Bids were flying throughout the sale shed at Rennylea Angus, Culcairn, on Thursday, August 31, as buyers competed for the top bulls.
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The sale achieved a top price of $40,000, twice, with a full clearance and an overall average of $14,697 for the 215 bulls offered and sold.
The sale consisted of 72 two-year-old bulls and 143 yearling bulls, with the stud making the decision to move all its cows to a spring calving, for better pasture efficiency.
The first of the top-priced two-year-old bulls was Rennylea S690 which was bought by Consolidated Pastoral Company, Brisbane, for $40,000.
The Rennylea K907 son, also used as a yearling, ranked in the top 10 per cent for eight of its estimated breeding values, as well as all $indexes.
EBVs of -10 gestation length, +62 birth-weight, +199 400-day weight, +164 600-day weight, with a milk value of +28 placed the bull in the top 1pc of the breed for those traits. It also had a a carcase weight figure of +101.
Consolidated Pastoral Company also purchased another four bulls and averaged $33,000 overall.
The other equal top-priced bull was Rennylea S916, purchased for $40,000 by Mark Elder Barr Smith, Holbrook.
Rennylea S916 displayed EBVs of +0.9 birth weight, a milk figure of +24, with an intramuscular fat value of +5.7 and an eye muscle area of +11.2.
Weighing 748 kilograms, he also was ranked in the top 10pc for his $indexes.
Mr Barr Smith purchased another two bulls for an overall average of $27,666.
For the yearling bulls, Rennylea T5 claimed the top price, selling to TC Grazing, Miles, Qld, for $26,000.
Tipping the scales at 544kg, the Rennylea N542 son had a gestation length figure of -8.9, an EMA of +12.2 and an IMF of +4.7.
The 14-month-old GAR Hometown son was out of a proven donor cow, Rennylea L490, and was docile and easy doing.
The average for the 72 two-year-old bulls offered and sold was $19,902, with all 143 yearling bulls sold averaging $11,965.
Ruth Corrigan, Rennylea Angus, said the sale had exceeded their expectations in light of the current cattle market.
"The first 30 bulls were bulls we'd used as yearlings in the spring last year," Ms Corrigan said.
"The couple of bulls up the front that made the money, were very good bulls we'd picked out as young bulls for their combination of productivity traits and their good structure, good temperament and really good early growth and good carcase."
There were five large volume buyers active throughout the sale, the first being Shadowgrove Pty Ltd, Khancoban, near Corryong, Vic, who purchased 10 bulls to a top of $24,000 to average $14,600.
Malcolm Sinclair, Minjah, Vic, bought nine bulls for a total of $138,000 for an average of $15,333, while Wilmot Cattle Company, Hernani, near Dorrigo, purchased six bulls to average $16,000.
Spinifex Pastoral, Swan Hill, Vic, also purchased nine bulls to a top of $24,000 with an average of $14,000 and Noorkim Partnership, bought eight bulls for a total of $124,000 to average $15,500.
The sale was conducted by Paull and Scollard Nutrien Ag Solutions, with Andrew Wishart and Peter Godbolt as auctioneers, and AuctionsPlus providing the online interface.
