Orcadia Park Syndicate - pictured at 19 months.

 History

• Monterey Murray Grey Stud was founded with the purchase of a line of females from the Arumvale Stud dispersal in 1976. The quality of these foundation breeders gave us a solid base on which to build the herd. Further select females were added, mainly of The Glen breeding, from the Margaret River, Staple Farm, Illawong and Rockliffe Studs.


Cadella Park Anson- by Thologolong Snowman out of The Glen Eve 2nd. Pictured at 2 1/2 yrs. DOB - 1/12/71

•We have strived to develop a broad genetic base and in doing so have absorbed the nucleus of two of Western Australia’s foremost Murray Grey herds in Wandena and Koojan Hill. We have also purchased an excellent line of mature cows from the Bundaleer Herd. The quality cows from these three herds give us lineage to some of the breed’s elite foundation females.

• There have been many sires used over the past 25 years, but those whose influence stand out most include Wandena Beau, Wandena On Time, Cadella Park Anson, (sold to NZ for $15,000 and was later Breed Supreme at NZ Royal), Cadella Park Longfella (Senior and Grand Champion Perth Royal and sire of many Wandena cows), Orcadia Park Syndicate and Lochaber-Braes Diplomat. More recently, our home-bred sires, Marshall, Star Chief, Majestic Lad, Tremendous and Starlight are producing quality stock within the herd and throughout Australia and with semen to NZ, UK, USA and South Africa.

Wandena On Time- pictured at 10 years of age. DOB - 10/5/79

•Artificial breeding has been used extensively for more than 17 years, backed up by the best walking bulls available. Group Breedplan has been used for many years as a tool to compliment and enhance our visual selection and breeding criteria. More recently, embryo transfer programmes have been conducted on some of our elite breeders with encouraging results.

•Monterey has a record "second to none" in performance trials (Kojonup grass fed bull trial, Expo feed efficiency steer trial, and more recently the Vasse feed efficiency bull trial).


Monterey Messiah- Top priced Junior Bull at 1993 National Show & Sale - $13250
•The cornerstones of our breeding program have always been structure, fertility, performance and temperament. Rigorous culling over many years has refined the herd to where today, our herd average is in the top 5-10% across the traits for all animals in the breed on International Group Breedplan.

•Our cattle are bred with our clients’ needs to the forefront- that is, cattle that pay the bills! They must perform and produce sound returns for our clients for us to stay in business. Over the years, our cattle have shown the ability to adapt and thrive in many varied environments- from high rainfall country in Tasmania to tropical Queensland, to dryland areas of WA and SA to the Upper Murray and many varied places between.


One of our earlier sales.

•With 200 stud females currently joined in 2001, and an ongoing ET programme, we are continuing to further improve the growth and efficiency in our herd to meet the demands of future markets.



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