RANGAN CHAROLAIS
*42 of 44 bulls sold to $15,000, av $5980
Roderick Binny believes he landed the best bull on offer in Victoria’s autumn sales, with Rangan Charolais’ JC Lannister on Wednesday.
Rangan put 44 bulls up for auction, selling 42 under the hammer at an average of $5980, and sold a further five post auction for a overall average of $5652.
Lot 1, JC Lannister, bred by Jess Cook, topped the sale at $15,000 and is destined for stud duties based in northern NSW.
“This bull is quite unique,” Mr Binny, Glenlea Charolais, said.
“This bull is quite unique. He’s exactly what the industry is after in a Charolais bull.
“He’s thick, he’s early to medium maturity and he’s got lots and lots of softness and marbling as well.
“He’s a very good bull, hence I bought him.”
The bull’s spring figures, at 14 months, were 760kg, 121ema and 8/8 fat scans. He scored top marks for temperament and structure, possessing a great skin type.
Jess Cook had good success on the show circuit, which drew Mr Binny’s attention.
“I first spotted him at Melbourne last year and I was quite dumbfounded he was second in his class. He was grand champion everywhere else,” he said.
“But he is a perfect type in himself in relation maturity fat and in relation to thickness, muscling and softness.
“He’s very structurally correct, very good feet. He’s the quintessential stud sire. There’s stud sire written all over him.
“And along with that, an excellent set of numbers, EBVs.
“The overall combination of thickness, fat cover and yield is there in this bull and in a lot of cases when you try to breed bulls with Charolais bulls with extra fat cover you may keep your EMA but you lose your overall muscle yield Whereas this guy does combine high EMA with high IMF marbling and maintain above breed average overall retail beef yield as well. That makes him quite unique.
“That’s why I bought him.
“He’s completely fault free and he is a perfect type of Charolais bull for the industry today.
“In fact you could paint him any colour and he’d be a fantastic bull in any breed.
“He was the leading bull in the Victorian autumn sales in my opinion.”
Rangan principal Graeme Cook said the sale was well attended with a lot of return buyers and strong support from commercial operators.
The Cook family’s decision to have extra bulls outside the auction also paid dividends.
“It was an extremely strong sale all the way through,” Mr Cook said.
“It was a record average for us too.
“At auction it was probably $700 a head up on last year, it ended up at $5900 at auction but we sold a few bulls afterwards.” Rangan will retain a semen interest in JC Lannister, which has already attracted stud interest.
“We’ve already sold several packages of semen in the bull over the last 48 hours,” Mr Binny said.
“The plan is to sell 10 packages of semen and that’s it.
“There’ll be 10 studs who will use him ... but fundamentally semen packages will be sold to 10 studs along the eastern seaboard and we may look at doing something in WA as well, we’ll see.”