Buyers reached deep into their pockets at the 28th Annual Midland Cattle Breeders’ Association Gingin Bull Sale held on Thursday 3 March. 78 bulls were offered and 60 sold in the multi-breed sale which offered Black Angus, Limousin, Gelbvieh, Murray Grey and Speckle Park stock.
Black Angus were strongly represented with the top price of $18 000 paid for Kapari stud’s Kapari Thunderbird K31, setting the all time record top-price for
the sale through Landmark. Sired by US sire, Thunderbird 9061 and out of Kapari Princess F34, the magnificent beast sold to Gingin producer David Hodby.
Brad Alps, of Beermullah, who just missed out on the top-price bull, paid $12,500 for another Kapari bull, Thunderbird K18 – clearly a popular sire.
Mat Preston of Bindoon bought two Limousin bulls from Tara stud
Black Tara Angus stud also received a record price of $16,000 to an undisclosed buyer, making Black Angus Bulls the stars of the day. Six Limousin bulls offered were sold to a top-price of $11,500 — new stud record for the Kupsch family, of Tara stud, and the Stickland family, of Mungatta stud, Wongan Hills, were very pleased when an Eastern States buyer paid a stud record price of $8500 for their Murray Grey bull Mungatta Online K30.
