$10,500 top for Rocky All Stars Elite Brahman Female Sale

Overall the sale saw a clearance of 84 per cent, with an average of $4370, and a gross of $218,500. 

Regal Lady sold for $10,500 to Collinsville’s Dillon Scott, Rosetta Station. 

Mr Scott also went home with the top priced grey heifer of the sale, Scott Angel’s Glengarry Jerra 2755 (H). 

Buying up at the sale was Central Grazing Company, Mackay, who went home with nine red heifers. 

Central Grazing’s nine lots grossed $32,000 for an average of $3500. 

Four buyers went home with three heifers each.

Dillon Scott purchased three, including the two top priced heifers, to gross $26,000 for an average of $8666. 

Sue Hammer, Annavale Station, Charters Towers, purchased three grey lots for $17,000 to gross $5666. 

P and C Mackenzie, Arizona Brahmans, Dingo, took home three to gross $14,000 for an average of $4666. 

Red Stone Brahman Stud, Hillview Station, Hughenden, grossed $10,500 to average $3500. 

Palmvale’s Beth Streeter has been selling at the sale since its conception at the Silverdale sale yards “many many years ago”. 

She said her two top priced heifers, lots 12 (Palmvale Patti 3526, sold for $7500 to Dillon Scott) and 14 (Palmvale Regal Lady who topped the sale) were her picks of the draft. 

“They were probably heifers I should have kept at home in my herd but you need to put really good ones out there,” she said.

“I’m really happy with how the sale went.

“Lot 12 is by Fairy Springs Duracell who’s progeny have been selling really, really well over the last few years, Lot 14, she’s by a polled Tarramba bull that we bought privately at Beef 2015 for $20,000.

“He’s been breeding the house down at home – this is the first animal to be offered by him.”

This year Ms Streeter won’t be at Beef to show cattle and is instead going for the first time as a spectator only, but said her gates will be open for appointments.

She said the importance of female sales could not be understated.

“I mean females are the base of your herd – it’s an opportunity for people starting out to access really good stud heifers,” she said. 

“And also people that just want to bring different bloodlines to their female herd.”

Mr Scott said the heifers would be going home with him to Collinsville into the Brahman stud and commercial crossbred herds. 

“It wasn’t really part of the plan, but with the price that we got them for they may as well come home,” he said. 

“They’re just to breed bulls for ourselves really.

“They’ll probably have to be used in IVF embryo programs.”

The Scott family run between 14,000 and 15,000 breeders.

He said Lady Regal was “the best heifer in the yard”.

“She’s got a good head and neck extension,” he said. 

Mr Scott said while they don’t frequent the sale, they have purchased from there in the past and from Ms Streeter “quite a bit”.

Glengarry’s Scott Angel said he was happy with how his line sold, and said his top priced heifer was not a surprise. 

“I thought she was (the pick of his line) because of her bone, her presence, she’s got a lot of character, how she’s bred – just overall a good heifer,” he said. 

“We were pretty happy, we averaged $5083 for 12 so you can’t not be happy.” 

Selling agents: Elders.