Rennylea, Culcairn sold all 168 Angus bulls offered in their Spring on-property sale on Thursday, achieving a stud record average of $15,690 and top price of $34,000, reached twice.
The bull draft was an increase on last year's 157 head offering and the Corrigan family also put up females for the first time this year.
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The six pregnancy-tested-in-calf cows sold individually for a top of $14,000 and average of $8250 and 12 lots of five PTIC females sold for an average of $4803 and top of $6500.
All up the sale grossed $3,003,500 for the 186 lots in the mammoth catalogue.
Given the state-wide lockdowns in both NSW and Victoria, AuctionsPlus bidders managed to take home 37pc of the offering.
The first top-priced bull to be sold was Rennylea R144, a heifer bull bought by Balmoral Park Angus, Yea, Vic, via AuctionsPlus.
Sired by Te Mania Newly N549 and out of Rennylea K723, the 18-month-old had the biggest eye muscle area value in his contemporary group at +17.8, putting him in the top one per cent of the breed.
Rennylea's Ruth Corrigan said he was a low-birthweight bull with plenty of early growth and a heap of carcase.
"He was a top phenotype bull, good nice muscle pattern and excellent structure and temperament," Ms Corrigan said.
His purchaser Alan Beckett, Balmoral Angus said they were looking for a top heifer bull and Rennylea K723 had the numbers and phenotype that fit the bill.
"Bruce Elliot our Elders agent confirmed from his video review of bulls that he was a really good looking, well muscled bull, he was a great package," Mr Beckett said.
It was a son of Landfall New Ground N90 who matched the $34,000 price tag, Rennylea R272, selling to McRae Pastoral, Goondiwindi.
The heifer bull's fertility data impressed, his scrotal size in the top one per cent at +5.1, while his domestic index was $132, in the top five per cent.
"He had good carcase figures, positive fat and extremely sound structure and docile temperament," Ms Corrigan said of the 18-month-year-old.
Ms Corrigan said the sale saw the first full drop of Landfall New Ground N90 sons offered up, with a cohort of 21 bulls.
It was JD McKenna and RS O'Reilly, Holbrook who bought the top priced stud cow, purchasing Rennylea Q358 for $14,000.
Ms Corrigan said the autumn-calving females on offer were surplus to requirements as they were in the process of moving their entire herd to a spring-calving.
Return and new clients participated from across the Eastern states, and volume buyers included Gourock Partnership, Nimmitabel and Shadow Grove, Khancoban Station, Corryong, Vic.
The sale was conducted by Nutrien with Andrew Wishart and Peter Godbolt as auctioneers.
- Full report in this week's edition of The Land
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