Buyers snap up Reiland genetics to $18,000
Beef producers chasing curve bending bulls with growth and carcass weight paid to a top of $18,000 at the Reiland Angus spring bull sale on Friday.
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Beef producers chasing curve bending bulls with growth and carcass weight paid to a top of $18,000 at the Reiland Angus spring bull sale on Friday.
Cow and calf units averaged $2,040 and sold to a top of $2,580 on AuctionsPlus for three year old, Angus/Friesian second calvers from ‘Calview Pastoral’ Laceby, VIC.
Watching individual high-quality Wagyu carcases sell for the equivalent of $17,000 Australian left an indelible impression on the Australian Wagyu Trade Mission tour group on the first day of their 2017 study tour to Japan.
Meat processing company Thomas Foods International has partnered with Angus Youth Australia to be the naming rights sponsor of the 2018 Angus Youth National Roundup.
Royalla Shorthorns held their Top of the Grid Bull Sale at their Yeoval, NSW property with bulls topping at $11,000.
Feeder steers lifted 20c on the larger drafts and sold from 286c to 321c/kg at SELX Yass.
Yamburgan Shorthorns, Futurity Shorthorns and Royalla Shorthorns each conducted their annual on-property bull sales, with 190 Shorthorn sires selling to a top of $42,000 and an excellent average of $9,489.
The top gong for pregnant females last week went to a line of Poll Herefords cows with 240kg calves at foot, making $2320 on AuctionsPlus.
“Good colour, EMA, neck carriage, softness and sire appeal”, were the comments from the 2017 Adelaide Royal Show judge, Peter Falls, Malton Shorthorns, regarding the 2017 Shorthorn Supreme Exhibit, Spencer Family Zephyr.
Pain relief in cattle and DEXA carcass measuring technology will be in the spotlight at a free forum for Central Queensland farming families being held in Rockhampton next week.
Angus Australia will once again be conducting a series of regional forums across Australia during October, 2017.
Darley Wagyu sold a Purebred Homozygous Poll Wagyu bull for $65,000 on AuctionsPlus earlier this month and have claimed a world auction record for a Purebred Wagyu male or female.