We were thrilled to welcome visitors to our property on March 26, 2021, to unveil our new cattle yards and sale complex, leading in to our 2021 JAD Speckle Park Bull + Female Sale. The atmosphere was magic, the weather perfect, and the cattle were our best offering yet. A huge thank you to our family and friends who rallied to help ensure the venue was complete in time for our sale day. It really did come down the wire, with iron being screwed on doors on the eve of sale day!! Argh! We were overwhelmed and humbled by… Continue reading →

We purchased Maungahina Promise P194 (MAU P194) at the 2020 Maungahina Speckle Park Sale for NZD $35,000 - a New Zealand record for a Speckle Park bull. We saw Promise when we visited the McKenzie family in January 2020, and he was both Justin and Amy's "pick" of the draft. Continue reading →

We would like to sincerely thank everyone who supported our second annual JAD Speckle Park Bull + Female Sale on March 27, 2020. What a rollercoaster of a week leading up to sale day! We went from planning to have our sale at the same location as last year – at “Dulcidene”, Dubbo – to completely relocating our sale to our property, “Greenvale”, Yeoval, due to health concerns around the rapidly-expanding coronavirus pandemic, and the knowledge that AuctionsPlus online bidding would play a massive role in this year’s sale. Continue reading →

Would you be interested in AI'ing half of your females to our Speckle Park sire, Minnamurra Montezuma M25 (MPC M25)? Would you be interested in receiving the semen to do this for FREE, in return for weaning weight data and feedlot entry/kill data? We are conducting this trial to gather more data about Speckle Park cattle in a commercial environment. We are looking for herds that will utilise 100+ straws of semen in one AI program, with 50+ to be donated by us. If this is of interest to you, read on... Continue reading →

We were thrilled to host highly-regarded educator, Dr Jason Trompf, and Chris Mirams, on February 14, for a Bred Well Fed Well Workshop. We first started working with Dr Trompf more than a decade ago, when Justin managed Kerin Poll Merino Stud, and so it was particularly special to cross paths once again and this time for a cattle workshop. Continue reading →

When we established JAD Speckle Park, we elected to do so by importing the very best embryos we could source from Canada and New Zealand. This may be the more expensive route, however we wanted to access new and exclusive genetics that truly expressed our unique vision for the Australian beef industry and Speckle Park's role in it. We have that foundation herd in place now, and are strategically investing in live animals in New Zealand and Canada to add to this base. Continue reading →

The countdown for our first bull and female sale, on March 29, is well and truly ON! We are gearing up to fat and muscle scan bulls and females on January 24, and also on that day we will collect a 600-day weight for BREEDPLAN, and Dick Whale, from Independent Breeding and Marketing Service (IBMS) will cast a critical eye over our 2017-drops for structural soundness, utilising the Genetic Type Summary (GTS) and Structural Assessment System. Continue reading →

We took part in our first Southern Beef Week Open Day, on Wednesday, August 1, 2018. We had on display our 2017-drop ET-bred bulls and heifers, as well as a selection of F1 Speckle Park/Angus females with and without calves at foot (still PTIC), as well as recip cows with the first of this year's ET-bred calves at foot. Continue reading →