Welcome to our 29th Annual Bull Sale, we are absolutely excited to offer you these bulls.

One of our core breeding objectives since we started has been the whole of value chain, and is the reason we started breeding Angus long before they were ‘cool’. Known for consistent high eating quality, going onto feed well, being easy to sell, high fertility, long history and depth of objective genetic analyses – these are just some of the reasons why the Angus breed in Australia is continually growing.

Our recent visit with Stockyard’s Kerwee Feedlot reinforced that those breeders with Angus and Angus infused cattle will always have somewhere to sell. Stockyard have grown from 4000 Angus to 15,000 in the last four years, with plans to double in the next few years. Stockyard are one of many beef brands heavily aligned with Angus.

When selecting for a combination of traits, there are many Angus sires we have used and bred that are leading the way.

As a combination of traits, there is no other bull in the entire Angus Australia breed registry that surpasses Glenoch Kallangur K112 for growth, scrotal size, days to calving, carcase weight, EMA, positive fat, yield and marbling. His progeny are super quiet and very structurally correct. Very few bulls come near him for growth and carcase traits, let alone adding in the fertility traits. There are eight sons in the sale.

As a combination of traits, there is no other bull in the entire Angus Australia breed registry that surpasses Glenoch Hinman H221 for calving ease, growth, feed efficiency, carcase weight, EMA and marbling. There is one son and seven grandsons in the sale.

As a combination of traits, there is no other bull in the entire Angus Australia breed registry that surpasses Texas Mount K2 for calving ease, growth, scrotal size, feed efficiency, positive fat, marbling with moderate milk. There are 16 sons and 30 grandsons this year.

As a combination of traits, there is no other bull in the entire Angus Australia breed registry that surpasses Baldridge Beast Mode for calving ease, growth, scrotal size, days to calving, feed efficiency, EMA, yield and marbling. There are eight sons in the sale, and if you are wanting to breed thumping weaners and feeders, there are very few that do it better than Beast Mode.

As a combination of traits, there is no other bull in the entire Angus Australia breed registry that surpasses Glenoch JK Makahu M602 for calving ease, gestation length, growth, scrotal size, days to calving, docility, feed efficiency, carcase weight, EMA, positive fat, yield and marbling. He truly reads and looks a very balanced bull. There are six sons available – the first to sell in Australia.

The five sires mentioned above account for a large majority of the bulls offered in our sale. We hope that the overall offering can give real world, on-farm benefits to commercial breeders, and that you will be equally impressed with what you see in the flesh come sale day.

We feel that the Sandon Glenoch, JK Cattle Co and NB Genetics combination allows for genetic diversity, particularly the NB Genetics embryo transfer bulls.

As always, dam fertility data is available on all bulls to give an indication of the longevity in the cow line. We only have one joining period per year, as you will notice other seedstock herds have two.

This year all sale bulls have been structurally assessed by Hayley Moreland, who is an accredited, independent structural assessor for TACE (Breedplan). These scores are provided for each bull in the catalogue. Because we have just started submitting the scores to Breedplan, the accuracy of the structural EBVs is low, so we recommend taking more notice of structural scores provided than the structural EBVs. More information on how to interpret the structural scores is on page 15 in our catalogue.

For the first time, our sale will be interfaced with AuctionsPlus to offer an alternative to attending on sale day, due to COVID-19. To support buyers to use this option, all bulls have comments in the catalogue, and individual photos will be provided on AuctionsPlus.

As always, we welcome any inspections prior to the sale and are happy to provide any other assistance.

Many thanks for reading our catalogue, and if we don’t catch up between now and sale day, all the best going forward.