Calders excel

MEENIYAN dairy farmers Les and Louise Calder are continuing to make their name in the industry, after winning yet another award.
Their cow Calderlea Dolman Faith-ET won the four-year-old class of the South Eastern Australian Semex Holstein Australia On-Farm Competition
recently.
Faith’s dam won her class in 2005 and the Calders were proud of the result.
They had four finalists and all placed in the top four for the state, including the champion and two reserve champions.
“We’re very proud of her (Faith),” Louise said.
“She’s a lovely cow, no fuss and she completed almost 400kg fat as a first calver.
Judge Bill Thompson said Faith was another great dairy framed cow.
“She displayed outstanding cleanness in her bone. She excelled in rump length and the quality of her fore and rear udder attachment is what placed her over the cow in second place,” he said.
The Calders’ Calderlea Pagewire Phyllis was second in the five year old class, and their other animal, Calderlea Stormatic Gracie, was second in the mature class.
Results were announced at Witchmount Estate Winery at Melton.

Award winners: celebrating their success at the South Eastern Australian Semex Holstein Australia On-Farm Competition are, middle, Louise and Les Calder, and Semex’s area manager for South Gippsland Stuart Mackie (left) and general manager Jim Conroy.

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Posted by Sarah Vella on Dec 17 2013. Filed under Featured, Rural News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry