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Two studs from southern NSW blitzed the field at the Limousin National Show and Sale at Wodonga.
The Birubi Stud at Borambola exhibited the grand champion female and Batlow breeders, Ian and Donna Robson earned supreme exhibit and grand champion bull of the show.
“It was a really strong lineup for the breed at Wodonga,” said Birubi stud manager Glenn Trout.
Mr Trout said the demand from the commercial industry was filtering through and making a difference in prices paid for stud cattle.
The top cow, three-year-old Birubi Hellene H15, had a heifer calf at foot and was also pregnancy tested in calf and carrying a bull calf.
She later sold at auction for $14,000 which was the second top price overall.
“Across the board the sale was very good and the average was up on last year by $405 a head,” Mr Trout said.
“There were commercial buyers chasing modern Limousin genetics so they can put more muscle into their herd and produce better yielding cattle,” he said.
“Commercial buyers are looking for bulls to improve the progeny,” he said.
This year organisers of the Limousin National Show and Sale provided a livestream of the event.
Mr Trout said the significance of this was enormous and there had been interest in Australian genetics from all over the world.
“The Australian genetics are as good as you will see anywhere,” he said.
Meanwhile, the supreme exhibit, Jaguar J9 provided Batlow breeders Ian and Donna Robson with lots of success.
Their 24-month-old bull won supreme champion and weighed 902 kilograms and had a scrotal measurement of 41 centimetres.
This was backed up with fat scan measurements of 10 millimetres on the rump and seven millimetres on the rib.
He had an eye-muscle-area measurement of 143 square centimetres.
At the auction a total of 59 of 67 lots offered sold under the hammer to reach a top of $14,500 return an average of $5397.
The top price of $14,500 was paid for reserve senior champion bull Flemington Joker J33, who was exhibited by Mr and Mrs Robson of the Flemington Stud at Batlow.
