Heifers sell for $4050 record at Mt Barker

By Jodie Rintoul
January 22 2021 - 6:00pm
Prices hit a high of $4100 twice at the Nutrien Livestock Great Southern Blue Ribbon Breeders sale at Mt Barker last week for PTIC Angus-Friesian heifers offered by the Houden family, The Southden Trust, Redmond. With one of the pens were Nutrien Livestock State manager Leon Giglia (left), vendors Mal and Des Houden and buyers of both pens Evan and Graham Ayres, Graham Ayres Livestock, Bornholm. When the pens sold at $4100 they set a State record price for PTIC first-cross sold at auction.
Prices hit a high of $4100 twice at the Nutrien Livestock Great Southern Blue Ribbon Breeders sale at Mt Barker last week for PTIC Angus-Friesian heifers offered by the Houden family, The Southden Trust, Redmond. With one of the pens were Nutrien Livestock State manager Leon Giglia (left), vendors Mal and Des Houden and buyers of both pens Evan and Graham Ayres, Graham Ayres Livestock, Bornholm. When the pens sold at $4100 they set a State record price for PTIC first-cross sold at auction.

A QUALITY line-up of breeders and a long list of buyers both in attendance and logged in on AuctionsPlus were all that were needed to ensure the Nutrien Livestock Great Southern Blue Ribbon Breeders Sale at Mt Barker will go down in history as one of the best ever with prices hitting a State record $4050 for PTIC first-cross heifers.

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