Mixed results for Speckle Park sales in the past week

Two major Speckle Park feature sales have had dramatically different results as the breed continues to try to make its mark on the commercial world.

Two major Speckle Park feature sales held late last week had dramatically different results as the breed continues to try to make its mark on the commercial beef world.

While a Speckle Park bull sold for $55,000 last week at the JAD Speckle Park sale at Yeoval, NSW, another fixture had a low clearance.

The top-price bull was the highlight of the JAD Speckle Park sale where all 48 bulls offered sold and averaged $12,263.

The sale’s top-price bull, JAD Sizzler S50, sold to a syndicate of Big Star Speckle Parks and Ron Potter Farms, both from Hillston, NSW.

Auctioneer Brian Leslie said buyers were a mix of repeat commercial and stud buyers from across Australia.

“This is a great advertisement for the Speckle Park breeders of cattle,” Mr Leslie said.

“These people (the Dickens) are fair dinkum farmers and this is their bread and butter – there is nothing else propping things up,” Mr Leslie said.

Action at the JAD Speckle Park sale at Yeoval, NSW.

“These cattle have to perform and if they don’t, they don’t stay afloat so it’s why they are so ruthless in their culling program and are doing a great job because they have to and they are.”

JAD Speckle Park also sold 18 registered females to a top of $20,000 and for an average of $11,667, while 122 PTIC commercial heifers averaged $2777.

Meanwhile it was a different story for the multi-vendor Speckles in the Mist inaugural sale at Mittagong, NSW, over the weekend.

About half of the 46 bulls and females sold at auction, though some did sell afterwards.

Ray White auctioneer James Brown said the clearance was not as high as vendors had hoped, but it was reflective of the cattle market, and all bull sales had been affected this year.

“What I can say is that these vendors put on a wonderful sale and they need to make a start somewhere,” Mr Brown said.

“You can’t judge the success of the sale on just the result and these cattle will now be out in herds and performing, and this will help the sale in the future.”

The top price at the Speckles in the Mist sale was $10,600 paid for six embryos from Six Star Pho Finish, while a 26-month-old bull, Merom L11 Logic R23g topped the bulls at $9000.