Origin And History Of Brangus Cattle

Loveable rogue sadly missed

Thomas John George Nadin

September 3, 1991

July 26, 2011

In Praise of Tom was read by James Koster in the service of the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Warren on August 10.

We all have a history of Tom Nadin and they are all memorable.

One of my first memories of Tom, is a bare two years, standing on the porch "Weon" director John sheep dog "Trim" on the finer points of gathering the cat in the tree.

It certainly was not worried about the cat, but very serious about how the dog was working. Content Trim had done a good job, Tom would reward him with eggs from the refrigerator.They were good friends.

Thomas John George Nadin exploded in life September 3, 1991, at Warren Hospital, the first child of John and Robyn. It was a small-beloved son to Bob and Margaret Ashney, and John and Jocelyn Nadin, a nephew Leiza and Mark, Kym and Warren, Jane and Peter, Shana and John, Brett and Jennifer, Kate and Rob, and Doug and Kath, and a beloved cousin for all of their children.

Tom was a beautiful baby with dark hair and olive skin. These characteristics with its beautiful smile and infectious personality has become his trademark.

When Tom was two years old, William was born on Tom's delight.Trim was a great companion, but a brother was better. In 1997, Thomas started school at St Mary, Warren, just in time for Robyn James was born this year.

It became clear very quickly that Tom was extremely intelligent. His personality combined with voluntary honesty kept clean all the teachers on their toes. A teacher told John and Robyn Tom was the reason, she continued to turn up.

Rob and John embraced the spirit of Tom. Rather than trying to change it and make him respect, they celebrated their individuality.

Tom is an active child, it was natural that he was good at sports.He showed the ability in all sports especially swimming being under-11 champion, while St Mary. It has never failed to bring home pockets full of tapes sports carnivals.

Clearly, Robyn and John did not have enough to keep them busy with Peter to come along in 2000 and Grace in 2002.

In 2003, Tom started the year 6 to Tudor House. There he found a whole new world. He had a lot of fun, lots of new friends and left lasting impressions. One of his teachers wrote about his teddy bear farewell - "Dear Tom thank you for the laughter and gray hair!

Argentina promotes meat production with subsidized loans — MercoPress

The government will pay 6 percentage points of the interest rate on the five- year loans, bringing the financing cost to producers to between 8% and 9%, Agriculture Minister Julian Dominguez told reporters when announcing the plan.

That's sharply lower than market rates and is an even better deal for ranchers and other meat producers considering Argentina's steep inflation, estimated by economists at about a 25% annual rate.

That inflation, and a severe drought in 2009 which led ranchers to trim cattle herds, caused local meat prices to soar, more than doubling over the last year.

As a result, per capita consumption of beef has dropped over 15% from a year earlier, according to the beef chamber Ciccra. Argentines are now eating an average of 57 kilograms of beef a year, still one of the highest rates in the world, but below neighbouring Uruguay.

Now many ranchers are getting back into the business after the government lifted price controls. But it will take years to rebuild the herds, with production levels not getting back to normal until 2014, according to Ciccra.

There has also been a big shift to the use of feedlots through government incentives designed to boost efficiency and production by turning grain into meat. Just a few years ago, cattle feedlots were a fledgling industry in Argentina, but now they produce half of all the country's beef, according to the Argentine Feedlot Chamber.

Historically Argentina has had a herd in the range of 55 to 58 million head of prime British breed cattle. However that is believed to be below 50 million currently.

Beef exports have also suffered due to tight local supplies and the high prices for meat sold domestically.

Argentina was the world's No. 3 beef exporter in 2008, when it shipped 655,000 tons, but is expected to slip to eighth place this year with just 300,000 tons, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Feed

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2 Think (#) I am now out of the business, but yes I would use the credit. The depletion of the herds is going to take 5 years to recover, and high time this govt reversed the damage they have caused. The severe drought wasn't the main cause in the drop of herds, it was political mismanagement and maximum price fixing. Brangus are good cattle but give me Braford, way more docile to handle. 5 Think (#) & 9 Pheel (#). I think you will find that most feed lots a run by “pools” and not proper farmers, and I don't consider Grobopatel to be proper farmers. Argentina has always been famous for its range grown beef and so it should remain. “Pools” and Grobopatel do not take matters of human health into consideration. This is a mixed area between humid and dry climate, and only half the land has aptitude for agriculture. So, we have swamps and “cañadones” for planting agropirum and grama rhodes, a bit of festucae sp and clovers. Traditionally, some alfalfa for long-fiber hay. We harvest, process and sell many of the grasses seeds. We also mix corn and sorghum sileage of the whole plant for feeding calves with corn as grain but always on pasture grazing. No hormones. Everything as hi-quality-USA grazing meat standards. Looking for a better future. On the Beef gents - I have not seen one Argentine feedlot that uses hormones to gain growth - hope this becomes law - have seen high production experimentalsystems at Inta in Cordoba - 250 cattle on 50ha Alfalfa etc and in Brazil - 1000 cattle under central pivot Alfalfa. Grassfed is always preferred and breeds like Angus, Hereford, Irish Blacks, Bonsmara and Wagyu produce by far the best beef. However there are intensive systems that maintain beef quality/lower Cholestrol high Omega 6 etc non - maize feed regimes.The future requires more efficient production.Depending on the environment Bos Indicus X British might work for production purposes and hardiness but meat quality is compromised - scientifically proven. There are other hardy breeds that also provides good quality beef. Like Brazils Montana, Salers ( El Thinko thougt you hated the Farmers) Nice topic for a change Tim why dont you buy some Montana Bulls - specially bread for hot humid, harsh conditions by Brazil for Brazil. I think you'll be surprised with both performance and meat quality. Scientifically bread like the Bonsmara by farmers for farmers.Hybrid vigour of thirteen breeds captured. Where I come from Braford and Simbra out perform Brangus. The Brangus breed is not hardy enough and too disease prone, which means more expensive management. However that is obviously debatable. What works for you works.Thinko - I'm not going to fight, your past comments on Argentine farmers were unfair - they contributed the most too Argentina's recovery. All I ask is recocnition and not demonisation. Oligargs - crap! Salers do produce good meat but to claim its better than British cattle is not quite true.Many factors plays a role.The French always chooses French remember? Argentine British genetics is world class - Argentina and Uruguay still claims the best general meat quality both in tenderness and taste. Japans Cobe beef from Wagyu cattle are however the undisputed champions and makes Salers meat look ordinary. Argentina/Uruguay's policy to slaughter at around 350 kg where the rest of the world slaughters at 450kg gives them the edge. Just when I thought we had a nice adult conversation going about a non-conflicting topic the scorpion does what it must do. El Thinko - communism failed the world over, when are you going to admit it? Since when did Argentina farmers in general privatize profits with the exorbitant retentiones and price controls. Where have you been the last couple of years? Only about 5% Farmers are Grobopatels, yet you still generalize? What about the 80% + that owns less than 300ha farmland and struggles? Who destroyed the beef industry and who now at election time socialize resurrection of the beef industry with subsidied loans?

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