Rangan Charolais doing the job right

Withover 250 registered females joined in 2022,Rangan Charolaiscontinues to provide Victorian beef producers with quality Charolais bulls.

With the popularity of grass finishing programs like the JBS Great Southerninmind, they produce bulls to suit southerngrassfinishing systems, with an aim to offer bulls that breed progeny for high MSA compliance.

“Weknow the genetics and traits we wish to develop in our own herd, and if you’redoing your job right as astud owner you should be able to take advantage of your own genetics,” said Graeme Cook owner of Rangan Charolais.

“It wasalso very pleasing to see the great results by our clients in thejustcompleted January weaner sales.

Rangan sired weaners topped the steer weaner section of the Annual Wangaratta January weaner sale selling for $2050 for genuine 9 -10month old weaners.

This was alsoone of the top pricesinthe entire state of Victoria.

We breed the bulls but it is our clients that then go on anddosuch agreat jobwiththe progeny,” said Graeme.

Atrip to the RoyalMelbourne Show in September paid offfor the stud bringing home not only Senior and Junior Champion Charolais bulls, but both bulls also went on to be crowned reserve interbreed Junior and Senior bulls.

The JuniorChampion bull will featureinthis year’sbull sale.

Held on-farm on the 17th of March, this year’s bull sale will have 46 bulls up for offer,including some of the first bulls in Australia by Canadian outcross sireTurnbullsDuty-Free, who breeds high growth early maturing progeny that will perform well in grass fed systems.

This is also the first time thatall the bulls offered arepolled with manybeing DNAtested and homozygous polled.

Therewillalso be astrong representation from homebred sires as well, including top-selling bulls from the Rangan 2021 sale, Rangan Quarterback

Q86 and Quartermaster Q19 as well as the time-proven Rangan Ascot M151.

Their progeny all performed as expected, and all demonstrated the good temperament, natural thicknessand thesuperior muscling that Rangan is renowned for

“The quality of the bulls this year is extremely high and we believe this is the evenest line of young sires we haveever offered, with the natural thickness in thisdraftbeing exceptional,” Graeme said.

“Wehave one of the top IMF herds in the Charolais breed and this does help with MSA grading, and our bulls arepredominantly used as terminal sires over British-bred females to take advantageofthe extra growth rate theCharolais brings to astraight-bred herd.

“The majority of our clients arereturn clients, and every year we pick up new ones, with breeders really seeingthe value of Charolaiscross when it comes to grass finishing.” Graeme said.

All Rangan bulls arefully Breedplan recorded, vet checked, semen tested,DNA sire verified, poll-tested as wellascarryatwo-year structural guarantee.