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Truro buyers tickled pink with their new bulls
August, 2010
The 2nd Truro Hereford and Poll Hereford bull sale was once again a great success. Repeat and new buyers attended the sale from Victoria, Queensland and NSW to enjoy spirited bidding on the 37 bulls on offer. The Hann family, Scott and Pip along with John and Peggy, were very pleased with increased average from 2009 and a better clearance of the bulls. The Hanns sold 34 of the 37 bulls on offer, topping at $9000 and averaging $3750.
Principal Scott Hann said the bulls were the best the stud has ever had. Sires purchased in the last few years are certainly paying dividends for Truro with increased muscle, great skin and hair and improved weights and eye muscle area. "We've really seen improvement at the top end of our lineup and this is reflected in the fact our estimated eye muscle area (EMA) for this group are over + 3 cm², compared to the breed average of +2.3 cm² ” stated Scott Hann.
Rob Hain from Gunyah Hereford Stud made the trip from Cooma to select a new stud sire. He secured the top priced bull, Truro Down Under D037, at $9000. Down Under is by Cootharaba Mendez, a sire that has added great thickness to the Truro cattle. Mr Hain said "I came here looking for a smooth, heavy carcase bull who was an easy doing type, to put over the stud cows and heifers back home. This bull had an exceptional set of figures across the board, and he'll do very well for us." Down Under, at 24 months, boasted 966 kgs. and an EMA of 129 cm².
The Larsen family, Hylands Hereford Stud, Cootamundra, also made the long trip from the south worthwhile purchasing Lot 4, Daybreak, for $6000. The Larsens had previously inspected the bulls at the recent Truro Open Day and returned to acquire a Cootharaba Mendez son. The Larsens admired the natural muscling of the Cootharaba Mendez bulls and hence their return to purchase one. Truro offered and sold 9 Mendez sons for an average of $4333.
The top priced Poll Hereford bull for the day was Morocco Dynamite, jointly offered by Morocco Stud at Gunnedah and Truro Stud. Dynamite was purchased by new buyers, The Turner family at "Toreador" Gurley for $7000. Dynamite had an impressive weight of 1024 kgs and an EMA of 131 cm² at 25 months. Mr and Mrs Turner also purchased another sire later in the sale.
Long term buyers, the Melbourne family, Narrabri, returned to purchase another two bulls for their operation. The family purchased Truro Desperado and Truro Dark'n'Stormy for $4000 and $5500 respectively. Dave Melbourne said that they've been buying "Truro" bulls for about 20 years to infuse over the family's commercial herd, and that they were "as usual" good quality, high growth bulls that suited the Mountain Valley operation nicely. These bulls have improved our herd in both milk production and growth," Mr Melbourne said.
Other repeat buyers were the Whittle brothers (Michael and Paul) from Bungunya (Goondiwindi) who purchased four good bulls, to a top of $3500. David and Ellie Compton from Brewarrina also returned, this time to purchase five bulls, all at the $3000 mark. Phillip and Darren Currey made the trip from Pilliga to secure another four bulls for their expanding commercial operations. Local buyers on the day were Black Ridge Pastoral at Gurley and the Hamilton family also of Gurley
Another long term buyer to purchase four bulls on the day was Ken Cudmore, and family, Quirindi, including one of Scott's favourite bulls, Lot 2 Don Quixote for $4000. Don Quixote had a terrific run of successes at the local shows being Supreme Bull at Narrabri, Walgett and Manilla Shows.
The Hanns were very pleased to be able to secure bulls to a number of new purchasers. Graham Wilson from Gowrie, south of Tamworth, purchased one bull. Also Glenrowan Estate at Mullaley purchased a Poll bull, the Hibbens family purchased “Detonator” for their Wee Waa operation and Max Bultitude made his trip from Guyra worthwhile purchasing one bull. Other new buyers were Mr John Houston who secured one bull for his operation at Mungindi and The Drysdale family from Yarrie Lake, near Wee Waa. A great highlight for the day's sale was the auction of Lot 14 Truro Delungra D064, jointly donated by the Hann's and Jeff and Michelle King of Morocco Herefords, Gunnedah, to raise money for the McGrath Foundation. All proceeds from the bull will go towards breast cancer awareness., with the agents also offering the bull free of any charges. The bull was purchased for $3500 by Ian Gardiner, farm manager for Kickerbell Pty Ltd, at Quirindi. This “Pink Lot” will travel south along with their other two purchases on the day.
Caps and ties were also sold on the day for the McGrath Foundation raising another $350 to assist this wonderful charity. Scott, the Hann family and the support crew all sported pink caps and ties for the day. Another great lunch was served by the Bellata Public School P&C, with the meat kindly donated by Suncorp Bank.
Agents in charge of the sale were Elders Narrabri and Landmark Narrabri while Elders’ Paul Dooley and Landmark's Mark Haywood conducted the auction.
Top priced bull : Truro Down Under D037 selling for $9000.
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Truro ( Hereford Bull Sale)
August, 2009
We held our first On-Property sale in August, 2009 with the day running very smoothly and all enjoying a great day, despite very unseasonal hot weather. On offer were 35 stud bulls, with an 80% clearance, to a great blend of old and new friends, with a credible average of $3380.
The top priced bull was Lot 5, Truro Class Act, to the Whittle family at Bungunya, QLD. Class Act, a son of The Rock Top Gun, was 26 months old and weighed 940kg with an EMA of 117cm². Class Act is very stylish bull with a great muscle pattern and presence. He is a heifer's first calf and has balanced figures of +3.6 for birthweight and +52 for 600 Day weight. The Whittle family also purchased another two bulls for their various operations in the Bungunya area.
The next top priced bull, at $6000 was suitable for use on heifers, Lot 26, Truro Colorado, and was purchased by the Tomlinson family from Moree. Also at $6000 was Truro Cha Cha, a very stylish young bull, only a mid November drop, purchased by the Cudmore family at Quirindi. The Cudmores also purchased another two bulls for their operation. Also from Quirindi, it was very pleasing to see Ian Gardiner, Kickerbell, returning to purchase three more bulls for his operation.
Returning to Truro was Ian Bjorksten, Yeoval, purchasing Lot 9, Truro Cosmic, at $5500, being a well muscle patterned Moorlands Grand National son. Also at $5500 was Lot 2, Cut’n’Dried for Arthur and Sue Melbourne & family at Narrabri, with Lot 36 also purchased for their commercial Hereford operation. Long time supporters of the Truro bulls, the Stanford Brothers from Bellata purchased Lot 3, Cold Chisel and Lot 21 Coat of Arms. Long time friend and bull buyer, Phil Currey, returned from out at Pilliga to purchase Truro Coyote. Another local buyer was John Meppem, purchasing for the “Black Ridge” family operation near Gurley, taking home Truro Corvette.
Three other new people made a welcome visit to the sale, the Rennick family from Gunnedah purchased Truro Clark Kent and Paul Ticehurst from north of Moree purchased a poll bull Debarry Vincent. Whilst from the very bottom of Victoria, Tony Hodges, representing Gembost Pty Ltd, made the long trip north not to be disappointed with the bulls he found and very pleasingly purchased five bulls for the trip south.
Jeff and Michelle King purchased a sweet heifer, Truro Daffodil D095, to become part of their new stud, “Morocco” at Gunnedah. The heifer was the first Cootharaba Magnum to be sold in the country and has a terrific set of figures. Jeff and Michelle also added Lot 25 Truro Colourful to their collection of Truro bulls for $3500.
Everyone had a great day out and we were very relieved that the new sale ring and setup worked so well. Thankyou to Suncorp Bank for sponsoring the delicious Hereford Prime meat for lunch and the Bellata Public School P&C for presenting and serving lunch so beautifully. We would also like to thank Paul Dooley, Elders Tamworth and Mark Hayward, Landmark Tamworth for performing the auctioneering duties with the gusto they are reknowned for ! A very special thankyou to Jeff King for all the hard work before the sale building yards, gates, repairing sheds, etc. !
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Truro (NW Bull Sale)
22 July, 2008 at Narrabri NSW
18 bulls sold to a top of $6,500
Average $3278
Gross $59,000
Once again Truro sold the top priced bull at the 7th NW Bull Sale in Narrabri. Scott & Pip Hann and family were pleased with their results with a great blend of repeat and new buyers.
The top priced bull for the day was $6500 for “Truro Box Office”. He was sold to repeat buyers Keith and Noel Stanford, of Bellata. “Box Office” is a son of homebred sire “Truro Yogi Bear” and was selected for his great length of body and scale, combined with great quality and Breedplan figures.
The Stanford brothers followed up by purchasing another bull “Truro Blue Gum”, sired by Moorlands Grand National out of a great GH Simba cow. This dam, Marianne S036, was also the mother of the top priced bull in 2007. Blue Gum had great balanced EBVs with high EMA and IMF.
Jeff and Michelle King of Gunnedah returned to purchase another Truro sire, buying the second top priced bull “Truro Barracuda” for $6000. This bull was again sired by Moorlands Grand National and was out of a Yarram Extra 57U M629 daughter.
Ken Cudmore of Quirindi returned to purchase three bulls, firstly the first bull into the ring for Truro, “Truro Big Ben B016” for $3500. Ben is the best M629 son we’ve bred to date and is a big, long stretchy sire with horsepower, great figures and will be a real asset to the Cudmore’s operation. The other bulls purchased by the Cudmores were “Big Ted”, a son of Truro Yogi Bear, and an October Toolangatta Impulse son, “Blueprint B106”, for $4500 and $3000 respectively.
Ian Gardiner, “Kickerbell” also travelled from Quirindi to purchase 2 new sires. Firstly, a Foxforth Valuable son named “Bob the Builder” was purchased for $4000, with an IMF of +0.9, placing him in the top 1% of the breed for this trait. Ian also purchased “Bonanza”, the last of the Yarram M629 sons to be sold by Truro. Bonanza had a low birthweight EBV of +2.9 combined with a high 600 day growth of +67, teamed with +for milk.
The bulk repeat buyer of the day was Bun Pawley from Rowena who purchased 6 bulls, at $2500 each, for his operation. These included a son of Toolangatta Impulse “Bandit”, a Moorlands Grand National son “Bismark” two Truro Yogi Bear sons “Barramundi” and “Buckjump” and two commercial sons of Curracabark Roman.
It was great to see long time buyer of Truro bulls, Phillip Currey in from Pilliga to purchase another sire “Bandanna”. This bull is sired by Moorlands Grand National and is a very stylish calf, full of red meat with a great structure.
Warwick and Brenda Rees of Boggabri selected “Buckshot”, another Moorlnds Grand National son out of a great Yarram M629 daughter. Buckshot had very balanced numbers with an EMA of +3.2 and positives for fat cover.
The Mitchell family, from Rocky Creek, east of Narrabri, purchased their first Truro bull “Bull Ant”, a long-bodied, clean fronted Moorlands Grand National son, with a great butt on him.
Jim & Sue Cowell of Narrabri also secured a new sire for their operation, “Bullet”. This bull is by Toolangatta Impulse and is a heifer’s first calf with a low birth weight and an EBV of only +3.2.
We thank all the buyers and underbidders and look forward to 2009 where we will once again sell at the North West Bull sale but will also venture out to hold our first On-Property bull sale at “Truro” Bellata.
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Truro (NW Bull Sale)
24 July, 2007 at Narrabri NSW
21 bulls sold to $8,500
Average $3690
Sale gross $77,500
In a very pleasing result for Scott & Pip Hann and family, their sale achieved a good clearance and average despite tough seasonal conditions still prevailing and drastically reduced cow numbers with western breeders. Truro put the strongest line up of bulls bred so far up for the repeat and new buyers attending and purchasing at the sale.
The top priced bull for the day was $8500 for “Truro Ace of Hearts” to Ian Bjorksten from Wandong Hereford Stud at Yeoval. Ace of Hearts, 23 month old at sale time, is a son of Truro Union Jack out of a really good GH Simba ET21E female and was selected for his great length of body and scale. His great quality combined with excellent Breedplan performance data placing him at the top end of the breed, with +5.4 for birth, +63 for 600 Day, +2.1 for EMA, and +0.6 for IMF (top 5%).
The first two bulls offered were both sold to repeat buyers Jeff and Michelle King of Gunnedah paying $5500 twice. Lot 1 “Aladdin” is a heifer’s first calf by Truro Union Jack and combined low birthweight with terrific growth and carcase and an IMF of +0.5 (top 5%). Lot 2 “Avalanche”, a real performance bull by MHF X160 Reform 77H, offered great structure and muscle pattern and is out of one of our most consistent breeding cows.
It was fantastic to see long time Hereford breeders, Alwyn & Lyn Prentice of Delungra, purchasing 5 bulls in total, including sons of Toolangatta Impulse Y098, Yarram Pompeii V055, Truro Union Jack and Yarram Lottery X122. Three bulls sold to repeat buyer Bun Pawley from Rowena, for sons of Truro Union Jack, Curracabark Roman and Bundarra TX5. Other repeat buyers we were very pleased to see operating were Keith & Noel Stanford of Bellata, and Howard Mitchell of Moree both purchasing sons of Injemira National U570 and Phillip Currey of Pilliga purchasing a son of Toolangatta Impulse.
New buyers Ken Cudmore and Kickabell, both from Quirindi, were a welcome sight and purchased two bulls apiece. The Cudmore family purchased a growthy, stylish son of Injemira National U570 and a herd bull that attracted his fair share of attention being big, solid and upstanding. Kickerbell purchased a son of Charvel Yaamba out a heifer with Breedplan of +1.8 for birth and +12 for milk, and the last lot of Truro’s run, an outstanding herd bull making $4500, to complete a successful sale for 2007. The Bennett family from Bellata purchased two new sires, by Toolangatta Impulse Y098 and Curracabark Roman and one bull by Charvel Yaamba went to BJ & BM Byrnes at Wee Waa.
Scott & Pip and John & Peggy Hann were delighted with the sale and thank the National Bank, Narrabri for providing a free BBQ, with donations going to Ovarian Cancer research.
Truro is looking forward to their next crop of 50 bulls for sale in 2008, with attention being paid to all normal attributes but a strong emphasis being placed on lower birth weights and high growth rates, high IMF and high muscle content. The top bulls will be sold in the 7th North West Bull Sale on Tuesday 22nd July, 2008, with additional bulls for sale on property.
