Warragul & Drouin Gazette

Elite genetics at the Kelly Angus autumn sale

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Commercial beef breeders looking to add more elite genetics to their herds will be spoilt for choice with an exciting selection of high-end commercial females added to another impressive line-up of 18-month Angus bulls selling at auction at the Yea property’s 3rd annual autumn sale.

Stud manager Patrick Joyce said along with the with expanded line-up of 64 bulls, and 36 fifteen-to-seventeen-month AI bred commercial heifers will now be included in the sale on Thursday 24 March.

The depth of quality in the bulls on offer is across the board in this year’s sale draft said Mr Joyce,

“We’ve got several home-bred bulls that are performing very well,” Mr Joyce said. “There’s a strong blend and an even playing field of both US and Australian sires.

They are a very balanced set of bulls and very consistent on data, even from multiple sire lines.”

Kelly Angus has maintained its focus is on exceptiona­l calving ease and birth weight, backed up by explosive growth and strong carcasses.

“With any of these bulls, you can use them for heifer mating through to cow mating and not be compromise­d,” Mr Joyce said.

“The bulls across the board have calving ease, growth and their carcase is exactly where it needs to be. You could do any job with them.”

Mr Joyce said adding females to this year’s sale offered buyers more value and an opportunit­y for the stud to showcase its genetics during a period of strong positivity in the industry.

“We thought it would be an opportunit­y to introduce commercial females into the marketplac­e so people can get into top-end genetics out of proven genetics.” Mr Joyce said.

“It can only have a positive impact.

The females are all high-end commercial product out of stud cows; they are robust with strong pedigrees behind them, and they could go into any operation for breeding or creating sound foundation herds around them”. “You could do anything with these heifers and achieve a great outcome.

The most important parts of our own breeding operation are our robust, resilient, good-doing females,

“It has been an exceptiona­l season,” he said. “We’re in a fortunate part of the world. If everywhere else is doing well, we’re usually doing exceptiona­lly well.

There’s a lot of positivity in the market.” Mr Joyce said Kelly-blood infused weaners were smashing prices per kilo at markets. “It’s quite exciting for our clients to be able to buy bulls from us, follow our program and now reap the rewards,” he said. “Our genetics have proven profitabil­ity at multiple markets.

We know the end goal and what are the most profitable outcomes for our clients and work from there.”

Prospectiv­e buyers are welcome to preview the full annual sale offering by private appointmen­t.

The annual autumn auction will be held on-property in Yea, starting at l pm, and livestream­ed via Auctions Plus.

Visit www.kellyangus.com.au for more informatio­n.

 ?? ?? The 2022 group of Kelly Angus Bulls for sale.
The 2022 group of Kelly Angus Bulls for sale.

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