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RECENT CATTLE MARKET REPORTS

GRAFTON

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GRAFTON FAT CATTLE SALE 08/08/2023

341 TOTAL HEAD YARDED 198 EXPORTED 143 YOUNG CATTLE

341 head sold at today’s Fat Sale. The market for Bullock’s lifted 10c/kg with Bullock’s topping at 276.2c/ kg. Cows were slightly cheaper, topping at 220.2c/ kg. Weaners sold frm to the previous Fat Cattle Sale, however the lighter and rougher quality calves was very hard to sell.

WARWICK

MC DOUGALL & SONS LIVESTOCK MARKETS WARWICK WEEK ENDING Market

Report 09/08/2023

Cattle numbers are frm with the constant lack of moisture convincing many vendors to lighten up before the dry sets in. The market for the heavier types may have just lessened but the lighter stylish types of young cattle may have just frmed slightly. The markets for the processors are still full in supply, lessening the robust competition usually seen.

Vealer steers av 306.1 c/kg topping at 340c/kg or $809.83 to $1192.16

Vealer heifers av 231.6c/kg topping at 257.2c/kg or $590.59to $887.34

WARWICK

MC DOUGALL & SONS SHEEP & LAMB REPORT

EKKA time approaches and while the weekly sale is to be contended with the Vendors were also lining up their competition lambs for The EKKA. The lambs will be judged and sold at the EKKA on Saturday after being processed at Carey Bros at Yangan. The weekly sale saw an increase in numbers as many vendors are looking to off-load before the dry spell becomes a drought. The lambs were drawn from local, South - West and Maranoa as well as the Northern Districts of NSW. Lambs topped at $129 to av $90.48($12up), Hoggets topped at $100 to av $76.59($29up), Ewes topped at $83

SALE HIGHLIGHTS

Grafton Fat Cattle Sale Tuesday 8th August 2023

A/c B Reilly sold Braham Cross Bullocks 274.2c/kg averaged 652kg - $1,787.78 p/hd

A/c LD Holdings sold Charolais Heifers 240c/kg averaged 510kg - $1,224.00 p/hd

A/c B & W Borsato & R Caldieraro sold Angus Cross Cows 208.2c/kg averaged 518.3kg - $1,079.17 p/hd.

A/c AE & TE Farrow sold a Hereford Bull 230c/kg weighed 825kg - $1,897.50

A/c AE & TE Farrow sold Hereford Heifers 240c/kg averaged 355kg - $852.00 p/hd

A/c GO Beasley sold Angus Cross Heifers 170c/kg averaged 249.3kg - $423.79 p/hd

A/c GO Beasley sold Angus Cross Steers 266.2c/kg

Feeder steers av 304.4c/kg topping at 350c/kg or $1170.48to $1599.84

Feeder heifers av 262.9c/kg topping at 290.2/kg or $933.34 to $1124.10

Yearling steers av 309.5c/kg topping at 340c/kg or $900.23 to $1365.88

Yearling heifers av 238.8c/kg topping at 300c/kg or $737.98to $1170

Steers av 271.9c/kg topping at 312.2c/kg or $1580.06 to $1961.02

Heifers av 251.1c/kg topping at 292.2c/kg or $1210.17 to $1748.96

Manufacturing steers av 226.2c/kg to return $954.56

Cows av 194.6c/kg topping at 245c/kg or $1071.95 to $2145

Bulls av 238c/kg topping at 292.2c/kg or $1225.86to $2749.05

Sheep and Lamb numbers were up across the

to av $43.54($5 up), Wethers topped at $95 to av $75.64($24up), Lamb rams topped at $80 to av $40.91($8down). The total yarding of 2089 head averaged $80.23 a rise of $13/head week on week.

Greenup Maryland P/S sold Dorset lambs 54kg to Thomas Foods for $125

Nev Baldock sold Dorper lambs 48kg to Eversons for $108

Phil & Gabe Byrnes sold Dorper lambs off feed 50kg to GR Prime for $108, 47kg to Leslie Lamb for $100, 45kg to GR Prime for $99

Sally Cadalora sold Dorper x lambs 50kg to Eversons for $108, 45kg to Grants Quality Meats for $100

Gradenfoe P/C sold Dorset 1st x lambs 45kg to GR Prime for $92

averaged 219.2kg - $583.42 p/hd

A/c SJ & TJ Elks sold Angus Steers 270c/kg averaged 173.8kg - $469.13 p/hd

FORTHCOMING SALES

Friday 18th August 2023 – Wakefeld Charolais & Angus

Bull Sale - Wakefeld’, Wollomombi | 1pm

Sunday 20th August 2023 – Bizzy & Jomanda Brahman

Sale, Pre-Sale Open Day - At Individual Studs

Tuesday 22nd August 2023 – Grafton Fat Cattle Sale, Grafton Saleyards | 8am

Saturday 2nd September – Bizzy & Jomanda Brahman

Bull Sale, Grafton Saleyards | 11am

Thursday 7th September 2023 – Grafton Store Cattle

Sale, Grafton Saleyards | 9am

spectrum with some good lines of export and trade weight lambs available. The mutton was frm for the heavier end and weaker for the light and off types. The market for rams and ram lambs was virtually non-existent. Restockers showed some interest in ewe and lamb units.

Lambs topped at $129to av $90.48 ($12up)

Hoggets topped at $100 to av $76.59($29 up)

Ewes topped at $83to av $43.54($5up)

Wethers topped at $95to av $75.64($24up)

Rams topped at $50 to av $30.48($46 down)

Lamb Rams topped at $80 to av $40.91($8 down) Sale total averaged $80.23a rise of $13/head week on week.

Sows sold to $150, Baconers to $290, Boars to $140, stores from $60 to $170, Sow & Litter made $820 Geese sold to $42.50, Hens to $30 Roosters to $25

Written By: Ross Ellis

Reilly Past Co sold Dorper x lambs 60kg to Thomas Foods for $125, 52kg to Warwick Meats for $105, 59kg to Eversons for $108, 54.2kg to Take IT

Easy Meats for $104, 45.7kg to Eversons for $71, Suffolk ewe lambs to restockers for $66, Hoggets 66.5kg to Uniplaza Meats for $88, 54.6kg to Take IT

Easy Meats for $75, Wethers to Thomas Foods for $90, Ewes to Eversons for $80, Ewes to restockers for $80

Bernie & Alma Haaijer sold Merino hoggets 54kg to Eversons foe $74, wethers (69kg) to THomas Foods for $95

Geoff & Rosemary Gibson sold Merino hoggets 407kg to restockers for $47

Will Bazley sold Suffolk x sucker lambs 47kg to Tonys Supa Meats and Thomas Foods for $129

BIZZY Brahman Stud is proud to present 16 practical stud and commercially focused bulls that are ready to perform in all herds whether it be breeding your perfect F1 female or introducing new genetics to your stud herd. Bizzy’s offering includes 12 Red and 4 Grey Brahman bulls, 4 of which are polled bulls. IVF and AI sons

of Kenrol Mr HJ Ray, Brolga Gully 2254/0(PP) and Rockley Tyrion will be offered with all bulls in good healthy working condition, with the temperament, natural thickness, topline and carcass quality’s Bizzy bulls are renowned for.

Bizzy will be presenting 8 registered red Brahman Females with their lead heifer being

LOT 41 – Bizzy Sheila S35. Sheila is a part of the very successful 2023 Show team. An AI daughter of Caiwarra Leader, she is an extremely quiet polled feminine female with good length of body and very good udder and teat placement.

JOMANDA Brahman

Stud has 14 ft, young active bulls backed by a full set of EBVs

with high accuracies, including two polled sires and a quality line of 10 heifers.

This year’s sale sons are from the ever consistent sire lines of NCC Drummond, Jomanda Honda-our home breed sire and the frst progeny release of our Polled sire, Kandoona Kennedy. All Jomanda bulls carry great depth body, strong

top lines, powerful heads, with excellent temperaments.

Backed by our everconsistent fertile cow families, Jomanda has lined up its biggest set of heifers to date with 10 classic females included two polls. This year some of our heifers will be offered PTIC to one of our exciting new Polled sires, Kandoona Southport, purchased last

year for $55,000. This is a great opportunity to access new polled genetics that the industry is chasing.

Catalogues available online at www.brahman. com.au or contact selling agents Donovan Livestock and Property 66434411 or George & Fuhrmann Casino 6662 2500.

Jomanda BRAHMANS

LOT 3 - Jomanda Lance.

LOT 23 - Bizzy F S39.

The Annual Bizzy and Jomanda Brahman Sale will be held on Saturday 2nd September 2023 at Grafton Saleyards.

open day at respective studs will be held on Sunday 20th August 2023.

Sweetpotato growers go to vote on levies

Sweetpotato growers will need to vote on whether to scrap the contentious industry marketing levy as part of a review into whether the levy is delivering value for money to growers.

Troy Prichard, President, Australian Sweetpotato Growers Inc (ASPG) said that there was consensus from the members present at the November AGM that ASPG now conduct a review of the one per cent marketing levy.

“Growers have had differing views about the value delivered by the marketing levy over the years, so a review and formal vote is the most appropriate way to decide whether to

Don’t repeat mistakes in bush push

keep the levy in place.”

Sweetpotatoes are available all year round in Australia with total production around 100,000 tonnes worth an estimated Gross Value of $100 million in 2019/20. The industry employs around 4000-5000 people.

Queensland is the biggest producer with over 90% of the area grown, mainly around Bundaberg. The second major producing area is around Cudgen in northern New South Wales. Sweetpotatoes are also grown at Mareeba, Atherton, Rockhampton and the Lockyer Valley (QLD), Murwillumbah (NSW), Perth, Carnarvon and Kununurra (WA).

The state’s peak farming body says country communities need to be better equipped to deal with an increasing number of ‘tree changers’.

According to research commissioned by NewsCorp Australia, more than three million people living in capital cities intend to move to a rural or regional area to escape soaring rents and constant congestion.

While people in regional centres were welcoming, NSW Farmers Rural Affairs chair Deb Charlton said they were sometimes ill-equipped to handle an infux of new

neighbours.

“When you look at our major centres like Wagga Wagga, Orange or Tamworth, they have health services and educational opportunities, but as you move out to smaller towns that’s where the gaps really appear,” Mrs Charlton said.

“Smaller towns are already crying out for essential infrastructure and the people to deliver those services, and without a deliberate effort to address these shortfalls we risk making things worse.

“We need to have good planning in place – not just for housing and

where it goes – but in terms of how we’ll cater for millions of additional people in rural and regional towns.”

Mrs Charlton said the trend towards remote working, which was accelerated by the pandemic, opened up a number of opportunities for people who no longer needed to be in ‘the rat race’. But if decision makers failed to adequately prepare country communities, they risked repeating big city mistakes.

“Sydney grew in an ad-hoc fashion and now the government is spending billions of dollars trying to retroft

transport infrastructure and build new housing and schools to cope with all the people,” she said.

“I can see a similar situation happening with a city like Wagga Wagga – a big centre with plenty of potential –but without its own mass transit system and only a two-lane link to the Hume Highway.

“We need good planning in place to anticipate and keep up with demand so we can really unlock the great opportunities that exist for everyone outside of our major cities.”

WELCOME TO THE BIG S GROUP 49TH ANNUAL BULL & FEMALE SALE

Thursday 7th September 2023 - 12 noon - Allora Showgrounds, Allora QLD.

Elevate Your Beef Enterprise: Unveiling the 49th Big S Group Santa Gertrudis Sale

The 49th Big S Group Santa Gertrudis Sale on Thursday 7th September will offer 64 high quality

bulls and 24 registered females to suit a range of commercial beef and stud operations. In it’s

A showcase of premium and excellence.

49th year, the longrunning multi-vendor sale will be held at the Allora Showgrounds,

Allora QLD, and offers top genetic bloodlines. The auction starts at 12 noon and cattle are available for viewing from 9.00am on the day of the sale. The sale catalogue is drawn from 11 vendors from Queensland’s Darling Downs, and the New England and Northern Rivers regions of NSW. The sale will feature 23 bulls direct from the Northern Rivers area, with the line up of vendors including Avalon stud from Greenridge, Black Rocks stud from Tabbimoble,

Lindsay Park stud from Fairy Hill and Wakan Maka stud from Jiggi. Of the 64 bulls on offer, 52 are polled including fve homozygous polled (PP) bulls while 23 of the females are polled. The sale catalogue offers some well-known genetics with bulls by Gyranda Quicksand, Diamond H Utility, Rockingham Powerhouse, Murgona Levi, Canowindra Gold Edition, Rosehill Jameson 4, Glenn Oaks Nifty and Dangarfeld Quarterback. Other genetics include

Yarrawonga Yemen, Tyndale Noddy and Yarrawonga Youtube. The Big S Sale offers animals that would suit stud buyers or commercial operations, where the Santa Gertrudis breed was well known for its crossbreeding values. Bulls available represent excellent value for money with a top price of $14,000 at the 2022 sale.

To request a catalogue, please contact Alison on 0400 141 548.

Avalon Santa Gertrudis

Producing Quality Cattle.

Bradbury Park

Since 1921

Avalon was founded in 1967 and registered #681 in 1970 after the purchase of a cow in calf by brothers Ian and Geoffrey Clark.

53 years later, it is still operating on the banks of the Richmond

River on the outskirts of Casino NSW.

We pride ourselves in producing quality cattle, which have the breed standard temperament, structure and colour.

We proudly offer for consideration 3 bulls

and 3 females which have been hand picked and ftted for this sale.

If you have any enquires please contact Ian - Owner 0417069325

Or

Net - Stud Manager 0475073527

Bradbury Park has been linked to the Shiels family in Australia for over 200 years. The original property at Campbelltown in NSW, was owned by William Bradbury. On the 14th of January 1822, Lachlan Macquarie was a guest at Bradbury Park. Having named the property, he described it as one of the best farms in the colony of NSW. In the 1820’s & 1830’s, William Bradbury was the main supplier of beef to the colony of NSW. He supplied William Cox when he built the road over the Blue Mountains Today, Bradbury Park is located at Robertson in the Southern Highlands of NSW and is run by Chris & Elle

Shiels. Chris Shiels is the direct descendant of William Bradbury through his daughter Mary Shiels. The Shiels family have gone to great lengths, to source premier bloodlines from studs, such as, Tudor Creek, Denngal, Gyranda, Willamba and Macaire.

Chris Shiels became interested in the Santa Gertrudis breed as a young man, with his involvement with King Ranch Stud in Bowral, NSW. He was quite successful riding King Ranch horses in the show ring. The Shiels family are proud to present quality Santa Gertrudis stock for sale and appreciate the support of buyers purchasing their stock Bradbury Park’s standing sires are

Macaire Jack, purchased from the Moxey family in 2021, and Bradbury Park James Tyson. Bradbury Park James Tyson’s sire was Capricorn Big Business, and his dam is Denngal Dimity, who was purchase by auction, at the 2014 youth camp in Warwick. Dimity then went on to gain a 2nd placing at the Sydney Royal Show. She was prepared, and exhibited by the Moxey family, on behalf of Bradbury Park.

Recently, Titan T2, was shown at the 2023 Sydney Royal Show, achieving Junior Champion Santa Gertrudis Bull. Titan T2 is a half-brother to Macaire Jack.

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World famous shuttle stallions arrive for Australian breeding season

Shuttle stallions are highly valuable, male thoroughbred and standardbred horses who are ‘shuttled’ between the Northern and Southern hemisphere to mate and produce valuable offspring for the racing industry.

Renowned for their race-track performance and historic pedigrees, these stallions will mate with some of Australia’s top broodmares.

The shuttle stallions who have arrived this season have a total value of $450m and will mate with up to 150 to 200 mares each, with stud fees up to $93 000.

Deputy Secretary Biosecurity and Compliance, Dr Chris Locke said despite their value and fame, the horses must complete testing, treatments, and quarantine to protect against biosecurity risks, just like any another animal imported to Australia.

“We have now released the frst intake of shuttle stallions from their mandatory minimum stay of 14 days in our

“We are particularly focused on equine viral arteritis (EVA), which is a viral disease that can be carried and

foals.

“We scrutinize the shuttle stallions’ preparations to ensure they meet import

quality mares could be worth millions at future Australian bloodstock sales.

The department is supporting industry with their aim to further improve the quality of Australian horses competing in Australia and the world’s most

breeding season begins on 1 September every year. From this time, mares can be mated to or ‘covered by’ stallions.

Fast Facts

The frst intake of thoroughbred stallions released from postarrival quarantine (PAQ) on 1 August 2023 were from the USA, UK, Ireland and Japan and included:

• Triple Crown (the three biggest races in the USA in the same year) winner Justify (USA) who will stand for $77,000 and Wootton Bassett (GB) whose 2023 stud fee is $93,500.

• Other notable stallions who have arrived include:

o 2021 Cox Plate winner State of Rest (IRE)

o Churchill (IRE), St Mark’s Basilica (FR)

o Starspangledbanner (AUS)

o Zoustar (AUS)

Post Entry Quarantine facility in Victoria— where we ensure they are healthy and don’t present a biosecurity risk, before they go out to stud,” Dr Locke said.

transmitted by stallions. EVA is a serious, economically important disease which can cause abortions, severe disease in affected animals and can cause death of young

conditions for EVA and other diseases of biosecurity concern and monitor them closely post-entry.”

The progeny from these stallions and high-

high-profle races, and ensure Australian horses continue to be highly sought-after for export markets.

The offcial Australian

o Wooded (IRE)

o Lucky Vega (IRE)

o Maurice (JPN)

o Admire Mars (JPN)

o Artorius (AUS)

o Satono Aladdin (JPN)