THE SIMMENTAL breed has improved dramatically in the last few years. Irish Simmental breeders have put huge effort into producing better muscled and earlier finishing cattle, while retaining the ...

These cattle can easily pass for a Simmental breed; though Simmentals are purely beef animals. The Fleckvieh breed is huge with good muscle cover and a relatively big udder for females.

Frank Fitzpatrick raises Barzona cattle and has about 600 of them on his ranch in California. In high school, he did his senior project on Limousin and Simmental cattle, then started studying Jan ...

“The Simmental seedstock business has been good to us, and we hope to continue to expand as we go.” For more information about Kjelgaard Simmental, contact Bruce at (701) 785-2815 or Michael at (701) ...

All three major sales at Stirling in the year saw new record average marks, with the all-sales Simmental breed record being broken in October 2023 with a sale average of £7,594 for 53 bulls.

Commercial breeding is the focus of this year's Simmental exhibition, according to the breed society's secretary, Peadar Glennon. The aim is to show how Simmental cattle can boost returns on ...

Rick says as the Simmental breed began emphasizing black cattle, his family spent a few years switching the dominant color of their herd. “It took a while, but things look pretty good,” he says.

A strong year of Society sales saw total sales gross £2,167,231 – up £75,825, and an increase for the third consecutive year. All three major sales at Stirling in the year saw new record average marks ...

"We have added another tool to give more information to buyers and to help breeders be more selective in the females they keep for further breeding. The introduction of Female Classification puts the ...

He says mature Simmental bulls of between eight to ten years weigh up to 1.2 tonnes, noting that bulls used for breeding would weigh about 800 kilogrammes, but rises to 900kg when not actively ...

OATRIDGE Agricultural College in West Lothian is to establish a pure-bred Simmental suckler herd as part of a major breed evaluation project in association with the British Simmental Cattle ...