Commercial beef producer pioneers GeneSTAR

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Ian has been an early adopter of GeneSTAR beef tenderness and marbling testing in a nucleus bull breeding herd for more than three years. "It's a selection tool to help lift our meat quality", he said, "and I think we'll start to see some real improvement in another two or three years and be able to show buyers objective results. "Knowing the GeneSTAR ranking of cattle before joining takes years off a selection process which relies on waiting to see how progeny turn out," said Mr Staines who breeds and finishes predominantly Hereford cattle on several properties in the Guluguba district, south of Wandoan, Qld.