Northern Rivers' Brahman studs find keen interest from Queensland buyers
Brahman studs from the Kyogle and Casino districts offered stud and commercial heifers during the Northern Rivers Elite Brahman Female Sale at the Kyogle Showground on Saturday, July 12.
There were 36 heifers offered from Mountana stud, Kyogle, Figtree Plains, Fawcett Plains, and Mogul Brahmans, Yorklea, with 17 sold to $4750 and an average $3117, while another 10 pens of heifers also sold to $1350.
Grant and Jo Bulmer's Mountana Brahman stud sold 15 of 16 stud heifers to the $4750 top, averaging $3150.
Top selling lot Mountana Jane 1955, a 14-month-old by Lancefield Hawkesbury 4802 from Lancefield S Jane 5362 and in calf to Mountana's new Bungoona sire, sold to Brenannah Brahman stud at Dalby, Qld.
Buyer Brendan Gilliland praised the young female, saying she would bring quality breeding and do-ability to the Brenannah program.
"We are going down the poll route but we don't want to lose those attributes that have taken 100 years of Brahman breeding to develop, like fertility, softness, bone and depth," he said.
"In addition, she has good temperament and I believe she was good buying on the day. Had that heifer sold at Rockhampton, she might have fetched three times the price."
White poll Brahman heifer Mountana Miss 1958, by Lancefield S Dunbar 4844, sold for $4000 to repeat Darling Downs' clients Ellen-Jay Pastoral, Kooroongarra, Qld.
Another Mountana stud heifer, Red Brahman Mountana Miss 1890 by NCC Solitaire, in calf to Bungoona Serenity, made $3750 to repeat clients Rodlyn Brahman stud at Bell, Qld.
Montana also sold first-cross Hereford/Brahman commercial weaner heifers to $1250.
Figtree stud sold two of four unjoined Brahman heifers to $3250, with the top-priced young breeder - Figland Mandy 750 by Carinya Imprint - going to the Mountana stud.
All 30 of the Figtree commercial first-cross Charbray heifers, by Palgrove and ANC Charolais bulls from stud Brahman cows, sold in three pens to a top of $1200, going to Dalby, Qld, through agents Grant Daniel Long.
The sale was hosted by agencies Ramsay and Bulmer with APL Casino, while AuctionsPlus handled the online bidding.
