Who publishes these rankings
StudRank publishes sale-performance rankings for South African stud cattle breeders. Every figure on the site comes from published society records, result sheets and catalogues: prices from auctions already held, and every other figure from every animal catalogued, including the catalogue of an auction still to come. We do not score genetics, judge animals, or estimate what a stud is worth. What we do is put published results side by side, per season, in nine separate categories.
The operator
StudRank is operated by Fyvie Enterprises (Pty) Ltd, registration 2021/451594/07, of Tregenna Farm, Bergville, 3350. Editorial responsibility for what is published rests with Bradley Fyvie. We are not a breed society, an auctioneer, or an agent for any stud listed on this site, and we take no commission on any sale.
Where the figures come from
Prices are compiled from breed society result sheets and published auctioneer catalogues. Dam inter-calving periods and calving counts come from society herd records, read as they stood on the date of the sale. Animal production figures — birth weight, 205-day weight, cow/calf % wean — come from each animal’s own society record at that same date. Every animal in a catalogue is included in the dataset — sold, unsold or withdrawn, and an auction still to come once its catalogue is loaded — and counts in every non-price figure; price figures count the animals sold. The full source list, and what each source feeds, is set out on the methodology page.
Corrections
Any breeder can query any published figure from their stud page or directly from a ranking row. Tell us which figure looks wrong and what it should be. We reconcile every query against the breed society record and the selling agent’s result sheet. Where a figure is wrong it is restated, and the corrected figure replaces the old one everywhere it appears. We aim to respond within seven days.
Hiding a stud
A breeder may ask for their stud to be hidden. Once we have verified the request against society records, the stud is no longer named on the public site: no page, no name in any table, no photographs or lot detail. It keeps its place. Where it stands in a ranking, that place still shows — as a row carrying the place and the word Hidden, and nothing else — so that no other breeder is moved up a place they did not earn, and a stud that stood 5th of 100 still stands 5th of 100. Its figures still count in the averages, which describe the whole market; the exception is a field of five studs or fewer holding a hidden stud, where the average would give that stud’s figure away and none is printed. Requests are made through the Hide or query button on any ranking row or stud page. To have hidden results shown again, use Contact us at the foot of any page.
Photographs and video
Photographs and sale videos are supplied by breeders. By adding a photograph you confirm you have the right to publish it. Photographs are reviewed before they appear. To have an image removed, contact us at bradfyvie@gmail.com.
Contact
Corrections, queries and results submissions: bradfyvie@gmail.com. Sale results can also be submitted through the Submit auction results button in the site header.
Price is a measure of what buyers paid, not of genetic merit or of the value a bull will return in a commercial herd. Dam ICP and calves per dam describe the dams behind every animal in the published catalogue, not the herd as a whole.