Between the Brahman BIN and Northern repronomics project to date close to 2600 steers have been killed and data collected. Most of these cattle have been processed at the TEYS Australia Biloela meat plant. Collecting this information and an inch thick striploin sample of each carcase can be quite an imposition on a meatworks day to day operation. The staff at Biloela have always been more than co-operative and obliging.

In 2024, Brian Pastures BIN steers (Cohort BP 22) have been some of the best that we have processed to date. Ninety nine percent of these steers graded M.S.A.

These steers averaged 324 kg with 10 mm of fat predominantly 2 teeth with only four, 4 tooth steers.

Thirty eight percent of these steers were in the premium range of 54.5 index or better with the highest M.S.A. index being 56.55. This is a significant result as originally Brahmans weren’t supposed to achieve indexes over 54.5.

Two out of three processors would have accepted 96 percent of these steers into their premium grassfed programs.