Watasanta sale hits $23,000 top for $7937 overall sale average

Lucy Kinbacher
Updated August 23 2019 - 8:41am, first published August 21 2019 - 4:00pm
The $23,000 top price bull with auctioneer Paul Dooley, Watasanta principal Neil Watson, Queensland buyers Ashley and Doris McKay, selling agent Luke Scicluna of Davidson Cameron and Co, and buyer's agent Steven Goodhew, PJH Livestock, Roma, Qld.
The $23,000 top price bull with auctioneer Paul Dooley, Watasanta principal Neil Watson, Queensland buyers Ashley and Doris McKay, selling agent Luke Scicluna of Davidson Cameron and Co, and buyer's agent Steven Goodhew, PJH Livestock, Roma, Qld.

Some of the Santa Gertrudis breed's most astute judges and stud cattle operators were drawn to the Watson family's Watasanta annual bull sale outside of Tamworth on Wednesday where red bulls averaged $9041 alone.

Lucy Kinbacher

Lucy Kinbacher

Editor - Queensland Country Life/North Queensland Register

Raised on a cattle property at Biggenden, Lucy Kinbacher has spent 10 years working across metropolitan, regional and rural publications in both Queensland and NSW. Lucy has been the editor of the Queensland Country Life and North Queensland Register since 2021.

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