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NEWSLETTER – 2000
Those of you who read our newsletters may recall that in 1999 we were in drought conditions. These conditions became worse in the early part of the Olympic year.
We were lucky enough to receive some support from other parts of the state that were doing a whole lot better. It is wonderful the way people in rural areas support each other.
Our sale was not good but we sold nearly all our bulls, it was hard to sell bulls to people who had no feed and had sold most of their cows. Our average was down so we decided to hold a spring sale. Conditions had to improve by that time. Leading up to the sale we had reports of whole herds being sold and people losing large amounts of stock. We had losses too, many. The September sale was good, not great prices but people came back we had good bulls and they were wanted. We sold them all and they are out there working doing what they were bred for.
At the time of putting this newsletter together we have sold 54 bulls this year and we are not finished yet. Thank you to all our supporters and friends for standing by us. We did not go to the national with bulls in 2000 or to Melbourne Royal but attended both for a look. It was great to see Craigbank Maestro (son of my pride and joy Southern Aurora) win the senior champion ribbon. Back in Tasmania we had decided not to go to Launceston Royal and to pin all our hopes on Dynasty at Hobart. We were delighted to hear that the bull we had sold to David and Christine Duggan had gone through and won grand champion bull. (The Granary Thunderball).
Hobart show arrived and we took our one hope Dynasty and a 7 year old cow who had calved a week earlier (Top Girl). In the performance classes Dynasty took the first two and Thunderball the jap ox or final class. We could not have hoped to win all three classes two years in a row. Dynasty beat Thunderball to take the senior champion ribbon and finally was placed in front of the junior champion to take out the grand champion rosette and the Valma pride award. He had done it! The females followed I was on cloud nine but in the first call amongst the 16 entries was Oceanview Whitneys Alisha- Rae, she had won the class in Launceston but didn’t win a broad ribbon. I was interested in this heifer because we had sold her mother when very heavy in calf. I had told David that the dam would breed him a champion bull.Whitney won the class but now was up against the imported heifers, she won and would now wait for the senior females to be judged. Top Girl stood a very creditable second and ended up as reserve senior champion.I had mixed feeling as the grand champion female was being judged a very good cow by Ivy Bank Highpower whom we had sold a share in to the owners of the cow (Spring Rises PHS) and Whitney . Whitney won giving Oceanview their second grand champion in two years from stock they had brought from us. Thunderball led the Oceanview team which included Whitney to win the group of three.On the final day of the show young Nicholas Duggan won champion handler of the show from 112 entries.
Since coming home we have had 86mm of rain and the grass is growing so we are getting feed.
We will be holding our sale on 28/03/01, taking Dynasty to the Nationals.
We hope to see as many of you as we can in the upcoming year when Tasmania hosts the first white face Junior National to be held in the State, in January 2001.
Come down see us and enjoy our state and hospitality.
Ray and Barb***
NEWSLETTER – Welcome to 2000
What a year 1999 has been. We have had highs and lows and as usual not enough rain. When we did have rain, the grass in the paddocks and sale yards grew, making things difficult at sale time. But we are not complaining it was great to see that grass can grow on Broad Valley. Our sale was a success and our average has continued to grow steadily with return buyers. We have gone into the MAP program and have been tested Johnes free.
We now have bulls in twenty-one studs throughout Tasmania as well as many in commercial herds. Forty-nine bulls have been sold to King Island alone. Two Hereford studs have chosen our bulls as their foundation sires for their new Poll Hereford Studs.
Dubbo National was a high and a low when our bull Pierce Brosnan was sick and did not look his best. After missng the boat out of Devonport and seven stock transporters later, making it to Dubbo he got a very bad dose of pneumonia. However he made a good recovery and with the biggest eye muscle EBV on the ground gave Tasmania a 100% record of performance recording thus upsetting the South Australians. We would like to thank Ross Munro (Roberts Ltd), Andrew Wadley, Tasmanian Horse Transport, Dick Smith Transport and all those other people who made such an extra effort to get Pierce to Dubbo. Special thanks to Gary Wilkinson who looked after Pierce at the Show and later on his property so that he went on to Melbounre Royal looking a picture.
At Melbourne he recorded the biggest eye muscle for the white faced breeds of 135 sq cms beating the Adelaide Royal record of 132 sq cms. He was second in class to the Senior and Grand Champion. He came home to Tasmania and went to the Royal Hobart Show where he was again scanned and recorded 134 sq cms again outdoing all other bulls in the white face breed.
Whilst on the shows we went to Royal Hobart to try and win the performance classes. There were three classes and Granary bulls won all three as well as getting a second and a third placing. A bull called Boss’s 2IC that we sold at our 1998 sale to Duggan Farming won two classes and stood second to Pierce in the third class. He was the Champion and Pierce Reserve Champion. These classes were a combined Hereford/Poll Hereford competition and it was a wonderful feeling to lead Boss’s 2IC and to have Barbara lead Pierce out for the Championship. Both Granary bulls. The bulls could not repeat the performance against Jamena Shoga in the open classes and he again was the Supreme Exhibit for the second year in a row so no other bull could beat him either. Shoga did compete in the performance classes but did not gain a place. He is however a very good bull and we are using him in our breeding program.
THE FUTURE
We have used Camden View Profit Maker over most of our heifers with great results. They must calve at 2 years of age not 2.5 years so we put a fair bit of pressure on them. Profit Maker has a very good shoudler and is ideal for heifers. Ask to see him if you are visiting Broad Valley. We have this year conducted a fairly extensive AI program the results of this will be April/May 2000. We will let you know how it went. All the figures say it will be right with the bulls used in the program being Everything, Transcedant and Vacquero. The covering bulls are Mileura The Boss and Bronwym Sensation with Pierce Brosnan with his own herd. We have calves on the ground from Pierce Brosnan and his full borther Thunderball now owned by David Duggan of Ocean View PHS. We are absolutely rapt with their progeny.
FEMALES
We have sold Stud females to a number of studs this year and possibly the best being The Granary Consultants Heather to David and Christine Duggan for $1,000. She was shown by them at Royal Hobart and is the current Grand Champion Female. She calved at 2 years of age and had a Profit maker heifer at foot. David and Christine were at their first ever show with four exhibits all Granary stock and won most successful exhibitor. They were happy and so were we!! We are prepared to sell out best females. We did sell over a hundred breeding females in 1999.
We now have females in fourteen stud herds in Tasmania. Our new AI bull is Haroldsons 8E Sabre 42H a powerful well muscled, dark cherry coloured bull that has already won the Canadian National title. A thousand kilos at eighteen months. We own a share in this bull as well as Tasmanian marketing rights along with Ocean View PHS.
FIRST EVER SPRING SALE – SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
We will be offering twenty never-before offered Bulls. Details to follow soon!
Please send us an email for a Catalogue.
Ray and Barbara King
THE GRANARY POLL HEREFORD STUD
300 WHITE KANGAROO ROAD
CAMPANIA, TASMANIA 7026Telephone (03) 6260 4011
Fax (03) 6260 4040
E-mail [email protected]