Larry Gofton

Larry Gofton and family milk 600 cows and run a small feedlot on 1200 acres at Scottsdale, Tasmania. In about 2001 he bought his first Lowline bulls from Mignon stud in an attempt to overcome continual calving difficulties in his heifers.

After using Lowline bulls for five straight seasons, Larry decided he wanted some black baldies from a Hereford bull but had a disastrous result.

“I didn’t get any sleep from the time they started calving,” he says.

“We lost calves. We didn’t lose heifers because I went round them every two or three hours checking.”

“We knew what had happened with them because we had had such a wonderful run with the Lowlines.”

“We calve about 100 two-year-old heifers every year and we put these [Lowline] fellas over them and we have no problems at all,” Larry says.

And is he happy with the offspring and their growth rates?

“Growth rates? Well, put it this way, the growth rate is really good. We have had buyers come here to see Friesian-Lowline cross heifers that we’re about to sell and they wouldn’t believe that they were Lowlines. He reckoned they were Black Poll cross.”

“I can’t speak too highly about the Lowlines.

“We have calved to Black Polls, Poll Herefords, Shorthorn, White Shorthorn, Roan Shorthorn & many other breeds. But we’ve never had the results we’ve had with these Lowlines. They’re great!”