The Cootharaba Beef Genes operation now has it’s headquarters at "Cooroora", 17 km North East of Roma QLD, Australia and is run by Ian and Anne Galloway.
Their seedstock operation involves Herefords since 1926, Poll Herefords began in 1979 and Red and Black Brangus commenced in 1988.
A downscaled cow herd of 400 breeders is run on two properties in the Roma district – “Cooroora” and “Bidarli”.
Twelve months ago we added “The Bell” at Toogoolawah, which has a five kilometer frontage to the Brisbane River where the Galloways run their Brangus breeders.
It has been a huge undertaking to process and manage these different herds of cattle - we are able to do this with the separation of properties. In our ‘simplified’ lives we are concentrating on Brangus - red and black and Herefords – horned and polled.
We now market around 80 bulls privately annually and females are also for sale privately.
Our steers are our joy and being EU accredited, come back at good money.
We are always trialing the performance of our steers and have been very successful in RNA Paddock to Palate feedback trials (1st and 2nd placings in the weight gain all breeds, averaging up to 3.2 kg/day over 100 days) and taste tests (1st prize Brisbane Royal Show 2005).
Our commercial competition results have been very competitive in the years since then also, with placings in the weight gain and taste tests.
As always, we welcome visitors and love showing you what we do.