Te Mania Angus bull sale

The respected Angus stud’s bull sale has achieved a solid average price, with both commercial and stud buyers competing. See the recap.

Bull sold to $41,000 at the Te Mania Angus sale.

Bulls sold to a top of $41,000 at the Te Mania Angus sale on Wednesday.

While the top price didn’t reach last year’s highs, it was a solid sale with strong commercial and seedstock buyer competition.

Overall 160 bulls sold from 169 offered, for an average of $12,400.

This compares to last year when 160 bulls sold to $110,000 top and an average of $15,075.

Te Mania director Tom Gubbins said the dream had always been to sell a mix of high-end bulls to other seedstock breeders but to also give as many serious commercial producers as possible access to cutting-edge genetics to fast-track their own herd profiles.

The top-priced $41,000 bull, Te Mania Tough T1284, sold to Ardroy Securities at Metcalfe. The 19-month-old bull was sired by the highly sought Te Mania Legend L646, and his dam, Te Mania Lowan P645, is being prepared to flush and supply embryos to the US.

Te Mania Tough had an Estimated Breeding Value 600-day growth of +146kg, in the top 10 per cent of the breed, and an eye muscle area of +12.5sq cm, in the top 5 per cent of the breed.

Sinclair Munro of Booroomooka Angus, at Bingara NSW, paid the second top of $40,000 for Te Mania Thanos. The bull has an intramuscular fat score of +8.1mm, which is in the top 1 per cent of the breed and more than three times the breed average.

Mr Munro said he “simply could not go past its combination of marbling, its calving ease numbers and very quiet, docile temperament”.

Major buyers included the Coulton family’s Morella Agriculture from Goondiwindi, in southern Queensland, which purchased 10 bull to $18,000 for an average of $13,600, while the Henwood family’s Aldingham Trust from Carathool in NSW and Winton in Queensland, took 13 bulls to a high of $14,000 and average of $9615.

Mr Gubbins said the beef industry had been on a roller-coaster in recent years and against that backdrop he felt the Te Mania Angus sale held up well.