Sussex Cattle

As part of a new initiative with Signet, the Sussex Cattle Society will fund the recording costs of any Society member that has paid their capitation fees; effectively removing the financial barrier that may have previously limited smaller herds from engaging in weight recording.

From 2021, data collection services for performance recorded Sussex cattle will move entirely online. Extra data has been provided by the Society to support this work – including the provision of pedigree records for 1,500 stock bulls to strengthen the genetic evaluation and enhance Signet’s cutting edge, inbreeding software.

Amongst the new services provided, breeders are being encouraged to provide cow weaning weights as the recording programme shines a spotlight on the efficiency of the Sussex as a suckler cow designed to thrive on low input forage.

To help with the marketing of bulls, breeders can generate charts and family trees online as before, but now they can also list cattle and semen that they have for sale and produce data in a catalogue format to interest prospective bull buyers.

These video's explain a little more about the initiative and how to submit data online.