High fertility: Rob and Helen Gowland, Sandalwood Cattle Co, with their PTIC Charbray cows. Their fertility rate this year was 95 per cent for all their Charbray cows.
The need for a fertile breed, suited for the rigours of coast cattle production is what led the Gowland family, at Sandalwood Cattle Co, to introducing Charbray into their operations 12 years ago.
Rob and Helen Gowland run 500 breeders, including replacement heifers, consisting of 350 Charbray and 150 Brahman females, over 607ha on their four highly productive ex-dairy farms in Theebine and Gunalda, between the Gympie and…
