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What's your beef?

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Last Updated: Monday, 18 August 2008

 Watch the video of Harry Lawson.

Harry Lawson (pictured at right with his wife Ruth), owner of beef stud Lawson Angus, share his secrets of success.

Lawson has applied years of study about genetics and animal production – and good marketing – to the Angus beef herd he inherited from his father, to become one of the most successful Angus studs in Australia.

It started as 560 hectares of rabbit-infested bush at Yea in country Victoria. It’s now the largest seed stock business in the country.

 

  

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