Buyers from five states drive million dollar Palgrove result
Commercial and seedstock producers from five states drove the annual Palgrove Charolais bull sale held last Friday to a million-dollar-plus turnover and total clearance of 138 bulls offered, to produce an average of $7612.
A huge crowd gathered at the stud headquarters selling complex near Dalveen on the Qld/NSW border for the nation’s ‘benchmark’ European breeds bull sale. Buyers attended from across Queensland, Victoria, NSW, the Northern Territory and WA.
The 118 Charolais bulls in the catalogue averaged $8255, while 20 Charolais/Angus hybrid bulls averaged $4725. Overall sale gross was just above $1.05 million.
The $40,000 sale topper was the outstanding 1080kg, 23-month old red factor bull, Palgrove Foreman, (pictured) an ET son from the first calf crop by Palgrove Charm bought by repeat buyers, the Bode family, Percol Plains, McKinlay, Northwest Queensland.
Foreman had an impressive EMA of 144sq cm and is rated in the top 5pc of the Charolais breed for both 200 and 400 day weight, top 5pc for eye muscle area, and top 10pc for 600 day weight. His scrotal measurement was 39cm. Palgrove retained a one-eighth semen share.
In the catalogue comments, the Bondfields rated Foreman one of the best red factor sires Palgrove has produced in the last few years.
His maternal line from the Panache family includes his dam, one of the outstanding cows in the Palgrove herd, producing 23 progeny to date, with previous sons selling to $25,000.
Among the yearling bulls offered, top price of $16,000 was achieved by Palgrove Gunsmoke (P) bought by Barry Bell and family, Bardoo Charolais, Capel, WA.
The son of High Bluff Hank (P) is ranked in the top 15pc of the breed for 600 day weight and milk, and the top 20pc for 200 day weight. The 656kg 12-month-old had an EMA of 113sq cm, and rump/rib fat of 7/5mm.
In the Charolais/Angus hybrid portion of the catalogue, top priced bull at $11,000 went to the Greenup family, Jandowae. Weighing 688kg at just 12 months, this calf had an EMA of 110sq cm, rump/rib fat of 9/7mm, and a scrotal of 38cm. Palgrove retained 100 straws of semen from this bull.
“The feedback we received this year gives us great confidence that the bulls in the 2012 catalogue demonstrate the success of our ‘new generation’ sires that we have used in the last couple of years,” David Bondfield said after the sale.
Responding to the growing demand for polled genetics from commercial producers, there were 47 polled Charolais bulls in this year's catalogue. Palgrove now has over 700 Charolais females in its stud breeding herd and will continue to selectively expand the polled population.
Canowindra Congress champ makes $56,000
Canowindra Jag (Sc) the recent Santa Gertrudis World Congress champion, topped proceedings at this week’s annual Cardona Canowindra Santa Gertrudis Sale held in Emerald, Central Queensland.
The 32-month-old, 1200kg with a 149sq cm EMA measurement sold for $56,000 to the Cree Stud, Thangool operated by Shaun and Jo McGuigan via a phone bid posted by Warren Holzwart, Ray White Livestock, Emerald (pictured).
Jag was the headline act at the sale conducted by the Atkinson family, Cardona Stud, Blackwater and the Wolff family, Canowindra Stud, Emerald.
In all, 74 bulls averaged $6723, with 56 classified 'S' bulls averaging $7527 and purebred bulls topping at $7000.
Pictured holding the bull is breeder Jason Wolff, Canowindra Stud, Emerald. (picture, Kent Ward).
Booroomooka hits $65,000 top
Selling for the first time under its spacious new shedded sale facility, Hugh and Sinclair Munro and families’ Booroomooka Angus Stud hit new highs at it's annual bull sale near Bingara on August 17.
Top priced bull, Booroomooka Frankel F510, broke many stud records when he sold for $65,000 to a syndicate of leading Australian Angus studs including Dulverton, Glenavon, Knowla, Wattletop and Witherswood – represented by bidder, Dick Whale, Independent Breeding Services.
Frankel, an October 2010 AI calf by Ardrossan Equator A241, out of Booroomooka Tracey Z5. His Breedplan $ index values included $155 for longfed/CAAB; $124 for heavy grassfed; and $100 for shortfed domestic. His 400-day weight EBV was +105, scrotal size +3.9, days to calving -3.6, EMA +8.1 and IMF +2.2. Booroomooka is retaining a semen interest.
Second top price, Booroomooka Foxwedge F109, was bought for $26,000 to Pee Dee Creek Angus at Bellbrook. Foxwedge is an AI son of SS Objective T510 (US), out of the New Design daughter Booroomooka Wyncitti D322.
Volume buyers included Jim Nivison from Walcha and the Collins Family from King Island, both of whom purchased 10 bulls.
The sale took less than three hours to produce a 100 percent clearance of 210 bulls, to gross more than $1.52 million, to average $7240. Twenty bulls sold for $10,000 or more and 60 bulls sold from $3000 to $5000.
$8000 top for Turanville Shorthorns
The Robertson family’s annual Turanville Shorthorn bull sale held near Scone this week saw 20 of 26 bulls offered under the Helmsman selling system change hands for a $4550 average.
Top price of $8000 to G. Morgan and Co, The Grove Shorthorns, Condamine, Qld for Turanville Mittiebah F114.
Mittiebah F114 is in top 5pc of the breed for calving-ease direct and top 10pc for all three Shorthorn $Indices.
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