THE popular Annual MAGS Droughtmaster Sale will again service the cattle producers of Central and Northern Queensland with an offering of 80 bulls selected for the auction to be held at Dalrymple Saleyards, Charters Towers on Monday, November 10.
In total 95 per cent of the bulls are poll which caters to the growing demand among commercial cattle producers for quality, genetically strong, poll sires.
Sale vendors Mac and Gayle Shann of Lamont Stud, Kylie Graham of Mungalla Stud, Hugh and Sherri Philp of Valley Stud, Alison Atkinson of Durack Stud and Alan Atkinson have again shown their strong support for the Northern cattle industry electing to target their lead sale bulls to the MAGS event even though seasonal conditions continue to challenge Northern producers.
“It is getting closer to turning for the better,” Mac Shann said.
“We have seen the enormous lift in cattle markets across the board in the last six week since a bit of rain in the Central,” he said.
“The North’s turn is coming soon and will lift the prospects of this area of the cattle industry to a whole new level.
“Conditions could not have been more depressed when we had our sale last year but it allowed our bull buying clients to invest in top quality bulls at really affordable prices, from $2,500 and averaging under $4,000 for the sale.”
The reputation of the MAGS Sale bloodlines has again been strongly endorsed by highly successful 2014 results both in the stud industry and commercial cattle industry.
Progeny of Lamont Inmate, a bull that was sold at the 2010 MAGS Sale to Oasis Droughtmaster Stud of Emerald, set the recent Rockhampton National Droughtmaster Sale ring alight with eight of his sons setting an average price of $13,938 and selling to a top of $36,000, the third highest price bull of the sale.
In the commercial sector, the MAGS Droughtmaster bloodlines again proved their top level beef performance and market suitability at the Clermont Show, regarded as one of the leading commercial beef cattle shows in Australia.
Mac and Gayle Shann’s Lamont Droughtmaster steers took out the Grand Champion Pen of the Show in a showing of nearly 1,000 head, representing over a dozen individual breeds and their crosses.
“With these industry leading event results for the MAGS genetics, bull buyers, whether stud or herd, can have a lot of confidence in the MAGS bulls to produce at a very high level,” Sale co-agent Jim Geaney of Geaney’s, Charters Towers said.
Adding further benefits for MAGS sale bull buyers, the vendors will have all of this year’s sale registered bulls semen morphology tested to a high standard.
Sale details and catalogues are available from McCaffrey’s Australian Livestock Marketing, Rockhampton 07-49226311 or Geaney’s 07-47874000 and are also online.
Log on to www.magsdroughtmasters.com.au
