Buyers from across Queensland and northern New South Wales converged on Condamine on Monday 4 August, for the fourth annual JK Cattle Company bull sale.
Vendors Justin and Kate Boshammer recorded a complete clearance across the 78 bulls offered, averaging $11,923 overall.
Angus and Brangus bulls shared top-price honours, each reaching $24,000, with solid prices throughout the catalogue.
The Angus offering averaged $12,813 across 48 bulls, while 16 Brangus and Ultrablacks averaged $12,500, and 12 younger Wagyu bulls averaged $8583, topping at $16,000.
Bulls sold into a wide range of regions and production systems, reflecting the stud’s growing reputation for fertile, balanced sires bred from a commercially relevant program.
Repeat buyers once again featured prominently alongside many new clients, with strong feedback on the quality and consistency of the offering.
The sale kicked into action with the Angus opening lot selling for the equal top price of $24,000.
The 23-month-old JK Cattle Co Understandable U663 weighed 868kg, and was a popular pick for his natural muscle expression, volume, soundness and temperament.
He was secured by repeat clients, Ted and Jenny Murphy, Tayglen Station, Dysart.
The Murphy family have experienced success with JK sires, including progeny featuring in their wins in the recent Central Queensland Carcase Classic.
Lot 27 was the Brangus bull to equal the sale’s top price of $24,000, and sold to repeat clients Stuart and Kira Reddan, Reddan Organic Beef, Bogarella, Augathella.
JK Cattle Co Unlimited U517 weighed 828kg at 23 months, and was a standout in the JK Brangus breeding program to date.
The bull’s unique blend of exceptional phenotype, structure and balanced EBVs made him an ideal prospective A.I. sire,
with a limited quantity of semen sold to other seedstock operations prior to the sale, and some retained for in-herd use.
Joining Unlimited U517 for bull breeding duties at Bogarella was lot 34, JK Cattle Co Unmatched U575.
Unmatched offered a rare combination of breed-leading EBVs and an appealing phenotype, and sold for $16,000.
A quantity of semen was also sold prior to the auction and retained in this sire. In total, Reddan Organic Beef purchased four Brangus bulls for an average $14,500.
The Wagyu offering topped at $16,000 for lot 89, a polled purebred. The 15-month-old JK Cattle Co V057 was out of a fullblood cow, and in the top 5% for Breeder Feeder Index.
He was selected as one of six bulls purchased by Julie-Ann Brown, Heart2J Cattle Company, Spring Creek, Jericho.
The sale concluded with the traditional offering of Zara’s Day charity lots in memory of Justin and Kate’s baby daughter.
The Diamantina Grass Fed rib fillet and Diamantina Wagyu striploin lots donated by Stanbroke raised $6450 for the Steve Waugh Foundation and the Royal Flying Doctor Service Queensland Section.
Agents: Ray White Livestock Dalby, GDL, Stocklive and guest auctioneer Wayne York.
