Yarding 461
Heifers to $2700
Cows & calves to $3000
THE feature female sale at Pakenham last Friday welcomed 100 PTIC 2.5-year-old Angus heifers from Aeolus Nominees, Flinders, for the 25th year.
Vendors Dr Chris Holland and Jeff Wilson purchase yearling-off heifers at Camperdown weaner sales each year and sell them 12 months later as pregnancy-tested-in-calf (PTIC) springers.
This draft of heifers was joined to a stud Limousin bull, to calve late January.
The draft attracts repeat buyers. George Schuhkraft, Childers, bought the first pen at $2700; followed by a half-pen at the same price.
Arthur Grabham, Kongwak, another regular purchaser, paid to $2700 for three pens of Aeolus Nominees heifers.
The top price paid was $2700, three times, for an average $2405 across the draft.
Comparing prices in the past four years on the Aeolus Nominees’ draft demonstrated the climbing market. In 2014, the first pen sold for $1000, average $1043, across the first three pens.
In 2015, the first three pens sold at $1500 each. Last year, the first pen sold at $1980, average $1903 across the first three pens. This year, $2700 was paid twice for an average $2600 across the first three pens. As with feature sales, there were several other drafts of cattle for re-stockers to choose from.
Michael Turra, Dimontee Charolais and Gnarwin, Buchan, lost one of his lease properties and sent in a consignment of 40 cows and heifers, all with Charolais calves-at-foot, 2-6mo; many of the cows depastured to Charolais bulls since calving.
The consignment sold to a top of $3000, for a pen of rejoined Red Angus cows with Charolais calves. The draft averaged $2539.
M&M Anderson, Labertouche, also sold cows and calves to a top of $3000, average $2895, for a pen of Limousin pairs, the cows depastured to a Limousin bull again, to calve March/April.
Dan McCaughan, Pound Creek, paid $1810 to buy a pen of a 2.5yo F1 heifers, PTIC to a black Limousin bull; vendor DK Stoll, Brandy Creek.
It was the first time Mr McCaughan, a vealer breeder, bought the Stoll cattle. DK Stoll sent in a consignment that sold to $2700 and averaged $2146.
W&T Warren, Dennison, sold a draft of Chesterfield-bred Angus heifers, PTIC to O’Brien bulls, to $1725, average $1410.
Yea-district bred Angus heifers, PTIC to a White Shorthorn bull, vendor I Fulton, Willow Grove, sold to $1680, average $1663.
Jess Turra, Gnarwin, Buchan, sold a pen of Black Baldy cows PTIC to a Charolais bull, $1620.
