COMMERCIAL DATA

We have an excellent association with Richard Eldershaw of Rangers Valley Cattle Station, who have purchased our entire drop of feeder steers for the last 14 years, commencing in 2000.
It has been well promoted that Weeran Angus genetics are performing extremely well.
Once again we have received outstanding feedlot results from the '08 kill data. Richard Eldershaw of Rangers Valley Feedlot said "we were pleased to be offered the Weeran steers again in '07, and as usual they performed above average for growth and marbling. It is a credit to their program and management". Weeran achieved average marble score of 3.7 which is 28% above feedlot average.

The Weeran steers were second highest growth and second highest marbling out of 60 plus vendors who had cattle processed in February 07 through Rangers Valley Cattle Station. ie. The Fundamentals of profitability in a feedlot being gain on feed and marbling. It is also very pleasing to see a number of Weeran clients building strong relationships with feedlotting clients and achieving excellent results for breeder and feeder.

Dick Whale of Independent Breeding and Marketing Services said “It is very pleasing to see proof of our genetic selection process bearing fruit. The Weeran program has been based around using US bulls with proven carcase data for approx 70% a.i. matings. These sires are inspected for structural soundness, along with a large sample of their progeny 18 months of age, or older. On top of this Alec & I are progeny testing with young up and coming Australian bred sires from within the Weeran herd, and others where we know the female base and the integrity of their operation.”
“Of paramount importance in our selection criteria is the use of US carcase kill data. Approx. 40 million cattle are killed in the US per year and assessed using their quality grading system. We are basing our selection process on kill data rather than IMF scan data, as carcases around the world are valued and traded on their actual marbling. This includes cattle in Australia produced for the Japanese grain fed markets.”.
“This is why I believe Weeran is achieving such good results at Rangers Valley”.