Expo angus sales solid

THE average price of the R2 angus bulls sold at the 2016 Beef Expo in Feilding last week topped the $9100 mark.

The results tallied on the Beef Expo website showed the continued strength of the traditional angus in the face of a slow sale overall with 26 of the 27 rising-two-year-old angus bulls selling for an average of $9115. One of the two yearling bulls offered for sale sold for $8000.

‘‘In total we had 10 bulls that sold for over $10,000,’’ says Angus New Zealand’s show and sales committee chairman, Patrick Lane.

‘‘It was a pleasing result that has set a positive mood for bull selling season.’’

Three bulls sold for the highest angus price of $16,000 each. They were all from the Tru-Test Angus Bull Unit – Waitangi K229 sold by John and Joss Bayly in Northland to Willy Philip’s Dandaleith Angus at Dannevirke and Cedric Lander’s Wairere Angus Stud in South Taranaki; Ngaputahi K32 sold by Forbes and Angus Cameron at Ashurst to Hamish and Angela Williams’ Turihaua Stud at Gisborne; and Hingaia Woodcock from the Te Awamutu stud of Richard Jolly, which sold to John and Tracey Delmont’s Delmont Angus Stud in South Otago.

Hingaia Woodcock had won the most popular vote from 160 breeders, commercial farmers and industry people at the unit’s open day in Milson Line, Feilding last month.

The champion angus bull at the Beef Expo was Tangihau K37, which sold to James and Fiona Fraser’s Stern Angus in South Canterbury for $11,000.

Lane says the angus unit bulls sold well and overall he felt the Beef Expo was a successful event.

‘‘Posy Moody and her team did a great job on putting the whole things together.

‘‘On reflection on today’s market it was still a good sale although people were reserved in their spending and were a little more selective,’’ he says.