SALE SUMMARY
2018 2017
Offered 27 28
Sold 24 27
Top $8000 $10,000
Av $4875 $5280
STONEY Point Performance Angus stud’s Ready to Work Sale represented outstanding value for money, with more than one third of the bulls knocked down at the $4000 base price.
In the state’s final Angus sale for the season, on Wednesday, at Naracoorte, 24 of 27 spring 2016 drops averaged $4875.
This was nearly $2000 less than the stud’s main autumn bull sale average two months earlier.
But, stud director Perry Gunner and stud manager Peter Colliver were still pleased with the result.
“We present them in working condition so they are ready to go out,” he said.
“People suddenly find they have not got what they require for the breeding season and are able to get good bulls here at value for money.
“The buyers are repeat clients, except one or two, and keep coming along so we are happy to keep presenting the bulls to them.”
The $8000 sale topper came late in the catalogue at Lot 22, highlighting the depth of quality in the offering.
Buyer and bullock breeder Pat Geraghty, Mount Schank, said the 808 kilogram bull, Stoney Point Majority M390, was a “stand out.”
The 20-month-old, eye-appealing son of Ardrossan Undertaker B301 had an impressive Breedplan eye muscle area of +6.8 and low birthweight at +3.0.
“I was looking for a bull with good feet and it has all the figures (a good balance of figures),” Mr Geraghty said.
It was one of three bulls he secured for a $6500 average, with his agent, Elders Mount Gambier’s David Creek.
A good cross section of genetics were on offer, including two of the first sons of VAR Generation 2100 to be offered in Australia – a United States sire which sold for $300,000.
These bulls (Lot 3 and Lot 4) made $5500 and $5000.
Of the 19 registered bidders from the South East and Murraylands, 14 were successful.
Delta Produce, Murray Bridge, made the most of the great buying with four bulls for a $4500 average, while Michael Mattei, Williup, Hynam, took home three calving ease sires between $4000 and $4500.
Auctioneers, Spence Dix & Co’s Jono Spence and Landmark’s Richard Miller, both praised the evenness of the line-up, which were all 19-20 months of age.
“They are the right type that the industry needs now – easy doing with natural thickness and bulls that can produce calves that suit all markets,” Mr Miller said.
Mr Spence said buyers had a strong preference for calving ease sires.
“People semen test late and find they are down a bull – it is a sale that works for everyone,” he added.
Unlike previous years, Stoney Point did not offer pregancy tested in calf females, instead retaining all surplus females as recipients to bolster its extensive embryo transfer program.
