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Business View Australia - June 2015 119

We have developed an index to be

able to rank these Wagyu animals

as feedstock animals. In the last

four months we have been able to

identify some superior bulls which

are remarkably better than any-

thing that anybody thought was

possible. The leading bull identified

in the last two days has produced

progeny with a carcass value in the

order of $700 better than the aver-

age bull that we have analysed.

Sadly we have identified him too

late, because he’s actually now dead.

But if he were alive and artificial in-

semination with that bull was used it

would be quite possible to inseminate

1000 females and produce 1000

cows a year from that bull. Therefore

that bull is producing commercially

$700,000 worth of value better than

the average Wagyu bull. So the ability

of the genetics now that we are iden-

tifying them as superior ones is quite

remarkable and at a level never seen

before in the world beef industry.”

In addition to genetics, the quali-

ty and taste of Wagyu beef derives

from the grain it is fed for up to 600

days. The cattle are kept in a feed-

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