THE 2024 Alpine Angus Autumn Bull Sale is to be held at the Alpine Sales Complex at Rosewhite on Wednesday March 13 at 1pm.
A sale preview will be held at the Sales Complex on Sunday 3 March between 11 am and 3 pm.
Alpine Principal Jim Delany said “Over the last few years, the beef industry enjoyed record market conditions with strong prices for cattle across the board, bulls included.
"We are grateful to have shared our clients' success with Alpine records being broken in successive sales.
"Our thanks to our clients for their great support.
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"In recent times, market conditions cooled a lot more than expected, and a lot more quickly.
"Just as we share the good times with our clients, we also share the more trying ones.
"Our job is to make sure that whatever the market is doing, our bulls will position our clients at the top of that market with their progeny and promote structural integrity in their herds.”
Alpine source sires from both the USA and Australia from leading cow families, with pedigrees containing sound, proven genetics to complement the Alpine herd and add performance and carcase merit while maintaining and/or improving basic traits that are a necessity for producing efficient working Angus bulls – sound feet, tight sheathes, good testicles, docility and all black hides.
Alpine Manager Chris Oswin said “Our aim of our breeding program is to maintain a highly maternal and functional herd of Angus cows.
"We seek long-fronted, feminine, sound, easy-calving cows with good udder quality, that are true to type and have a great temperament and structural integrity.”
The March 2023 sale will include lines of calving ease bulls by homebred Sires Alpine Main Event and Alpine Pablos Pulse.
Both are proven consistent producers of high quality bulls with Main Event siring our 2021 top priced Spring bull, Alpine Rip Wheeler R144 whose semen is marketed by Genetics Australia alongside another Main Event son in Alpine Main Event Q192.
There is also a run of higher IMF carcase bulls, with depth and constitution including sons of Murdeduke Quarterback and Alpine Junior M205.
Chris Oswin said “Quarterback sons have sold well across the country and were well appreciated at our last Autumn sale with a long bodied son topping it.”
Alpine Angus will also be offering a set of stout, thick bodied sons of USA Sires Sitz Stellar, Heiken Broadview and Baldridge SR Goalkeeper combining moderate birth with explosive growth. These three American sires were targeted for their ability to transmit easy calving, big growth rates and dense, deep bodied progeny.
A bigger framed run of Banquet Quarter Pounder, Alpine Knockout Q211 and Alpine Ricochet R005 sons, with plenty of length and ideal weaner producers will round out the sale offering.
Chris Oswin said “Quarter Pounder topped Banquets sale a couple of years ago where he impressed with his overall body mass and type.
"These are our first calves by him.”
