Friday, March 29, 2024

Records fall at Maungahina

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Maungahina Stud near Masterton topped a momentous year by setting four sale records in Hereford and Speckle Park bulls and semen.
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The sale results followed the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit award for Bruce McKenzie in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the cattle industry.

Maungahina Cracker 180013 sold for $40,000 to Andy Denham of Stoneburn Herefords, the highest Hereford price achieved by the McKenzie family.

A white Speckle Park bull, Maungahina Promise P194, sold for $35,000 to JAD Speckle Park in New South Wales, equalling the top price recorded for the breed.

New Speckle Park semen records were set when five straws of Legacy sold to Australia for $5150/straw after SPKNZ Extreme semen had earlier sold for a then-record $3200/straw.

Maungahina principal Mark McKenzie said the sale took place on a cold and wet day but about 200 people attended.

The Hereford bulls averaged $10,944 for 27 sold and the 18 Speckle Park bulls averaged $11,735.

The previous week in Wairarapa Bryan Bendall’s Seven Hills Angus on-farm sale at Eketahuna had 53 sold from 75 offered for an average of $6066 and a top price of $10,500.

Joe Fouhy’s Glanworth Angus stud at Pahiatua offered 36 bulls and sold 33 for an average of $8406 and a highest price of $26,000 to Glenwood Angus.

At the end of the East Coast sales Wilencote Hereford, Peter and Susie Humphreys, of Gisborne had a full clearance of 30 and averaged $9983. They achieved $16,000 twice, paid by Potutu Station and Mangatoitoi Station.

The Reeves family at Mokairau Herefords, Gisborne, sold 27 from 30 and averaged $6537.

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