ONE of WA’s largest bull sales continued to set the benchmark for prices and averages when the Monterey Invitational sale saw a total of 64 Murray Grey bulls, 21 Angus bulls and 68 Murray Grey and Angus females sell under the hammer on Wednesday and Thursday.
Monterey Murray Grey and Angus studs, Karridale, offered 52 Murray Grey bulls and 31 Angus bulls on the first day and 96 Murray Grey and Angus females on day two.
The Tullibardine Murray Grey stud, Albany, offered 14 Murray Grey bulls for a 100 per cent clearance.
Tullibardine also took top price honours when it sold a bull, Tullibardine Formula One F54, for $15,500 to Wylie Woolcock, Raymond Park Murray Grey stud, Chittering.
Formula One was sired by Tullibardine Civil C90 and was sold on a three quarter share and possession basis. He was the supreme Murray Grey exhibit at the 2011 IGA Perth Royal Show and had the equal highest EMA figure of Tullibardine bulls scanned.
Tullibardine averaged $6268 for its 14 bulls.
Monterey achieved a 97 percent clearance of the Murray Grey bull offering to top at $10,000 and an average of $5294.
Its top price bull sold to the Gregurke family, Tarlina Murray Grey stud and Richard and Cathy Koral, Glenbold Murray Grey stud, Echunga, both from South Australia.
The bull, Monterey Frame Up F47, was a junior traitleader for the breed and was a son of Monterey Saratoga. His growth data was in the top one per cent of the breed and he was in the top 5pc for supermarket index.
Monterey also offered two semen packages from two of its top stud Murray Grey bulls, Monterey Fortress F14 and Monterey Fastrack F35, and these sold for an average of $92.50 per straw for 50 straws.
Buyers were more selective in their Angus bull purchases with 21 of the 31 bulls offered selling under the hammer at an average of $4417, which was up $77 on last year’s average of $4340.
The top price Angus bull, Monterey Frame Up F199, showed depth of body, great width and tremendous muscling and sold to RJ & JD Reid, Albany.
Frame Up had the highest IMF scan in the catalogue of 6.5 per cent.
He also displayed raw data figures of 43kg for birthweight, 6.8 for frame score, 41cm for scrotal circumference and 117cm for EMA.
In the female section of the sale, held for the first time on a second day and termed the Heart of the Herd female sale, the Monterey stud cleared 68 out of 96 Murray Grey and Angus breeders offered at an average of $3537.
Monterey’s standing as one of the leading Murray Grey studs in Australia was reinforced by the spread of buyers, with purchasers from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania operating on the catalogue.
In the Murray Grey offering the stud cleared 15 from 18 PTIC cow and calf units at a $4333 average; 18 out of 26 PTIC cows at a $3681 average; seven out of 19 PTIC E-drop heifers for a $4179 average and two PTE E-drop heifers both at $2500.
In the Angus run the stud sold 15 from 18 PTIC cow and calf units for an average of $3550; three from five PTE cows at an average of $2250 as well some unregistered and commercial PTIC cows.
The sale was topped at $6750 by the rising seven-year-old PTIC cow and calf unit, Monterey Dutchess A102, when she was purchased by Glenburn station, Glenburn, Victoria, for its recently registered Malcom stud.
The cow was by Monterey Star Man X153 and had a silver bull calf at foot by Tarlina Cairns.
Dutchess A102 had been depastured with Monterey Whirlwind.
Topping the Angus offered was Monterey Miss Broadway Y65 when it was purchased by the Della Gola family, JM & H Della Gola, Northcliffe.
The 2003-drop cow was sired by Woodbourn Challenge Q54 and had a heifer calf at foot by Monterey Colossus C44. The cow was PTIC to Wallaroy Expert.
Full report in next week’s Farm Weekly.
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