But for serious breeders like Tim Reid, who manages N-Bar Angus Stud at Norwood just outside of Goulburn, competing with the country’s top stud cattle producers is about recognition of the bloodlines he has selected as being among the best available.
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Receiving a broad ribbon at any of the major agricultural shows lifts the value of a producer’s stud stock and assists them to get more money for the stud stock they sell.
Mr Reid was rewarded by receiving the All Breeds Beef Cattle Champion of Champions Cow or Heiffer ribbon in one of the country’s biggest agricultural shows recently, with an Angus cow he has bred, N BAR Miss Black CC&7 G36, along with a first in class and a second in class for two other Angus exhibits.
It was early on Sunday morning August 3, that Tim Reid and his father loaded up their truck with an Angus cow and calf, plus a junior bull and a junior heifer.
They headed to Brisbane to the country’s second largest agricultural cattle show the Royal Queensland Show (EKKA).
“This long trip was worth the time and effort, and so were the hours spent preparing the specially selected animals to highlight the quality of the N-Bar stud breeding program,” Mr Reid said.
“The result is the pinnacle of my career as a stud manager so far.
The heifer was placed first in her class and the bull was placed second in its class. This was all before the show opened to the general public.
The cow won Grand Champion Angus Female and then on the opening day of the show, came up against the grand champion females from all the other beef breeds and was judged Supreme Female exhibit of EKKA.
A lot of preparation had gone into getting the cattle to peak condition for the prestigious show along with training them to behave to allow the judges to view their attributes to the best advantage.
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The preparation started back in November the previous year, and has continued through to a point where the cow was in peak condition for the Queensland Show as were the others in the team.
The cow’s show training started really when she was just a calf and as a junior heifer she was placed as reserve champion in the Melbourne Show.
Two years ago she was Junior Champion Female at the Goulburn Show. This year she was named as the supreme exhibit of the Goulburn Show and Grand Champion Angus Female at the Crookwell Show.
Mr Reid said a lot of work goes into preparing cattle for showing, and initially it is selecting the animals that he thinks will develop producing the attributes that judges and commercial producers see as desirable, then feeding and training the animals so they will perform well in the show ring.
“At the Sydney Royal this year my cow was beaten by another breeder because his was in better condition than mine,” Mr Reid said.
“The calf at foot with his cow was older than the one with my cow and his mother had more time to recover and regain condition after calving.
We both had very good cows and the competition was close. My cow beat his at EKKA, seeing as it had developed that bit better since the earlier show and was in peak condition, which is how I set my goals for the animals.”
The N-Bar Stud stock sale for 2014 will be held on Friday, August 29 and they have 24 bulls and five females on offer along with two genetic embryo lots.
The on property sale starts at 10.30am.
“Our 2014 show team will be on display during the sale,” Mr Reid said.
“Though the cow has already been Sold, it will still be here till after the sale.”
