1. History<br />Scotland<br />3629025962660The Aberdeen-Angus breed was developed in the early part of the 19th century from the polled and predominantly black cattle of North east Scotland known locally as “doddies” and “hummlies”. In 1553, the counties Scottish Aberdeen and Forfar, part of which was known as Angus, proved the existence of a type of cattle rustic, mocha with black or red fur.<br />The earliest families trace back to the middle of the eighteenth century but it was much later that the Polled Cattle Herd Book (1862) was published and The Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society (1879) was founded, originally known as the Polled Cattle Society.<br />-152400422275The breed’s establishment was entirely due to the efforts of three very progressive lairds and farmers of that time.<br />Hugh Watson became tenant of Keillor Farm in Angus in 1808. He gathered stock widely and produced cattle of outstanding quality and character. <br />-952547625McCombieWilliam McCombie took the farm of Tillyfour in Aberdeenshire in 1824 and founded a herd from predominantly Keillor bloodlines. His well documented close breeding produced outstanding cattle that he showed widely in England and France. The reputation of the Aberdeen-Angus breed was founded on the efforts of the McCombie family. <br />471487522860Sir George Macpherson-Grant returned to his inherited estate at Ballindalloch, on the River Spey, from Oxford in 1861 and took up the refining of the breed that was to be his life’s work for almost 50 years. <br />Macpherson-GrantThe work of these three pioneers spanned a century, since when Watson began operations in 1808, Macpherson-Grant died in 1907<br />-9525021590By line breeding and selection for type, these early pioneers established the foundation for what is arguably the greatest beef breed in the world. <br />In those early days Britain was regarded as the fount of Aberdeen-Angus genetics and leading world breeders came here to source stock. The export market has continued to favour the Aberdeen-Angus breed and now breeders look worldwide to source the very best genetics.<br />Australia & New Zealand<br />279082516262352786380416560First Angus cattle arrive in 1875 to New Zealand by the New Zealand and Australian Land Co. Included were three bulls and four cows. Second shipment of two bulls and three cows arrive in 1883. The New Zealand Aberdeen Angus Cattle Breeders Association was inaugurated in Hastings in 1918. In 1969 the Association changed its name to The New Zealand Angus Association. The Angus Society of Australia was founded in 1922. <br />Argentina<br />In 1879, the landowner Carlos Guerrero was the first Argentine to enter the country animals Aberdeen-Angus pedigree pure enrolled in the English Herd Book, the bull quot;
Virtuosoquot;
and heifers quot;
Aunt Leequot;
and quot;
Cinderella.quot;
<br />2409825375285A great boost for the race meant the foundation on September 18, 1920, the Corporation of Aberdeen-Angus Argentina (today, Asociación Argentina de Angus). The pedigree copies are registered in the Herd Book Argentina since 1901.<br />U.S.A.<br />3829050511810The first Angus cattle were imported into the U.S.A. in 1873. George Grant, a Kansas rancher wanted to develop the Angus as his primary breed and introduce it to the region as an ideal beef option but the heavy importation of Angus cattle direct from Scotland followed, at its peak 1200 cattle were brought in from 1878 to 1883.<br />The American Angus Association was founded in Chicago, Illinois, on November 21 in 1883, with 60 members. Its original name was shortened in the 1950s from the American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' Association.<br />These are the first Countries and Societies who trusted in Aberdeen Angus Cattle as motor for regional development and are now the main providers of breed genetic worldwide.<br />
