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Minnamurra Spring BULL Sale

Bulls sold to a top of $24,000, and averaged $14,000 in our spring sale held onsite at Mount Mill in September 2024.

MINNAMURRA CROSS BREEDING PROGRAM FEATURE

Our recent feedlot success with Speckle/Angus cross cattle has been featured in an extensive article in The Land in August 2024.

MINNAMURRA BUYS 2 TOP BULLs from the 2024 JAD SALE

We were pleased to purchase Lot 2, Tambourine Man T76 (pictured) by Maungahina Northern Star, which we will use as a cover bull for our sire Maungahina Rising Star in our AI program.
We also purchased Lot 15, Tobruk T16, a Stands Alone son out of the Codiak Unique family. This cross has been so successful in producing standout females in the Minnamurra herd, and we’ll use him as a backup bull for the Stands Alone semen we still have in the can.
Both are standout bulls and have impressive carcase data that will complement our breeding program perfectly.

Minnamurra buys 2 top bulls at the JAD 2023 sale

Minnamurra have been very impressed with the Maungahina Legacy bull we purchased from the JAD last year (JAD Rare Cat R109) so we were pleased to secure two more Legacy bloodlines: Lot 3, JAD Sherrif S25 and Lot 2, JAD Solomon S31.
Both are standout bulls and have impressive carcase data that will complement our breeding program perfectly.

MINNAMURRA PAXTON P115 RETURNS HOME

Minnamurra had the confidence to pay the top price at the 2022 Southern Success Speckle Park sale to secure a bull they had originally bred and sold in their 2019 bull sale, Minnamurra Paxton P115, paying $24,000 for this proven Minnamurra Jaguar 4 year old son.

Sold by Hanging Rock and Blueridge Speckle Park, this March 2018-drop bull weighed 968kg, with an EMA of 140cm and IMF of 7.1%. Minnamurra’s general manager, Dennis Power, said that Paxton had proven himself and was extremely pleased to get him back. “We’ve always liked his figures, particular his birth weight figures”, he said. “His mother was a genuine 31kg birth weight and he was 36kg at birth – we have been trying to find a proven heifer bull like this for a while”.

Minnamurra Spring BULL Sale TOPS $42,000

Sixty bulls went under the hammer at Minnamurra’s Spring Sale in September, with the two year old bulls averaging $16,285 and the yearling bulls averaging $9,389. The sale topper was Minnamurra Regal R69, which went to Black Diamond stud in Victoria for $42,000. 

MINNAMURRA BUYS MAUNGAHINA RISING STAR R286

We were so pleased to secure Rising Star for $65,000 at the Maungahina Stud Bull Sale in New Zealand on June 9th.
We really like his sire, Maungahina Northern Star, and considered that his son, Rising Star, was the standout bull in the catalogue, with exceptional weight for age and IMF figures. His dam is out of the great Codiak 8R family, the bloodline that we have had such success with in the carcase trials we have entered over the last few years.
We are confident that Maungahina Rising Star is another positive step forward in the breeding program at Minnamurra.

MINNAMURRA BUYS TOP LEGACY BULL

Minnamurra secured the sale topper at the recent JAD sale, Rare Cat R109, son of New Zealand sire Maungahina Legacy. We considered him to be the standout bull in a very impressive catalogue.

TOP ANGUS PEN

Minnamurra steers were the top Angus pen at the 2022 Beef Spectacular Feedback Trial, continuing their long list of wins in carcase trials around the country.

2021 SPRING SALE TOPPER – $56,000 FOR YEARLING BULL

Minnamurra achieved 100% clearance of 59 Speckle bulls at an average of $14,880 and a top of $56,000 in their 2021 Spring Sale, despite COVID restrictions. Two thirds of the lots went to online buyers.

Delivering increased profits to commercial producers

The Land special report “Carcase Merit” interviews Minnamurra General Manager Dennis Power on their success in carcase trials over the last eight years, and how this leads to increased profits for the commercial producer.

Weaning Ring trial

Weaning rings are being trialled on 90 of our Autumn 2020 calves. Read the article in the Nov 15 Land.

RECORD BROKEN AT BIG SPRING SALE

Minnamurra Plunderer P196, winner in the viewers’ choice section of the Sire Shootout Competion, broke the Australasian record for a Speckle Park Bull when he was knocked down at Minnamurra’s Big Spring Sale for $40,000.

Another win at the Ekka – 5th YEAr in a row

Minnamurra were amongst the winners at the 2020 RNA paddock to palate awards at the Royal Brisbane show, taking out the Champion Carcase in the 100 day HGP Free Class, as well as third overall for a pen of 6 carcases. (A total of 150 steers were entered into this class). The winning carcase was by Minnamurra Jaguar J156 out of one of our Te Mania blood Angus cows. A very pleasing result considering we had sold virtually all our Speckle cross calves as weaners, due to the drought, and the few we retained were paddock fed right up to the entry weight, with no supplementary feeding at all. More proof of how well Speckle Park cattle do in dry conditions, and what a great meat cross Speckle x Angus is.

SIRE SHOOTOUT SUCCESS

Minnamurra Plunderer P196 was voted outright winner in the viewers’ choice section of the Sire Shootout Competion with double the votes of the second placed bull.
  
The competition was run by Australian Community Media (Rural Press) and attracted 83 entrants from all the major breeds in Australia. The bull was required to be registered with a breed society and for sale in 2020 through either a private treaty or a public auction. Plunderer P196 will feature in our onsite sale on September 4th.

DENNIS POWER ON THE DROUGHT RESILIENCE OF SPECKLES

Our General Manager, Dennis Power, was interviewed by The Land in March 2020, about the exceptional feed conversion of the Speckle Park breed in the recent drought. Read the full article.

MINNAMURRA’s  HEIFERS  TOP THEIR SPRING SALE

Minnamurra’s bulls sold to $16,000, at an average of $5,775, but were outdone by the heifers, which topped at $18,000 and averaged $6,800

ANOTHER WIN iN THE THE 2019 rna CARCASE COMPETITION

Minnamurra was again successful for the fouth year in a row in taking out carcase awards at the Royal Queensland Show with our Speckle Park x Angus steers.

We won the Highest Individual Index Score with our 70 day trade team and achieved 1st place in the MSA Meat Eating Quality Award for our 70 day team, 3rd place with our 100 day trade team.

Minnamurra’s autumn sale tops at $11,000

Minnamurra’s sale on 17th May 2019 sold 30 bulls to an average of $5,700 and a top of $11,000 for Whiskey son Minnamurra Norton N134.

MINNAMURRA’S DROUGHT STRATEGY

Minnamurra joined their replacement heifers whilst still in a feedlot to ensure a good crop of joined heifers when they returned, despite the drought.

Minnamurra buys top angus bull

Minnamurra once again bought the top selling Angus bull at Te Mania’s northern bull sale in August 2018.

ANOTHER WIN FOR our steers IN THE 2018
RNA CARCASE COMPETITION

Minnamurra scored the highest individual index score in the 100 day trade section at Ekka 2018

WHISKEY’s SOn NERO N15 SELLS FOR $32,000 AT our 2018 ANNUAL SALE 

JSF Redneck Whiskey sons averaged $13,000  at Minnamurra’s annual bull sale at “Mount Mill” Coolah on 25th May 2018. Sale topper was Minnamurra Nero N15 at $32,000

dennis power ~ FARMER OF THE YEAR FINALIST 2018

Dennis Power, Minnamurra’s General Manager, was one of three finalist for the Herald & Weekly Times Beef Farmer of the Year Award for 2018.

MINNAMURRA WINS RNA CARCASE COMPETITION

Minnamurra placed first in the pen of six carcases in the trade section at Ekka 2017 and was second overall in the trade section of the palate to plate competition.

MINNAMURRA PICKS UP TOP SELLING TE MANIA ANGUS BULL

Minnamurra once again bought the top selling Angus bull at Te Mania’s northern bull sale in August 2017.

SPECK SAVIOURS!
MINNAMURRA’S VISION FOR GOOD BEEF GENETICS

The Weekly Times feature article on our Speckle Park breeding program in July 2017

SPECKLED PERFORMERS – OUR CROSSBREEDING PROGRAM 

The Land’s story on Minnamurra’s crossbreeding program using Speckle Park bulls over their Angus cows.

NEW AUSTRALIAN RECORD for a speckle park bull

Minnamurra Leander L81 sold for a record price of $35,000 at Minnamurra’s annual bull sale at “Mount Mill” Coolah on 19th May 2017. Average price for the 51 bulls was $11,392 with 100% clearance.

CARCASE COMPETITION win FOR 3rd CONSECUTIVE YEAR

Minnamurra’s four teams finished second, fifth, eighth and 12th in the 2017 Beef Spectacular Feedback Trial, along with the Riverine Premium Title for the third year in a row.

New world record for a speckle park bull

Minnamurra bought the top selling Speckle Park bull at the Canadian bull sales in April 2016, Riverhill Crusader 025C

MINNAMURRA’S BACK-TO-BACK FEEDBACK TRIAL WIN

Minnamurra’s Speckle Park/Angus cross steers won the 2016 Feedback Trial carcase section for the second year in a row.

MINNAMURRA’S PADDOCK TO PALATE WIN at ekka

Minnamurra won the 2015 JBS 70 day trade section at the Royal Brisbane Show out of a field of 1,000 steers.

“carcase quality second to none”
 2015 Beef Spectacular Feedback competition.

Teams of Speckle Park/Angus steers from Minnamurra placed first, second and third in the carcase judging, third and fourth in feedlot performance, and third and eighth overall in the competition.