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Sernick receives beef industry award for cattle improvement
Sernick Bonsmara has been awarded the ARC National Beef Cattle Improvement Herd of the year 2016 - a prestigious accolade in the South African beef industry. The award was accepted by Nick Serfontein, chairman of the Sernick Group. "It's a great honour when years of hard work and dedication is recognised, it was a team effort and could not have happened in isolation" says Serfontein.
Nick Serfontein
The purpose of the award is to acknowledge breeders who excel in several criteria related to performance testing, genetic improvement, breeding, and management.
Bonsmara bull, NFS 14 0204 of the Sernick Bonsmara Stud was one of three bulls who were awarded with an ARC National Platinum Bull Award. This category is often affectionately referred to as ‘The best of the best.’ For a bull to qualify for a Platinum Award, it must be bred from a dam that has performed exceptionally well and received an Elite Cow award. Furthermore, the bull should have received a Gold Merit in the ARC’s Phase C test.
The awards were presented by the National Beef Recording and Improvement Scheme (NBRIS) of the ARC and aims to showcase South Africa’s most outstanding achievers, in breeding genetically superior animals by using performance recording as a tool.
