High Angus bull prices
PA Timaru A North Island partnership bought a Stern Angus bull for $27,000 at the fifteenth Stern Angus sale, Totara Valley, in South Canterbury, making it the highest price paid at an Angus private auction so far this season. The previous highest was $25,000 at the Kaharau Angus sajB last week. p
The buyers of Stern 624 were P. Johnstone, of the Puketutu Stud, Taumarunui, and D. Borck, of the Lairdvale Stud. Twenty-nine two-year-old bulls were sold on account of J. R. Fraser, of Stemdale, for a total of $llB,lOO at an average of $4072. The auctioneers were Dalgety Crown, Wrightson NMA, Ltd, and Pyne, Gould, Guinness, Ltd, in association
Farmers Stud Stock Company, Ltd. They said that with the exception of the Kaharau sale last week the Stern offering met the strongest sale so far, buyers coming from many parts of the North Island, as well as the South Island and keen interest from Australia. The top price of $27,000 was the best for a Stem sire sold at the stud’s annual auction.
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