A BOLD move to change their satellite sale date and venue paid off for Kandanga Valley principals John and Roz Mercer when prices sizzled to a record $20,000 for Charbray bulls at their summer sale on Saturday.
Normally they conduct their 'satellite' bull sale in Nebo late in the year, but a change in circumstances paved the way for an additional on-property sale at Warravale, Kandanga via Gympie of 36 Charolais and 14 Charbray bulls.
Kandanga Valley co-principal John Mercer was humbled by their sale result and their record Charbray top money and thrilled with the number of first-time buyers.
Overall, 36 Charoloais bulls averaged $6730 and 14 Charbray bulls averaged a respectable $9286 for a near-total clearance.
Progressive young stud masters Bryce Moore and Lucy Ziesemer of Trifecta Charbray stud, Taemarie, Condamine, bid the $20,000 Charbray record money for the outstanding, generational-bred youngster, Kandanga Valley Province (P).
The 25-month-old son of Kandanga Valley Lauchie weighed 980 kilograms and scanned 145 square centimetres for his eye muscle area and 5.6 per cent for intramuscular fat.
Mr Moore said Province resembles what they want to breed - "a soft, cleaned coated, honey coloured, generational bred Charbray with excellent growth performance and good carcase qualities."
"He is similar to his father and that is where the consistency comes in and his scan figures are great and he has a great disposition," Mr Moore said.
Mr Mercer backed his judgement saying before the sale commenced, Province was possibly the best polled Charbray his stud has offered to date and he was a quintessential 'modern' Charbray - golden, polled, quiet, long soft muscling with good testes and plenty of bone and breed character.
The $14,000 top selling Charolais was Kandanga Valley Peruvian (P), a performance packed 28-month-old son of Palgrove Lombard (P) which was bought by the WW Pastoral Company of Gladstone.
Typical of the first time operators were Rhett and Amy Bonisch, Hillview, Injune, who bought seven, big upstanding Charbray bulls for a $7722 average for their straight Charbray commercial breeders.
"We selected bulls which will do a job for us and clean up our breeders' coats and it is becoming harder to buy proper, generational bred Charbrays," Mr Bonisch said.
- Selling agents: Nutrien Livestock and Shepherdson & Boyd
Full report in this week's Queensland Country Life.
