DEMAND for the Speckle Park breed continues to grow, with the breed’s high growth traits, marbling and good fat cover leading to strong bidding from both stud and commercial producers at the second annual Speckle Park sale at Scone.
The multi-vendor sale – which had a full clearance – included bulls, stud females, F1 heifers, potential show steers, and semen and embryo packages, with the embryos reaching a new world breed record of $3400 for Canadian genetics from Jason Goodfellow, Notta Ranch.
The 32 bulls topped at $20,500 and averaged $9984, and 38 stud females reached $18,000 twice for an average of $8263.
The 24 F1 heifers sold to a top of $2750 and average of $2527, and 11 show steers made $1800 three times, averaging $1345.
Bryan Wormwell purchased the top bull, Hanging Rock Harpoon, offered by John Ellis, on behalf of PW9 Simbrah stud, Tara, Queensland.
The 19-month-old bull, by Spots ‘N Sprouts Stand Along and from Six Star 82U Heartbreaker F134, weighed 690 kilograms, measured 15 millimetres and 9mm for rump and rib fat, had a scrotal circumference of 35 centimetres, and an eye muscle area (EMA) of 107 square centimetres.
Mr Wormwell also bought $17,000 bull Three Way Graceland’s Prince, offered by Neil and Glenda Gorrell, on behalf of Phillip and Cindy Coggan, “Enara”, Meandarra”, Qld.
The other $17,000 bull, Mark and Colleen Constable’s Ersyldene Lance, went to Justin and Amy Dickens, JAD Agriculture, Yeoval, who were the losing bidders on the top-priced bull.
The Dickens’ will use Lance as a back up bull for their artificial insemination program of 400 Angus heifers.
Repeat Scone sale buyers Black Diamond Speckle Parks, Marcorna, Victoria, took home Mt Eccles Milestone, offered by the Mahne family, for $16,000.
In the females, two lots from Three Way Speckle Parks, Glen Alice, reached $18,000.
Rising eight-year-old cow Bunderra 68L Star Bank, by Star Bank Lacerta 68L and from Codiak Prairie Fire RKW 01J, had a calf at foot and was pregnancy-tested-in-calf (PTIC). She was purchased by Barkly Brahmans, Greenview, Qld.
Three Way Gracelands L40, an 19-month-old daughter of Star Bank Lacerta 68L and Three Way Gracelands, was the second $18,000 female, selling to Peter Alexander, Hidden Valley Speckle Parks, Murwillumbah.
Kahleatha Gemima, a rising six-year-old cow by Spots ‘N Sprouts Stands Alone from Six Star 3M Rendezvous D27, offered by Kerrie Ebbeck-Simpson, sold for $16,500 to Black Diamond Speckle Parks.
Three pens of PTIC Speckle Park/Angus/Brangus-cross heifers sold for $2750, with the 24 F1 females averaging $2527.
The top pens were purchased by Carlos Peters, online buyer Liz Brown, and Steve Cumberland, Scone.
In the potential show steers, three steers from Ersyldene Speckle Parks, by Speckle Park bulls and from Limousin cows, made $1800, selling to Jamie Crawford, Glenvillan Pastoral Company, Kingaroy, Qld; and Rick Porter, Merriwa, who bought two $1800 steers.
The show steers averaged $1345, with Mr Crawford purchasing three and Mr Porter and John Ellis, Hanging Rock Speckle Parks, Newham, Victoria, each buying two steers.
Semen packages topped at $250, but it was the embryos, sold at the end of the sale, that brought home a new world record for the breed.
Bundanoon stud Six Star Speckle Parks, owned by Greg Ebbeck, purchased two lots of four embryos, both by Spots ‘N Sprouts Bart 110N from Star Bank Theata 42T, for $3400 and $3100 per embyro.
The sale’s volume buyers were Robert Spur, Allendale East, South Australia, who bought three bulls and four females over Elite Livestock Auctions.
The bulls topped at $8500 and averaged $7167 and the females topped at $12,000 for an average of $7750.
Black Diamond Speckle Parks bought two bulls for $16,000 and $13,000, four stud females topping at $16,500 and averaging $9625, and a semen package from Underhill All Out for $250 a straw. Glenvillan Pastoral took home two bulls for $13,000 and $8000, and three potential show steers averaging $1416.
The sale was settled by MacCallum Inglis, Scone, with Stuart Sheldrake and Jim MacCallum taking the bids.
Ruth Schwager
Ruth Schwager is a journalist with the national agricultural features team.
Ruth Schwager is a journalist with the national agricultural features team.
