Great Opportunity Prime Beef Bull and Female Sale Tops $6,000

A large attendance at the Great Opportunity Prime Beef Bull and Female Sale at Ivanhoe, Illabo on April 4 resulted in 108 Simmentals, Fleckviehs and unregistered cattle sell for an average $2,313.

While very dry conditions and feed shortages in southern NSW restricted demand for bulls, there was widespread strong demand for females.

A well presented line of breeders was offered by 4 Simmental studs, Ian and Cheryl Baldry’s Tennysonvale Simmentals, Illabo, John and Nicole Hopkins’ Wormbete Simmentals, Illabo, Graham and Dianne Corney’s Bilanda Simmentals, South Bowenfels, Mark Cook’s Wyoming Simmentals, Illabo, Terry Coolahan, Coolaroy, Terang and Heather Wiseman’s Boorang Simmentals, South Bowenfels.

The sale featured a complete dispersal of Heather Wiseman’s Boorang Simmentals.

Top price of $6,000 was paid by Dr Peter Trevan, Hazel Dell Simmentals, Leongatha, Vic, for the cow and calf unit, Boorang Ursula. Peter also purchased a Boorang heifer, Boorang Yvette for $5,000.

Mark and Julie Peucker, Corinda Downs Simmentals, Mt Gambier, SA purchased the second top priced lot, Wondenia Swish Dish for $5,500. They also purchased some cows, heifers and calves and Tennysonvale Mr Wallace (P) semen.

Gerry Hanning, Panania, NSW, purchased the cow Boorang Vanessa for $5,000 and her polled heifer calf, Boorang Zuperb (p) for $5,000. He purchased another two Boorang females, a cow, Boorang Umeko at $4,750 and a heifer, Boorang Waratah for $2,750.

The volume buyer stakes were taken by the York family’s Billa Park Simmentals, Miles Qld, purchasing 13 lots to a top of $4,500 for the cow and calf pair, Boorang Wishes.

Bill and Elaine Sleep, Bilanbri, Woolsthorpe, Vic, purchased 9 lots, including the $4,750 cow and calf pair, Wondenia Sonya. Their purchases averaged $2.806.

Another volume buyer was Nigel Seaton, ELS Simmentals, Mt Gambier, SA, who also purchased 8 female lots, including the $3,000 cow and calf pair, Boorang Verity.

Junior member, Renae Graham, Cumberland Simmentals, Londonderry, NSW, added two females to her stud, the $2,000 cow Boorang Wanda and a $1,500 heifer, Tennysonvale Zilch.

Muriel Capel, Ouyan, Barraba, NSW, purchased a $2,000 polled bull, Tennysonvale Yamaha Jack (P) and two calves for an average $1,625.

Graham and Dianne Corney, Bilandra Simmentals, South Bowenfels, NSW purchased the bull Wormbete Ynot  for $3,500 and three females averaging $1,833.

Garry and Jackie Rahley, Aussie Park Simmentals, Southbrook, Qld purchased two Simmental heifers for an $1,875 average.

Another of the Hopkins’ bulls, Wormbete Yes sold for $3,500 to David Jack, "The Pines", Uranquinty, while the bull Tennysonvale Yeasty (P) topped the Tennysonvale bull draft at $3,250.  

Max Dench, Genetrade Pty Ltd, Gilgandra, NSW, purchased 3 females to a top of $5,000, averaging $2,667.

Costello Rural, Corryong, Vic, purchased 5 bulls for an average $2,300.

SALE SUMMARY

                      Registered SIMMENTAL               Fleckvieh                         Unregistered