ELOORA Shorthorns have recorded an average price of $22,750 and smashed all previous records at the recent 69th Naracoorte Shorthorn Bull Sale, selling their eight bulls, with two selling for $30,000.
Four New South Wales (NSW) studs secured new sires, with lot 16 Eloora Kingston R19 the first bull to make $30,000, selling to Jason and Kylie Catts of Futurity Shorthorns, Baradine.
Kingston R19 had 10 traits in the top 10 per cent of the breed and an All-Purpose Index (API) in the top two percent.
Gerald Spry, Spry’s Shorthorns, Wagga Wagga, and Ashley Morris, AJM Shorthorns, Young, NSW, secured the second $30,000 bull - lot 18 Eloora Kosciuszko R10 - a bull featuring excellent calving ease data and marbling in the top two per cent of the breed and an API in the top 10 per cent.
Second top price of $28,000 was paid for by Nalpa Pastoral, Strathalbyn, South Australia (SA), for lot 19 Eloora Kathmandu R114, the first son to be offered in Australia by BSG Profitwise 1767.
Eloora imported semen in Profitwise in 2019 and have a stunning run of two-year-old heifers on the point of calving now, in addition to the bulls sold this autumn averaging $19,500.
Hillcrest Pastoral, Lucindale, SA secured lot 15 Eloora Kansas R20 for $26,000 to be used within their large-scale Angus, Shorthorn and Hereford crossbred herd.
Kansas R20 was the first son to be offered from home grown sire Eloora Geelong M24, and created presale interest from New Zealand, the United States of America (USA) and Argentina, with negotiations underway for the semen rights to the USA and Argentina.
The fourth stud to purchase an Eloora sire was Outback Shorthorns, Holbrook, laying down $22,000 for lot 17 Eloora Keystone R12 - a high carcase quality bull with marbling in the top three per cent and API in the top two per cent.
The Naracoorte multi-vendor sale, which has been running a remarkable 69 years, offered and sold 36 bulls for an outstanding average of $15,667, with vendors from Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales offering an excellent draft of bulls selling to five states.
The sale was opened by Emma Golder of JBS Australia, who told the large crowd in attendance that the exclusive Shorthorn Thousand Guineas brand was experiencing unprecedented global demand, and the current premiums offered for eligible Shorthorn cattle would continue for some time as demand far exceeds supply.
The Brook family have enjoyed a hugely successful autumn bull selling season, with bulls selling at auction and private treaty to New South Wales, South Australia, Northern Territory, Tasmania and Victoria.
