NAMPARA ANGUS
Total clearance of 66 bulls to $85,000, av $9644
NAMPARA stud, Penola SA, topped the SA Angus Week sales, with a total clearance and magical $9644 average on Tuesday last week.
The crowd of 70 registered bidders from SA, Qld, NSW and Vic also witnessed a new $85,000 SA Angus on-property bull sale record.
Stud principals the Hann family have built a following in the past decade with their focus on fertility and carcase traits, but lot 3 – Nampara Freedom L21 – was recognised by many as something special. The 958kg bull was the heaviest in the draft and had the largest eye muscle area (EMA) at scanning of 129sqcm.
Freedom was AI-bred by Atahua Freedom – a bull sold for $35,000 in New Zealand in 2012 – and was out of a SAV Pioneer 7301 daughter.
It had the Breedplan figures to match, including an EMA of +8.1 – top 5pc of the breed – and positive fat of +0.7 rib fat and +0.1 rump fat.
Elders auctioneer Ross Milne took an opening bid of $15,000, before $5000 rises to the magical $85,000 price tag.
The successful buyers were Jim Wedge and Jackie Chard, Ascot Angus, Warwick Qld, and Trent Walker, Keringa Angus, Culburra.
Mr Wedge said it would be a tremendous outcross sire for both herds and would complement Ascot’s Te Mania Emperor and Ascot Hallmark daughters.
“Its near perfect structure, overall thickness and meat, temperament and head structure and carriage is everything we like,” he said.
The new owners will market semen in coming months.
The price smashed Nampara’s previous stud record of $18,000 achieved in 2011.
Mr Milne said it was a fantastic result for the Hanns.
“They were very consistent types right through the draft and bulls with phenotype, structure and Breedplan figures and that was reflected in a lot of bulls making the $8000 to $10,000 mark.”
In 2016, Nampara was among the first in Australia to offer sons of Atahua Freedom, with 17 sons av $7971, but this year 10 sons av an exceptional $18,050.