The Droughtmaster National Sale at Gracemere defied the odds delivering a $100,000 top price and blockbuster $9200 average.

Having handfed his cattle for months and sold down numbers, a two-out-of-two result at the Ekka has eased some of the pain of drought for Pittsworth's Jamie Hollis and partner Mikayla Passmore.

Devon Court Herefords and Binara Poll Herefords won the major ribbons in the Hereford ring at Ekka 2019.

$34,000 top price bull to head to Western Australia

PATIENCE paid off for third-time supreme champion female Miss Impatience and exhibitor Brooke Weir

DESPITE coming from a family of Santa Gertrudis breeders, it was Will Weirs' Brahman bulls that won over the judge at the Alice Springs, NT, Show during judging on Friday.

Designing an efficient, medium-framed cow that deliveries a live calf each year has been a passion for 30 years of Tasmanian cattle breeder, George Mills.