Producer Information Day - Wed 4th August 2010
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Coota Park 2010 Producer Information Day
Be There!
Wednesday 4 August 2010 at 10am
. An interesting program has been put together for everyone.
Guest speakers include Steve Parker from Pfizer, Jeff House from Industry & Investment NSW, Christine Weston who was 2010's Rural Woman of the Year, Gus Hickman from "Talinga" at Woodstock, Dr Cath Donoghue from Trangie Industry & Investment NSW and after lunch Sylvia Athas from Meat & Livestock Australia, Kim Lee from Rabobank and Dr Carole Hungerford GP & Author. They will cover a wide range of topics of great interest.
Community Health Pit Stop Program Men's Health Check Up - "The Grease & Oil Change" will be available on the day. There will also be a lucky door prize of a 6 week lease of a
Blue-E bull. Come along and have an informative day out - and a good opportunity to network.
In 2008 there was great feedback at Coota Park on the quality of all the speakers and the depth and range of the subjects covered. This on-farm field day at Coota Park is now a bi-annual event.
FULL PROGRAM
10.00 Start
Welcome * Jon Wright * Coota Park Blue-E.
10.10 * Steve Parker * Pfizer Animal Genetics * DNA technology in the beef
industry, where can it take us?
10.40 * Jeff House * Industry & Investment NSW * Forbes
I’ve got the best steers in the business, don’t I? How can I tell?
11.10 * Christine Weston * NSW Rural Woman of the Year 2010.
Community strength and the power of the positive.
11.40 * Gus Hickman * Grass Farmer * ‘Talinga’ Woodstock * Rest in my
pastures & ground cover – Sifting through the weeds for the pasture.
12.10 * Dr Cath Donoghue * Industry & Investment NSW * Trangie
High Maintenance Girls – Maternal Productivity Project.
What has it told us?
LUNCH - Blue-E sale bulls and Efficiency Testing Facility on display.
1.10 * Sylvia Athas * Meat and Livestock Australia * $193 per lamb.
The lamb industry, what made their success?
1.50 * Kim Lee * Succession Facilitator * Rabobank * Family Farms –
Generations of highlights & the not so highlights.
2.20 * Dr Carole Hungerford * General Practitioner & Author * Soil trace
elements & potential links to mental health – Is there a link and
what are the signs?
3 pm Conclusion
See you there! Any questions? Call Jon : 0429 450 326
Our Latest Advertising
Our latest advertising provides an eye catching play on words. Ben Simpson from Oga Marketing & Design has been at the helm of the innovative campaign to promote Coota Park Blue-E. More will appear here shortly.
Jon Wright meets Barry O'Farrell
Jon Wright met NSW Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell recently as reported in THE LAND.
2010 Orange National Field Days
- Steer Trial
Results have been announced for this year's trial. Apleasing result for
Coota Park Blue-E.
Our team came 4th overall - and 4th in the carcase category.
We were successful in producing the champion live steer.
Orange National Field Day Champion Steer Live for 2010
Coota Park Blue-E D010
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One of four steers in the 2009 trial, weighing 800kg at 20 months
C088 is sired by Coota Park Blue-E A031
Great Fertility Result for 2010
We have finished our pregnancy testing for our 2009/10 joining - this resulted in 95% in our heifers and 95% in our cows. We use only yearling bulls and conditions for this year were really terrible. This is a fantastic result from these young bulls which will be available for sale at the 2010 bull sale on Tuesday 7th September 2010.
Coota Park Blue-E expands its land
holding
We have just purchased another 800 acres 2km up the road from us. This is predominantly cow country and will free up a lot of our other country for production cattle thus enabling us to increase our cow numbers as well. We will be calving nearly 500 cows in 2010.
Recent Steer Trial Results from
The Jindalee Feedlot are here!
Click Here for Steer Trials Results
100 Blue-E Steers on feed at Jindalee
One hundred Coota Park Blue-E steers are on feed at the Jindalee feedlot. Intakes are
being recorded for the pen to be compared to the average results for April 2010.
The Latest News on Feed Conversion
from the Beef CRC
One of Australia's leading beef research organisations, Beef CRC, has published papers recently, showing the latest information in relation to feed conversion. High feed converting bulls were tested as weaners. One trial involved 208 Angus yearling steers which were divided into high feed efficient (HE), medium feed efficient (ME) - and low feed efficient (LE) groups. In short, the research conducted by Professor John Thompson (from The University of New England) proved that the HE cattle can save money on feed. But until there are more HE cattle in the marketplace - and they are readily identified as such - uptake by industry will continue to be low.
The Beef CRC is also involved in the Maternal Productivity Project based at two different sites in Western Australia & South Australia. The female cattle involved in the program have been selected for different traits including high & low Net Feed Efficiency and fatness and leanness. They are then subject to different nutritional environments. To date, there has been a lack of information regarding females selected for efficiency testing. The results so far illustrate that despite the fact that the heifers for the project were selected from the extremes of high and low feed intake - the nutritional effects on growth and body composition are having a far greater effect than that of the original section criterion. Further results are expected in the near future.
Have a look at the FEED EFFICIENCY page on our Coota Park Blue-E website.
The 2009 Bull Sale
Coota Park Blue-E Top is $6750
Another successful annual bull sale has taken place with the top price bull fetching $6750 for Lot 5 purchased by Paul & Virginia Kurtz from the Cowobbee Pastoral Company at Oberon accompanied by Elders Bathurst. Virginia is the daughter of Mr Geoff Perry renowned for the famous Tarcoola Blues from Tarana. Lot 5 C130 was a very well muscled son of Coota Park Blue-E A062 that had an NFI EBV of -0.6 ~ thus showing his great feed conversion sire potential.
Average sale price for the day was $3700. Two-thirds were return buyers – one third were new buyers. The second top price bull was sold to Mr Tony Dolbel of Junomy Pastoral Company, Rockley for Lot 8 C170 for $6500, a very well grown son of Noonee Zurich Z139.
Other return buyers W B & M Thorn, “Umbiella”, Rylstone purchased 2 bulls for an average of $4000 each and Mr Will Sutton, Sutton Farms, Cassilis purchasing 2 bulls for an average of $4200. Three bulls were purchased by W L & G R Meiklejohn from Cowra for an average of $3000. Bulls were also purchased by buyers from Bungendore, Mandurama, Forbes, Bethungra & Cumnock. All in all 28 out of 33 bulls sold on the day.
“I am delighted with the increase in this year’s sale average by $700”, Jon Wright commented at the conclusion of the bull sale. “It was also most pleasing to hear the return buyers express their satisfaction with their previous investments in Blue-E genetics and their confidence in purchasing more of our bulls is encouraging.”
Pictured at the Coota Park Blue-E 2009 Bull Sale ~ Ben Wythes, Virginia & Paul Kurtz - and Jon Wright with Coota Park Blue-E C130.
Coota Park Blue-E in "THE LAND"
- 28 May 2009
Central West Beef Week 2010
Central West Beef week was held at CTLX at Carcoar on 19th March 2010. Eight studs were open at CTLX as part of Beef Week. Coota Park Blue-E displayed a selection of bulls from the bulls that will be for sale at our annual bull sale on Tuesday 7th September 2010.
2010 Beef Spectacular -
A Pleasing Result for Blue-E
A pleasing result was 4th prize for the Blue-E pen of three steers. We received the award for 4th in the alive and also 4th in the carcase section out of 12 pens. We received a highly commended placing for our led steer with Cowra High School out of 18 steers.
- Feedlot Steer Trial
We entered a pen of five steers in this trial and had a very good result. We were placed 12th out of 42 pens. We were happy to be in the top third of the entries. Pens were entered from Victoria, NSW & Queensland.
Blue-E cow and calf
"Coota Park Blue- E is producing powerful production based bulls
that offer quality and reliability"