STRONG local support cemented a floor in the Graham family’s Bongongo Autumn Angus bull sale on Monday as bulls sold to $17,000 and averaged $9100.
In total 44 of the 47 bulls offered sold to the impressive $17,000 top, with 27 buyers taking home a bull on the day, displaying the level of support from a good cross section of buyers.
It wasn’t all top-end action with a quarter of the offering selling at good commercial money in today’s bull market under $7500, with a further six bulls under the average price of $9100.
The new outcross sire Deer valley All In 2138 drew strong attention with the 10 bulls offered averaging $11,050 and selling to the top money.
The top bull was one of these sons, with a low birth of +1.1, strong growth to +108 for 600-day growth, good milk and positive carcase data. He was bought by Graeme and Robert Harris, Coolac, along with a second Deer Valley son for $10,000, again with good carcase numbers and strong growth in a heifer bull.
Mr Harris runs 300 Angus breeders and produces steers to the feedlots and EU markets.
He was looking for good heifer bulls with strong 400 to 600-day growth and said the Deer valley outcross was the perfect option as he had only ever bought bulls from Bongongo.
Fernhill Holdings, Wagga Wagga, paid $16,000 for another Deer Valley son with a higher birth weight and strong growth, while Merriment Rural Investments, Forbes, loaded two stylish bulls at $13,500 and $10,000.
Oakey Creek Pastoral Company, Gundagai, paid $12,000 for another Deer Valley All In son, while Kurrajong Grove, Gundagai, paid $11,500 for a Matauri Resolution F030 son, with mederate birth, excellent growth to +112 for 600 day, matched with good carcase numbers, positive rib and rump and intramuscular fate percentage.
John R Graham Trust, Gundagai, averaged three at $8333, while the Lenehan Family, Beggan Beggan, Harden, secured three at $10,000 apiece and Caroline and Rosie Spittle, “Kingslea”, Jugiong, paid $10,500 for their new heifer bull.
Bill Garnock, Boco Pastoral Company, Bombala, paid $10,000 for HPCA Intensity 7102 son with a +4.7 birth weight, +114 600-day growth, +7.6 eye muscle area (EMA), positive carcase data with +$140 Angus Breeding value Index.
Futter Park Limited, Harden, averaged $8000 for two, P.J and S.M Thomas, Cootamundra, bought two at $10,000 and $9500, while Gunong Pastoral Co., Coolac, averaged $9000 for two to round out the sale.
The sale was conducted by Elders Ltd, Gundagai, under the Helmsmann selling system with the sale conducted by Steve Ridley, Goulburn.