Gaining Weight

The third Hereford Performance Test Group final trials were held at Waihuka Stud on February 7. Substantial gains were obvious within the groups but the guest speaker, N.Z. Meat Board grading committee chairman John Poison, was of the opinion that if breeders were to increase beef weight then the exporters' incentives should be commensurate with the breeders' efforts.

This bull (496 from Mr Jack Hodgson's Kiwi Stud) was the top animal in group No.l

Guest speaker John Poison.

Agriculture Department representative Keith Milligan explaining the live-weight gains.

Mr Jack Foley (left), on whose property the trials were conducted, receives an appreciation gift from local Hereford Association president John Harris

With Williams and Kettles' stock manager Pat Cooper (left) are the judges, N.Z. Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association president Bob Cowan and commercial breeder Richard Reed.

Some of the cattlemen and wives attending the trial addresses by Messrs Milligan and Poison.

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 236 : February 27, 1974

Gaining Weight