A cow and calf unit stole the show at the Poll Wagyu premier sale on Thursday, commanding more than $100,000.
Originally from Leyburn, Sarina Wagyu breeder Darren Hamblin hosted the sale on behalf of the Poll Wagyu group at the 'Old Ellangowan Shearing Shed', Leyburn.
Thirty-four-month-old W447 sold with bull calf at foot, along with a bonus semen straw, to James and Helen Parker for $110,000.
The Parkers run a commercial Wagyu beef operation and run up to 750 breeders at Harrami, Monto, where they breed cattle for the feedlot market.
A direct daughter of Kanadagene 100, out of an Itoshigenami JNR female, the heterozygous polled cow is the only one of her kind, as the IVF resulted in no other DM100 x Itoshigenami JNR polled cattle. W447's dam is PWYPM0035.
The sole cow-calf package formed part of the public offering of 31 lots, including females, bulls and seedstock.
Poll Wagyu included one straw of semen for every female lot, with the purchaser having the option of taking a straw from the nominated poll sire, or a straw of semen from the nominated fullblood sire.
The top selling bull was S2522, purchased for $60,000 by Dean and Sam Pollard, Sahara Park Wagyu, Garnant.
All 31 lots sold for an average of $30,935.
In a breakdown of the catalogue, 18 bulls sold to a top of $60,000 to average $24,944, 11 heifers topped at $60,000 and an average of $31,818, one cow and calf unit sold for $110,000, and one cow sold for $50,000.
Poll Wagyu brings together three families in the Wagyu industry - the De Bruin family, Mayura Station, Millicent, South Australia, the Hamblin family, Strathdale Wagyu, Sarina, and the Hammond family, Robbins Island Wagyu, Robbins Island, Tasmania.
More to come.
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