Quarterway’s $15,000 top-priced bull ‘ticked all the boxes’ for buyer
A northern Tasmanian Angus stud has cleared more than three-quarters of its annual sale offering, defying the odds after three bad seasons.
Quarterway Angus stud, Scottsdale, Tas, sold 41 of the 53 bulls it offered for an average of $7341.
Quarterway stud principal Trevor Hall said the sale had “been tough enough”.
“In this area, we are in our third dry season,” Mr Hall said.
On the brink of a beef boom
Producers should capitalise now on Australia’s burgeoning beef sector as global demand supports the domestic market and improved seasonal conditions are all that’s needed to see further growth in the cattle trade, according to Quarterway Angus principal Trevor Hall.
Despite another dry summer at the Tasmania stud, the third in a row, Trevor believes genetic gains made now will be strongly rewarded.
“Cattle prices are really good, but mother nature needs to give us a tailwind to capitalise,” he said.
Quarterway achieves near-total clearance of spring bulls amid dry winter
Quarterway Angus stud, Waterhouse, Tas, achieved a near-total clearance of bulls at its annual spring bull sale on Thursday, with 41 out of 43 bulls sold.
Cattle market ready to fire
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.
Best-selling Quarterway bull goes from the top to the bottom of Tasmania
The highest-priced Angus bull from a stud at the top of Tasmania has gone to a buyer in the southernmost part of the state.
Quarterway Angus, Scottsdale North, achieved a near-total clearance of its bulls despite experiencing two years of dry seasonal conditions. Quarterway sold 49 of the 54 bulls it offered at auction, clearing the remainder after the sale finished.
Doing- ability a must at Quarterway
The silver lining for Quarterway Angus in the state’s northeast has been seeing how their bulls – and the cattle they’ve bred – perform despite the continuing seasonal extremes in Tasmania this year.
“After a tough winter the 60 March sale bulls we are putting up have come along very well and are doing everything they are meant to be,” Trevor said.
“It is proof of the doability in the genetics lines – we had the worst year on record last year, and our bulls still held their condition and keep powering ahead.”
Victorian buyer snaps up top bull at Tasmania’s Quarterway Angus spring sale
A Victorian buyer swooped in for one of the top-priced bulls at the Quarterway Angus spring bull sale at Lyndurst, Scottsdale, Tasmania, last week.
The bull was one of two to hit the sale’s top price of $12,000 and was bought by Dennis Heywood, Everton, Wangaratta.
Consistency is king at Quarterway
Predictability and consistency from the first pen to the last is what buyers can expect at the Quarterway Angus annual spring sale in September.
Principal Trevor Hall has been breeding cattle for close to half a century, and he prides himself on offering the same high quality in every single one of the bulls to be offered next month.
Quarterway Angus bulls deliver again despite ‘driest year ever’
Quarterway Angus bulls delivered again at the stud’s annual sale at Lyndurst, Scottsdale, Tasmania, on Friday.
Stud co-principal Trevor Hall said he was “happy” with the sale’s result despite what he described as a “tough market”.
“The whole of Tasmania is as dry as I have ever seen,” he said.
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