Millah Murrah at Bathurst breaks Texas Angus record

The new record was made at a sale in NSW – and the buyer of the bull has previously paid whopping prices for cattle.

The Australian Angus record price has been smashed today by Millah Murrah Angus at Bathurst in NSW.

Two bulls from the popular Paratrooper line have sold for more than $200,000 and the total clearance of 118 bulls averaged $34,220; also a record average price for the breed.

Millah Murrah Paratrooper R38, lot 11 in the catalogue, sold for $280,000 to Brooklana Angus stud, near Dorrigo, at Millah Murrah’s annual spring bull sale.

The price tops Texas Angus’ previous record price of $225,000, achieved in July at Warialda.

The red-hot sale saw another bull, lot 13, another from the popular Paratrooper family, Millah Murrah Paratrooper R48PV, make a staggering $240,000 sold to a syndicate.

Lot 58, Millah Murrah Paratrooper R275PV, also sold for $110,000.

The top-priced bull was sired by Millah Murrah Paratrooper P15PV out of Millah Murrah Abigail P57PV and was described by the stud in the sale catalogue as an “outstanding animal”.

Brooklana paid $190,000 for Millah Murrah Prue M4 in 2017, which is the Australasian all breeds highest priced female.

The blurb on the online auction platform Elite Livestock states: “We (Millah Murrah) flushed a few cows like N30 to him and used him to mop up the AI program in Autumn. An incredibly virile worker, R38 is as thick as any bull we have ever produced with a true B+ muscle pattern.

“A heifer’s calf, his mother joined the donor team this year on the back of this 1st effort. R38 is beautifully bred, with Crusader of Stern a line behind B10. We eagerly anticipate the arrival of his calves.”

Auctioneer Paul Dooley said the average price of $34,220 was a breed record.

“It is very exciting to sell a bull for $280,000; we didn’t think he’d make that much,” Mr Dooley said.

“He is going to change people’s studs; he will have a huge impact on the breed.”

The bull is in the top five per cent of the breed for domestic, heavy grain and heavy grass indexes. He has 200-day, 400-day and 600-day growth and carcase weight figures that also sit within the top five per cent of measurements for the Angus breed.

He also ranks in the top 10 per cent for mature cow weight, scrotal size and calving ease.