Our business is run by George and Donuil Shawe, their son in-laws Barend Koekemoer and Lenard Küsel, and their daughter Kelly Koekemoer. Our multi-faceted business is comprised of three main areas; a commercial breeding herd, a commercial feedlot and 500 hectares of crops under irrigation. Within our commercial herd we mate 1 800 cows. The female calves are integrated back into the breeding herd and the 600 male calves go through the veld bull test from which we select 150 bull calves. Over the next 2 years these 150 bull calves undergo various tests to ensure that the 80 most fertile, hardy, good quality bulls are selected to go on Auction. After our pregnancy testing, where we average 90 percent, the excess pregnant females are sold on auction. A testimony to the fertility of our herd is the fact that each year we consistently offer 250 – 300 pregnant females on our auction. Our commercial feedlot consists of 1 400 cattle, some of which we take off the farm and some are bought in. We sell 43 fat A grade animals to local butcheries weekly. We plant 500 hectares of crops, a rotation of maize, soya’s and wheat, most of which is under irrigation.