The ALCA Office will be closed for Christmas the close of business on Friday 17th December & will reopen on Tuesday 4th January 2022. Your Executive Officer, Katrina McKemey will be available from 4th January 2021. The ALCA Registrar, Claudia Scott will be available until 20th December and will return on Tuesday 11th January 2022....
Unfortunately, due to the prevalence Covid-19 in the eastern states of Australia, the EKKA in Queensland, Royal Adelaide Show in South Australia & Royal Melbourne Show in Victoria have been canceled. Many of the local shows have also fallen victim to cancellations too. The Feature Show for Australian Lowlines at the Royal Melbourne Show will...
ALCA is recommending that PG’s try Zoom meetings for their AGM’s this year. It is a Covid safe way to meet and network with each other and may allow more members to attend than a face to face meeting. It is quite easy to set up. Only the organiser needs to download the app and...
Entries for the 2021 Royal Melbourne Australian Lowline Feature Show are now open! Please visit the RASV website for the schedule and information on how to enter. It has been 21 years since Australian Lowlines were Feature Breed (at Royal Melbourne) with this year also marking 25 years of the breed being exhibited at Royal...
Stud cattle entries for Beef Australia 2021 are now open! This event only happens once every three years and is the largest cattle exposition in the Southern Hemisphere. In 2018 there were 48 Australian Lowlines exhibited – it may be fewer this year but still a major event and everything cattle will be on...
With the shortage of cattle events due to COVI-19, two ALCA Junior members jumped at the chance to attend a Cattle Camp. Recently Riley Jensen and Tom Smith attended the Brangus Cattle camp in Biloela, Queensland, along with 73 participants aged from 6 to 21 years. They camped together at the showgrounds, were allocated cattle...
The Royal Canberra Show was held on the weekend of 28th – 30th March, just prior to the onset of Government Covid-19 restrictions so this may be the only cattle show for the year. The show was well attended by Lowline breeders from Victoria and New South Wales, with Victoria winning the State Challenge which...
Happy New Year to all. A reminder to all our ALCA Members – All calves born during the year 2020 should be given the Identification Letter of R & the numbers should continue in sequence from your last calf born in 2019. eg. If the last 2019 calf was Q016 => first calf in 2020...
Saturday 28th September 2019 (AFL Grand Final Day) saw the judging of the Australian Lowlines at the Royal Melbourne Show. This year the judge was young Limousin breeder from Finley NSW, Tom Isedale, who was judging at the prestigious Royal Melbourne Show for the first time. The high quality of the Lowline exhibits did not...
With over 50 entries this year’s EKKA, Australian Lowlines showed they are a breed to be reckoned with. Well done to all exhibitors for putting on such a great exhibition of beautifully prepared cattle. Highly-respected judge, Lucy Newham from Cowra, NSW, is the principle of Pandora Murray Grey stud who paraded cattle for Allambie Lowline...