SALE SUMMARY
2017 2016
Offered 21 24
Sold 16 21
Top $13,000 $8750
Av $5250 $4285
COMMERCIAL breeders and stud buyers from SA, Qld, NSW and Vic were in attendance at Gary and Joy Allen’s Tugulawa Simmental bull sale, pushing averages up nearly $1000 on the 2016 sale.
In the breakdown, 16 of the 21 bulls offered sold at auction to a high of $13,000 – an increase of more than $4000 from last year’s sale top – averaging $5250.
The first bull into the ring to set the sale rolling, was a red, spring 2014-drop sire with 100 per cent pigment, displaying great volume, softness and style and was quickly knocked down to repeat buyer, David Spencer, Elders Dartmoor for $7000.
EWP&ER Jones, Mumbannar, through Landmark Naracoorte, paid $10,500 for lot 2 – a son of the great Woonallee Tornado, Tugulawa Kooper, an extremely long and powerful, dark red sire with good eye cover.
The star of the sale this year and the sire who drew the most intense bidding, was a fully imported embryo bull, lot 14, Tugulawa Lance.
This eyecatching bull with tremendous softness and depth of body, was eventually sold to Wormbete Simmental stud, Hopkins Pastoral, Illabo, NSW, for the top of $13,000 by phone bid.
This very stylish, young June 2015-drop poll bull had been used by the Tugulawa stud over selected stud heifers, Mr Allen believing that this sire will definitely leave its stamp on the Simmental breed.
A son of RPF Pol Right Direction, showing huge capacity and length of body, weighing 791kg and with an EMA of 117, a 600-day weight of +30 impressed all the right people.
Repeat buyers Otago Holdings bought another two bulls – lot 3 a red son of MF Mr Evan at $6500 and lot 17, a Red poll son of RPF Pol Right Direction at $3500 for an average $5000.
LA&F Millard, through agents, Charles Stewart Colac, Vic, also bought two sires with RBF Polled Right Time genetics; lot 8 at $6000 and lot 20 at $4000, to also average $5000.
Two more bulls were sold directly after the sale at $3500.
A selection of bred-in-the-purple females were also offered as PTIC, calves-at-foot or unjoined heifers, selling all but one of the lots offered, for an average of $4125.
MG&SA Lucas, Genmoor Simmentals, Kongorong, paid top price of $7000 for lot 25, Tugulawa Katherine, a heifer with bull calf at-foot.
The Lucas family went on to successfully bid for another two unjoined heifers, lot 41 and lot 43, both at $3000, to average $4333.
GD&EA Smith, Irrewarra, bought two heifers with heifer CAF – lot 26 at $5500 and lot 29 at $4000 respectively, and followed up with the purchase of lot 32, a PTIC heifer at $4750, for an average of $4750.
Gary Dempsey, through Miller Whan & John Mount Gambier, also bought three females – lot 27, a heifer with bull CAF at $4500, lot 33 a PTIC heifer at $4500 and lot 35, an unjoined heifer by Mr Evan at $4000 to average $4333.
Tugulawa stud principal Gary Allen commented that there is a lot of effort put into their breeding program and with the introduction of exciting new polled genetics from the US, has resulted in their excellent sale result and are delighted to see new and repeat buyers at their sale and hear positive feedback.
Mr and Mrs Allen are looking forward to 2017-drop of calves to hit the ground, by their new poll sire FSS Maximus.
The sale was conducted by Miller Whan & John with Bernie Grant, LMB Linke, Hamilton, Vic, as auctioneer.