Our Company manages a cattle herd of 600,000 head. The AAco breeding program is designed to:
AAco cattle are managed to maintain animal health and productivity meeting strict animal welfare standards.
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AAco have developed two composite breeds of beef cattle. The aim of both composite programs is to improve the profitability of AAco’s herd by replacing their purebred northern herds with composites. This extra profitability is achieved through the composi ... > read more
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AAco accurately measures the performance of the cattle in their bull breeding herds so that they can be statistically evaluated and scientifically compared to each other in order to select the best to breed future generations of bulls.
In their bull b ... > read more
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AAco uses a modern beef cattle breed improvement evaluation system called ‘BREEDPLAN’. This system is developed and operated in Australia, with clients worldwide. Using AAco’s performance data, BREEDPLAN calculates Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs) for a r ... > read more
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AAco’s Composite breeds are vigorously monitored throughout AAco’s entire supply chain from conception through to the consumer’s plate. AAco is constantly comparing their performance against traditional breeds through both carefully designed trials set in ... > read more
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AAco uses advanced breeding technologies in its bull breeding herds including Artificial Insemination (AI) and Embryo Transfer (ET). These technologies allow more progeny to be bred from the best animals that have been identified using AAco’s performance ... > read more
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