THERE have been many fantastic sale results and individual highlights during the sixteen sales held by Stephen and Noeleen Branson and family, Banquet Angus, Mortlake, but none more exciting than this year.
Ninety nine Angus bulls of outstanding quality were offered to large crowd that included 103 eager prospective buyers, plus further connections via the Auctions Plus network.
All 99 bulls sold in rapid fire bidding that seasoned auctioneers, Kevin Norris, Landmark, and Ross Milne, Elders, had to work hard to separate.
They topped at $40,000 and averaged an exceptional $8374.
The bulls displayed exceptional growth for age off grass.
Long-time repeat client, Tom Shoobridge, Cleveland Pastoral Co, Ouse, Tasmania kicked the sale off on a great note with a winning $18,000 bid for Banquet Jaffa J200 - another top son of super sire of the last few years, Banquet Ballis B017.
Tom will offer 1400 to 1500 young calves at the end of March; progeny from his previous Banquet bloodlines. It is the success of such weaner steers and heifers in sales that brought so many repeat clients back to this sale, but not many expected the result that followed.
The Banquet bulls offered had great muscling and width through the loins and hindquarters, with ideal hair type, strong bone, substance, power and impeccable temperament. Over the last half decade the Bransons have taken about half a frame score off their renowned size and with the slightly earlier maturity pattern the bulls visibly displayed their growth and fleshing capabilities to the hilt.
*Full report in this week’s Stock & Land
