About Us

The Wattletop program is an evolving entity that revolves around people,the land and environment and of course the cattle. It is carried out with integrity and with a passion that only seedstock producers will understand, when calves are tagged on minus 11 degree mornings or during snow storms or when deadlines have to be met with printers or for breedplan runs.
It is all worthwhile when the results of the genetic progress can be seen in the cattle in the paddock and more importantly in the feedback sheets of our commercial clients The Wattletop Angus herd is run on the 3114 acre Property “Wattletop” situated 18 kms East of Guyra. The cow herd consists of 450 breeders and 150 replacement heifers with 100 of the cows being commercials used in embryo transfer programs. Bulls are backgounded at Stratton, 23kms west of Guyra. Wattletop Angus is run by Lock Rogers and his family and staff of two.

The History of Wattletop Angus Stud

The Wattletop Cow Herd was established in 1983 when the dissolution of the White and Bell Partnership made a portion of the Glenavon herd available to Trish and Lock Rogers at Wattletop.The Glenavon Angus herd’s origins date back to the importation of Angus cattle from Scotland by the White Family of Edinglassie in1888. FJ White brought his Angus herd to Saumerez, Armidale where they were run as well as at Bald Blair, Guyra.The Bald Blair Angus Stud was registered by HF White in 1908.

In 1949 the Glenavon Stud was formed when FG White and his sister PM Bell took their share of the Bald Blair herd. The original Wattletop registered herd consisted of 55 HBR and APR cows which were initially used to breed bulls for the Wattletop commercial herd. 30 bulls were catalogued at the first Wattletop on property sale in1990 (which was a helmsman auction). At the 2006 Sale, Wattletop sold 130 bulls averaging $4712 topping at $20000 twice. In 2001, 82 bulls sold for the tremendous average of $6421.