Greenfield’s Charbray Stud” is situated 100kms South/West of Rockhampton and 40kms North of Biloela in Central Queensland. We welcome you to take a tour around our site and contact us if you would like any further information.

The Advantages of Generation Breeding

by Queensland Country Life 2009

The art of building a consistent line of cattle has been a task even the experienced cattleman must focus on to achieve favourable results.

Selecting for various traits in cattle behind others in a breeding operations market plan is paramount to achieve the financial success at the end of the day.

Jambin cattleman, Les Marshall who also operates “Greenfield’s Charbray Stud” with his wife Anne, believes the process of generation breeding is paramount to achieve this consistence in your herd and stabilise the type of animal your are producing.

“Whether producing an animal for a specific market or stud or herd bulls for cattlemen, generation breeding is at the centre of our breeding plan as it stabilises your herd, breeding true to type through the depth of pedigree bloodlines that are available”.

“With the use of first cross or F1 sires the producer is often left with higher risk of not being able to produce a consistent line due to the outcomes have a fifty/ fifty chance of throwing one way, or too much variety in genetic contents as a result”.

“To simplify the breeding programme for cattlemen the generation bred bull will have a lot better ability to produce cattle that suit the market you are targeting without sacrificing traits such as softness, fertility and growth”.

Charbray cattle have been succeeding in many markets for a long while now but to continue on this success with greater confidence the pedigrees of the Charbray are a lot more established nowadays and are now available to the producer by selecting the generation bred bulls over F1s.

“Using generation bred bulls we are meeting market demands with more reliability producing better quality line of cattle with good depth of breeding”.

Greenfield’s Charbray stud has been operating since the first availability of Charolais semen was introduced to Australia back in 1969. From this long history of genetics the Charbray breed is well established at the Marshall’s property which Les believes is “the key to consistency in our cattle”.