Solera

Australia is predominantly a dry landscape and as far as the coastal regions are concerned pastures, whilst lush looking, are poor in nutrition. This is a critical issue in bovine breeding. The concept of “Nature Positive” is breeding cattle to compliment the environment. Breeding cattle that won’t only survive Australian conditions, but flourish in them.

In recent times cattle breeders have come to appreciate the value of composites to adapt to specific regions. The corollary is that you can’t have good composites without purebreds that have established stable traits over many years.

Solera are composites between Bos Taurus, Bos Indicus and Bos Africanus combining the best traits in a Trifecta breeding model to adapt to any specific region.

The Bos Africanus breeds have established powerful breeding traits in similar latitudinal regions in Africa as are found in Australia

The introduction of these traits to the well-known hardy breeds in Australia such as the Brahman, Brangus and Droughtmasters are creating a super-breed for arid, temperate and coastal areas in the Australian landscape including traits such as hold potential for production in harsh and fluctuating environments based on their adaptation to the nutritional, parasitic, and pathogenic challenges they are faced with. These breeds are valuable to breeding programs in other regions that face biological stresses such as famine, drought or disease epidemics.

It is these traits that we believe will be an advantage in the Australian climate – we have decided to embark on a study to test the proposition. The name stems from Solera cattle and its Australian environment, SOLERA.

Solera has arguably the highest heterosis of any breed in the world resulting in an average of 93 % fertility rate.