HUNTINGTON Jeremiah was a standout as a calf and reached the pinnacle of showing when crowned Beef 2015 grand champion bull earlier this year, but selling for the Australian record price of $30,000 last Tuesday was something special for Matt and Luke Welsh and families.
Whilst achieving the record price helped maintain their top ranking in the Charbray breed, it was more about the confidence fellow breeders demonstrated in the Huntington breeding direction for Matt Welsh.
Having held the previous record at $28,000 for Huntington Forrester (P) in 2012, it was the under bidders on Forrester, Kerod and Clare Lindley, Spring Villa Charbrays, Wowan who went one better this time and bid the $30,000 record money for Huntington Jeremiah (P).
Mr Lindley was determined not to go home empty handed and wanted Jeremiah because of his tremendous softness, smoothness and temperament and will use him over his generation-bred Charbray cows.
According to Mr Lindley other important selection factors were his parents were both polled and his raw data figures for eye muscle area (145sq cms) and 5.5 for IMF percentage were ideal carcase improving indicators.
Central Queensland seeds stock producers Chas and Judy Nobbs, Nobbs Grazing, Cordelia, Moura outlaid the $26,000 second highest money for the current Brisbane junior and grand champion Charbray bull in Huntington Kenworth (P). Another quality, generation-bred Huntington bull with polled parentage weighing in at 818kgs at 21 months and is destined for the Cordelia Charbray bull breeding program.
Joint selling agents Elders and Landmark sold 52 bulls, mainly Charbrays, for a $5567 average at the annual Huntington Charbray and Charolais bull sale, Taroom saleyards which represented a clearance rate of 83 percent. The Charbray bulls averaged $6000.
Some of the bulk orders included Andrew Hacon, Hacon and Sons, Granada, Cloncurry operating through Colby Ede, Landmark, Toowoomba accounted for eight bulls $5375 average; Ray Allwood, Allwood Farming, Gaemond, Yuleba with four bulls at $3000; Matt Pulsford, Hamstead, Toogoolawah with three at $4000 and the Streeter family, Karinya Cattle Company, Taroom with seven for a $3714 average.
Toogoolawah with three at $4000 and the Streeter family, Karinya Cattle Company, Taroom with seven for a $3714 average.
One of the real strengths of the Huntington generational-bred Charbray genetics is their ability to perform in numerous stud and commercial herds across Queensland.
Agents Elders and Landmark.
