MIGHTY MIKE: Yerwal Estate principal Regan Burow, Elders stud stock manager Tony Wetherall and Elders Millicent’s Scott Altschwager with Yerwal Mike. Photo by Stock Journal
By Jacqui Bateman, Stock Journal
SALE SUMMARY
2018 2017
Offered 23 41
Sold 12 31
Top $7500 $13,000
Av $5189 $5758
BLACK was the colour of choice on Friday at the fifth annual Southern Cross Simmental Sale, with the $7500 top price paid twice for two Black Simmental bulls bred by Yerwal Estate, Lucindale.
Held in a new venue on the outskirts of Mount Gambier, joint vendors Yerwal Estate and Rellum Farms, Mount Gambier, offered 23 Simmental bulls for sale.
Twenty-one buyers from Mount Gambier, Lucindale, Naracoorte, Penola, Millicent, Dartmoor and Horsham, Vic, registered their interest in the sale.
Oakview Trust twice paid the top price of $7500 and was also the volume buyer with its purchase of the two black sires.
Yerwal Boss Hogg, weighing 866 kilograms with a eye muscle area of 125 square centimetres, was the first in the sale ring to reach the $7500 high.
Yerwal Mike – weighing 918kg with an EMA of 127sqcm – followed, and was also snapped up by Oakview Trust for the same price.
LS Johnson & Sons, Naracoorte, paid $6500 for Rellum Farms Matrix, a dark red son of Woonallee M Mussey weighing 852kg, and AJ&LC Facey, Millicent, also paid $6500 for their pick from the catalogue, Yerwal Mustang, a dark red, polled bull weighing 776kg,
Yerwal Estate sold eight out of 13 bulls offered, averaging $5313, while Rellum Farms sold four of 10 to $6500, averaging $4625.
Yerwal Estate stud principal Regan Burow said he was happy with the sale and thought it “landed about where I expected it would”.
He believed the Black Simmentals sold particularly well, predicting a good future for them, and said it showed the need to keep the focus on producing soft, polled bulls for market requirements.