A BIG crowd and spirited bidding well throughout the catalogue delivered a positive result for Jim and Susie Martin's Welcome Swallow Angus autumn bull sale at Benalla, Victoria, on Monday.
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Of the 53 Angus bulls offered, 44 sold at auction to a top price of $7500, averaging $3562.
The stud also had a total clearance of six Charolais bulls to $5000, to average $3666.
The line-up of mainly August 2012-drop bulls by influen- tial sires such as Te Mania Berkley B1, Ardrossan Equator A241, Booroomooka On Time D105, and TC Aberdeen 759 was so even, two lots in the last 10 sold made upward of $5000.
The top-priced lot, Welcome Swallow Berkley H299, was taken home by John Canavan, Mansfield, Vic.
The Te Mania Berkley B1 son was from a KMK Alliance cow and was in the top five per cent of the breed for 200-, 400- and 600-day growth estimated breeding values (EBVs).
The next lot offered was the second-highest priced bull - another Berkley son selling at $7000 to G. and A. Armstrong, Alexandra, Vic.
Welcome Swallow Berkley H316 was in the top 1pc of the breed for 400- and 600-day weight at +95 and +119, and for the Heavy Grass Fed Steer and Short Fed Domestic $Index.
The top-priced Charolais, Welcome Swallow Frontier H606, was purchased by R. and E. Ackland, Greta South.
Frontier H606 was by LT Western Edge 4057 from an LT Easy Blend cow, and had an impressive birth weight figure of -1.7 and +14 for milk, combined with strong growth and fat numbers.
Graham Nicol was a volume buyer in the Angus lots taking home four bulls to $4000, to average $3125, while the sole NSW buyer J.W. Blacker Farms, Brenede, Naradhan, took home three bulls to $4250, to average $3500.
Pulitano Pastoral, Merrijig Park, Mansfield, Vic, took two for their weaner operation, to average $2625, while David Webb Ware, Yea, Vic, secured one at $6000.
The stud also conducted a part dispersal of its autumn-calving cows, making to a top price of $3000 for Welcome Swallow BSS Day Ahead D129.
The rising six-year-old Day Ahead D129 was by Mohnen Day Ahead 144, from ICM Bubbles and pregnancy tested in calf to AAR Ten X 7008.
The cow sold to Ian Bates, Riddellvue Angus, Alexandra, Vic, who took five females to average $1850.
In the wrap, 23 Angus females sold from 45 to average $1565, and seven of the nine Charolais females sold to $2750 to average $1714.
The top-priced Charolais female, an LT Easy Blend daughter, Welcome Swallow Blueblend F506, went to the Hayes Family's Tarcombe Charolais, Tarcombe, Vic.
Jamie-Lee Oldfield
Livestock editor for The Land.
Livestock editor for The Land.
