Successful Beef Shorthorn Exhibitor trophy; accepted by Aaron Brennan on behalf of D Ashley & Grandchildren.

Most Successful Australian Shorthorn Exhibitor Scott Bruton with partner Tiffany Schwencke.

Meadow Vale Frances Rock Angel P15, Reserve Junior Champion Australian Shorthorn heifer paraded by Claudia Spencer; sashed by Rodney Rouse, Tasmania.

Judge Peter Falls, Scott Bruton and Roly Park Tasmania, Grand Champion Australian Shorthorn Bull paraded by Sarah Sutton; sashed by Julian Schneider.

Scott Bruton who was awarded the Breeder/Member of the Year trophy.

Congratulations again to Scott Bruton who was awarded the Breeder/Member of the Year trophy. Scott has been tireless in his active promotion of both Beef and Australian Shorthorns.

As a result, he has been rewarded with successes in both stud and carcase competitions throughout the year. At the recent Whittlesea Show, Scott was successful in winning each of the 5 heifer classic classes. A very commendable effort.

Scott also serves as a Victorian committee member appointed to the Federal Council of the Society. The award was made to Scott by Victorian President, Carolyn Shannon.

2019 Royal Melbourne Show

Robyn Harris at left, Meadow Vale Quid P12, Junior Champion Australian Shorthorn Bull paraded by Gavin O’Brien; Margaret Hallyburton and Peter Falls.

Morningtime Queensferry, Junior Champion Beef Shorthorn Bull led by Aaron Brennan, sash presented by councillor Bill Harwood.

Grand Champion Australian Shorthorn Bull Roly Park Tasmania exhibited by Scott Bruton.

Peter Falls, representative from International Animal Health, Best Australian Shorthorn Exhibit Roly Park Porsha led by Scott Bruton, and two delegates from Shorthorn Congress.

Reserve Junior Champion Beef Shorthorn heifer, Spencer Family Princess Moselle led by Claudia Spencer; Leo Swan presented the sash.

Aaron Brennan for Morningtime and the Junior Champion Beef Shorthorn heifer Morningtime Nagambie’s Blossom 2 sashed by councillor Leo Swan.

Andrea Falls and nephew Charlie Falls.

2019 Royal Melbourne Show

Grand Champion Australian Shorthorn Female Roly Park Porsha exhibited by Scott Bruton.

Archie and Rebecca Wickham.

Kathy Grigg, 2019 inductee into the RASV Hall of Fame, with father George Crockford.

Grand Champion Beef Shorthorn Bull – Morningtime Queensferry exhibited by D Ashley and Grandchildren.

Grand Champion Beef Shorthorn Female – Morningtime Kiribati’s Blossom 4 exhibited by D Ashley and Grandchildren.

Special mention to our junior youth members who have been successful in various competitions this year. Below is a pictorial summary of some of their achievements.

Congratulations to Sarah Sutton on winning the 2019 Beef Cattle Judging State Final. Sarah will represent Victoria the 2020 National Finals in New Zealand. Pictured with Sarah is Tom Baker of Woonallee Simmentals who was judge for the event.

Briana Spencer Champion Parader at the 2019 Royal Geelong Show.

Pictured from left: Patrick Halloran (judge), Briana Spencer, Nakita Spencer, Phobie McMillan, Robert Harris-Ryan, Seth and Axel Miller. Sapphire Halliday for Waterford making the presentation. Darcy Swan (not pictured) was the team mentor.

Youth in the spotl ight

Congratulations to...Suzanne Falls, daughter of Peter Falls and Jeanette Falls on her recent marriage to Jonathan Clarke on Saturday 5 October. Wedding and reception was held at St Leonard’s winery, Rutherglen and the couple will make their home in Cohuna, NSW.

Sophie Marie Falls arrived on 24 October this year weighing 8 pound 8 ounces. She is the sister to Charlie Falls and daughter to Lockie and Kim Falls of Finley, NSW.

2019 Royal Adelaide ShowThis year saw the combined judging of Shorthorns at Adelaide; Mr Trent Johnson of Trojan Shorthorns, Lyndhurst NSW was the judge. Next year will see the ‘Shorthorn Family’ enjoy Feature Breed status at the Royal Adelaide Show.

Scott Bruton and the Senior Champion Female, Roly Park Porsha sashed by Mrs Pam Thompson of Bayview Shorthorns; a representative from WFI at left.

Life MembershipThe Society recently awarded a Life Membership to David Spencer, Spencer Family Shorthorns. David joins Joan Burke, George Crockford and David Ashley as life members. The Federal Council unanimously agreed to bestow this life membership to David for his dedication and involvement in Society affairs and to the breed over many years. David’s father the late Vic Spencer was also a life member.

The medal was presented to David by immediate Past President Bill Harwood who said he was very proud and humbled to be able to make this presentation to David.

Relaxing after a hard days judging, Axel Miller and friend.

Borthwick TrophyTeam Results

The Australian Shorthorn Borthwick team was represented by two steers from the Meadow Vale stud of the Harris Family, Clarkefield Vic, and a single entry from Scott Bruton’s Roly Park stud of Lake Boga, Vic. An extremely credible outcome with the team of 3 scoring the second highest carcase score on the hook - the team placed 5th overall. Congratulations to all involved.

Meadow ValeAustralian Shorthorns est.1975

Royal show success with the �irst progeny ofSpencer Family Zephyr M220

Melbourne RoyalJunior champion Bull-5th interbreed-MV Quid P12 | Reserve Junior Heifer-MV Frances Rock Angel P15

1st Junior Pair-heifer and bullSteer 14 months-528kg, $3.65/kg lwt ,dressing 60.92%

Melbourne RoyalJunior champion Bull-5th interbreed-MV Quid P12 | Reserve Junior Heifer-MV Frances Rock Angel P15

1st Junior Pair-heifer and bullSteer 14 months-528kg, $3.65/kg lwt ,dressing 60.92%

eelong RoyalChampion Heifer Classic-MV Frances Rock Angel P15 | Interbreed Heifer-MV Frances Rock Angel P15

Many Thanks to Luke Spencer and Clinton Rogers for their show preparation expertise. Also special thanks to David and Marion Spencer.

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Morningtime Queensferry

Calved 21 March 2018Junior and Grand Champion bull,

Melbourne Royal 2019798 kgs, 108 EMA, scan 15/10

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Enquiries: David Ashley, Morningtime Beef ShorthornsSpring Hill, Victoria - Phone (03) 5424 8415 / (03) 9882 4735 / 0408 802 414

MorningtimeExhibitor of Junior Champion heifer, Junior and Grand Champion Bull

and Senior and Grand Champion Cow and Supreme Breed Exhibit, Melbourne Royal 2019

Winning Group of Three

Melbourne Royal Show 2019

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Meadow ValeAustralian Shorthorns est.1975

Royal show success with the �irst progeny ofSpencer Family Zephyr M220

Melbourne RoyalJunior champion Bull-5th interbreed-MV Quid P12 | Reserve Junior Heifer-MV Frances Rock Angel P15

1st Junior Pair-heifer and bullSteer 14 months-528kg, $3.65/kg lwt ,dressing 60.92%

eelong RoyalChampion Heifer Classic-MV Frances Rock Angel P15 | Interbreed Heifer-MV Frances Rock Angel P15

Many Thanks to Luke Spencer and Clinton Rogers for their show preparation expertise. Also special thanks to David and Marion Spencer.

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F R S2 Roan Moderate to large framed roan cows, in calf to SF Zephyr, February calving. Contact Robyn Harris.

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Roly Park Lassie Beef ShorthornSupreme Beef Shorthorn Exhibit Melbourne Show 2017

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Carcass Competition Results• 2019 Royal Sydney Show –

2 Bronze Medal Carcasses which sold to $4/kg live weight at auction, with 1 making the Shorthorn Stanhill Team of 3 that came 3rd, and the other reserve for the team

• 2018 Swan Hill Show – Medium Weight Class – 2nd on the hook

• 2018 Royal Melbourne Show – Light Domestic Class – 2nd in Class on the hoof and 6th on the hook

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• 2017 Swan Hill Show Heavy Weight Class – 2nd and 3rd on the hook

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Roly Park Miss Australia Australian ShorthornGrand Champion Adelaide Show 2017

Reserve Senior Champion Melbourne Show 2017

Interbreed Supreme Exhibit Kerang Show 2017

Interbreed Champion Female Bendigo Show 2017

Interbreed Champion Female Whittlesea Show 2017

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