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    AWARD-WINNING COWS AND RECORD-BREAKING BULLS

    Dec 07, 2020 6 minutes
    PHOTOS: JAMES MILLER

    The 31-year-old Winston South Devon (WSD) stud has produced no fewer than seven Agricultural Research Council/ Farmer’s Weekly Best Elite Cows and six Landbouweekblad/SA Stud Book Elite Platinum Cows from a herd that today numbers 340 female animals. This broad genetic base has also produced several South African record prices for South Devon bulls, including three in consecutive lots at the WSD 18th annual production sale on 25 August this year. On the day, JM 18 2535 ‘Winston Incentive’ eventually beat two other WSD bulls to set a new record price of R134 000.

    In addition, the stud has produced four Studbook Bull Growth Test Class and three BLUP Bull of the Year animals since 2010.

    PREDICTION

    James Miller, who returned home in 2016 to farm with his father, John, attributes the stud’s success mainly to their attempts at gauging the influence of new genetics on future cows. “While buying a

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