Beef placings compare well

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34106, 19 March 1976, Page 12

Beef placings compare well

On-the-hoof placings measured up well when the carcase and cuts sections of the Canterbury beef competition were judged at the Belfast works of the Canterbury 7 Frozen Meat Company yesterday.

j Mr G. A. Pearce (pictured, ; | middle), of Coutts Island, < won the on-hoof section on i Monday, and one of his two . ! beasts was placed third in . • the cuts section yesterday. 1 ; He is shown with his son 1 ' Geoffrey and Mr C. R. < ' McAuley, the agent who : drafted his cattle. ] Uusually there is quite a 1 variation between the first ]

and final judging. But, I according to the secretary- s manager of the CanterburyAgricultural and Pastoral $ Association (Mr R. A. Mas- t kew), placings were closer t this year than they have 1 ever been. i He complimented Mr A. E N. Parker, the on-hoof judge, for getting four of his placed cattle in the top ten ‘ placings in the hooks and ‘ cuts sections. * Placings yesterday however, were more widespread < when the carcases were appraised and cut up. The winning beef side on ' the hooks was a Simmental- ( Hereford cross steer from < Guthrey Properties Ltd, of Tai Tapu. The runner-up was ( a Murray Grey-Angus cross 1 steer from C. H. Gray • (Waiau). However, placings • were reversed in the cuts section. Guthrey Properties’ steer was not placed in the on-

hoof section, but Mr Gray’s < steer was sixth. Mrs L. E. Pearce’s steer, j which won the on-hoof sec- I tion, gained sixth placing in I the cuts section, the G. A. i Pearce’s steer, the runner-up ! in the same section, was ' seventh. ' Placings were;— O n-h o o k s (Borthwick 1 Cup): Guthrey Properties’ i Simmental-Hereford cross 1, < C. H. Gray’s Murray Grey- i Angus cross 2, R. J. McFadden’s (Belfast), HerefordAngus cross 3. Cuts class (Pyne Gould Guinness Cup): C. H. Gray < (carcase points 78, percentage of boneless cuts, 1 73.5) 1; Guthrey Properties (80 and 69.2) 2; G. A. Pearce i (Coutts Island), Angus (75 and 70.5), 3; R. J. McFadden (Belfast), Hereford-Angus 1

cross (77 and 68.4) 4; R. W. Frost and Son (Rangiora), Murray Grey-Angus cross (75 and 69.9) 5; Frost and Son, Murray Grey-Angus cross (70 and 73.2) 6; G. A. Pearce, Angus (72 and 71.1) 7; Mrs L. E. Pearce, Angus (70 at 69.9) 8; Glenorchy Stud (Rangiora), Murray Grey-Shorthorn cross (72 and 67.7), 9; K. A. McFadden, Hereford-Angus cross (73 and 64.3) 10. The Hereford Breeders’ Association challenge trophy for the highest-placed nominated Hereford in the cuts competition was won by Holstanes Farms Ltd, of Totara Flat. Judges of the hooks and cuts sections were Messrs N. E. Bell and N. Lane, supervising graders of the Meat Producers Board.