SALE SUMMARY
2016 2015
Offered 23 17
Sold 15 15
Top $8000 $5000
Av $5266 $3766
GOODNWINDI Charolais stud enjoyed many highlights at its on-property sale on Monday last week at Furner, including the top bull price of $8000 and a $1500 increase in the sale average from last year.
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Steve, Barb, Danny and Tasha Bellinger offered 23 bulls, with 15 sold at an average of $5266. In a first for the stud, two black ‘Changus’ – Charolais-Angus – bulls were included in the line up.
A gallery of 26 registered buyers and plenty of onlookers were at the sale conducted by Landmark Millicent.
Repeat clients from the Furner/Millicent district competed with repeat and new buyers from Lucindale, Penola, Mount Gambier and Penshurst, Vic.
The $8000 top price bull – Goodnwindi Knockout – was knocked down to Hartley Hocking, VH Hocking & Co, Lucindale.
Knockout had great weight-for-age and easy-doing ability. It had an eye muscle area of 108 square centimetres and the highest fat cover in the catalogue of five millimetres.
Mr Hocking had earmarked the two-year-old son of Sedalia Explosive at this year’s SA Beef Field Days, noting its “good figures and conformation with great butt shape and length“.
A repeat buyer of Goodnwindi genetics, Mr Hocking said the bull would be joined with black baldy and Red Angus cows at their Biscuit Flat property. The progeny would be sold as vealers through the Naracoorte Regional Livestock Exchange.
Vic buyers Glynbrae Pastoral Co, Penshurst, bought two bulls averaging $5875, including the $7750 second-highest priced bull.
I&P Hocking, Lucindale, also bought two bulls, paying $4000 and $4250.
In what has become a feature of the annual sale, a line of 52 Angus, Red Angus, Simmental and Shorthorn-cross heifers with Changus calves-at-foot, sold to strong local competition to a top of $2550, av $2422.
Mr Bellinger said the females had been sourced by top producers from the Millicent district, grown out and then joined to Changus bulls.
