Big dairy stock exports

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33064, 3 November 1972, Page 14

Big dairy stock exports

Overseas business is growing every month. Going out are many shipments of well bred grade dairy cattle to all parts of the Pacific basin and Ceylon.

The writer of the accompanying stud stock review for October is J. T. McCaw, of Palmerston North.

This trade has reached such proportions that it is ‘ beginning to affect our local dairy market, already supplied rather more lightly than most dairyfarmers like. Prices for good quality replacements are slowly • rising each year. One firm alone. Dalgetys, have sent overseas in the last year 2530 cattle. 22 pigs and 14 horses. Taking other exporting firms’ business into account these figures could probably be trebled. The same firm has sold quite a few Angus bulls locally lately, including a particularly good yearling to Mr L. Schnell, of Darfield, from another Canterbury breeder, Mr R. E. Allen, of Beachcroft. They have also been involved in an interesting import. The long established Akitio Angus stud, Hawke’s Bay, has imported a sire from Australia. This is said to be the first Angus bull imported from the mainland of Australia for 100 years. Akitio have purchased a two-and-a-half-year-old bull from the widely known Barwidgee Stud, Victoria—a stud noted for its 10 years of performance testing. The bull, Barwidgee Potter, is closely related to the champion cow at the Melbourne Royal in 1969. Coming this way soon is a 42-strong shipment of cattle now in quarantine in Australia. These are mostly Murray Greys but there are a few Herefords and one Beef Shorthorn included. On November 14 a consignment of 30 cattle is due to leave the United Kingdom for New Zealand. These are made up of Simmental and Charolais, together with a few Angus. Charolais halfbred year-

ling heifers are soon to leave for Australia from the property of J. D. Ormond, Hawke’s Bay. There are 30 head involved in the deal negotiated by Wrightson NMA. The same firm has concluded a sale of Angus cattle to the United States, the first such sale for six years. Fifteen in-calf Angus heifers and one bull have gone from Mr C. E. B. Patterson’s Waipukerau stud. Two pure Murray Grey yearling bulls have been sold by Rangitikei breeders to Mr Horace J. McQueen, of Texas, at a very substantial price. When it is stated that it will cost $5OOO to fly each of the young bulls to the States one can realise that the original price must have been considerable. Mr J. Welsh, of Marton, and Mr Keith Spilman, Glenbank, were the vendors of the two bulls. Mr D. G. Goodall, of the Braxton Hereford Stud, Mossburn, has just completed a contract to purchase a consignment of cattle from one of the leading Poll Hereford studs in Australia — the Jender Warra stud located in West Australia and owned by the Estate of Frank Ganzer. The shipment comprises one 15-month bull, one cow with calf at foot, and five yearling heifers including the champion at the recent Perth Royal Show. This yearling heifer not

only won its class from a large entry but went on to win the title of champion Hereford female of the show. The young bull had a weight of 13751 b at 14 months.

The last of the dairy bull sales — the spring national at Palmerston North — was unusual in that a Milking Shorthorn bull was, for the first time in the history of the sale, judged the all breeds champion and then went on to make the top price of the day — $B2O. The bull, “Dunsandle Shades Sphinx,” a two-year-old son of a cow with five consecutive records averaging 5111 b of fat, was bred by N. J. Hall, of Blenheim, and has found a new home with A. McQuillan, of Feilding.

Marlborough breeders did particularly well at the spring national. Mr Hall followed up his success with the top priced Milking Shorthorn with the next two best prices of $550 and $3BO, both for yearling bulls, and Mr H. D. Hurford, of Irwell, Christchurch, sold his one yearling entry at $360. In the Friesian field Christchurch breeders, usually at the top of the poll, had to yield pride of place to Marlborough breeders, R. C. Woolley and Son, who sold their entry at $5OO. T. H. and M. B. Jones, of Springston, sold a two-year bull at $4BO, E. G. Robertson and Son, Springston, a two-year bull at $4OO and a yearling at $390. In the Jersey field the Blenheim breeders, D. M. and I. M. Jordan, received an $lB5 average for nine bulls, the largest consignment in the sale. A. T. and G. M. Berry sold four bulls for an average of $lBl.