The Clermont Saleyards will play host to the second annual Clermont Santa Gertrudis Bull Sale on Tuesday November 29 from 11am.
A total of 69 high performance Santa Gertrudis bulls will be offered at the sale from 10 of the breeds most highly regarded studs including: Broad Leaf, Cardona, Diamond H, KM Cattle Co, Red Rock, Waco, Yarrabee and Yarrawonga, in addition to first time sale vendors Wilamba and Jamar.
After inspecting the bulls, sale coordinator Trent McKinlay from Landmark Stud Stock Rockhampton is confident that the high quality of the sale draft will draw a lot of interest from prospective buyers come sale day.
“The bulls have been selected for weight gain performance, fertility and temperament,” he said.
“Progeny from these sires will perform on grass and grain and will fit both domestic and export markets.”
He said it has been an outstanding year for the breed with commercial and stud stock Santa Gertrudis cattle reaching record prices.
“We’re hoping that the solid returns vendors have enjoyed this year continues to occur at Clermont.
“We’re expecting the seats at the saleyard to mainly be filled by local bidders but we’ll hopefully have people arriving from as far north as Charters Towers, down to Springsure and possibly even from the North West.”
The Clermont Santa Gertrudis vendors would like to wish the buyers every success with their purchases and look forward to catching up at the sale.
All bulls will be pre-treated for ticks for easy clearance and will have up to date vaccinations. All bulls from clean areas have been treated for 3 germ blood.
Catalogued bulls will be semen tested and/or morphology tested, and will have weights, daily weight gains, eye muscle and fat scans and scrotal measurements available.
Free delivery will be available to the Emerald, Alpha or Charters Towers saleyards.
Pre-sale inspections are welcome on Monday, November 28 from 2pm at which time supplementary sheets will also be made available.
For inquiries contact Trent McKinlay on 0429 004 737 or email trent.mckinlay@landmark.com.au