Booroomooka bull with 'curve-bending' data sets stud record in centenary sale

Balanced bulls to suit any commercial breeder lifted bids at the centenary Booroomooka Angus stud sale, on-property at Bingara.

The stud achieved a top price of $80,000 and an average of $13,057 for 244 bulls sold from 252 offered at the July 14 auction.

Buyers competing for proven genetics hailed from New South Wales, western Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand's South Island.

The bidding under lead auctioneer Tom Tanner, Davidson Cameron and Co, started with a bang right out of the box, with an initial online offer of $20,000 as the rapid-fire banter reached a milestone figure.

Booroomooka Veloso V320, by Chiltern Park Picasso P9 from a daughter of Murdeduke Quarterback Q011, came with impressive figures including top 5 per cent for calving ease, top 10pc for growth and carcase weight and top 2pc for intramuscular fat.

Weighing 868 kilograms at two years of age, he presented with a scrotal circumference of 40 centimetres.

New owners Rennylea Angus, Holbrook, and Don Macrae, Bullseye Angus at Molesworth, Vic, will share the super curve-bender with commercial breeder Guy Campbell, Condamine, Qld.

Rennylea Angus have a long association with Booroomooka, and had calves by Rennylea S69 in this year's centenary sale.

Mr Campbell and his wife Nicole, took out champion and reserve carcase in his division at the Royal Queensland Show's recent Paddock to Palate competition.

They will retain walking rights to Booroomooka Veloso V320 who will go over a line of cows with Rennylea blood.

Replacement heifers from that cross will join the Campbell Family trust herd of 1200 Angus breeders running on 10,500 hectares of buffel grass and Bambatsi country.

"When breeding we look for low birth weight and survivability," said Mr Cambell. "At the same time we value high intramuscular fat. We want those genetics to flow through into our herd. "

All three shareholders will retain semen rights, with Veloso V320 sent for collection at Ced Wise AB Services, Glen Aplin, Qld.

In his opening remarks, stud principal Sinclair Munro said the first lot of the sale was "hard to beat for his data set anywhere in the breed".

That was followed by Mr Tanner's comments that the bull exhibited "curve bending figures" and was "the complete package".

Successful bids sent constitutionally impressive bulls, with their balance of growth and carcase figures, to a wide range of environments.

Their acceptance was testimony to six generations of breeding experience by the Munro family, at Keera.

New Zealand stud Grampians Angus, Tekoa Range north of Christchurch, paid $24,000 for a son of Rennylea L519 in Booroomooka Vancouver V535, with top 2pc IMF, top 1pc mature body condition and top 3pc Angus Breeding Index figures.

Grampians Angus stud principal Jono Reid was in the selling barn and glad to be back at Booroomooka, having worked under the tutelage of the Munro family in 2005.

"Our aim is to breed an efficient product," he said, praising Booroomooka for delivering sires that qualified.

"A breeding program that puts the pressure-on, delivers a good cow."

Gwydir river sandy loam at Keera is challenging enough, and Booroomooka cow lines are tested and tried. Mr Reid experienced some of this during his time spent with the Munro family.

"I like what they do," he said. "They are so genuine.

"They roll up their sleeves and work."

Mr Reid said he admired the stud's maternal focus.

"They are constantly challenging the cows," he said.

At the opposite end of the climatic spectrum, western Queensland grazier Hugh Cameron, buying once again for Cameron and Sons at Roma and Charleville, and who join 3000 cows, said his Booroomooka bulls delivered solid results on hard, Mulga country.

Going away with eight lots to average $10,000, he said the Booroomooka sire at home "hang on much better" in that western country.

"They have a good constitution," he said.

Booroomooka Angus bull sale, August 13, 2026.

On King Island in the Bass Strait westerly gales of rain keep paddocks soft and spongy.

"There's no rocks to knock them around," said Duncan Clemons, Manuka Properties, who bought three Booroomooka bulls to average $22,000 and top at $28,000 for a son of Landfall Signature S1755 in Booroomooka Signature V327 with top 7pc for $A.

"For us feet are really important," he said.

"We also buy for weight. Those bulls were between 860 and 890kg at two years. But we have got to watch growth and for that we looks at the EBV figures and the raw data."

Mr Clemons' enterprise joins 1200 Angus cows across 2000ha with progeny grown out on rye grass and clover, cocksfoot and lucerne, with processor JBS paying a 40c/kg premium for higher MSA grading.

"I finish steers at two years old, 340kg (carcase weight), and that premium pays three-quarters of our freight costs," he said.

Box Moor Angus Bundarra came away with Booroomooka Volgograd V82 by Landfall Signature S1755 for $45,000 with a top 4pc Angus Breeding Index ($A) figure at $274, top 2pc for scrotal size and top 6pc for birthweight.

Bill and Margie Doak, principals of Box Moor Angus, join 900 Angus cows each year, depending on the season. They have been buying Booroomooka bulls for three decades and count the Munro family as friends.

Their son Brad described the Booroomooka trait as "hardy and good milking with females that perform".

"If they can survive here they can survive anywhere," he said.

"The character of these animals is their consistency."

The Doak family also bought a Rennylea S69 son, in Booroomooka Viscount V139, for $28,000 with top 5pc growth and carcase weight figures.

Another son of Chiltern Park Picasso P9, Booroomooka Voss V388, made $45,000 and sold to Forster and Sons, Uralla.

The sale was hosted by Davidson Cameron and Company with AuctionsPlus and Stocklive.