CONFIDENCE hasn’t waned for beef cattle genetics in the Central Tablelands with stud stock producers continuing to record impressive results.
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Leading the way was angus powerhouse Millah Murrah, Bathurst, whose sale earlier this month broke the Australian angus on-property bull sale average and also topped at $70,000.
Millah Murrah principals Ross, Dimity and Jane Thompson sold all 95 bulls offered to average $9147, with no lots selling for below $5000.
Topping that sale was Millah Murrah Hercules H250, a 1082-kilogram sire sold to Gilmandyke Angus, Orange, for $70,000 – the highest price a bull has sold for in Australia this year.
Down the road at Karoo Angus, Meadow Flat, principal Annie Scott achieved this spring’s second highest angus on-property sale average nationally of $7288.
Selling a total clearance of 52 bulls, the Karoo sale held last Friday topped at $30,000 for Karoo Regent H135 to commercial buyers the Evans family, “Netheraby”, Walgett.
The Thompson family’s draft of bulls met overwhelming demand from a huge crowd of stud and commercial buyers, surpassing the previous record of $8850 for 80 bulls set by Millah Murrah in 2011.
The pre-sale hype was about lot 21, Millah Murrah Hercules H250.
At 23 months, it was the heaviest bull in the draft at 1082 kilograms, was by Millah Murrah Neutron E78 and out of Millah Murrah Flower E120 – the full sister to the number one ranked feed efficiency bull in the first cohort of the Angus Sire Benchmarking Program, Millah Murrah Equity E123.
When bidding reached $70,000, Hercules H250 was knocked down to Ed Bateman of Gilmandyke Angus, Orange.
Mr Bateman said the Millah Murrah catalogue was the “best line up of bulls I have seen at a sale”, and he (MM Hercules H250) was the “best of the best”.
“The feed conversion potential is of use to us, as it means our clients will make more money, which is what it is all about,” he said.
Auctioneer Paul Dooley said, “it was a record-breaking sale thanks to return clientele because the cattle clearly performed at the top end of the breed”.
Clearly moved by the result of the sale, principal Ross Thompson said the result was “beyond belief”.
