Livestock Breeder in Yuleba

Results 2025 - Ekka

🏆Paddock to Palate Heaviest Individual Weight Gain Steer of 1038 head with an average daily gain of 3.431kg

🏆Paddock to Palate Class 38 Overall Winner-1st Place

🏆Paddock to Palate Class 38B Carcass Competition-Reserve Champion Carcass

🏆Paddock to Palate Class 38B Pen of 6 Carcass Competition-1st and 2nd Place

🏆Junior Champion Heifer-Moongool Alice 13

🥇Heifer 12 to 14 months- Moongool Oregon 15

🥇Heifer 14 to 16 months-Moongool Fanmail 14

🥇Heifer 16 to 18 months -Moongool Alice 13

🥉Heifer 8 to 12 months-Moongool Prime Time 41

🏆Reserve Junior Champion Bull-Moongool Victory

🥇Bull 14 to 16 months Moongool Victory

🥈Female 30 to 36 months Moongool Talent

🥉Female 36 to 60 month’s Moongool Fanmail 12

🏆Reserve Senior Champion Bull-Moongool Under Contract

🥈Senior Bull 22 to 24 months-Moongool Under Contract

🥇Senior Bull 24 to 30 months-Moongool Mr U 774

🥇Breeder’s Group

Since our first conception with the Charolais breed, our focus has been to provide fertile and structurally sound cattle, which of course equals LONGEVITY.

Add growth, softness, adequate fat cover and most importantly the ability to fatten on natural grass at a young age and you have A COMPLETE PACKAGE FOR THE COMMERCIAL PRODUCER.

Because we are both a stud and commercial enterprise we carefully trial and monitor the performance of our entire herd. We have proved that Charolais do far better in all situations than the numerous other breeds that we run here at “Moongool”. It’s always good to receive positive feedback from our many clients.

Results 2024-Beef Australia

-Moongool Tanner (P) received Grand Champion Charolais Bull

-Moongool Tanner (P) received Senior Champion Charolais Bull

-Moongool TAB (P) received Reserve Senior Champion Bull

Breeders Group

Ekka 2024

-Paddock to Plate Competition -Class 37B, JBS Australia Carcass Competition – Reserve Champion Carcass

-Moongool Under Contract (P) received Junior Champion Charolais Bull

-Moongool Fanmail 12 (P) received Reserve Champion Charolais Female

Results 2023 – Ekka-Moongool Slingshot (P/P) received Senior and Grand Champion Bull

-Moongool Trademark (P) received Junior Champion Bull

-Moongool Stagecoach (P) received Reserve Senior Champion Bull

-Moongool Radical 30 Junior Champion Female

2023 Most Successful Charolais Exhibitor at RNA (Ekka)

-Taroom Charolais Feature Show-Moongool Silver Bullet(P) received Grand Champion Charolais Bull

-Roma Show- Moongool Slingshot received Interbreed Male 2023

-Clermont Show- Moongool Trademark received Grand Champion Bull and Supreme Exhibit of The Show

We also had pleasing results at various country shows and won Sydney Royal Show 2018 & 2019 Senior Grand Champion female and Supreme Charolais Exhibit.

Also at Sydney Royal Show 2019 we won the Urqhuart Trophy for Best Beef Exhibit and Hordern Trophy Charolais Team Winner.

We received Most Successful Charolais Exhibitor 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019 at Brisbane Ekka.

Brisbane Ekka 2019 we received Reserve Champion Bull, Reserve Champion Cow, Junior Heifer & Reserve Heifer.

History of Moongool and More About the Price Family

In the 1850s Moongool consolidated holding was composed of the runs of several blocks. In 1884 the “Runs” were consolidated but were not divided until April 1888. T.L.N. Fitzgerald obtained the first lease on one portion of the run and acquired depasturing rights on the resumed portion.

Moongool, which is only 16km south of Yuleba, was purchased by the Price Family in 1954 for 2/6 an acre. It consisted of brigalow, belah, box and sandalwood scrub. Those were the days! Fences were few and far between. Mustering took place most days with a (newspaper wrapped) lunch in the saddle bag. Those pioneering days are gone and we now have a successful breeding and fattening enterprise here at Moongool, where we run a commercial herd of 1400 Charolais cross cows.

Our Charolais Stud was founded in 1985 and now has a registered herd of 1200 females, which run at “Noorindoo”, “Moongool” and “Bookooi”. “Noorindoo” is also home for Ivan and Helen, Iva, Hunter and Tori. Located on the Condamine River between Yuleba and Surat is “Bookooi”. This property is used for backgrounding. Our other property “Leabrae” joins Moongool and this is where we pasture our weaner heifers each year. This area’s annual rainfall is supposed to be 24 inches.

The old people (Ian and Dell) live at Moongool. The other member of our family is Alison (a vet) who has lived overseas for the past 10 years, and is presently living and working in Malawi where she is doing HIV research. Alison will continue her work there for another 2 years.