Bull Sale

Welcome to our 22nd on-farm Angus Bull sale to be held on Wednesday 3rd June starting at 1pm.

Dear fellow Beef Farmers

May we extend a very warm welcome to you for our 22nd on-farm Angus Bull sale to be held on Wednesday 3rd June at 1pm

What a fantastic time to be sheep and beef farming! We have mostly all enjoyed a great season both from a production point of view with an abundance of feed particularly compared to the previous two drought years but also the stars have aligned with both lamb and beef returns being high. It is great to see everyone being rewarded for their efforts.

Beef in particular is in very high demand and with those better returns we have been enjoying, there is no better time to take the opportunity to re-invest in genetics to keep building on your herds improvement and make sure your production is still sought after when the demand side falters in the future, hopefully a fair way down the track.

We know when the world is short of beef that it is relatively easy to market beef and processors cry out for any animals, they can get their hands on to meet demand but as things tighten while consumer expectations continue to rise, then we need to be prepared with profitable genetics that will deliver.

We only need to look at the USA – the world market beef driver, to what has happened to consumption and price as more and more of their beef is grading as upper choice or prime grade. Premiums have increased and demand for beef has grown as consumers are assured of high eating quality and keep on returning to buy.

As always, our program is driven by fertility, live calves are what drives beef farming profitability. At Storth Oaks we put real emphasis on maternal traits. We believe that by only selecting replacement heifers that are able to get in calf in two cycles of fixed time AI, we are by default selecting the very most fertile replacements only. This has enabled some of our customers to be able to achieve 95% or better calving percentages that include yearlings. 

The team here at Storth Oaks are very proud of this year’s line-up of bulls that we offer in this catalogue. It features the first sons of Landfall Signature, a bull who set records when he sold in Australia for A$240,000 and is now making a real impact with the progeny he is leaving. His sons are easy doing, thick, structurally correct and will lift carcase quality exponentially.

His impact is felt through the catalogue but there is a good mix of sires including some more sons of the very reliable Quarterback bull. 

This year, of the 70 bulls being offered, 64 meet the standard to carry the A+ endorsement with the remaining 6 bulls carrying the A endorsement.  

The IMF level of A+ has increased to +2.6 this year which is the new Australian Angus breed average. The bulls in this catalogue average +4.42 for IMF which is 4X the Angus NZ breed average. 

The use of indexes is a fantastic tool for commercial farmers to use in making progress as an index is put together across multiple traits and takes away the risk of being tempted to single trait select. If you are wanting to address particular traits or EBV’s you can,  after selecting on an index and then looking at what EBV’s you are wanting to put particular emphasis on.

If we can help you in anyway with your beef breeding program, please get in touch. We would love to hear from you.

 Best wishes for a good year ahead.

 Tim and Kelly