Seriston Pastoral Co.

Seriston Pastoral

Seriston is a four and a half thousand acre property owned and managed by Anthony Hurst. Seriston today runs 500 White Suffolk stud ewes, 150 stud Suffolk ewes, 1500 commercial ewes, 400 Shorthorn cows, 100 Angus cows.
Seriston also trades around 1000 cattle a year and feedlots up to 16,000 prime lambs.

Seriston has evolved from the Lake Hawdon family enterprise established by Ken Hurst in the late 1940’s. Lake Hawdon is still renowned for their Shorthorn cattle and prime lamb production.

Seriston is a progressive mixed farming operation situated at Lucindale in the south east of South Australia. It specialises in producing both stud and commercial seed stock to the sheep and beef industries.

Seriston White Suffolks and Suffolks produce 300 stud and commercial rams annually. Seriston beef produces 400 weaners annually for the retail, backgrounding and restocker markets.

White Suffolks

The Seriston White Suffolk flock commenced in 1990 with ewes from Allendale and in 1995 select ewes from Valma were added.

Very few ewes have been added since, but introductions of leading performance sires from all states of Australia have been undertaken regularly over the years.

Seriston is now running 500 stud ewes plus 400 commercial White Suffolk ewes.

Commercial White Suffolk ewes are run in conjuction with commercial sheep and cattle enterprises, turning prime lambs annually.

We also finish several thousands lambs through a feedlot when markets are suitable, giving us a better understanding of market requirements and genetic make-up.