IT WAS all about the greys at the Big Country Brahman Sale last week at the Dalrymple selling complex, with the three top priced bulls all coming from the grey lineup.
The top priced bull of the sale sold for $94,000, with Lawson Camm’s grey bull Cambil Hawkins 4817 selling to Peter Camm, Glenprairie, Marlborough.
A total of 156 grey bulls sold for a 99 per cent clearance and an average of $9210 (gross $1,424,000).
Hawkins 4817, a polled stud sire, boasted 900kg of red meat, with an impressive EMA of 137sq cm, and a scrotal circumference of 37.5cm.
Second top priced bull of the sale was also Lawson Camm’s offering, with the grey Cambil Ascot Manso 4809 selling to a partnership of Brett Nobbs, Nobbs Cattle Co, and John Kirk, Carinya Brahmans, for $66,000.
Ascot Manso 4809 weighed 870kg with an EMA of 135sq cm and a scrotal circumference of 39cm.
Peter Camm said Hawkins 4817 was a strong bull with good genetics who would be a solid sire in his herd.
“I’ve been supporting Lawson (Camm) for a fair while… and a few years ago I told him he better get some polleys otherwise we won’t be buying off him,” Peter Camm said.
“And this is the first of the polleys coming through and I figured I better put my money where my mouth is.”
Peter Camm has about 30,000 breeders between stations in the Kimberley region and Central Queensland.
“We’re buying 1000 acres which is under contract on the Atherton Tablelands at Malanda, and these bulls will go there,” he said.
Throughout the sale, Peter Camm bought 29 lots, grossing $420,500 for an average of $14,500.
Cambil Brahmas principal Lawson Camm said the sale was the best he had ever had, with ten bulls selling for an average of $26,000.
He said Hawkins 4817 was his pick of the sale, and said he was the “best polled bull that we have ever bred”.
The third top priced bull in the greys was Palmal Brahmans’ Palmal Django 6972, who sold for $46,000 to Brooke Jefferis, Elrose, Cloncurry.
Buying big in the greys was the Knuth family, Burdekin Downs, Charters Towers, who bought nine bulls averaging $5333 (gross $48,000), Bill Darcy, Malapunyah, Tennant Ck, who bought nine bulls averaging $5166 (gross $46,500), Tom Sheahan, Valley of Lagoons, Ingham, who bought eight bulls averaging $4500 (gross $36,000), and David and Holly Stevens, Cremona, Julia Creek, who went home with seven grey bulls averaging $8285 (gross $58,000).
The entire Big Country Brahman Sale grossed $2,952,500, for an average of $8340.
The gross rose 47 per cent on last year, with the average up 13 per cent and bull numbers up 27 per cent.
Selling agents: McCaffrey’s and Geaney’s.