Confidence in the beef and cattle industry is the best Trevor Hall has seen it in a number of years; just add water.
The Quarterway Angus principal, like many producers in southern Australia, is still in the midst of his second consecutive failed season but has high hopes for the market if spring brings plenty of rain.
“The cattle job is good now because there are no extra cattle about – and prices will only go up from here,” Trevor said.
“We are 50mm away from a good season, or 50mm away from a repeat of last year’s conditions.”
“If mother nature can go with us, then watch this space.”
Trevor said there had been significant cattle turn-off across Tasmania after the failed autumn, with only key breeding stock retained, which will impact supply moving forward.
“And I don’t just think it is Australia, there is a global shortage of red meat,” he adds.
Despite Quarterway’s coastal land in the Scottsdale region having only received nine inches of its 27-inch average rainfall so far this year, and six of that falling since June, this year’s spring sale bulls will present as good as ever.
“They’ve got impressive constitution, they have been born in the worst grass conditions I’ve seen in my 47 years farming here and they’ve still done well, so it is a testament to their doing-ability,” Trevor said.
Quarterway Angus will offer 48 bulls between 18 months and two years old on Thursday 18 September 2025 at their Lyndhurst Sale Complex via Waterhouse and on AuctionsPlus.
Trevor describes them as “good run- of- the- mill bulls”, which are specifically bred to be offered in the spring.
This year’s offering will include several sons of the $40,000 Nampara Junior Q148, a bull that sired the $24,00 top-priced Angus lot at the Mountain Valley, Coolatai, NSW, sale last month, as well as another $20,000 lot at the same sale.
Quarterway’s spring offering will also feature sons of the $62,000 Banquet Radley R060, and Turiroa Hancock 20R439, a sire line of which there are very few available in Australia.
“They are all good run of the mill bulls, with good well-balanced data – there are a lot of low birth weight bulls in the catalogue, and no extremes either way,” Trevor said.
The Hall family, who have been breeding cattle in the region for more than six decades, start with temperament and feet, which equates to structure, when breeding cattle.
Then they move onto the hindquarter, which not only positively impacts yield but also ensures ample pelvic space in females for calving ease.
Last spring, Quarterway sold 44 bulls with the two-year-old sires averaging $8317, and even more value in the yearling bulls, which averaged $5000.
The top-priced lot was again a Nampara Junior Q148 son, sold for $12,000 to a Victorian return-client.
A $15,000 bull by homebred sire Quarterway Princeton P124 topped the stud’s March 2025 sale, purchased by a southern Tasmania producer that had been very impressed with their previous Quarterway sire.
As always, Quarterway offers free delivery across Tasmania, including King and Flinders Islands, and to Melbourne for easy collection for interstate clients.
The Hall family looks forward to welcoming you to Quarterway Angus, Thursday 18 September to the Waterhouse venue.
