The ILC is Coming
Fast
It is now only about five
weeks before the pre conference tour begins in WA and six weeks to the start of
the core conference in Melbourne. Our
overseas bookings for the core conference and pre and post conference tours
continue to come in.
Australians planning to
attend individual events or any section of the conference are asked to book as
soon as possible to assist with planning and venue bookings.
If you are coming to
Sydney we are holding rooms at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in the city at
very reasonable rates for Sydney.
Please contact ANF Agritours on 02 6772 9066 for bookings as soon as
possible.
New Merchandise
We will have a range of
new merchandise for the ILC conference and already have for sale smart new
Limousin caps. They are bottle green
with the new logo and cost $12.00 GST inclusive. Please order your new caps from the ALBS office.
Boom Sale for
Timor
The Timor reduction sale
set a strong start to the selling season for Limousin with a $4,475 average for
51 of the 52 black, red and apricot females offered. Fifteen cows with calves (mostly PTIC) sold to $9,000 and
averaged $5,533. Nine unjoined heifers
sold to $6,000 and averaged $3,583 and 27 PTIC females made to $7,500 and
averaged $4,185.
Lorraine Smith of Misty
Hill Limousins at Mudgee paid the top price of $9,000 for the apricot 1998 drop
Timor Choice Poll Donna 5 with a Wulfs Lowell calf at foot and PTIC to
Ionesco. Mark Chapple of Pirallilia Limousins
at Kangaroo Valley bought five head for an average of $6,300 including the
$8,000 second top priced Timor Poll Lotus 17 with a Riviere Vue Very Good bull
calf at foot and PTIC to Ionesco. Danny
Modrusan, The Eyrie Limousin Stud at Elmhurst in Victoria bought four females
to a top of $7,500 for the black 2002 born Timor Black Touch Poll Donna 2 and
an average of $6,062.
Females sold to Victoria,
Queensland and NSW in a very strong sale.
All prices are on the ALBS website.
The Timor web catalogue received almost 9,000 page hits from over 300
visitors which is a record for a Limousin web catalogue.
Hamilton Beef
Expo
Daren Turner's Southwest
Limousins won the coveted Champion Pen of Three Bulls at the Hamilton (Vic)
Beef Expo. These three bulls will be
offered in the Classic Limousin Bull Sale at Culcairn on Friday 10th
March which will offer a total of 47 black, apricot and mostly polled
bulls.
The Senior Champion Pen of
Bulls at the Expo were exhibited by Donna Valley Limousins and these three
bulls will be in the 80 head Donna Valley Sale on 2nd March.
Michael O'Sullivan's
Kensal Limousins won the Supreme Beef Exhibit in the led show at the Expo and
this bull will also be in the Classic Sale.
Mandayen Photos
Damian Gommers called to
say that the photos on the Mandayen web catalogue for the sale on 22nd
February (next Wednesday) have been updated.
White Lakes
Weights
Up-to-date weights and
scrotal sizes for the bulls to be offered in the White Lakes sale on 24th
February (next Friday) will be available from www.whitelakes.com.au
from the afternoon of Monday 20th February.
Crookwell Show
Results
Grand Champion Led Steer - Birubi Zebadee Z476
Limo Stud Classes
Junior
Heifer – Premier Red Ice A22
Reserve
Junior Heifer – Birubi Rose Gold Z461
Senior
Champion Female - Birubi Masters Touch
Reserve
Senior Female - Premier Temptress Z16
Grand Champion Female - Birubi Masters Touch
Junior
Bull – Birubi Zoom Z457
Reserve
Junior Bull - Raystine Zephyr
Senior
Bull - Raystine Zodiac
Reserve
Senior Bull - Birubi Mr Vegemite Y323
Grand Champion Bull - Birubi Zoom Z457
Interbreed
2nd
in the Pair of Bulls - Raystine
Junior
Interbreed Female - Premier Red Ice A22
Supreme
Champion Female - Birubi Masters Touch
Moss
Vale Limos Fire (from The Land)
Limousins
continue to fire in the Moss Vale prime sale with Landmark agent Ashley Clark
reporting that Fred and Michelle Geard, Premier Limousins, Joadja, sold a 485
kg 12 month old cull bull for 207.8 c/kg or $1,008.
Peter
Chauncy, Nandi, Canyonleigh sold 10 Premier sired vealers at an average of
214.2 c/kg or $724, with the top 365 kg calf returning $840.
Wodonga
Sale Toppers
Limousin
and Limousin X cattle continue to top the large Wodonga market. Last week they topped five different
sections of the market.
Colin
Watson of Bungowanah topped the heavy steer section with 7 pure Limousin steers
540 kg @ 184.2 c/kg or $995 (9 cents a kg above the next highest price).
AA
& DJ McIntyre of Ben Valley topped the yearling steer section with 6
Limousin X steers 428 kg @ 199.2 c/kg or $853.
MH
& CB Webb of Walla Walla topped the yearling heifer section with Limousin
heifers 410 kg @ 200 c/kg or $820 (24 c/kg higher than the next highest price
for similar weight Angus heifers).
L
& A Christesen of Beechwood topped the steer vealer section with 14
Limousin steer vealers 288 kg @ 211.2 c/kg or $609. (The top four pens were Limousin and Limousin X)
Mirimar
Partnership of Albury topped the heifer vealer section with 8 Limousin X heifer
vealers 290 kg @ 208.6 c/kg or $605.
(The top three pens of heifer vealers were Limousin or Limousin X.)
Top Bull Sale
Sandra Keatley of Pebbly Range "retired"
an eleven year old bull which weighed 980 kg and at 151 c/kg made $1,480 – a
nice retirement benefit!
"Herds"
like Limousin
The Consett family run a
230 high content Limousin cow herd at Casterton in Western Victoria. They have been selling their calves to a
small feedlot which then sells the finished product to Geelong processor and
wholesaler MC Herd and Son. Carolyn
Consett followed the last lot through to Herds and reports that head buyer,
Nigel Vince "is sold on Limousin".
Yours in Limousin
Alex McDonald