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2023 SALE INFO

Lot 21, 2023, Talbalba Kingswood T011 (PP) @17 mths

Welcome to our 2024 Annual Bull Sale Thursday 29th August @ 11:30am. On property, Millmerran QLD.

Steve, Debbie, Kate, Meg and Brooke Reid own and operate the Talbalba Hereford Stud on undulating Brigalow, Belah country between Millmerran and Inglewood, Queensland

We aim to produce 70 Industry relevant Hereford sires with superior carcase traits for our annual on property sale in August.

We source natural sires Australia wide and use modern breeding technologies (AI and ET) to access superior genetics  from the USA and NZ as well as Australia to  produce moderately framed, heavily muscled Herefords with clean coats and strong eyes. Our primary goal is to  produce good lines of commercial bulls for both pure Hereford and Cross breeding operations. We collect growth, carcase and fertility data analysed by Breedplan and enhanced by Genomics to aid balanced selection criteria of both males and females. Fertility is a priority as it is the most important profit driver in any herd, heifers are expected to calve at 2 year old.

THURSDAY 29th AUGUST, 2024 @ 11:30am

65 Polled and Horned performance recorded sires with strong data sets and outstanding phenotypes.

“Delemere” 1392 Nicol Creek Road, Millmerran, QLD

Sale interfaced with Auctions Plus.

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Top seller 2023 Lot 21, Talbalba Kingswood T011 (PP) @17 mths. Sold for a record Talbalba top price of $102,000.00 to Valma Poll Herefords, Tasmania and Nova Poll Herefords, Tasmania. →

2023 On Property Bull Sale

THURSDAY 24th AUGUST, 2023 @ 11:30am

71 Polled and Horned performance recorded sires with strong data sets and outstanding phenotypes.

“Delemere” 1392 Nicol Creek Road, Millmerran, QLD

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Steve, Debbie, Kate, Meg and Brooke Reid own and operate the Talbalba Hereford Stud on undulating Brigalow, Belah country between Millmerran and Inglewood, Queensland

We aim to produce 70 Industry relevant Hereford sires with superior carcase traits for our annual on property sale in August.

We source natural sires Australia wide and use modern breeding technologies (AI and ET) to access superior genetics  from the USA and NZ as well as Australia to  produce moderately framed, heavily muscled Herefords with clean coats and strong eyes. Our primary goal is to  produce good lines of commercial bulls for both pure Hereford and Cross breeding operations. We collect growth, carcase and fertility data analysed by Breedplan and enhanced by Genomics to aid balanced selection criteria of both males and females. Fertility is a priority as it is the most important profit driver in any herd, heifers are expected to calve at 2 year old.

Talbalba bulls and females are bred for premium beef production with the data to prove it. Back to Back generations of high marbling (IMF) and high yielding (EMA) sires used ensures a consistent boost to your MSA index at slaughter time.

2023 ANNUAL BULL SALE RESULTS
Our 2023 bull sale achieved a six figure sale record top price with Lot 21, Talbalba Kingswood T011 (PP) selling for $102,000 to Valma Poll Herefords and Nova Poll Herefords in Tasmania. A solid average of $14,655 and an 89% clearance was terrific given the slide in the cattle market over the past 12mths with the EYCI 50% lower than this time last year.

Bulls sold into 3 states with Lot 3 also purchased for stud cattle duties by Kerry Glasser, Yagaburne Poll Herefords, Millmerran. Commercial bulls topped at $42,000 with Lot 6 going to Daryl and Antoinette Bjorksten at St George. Ian Bjorksten, Wandong Herefords bought Lot 5 for $36,000 and Lot 15 for $18,000. Bulk buyers also spending top money were the Greenhill family from Meandarra, the Bowhay family from St George, Juandah aggregation at Wandoan, the Hauff family from Blackall and Erbachers from Wandoan.

Once again we appreciate the loyal support from our long term clients, welcome new clients and sincerely thank underbidders, agents GDL and Nutrien, caterers Kindon ICPA and family and friends for your willing assistance.

2022 Annual Bull Sale Results

The 2022 Talbalba Bull sale eclipsed our previous record 2020 sale (when R5XP043 (H) sold for $100,000) with a top price of $91,000 and record sale average of $19,119.

The sale achieved 94% clearance with 63/67 bulls offered. Top seller was Talbalba Hoffman R131(PP) pictured, selling for $91,000 to Barry and Topsy Newcomen, Newcomen Herefords, Ensay, Victoria. Bulls sold into 3 states with many going into cross breeding programs throughout the Brisbane Valley, Western Qld and Central Qld as well as straight Hereford herds throughout the country.
Thank you to all buyers, underbidders and supporters for your confidence in our breeding program, we are overwhelmed with the result.

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1 week ago

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My name is Amy. My husband Hamish and I farm sheep and beef near Clinton in Southland. We use regenerative farming methods following the advice of a Dr Christine Jones. We spent months researching the options before taking the decision. Dr Jones is a leader in regenerative farming. Her methods build carbon into the soil, lower inputs, improve stock health, and are better for us and the environment.

Our motto is ‘optimising not maximising production’ and despite some pretty tough challenges and hard work, we are really happy with the decision we took and the outcomes. It is a matter of doing the homework, studying the options and figuring what is best for us and our farm.

Now we are researching a different problem. We face being taxed for our ruminant methane emissions. Hamish and I have studied the issue very thoroughly and the more we dug into it, the more deeply disturbed we became.

Finding out simple, straightforward answers to questions like how much warming our farm is causing, or how much methane all farms in New Zealand are emitting, proved difficult, even impossible. A farming friend has had his farm assessed on three separate occasions for the amount of methane (so-called CO2 equivalents) emitted and got three very different results. Are we going to be taxed for something that we have virtually no reliable data on?

Professor Dave Frame who advises the government and farming industries, and has been an IPCC participant, admits that New Zealand’s total emissions from all sheep, beef, dairy and deer ruminant methane over the last 100 years have caused some nonsensical fraction like one, one-thousandth of a degree centigrade change. In other words, an immeasurable, utterly insignificant amount per year.

It seems to tally with what a Dr William van Wijngaarden told Irish farmers recently stating that all the world’s ruminant methane over the next century would only cause 0.17th of a thousandth of a degree C change. Remember New Zealand only has 1% of the world’s ruminants. For this we are proposing slashing our sheep and beef industry by 20% - even more if the carbon price goes higher as demanded by green groups. Few people know our ruminant emissions in New Zealand are falling and have done since 2005.

You might be thinking that everyone has to play their part – the sacrifice needs to fall on every sector in the battle against global warming. If that is the case, we should compare ‘apples with apples.’ Our ruminant methane and your car emissions are both greenhouse gases – but they differ significantly. Our emissions can only occur by our using lots of CO2 – greenhouse gas - to create them.

Compared to you, we have a ‘net' position. Here is what our research showed.
According to a paper published called Phase 3 Multivariate analysis of Greenhouse Gas emissions from sheep and beef farms – April 2020 it takes up to 7 tonnes of CO2 to grow a hectare of grass on our farm. It’s called photosynthesis (if you can’t remember your college science.) Plants use CO2, sunlight, water and mineral salts.

We turn those 7 tonnes of CO2 per hectare into enough feed for 10 ewes. Those 10 ewes each emit about 20 – 22 grams of methane a day which means they produce in total 80 kgs of methane per year. It is accepted that methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 – generally regarded as 28 times stronger. If we multiply our ewe’s 80 kgs of methane by 28 we get 2,250 kgs of CO2 equivalent.

We are, therefore, using over three times more CO2 than we emit. A car owner cannot say that. Or a coal fired boiler. Or a private jet going to a climate conference. Farmers are not quite the villains we are made out to be.

Have we miscalculated? No, but we do lose some CO2 from our pasture as it respires and then dies back. We do sequester some deep into the soil, so that’s a plus. Some carbon goes out from the farm in meat and wool. Reality is we are being dealt a rotten hand by both the people who are supposed to represent us and our scientists, who are ostensibly seeking our best interests. Too many are caught up in baseless hype and chasing funding for long term projects. It is deeply disturbing and made Hamish and I sick to the pit of our stomach as we completed our research.

Now we have found the earth’s outgoing re-radiated energy can only interact with each greenhouse gas in certain, defined bands/frequencies. Methane can only operate in two narrow, weak bands where water vapour swamps it. Over New Zealand each one of our methane molecules competes with up to 8,000 water vapour molecules. We are not scientists but those who are qualified tell us to stop fretting about methane. In real life - not models - dominating water vapour renders methane ineffective.

We are told that the big overseas supermarkets are making demands of our exporters that require us to take action on methane. We know supermarkets. We tried marketing our own regen produce directly to them. They are super-bullies and will use any excuse to beat down the price. New Zealand has the lowest carbon footprint of any food producer in the world. Any alternative country’s food they buy would be defrauding their customers.

We need a government that stands up for us as food producers. We feed 40 million people. Article 2 (b) of the Paris Agreement that we signed said, clearly, that no government should take steps that “threaten food production”. Why do we rush to meet some international obligations and ignore others?

We are unique in that we use more greenhouse gas than we emit and we urgently need a government to go into to bat for us in international forums.

Amy and Hamish Bielski
Clinton
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2 weeks ago

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Congratulations to the Millmerran show committee on another well run show, so many volunteers make this possible in so many ways. Thanks to Mort & Co Pinegrove feedlot and ACC Opal Ck feedlot for sponsoring our new Super sire challenge. The $1000 purse was won by Jamie Holiss and Mikayla Passmore with Kalara TikTok Boom T4, who also won Interbreed bull champion. Thank you to Amelia Biggs NAB Agribusiness Toowoomba for sponsoring the crowd prizemoney which helped generate spectator interest in the event. Thank you to our judge Andrew Stumer, all exhibitors, sponsors and helpers in the stud cattle ring. ... See MoreSee Less

Congratulations to the Millmerran show committee on another well run show, so many volunteers make this possible in so many ways. Thanks to Mort & Co Pinegrove feedlot and ACC Opal Ck feedlot for sponsoring our new Super sire challenge. The $1000 purse was won by Jamie Holiss and Mikayla Passmore with Kalara TikTok Boom T4, who also won Interbreed bull champion. Thank you to Amelia Biggs  NAB Agribusiness Toowoomba for sponsoring the crowd prizemoney which helped generate spectator interest in the event. Thank you to our judge Andrew Stumer, all exhibitors, sponsors and helpers in the stud cattle ring.

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Thankyou so much to you both Steve & Deb and family for organising such a great show! It takes a lot of time & effort & certainly doesn’t go unnoticed. We always love attending Millmerran Show!

And thank you kindly Deb, Steve & Family for the work you put in running the stud beef section and for your very generous Talbalba Herefords sponsorship of the Champion British Breed Female. We very much appreciate it !

Congratulations Jamie and Mikayla! 🙌

For a minute I thought you had gone back to the showering Steve

3 weeks ago

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AgForce stands with industry and community opposed to a proposed carbon capture storage project for the Great Artesian Basin. Support now👉 okt.to/G4j0hH
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3 weeks ago

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⚡️Quality Hereford Steers on offer Blackall Cattle Sale
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3 weeks ago

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Excited to announce we have sold a half share in

DAYS LANDLORD T064

to Talbalba Herefords Millmerran, Steve and Deb Reid
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Looking forward to having this “Super Sire” running in the paddock. Following in the footsteps of Executive and Kingswood. The Day bulls just breed on!

Congratulations, good looking sire

Well done for both Days Whiteface & Steve and Debbie Reid

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