*Total clearance of 435 lots sold to $38,000, av $4658
SOME OF Australia’s best Angus female cattle, calves, embryos and young bulls have been sold for more than $2 million, at one of Witherswood’s complete Angus dispersal sales.
Witherswood, Taminick, made $2,026,500 at its complete female dispersal.
Stud principal John Woodruff said he was pleased with the way the sale, which ran for more than six hours, was conducted.
Buyers were looking for the depth of pedigree, the phenotypes, structure and thickness.
“We have spent the money over the years to put these things in place,” Mr Woodruff said.
He said even in dry times, quality shone through.
“It’s quite remarkable, it doesn’t affect people who buy long-term,” he said.
“They look ahead, until things turn around and we get grass again.”
It doesn’t affect people who buy long term. They look ahead, until things turn around and we get grass again.
- John Woodruff, Witherswood Angus
Buyers came from several states, with NSW stud Bannaby Angus, Taralga, taking home the top-priced lot, Witherswood Abigail, M0003 (AI) for $38,000.
The May 2016-drop cow, by Ascot Hallmark H147, out of Millah Murrah Abigail C37, had a July 2018-drop heifer calf at foot, by LD Capitalist.
Bannaby Angus stud principal Keith Kerridge said the cow was “an absolute standout”.
“Without a doubt, you just don’t come across cattle like that, every day of the week,” Mr Kerridge said.
He said the sale was a unique opportunity to buy some “top-of-the-line” genetics.
“We weren’t so much looking at the pedigree, as the animal itself,” he said.
Among the prominent buyers were Adameluca, Kyneton South, Stoney Point, SA, Granite Ridge, Kingston, SA, Cascade, Currabubula, NSW, Weeran, Byaduk, Murdeduke, Winchelsea and Alpine, Porepunkah.
The dispersal also saw 133 heifers sold to a top price of $7000, and an average of $2921, and 18 yearling bulls, which sold to a top of $7000, av $4750.
