SALE SUMMARY
2018
Offered 19
Sold 5
Top $7500
Av $5100
A well-muscled polled bull, Moohaki Mustang, raced to the $7500 top price at the inaugural South Australian Charolais Sale at the Mount Pleasant Saleyards, last Friday.
The 17-month-old, offered by Josh Wiltshire and Sam Edwards, was the first son of US birthweight and milk trait leader, LT Bridger, to be sold in SA.
The AI bred bull had plenty of performance weighing 702 kilograms with an eye muscle area of 124 square centimetres and good fat cover of 8 millimetres rib fat and 7mm rump fat.
The sale topper caught the eye of buyers and fellow vendors Robyn, James and Duane Wilson, Arabar stud, Balaklava.
It was one of the highlights in a tough debut sale where just five of 19 bulls found homes.
The Wilsons sold their pick bull, Arabar Mozzie, for $6000 to TS&CJ Hage, Younghusband.
Louise and Tim Smith, Schwaryn stud, Loxton, sold the $3500 top priced registered female to the Bellinger family, Goodnwindi stud, Furner.
Schwaryn Madonna was a daughter of Minnie-Vale Jona and was in-calf to LT Venture.
Bidding stepped up a gear on the 29 commercial females which were offered in small lots , comprising PTIC heifers, cows with calves and unjoined females.
Twenty eight of these sold for a $1430 average.
Petar and Simone Bond, Blackstone stud, Meadows, sold the tops of these, four spring 2015 drop heifers due to calve in June, to Angus sires, at $2000.
Mr Wiltshire, who is the SA Charolais Breeders chairman, said their aim was to get more commercial females out into SA’s beef industry which was achieved.
“The whole basis of the sale was crossing into profit and hopefully those female buyers will be back next year looking for a Charolais bull,” he said.
Landmark auctioneer Gordon Wood said it took time to establish any new sale but it was a “solid start”, especially with the very dry autumn and some lots being presented in their “working clothes”.
“In the offering there was great diversity and some top genetics from the Charolais world,” he said.
“Buyers were definitely seeking the softer, easy fleshing cattle and they realised good prices.”
Landmark Fawcett Livestock conducted the sale.