Barossa Angus

26/08/2026

I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to John Stika last year at World Angus Forum in Brisbane. This article is an excellent insight into understanding how to create and maintain a food brand. At the heart of it lies the need for producers to rally behind a brand flag and work towards it and maintain it.

For as long as the brand has existed, use of the iconic CAB logo has been heavily restricted, reserved almost exclusively for promotion of beef products that meet brand quality specifications.

20/03/2026

Each year, I find balloon bits in our paddocks here at Mount Crawford and caught a bull calf having a ‘snack’ on this one. We must be on an Adelaide flight path. And as you may know, they don’t come out the other end. Which means they take up a space in a cow’s stomach. It might seem lovely to let them go but what goes up must come down! And cattle aren’t always the most sensible of creatures. Please don’t let them go!

30/12/2025

Recently, our local grazing group, Barossa Improved Grazing Group released the findings of a three year study on the cost benefit analysis of ewe containment feeding, supported generously by Meat & Livestock Australia through their PDS project programme. The study was managed by one of our terrific technical facilitators, Deb Scammell. If this study is of any interest to you, please visit the BIGG website (https://biggroup.org.au/ewe-containment-areas/) which contains a stack of support documentation plus a link to the final MLA report. In the meantime, enjoy the video. https://youtu.be/6ggeSbR0a-k?si=CagCJdptPklDGcZV

Barossa Improved Grazing Group (BIGG) Technical Facilitator Deb Scammell give's a short overview of the cost benefit analysis undertaken by John Francis, Agr...

26/11/2025

It's with great sadness that we have just found out that our vet, Dario Mendoza has passed away. Dario had been battling leukemia for some time and in true Dario style, fought it valiantly. An exceptionally private man, he was not one to share the battle. Dario was beyond just being an exceptional cattle vet who made an enormous difference to our business but one of the good guys who's company we always enjoyed. Vale Dario.