Inaugural Brangus and Angus sale meets customer demand at Kempsey
Kempsey Stock and Land's Brangus and Angus sale on Saturday recorded a top price of $11,000 to average $6661 for bulls and $2487 for females.
Of the bulls, offered from 14 individual studs, 18 of 15 sold while 12 of 14 females found a home.
Of the commercial Angus females offered there was a 100pc clearance.
Top-priced bull, the Brangus T028 from Dan and Jenna Lowe's Sunday Camp stud at Bellbrook, sold to neighbouring property, Glenwood which also purchased Sunday Camp's only other offering, another Brangus bull that sold for $6000.
The T028 bull, an embryo transfer calf by US sire CRC Guardian, from a station-bred cow with Belview blood, was produced in conjunction with Bovine Breeders at Kentucky via Armidale.
Best-priced heifers, two Brangus at $8000 each from John and Alison Bell's Inavale stud at Boonah, Qld, went to repeat client Ray Sellings, Yarranbella via Macksville, who continues to cope with 800mm of unwelcome water from the May floods.
Mr Sellings, who also paid $4500 for two other Inavale heifers and $7500 for one of their bulls, has been purchasing the Bell family genetics for the past 15 years.
"Their Brangus cattle suit my country and they are quiet as you can get," he said. "I have bought Inavale blood every year since they first came to Kempsey to sell."
Inavale also sold abull to a repeat clients for $8500.
Best selling Angus bull for $10,500, Maxwellton Power Point U11 from the Hernani stud of the same name, was part of a trio of sires purchased by neighbouring Wirrimbi Pastoral to average $9000.
Enterprise manager Ben Swain said the Maxwellton bulls were new to Wirrimbi.
"We were keen to buy a syndicate of bulls to join to an age group of cows so we can benchmark their progeny against our other bloodlines," Mr Swain said.
The property runs 600 straight Angus breeders with about 100 cows in each age group. Calves are grown out to feeder weight, around 450 kilograms.
"We will join to these new sires and tag them separately so we can identify the sire groups," he said, "We are interested in comparing different genetics to look for differences in growth and feed conversion."
Of the bulls offered by Maxwellton on Saturday, all sold to a 100pc clearance with their fourth sire making $6500 and going to M and A Brown, at Grafton.
"There was a nice line-up of bulls, well presented and they sold very well," said selling agent Ian McGoldrick, Kempsey Stock and Land.
All 14 of the commercial Angus heifers with Cargo blood averaged $2000 a head, unjoined. These were offered by Vic Trotter of Rollands Plains, sold in three lines to Noel and Helen Searle, Warrell Creek via Macksville.
The sale was hosted by Kempsey Stock and Land.
