ABOUT US
Circle8Bulls was founded in 1992 by Jeremy Cooper and is currently managed by Jeremy and his wife, Carmen, with assistance from their children Annabelle, Lily, and Thomas, along with strategic support from casual staff. The Cooper family has been breeding registered livestock since 1956.
Our operation is located on the rim of the Southern Highlands and Tablelands, just 1.5 hours from Sydney, Canberra, and the South Coast.
33 years dedicated to performance and phenotype
We specialise in breeding Angus cattle registered with Australian Angus, focusing on producing females and bulls that excel in key traits of economic importance: fertility, eating quality, and sustainability. These traits are highly relevant to the industry.
After 33 successful years of breeding top-quality animals, we have decided to shift our focus. We will hold the first stage of our Angus Female Complete and Final Dispersal Sale on March 27.
WHY Circle8 BULLS?
- All animals have Parent Verified (PV) pedigrees up to six generations.
- All animals have 50KHD (ANGUS GS) powered EBVs, which combined with PV delivers the highest level of accuracy and pedigree assurance available.
- You can’t change what you don’t measure! If it can be measured, we measure it and report it!
In our breeding program we focus on:
Structure and type -
We understand that bulls need to look like bulls and need to be true to the Angus type.
Balanced data - We don’t breed for extremes in any particular trait. We breed bulls that excel in all key economic traits, particularly fertility and eating quality.
Customer service - If there is a problem, we will fix it! All bulls are delivered for free. Your success is our priority. There is no "I" in team!
Incredi-bull feed efficiency with Circle 8 Bulls
by Jeanette Severs
Jeremy Seaton-Cooper, stud principal of Circle 8 Bulls, has welcomed the opportunity to add feed efficiency to the performance data he uses to breed his cattle. Jeremy believes it will add value to the data he already collects at Circle 8 Bulls, including birth weights, weaning weights, fertility, maternal and carcase data. The last includes ultrasound scanned and actual chiller room carcase data. A set of weigh bars at the water trough will enable weights to be regularly recorded during the trial.
Jeremy expects to use the feed efficiency system to initially gather data about his replacement heifers, eventually evolving to a whole herd recording approach, including bulls and steers. He said the value of undertaking feed efficiency trials on his farm means he will soon be able to identify the most feed efficient animals in his herd.
“We at Circle 8 Bulls are very aware of our social license. People want cattle to be raised with empathy and in a format that has a minimal footprint from an environmental standpoint" says Jeremy. The Wagyu breed is in a luxury beef space and has traditionally relied on a long feeding grain regime. The only way to reduce our footprint under those circumstances is to measure and identify animals that have a reduced intake but have high marbling outcomes. We then use these animals to breed forward. If we can design an animal that produces an optimal marbling outcome for a particular market with less inputs, it’s a no-brainer to pursue that goal,”
Jeremy already collects a vast quantity of performance and carcase data from his own enterprise. He tells me “This year we are investing heavily to collect carcase data from the F1 progeny of our Wagyu bulls joined to Angus cows. It’s a significant investment and it will increase the accuracy of our Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs) on our bulls, upwards of 20 per cent. It will give our customers a higher level of confidence to select bulls. It will also give us a huge advantage over our seedstock competitors in a very competitive space.”