![NAMPARA'S BEST: Elders auctioneer Ross Milne and Elders Mount Gambier's Jamie Bellinger with Nampara stud Natalie and Stuart Hann. They are with buyer of the $14,000 top priced bull Greg Fisher, Clover Ridge, Marcollat with his agent and Southern Australian Livestock general manager Laryn Gogel. NAMPARA'S BEST: Elders auctioneer Ross Milne and Elders Mount Gambier's Jamie Bellinger with Nampara stud Natalie and Stuart Hann. They are with buyer of the $14,000 top priced bull Greg Fisher, Clover Ridge, Marcollat with his agent and Southern Australian Livestock general manager Laryn Gogel.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/38Deqn27HisdktPPRtKmxju/b7ac4489-e24e-4ec9-adda-9f4d699a5c7a.jpg/r0_0_4059_2411_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
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2016 2015
Offered 49 60
Sold 49 48
Top $14,000 $10,500
Av $7714 $4010
Penola based Nampara stud was one of SA Angus Week’s movers and shakers with a spectacular $7714 average, nearly doubling its 2015 sale average.
At their eighth annual on-property sale on Tuesday, Stuart and Natalie Hann had a total clearance of 49 bulls, to post the week’s second highest sale average.
Sixty three registered bidders spread from pastoral SA to the SE and western Vic packed into the stands and raised their hands high for the top quality offering of well-muscled bulls with tremendous weight for age and strong carcase scan data.
The sale’s early lots set a cracking pace with the first six each making more than $10,000 and reaching a $14,000 high.
This spirited bidding was sustained to the end, with most buyers extending their budgets to $6000-$8000 on buoyant beef returns.
A feature of the draft were the first progeny of two outcross AI sires; NZ bred bull Atahua Freedom, and Australian sire, Ireland’s Galaxy G43- which sold for an Australian record of $117,500 in 2013.
Nampara’s 17 impressive Freedom sons were among the first offered in Australia and averaged $7971.
This included four of the seven bulls to make five figures including the $12,000 second top price.
Lot 3, Nampara Freedom K14- was bought by Landmark’s Albury based studstock rep Kevin Norris, for high profile NSW stud, Ireland’s Angus, Wagga Wagga, NSW
Mr Norris who bought the Australian marketing rights to Freedom to be syndicated among a number of studs was impressed by his sons at Nampara particularly Lot 3.
“He is really breeding consistently with softness, muscling and that lovely phenotype which is something the Angus breed has unfortunately gone away from. “The 17 bulls were all peas in a pod even though they are all from different cow families,” Mr Norris said.
But Nampara’s home-bred genetics sold equally well with 11 bulls averaging $8360. This included the $14,000 sale topper in Lot 4.
Nampara K185 was a stand out phenotype but also the highest performance bull.
The 1040 kilogram son of Nampara Hot Shot H34 had been used on commercial cows but was still the equal heaviest in the draft. The 21 month-old also had the largest eye muscle area scan at 129 square centimetres with 16mm rump and 13mm rib fat.
Repeat buyer Greg Fisher, Clover Ridge, Marcollat was the successful bidder.
The sale’s volume buyer was new client Lake Hawdon Props, Robe who bought seven bulls for a $8571 av.
Also among the multiple buyers was Old Fairview, Lucindale who snapped up five bulls for a $7600 av.
Mr and Mrs Hann were very pleased to see so many registrations from repeat and new clients.
They said it was easily their most consistent and heaviest draft of bulls with just three bulls under 800kg and many close to 1000kg at less than two years of age.
Mr Hann said their two new AI sires had “just clicked”. “The genetics were outside anything anyone is doing in the SE but buyers just stepped into them,” he said.
“It gives us confidence going forward. It was pleasing to see so many have faith in our product and enthusiasm for the beef industry going forward,” Mrs Hann said.
Elders Mount Gambier conducted the sale with Ross Milne the auctioneer.