Farmer’s Weekly – 30 August 2019

ARC NATIONAL SPECIAL PERFORMANCE TEST CLASS

Sponsored by the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development

This very popular award category has been presented for over 40 years, and rewards bulls with

exceptional performance traits. Only bulls that were awarded gold or silver merit certificates during

standardised growth testing (Phase C) of the National Beef Recording and Improvement Scheme

during 2018 are eligible to compete. Residual feed intake (RFI), a trait that describes a bull’s ability

to efficiently make use of feed, is also considered should the relevant information be available.

Only one bull per breed is selected to act as a representative of his breed in terms of

performance and functional efficiency. Bulls are not adjudicated across breeds. As such, every

bull awarded in this category is the overall winner within his participating breed.

Table 1 lists the 18 winning bulls in this category, along with their respective

performance figures. Congratulations to all the winners!

Table 1: ARC National Special Performance Test Class

Breed

Bull ID

number

Date of

birth Centre tested

ADG FCR

RFI

Adjusted

shoulder/

*hip height

(mm)

Adjusted

body

length

(mm)

Adjusted

scrotum

circum.

(mm)

g ind kg/kg ind Height Length Scrotum

Afrikaner SS 17 0050 01/12/2017 Glen 1 665 124 6,24 104 - 1 226 1 383 285

Afrisim JJ 17 0001 01/07/2017 Irene 1 881 118 6,43 104 - 1 205 1 406 354

Beefmaster BC 17 0508 27/02/2017 Winter Castles 1 882 116 5,09 117 - 1 193 1 330 359

Boran JH 17 0120 26/11/2017 Irene 1 406 116 5,48 115 - 1 116 1 280 274

Brahman BBS 17 0713 09/04/2017 Vryburg 1 549 119 5,50 117 -2,351 *1 331 1 484 323

Braunvieh LT 17 0004 20/12/2017 Glen 1 951 110 5,82 104 - 1 204 1 485 337

Charolais DS 17 0278 11/09/2017 Glen 1 940 101 5,54 100 - *1 311 1 484 328

Chianina D 17 0139 21/12/2017 Vryburg 1 640 95 5,74 108 - 1 347 1 492 340

Dexter JD 17 0010 23/08/2017 Sernick 1 611 103 5,57 107 - 1 126 1 406 280

Limousin XRL 17 0008 17/08/2017 Vryburg 1 764 113 5,62 115 -1,87 7 *1 275 1 456 331

PinZ^2 yl PZ 17 0395 20/11/2017 Irene 1 742 123 5,77 116 - 1 203 1 356 317

Romagnola FPC 17 0003 19/08/2017 Sernick 2 013 109 5,2 109 - 1 261 1 454 316

SA Angus (Black) FG 17 0583 26/7/2017 Western Cape 2 219 116 4,51 124 - *1 258 1 470 368

SA Angus (Red) SK 17 1697 10/10/2017 Winter Castles 1 819 112 5,88 107 - *1 217 1 441 334

Santa Gertrudis M 17 0063 30/11/2017 Vryburg 2 050 127 4,91 122 -0,864 *1 273 1 397 313

Simbra WC 17 0068 02/10/2017 Irene 1 992 114 5,50 113 -1,245 *1 303 1 484 305

Simmentaler WC 17 0049 10/09/2017 Irene 2 525 122 4,41 117 -1,328 *1 280 1 387 355

Sussex NJB 17 0034 03/05/2017 Vryburg 1 908 109 5,33 110 - *1 185 1 162 343

*Adjusted hip height (mm) only. Tuli TT 17 0020 2 7/0 7/2 0 1 7 Winter Castles 1 484 104 6,03 107 - 1 200 1 327 294

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6 farmer’sweekly 30 august 2019

Rouxville, Free State

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Jacquies Steenkamp