Stockyard’s David Clark, proper, accepts the Dick Stone Trophy for Champion Branded Meat with Dick Stone’s Grandson, Richard.
IF there was an award for consistency of efficiency in branded beef style check competitions throughout Australia, Queensland’s Stockyard Beef would go straight into the Corridor of Fame.
The Hart household’s Stockyard enterprise, pushed by its Kerwee feedlot on the Darling Downs, claimed one other champion beef title on the 2024 Sydney Royal Fantastic Meals Present this week, earlier than incomes the occasion’s Dick Stone* Perpetual Trophy for branded meat grand champion exhibit amongst all meat protein competitions held this 12 months, masking beef, lamb, pork and poultry.
For the reason that Sydney Present began its Fantastic Meals judging awards in 2005, Stockyard has received at least 41 titles, together with championships and varied lessons with its grainfed Angus and Wagyu applications. Add related success at Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth Exhibits and the annual Wagyu Branded Beef judging competitions, and Stockyard is well essentially the most awarded branded beef provide chain in Australia.
This 12 months, it was Stockyard’s Kiwami* Wagyu program (*Japanese for Excellent Excellence), constructed round marbling rating 9+ Fullblood Wagyu fed a minimal of 400 days at Kerwee that claimed the highest Sydney honours.
The entry topped 34 beef samples entered by lots of Australia’s finest identified beef model applications, scoring 94.17 factors, practically two full factors forward of the following highest entry.
“As producers, we hardly ever get the possibility to immediately see the enjoyment of our product, whether or not it’s served in a restaurant or at residence. So, awards like these give us the arrogance that we’re constantly delivering an distinctive product that meets the mark,” Stockyard’s basic supervisor of gross sales, David Clark mentioned.
Stockyard’s enduring success in awards and constant high quality is due partially to its concentrate on genetics, each by way of its personal Wagyu seedstock herd in addition to amongst its suppliers.
This 12 months’s successful Sydney Present Fantastic Meals Awards winner was harvested from a steer bred by the the Christiansen Household from west of Roma in Queensland, who’ve been long-term suppliers into Stockyard Wagyu beef applications, aligning with the corporate’s dedication to sustainable beef manufacturing.
In the identical competitors in Sydney this 12 months, Stockyard additionally earned a silver medal for an entry representing its Stockyard Black program, reserved for Wagyu beef delivering marbling scores 8-9, whereas Stockyard Gold, a 200 day long-fed Angus product earned a bronze medal within the in Grainfed class.
“Competitions just like the Sydney Royal are very important to the Australian meals and beverage trade as they permit producers to benchmark their merchandise in opposition to trade requirements, which then helps drive product high quality,” Mr Clark mentioned.
Sydney Royal Fantastic Meals committee chair Michael Bullen mentioned in recent times, the trade has seen a concentrate on sustainability, productiveness and higher administration practices, and we’re actually seeing this mirrored within the prime quality of meat that Australia. Ninety eight % of branded meat entries this 12 months produced a gold, silver or bronze medal, he mentioned.
Stockyard’s Kiwami Wagyu
Sydney’s different class winners
Amongst different class winners within the Sydney competitors this 12 months, the grainfed beef division was received by Concord Agriculture & Meals Co, Melbourne, with a pattern of the corporate’s Omino Wagyu scoring the category’s solely gold medal.
The grassfed class was received by the Mawhood household’s Sunny Level Pastoral Co, Oberon NSW with a pattern of its Sunny Level Beef program based mostly on Angus genetics.
- Stockyard’s chief government Lachie Hart sits down with Beef Central’s Weekly Grill podcast host Kerry Lonergan to chew the fats subsequent week.
* The late Dick Stone, whose identify the Sydney award bears, was thought to be a pioneer of lotfeeding and branded beef applications in Australia, launching his Oakleigh Barley Beef program in his Sydney butcher retailers within the Nineteen Sixties. Beef was produced within the Stone household’s Oakleigh feedlot constructed close to Canowindra in NSW in 1960.
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