By Agencies
Zimbabwean Brahman cattle breeder Morgan Sibanda’s three-year-old bull Noble has scooped an agricultural top award at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo, joining its original family tradition of producing champions.
The coveted bull, with American origins, was voted the best, in yet another show of pedigree and genetic superiority at highest levels.
At the Zimbabwe National Bull Sale 2022, the beast, the first progency of the dominant and famous United States BRC sire Noble V8 458/7 in the country, closed a fierce bidding war at US$16 000. After that private offers came; one at U$30 000, but Sibanda, who runs a Brahman ranch in Beatrice, 75km south of Harare along the Beitbridge Highway, rejected them. It is now valued US$50 000.
Sibanda, a businessman and architect by profession, started his Brahman project in 2015 and imported most of his cattle from South Africa. He then bought Noble semen from the US and produced his own champion. The Brahman is an American breed of zebuine-taurine hybrid beef cattle, with Indian origins.
