Herald 20221101

HIGH COUNTRY
FARMING
Stanbroke wins best beef award for third year
Beef producers Stanbroke has won the prestigious
Beef Battle in Toowoomba for the third consecutive
year.
The Stanbroke organisation produces the Diamantina
Wagyu branded beef for Australia and
numerous export markets, and was taste tested by
an expert judging panel of six, and then judged by
400 guests in a Toowoomba events centre.
Their combined score placed the Stanbroke beef
ahead of seven other branded beef offerings from
Darling Downs feedlots and some in nearby areas.
Chefs, including Meat and Livestock Australia
Corporate Chef Sam Burke from Sydney, served
the eight premium steaks to the 400 diners at
Toowoomba Turf Club who recorded their scores
electronically.
They rated the beef in terms of flavour, tenderness,
flavour intensity, juiciness and overall personal
liking.
The Beef Battle event is growing in its prestige
for the branded grain feed product.
The contest was developed by Toowoomba and
Surat Basin Enterprise and the first event in 2018
was won by Oakey based NH Foods.
Rangers Valley at Glen Innes won the 2019 battle,
but the champion in 2020, 2021 and now 2022
has been Stanbroke.
The other competitors this year, along with
Stanbroke, Rangers Valley, and NH Foods, were
JBS Australia; Mort & Co; NAPCO; Stockyard
Beef; and The Grove Premium Australian Beef.
Their premium brands have strong Wagyu content.
Stanbroke has a processing facility in Grantham,
the Bottletree feedlot in Chinchilla, seven
properties in the Gulf area, and backgrounding
properties at Chinchilla, Dalby and Wandoan.
- Miles Noller
• Stanbroke managers at the Beef Battle presentation in Toowoomba last Thursday, from left,
James Friis, Plant Manager at Grantham, Chris Woolhouse, Manager Sales Domestic, and
Richard Nicholls, Manager of Stanbroke’s Bottle Tree feedlot at Chinchilla. Stanbroke won the
award for the third consecutive year.
Record numbers of students learn about agriculture
More high school students than
ever before are learning about
agriculture at Moo Baa Munch,
with double the number attending
the AgForce organised event at
Downlands College in Toowoomba
last week.
Wet weather knocked-out what
would have been a record primary
school day last Wednesday, but on
Thursday more than 500 high school
students from 11 schools attended.
That’s twice the normal number
of secondary students of about 250.
Students were from Highfields,
Dalby (two schools), Allora,
Kingaroy, Warwick, and five from
Toowoomba.
AgForce held its first Moo Baa
Munch at Downlands in 2010, and
it has been held at Downlands
ever since. About a dozen learning
sites, corporate and government,
are visited by the school groups in
rotation throughout the day.
SALE REPORT
Saturday, October 29
Rocky Dip Yards CROWS NEST
At Zeller & Co sale on Saturday the
market was very strong with a great
yarding of local cattle.
The Groves family sold a pen of steers
for $1780.
Wayne Morice and family had a great
running of calves in pen lots $1940 to
$1890, $1950 to $1820 – what a result!!
The heifer calves in pen lots made
$1530 to $1500 and Angus heifer calves
sold for $1970.
J. Sippel sold light calves $1360 to
$1300.
The Tompkin family sold Santa x steers
for $1690 and Euro x heifers for $1390.
Mark and Michelle Szepanowski,
Kingsthorpe sold Angus steer calves for
$1580 and heifers for $1360.
Thank you all for your support – selling
and buying – Rick and Fay Zeller
For more info, Ph Rick 0428 879 531
Don’t forget we sell at Dalby every Wednesday
with Fitzgerald Livestock
For updates, watch for our email
Thursday night.
If not on our email list, let us know.
If you have cattle, book early for advertising
WANTED TO LEASE
Country to run 100+ steers
BUYING ALL TYPES OF CATTLE
Mobile: 0428 879 531
Fax: 4698 2580
E: rick@zlp.net.au
Your local agent
All are connected with agriculture.
Run by AgForce’s School to
Industry Partnership Program, it
focuses on teaching youngsters
where our food and fibre comes
from, the importance agriculture
plays in our everyday lives, and
the diverse career opportunities
available.
The primary school day is funded
by the Australian Government’s
Educating Kids about Agriculture
Initiative, and the secondary day
by the Queensland Department of
Employment, Small Business and
Training’s Agribusiness Schools
Engagement Program.
AgForce’s SIPP Coordinator
Tanya Nagle said so many
Australians describe their connection
with agriculture as distant or nonexistent,
and Moo Baa Munch has
never been more relevant than it is
now in connecting school students
of all ages with agriculture.
TOOWOOMBA
CATTLE & PIG
MARKET
REPORT
FOR
BOOKINGS
Contact Darren Hartwig
0428 736 470
Hartwig
& Bliss
trading as
CATTLE SALE
Crows Nest Showgrounds
October 29
Our first sale as Hartwig & Bliss
attracted a good crowd on a
beautiful sunny morning. 138 head
yarded for the buyers competition
reached tops of:
$2080 for light weight feeder steers
$1460 for light weaned
Droughtmaster steers
$1400 for weaned cross bred
heifers
$2450 for Brangus x cows & calves
Next sale will be November 26
For all your Livestock needs
contact Wade or Hayden
For bookings:
Phone: Wade Hartwig 0447 174 071
Haden King 0458 138 272
Caroline Cook 0427 134 636
Downlands College students, from left, Holly
Penfound, Hampton, Gabby Peart, Geham,
Brook Jaques, Dalby, and Bailey Payne,
Charlton, at the AgForce Moo Baa Munch
education event for schools, with produce at
the Growcom display.
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reporting on Dalby Cattle Sale
Sale Date: October 26, 2022
1470 yarded
Wet weather again reduced sale numbers
this week. Quality this week was very mixed
with no big lines of weaners or heavy feeder
cattle. Prices for Export saw a slight increase
with Feeder types and weaners again meeting
stronger competition. Lightweight weaner
steers sold to 766c/kg pushed along by
restockers. There was again a full panel of
buyers in attendance with Restockers and
feeder operator’s filling the gaps.
Bullocks to 445.2ckg
Heavy Cows 398.2c/kg
Heavy feeder Steers 614.2c/kg
Weaner Steers 766.c/kg
Weaner Heifers 674.2c/kg
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