Paringa Charolais to top of $12,000

PARINGA CHAROLAIS
• 46 of 49 Charolais bulls to $12,000, av $5000
• 11 of 14 Red Angus bulls to $7500, av $3500
• 21 of 23 Stabilizer bulls to $9000, av $4090

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Tom Lawson of Paringa Charolais, Yea, spoke candidly to the packed crowd at the stud’s sixth annual production sale. He said with wife Olivia and new partner Chris Davison, Morgiana Beef, Freshwater Creek, and Lee Leachman, Leachman Cattle Company, US, he bred bulls geared for profitability.
There was no doubting this claim when the first of many Charolais, Red Angus and Stabilizer bulls strode into the ring.
They displayed power and muscle and had figures to back it up.
Bidders fired up in response and the Charolais offering of 49 bulls reached a top price of $12,000 and an impressive average of $5000. Bull price tags failed to dip below the $5000 mark for the first 16 sold which averaged $6750.
Mr Lawson said the end result exceeded all expectations.
Digging deep for the top lot was Kevin Whelan of Silverbrae Charolais, Korumburra.
He selected a Pinay son out of Rosedale Gerty female who displayed impressive growth and eye muscle area figures and was well below the breed average for birth weight.
Mr Whelan was chasing an outcross sire for his purebred commercial herd and he will be joined to 12 cows in a fortnight.
Hot on his heels in the money stakes was Brisbane Valley Pastoral Company’s Max Mullea, Brisbane Valley, Queensland, who paid to a top of $11,000 for a draft of seven bulls for an average $7000.
Mr Mullea said the bulls would be used over a herd of Brahman cows.
A second Queensland buyer and new client was Ascot Charolais, Warwick, who secured the first lot oat $5500.
First-time buyer and Yea local Marty Shaw, Murrindindi Station, put together a line of five Charolais to join to Angus cows, picked for a balance of traits and good domestic $index figures.

Gippsland interest was very strong with Gem Brae, Korumburra taking two at an average $5750, KF McRae, also of Korumburra, taking two at $7500 and $6000 and M and K Rogers, Leongatha, taking two to a best of $7000.
The Lawsons also sold Red Angus for the first time at auction to a great result, with a Te Mania Viceroy son, out of Te Mania Mittagong, making $7500 to IBR Red Angus, near Roma Queensland, buying through Elders Toowoomba, NSW for a client.
Also buying was an Elders Hay agent who took three at $2500 each.
The sale ended with a draft of impressive bulls, sold for the first time under a new partnership.
Prices kicked off strongly, with Webster Pastoral, through Elders Yea, handing over $6500 for a Morgiana Exposure son out of Lawsons Henry XIII cow.
The same buyer paid to $8000 to secure a lengthy bull by the same sire and out of Lawsons Gar Traveler and then the top price of the Stabilizer sale at 49000 for a JRI Black N Stacked son out of Henry XIII to finish their buying.
David and Ruth Read, Perry Bridge, who “came for a look” secured three bulls to $5000 on a JRI Black N Stacked and HenryXIII son at $5000, and a further two at $2500 each (one after the auction).
Mr Read said they were keen to introduce hybrid vigour into their 200-head herd and were not scared of trying something new.
Jack Robinson, Orbost, took two Stabilizers to go over black baldy cows, paying 43000 and $3500 and agent Derek Faithfull, Sharpe Fullgrabe, Orbost.
Partner Mr Davison was incredibly excited by the results, following a number of Stabilizer auctions achieving “limited success”.
He said he had received a lot of positive feedback on the composite breeding program leading into the sale and that the industry was beginning to respond to the potential gains which came with the composite sire line.

“Feedback coming from the heart of the industry tells us that what we’re doing is right in line with where the industry wants to go,” Mr Davison said.

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