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| Oakgate Rising Stars Goulburn winners - 18/10/2008 |
Congratulations to the winners of the second Rising Stars event held at Lynton, Goulburn in October 2008: first was Tania Harding riding Jirrima Variety Show, second was Raquel Blanco riding TP Inspector Gadget, and third Andrew Cooper riding Guest of Honour.
| Oakgate Rising Stars results - 16/9/2008 |
Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural Oakgate Rising Stars event at the Bates Sydney 3 Day Event at SIEC, Horsley Park. Madeline Wilson from Queensland came in first on Levi Red Jeans and second on Winjarra, and Andrew Heseltine from Victoria came third, riding Warrego Winchester. There was a strong field of 17 competitors for this first event, which bodes well for the rest of the program.
For detailed results visit www.sydneyeventing.org.
The next event will be held at Goulburn on 17-19 October, 2008.
| Oakgate Rising Stars Sponsorship - 12/9/2008 |
Eventing NSW is delighted to announce Oakgate Wagyu as a major new sponsor. Oakgate Rising Stars is a new incentive program for riders competing in their first 12 months of competition at Eventing One Star level. The program will run for the next 3 years, with total prize money of $36,000. The first 3 eligible events are Sydney CCI* (September 2008), Goulburn CIC* (October 2008) and Scone CCI/CIC* (March 2009).
For further details visit the Eventing NSW website www.horsetrials.com.au.
| Northern Beef Week - 22/6/2008 |
On Sunday 22 June 2008 we will be open for our first Northern Beef Week. We will have a number of our breeding stock (donors, bulls and progeny) on display so that you can see the breed attributes. We will also have semen, embryos and selected livestock for sale. Please come in, look at our operations and enjoy some Wagyu steak from the BBQ and a glass of premium Poole's Rock wine.
We will be open from 9am on Sunday.
| Dispersal Sale Catalogues - 07/04/2008 |
If you are interested in obtaining a catalogue for our upcoming Angus Dispersal Sale, you can go online to Angus Australia,
or contact Elders:
| John Horne: |
0428 634 658 |
| Paul Dooley: |
0428 667 441 |
| Andy McGeoch: |
0418 737 470 |
The sale is also listed with AuctionsPlus so if you aren't able to attend, you can still bid on the lots of interest.
| Oakgate Angus Dispersal Sale 18 April 2008 - 07/03/2008 |
Due to increasing demands from our Wagyu breeding program, we have regretfully decided to disperse our stud Angus herd.
So, on Friday, 18 April 2008 we will sell them all – 99 lots!
The herd is based on a selection of Ythanbrae Angus cows and will be sold with all their progeny. Joining sires include GAR Pinnacle, Perry Power Design, Kenny’s Creek Eclipse, Lawsons High Grade Z440 and Ardrossan Admiral to name a few.
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12 cows 2002-03 drop Autumn 08 calves at foot |
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34 cows 2002-03 drop Spring 08 calving |
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29 heifers AI’d Autumn 08 calving |
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16 bulls 18-20 months |
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8 weaners “C” year Spring drop |
The breeding program has focussed on achieving high performance in growth rates, carcase weights and $ indices, and a number of the animals are top 1% and 5% in the indices and EBVs.
The sale will be at the Dungog sale yards, commencing at 1pm.
A catalogue will be available in the near future and details on all the animals for sale will be on our website next week.
For further information, please contact:
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| 2007 - What a Year! - 13/12/2007 |
What a year 2007 has been! It started dry and hot and by June we were well down on our annual rainfall and looking towards a hard dry spring and summer. How true is the saying about being careful what you wish for - in June the heavens opened and it rained, and rained. In one 4 day session we received over 250 mm of rain - we lost the walls of 2 new dams but thankfully no other damage or loss of livestock. Now, as we come to the end of 2007 we are already over our average annual rainfall, there is a lot of sub-soil moisture and the pastures are looking magnificent. At least around Dungog, the predictions of a La Nina weather pattern appear to be true and we are going into 2008 with some degree of confidence.
It has been a busy 18 months since we purchased Pilchers and commenced a major development program. When we arrived, there were effectively 4 paddocks with very tired fences - we have now re-fenced the whole property into 15 paddocks with a laneway system running front to back. A major yard complex and AI/ET setup has been built near the sheds and we have sunk a bore and plumbed in water to all the paddocks. Permanent pastures have been established in the front paddocks and with all the rain we have locked up the Lucerne to cut for hay later in the year.
David Caslick joined us as stud manager in August last year, moving from Fingal in Tasmania with Monique, Sarah and Tim. He tells me he couldn't wait to get away from the depths of Tasmanian winters! Under David's guidance, we are now well advanced with our livestock and genetics programmes. We started with 48 Angus cows purchased from Lawsons in 2006. They have adapted well to the move from Victoria and we are underway with the second year's AI program. The young bulls from the Spring 2006 drop are looking magnificent and we are targeting these, and their sisters for sale in Autumn 2008 - we'll be providing more information soon.
We also now have our full complement of donor cows and bull for the fullblood Wagyu program. We'll be running everything as ET programs: we have our own herd of over 100 Angus recipients and currently over 100 recipient cows under supply agreements. If you are interested in growing out our FB Wagyus David would be delighted to talk to you more.
So much has happened this year and there are so many people to thank for all their hard work: David and Monique - I hope the move from Tassie has been worthwhile; Dom Bayard, our genetics guru from Global Reproduction Solutions; Harry Lawson for breeding such magnificent Angus cows; and all the people from Dungog for welcoming us all.
Have a great Christmas and best wishes for 2008.
Andrew Macpherson
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