KO Angus stud at Kangaloon achieved their highest sale averages today during their 24th annual sale that resulted in a full clearance on all lots.
Cattle are headed to nearly all states with a great presence of interstate purchasers online fuelling the bidding, showing how quickly people have adapted to technology when buying in this COVID-19 craze.
Overall 44 bulls sold to a top of $23,000 and stud record average of $10,409.
New buyers, Hannaford Cattle Company at Braidwood, secured the sale topper KO Get Cracking P114.
The first son of Alloura Get Cracking G10 to sell, the 24-month-old is backed by the high-producing Dream cow family.
Two bulls hit the second top price of $20,000 including KO B074 Beast Mode P117 bought by Bongongo Angus, Coolac, and KO 2240 Discovery P182 bought by Cate Investments.
Records also tumbled in the females, with all 29 females sold for a $20,000 top price and a stud record average of $9155.
Boambee Angus at East Seaham secured the $20,000 high-selling female, KO Princess Q39, that the KO stud said they will find hard to part with.
At 17 months, she is the second highest marbling Baldridge Beast Mode B074 daughters in Australia.
Boambee Angus also picked up the $9000 KO Dream Q5, who was a full embryo transfer (ET) sister to the 2019 supreme interbreed exhibit of the Melbourne Royal Show, KO Dream N43.
Securing three females total, they averaged $13,333.
The $19,000 second top price in the females was paid by Salmond Family Trust, Roberston, for KO Moongarra Q82. They purchased two females for a $14,500 average.
Five genetic packages averaged $1190, with the $1700 top-priced embryos picked up by an online buyer from Merriwa. The package contained four embryos of the Sydgen Enhance/KO Dream J45 cross.
Elders Goulburn were the selling agents with Lincoln McKinlay as the auctioneer.
Read the full report in next week's The Land newspaper.
