WITH Sydney’s Royal Easter Show stud beef judging over for another year, it’s opportune to have a look at trends in selections among the interbreed stud beef winners over time.
The nation’s three largest stud beef competitions – Sydney and Brisbane’s annual Royal Shows and Rockhampton’s triennial Beef Expo, last held in 2022 – all hold interbreed competitions of different types. Some use a single judge to make the selection, others user a sub-panel of judges, and still others have used the entire panel of judges officiating in the stud beef judging rings.
What’s clearly…
