AUSTRALIA-Vet handles 20,000 cattle a week.
TONY Haynes, Northern Veterinary Services Darwin, can process up to 20,000 head of cattle a week for the live export trade.
Tony, a vet, is contracted by Wellards Rural Exports to administer a vaccination and a pour-on insecticide to every beast exported by the company across Northern Australia.
In 2008 the company exported 225,000 cattle with 75,000 head exported through the port of Townsville.
He believes the live export trade for 2009 is looking good as the demand for Australian cattle is still strong in Indonesia.
"There is also great potential for the Malaysian and Philippine markets to develop, particularly if the monetary exchange rate begins to favour those countries," he said.
Tony was born in Murgon and moved to Hughenden in 1994 after graduating as a veterinary surgeon. Here he met and married his wife Michelle from Charters Towers.
In 1996 he moved to the Northern Territory and established the Northern Veterinary Service. They now have two children; Jack (8) and Brooke (6).
Value adding to his veterinary skills, Tony has set up the NVF Brahman Stud on his property, Riverview, outside Darwin where he runs 200 stud cows and several bulls.
At the recent Big Country Brahman Sale in Charters Towers he purchased the top priced bull of the sale, a Pioneer Park Brahmans bull, Pioneer Park Carfax 495 for $42,000 and several high quality heifers.
Riverview has been set up as an artificial breeding facility capable of embryo capture and transfer and semen harvest for straws from his stud bulls.
*Special live export report in this week’s North Queensland Register, out Thursday.
