Black Factor dominated the fourth Cam Grove on property bull sale. Twenty five silver, grey, and blacks were offered with fifteen selling under the Helmsman auction method. Over half those sold were black factor.
Top seller was a black factor, Lot 6, Cam Grove Xman L16, who ,after a bidding battle between two well known Australian Murray Grey studs, was finally knocked down to the Cadfor Murray Grey Stud for fifteen thousand dollars. L16 was described by Cam Grove principal, John Young, as having EBV’s “as near perfect as we can get” with Supermarket and EU indexes in the top 1%. He also had the heaviest weight of his group at 665kg one month prior to sale.
Monterey was another Australian stud to purchase a black factor. Their choice was Lot 8, Cam Grove Licorice L29, for four thousand dollars.
Repeat buyer, Redpasture Beef selected two greys to a top of five thousand dollars.
The fifteen bulls averaged four thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Two registered females also sold at three thousand dollars each.
The sale was conducted by Bernard Atkins of Atkins Livestock Services.