SALE SUMMARY
2018 2017
Offered 22 21
Sold 16 15
Top $8500(3) $8000
Av $5813 $5800
GOODNWINDI Charolais stud’s 16th annual on-property sale at Furner rose to $8500 three times on Monday, with the sale average nearly mirroring 2017’s result.
Sixteen of 18 rising two-year old purebred bulls offered by the Bellinger family sold for a $5813 average.
Twenty one registered bidders came from Millicent, Mount Gambier, Furner and Lucindale, and as far afield as the Fleurieu Peninsula and western Vic.
Repeat buyers, Grenville and Roslyn Burger, Glynbrae Pastoral Company, Penshurst, Vic, bought the first of the top priced bulls in Lot 2, Goodnwindi Majestic.
The bull weighed 844 kilograms and had the highest eye muscle scan the stud has ever produced at 138 square centimetres.
Mr Burger said his selection was “the whole package – a lovely temperament, great butt, soft with a nice depth”,’ adding that being a polled bull was a bonus.
GH Sharp & Co, Mount Compass were next to pay $8500, securing lot 4, Goodnwindi Moonshine, weighing 824kg and with an EMA of 129cm2.
Return clients, Ken and Betty Walker, Beachport, took home the final bull at the top money, Lot 6, Goodnwindi Money Maker.
Four Charolais-Angus bulls (marketed as Super Blacks) were offered, but after no bid on the first three, Steve Bellinger withdrew the final bull from sale.
Commercial F1 cows with Charolais-Angus sired calves were again a feature of the sale, selling to a $2250 high.
Peter Roach, through Elders Lucindale, paid the top price for eight Simmental-Angus heifers with one to four week-old calves.
Overall 94 Simmental-Angus, Simmental-Red Angus and Hereford-Friesian first calvers sold for an $1828 average, mainly to repeat local buyers.
Peter Green, Thornlea, bought 29 of the first calvers to $1850 and averaging $1811.
Landmark Millicent’s Jim Noonan also bought in the top end with 14 Simmental- Red Angus to $1850, averaging $1829.
Landmark auctioneer Gordon Wood said it was a “great sale” with the top end bulls selling well to predominantly local repeat buyers and a “pleasing” average.
Mr Wood said the cattle which realised the higher values were the softer, easier fleshing types which the industry was chasing, along with a good maturity pattern.
Goodnwindi’s Steve Bellinger was extremely happy with the bull sale which returned “good, commercial prices”.
But he said the female sale was “sluggish” with prices down $1000 on last year’s top, a reflection of the current state of the cattle market.
Landmark Millicent conducted the sale.
