Feedback Trial
Department of Primary Industries in partnership with Teys Australia & Sponsor Certified Australian Angus Beef have once again kicked off the 2012 NSW Beef Spectacular Feedback Trial at Teys Australia's Jindalee Feedlot in southern NSW.
The feedback trial is a means to assist producers learn how to better tailor their breeding and steer management methods to allow higher profitably for the producer, the feedlotter and the abattoir. The Feedback Trail has seen up to 215 steers enter the 112 day trial at Jindalee Feedlot at Stockinbingal, just east of Temora, in the past two years.
Cattle have been entered from as far North as Queensland, South to Werribee in Victoria and wets to Wilcannia, with some 20 different breeds and crosses competing over the two years. The Trial is the commercial reality of your cattle and what they can do and how they perform in feedlots.
The big ticket out of the Feedback Trial is the Feedback itself, which is priceless. Producers struggle to gain feedback from most feedlots and processing plants, but thanks to Teys Australia a Cargill Joint Venture and the expertise of the Beef cattle Officers at the Department of primary Industries, each exhibitor will be presented a bound hard copy of photos and feedback from induction, through feedlot performance to their carcase results and how the animals hang up individually and as a team.
Each team of five steers will enter trial on October 20, 2011, and met a strict entry criteria to encourage producers to select steers that fit the specs and also complete the necessary documentation required for the feedlots.
The trial is much an educational process for producers as it is about the feedback. They will be guided and judged on how they present cattle to the feedlots, how they do their paper work and how their cattle perform.
Entry Specifications can be downloaded above right – WEIGHTS have changed slightly with entry eights now 380 to 460kg. The cattle will also be judged on hitting the specs for three branded products in Riverine Premiumn ( marble score 2 or above) Certified Australian Angus Beef ( marble score 1 or above – 75% Angus content) and Riverine Tender Cut ( marbl score 1 or above – none breed specific).
The steers are fed on Teys Australia 112 day Premium feeding regime and a field day will be in January (depending on weather & heat) to watch the progression of the steers a month prior to processing at Teys Australia's Wagga plant mid February with results and an award presentation to be held at the NSW Beef Spectacular and Trade Field Day in March.
