SA-BRED steers have come out on top in the Royal Melbourne Show beef carcase competition, winning champion and reserve champion export carcases.
An outstanding Limousin-Shorthorn steer exhibited by Lewis and Paul Bruggemann, Glental feedlot, Mallala, won champion export led steer and went on to be champion export carcase.
The steer had a live weight of 620 kilograms and hung up as a 342kg carcase. It had 108 square centimetres in eye muscle area and 11 millimetres rib fat.
The Bruggemanns also won champion export led steer last year but it was their first time following it up on-hook.
"It is very hard to win both. In recent times we have been around the mark with the reserve heavy weight steer in Adelaide and a champion and a reserve champion here but it is great to be able to do it," Paul Bruggemann said.
The June 2014-drop steer was bred by Sam, Hartley and Graham Jaeschke, Waikerie. It scored 87.13 points from a possible 100.
Glental capped off its success with its 17-month-old purebred black Simmental steer a member of the winning Borthwick Trophy.
The Simmental team, which included two steers from Webb Black Simmentals, Glenburn, Vic, scored 321.89 points ahead of the Limousins on 318.84 points.
David and Alison Galpin and family, Warrawindi Limousins, Penola, claimed the reserve export champion carcase with Warrawindi Gold Medal, sired by one of their Limousin stud bulls and out of a Murray Grey-Charolais female.
The 16-month-old, weighing 544kg, placed third in its class on the hoof. On the hook it had a 60.57 dressing percentage
Mr Galpin said entering carcase competitions was a good barometer for their commercial beef enterprise.
Catherine Miller
Stock Journal's livestock editor and South East correspondent.
Stock Journal's livestock editor and South East correspondent.
