A Family Operated Breeding Company:

Popplewell Composites is a tropical beef seed-stock company operated by husband and wife team Greg Popplewell and Katrina Popplewell. Together Greg and Katrina Popplewell have over 30 years experience in cattle breeding, rural customer service and agribusiness management. Greg and Katrina together have a young daughter, Eve.

The Popplewell Composite bull breeding program was started by assembling proven performance genetics from foundation breeds, being Senepol, Red Angus, Belmont Red/ Bonsmara and Brahman, with a focus on naturally polled genetics. Foundation animals were chosen because of their success in measured breeding programs around the globe including Australia, South America, USA and South Africa.

The program is further strengthened by a performance recording and selective breeding program designed to keep the bulls we sell at the leading edge of the tropical beef industry.

Katrina Popplewell was raised on her parent’s Central Queensland cattle properties and is highly experienced in business management, having held senior positions in major agribusiness companies. Greg Popplewell has many years experience in the Northern Australian beef cattle industry and managing genetics companies. He has been involved in the development of some of the most innovative and successful red meat breeding programs in Australia. Greg also holds a Bachelor degree in Agriculture and a Masters degree in Animal Breeding Management.

Nucleus females run at Katrina’s parents’ property “Granville”, located near Baralaba in Central Queensland. We are grateful to have Gavin and Diane (Arneil) assistance us with our cattle. Granville Charolais bulls and award winning Charolais cross steers are renowned throughout Queensland for their commercial performance. Gavin and Diane’s cattle breeding programs are detailed on their web site www.granvillecharolais.com

Popplewell Composites run a quality controlled network of experienced Embryo Transfer (E.T.) co-operator herds. Embryo Transfer contributes to the program’s high genetic quality and rate of genetic gain, as only the very best females are used as embryo donors.  Our co-operators’ dedicated involvement allows us to produce large numbers of bulls from a small land holding. This operational structure also means we can concentrate on our core business activities, being customer service, measuring cattle to select for genetic gain and quality control.