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JUNE/JULY 2008 NEWSEXPORT SUCCESS!We can hardly believe it ourselves, but our first consignment to the European market has finally been despatched and arrived safely – hopefully the first Wagyus to arrive in Ireland are now snug inside some lovely Irish recipients by now and this time next year will be scampering around the Irish landscape to the wonder of the locals. The whole exercise was a saga of red tape and protocol from day one, but perseverance and patience finally won out. The last few days were a bit tense, once the embryos passed their (twentieth) inspection and jetted off for London and thence to Ireland – waiting to hear if they had arrived, worrying about which airport had them, what inspectors worked which day, even how long the liquid nitrogen would last (100 days as it turned out, so our five days travel time was nothing). All ended very happily. Congratulations to all concerned. We did it!
No, it’s not the Tardis, nor is it a Dalek… It’s our tank full of embryos heading off for Ireland! Attention is now focused on the logistics of sending several more consignments to USA, a doddle by comparison. We are also getting down to the nitty gritty of protocols to South America – each South American country has different protocols, so it’s interesting, but still nothing to the nightmare of Eu rigidity. The good bit is, having achieved export to Eu, now we know we can do ANYTHING! Our friends at Austrade helped us distribute some flyers throughout South America recently – see our gallery page for pics of our export donors. We’re very proud of the Spanish translations. We are planning to send some embryos to Colombia to put into recipient cattle there, so we can sell live animals into South America without the problem of export. We are also planning to send embryos to both USA and South America on consignment through an agent. This will speed up delivery times to our buyers, who won’t have to wait for the drawn out export process. QUEENSLAND BULLSA large consignment of our bulls has gone off for a holiday in Queensland. They are stationed now in Texas, on the Queensland border (some of our embryos are going to the other Texas, but it’s not at all confusing!) and this is reducing transport costs to our Queensland and NSW buyers. By all accounts they love it there and are very smug about their brothers and sisters who remained behind in the cold of Western Victoria. HEIFERSOur heifer herd is proving very popular – everyone wants females! However, we need to keep a good range of genetics for our donor herd, which gets bigger as the demand for embryos expands. We have two donor herds now, one for domestic and one for export orders. The export herd are under quarantine and the domestic herd in similar, but less strict, luxury. We nevertheless have a good stock of heifers available for sale. Have a look at our gallery of lovely ladies. MARCH/APRIL 2008 NEWSFAME!How’s this for “out of the blue”!? We were contacted recently by a production company in the UK who are in the process of producing a new show with the notorious chef, Gordon Ramsay, to be shown on UK television this year - “Gordon Ramsay’s F Word”. They will be doing a special episode featuring Wagyu beef and they found OUR website during their research. They want to show the site on their show (that is, one of their presenters will be shown looking at our website - we’ll more or less be background, I would think, not exactly “featured”). They needed our approval for copyright reasons and so on. We had to sign a contract and everything – the princely sum of One Pound has been offered, but I doubt we’ll even see that! Still, fame at any price. Make sure you look out for the show when it goes to air. Good to see Wagyu’s profile is growing… and growing… and f**ing growing! FEBRUARY NEWSBEEF WEEK – SPECTACULAR SUCCESS!Our Open Day at Oasis Collection Centre at Glen Alvie, Victoria, turned out to be a great exercise and we were pleased to meet so many Wagyu aficionados, as well as growers of other breeds who came to look at our strange, exotic animals.
ExportsOur export programs are going very well and our first consignment to Ireland is about leave Australian shores shortly. We were right about exporting to the Eu being not for the faint-hearted, but at last all hurdles seem to have been cleared and there’s nothing between our embryos and Ireland except six more inspections en route! JANUARY - FEBRUARY NEWSStock & Land BEEF WEEK 2008Get a Taste for Wagyu! We are thrilled to be part of this major Beef industry event and in partnership with Oasis Collection Centre, will be displaying our donor cattle and some of our younger bulls and heifers on Sunday February 3rd 2008 at Glen Alvie in South Gippsland. Please see “Beef Week 2008” page for more information, including maps and how to get there. There’ll be free tastings of Wagyu beef!
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