NEWS
Next Generation Blacks! - November 2011
Next Bull Sale: Wednesday 21 March 2012 - 55 Bulls Selling.
Open: Day 2 of the Victoria Beef Week February 2012. Sale bulls on display.
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Volume two - May 2011 of 'webb news'
Webb Black Simmental bull sells to $15,500 & Webb's $15,500 on-property record
Garry Rodda - STOCK & LAND/THE LAND
After our extremely successful sale, we had several editorials released on Thursday, March 24th, 2011. One featured in 'The Land' and the other in 'Stock & Land'. Click below to download the PDF of the article.
New auction record
The Yea Chronicles
Local newspaper - The Yea Chronicles - also heard of the Webb Black Simmentals amazing results and printed the below editorial on Wednesday, April 6th, 2011. Click below to download the PDF of the article.
The New Black
Andrew Mole – Weekly Times Stud Beef
In November we were featured on the front of the Stud Beef catalogue in the Weekly Times.
Click below to download the PDF of the article on how Philip Webb and Lynton Harrison prepare to bring a new dimension to the beef industry.
World Simmental Congress
In September Webb Black Simmentals were host to the world Simmental Congress.
With true Australian hospitality Webb Black Simmentals held a luncheon and cattle display for the international breeders, take a look at our video for what happened during the day.
Black Simmental goes for $14,000
Sheena Coffey – Stock and Land March 11, 2010
TWO Victorian studs intent on a Black Simmental bull offered at the Bonnydale Simmental Farms on-property sale held at Bridgetown, WA, recently ensured breed records tumbled and a new national top price was set. Finally snared at $14,000, the Black Simmental bull, Bonnydale Iceman, went the way of Webb Black Simmentals, Glenburn, with Collie Cattle Company, Kyneton, the under bidder. This record set the trend for the day, with 45 Black Simmental, SimAngus and traditional Simmental bulls sold under the hammer at an average $4228, up $311 on last year’s total.
The Black Simmentals were popular, opening the sale in white hot fashion. All 10 were easily cleared to average $6550, a whopping $2075 lift on last year while the nine SimAngus bumped averages by $556 to $4056. The record-breaker, a 552- kilogram March 2009-drop polled yearling ET calf was by USA genetics HC Hummer 12M and MLC Dessy K53 and showed above average indexes for eye muscle area (+4.0), rib and intra-muscular fat.
The Webb stud also paid the sale’s second top price of $8250 for another son of HC Hummer 12M, Bonnydale Indian River, a polled ET yearling calf out of Bonnydale Georgia that weighed 523kg. Webb Black Simmentals stud manager Lynton Harrison said the stud was established on embryos purchased from America and local studs in 2007. The stud has now grown to 140 females and 100 embryo transfer calves with the two bulls returning home to an artificial insemination program starting in May. They will be joined to stud females and a portion of the 300 commercial Angus breeders run by the stud.
Webb business driven
Sheena Coffey – Stock and Land October 8, 2009-10-23
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Philip Webb established his cattle business on a few firm business principals, backed up by proven genetics.
The operation – Webb Black Simmentals, based at Glenburn – has blended into this mix a belief in being an industry forerunner, “doing bold things and doing them first”, according to stud principal and Real Estate director Mr Webb.
And keen for his investment in the agricultural industry to function successfully, Mr Webb is quick to stress it is not just for lifestyle that he has bought back into the area in which he was brought up. “I’m not here for lifestyle – I want it to be an investment.”
The operation, which is managed by experienced stud and commercial producer Lynton Harrison, has been built – twice- from the ground up since 2005, after the property was burnt out in the Black Saturday bush fires.
On a combined total of 350 hectares owned and leased land, 130 stud black Simmental breeders – heading towards 200 head – graze the lush perennial pastures.
They have been bred up from a mix of sires including Gateway Black Simmentals and closer to home, Bony Dale, Western Australia. Females have mostly been secured from the Brewers Simmental herd at Keotong.
Buying decisions were heavily influenced by sires displaying Calving ease “ one of the most crucial traits”, low birth weight, good growth and carcase traits - specifically marbling, muscling and eye muscle area.
The stud is almost entirely black, because as Mr Harrison emphatically stated “black is best”, quickly adding: “to fit into the crossbred market with Angus cattle”.
Having previously run black Simmentals crossed with black baldy cows in a commercial operation at his family property at Holbrook, NSW, Mr Harrison has a firm belief in the breed.
He said they crossed well with British bred cattle and help to reduce fat content and increase meat yield, they gave the best first cross of any breed and fit any market specification.
“You can put them into milk vealers programs or the feedlot or you can grow them out to be Jap Ox if you like,” Mr Harrison said.
Currently focused on breeding bulls – they held their first bull sale last week - the property will soon have a commercial herd of Angus Females.
The breeding herd is joined twice a year from 12-24 months of age for heifers in May and October, with bulls used from the same age.
Calves have been weaned from six months of age, which will potentially be reduced over time. Both for cash flow and a marketing tool, the Simmental-Angus progeny will be sold through weaner sales or to feedlots and will provide proof of the potential the Simmental holds for Straight-bred commercial producers.
And with people “looking to make more money and make it quicker”, the first-cross will have enormous possibilities, Mr Harrison said.
“If you can have a product which keeps your herd black, polled, with more meat, greater fertility and longevity in your herd, you can only make more money.”
The next generation of cattle genetics: Webb Black Simmentals’ stud foreman Lynton Harrison and Philip Webb pictured in front of bulls for sale last week.
Bidding up a storm
Sheena Coffey – Stock and Land October 8, 2009-10-23
A pair of repeat buyers bid up a storm at the Webb Black Simentals’ first bulls sale at Glenburn last week.
Keen to repeat the successes achieved at home with a bull bought from the stud four months earlier, Steve and Rebecca Marriott, Kisandra Downs, Outtrim, secured five of the 11 bulls offered at auction.
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Across the draft, they paid an average $3500, and a top rate of $4250 on a 750-kilogram Webb DeNiro, an artificial insemination son of Bar CK Vision 227P and out of SimmgeneRed X Otica SGA P X 421, who had a scrotal circumference of 43 square centimetres, rump and rib fat of four millimetres each and an eye muscle area (EMA) of 95.
The bulls will be used over Angus-Fresian and Hereford-Fresian cows for vealer production.
Kerrisdale Estate, Strath Creek, paid the auction’s highest price of $5500 for a son of CNS Dream On L186, out of a GW Miss Lucky Buck 906J.
The bull has had an impressive EMA of 105 and hit the scales at 600kg.
Rounding out the sales was local property Lojosa Springs, Glenburn, who paid $3000 and $2750 for sons of CNS Dream On L186 and Bar CK Vision 227P, Sally Abbott Smith, Glenburn, who took a Dream On son at $3500 and Tony Cardamore, through Elders Pakenham, who secured a Lancaster Black Magic LCS P son at $2750.
Stud Principal Philip Webb was beaming at the close of the auction, declaring the sale to be “a great first effort”.
Elders conducted the sale with Ron Rutledge at the rostrum.
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