A bull has sold for six figures at the 2024 Texas Angus Bull Sale, Warialda.
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00:00Cost you a load of bullets. I've been 90 towner, I've been 90 towner, come on make him 100, he's done with the ball.
00:05I've been 90 towner, I've been 90 towner, come on make him now. I've been 90 towner, sneak coming up, you're gonna miss him.
00:12I've been 90 towner, quick!
00:15Five? Or 100? 100 towner.
00:18100 town team with this pace, mate.
00:21I've been 100 towner, I've been only 100 doing a long way to get past last year.
00:24I've been 100 towner, I've been 100 towner, I've been only 100 the money. I've been 100 now, make him 10.
00:29I've been 100 towner, I've been 100 towner now. I've been 100 towner, I'm never gonna sell him out.
00:35100 towner, quick!
00:37More than 100 towner, quickly, hurry.
00:41Want him, Martin?
00:43Martin, 100 towner, he's off to Yungji Pastoral Club, he looked at Trish Kemp through GDL's touch zone.
00:48Well done, Corey Evans on the phone there. Well done, Trish, you'll be happy with him.
00:521, 2, 3 was the mid-count, another 100 towner.
00:56We're very happy with our young bulls. We'd like to use them in our program, particularly joining to heifers.
01:02So we have a program where we're predominantly Angus herd,
01:06and we breed in the north-west of Quilpie on an aggravation based around Cannaway Downs,
01:14and then bring our back-rounders back to St George and back-round them on our land around that area, St George and Durrumbandy,
01:22and then put them through our feedlots either at St George or we've got a feedlot in Roma also.
01:28So then we're just basically valuating the grain and the cotton seed and hay that we produce on our farms around St George and Durrumbandy through our own cattle.
01:36So what we're trying to do with these two sires is produce bulls ourselves that will head out to that western country.
01:44We've been buying the Tex bulls for well over 20 years now, and they've been very good to our herd,
01:52and we've found them very durable in that western country particularly.
01:56So these two will hopefully produce plenty of sires that we'll send west,
02:02and obviously give us the carcass traits we want through our feedlot to meet the markets where we go to with our cattle.
02:08And you must be reasonably excited with the kick in cattle prices, 40 cents today.
02:12We are very, yeah. We've all been waiting for it, but it looks like it's turned the corner, hasn't it?
02:20So long may it last, but we probably don't want to see it to get back to the heights it got to.
02:29Previously there was very, very high prices of undoers, don't they?
02:35To get back to where we were getting around $9 a kilo for our Angus 100-day cattle, that would be fantastic.
02:45The peak of it we got was about $10.40, I think, and it was too good to be true.
02:52So $9, $9.50 somewhere in there would be, hopefully, processors and ourselves could all make a dollar
03:00and still not get too expensive for the consumers also of our beef.
03:04Artificial breeding, it takes three years of planning to get it to today.
03:09That planning paid off its fates, didn't it?
03:12I think so, yes. I mean, it was, you know, with the previous sales we had from 2019, 2021, and then 22 was the huge one,
03:22we were increasing numbers all the time, and, you know, it's all right to increase numbers, but you've got to keep the quality up.
03:28So Winnie and I invested a lot into AI, ET, and IBF programs to make sure the quality of what we were increasing with numbers was the same, if not better.
03:41Actually, today, so many people said they reckon the quality, even though we've got 272 bulls,
03:48they reckon the quality was better than previous, you know, it was climbing up each year, so very happy with it.
03:54And support from all over Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, terrific support.
04:01Unbelievable, so many, you know, repeat clients came back and many people that Winnie and I have run into over the last year
04:10that have heard about what our bulls have been doing in Queensland with, you know, with a lot of the big commercial sales with weaners and steers,
04:20you know, the Texas Genetics have been doing really well, and those sort of people were coming down and buying these bulls this year,
04:27and, yeah, our repeat clients, they're just magic, they're more than just clients, they've become true friends,
04:33and, yeah, it's a pleasure to see them all today, and they all got their bulls today, which is one thing Winnie and I wanted to do.