OUR STORIES

COPLEY PASTORAL FIELD DAY

Curious Minds, Profitable Herds

Saturday 12 April 2025 *SOLD OUT*

Our Field Day is currently sold out, if you would like to attend please send an email to [email protected] and we will do our best to accomodate you! From Herd Nerds to Profit Pros and the Curious World of Family Beef Businesses, this free event will cover a wide range of topics including bull selection, genetic analysis and tick resistance. Speakers include Professor Ben Hayes and Ian McLean. We are very excited to welcome you! Read more about our speakers below. 

Copley Pastoral Field Day 2025

UTILISING EBVs FOR PROFITABILITY

Queensland Country Life

9th March 2025

Following the Cattle Australia Update and BIN Project Field Day near Wandoan, Marie, Tom and Josie spoke with Neave Duff from the Queensland Country Life about what we do at Copley Pastoral—breeding profitable, functional cattle backed by data. We discussed EBVs, genetic selection and how these tools, combined with out management system drive profitability. Check out the full article below.

Josie, Marie and Tom Copley at the Field Day - photo by Neave Duff

COPLEY BULL SALE 2024

Bull Data

Saturday 20 July 2024

The Copley Bull Team 2024 has been selected. Bred here at ‘Salty’ in the ticks and the trees from selected CBV and Copley Sires under commercial conditions, our bull team average in top 5% Brahman Indexes. Discover more about our bulls and their data below.  

Copley Brahman Bulls

ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION EFFECTS

TAS Journal Article

by James Copley et al

James has recently submitted his thesis which examined potential genotype by environment interaction for fertility traits in tropical beef cattle. This paper is the first chapter and investigates the effect of different environmental descriptors on fertility performance of breeding females in the Northern Genomics dataset.

James Copley

TO EBV OR NOT TO EBV

Beef Central Article

by Marie Copley

What does Olympic 1500m swimming, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the Yellowstone TV series have in common? Well Marie’s article featured in Beef Central draws similarities between these themes, in the context of implementing genetic change in your herd. Marie reflects on how sustainable change is incremental overtime, with no silver bullets, but this change is worth making to provide a profitable future, particularly in family beef enterprises. 

Marie and Tom Copley

BREEDING BRILLIANCE BEEF 2024

FarmOnline Article

by Josie Copley

It’s time for commercial beef business in Northern Australia to get curious about herd fertility to improve profitability in their operations. Breeding Brilliance was a forum that did just that! In conjunction with CBV, LCL, GEG and IVV Polls the event offered an opportunity for producers to engage with industry leading reproductive scientists, geneticists and agribusiness professionals. Josie’s article, featured in FarmOnline highlights the key themes and messages from the day.