Why Choose British Simmental Cattle?
Why British Simmental: The Modern Breed for Profitability
British Simmental cattle are a modern beef breed known for their efficiency and profitability, combining strong maternal qualities with excellent growth and carcase traits. The breed is ranked as the UK's number one continental breed for age at slaughter, a finding supported by SRUC & AHDB’s National Beef Evaluations. Globally, Simmental is the second largest numerical beef breed with an estimated 60 million head across six continents, also boasting Europe's largest pedigree genetic base. British Simmental females are highly valued as "go to" suckler cows, producing milky, long-lasting progeny with excellent fertility and temperament.
What Makes British Simmental a Modern Beef Breed?
What Defines the British Simmental Breed?
What are the Key Traits of British Simmental?
The key traits of British Simmental include its unique quality as a modern beef breed with demonstrable traits of economic importance that bring profitability to beef producers. After fifty years of farming and breeding, it is known for efficient and profitable beef production from grass, combining outstanding milk and maternal qualities with muscle, growth, and carcase traits, all contributing to essential profit. There’s a bright future for British Simmental breeding and genetics in the UK and overseas market.
How is British Simmental Designed for the UK Market?
Why is British Simmental Ideal for the UK?
British Simmental is established as one of the most numerical and profitable beef breeds in the UK industry and with the natural built-in efficiency of being genuinely ‘dual purpose’. Retaining its renowned maternal and terminal traits, continuous breeding and improvement sees the modern Simmental have a distinct British signature with the breed adaptable to all geographies and systems around the UK. It’s a no nonsense beef breed. Easy to look after, efficient, flexible, giving you added value, and with a hard-working ethos that gets the job done.
How is British Simmental Making Its Mark Globally?
What is the Global Mark of British Simmental?
A maternal mainstay and one of the leading terminal breeds in the UK, British Simmental has the largest pedigree genetic base and population in Europe, and at world level is the second largest numerical beef breed, with an estimated 60 million head spread over six continents. The formula is familiar worldwide with the strength of milk and maternal, and beef production at minimum cost, seeing Simmental increasing productivity and adding to profit.
Why are British Simmental Females the 'Go-To' Suckler Cows?
What Makes British Simmental Ideal Suckler Females?
British Simmental is the ideal base line for the modern suckler cow. You get milky, long-lasting, productive females producing fast-growing calves. Heifers and cows are easy to manage, easy to calve, with the breed having excellent fertility and terrific temperament. With versatility and flexibility, putting any breed of bull to a Simmental female will give you fast growing, easy fleshing progeny. See the performance and profit boost of adding Simmental genetics to your breeding females.
Why is Simmental a Leading Breed for Age at Slaughter?
How Does Simmental Perform for Age at Slaughter?
Renowned for its maternal qualities the Simmental breed, SRUC & AHDB’s National Beef Evaluations, has evidenced its terminal strengths for carcase traits and is the UK’s number one ranked continental breed for age at slaughter. This, coupled with its growth advantages, daily live weight gain, and ability to produce beef from grass, sees Simmental’s ability to deliver a green beef product with a reduced carbon footprint, and increased profitability.
What is the Continuous Genetic Improvement in Simmental?
What Genetic Improvements Has Simmental Made?
Continuous breeding and improvement has seen the Simmental breed make significant genetic progress in both Terminal and Self Replacing Indexes over the last 20 years, with breed averages for these indexes increasing by over 50%. The biggest improvements have been in terminal traits such as weaning weight, yearling weight, and finishing weight. Maternally milkiness remains a strength of the Simmental breed where the breed average EBV has also increased by 50% since 2000.
