SALE SUMMARY
Total clearance of 24 bulls to $5500, av $4416
Total clearance of 75 females to $2150, av $1756
STONEY Point Performance Angus stud’s experimental late season bull sale was considered a great success, with a total clearance of 24 young sires at an average $4416.
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The Ready to Work bull sale and pregnancy-tested in-calf female sale on Thursday last week at Naracoorte came three months after their successful main February sale, when they sold 97 bulls av $5453.
The extra sale gave buyers a chance to boost their sire battery ahead of mating, but also more time for the stud’s late-spring 2014-drop bulls to reach their genetic potential.
The 32 registered bidders easily outnumbered the bulls on offer in the final SA bull sale of the season. Bulls sold to $5500 three times.
The heaviest bull in the catalogue, Stoney Point Karlton K674 at 808 kilograms, was the first of these.
The Te Mania Dehydrate D400 son was knocked down to BT&E Ling, Murraup, Mount Benson.
Three lots later Stoney Point K626 – a heifer’s first calf – made the same money to Elgin Pastoral & GA Varcoe, Millicent.
The other $5500 bull, Stoney Point Kokanee K356, sold to Donald Brown & Co, Keppoch.
He was a son of Stoney Point Heineken H22, which was being used in Angus Australia’s Sire Benchmarking Program.
Lallawa Grazing Co, Meningie, bought three bulls av $4167.
The 75 selected PTIC stud females, offered in groups of six, were also keenly sought. The proven matrons up to 10-11 year olds outsold the younger females.
The $2150 top price females sold to Jade Park Angus, Wangaratta, Vic.
Landmark stud stock’s Richard Miller was the volume female buyer for an undisclosed Adelaide Hills client securing 52 head to $1850.
Stud director Perry Gunner said they would consider another late sale next year.
“There are a lot of people who want to buy their bulls this time of year rather than February,” he said.
Landmark stud stock auctioneer Gordon Wood said it was fantastic to have a full clearance of females and bulls “at any time”.
The merging of the Coorong Designer and Stoney Point stud herds had created surplus spring-calving females.
Spence Dix & Co director Jonathan Spence said the females particularly represented a “wonderful opportunity”.
“The sale was fair to all concerned,” he said.
“They (the bulls) certainly didn’t present as a line of left overs with some really top young bulls.”
