The top price, Posterity Man Susie, wasn’t at the sale and she sold an undisclosed buyer for $15,000.
In a reasonably tight season for milk prices, the Summer Sensation Sale at the New Zealand Dairy Event in Feilding averaged $4612 over 33 live lots last week.
The granddam of Lot 15, Windy Vale Windbrook Frosty-Imp-ET, showed twice in Australia for a top-four finish at International Dairy Week. Her granddaughter sold for $8500.
The sale included live lots, embryos and semen. The top live lot was $15,000 and it was paid for a Jersey which sold at lot 23a – Posterity Man Susie.
The top-priced Holstein was $9000, and it was paid for Lot 20, Paragon Graze Charlie. The second top-priced Holstein was paid for lot 15, Barwell Mercy Frosty. Frosty travelled from Canterbury to sell, and she traces back to an international household name in the industry that twice won World Dairy Expo. She was bought by Ryan Andrew, of Panic Station.
Lot 12 was the Milking Shorthorn. Westell Hunt Angela SOS. She sold to Jarod Hudson for $7500.
The sole Milking Shorthorn to sell was Westell Hunt Angela SOS and she was a popular inclusion. She sold for the fifth highest price in the sale to Jarod Hudson, of Hudson Farming, at Ngatea, for $7500. Angela’s fourth dam was the 2008 International Dairy Week Champion in Australia, Panorama Angeline 8. Her sire comes from the equally successful big-milk Queensland herd of Myrtleholme.
The pick of ten Brown Swiss calves from the Meier Trust sold for $4000 to Fernlee limited.
Carrfields was the selling agent.
The highest priced embryos were the imported embryos from double master breeder herd from Canada, Avonlea Jerseys. A package of five embryos sold for $2000 an embryo ($10,000 for the package).
The semen lots sold for up to $1200 per dose for five straws of sexed Holstein semen, Westcoast Alcove ($6000 total), which as offered by the Gilbert family, from Ashburton in Mid-Canterbury.
Only one animal as passed in, according to Carrfields representative, Luke Gilbert.
“It was an extremely successful sale, with buyers from both islands of the country,” Luke confirmed. “BIDR played a massive part with 315 people watching the sale online from home. We are pleased and grateful to the vendors and to the purchasers.”
LIVELOT PRICES $5000 AND ABOVE
LOT 23A – Posterity Man Susie sold to an undisclosed buyer for $15,000
LOT 20 – Paragon Graze Charlie-ET sold to Maungatua Farming for $9000
LOT 15 – Barwell Mercy Frosty-ET sold to Ryan Andrew, Panic Station for $8500
LOT 3 – Full-On Doc Macey sold to CC, DR and RG Clark, for $8000
LOT 12 – Westell Hunt Angela SOS sold to Jarod Hudson for $7500
LOT 22 – Lilac Grove Chrome Sparkle sold to Aleesha Shaw for $6500
LOT 6 – Argyll Bashful Loves Lily sold to VAT Fullers Ltd for $6100
Lot 11 – Mokoia Sidekick Rosie sold to Fantastic Farms Ltd, for $5500
LOT 5 – Joyclas Bullseye Moo-ET sold to Glenalla Farm Ltd for $5000
Lot 7 – Pick of 2024 born heifers from Raetea Rubicom Debbie sold to Gemma Kelly for $5000
Lot 33 – Lakeview Parfect Rum-ET sold to Cview Trust, for $5000
