The national sale at 10am on May 11 will be live streamed on PGG Wrightson’s bidr platform in a Helmsman format.
Bids must be placed in person at the sale venue in Palmerston North or by telephone to a PGW agent or three NZ Hereford executives.
No online bidding will be available.
The venue is Orlando Country Club on Rangitikei Line, Milson, where the breed society’s annual general meeting and dinner will be held the day before on May 10.
Breed society general manager Posy Moody says the fully-electronic format, without bulls travelling to a sale venue, was safer, cheaper and a natural development with the technology available, and after last year’s disruptions.
“The Helmsman format gives every vendor a fair opportunity regardless of lot position, and buyers can switch tack if their first pick becomes unavailable,” Moody says.
Assessments had been conducted on bulls that breeders put forward and some potential buyers were travelling the country to make their own structural assessments ahead of the sale.
Bulls are being sold by 18 vendors from Kaeo in Northland down to Gore in Southland.
The sale is set down for 40 minutes, with an optional extension of two minutes under the control of PGW stud stock auctioneer Cam Heggie, who will also be the compère.
The catalogue with all breeding values and pedigrees, videos and still photographs of all lots are already available on the bidr website.
