Another major event on the
Limousin calendar was the National Show and Sale at Wodonga on 20th
April.
Champions in the Show Classes were as follows:
Junior and Grand Champion Female
and Supreme Exhibit – White Lakes Allspice
Reserve Junior Female
Champion – Jaarnella Lukas A508
Senior Champion Female –
White Lakes Success Story
Reserve Senior Champion
Female – White Lakes Wil O' The Wisp
Junior & Grand Champion
Bull – Flemington T057 Zoom Z70
Reserve Junior Bull – Waterford in Your Dreams
Senior Champion Bull –
Longreach Sir Zelman
Reserve Senior Champion Bull
– Birubi Mr Vegemite Y323
National Sale
Strong demand for females was
the feature of the National Sale with a complete clearance of females topping
at $10,500 and averaging $5,125 for eight senior females and topping at $15,000
and averaging $4,716 for 13 junior females.
Top priced female was the
Supreme Exhibit White Lakes Allspice a Malibu daughter which sold to Garrison
Cattle Feeders of Swan Hill, Vic. The
same buyers paid $10,500 for Senior Champion cow White Lakes Success Story
which had a Malibu bull calf at foot.
Garrison Cattle Feeders who
run a 10,000 head feedlot at Swan Hill and have about five large cattle breeding
properties, purchased nine females to a top of $15,000 and an average of
$6,417. They also purchased two bulls
to a top of $4,750 and an average of $3,875.
Seventeen of 19 senior bulls
sold to a top of $8,500 and an average of $4,118 and eight of ten junior bulls
to a top of $8,000 and an average of $3,975.
Top priced bull was Willow
Park Zambuck purchased by Geoff and Jocelyn Owen of Glenola Limousins at
Wodonga.
The Grand Champion bull
Flemington T057 Zoom Z70 sold for $8,000 to Warren Scifleet's Mimosa Limousin
Stud at Binnaway, NSW.
Volume sellers, White Lakes
Limousins from Toodyay in Western Australia sold all 14 lots offered for a
gross of $74,450 with the 12 females averaging $5,583.
Three frozen embryos offered
by Stevens Limousins by Ionesco from Stevens Moonshine T9 sold for $675 each to
Colin Wilby of Empire Limousins at Gunnedah.
The overall average price for
bulls of $4,065 was down by $779 on last year but the average price for females
of $4,869 was up by $1,163 which was a very satisfactory result.
Results from an outstanding
display of 225 Limousins judged by David Bondfield of Palgrove Charolais Stud
were as follows:
Females
Calf Champion – Premier
Temptress A40
Reserve Calf Champion – Donna
Valley Poll Krystal A494
Junior Female Champion –
Premier Mimi Z66
Reserve Junior Female
Champion – Donna Valley Razzamataz
Senior and Grand Champion
Female and Supreme Exhibit – Rosehill Rosie 6
Reserve Senior Female
Champion – Premier Mimi Y48
Bulls
Calf Champion – Waterford Monster
Magic
Reserve Calf Champion –
Longreach Atomic
Junior Champion Bull –
Flemington T057 Zoom Z70
Reserve Junior Champion Bull
– Waterford in Your Dreams
Senior Champion Bull – Kensal
Yeppoon Y56
Reserve Senior Champion Bull
– White Lakes Zed
Most Successful Limousin
Exhibitor was Premier Limousins
Limousin exhibitors also did
very well in the awards for Best Maintained Show Team judged across all
breeds. Hayley Sheehan of Waterford
Limousins was awarded best maintained small team and Donna Valley was awarded
the fourth best maintained large team.
A credit to both exhibitors in what was an outstanding display of
Limousin cattle.
Some more successes in the
Sydney Royal Carcase Competition.
The Champion Taste Test Steer
based on the Meat Standards Australia Eating Quality Score was the Grand
Champion steer shown by St Stanislaus College with a score of 37.93
points. This steer and the Reserve
Heavyweight steer had a marbling score of 3.2 which is very high for Limousin
steers.
Limousin carcases took out
first, second and third places in two Heavyweight classes and the top eight
places in the third Heavyweight class.
Results of the Heavyweight Classes were:
Class 10
1. – Kenneth and Tanya
Falkenhagen
2. – St Johns College /
Wilworril Limousins
3. – St Johns College /
Sheraton Cattle Co
Class 11
1. – William Cowper Boys
School / Tobias Limousins
2. – St Johns College /
Greenacres Limousins
3. – St Johns College /
Greenacres Limousins
Class 12
1. – St Stanislaus College /
Jordenspring Limousins
2. – St Stanislaus College /
Jordenspring Limousins
3. – St Lawrences Central
School / Timor Limousins
Top priced bull at the
Lardner, Vic sale was a Keystone Limousin bull sired by Jockey at $6,250 and purchased
by Lea Edwards of Riverdew Limousin Stud at Bunyip, Vic. Three Jockey sons offered by Keystone sold
for an average of $4,417. In total 25
bulls sold from 34 offered for an average of $3,722.
Nine of the 11 females
offered sold to a top of $4,500 and an average of $2,755.
Top priced females was The
Eyrie Zerana purchased by new Limousin breeders Gordon and Jean Ames of
Cherokee Limousin Stud at Trafalgar, Vic.
Friday
morning during the round it was a strange feeling, that all the sale cattle
were still in the paddocks and staying there while the computers all over
Australia did the work.
As
we were a sort of guinea pigs with the first stud sale in Australia on-line
only (we were told), we didn’t really know what to expect, but as usual we were
optimistic.
We
think it is a very good concept and will definitely do it again, a few things
can be improved on both sides, we are all learning.
Yes
we put a large catalogue together as we really want to scale down, so all our
foundation females were and still are up for grabs. The catalogue with sold and unsold lots is still on the Limousin
web site under Private Treaty Sales and supplementary sheets are available from
Tanholm Limousin.
We
could always hope to sell the whole catalogue, but as it was a bit of an
experiment we think it was a very good result to sell about 70 on the day and
more in the following days. At present
close to 100 head have sold, to at least four states and enquiries are still
strong.
Cows
averaged $3,596 with a top price of $6,000 (4 times). Heifers averaged $2,128
and bulls averaged $4,104.
Close off dates for the mid year BREEDPLAN analysis are 9th
June for non electronic data and 16th June for data submitted
electronically. Make sure you get
weights and docility scores in by these
dates.
As previously notified to
register calves after 1st July 2006 the sire of those calves must
have a DNA type on file. The only
exception will be if the sires are old AI sires which do not have an owner on
the ALBS database.
Please call the office if you
need DNA typing kits with which to submit hair samples.
The Australian Beef Industry
Foundation of which ALBS is a Governor member supports a wide range of events
and scholarships for junior cattle breeders.
Part of their fund raising is
a gifting program where breeders donate a steer or heifer for auction and the
proceeds go to ABIF.
ABIF is seeking offers to
gift an animal over the next 12 months.
It is a great cause and a very well run organization. For more information on ABIF go to www.abif.com.au.
Greenacres Limousins at
Quirindi, NSW will hold an inaugural sale at Gunnedah on 14th
July. They will be offering
approximately 30 apricot and light red bulls.
Carlene & Warren Scifleet
topped the cow section of the Binnaway (NSW) sale this week. The three cows averaged 743.3 kg and sold
for 162.5 c/kg or $1,208!
Karl Stoeckeler sold a 15
month old Limousin X Jersey at Warragul (Vic) recently. Weighing 455 kg it made 208.6 c/kg or
$949. He also sold two Limousin X
heifers 575 kg for 185.2 c/kg or $1,065.
Needless to say Karl was very happy with that result.
Ron and Chris Andrews
put five Limousin X vealer steers and three Limousin X vealer heifers aged 7 to
8 months over the hooks at Cowra Abattoirs this week. At $3.55 kg for both steers and heifers they averaged
$674.30. At 57 percent dressing
percentage this is equivalent to 202 c/kg with no selling costs.
Friday 5th May: Judging of Limousins at Beef 2006 at Rockhampton, Qld (starts at
8.00 am).
19th – 21st May: National Beef 2006, Bendigo, Vic.
27th May: Tramahler Female Sale, Gympie Qld. (catalogue on the web).
17th June: Talana Heart of the Herd Female Sale, Kingaroy Qld (catalogue on
the web).
23rd June: Homestation Breeding Female Dispersal Wangaratta Vic.
14th July: Greenacres Limousin Bull sale, Gunnedah, NSW.
29th September: Stevens Limousins Female and Bull Sale, Birriwa, NSW.
Yours in Limousin
Alex McDonald