JAD sets new record

By Kristen Frost
October 19 2016 - 12:00pm
Justin, Amy and Mitchell Dickens with Helen and Richard Thompson, Palmers Island, who were the top bidders for the $5800 commercial Speckle Park PTIC heifers.
Justin, Amy and Mitchell Dickens with Helen and Richard Thompson, Palmers Island, who were the top bidders for the $5800 commercial Speckle Park PTIC heifers.

Guest vendors at the Wattle Grove sale, JAD Agriculture, “Greenvale”, Yeoval, owned by Justin and Amy Dickens, have set the bar for commercial heifers in any cattle breed.  One lot, consisting of eight commercial F1 preg tested in calf (PTIC) heifers, sold to Richard and Helen Thompson, Palmers Island, for $5800 per head, setting what is believed to be a new national record paid for a pen of PTIC commercial heifers in any breed.

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