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AKAUSHI – A QUALITY OPTION AT THE TIME OF INSEMINATION

Recognized worldwide for its marbling, the breed makes its way into Brazil and already shows results.
If raw fish is what comes to mind when you think of the words “protein” and “Japan,” it’s time to for you to get to know the Akaushi breed and reconsider. Native to the Land of the Rising Sun, this taurine cattle is known worldwide for the quality of its meat, which has a high degree of marbling.

Improved in the U.S., the breed offers superior tenderness, flavor and succulence. It has been used in Brazil to produce F1 animals, particularly by crossing it with Nellore zebu.

The project started here four years ago when Origine, a pioneer of the breed in the country, began importing doses of semen from Heartbrand Beef of Texas, which holds the right to use Akaushi genetics outside Japan.

The nation’s fast-growing premium beef market has given shape to the initiative, and in June of this year, for the first time in history, six males and two Akaushi females arrived in Brazil.

In October were slaughtered the first batches of medium-blood of the breed. “The Bocchi Group, the cattle ranchers Romildo and Adenilson, entered into a partnership with Origine that resulted in this harvest, which is 2014. The cattle are excellent, the results were very good and the meat was very marbled”, says unit manager, Dijalma Aparecido de Godoy.

Heifers weighed 421 kg, with a carcass yield of 52% and 14.6% in the slaughterhouse, aged between 22 and 24 months, and confined for 78 days. The young bulls, however, weighed 503 kilos and yielded 55%, weighing 18.5% of carcass at the same age, confined for 95 days. The “Sinal Verde” protocol, which was remunerated according to the quality of the carcasses, subsidized 90% of the animals in the lot.

According to Carlos Eduardo Antunes de Oliveira, an agronomist at Fazenda Manah, owned by the Bocchi Group where animals are bred, the performance of Akaushi was similar to F1 Nellore x Angus. “For the 2015 harvest, we are betting on even better results. The cross was tricross, using Akaushi, Nellore and Angus, “he explains.
In Santana do Araguaia, other properties, such as Fazenda Fartura, are alreadY working with the Akaushi breed.

Published: Website Giro do Boi- 28/10/2016

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