Koolang Wagyu - The Stud Founded in 2004 KWA is a small Wagyu stud dedicated to breeding fullblood Wagyu bulls for use with young cattle. Founded using original stock and semen purchased from Westholme and Pasagean, it has grown to a significant scale. With proven bulls produced annually in a spring calving cycle and being used with great success on the associated Clear Hills Angus breeding enterprise it has a number of strong young bulls available. Our bulls are also used over the heifers in our commercial Angus operation with great success. This year we have calved over 80 F1s.
Located at Gurrundah between Gunning and Crookwell in the southern tablelands of NSW, KWA is ideally suited to provide bulls which can assist breeders with extremely good calving results with young heifers. The progeny are well accepted as good marbling animals and have met solid demand even in the tough years of 2008 and 2009.
Koolang Wagyu Beef
The Principals Michael Katz, owner of Clear Hills and the associated property Koolang has invested in the development of the Wagyu industry. He spent many years as a banker dealing with Japan and living in Japan and acquired a deep appreciation of both the quality of Wagyu beef and the dedication and attention to detail required to do business with Japan. He has used this experience to guide the development of KWA. In 2009 he joined the Australian Wagyu Association Council.
Frederique Katz: has been an avid consumer of Wagyu beef since her years in Japan. She has provided guidance and insight into the all important kitchen dimension of meat cooking and flavour.
The Manager
Geoff Cummins is the manager of KWA. He brings 20 years of experience in rural industry in and around NSW and the maturity and responsibility of a strong family background to the operation. Geoff and his wife Gillian have also shown huge initiative in helping to develop the trufferie so that we can work towards our goal of providing the best of the best in terms of truffle and Wagyu.
