Buyers spend up at Kanimbla Poll Herefords autumn sale

Offering the five sons of a bull rated as Kanimbla Poll Herefords’ best has helped drive the stud’s autumn-sale average to more than $8000 and its clearance rate to 92 per cent.

Kanimbla Poll Hereford principal Mark Baker with two bulls that made $12,000 each at the stud’s sale north of Holbrook today. Picture: Fiona Myers

BUYERS chasing the offspring of US sire Endure 173D pushed averages up over $8000 at the Kanimbla Poll Hereford sale at Holbrook today.

Sons of Endure 173D were offered for the first time at today’s sale and Kanimbla’s James McWilliam said it was not surprising they sold well.

“We rate Endure as the best bull we have used in the stud and we have retained five of his sons to use within the stud, so that is how highly we rate him,” Mr McWilliam said.

And while a storm may have hit as the sale began, it didn’t dissuade buyers who spent up to $13,000 and an average of $8041.

Twenty-four of the 26 bulls offered were sold, for a 92-per-cent clearance rate.

The top-priced bull was Kanimbla Wallace Q065. He wasn’t one of the Endure sons but instead was sired by Glentrevor Wallace H427 and sold over Auctionsplus to Glen Bowman from Bowman Performance Genetics at Neerim South.

Wallace Q065 had Breedplan figures in the top 1 per cent of the breed for calving ease and top 10 per cent of the breed for birth weight with a figure of just 1.6.

Mr McWilliam said the top-priced bull had been used within their own herd for all their spring-joined females.

“There is a lot to like about this bull, which is out of a proven cow line with soft skin and an excellent hair type,” he said.

Three other bulls made $12,000 each and all were sired by Endure. One went to the Hurley family from Condobolin while two others went to the Rogers family from Gelantipy.

Several fellow stud breeders operated at the sale, which also offered 10 heifers, which topped at $6500 and averaged $4950.

This included Melmeth Herefords at Clarence Town which bought a bull for $8000; Yavenvale at Adelong, which bought two heifers for $5500 each; Lancaster Herefords, Lancaster, which bought two females for $6500 and $5000 and Bond Hill Herefords, Tumut, NSW, which bought a heifer for $3000.

Mr McWilliam said the sale had gone well, but he had expected more depth in the bidding from stud breeders.

“Overall, we are really happy with how today went and thought the sale was really strong,” he said.

“The best thing is that we have repeat clients coming back and it was good to see they were prepared to pay for the kind of bulls they wanted.”