{"id":11207,"date":"2021-05-19T21:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arr.news\/?p=11207"},"modified":"2021-05-19T21:51:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T11:51:32","slug":"gentle-giant-takes-grand-champion-title-at-rocky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arr.news\/2021\/05\/19\/gentle-giant-takes-grand-champion-title-at-rocky\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentle giant takes grand champion title at Rocky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mateo managed to knock off the competition and win the ribbon for Australian champion at Beef Australia in Rockhampton last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the 20-month-old Mateo Little Valley Braford bull is headed to Primex and Beef Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Big bull: Fourth generation of the family, Jackson Bennett leads Little Valley Braford Mateo at the stud farm in Stratheden. Photo: Susanna Freymark.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At Doug Bennett\u2019s 360ha stud farm in Stratheden, Little Valley Mateo is unaware of his rank as junior male champ and grand champion but Doug was thrilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRocky is where Brafords started and it\u2019s great to go back and take the title,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mateo comes from a long line of Braford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy dad was the first Braford breeder in NSW,\u201d Doug said.
In the late \u201860s, this was a traditional Hereford area but the breed was prone to eye cancer, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Brafords have smaller calves, more milk and no eye cancer. Little Valley Brafords runs 250 stud cows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe try to keep the quality up. We market from Queensland to Tassie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winning the champion title boosts the selling price of a bull like Mateo. In September Mateo will be up for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMateo\u2019s Dad sold in 2019 for $40,000,\u201d Doug said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another bull previously sold for $42,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mateo is going to be a hard one to beat at Beef Week this year and may bring home another ribbon for Little Valley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Richmond<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This article appeared in the Richmond River Independent<\/em>, 19 May 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mateo managed to knock off the competition and win the ribbon for Australian champion at Beef Australia in Rockhampton last week. Now the 20-month-old Mateo Little Valley Braford bull is headed to Primex and Beef Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191038089,"featured_media":11211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Gentle giant takes grand champion title at Rocky I Australian Rural & Regional News","_seopress_titles_desc":"Mateo managed to knock off the competition and win the ribbon for Australian champion at Beef Australia in Rockhampton last week. Now the 20-month-old Mateo Little Valley Braford bull is headed to Primex and Beef Week.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[703273687,103,36522,36526],"tags":[703273815,703272850],"position":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Mateo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcBp7h-2UL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191038089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11207"},{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arr.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=11207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}