For Duane Wilson, having been brought up with cattle all around him and his parents starting the stud Arabar Charolais, he was best placed to start his own with the knowledge he had acquired.
"My family started the stud before I was actually born and then I've grown up with it ever since then," he said.
"The show side of it really got me involved and doing it all over Australia got me hooked.
"It introduced me to a lot of people in the industry and I have contacts all over the nation because of it.
"I've got cattle in the stud with my mum and then I've gone out and bought Limousin's by myself in the last 12-months."
Mr Wilson says he saw the increasing demand.
"A lot of people were buying our Charolais and they basically wanted them exactly the same but in a black hide," he said.
"So we are trying to breed Limousin's, very similar type to our Charolais to go into the same clients."
Mr Wilson said they have about 50 Charolais and 20 Limousins.
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"A lot of my clients are from my clipping business," he said.
"I clip and show bulls, and clip cattle for sales, and a lot of my clients are Limousin breeders.
"They probably helped me a lot navigate my way."
Mr Wilson said his biggest achievement so far was the first time he picked a show team from his mother's herd in 2008, with those cattle going on to win the interbreed classes at the Royal Adelaide Show.
"That was the first year that I got a bit of say over it and I showed all those those cattle down there," he said.
"I also won the SA Junior Heifer Expo and went on to New Zealand.
"I've had a few judging jobs at a few shows since then, and it took off so I started my clipping business after that."
He said in the past 12 months he has gone from one heifer to a whole herd and expect to calve down about 20 or more this year.
"My goal is to have a bull sale in the next three to four years," he said.
This profile is part of Stock Journal's Studbreeders Under 30 to Watch series.
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