Commercial Viewpoint

Darren’s Voice..

Beef 2006

Well it’s that time of the year again with bull selling season in full swing and Brahman week only three week’s away what a rollercoaster this year has been with a fluctuating dollar impacting on cattle prices for the first half of the year. How fortunate we are to have a breed of cattle that require little input expense in these circumstances. In our own backyard we are starting to see the first calves by our new sires that we bought last year, they look very promising. Seasonally the year is shaping up well in a lot of area’s but very trying in others , what a shock it was to have such a vicious blast of winter in August. Not my favourite weather but hopefully it will bring an early and active storm season this spring that would be a nice change , to go to Brahman week with full dam’s would bring a lot of relief to many, we can only hope . Well to all our fellow sale vendors good luck in selling and finding new sire prospects for the year and please keep in mind the prime cattle championship’s next year, we are trying to get a good line up of high quality Brahman cattle to showcase the commercial reality that brings Brahman breeders so much success and answer our breed’s critics.

Cheers
Darren