I am pleased to advise that The Land will be conducting a livestream of all cattle events via the following link https://www.theland.com.au/sydney-royal/ from April 2. If you do miss the live action, you can go back and replay the event also. Shorthorns judging is scheduled to take place on - Saturday 4 April commencing at 2.00pm Judge: Mr Peter Cook, stud principal at Barana Simmentals & Angus located in Coolah, NSW.  A brief profile about Peter is as follows: Our family farm, Barana, is located north of Coolah on the north west slopes of New South Wales where I have operated our 2300 acre [940 hectare] cropping & beef cattle enterprise since 1980.  The stud, Barana Simmentals, was established in 1980 & is well known & respected in the stud beef cattle industry in Australia.  I began showing at major Royal Shows in 1986 and ceased in 2001 after 15 years exhibiting & achieving success at [...]

The Society extends its congratulations on this very fitting recognition to Bev Harris and her extended family (pictured).  The award was presented to the family during the 2025 Melbourne Royal Interbreed competition.  The family has supported the carcase competition for many years and have been successful in two wins and one runner up in the Borthwick trophy in the last 4 years.  With grandson Robert keen to continue with exhibition of stud cattle from family's Australian Shorthorn stud, they were also successful this year with the Reserve Junior Champion Shorthorns Bull - Meadow Vale Vindicator V30. Bev said - " We started showing cattle at Melbourne show in 1976 and continued through until now. First as Carousel Poll Shorthorns , then a change to Meadow Vale Australian Shorthorns in 2004. There would only be a handful of years we missed showing, when Robert (dec) was battling cancer, otherwise, if we weren't showing our Shorthorns, [...]

On Thursday 2 October, Shorthorns will be judged at the Melbourne Royal.  Mr Gavin O'Brien of Winchester Charolais has been nominated as our judge.  Located in Walbundrie, NSW Gavin runs an Angus and Charolais Seedstock operation offering Bulls, Females, Embryo’s & Semen For Sale. We take this opportunity to introduce new exhibitors this year - to Peter Lennox and Alison Burgess, we extend a warm welcome;  to The Falls family of Malton Shorthorns we are pleased to welcome them back after a hiatus of some years. Other Australian Shorthorn exhibitors are the Harris Family, Spencer Family and Scott Bruton.  With 44 exhibits entered we look forward to a terrific showing of Shorthorns.

The 2025 National Shorthorn Show & Sale has concluded;  77/101 bulls sold to a top of $40,000 and averaged $8636.  7/10 heifers sold to a top of $16,000 averaging $7929.  2/2 PTIC recipients sold to $7500 and averaged $5750, and 1/1 semen package sold for $80/straw.  Mr Ivan Price, Moongool Charolais from Yuleba, Queensland judged the 'Show' component of the event. Society breeders were successful with purchases made from Queensland and NSW, with the Junior & Grand Champion Bull (Roly Park Up The Ante) a roan August 2023 bull being secured by the Southern Family of Queensland who also purchased Roly Park Unbelievable, a March 2023 drop bull.  The stud was also successful in securing the Champion Breeders Group of 3 Bulls (Lambell MacKinnon Trophy), and the Most Successful Exhibitor. Lot 27 North Eastern Abel, a roan May 2023 drop bull was secured by major buyers Merriwee Pastoral at Condobolin NSW, whilst Lot 106, [...]

The 2025 National Shorthorn Show & Sale is shortly approaching. Tuesday 17th & Wednesday 18th of June 2025, Dubbo Showgrounds -  Judging: Tuesday 10.00am Sale: Wednesday 10:00am 103 Led Bulls | 21 Unled Bulls | 15 Special Females | 4 Genetic Packages Click the links below for Catalogue and Media files. Shorthorn-National-Show-Sale-2025-Catalogue-for-web (1) https://nationalshorthornsale.com.au/2025-sale-page/

I must tell you about a very important development which benefits the commercial interests of all current and future Australian Shorthorns members as well as non-member cattle buyers.  Beginning this week, in a ground-breaking collaboration between ABRI, New Zealand Performance Beef Breeds Ltd (PBB) and the US company International Genetic Solutions (IGS) – ABRI will publish genetic evaluations of cattle registered in the Australian and Beef Shorthorn Herd Books compiled by IGS. The evaluations (EPDs) will be updated weekly. Through membership of Australian Shorthorns, you will have access to analysis of genetic traits via IGS. The IGS evaluation factors in an animal’s pedigree, any objective data provided by the breeder and any genomic data provided by Weatherbys.  The IGS evaluation for any animal can be viewed and searched via the ABRI’s ILR Online system that you already know and use. IGS provides EPDs (Expected Progeny Differences) to a number of cattle societies worldwide. They include [...]