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A Charbray-cross steer, from ‘Arakoon’, has taken out a top Ekka award\u00a0(Photo: Duncombe family)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

August 4, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

A better season, which allowed their steers to run on oats, has led to a Runnymede family taking out a prestigious champion carcase award at the Ekka.<\/p>\n

Bernie and Christelle Duncombe have a 7500 acre property, ‘Arakoon’, on Manumbar Road as well as a property at Johnstown where they mainly run their breeders.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0JBS Australia Grass-Fed Japan Ox Chilled Beef carcass competition is one of the few Ekka competitions that could still go ahead, despite the Brisbane lockdown.<\/p>\n

The Duncombes delivered two pens of six Charbray-cross steers to JBS Australia’s Dinmore abattoir on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The competition results were confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Duncombes, who have been running cattle at Runnymede for about 20 years, earned a second in the Pen Of Six competition.<\/p>\n

But one of their steers was judged top carcase.<\/p>\n

Bernie told southburnett.com.au<\/strong>\u00a0he was surprised by how fast the results had come through.<\/p>\n

He said the family only enters competitions if the conditions were right.<\/p>\n

They also entered cattle in the recent Gympie Carcass Classic, where they had the High Point Limousin; came fourth in the\u00a0Most Suitable Carcass for the Domestic Market class; and were fifth in the\u00a0Best Aggregate of Three Carcasses, behind entries from Chris and Hayley Heness, from Goomeri; and the\u00a0Franz family, from Manumbar.<\/p>\n

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Bernie and Christelle Duncombe’s cattle had the opportunity of grazing on a great crop of oats (Photo: Duncombe family)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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