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 [...]
Australian Shorthorns in collaboration with Shorthorn Beef recently participated in a special lift-out published by The Land newspaper (attached). The lift-out also appeared in affiliate newspapers (Stock & Land, Victoria), Queensland Country Life (Qld) and the Stock Journal (SA). We all appreciate that Shorthorn cattle are known for their carcass merit traits of marbling, tenderness, and high quality beef. Australian Shorthorns will continue to participate in programs which highlight the quality attributes of the Shorthorn.
Australian Shorthorns was proud to sponsor the Senior Champion Bull category at the recently concluded National Shorthorn Show & Sale. Pictured, from left to right is Mrs Jillian Leeds, Mr Peter Falls (on behalf of Australian Shorthorns), Lot 72 Leeds Loyds T51, Mrs Sophie Morgan and judge Mr Spencer Morgan.
It is with great pleasure that we report the top priced bull at the recently concluded National Shorthorn Show & Sale held at Dubbo was Meadow Vale Ultimate (Australian Shorthorns) bred by Bev & Robyn Harris of the Meadow Vale stud, Clarkefield (first time vendor). A son of Polldale Neat N38 (himself a Division champion at the 2019 sale and purchased by the Malton stud, Finley) Ultimate was purchased for $28,000 by the Williams family (Dubbo) and Calmara Shorthorns (Toongi NSW). As per entry requirements Ultimate satisfied the genotyping sequences for PV (parent verification, myostatin, Poll/Horn, and Bovine Versa 50K) conducted by Weatherbys Scientific Australia. Other Australian Shorthorns members to present bulls for sale at Dubbo this year were Roly Park (Scott Bruton), North Eastern Shorthorns, Tasmania (Carolynn Evans), Tipperary Shorthorns (J&Q Schneider) and Spencer Family (D&M Spencer). Bulls sold to six states and two major volume buyers purchased 25 bulls between them. 77/109 bulls were sold [...]
Scott Bruton of Roly Park Australian Shorthorns has advised his "highest achievement to date at the Sydney Royal Carcase competition with 3 steer carcases all receiving Silver Medals for their carcase scores, and all receiving 20/20 for their individual market specifications. We were 2nd out of 40 in the Light weight class 5 with a score of 87.61; another steer in the same class scored 86.04. The third steer placed 2nd (missing out by .05 of a point) in securing the win scoring 85.60. The 3 carcasses also went on to take out 1st place in the Breeders Carcase Group class with a total score of 259.25. One of the steers was selected in the Shorthorn Stan Hill team of 3 that were placed 2nd overall with a score of 254.96."
13 March 2024 JBS has recently advised Australian Shorthorns that, as from 30 April, it will not be continuing with the Thousand Guineas program. Whilst I am confident that JBS will continue to buy shorthorns it is a disappointing decision. Members have enthusiastically supported the program by supplying JBS with top class cattle suitable for the branded product, and Australian Shorthorns itself has done much to promote sales to JBS. It is the discontinuance of the branded product which is disappointing. The upshot is that, from 30 April, any member who wishes to sell cattle to JBS will not require Thousand Guineas certification. The Thousand Guineas program, useful though it was in lifting the profile of shorthorns, was far from being the be all and end all of Australian Shorthorns’ constant steps to adapt, develop and innovate in the Australian beef industry. You can be sure that Australian Shorthorns will continue to enhance breeders’ [...]
Mr Peter Falls, President has made the following announcement to members via the following correspondence with regard to the new trading name. 10 January 2024 Dear For over 100 years, the Beef Shorthorn Society of Australia has been the country’s preeminent Shorthorn breed organisation. We are proud to represent a breed that has benefited from centuries of development, innovation and adaptation. As a Society, we too must develop, innovate and adapt in order to best represent you – our breeders – and continue to improve the breed into the future. As such, from January 22 onwards, the Society will operate under its registered business name Australian Shorthorns. Much of what you expect from us will not change. We remain the official administrator of the Australian and Beef Shorthorn herd books. And we will keep being the most cost-effective path to Thousand Guineas Certification. We will continue to help you access innovative technology and [...]
Following an exhaustive investigation of available options, the Society has entered into a contract with Weatherbys Scientific Australia for the provision of genotyping solutions to Society members. Since 1770, Weatherbys has had a continuous and major role in the administration of the bloodstock industry of the UK and Ireland. It is the keeper of the General Stud book, which is the ‘mother stud book’ to which all other registers of Thoroughbred breeding across the world trace their ancestry and format. It is also the owner of Weatherbys Bank, one of only two family-owned private banks in the UK. Then, more than 20 years ago, it expanded its genomic services to bovine and other animal species. It uses Illumina technology to provide services including parentage verification, SNP verification, single gene testing, pedigree searching, species identification and forensic testing. Over the past three years, it has analysed more than 2.3 million samples worldwide. For 10 years [...]
The above award was presented to Damian Parker, Eurabbie Pastoral Company, Walla Walla at the dinner function held at the National Shorthorn Show and Sale over the past weekend. Congratulations to Damain who succeeded in providing multiple consignments (minimum 20 cattle per consignment) over the timeframe May 2022 - May 2023. The award was based on overall highest percentage in performance timeframe and meeting all the criteria; consignments were to have met the JBS supply specification at induction time (weight & dentition, Bovillis MH+IBR pre-vaccinated). Further, the consignments were to have also met the Thousand Guineas brand specifications at the time of production (AusMeat marble score 2+, meat colour 1B - 3 and 0-4 teeth). The winning prize was a travel voucher and 2 tickets to the JBS EKKA Cocktail function to be held on 11 August, and valued at $1000. A well deserved winner. Peter Falls, Society President accepted this award from Jason Carswell, [...]
