AN ALMOST 50-year-long tradition of producing impactful, high performance Charolais cattle drew a large crowd to Coffs Harbour-based Glenlea Beef's Charolais Female Sale at Scone on Friday.
The stud's second major female sale of the year and its first ever held at the Scone Regional Livestock Selling Centre, hit $15,000 for a six-year-old Charolais cow/ calf unit and was an impressive start to Friday's $2 million Upper Hunter Feature Multi Breed Female Sale.
In the breakdown, Glenlea Beef offered and sold six yearling Charolais bulls to a top of $10,000 and average of $6800, 20 cows with spring calves at foot to a $15,000 top, to average $7525, 24 pregnancy-tested-in-calf (PTIC) registered heifers, which topped at $8000 and averaged $5479 and eight unjoined heifers sold to a $5000 high and averaged $3938.
A further 35 commercial Charolais PTIC heifers were sold to $4000 a head, averaging $3144/hd.
Vendor Roderick Binny said the sale exceeded all expectations.
"It was our first sale at Scone and our second major female sale for the year," Mr Binny said.
"We have sold over 250 Charolais females at auction this year with tremendous support online from repeat buyers in North Queensland and Victoria.
"Local interest was high, with a commercial focus.
"Females sold to all five eastern states and we're already planning for 2022."
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The six-year-old, red factor, homozygous polled Glenlea Isabella 1st with heifer calf at foot topped the sale at $15,000 when she was knocked down to Wildes Pastoral, Aberdeen, NSW.
Sired by Rangan Park Rio Bravo D15 and out of Gobongo Isabella D86E, she is a full sister to Glenlea Isabella 2nd, who sold to Wildes Pastoral earlier in the year for $12,000 at Glenlea Beef's Dawn of the Decade Female Sale.
Meanwhile the weaned 10-month-old daughter of Glenlea Isabella 2nd topped that sale at $26,500 and was purchased by Ashdan Charolais, Johns River.
The Wildes family said they had been so pleased with Isabella 2nd when she calved that they decided to add her full sister to their elite herd.
Mr Binny said Glenlea Isabella 1st had a low birthweight with great carcase genetics, and had also produced outstanding progeny.
He said that her first bull calf was a stud sire for Taylor Charolais, a daughter had become the top-selling heifer in Glenlea's 2019 female sale and two homozygous polled sons were also high sellers.
The seven-month-old heifer calf, Glenlea Isabella 31st P (R/F), was sired by Glenlea North (P) and destined for Sydney Royal.
Glenlea My Girl 12th was the 26-month-old, top-priced heifer sold for $8000 to Grant Taylor, Taylor Livestock, Nowra.
Sired by Allednaw Glenlea Marlow and out of Glenlea My Girl 10th, she ranked in the top 20 per cent of the breed for all growth traits, and in the top 3pc for eye muscle area and fat.
Mr Taylor described her as a standout animal, being deep, thick and soft with outstanding carcase EBVs.
The $10,000 high-selling bull was Glenlea Muscles R413, a 17-month-old, homozygous polled bull sired by Challambi Muscles and purchased by an AuctionsPlus buyer.
He ranked in the top 10pc of the breed for milk and in the top 20pc for low birth weight and carcase weight.
He also recorded above breed average in 11 traits, including 200-, 400- and 600-day weight.
Volume buyers were G and B Gathercole, Carrum, Vic, who purchased 24 lots, and Lance Horsley and family, Longreach, Qld, who purchased one bull and 16 heifers including Glenlea Ringy for $6500.
Calmview Charolais purchased four cows with a red factor, polled calf at foot by Glenlea Honorable P80, to a top of $12,000, averaging $9000.
The Backmede stud was also a guest vendor, and sold 12 heifers to a top of $5000, averaging $3773.
The sale was conducted by Stuart Sheldrake, McGrath Upper Hunter, and Francis Buffier, Buffier Livestock Marketing, and was interfaced by AuctionsPlus.
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