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HEREFORDS AUSTRALIA
Whiteface bulls sell to $5500 at Alice Springs sale South Australian stud Minlacowie took out the broad ribbon and top whiteface price of this year’s Alice Springs Show Bull sale. The multi-breed and multi-vendor sale was held on July 7 and resulted in 31 bulls selling from the 43 offered to top at $10,000 and average $4354. Tom and Amy Honner, Minlacowie Poll Herefords, Brentwood, SA, exhibited Minlacowie Macquarie M107 to champion Poll Hereford and supreme champion bull of the show under judge Hannah Powe, Cargo, NSW. 1 Sired by Ivy Bank John J10, the 21-monthold bull sold for $5500 to Mount Skinner Station, Northern Territory. The same buyer went on to purchase Minlacowie Marvin for $4500 and Minlacowie Magill for $5500. Days Whiteface, Bordertown, SA, sold four Poll Hereford bulls for $4000 while the Bendulla Poll Hereford stud, Mundulla, SA, sold three bulls for $4000. The major bidders on the Poll Hereford offering were Undoolya, Mount Skinner and Stirling stations. 2 Poll Hereford breeders Ben and Nicole Hayes, Undoolya, NT, won the Centenary Cup for the best NT bred pen of two steers and the champion pen at the Roe Creek sale. Jamie Hayes, Undoolya, won the best interstate bred female with Poll Hereford, Colleen, while Nicole Hayes exhibited the champion led NT bred steer. Riley Eagleson, of the Undoolya team, won the handler 12 years and under, and Bridgette Cadzow, Mt Riddock, the handler and junior judging 11 to 18 years, and the 3 Rabobank junior encouragement award valued at $1000 to attend a heifer show. Jamie Hayes, Undoolya, won the Junior Herdsman Award. The Alice Springs Show and Blue Ribbon sale on July 5 yarded 3800 head at the Bohning Yards and topping at 289c/kg for milk tooth steers from Alcoota Station. Opening the sale was a line of 47 milk tooth Poll Hereford steers, 426kg, from Undoolya Station, selling for 271c/kg or $1155 to Teys Charlton for their 100-day grain fed program. Other lines from Undoolya included 53 milk tooth steers, 394kg, sold to Princess Royal for 280c/kg. Princess Royal bought a further two lines from Undoolya – 30 steers, 338kg, at $946 or 280c/kg and 30 steers, 345kg, making 280c/kg or $967. The second highest price of the day was achieved by black baldy steers from Lucy Creek, Alice Springs, weighing 324kg and fetching 286c/kg or $978 to Teys Charlton. Lucy Creek also made the highest price per head of the sale with black baldies, 445kg, making $1177 or 264c/kg to Teys Charlton feedlot.
1. The Elders team knock down the opening pen from Undoolya for 271c/ kg to Teys Charlton feedlot. Image Nicole Hayes. 2. Whiteface steers were in demand from lot feeders for their 100 day grain fed programs at the Alice Springs sale. Image Nicole Hayes. 3. Attending the sale at the Bohning Yards were Dick Cadzow, Mount Riddock, NT, Peter Bloomfield, Alice Springs, NT, Andrew Summers, Mount Riddock, and Ben Hayes, Undoolya, NT. Image Stock Journal. The Garden Station, Alice Springs, sold Poll Hereford steers, 377kg, for 260c/kg or $980 to Princess Royal. Coolalie Feedlot, Paskeville, snapped up milk and two tooth Hereford steers from Bond Springs, Alice Springs. Weighing 345kg, the steers sold for 266c/kg or $919. Teys Charlton bought a pen of 30 European Union and United States Department of Agriculture organicaccredited Hereford steers, 387kg, from Bond Springs, for 268c/kg or $1037. Platinum Livestock agent Matt Pawley bought 65 Hereford-cross steers, 323kg, for 264c/kg or $854 from Lucy Creek. In the black baldy pens, Aileron Pastoral Holdings, Alice Springs, sold two tooth steers, 340kg, for 225c/ kg or $766 to Creek Livestock.