Team Te Mania’s annual online commercial female sale held its head high, in the face of drought conditions across Victoria, selling cows to a high of $3320 and PTIC heifers to $2410.
Team Te Mania director Hamish McFarlane says 15 Team members across Victoria and NSW offered a total of 1580 head in the AuctionsPlus sale with lots going to Tasmania, NSW and Victoria. Hamish says the sale has become a fixture on the national Angus calendar and attracts buyers looking for consistent lines of pure Te Mania Angus blood quality females.
He says 451 of the second calvers and older went under the virtual hammer with a lot of 66 month old cows from foundation Team member Susie Chisholm, Gwalia, Adelong, NSW, topping the sale at $3320.
“Another long-time member, Duncan Clowes, Valdemar, Millthrope, NSW, sold one of his lines of PTIC heifers sold to a high of $2140 in that part of the catalogue,” Hamish added. “In all 524 of the heifers sold during the sale – which this year also included two lots which consisted of cows with autumn born calves at foot, another sign of the season,” he says. “It has been a tough 12 months on a lot of people in farming, not just the beef cattle industry, and that contributed to the significantly lower demand than usual at this year’s sale.
“And we have to congratulate all our members for the fantastic way they presented their cattle, which helped keep demand for them so strong.”
