Dalkeith is a cattle stud and commercial operation running 1200 cows, of which approximately 400-500 have AI each year. “We have been regular clients of Brendan since he began doing AI. He is always very thorough and gets a good percentage of calves. Using AI techniques on our herd brings calving into a tighter timeframe and means we are able to use bulls that otherwise would not be accessible. We keep using Brendan because he’s achieved the results.”

The Wagyu industry is still a very young breed in Australia, hence the very small numbers. To increase the size of studs and to establish the industry a lot of work is done with artificial breeding. Northern Artificial Breeders plays a large roll in our breeding operation including Pregnancy testing, Semen and Embryo collection and storage, Embryo Transfer and Artificial Insemination. Kuro Kin Wagyu has been using Northern Artificial Breeders for over 15 years with a lot of success. With this relationship that has developed over the years we anticipate using Northern Artificial Breeders a long way into the future. Thank you

Boambee Angus started our relationship with Brendan and the Team at Northern Artificial Breeders 6 years ago when we established our Stud Herd into the operation! Boambee Angus runs 700 breeders at Seaham in the lower Hunter Valley. Northern AB plays a massive role in our operations, their services and attention to detail is fantastic and we cannot recommend them enough. We get such great results with our AI’s. Northern AB also semen and morphology test all our sale and working bulls as well as ultrasound pregnancy test and handle all our semen both storage and sales.

Introducing industry leading sires to our Charolais herd is important for our business.  From an initial trial about 15 years ago when we knew almost nothing about AI, we now do our annual insemination programme with Northern Artificial Breeders in November/December. Brendan and his team have been with us all the way and we could never have done it without them. We now get a core of predictable calving dates with bloodlines selected for desired outcomes.

The process works with a minimum of fuss and absolute reliability. Our success rates are generally about industry average but last year considerably better than that and the coming drop have shown very few signs of cycling.   We are certainly happy to recommend Northern Artificial Breeders.