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Beef bulls and packs

Take advantage of the growing demand for dairy-beef calves, and increase market opportunities, with our individual beef bulls and Beef Focus Packs.
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    Dairy Beef Solutions

    Our network of New Zealand beef bull breeders are rising to the dairy-beef challenge to deliver solutions for dairy farmers, calf rearers, beef finishers, and processors.

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    Backed By Data – where it counts

    No one likes surprises at calving time or when finishing cattle through to a target. That’s why we and our bull breeders invest in breeding programmes to produce calves that perform throughout the beef value chain.

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    SGL Hereford

    LIC’s most popular beef product, Short Gestation Length Hereford bulls, will sire easily-identifiable calves without compromising days in milk or fertility in your herd.

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    Hereford

    Herefords’ distinctive white face makes for easy calf identification. Our beefed up sire offering, highlighted by growth and ideal carcase, provides a welcome confidence boost in the saleyard.

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    Charolais

    Driven by demand from buyers for calves that ‘rocket out of the gate’ and continue to put on weight, Charolais have seen the greatest increase in semen demand of any beef breed in LIC’s catalogue during the past three years.

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    Profit Maker®

    The complete package – a breed that is performance-oriented. In Rissington’s breeding programme, these cattle have been highly-selected for calving ease, growth, feed efficiency, and carcase (marbling and yield).

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    Angus

    From New Zealand’s most popular beef breed, our bulls are specifically selected for calving ease, high growth, and feed efficiency – with the ability to finish and grade well.

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    British Blue

    British Blue has been selectively bred in the UK for its suitability to modern farming conditions, especially in dairy. Cross British Blue with your dairy cows for carcass quality, colour marking, and high meat-to-bone ratio.

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    Murray Grey

    Performance bulls from the breed that has long been popular with dairy farmers for their reliable and easy calving, colour marked calves, and their reputation for being a quiet, easily managed, cattle.

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    Stabilizer®

    Superb all-round performance. The Stabilizer® beef breed from Focus Genetics is used extensively across many Pāmu dairy herds, where it forms a part of their national non-replacement calf strategy.

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    Simmental

    This breed has proven itself to be the weight gain breed of the Dairy Beef Progeny Test. Choose Simmental to beef up profit to heavier weights.

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    Speckle Park

    Polled, early maturing cattle with a very desirable level of marbling. Speckle Park crossed with dairy cattle produce impressive yielding carcases, with weight gains targeting 18-month markets.

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