Roma Brangus sale hits highest price since record of three years earlier

Clearance rates, the average price and the top bull price were all on an upward trajectory at the milestone 20^th Roma Brangus sale on Friday, September 5.

Ten of the 13 females offered this year, 76pc, were sold for an average of $4750, compared to the 2024 average of $5441 and 17 sold of 19 offered, or 79pc.

Of the bulls catalogued this year, 57 of 67 offered were sold, 85pc, for an average of $11,333.

In 2024, 63 of 99 bulls offered were sold, a rate of 64pc, at and average price of $8505.

Two results were similar to last year - Casino, NSW stud Weona and the JK Cattle Co based at Condamine topped the bull and heifer sales again this time around.

In the case of the bulls, WR & RE Bulmer's Weona Brangus stud, operated by Juanita Trustum and her son Lachlan Trustum, received the highest price since the 2022 record of $64,000 for Gunnadoo Park Mate was set.

The Woodard family, who operate the Bonox Brangus stud at Taroom, secured the top bull with a bid of $45,000 for Weona Merve.

Merve was shown as a junior bull at Beef 24, but the homozygous polled sire prospect has filled out to 945kg at 34 months, and has P8 and rib fat measurements of 19 and 10 millimetres respectively, an eye muscle area of 145 square centimetres, intramuscular fat of 5.9pc, and a scrotal circumference of 35.5cm.

Bruce Woodard said he was a very Australian Brangus type that he admired for his head and character.

"I like Weona's type of cattle," he said.

Weona Merve was the last of Kulkyne Professor's sons offered by the stud, and Lachlan Trustum said they were happy he'd gone to the Bonox stud.

"We bought his sire at a sale here and he had similar carcase attributes and sire appeal," he said.

Of the heifers catalogued, it was JK Cattle Co Stirling U499, sold by Justin and Kate Boshammer at Condamine who commanded the top price of $7000, paid by Mike Needham, based at Townson in the Lockyer Valley.

The couple debuted their females at the sale last year, topping it with $9000 for JK Cattle Co Beauty T530.

Ms Boshammer said Stirling, carrying PP genes and sired by JK Cattle Co Salute S532, was a beautifully made heifer.

"She has a lot of capacity and correctness, and excellent fertility data from her dam and granddam," she said.

She's well in calf to a homebred heifer sire, JK Cattle Co Smashing S495, a breed leader for IMF characteristics.

"We'd have happily kept her but we had to sell some of our females," Ms Boshammer said. "We like to support this sale."

The sale's top heifer purchaser, Mr Needham was also the volume buyer of the sale, buying 11 bulls and heifers for an average price of $7318.

The Dyer family at Stainburn Downs, Aramac bought six bulls for an average $10,333, and Farmleigh Grazing at Injune also finished with six bulls for an average $11,333.

Operating online, Australian Country Choice outlaid an average $8400 for five bulls, and Cooladdi's Bill and Amanda Prow averaged $6000 for five bulls.

Also buying five bulls, Moorevale Pastoral at Nebo paid an average $12,400.

The overall clearance rate at the fall of hammer was 83 per cent with 67 of 80 lots sold, compared to 68pc last year, or 82 or 120 lots, and the average price paid on Friday, $10,350 was well up on the 2024 average of $8140.

Results

Females

• Yabba-Do - $5000 av, 2/4 sold, 50pc
• Gunnadoo Park - $3500 av, 3/3 sold, 100pc
• Bonox - $5500 av, 2/2, 100pc
• JK Cattle Co - $6500, 2/2, 100pc

Bulls

• Lazy S - $6000 av, 2/4 sold, 100pc
  
• Glenoyra - $8333 av, 3/5 sold, 60pc
• Miltopp - $11,400 av, 5/6 sold, 83pc
• Kulkyne - $9500 av, 4/4 sold, 100pc
• Inavale - $10,857 av, 7/7 sold, 100pc
• Pineview - $10,400 av, 5/5 sold, 100pc
• Bonox - $14,833 av, 6/6 sold, 100pc
• Arababy - $17,666 av, 3/3 sold, 100pc
• Karingal - $7666 av, 3/3 sold, 100pc
• Weona - $19,500 av, 4/5 sold, 80pc
• O'Sullivans - $14,500 av, 2/2 sold, 100pc
• Stutzview - $10,333 av, 3/3 sold, 100pc
• Folkslee - $10,000 av, 3/4 sold, 100pc

• Selling agents - Elders, GDL, interfaced with StockLive