Needmor takes out CQCC top prizes 2018

The most successful exhibitor was the cherry on top and the champion grainfed carcase alongside a slew of class wins (grainfed single steer or heifer, first place, and grainfed pen of three trade steers or heifers, first place) certainly weren’t putting a dampener on their evening. 

Entered under the Needmor Family Trust name, Mr Mylrea and Ms Smith said they were stoked with the outcome of the night. 

Hailing from Rookwood, Gogango, the duo are mostly known for their stud Droughtmasters and said it was great to see their commercial cattle winning too. 

“It feels great, it’s a bit of foreign territory but it feels great,” Mr Mylrea said. 

“I’ve seen a lot of people go up there and get the prizes but this time it was nice to be us.

“We’ve won some places and have got a few prizes over the years but we’ve never really done this well before.” 

The difference this year was clear with cattle entered in the grainfed section, which they only did because they had grainfed cattle for Beef Australia 2018.

“It was a case where we had those grainfed cattle leftover to be killed,” Mr Mylrea said. “We don’t normally have any grainfed cattle, so it was nice to be eligible in those classes.

“They were fed at Duaringa Station and Sarah Donovan and Mark Howard did a fantastic job.” 

Their competition cattle were Droughtmasters or Droughtmaster/Charolais-cross and all bred on forest country, grown out on buffel grass, plus finished in the feedlot. 

“We generally have grassfed cattle but we had none this year, there was just a bit much happening so we stuck with the grainfed and that went well.”

The Needmor Family Trust operation runs between 800 and 900 breeders including 200 stud females.