The stables, hallways, and seats of the exhibition hall “Niedersachsenhalle” were crowded with approximately 3,500 visitors for the top-event MASTERRIND EXCLUSIVE AUCTION on the night of February 26th, 2020.
All 44 animals offered were sold at the auction. Visitors came from Germany, Russia, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, and Austria. The sales quota of 100% confirmed the ideal selection of sales animals. Outstanding first-calf heifers, highly interesting type animals, and excellent genomic animals left nothing to be desired for the customers.
Not only the buyers but also the onlookers got their money’s worth. The show started with a spectacular Blind Audition. An impressive silhouette video was another highlight of the show.
The true highlight of the show was, however, the phenomenal sales pice of the top-seller Amber, a homozygous polled red Holstein sired by Solitair P with a gRZG of 165. She was sold for 75,000 Euros to a visitor from the Netherlands. Amber descends from the breeding farm Thun GbR, Loxsted.
The second-highest sales price was achieved by WEH Lana from Jürgen Hintze’s dairy operation in Trebel. She is truly an exceptional animal with her gTPI of 2,869, her gRZG of 158 and her interesting pedigree. On top of that, she brings embryo contracts worth 30,000 Euros to the table. She was purchased by a buyer from Lower Saxony.
Cocktail P, sired by Builder P and descending from the Lacrest Cosmopolitan VG-87 maternal line, was another top-selling animal. She was sold by Hermann & Jörg Ekkel GbR from Itterbeck to a Danish customer.
Red Holstein heifer Safira (sired by Redburst) from Frank Nesslage in Nortrup was the best first-calf heifer of the event. A dairy farmer from Lower Saxony won the exciting bidding duel and purchased this promising heifer for 8,000 Euros.
Due to the outstanding interest of the customers and the excellent auction contingent, an average sales price of 9,045 Euros was achieved.
