LARGE crowds and repeat buyers from five states made it to Pathfinder Angus stud's 25th annual SA and Victorian sales at Naracoorte and Gazette last week.

It was a year to remember with the Moyle family achieving a full clearance of 250 bulls for a $16,233 average.

Pathfinder produced SA Angus Week's largest offering and attracted easily the biggest crowd too.

The bidders from Tasmania to northern SA swarmed around the pens prior to the sale and packing out the stands for both the more than 2.5-hour marathon sales.

Many more logged on through AuctionsPlus, including buyers from Roma, Qld and Orange NSW.

The mainly long-time, repeat buyers pushed sale averages and highest ever top price to $50,000.

The top priced bull was Pathfinder Lakewood R861 - Stud Principal Nick Moyle said he was “an easy doing bull with a huge rump on him and he'll go on and produce some fantastic females”.

Nutrien stud stock manager, Gordon Wood said it was a "great sale and no one will surpass this one in the numbers sold”.

"It is a hell of a sale to clear that number of bulls without any big pastoral orders or any person I could think of that grabbed 20 or more bulls, they were spread across a lot of buyers."

Mr Wood said the predictability and repeatability of the Pathfinder breeding program was "second to none".

Nutrien's Richard Miller said it was a credit to the Moyle family for them to year-after-year put up bulls with leading Breedplan figures which also showed the same traits in their phenotype.

This gave the many buyers looking for multiple bulls plenty of options.

"Some sales we go to, you might only have 10 bulls to operate on to buy six - you could have bought them with your eyes shut today," Richard said.

"Thirty or forty bulls would have ticked the box for people looking for the same traits, there was low birthweight heifer bulls with plenty of growth, plenty of IMF (intramuscular fat) and fat right through.

"It is testament to the program and the product they produce."