Results - 2025 Broad Leaf Sale, Rolleston QLD

Sixty Santa Gertrudis bulls have sold today at the Rolleston Livestock selling complex to a top of $18,000 and an average of $7300, the 95% clearance rate and significant average increase on 2024 delighting vendors Tim and Trina Patterson and family, Broad Leaf Santa Gertrudis.

The annual sale, which this year offered a portion of Rosevale bulls offered by David and Sonya Greenup, Jandowae, drew a solid panel of local buyers to the Central Queensland venue, along with commercial producers online pursuing bulls with strong breed character, backed by meticulous EBV performance data.

The complete package impressed John Speed, bidding on behalf of his parents John and Margie Speed, Red Rock Grazing Company, Rolleston, who invested $85,000 in 17 head that will be destined for their herds throughout their holdings across the Rolleston district and the Northern Territory.

The buyers of the top-price bull included the local family partnership of Tyson, Werth and O’Connor, represented at the event by three generations of the Tyson family – Lindsay and Avriel, their son and daughter-in-law, Doug and Tahnee and their children Brodie and Audrey.

The family partnership, of Springwood, Springsure, bought lot 10, Broad Leaf Victory V83, a horned son of Broad Leaf Nullabor R91 (P), out of a highly productive Broad Leaf cow that has two calves in the last two years and currently PTIC.

At 22-mo, Nullabor weighed 802 kg, with an average daily weight gain of 1.15 and scans of 11/9 on the rump and rib,, 125 EMA, 6 IMF and 44.5 sc, with well balanced EBVs, and standout numbers for growth and EMA.

The second top price bull was bought for $17,000 at lot 3, by Banana district beef producer, Ray Brown, who bought the first four lots of the sale, plus another bull later in the catalogue, to take his draft to 5 head at an average of $9400.

Broad Leaf Viking V67 (P), another Nullabor son from the sire Strathmore Nullabor N644 (PP), weighed 848 kg with adwg of 1.14, 13/8 fats, 134 EMA, 5 IMF and 41 sc.

Other volume buyers included:

Serecold Pastoral Co, Rolleston: 6 hd;

Clematis Pastoral Co, Blackwater: 5 hd;

Albania Downs Grazing Co, Blackwater; Grimstone Pastoral Trust; Rodney Perrett Partnership, Rolleston: 3 hd;

Agents: GDL Rural with auctioneer Matt Pearce calling the bids, simulcast on Stocklive.

Pictured with vendor Tim Patterson and his daughter Alenna (right), is the Tyson family of Springsure, buyers of the top-price Broad Leaf bull, from left: Tahnee, Audrey, Brodie, Doug, Lindsay and Avriel.