APPLICATIONS are now open for the CM Hocking Memorial Scholarship, a prestigious Herefords Australia bursary introduced 20 years ago to support young people pursuing careers in agriculture across the country. Founded in 2002 through the estate of the late ‘Madge’ Hocking, a pioneer of the Hereford industry, the $5000 bursary is open to all Australian…
The Victorian High Country is the beating heart of the Hereford breed with generations of families valuing the temperament, growth and doing ability of the cattle. The annual Mountain Calf Sales are held each March at Hinnomunjie, Benambra, Ensay and Omeo, presenting the region’s lead draft of autumn drop mixed sex weaners. The sales draw…
The spotlight well and truly shone on the females at the Omeo Weaner Sale where retockers paid a stellar $2900 for autumn drop Shorthorn/Hereford heifers, leaving the buying gallery and onlookers stunned. Restockers and lot feeders made a plunge on the heifers, pushing prices skywards by $500 on the morning’s Ensay sale and skyrocketing to…
Vendors were left open mouthed as buyers kicked up a gear at the Ensay Weaner Sale and lifted autumn drop steer prices by $130 on the Benambra Weaner Sale to top at $2780. Selling agents Elders Bairnsdale yarded 662 steers and 303 heifers for the March 9 fixture at the Ensay yards in challenging conditions…
Steer finishers and restockers maintained the momentum to push autumn drop steer prices to a new record of $2650 and heifers to $2660 at the Benambra Weaner Sale A big crowd of buyers and vendors descended on the Benambra yards for the opening Elders whiteface fixture of the 82nd annual Mountain Calf Sales on March…
Vendors were all smiles as the opening sale hit unchartered waters for whiteface yearling steers of $3060 and weaners of $2500 at the Benambra Calf Sale. Victorian and NSW steer finishers and lot feeders converged on the Victorian high country on Tuesday to bid for whiteface cattle at the 82nd annual circuit opener. Selling agents…
Sale date: Monday 21st Feb 2022 Number offered: Bulls 30, Heifers 9 Number sold: Bulls 30, Heifers 9 Top price: Bulls $30,000- Twice, Heifers $5,500 Average price: Bulls $15,656, Heifers $4000 Name of top priced animals: Sugarloaf Creek Rapture: R119, Sugarloaf Creek RedWine R111 Sire of top priced animal: Karoonda Reggie SKSK422 Purchaser of top priced animal: SCHR119 – Lotus Hereford Stud, SCHR111 –…
Sale date: 22/2/22 Number offered: 92 Number sold: 92 Top price: $70,000 Average price: $20,565 Name of top priced animal: Injemira Kickstart P093 R153 Sire of top priced animal: Injemira Kickstart P093 Purchaser of top priced animal: D & M Elsom & Emigrace Poll Herefords- Hamilton Vic Sale comments: A result that was so unexpected and humbling. The strength of the sale was…
THE genetics of 2022 Yarram Park Performance Bull Sale bell ringer, Yarram Lottery R162, will be put to work across both a high-performing commercial herd and a stud operation after the 22-month-old bull was knocked down for $58,000 at the record-breaking auction. Neville and David McClure, Mooree Partnership, Chetwynd, secured the long and smooth sire,…
Sale date: Tuesday 8th February Number offered: 43 Number sold: 34 Top price: $22000 (Hereford), $9000 (Poll Hereford) Average price: $8120 (Hereford), $6111 (Poll Hereford) Name of top priced animal: Glenellerslie Underestimated (H), Glenellerslie Up & Comer (PP) Sire of top priced animal: WRL Makka (H), Quamby Plains Jaguar J253 (PP) Purchaser of top priced animal: Greg O’Brien,…
