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ARC to announce top beef performers this week

───   SABRINA DEAN 13:22 Tue, 23 Aug 2016

ARC to announce top beef performers this week | News Article
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Pretoria - Some of the best cattle in South Africa will be competing for top honours in the Agricultural Research Council's (ARC) annual National Beef Performers Awards later this week.


One of the organisers, Lerato Maboa, says the awards are presented annually by the ARCs national beef recording and improvement scheme to give recognition to the best of the best animals in the country. She says animals are judged on appearance, as well as performance records.

“With the ARC Elite Cow, the criteria there will be only cows with exceptional performance figures are eligible to compete in this category.

“A cow should exhibit outstanding reproduction figures, a proven track record in economically important traits such as maternal ability and pre-weaning growth rates. So, we really want to see how efficient this cow is, how much it has produced over the years.”

Maboa says the awards are an important way to showcase and acknowledge breeders who use performance recording to produce genetically superior animals. She says the awards also highlight the ARC's role in providing tools to enable breeders to produce more with less.

The awards take place at Tshwane Events Centre in Pretoria on Friday. There are eight categories, including the ARC National Special Performance Test Class, the Elite Cow Award, the National Platinum Bull Award, National Beef Farmer of the Year Award and Young Breeder of the Year Award, among others.


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