The vision to be one of Gippsland’s leading producers of naturally bred Angus seedstock, Anne Marie & Daniel are passionate about producing natural beef products which deliver excellent eating experiences all the while implementing regenerative agriculture practices.
Continuing to join ground breaking industry sires with leading cow families, Merlewood Angus deliver a consistent, market-driven profitable product year on year for discerning Black Angus commercial beef producers looking to maximise returns at market.
Targeting the grass-fed market, our cattle are bred to thrive & achieve maximum results with minimal days on pasture. Our breeding program concentrates on balancing calving ease, moderate frames with fertility, temperament, high growth & structure. Leading industry best practices are implemented at Merlewood Angus & our bulls are sire assured through Angus Australia.
Biodiversity, natural farming methods along with respectful interactions with our animals & land are at the heart of all we do. Client centred partnerships are valued & integral to our mutual success.
All Merlewood Black Angus Bulls are – Registered with Angus Australia | Biosecurity accredited | Fertility tested | Fully vaccinated | Independently structurally assessed | Sold with a 12 month Guarantee.
The product of disciplined, laser focused breeding, Fair-N-Square is built by maternal excellence, longevity and genuine Angus quality.
His Thunder dam is backed by power and productivity from a Myers foundation female who bred first-service A.I. 11 consecutive years.
A sire who offers short gestation length with explosive growth.
Breeders across the country are raving about their Fair-N-Square calves, with comments like “best calves on the farm”, and “the most even line of calves”
Super thick topped and deep bodied with stellar structure, this home bred bull is right at home here in the rolling hills of the Gippsland.
Visual appraisal and eye appeal – all the favoured traditional black angus traits can be found in this bull.
His sons are breeding true to type and his daughters are powerful, thick females with faultless structure.
Check out his birthweight EBV and 600 day weight – did anyone say curve bender !
A standout bull since birth.
Boonaroo Keystone Q90 is quiet, sound and scanned a tremendous amount of muscling and marbling.
Boonaroo Keystone Q90 has calving ease in the top 2% of the breed and growth in the top 3% of the breed.
Boonaroo Keystone Q90 is a top quality bull for any herd looking for a calving ease bull with quality, carcase and muscle in all the right places.
Watch the videoThis sire has it all in one package.
Powerfully built, massive width of loin, strong spine with exceptional muscle pattern.
He has the meat with moderate frame, capacity, easy doing on a strong set of legs & feet that will last
Quirky Q209 is well suited to our Gippsland operators.
A breeding programs’ strength comes from achieving a good balance of proven pedigrees coupled with eye appeal. The data is a great guide when balanced with a visually structurally correct animal.
Watch the videoAn outcross to almost all sires with his data set, Rangeland excels for performance, capacity, and foot quality.
Rangeland is a sire that can add value to many lines of cattle, offering outcross calving ease genetics, with outstanding function and soundness built in.
Rangelands American proof is showing up his outstanding soundness, a bull that can be used with confidence to improve these traits.
His first sons were extremely popular at the 2023 Ellingson bull sale, selling to a top of $160,000.
Outstanding progeny reports from a number of breeders who toured the US in 2023, with a lot of excitement around the quality of his first daughters in production
This sire ticks all our breeding boxes producing progeny we love.
Capitalist daughters are proving to be wide based, long volume & great calving ease.
His sons are long, deep, big muscle, well-structured with great feet.
We purchased a quality LD Capitalist 316 true to type son to add to our stud sire team at the Millah Murrah 2020 Spring Bull Sale.
1st son of a massive volume young cow from the prolific Prue C48 cow line.
His Merlewood born yearling sons are showing spectacular promise.
Progeny from this powerful sire will feature heavily in our 2023 Annual Autumn Bull Sale.
Proven AI Sire with over 8,500 progeny registered in Australia across 300 studs.
Structure, phenotype and docility with a balanced set of EBV’s.
We like our bulls to offer calving & short gestation length but maintain +5 birthweight.
Emperor ticks all our boxes indeed – a rare gem indeed.