The Vivers family of Eaglehawk Angus have hit a home run at their 2023 on-property bull sale with the Kingsland-based stud in the Northern Tablelands achieving a total clearance of 104 Angus bulls.
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Bulls were in hot demand with auctioneer Blake O'Reilly having his work cut out for the day from the 57 registered bidders who helped the sale to an $11,640 average and top of $80,000.
Fourteen bulls were sold via AuctionsPlus with the remaining 90 bulls bought in person.
Results were slightly back on last year's record on-property average of $20,549 from 83 bulls, but up from the $50,000 top.
Sale topper of $80,000 Eaglehawk Blaster S523 sold to Jon Gaffney, Graneta Angus from Bell, Qld.
By Bruns Blaster, the 902-kilogram, two-year-old Angus bull tested in the top 10 per cent for 600-day weight and top 20pc for carcase weight.
First-time buyer Jon Gaffney first saw the bull at the stud's open day a fortnight ago.
"We were chasing a stud sire and done plenty of looking around but finally found what we were looking for," Mr Gaffney said.
"Before leaving to come to the sale my son told me not to come home without him and that 50 grand should easily do the job and wasn't he wrong."
The $80,000 sale topping bull was the sole purchase for the Queensland based buyer.
The underbidder was return buyer of seven years Dion Porter from Fucheng Woodlands, Westmar, Qld.
"Our budget was $60,000 and we knew it was going to be stretched today," Mr Porter said.
"We would have loved to have his low birthweight and growth traits in our herd but it wasn't to be unfortunately."
Fucheng Woodlands herd consists of a combined 2800 Angus cows and 3500 Wagyu pure bloods. The northern operation completed their sale draft with four bulls to an average of $19,500.
Camm Agricultrual Group, Bowenville, Qld, purchased 16 bulls to an $8812 average.
Bradleys Flats Pastoral Company, Black Springs, bought 8 bulls to average $12,625.
Eaglehawk Angus stud principal Ian Vivers reflected on the total clearance along with strong presence of repeat buyers from the sale.
"The most comforting thing from all the events today was the amount of repeat buyers that we had today," he said.
"There wasn't a name read out after each purchase that I didn't know and that's the core part of building a business.
"Having a cliental base that rely on your genetics to benefit their herd is very humbling and is what we strive to do year in year out."
The sale was covered by Ray White Armidale and Dorrigo with Blake O'Reilly the auctioneer.
