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Northern Beef Week
19th June, 2007
Wing Valley Romagnolas and Romangus
Freezing this year - actually it was sleeting on the day and it rained the night before so our nice grassy pens were turned to mud.
The logistics are fairly difficult - we found it best to put the cattle in their pens the night before. It is dark until 7:30am and again by 5pm in the afternoon. We need to move the cattle out of the smaller pens back to the paddocks - so Garth and I (there are only the two of us) hang around all day and dash around like scalded cats from 4:30pm onwards.
This year, because of the weather, we only got 7 car loads (hardly loads, mainly just the driver). We live on a road with us, 2 Angus/Charolais and 1 Hereford Stud - nobody had a lot of visitors and we didn't get any curious visitors wanting to see their first Romagnola.
The first two open days, we got quite a number of visitors, even from the back of Bourke. These people were very interested - but hoping it would rain!
This year we kept a couple of Romagnola cows with young calves and had deliberately not weaned others so visitors could see cow and calf units - along with pens of bulls, weaner bulls, weaner heifers, Romagnola and Romangus steers.
Yes we will do it again next year...the advertising is good for the breed - after that?
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