Sarah Wrigley, Moogenilla Angus | The Land - video Dailymotion

Sarah anticipates a good sale turnout this year due to better conditions compared to the previous year's dry season.

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00:00We've managed to grow the bulls right through their whole life actually without any supplementary

00:03feeding at all. The bulls look a treat. I think we keep them in working condition but that doesn't

00:11mean they're light. The top bulls are up around the 900 kilos and most of them are in the mid

00:16sevens to the mid eights. Yes I'm happy with the bulls. You pride yourself on presenting

00:24commercially viable bulls. That's the same again this year? Yeah absolutely. A lot of our

00:30registrations are APR. Having said that it's not a low level of registration in a sense that we've

00:37been recording them for over 30 years. So there's a heap and we AI all our registered cows

00:45for over 30 years so 32 more years now getting old. So having said that you can get the top end

00:54of our bulls. What we pride is our very best that we've used ourselves in our registered herd

01:01into the commercial environment if they've got an APR registration. They can go into the seed stock

01:06industry too but often you'll get a bull that's got everything going for him with an APR registration

01:12and he'll go straight into the commercial enterprise which is great. We're still 45

01:21minutes out from the sale and there's already a good crowd here. Are you excited by the turnout

01:25so far? Yeah I usually get a pretty good feel before sale day of the interest. It's certainly

01:32stronger than last year when we had a very dry season in our district last year. It didn't rain

01:38between about March and October because I remember because we couldn't grow any wheat

01:44um and the cattle market had a difficult spring and we still sold all our bulls for you know a

01:53solid result and but I think the interest is much stronger this year so and we've got some

01:59lovely bulls here. I don't keep any bulls anymore if I particularly like a bull I'll collect from

02:05him before auction. So you have the opportunity for our very best genetics here which include

02:10bulls such as Quinella a couple of years ago. There's a couple of his sons and some other

02:19bulls here I've used in my registered herd that you know it's hurting a bit today because I

02:24probably should keep them but that's that's our business model. We started doing that a few years

02:29ago. We use all yearlings. I use them about 14 months old and then prepare them for sale. Using

02:38them at 14 months that would help your customers or clients know that they can perform? Absolutely

02:45I think if you see in my catalogue that I've used the bull if I've got in my comments I've used him

02:51in our registered herd then I believe in his EBVs and his phenotype you know the best bulls I can

02:57breed and I've used him at 14 months which means he was sexually mature enough big enough

03:03medically phenotypically good enough as well to go and work for me so any of those bulls have been

03:09I mean they've got to be in the top 20 percent of their group really to

03:16go have the capacity to go out and work at that age so yes.