Franklin Angus tops
Grafton multi-vendor sale

The multi-vendor Angus and Brangus bull sale at Grafton saleyards on Saturday brought a top bid of $30,000 for an average of $12,100, and a clearance of 45 for 48 offered.

High-selling Franklin Raindance R12, sired by SAV Raindance 6848 from a Franklin Lubra dam going back to Eaglehawk, was bred by Franklin Angus stud, Upper Orara.

Repeat client and neighbour at Lowanna, Andrew Moran, has bought Franklin bulls three years in a row to provide better growth and genetics to deliver progeny that are square and muscley.

Breeders Nick and Blaire Franklin went on to sell nine more bulls, all slick-coated and all of a type, with the draft averaging $17,300.

Lance Timms, Brushgrove, paid $24,000 for Franklin Unanimous R31, by Vision Unanimous, who presented at 880 kilograms at 23 months old with 41cm scrotal circumference. Bred thick and deep he had positive rib and rump and good intramuscular fat with well above average growth for age.

Clerkness Pastoral at Bundarra bought three Franklin bulls, through CL Squires at Inverell, with Chisholm Bloch from Yamba waving them down to a top of $14,000 for Franklin Unanimous R14, by Vision Unanimous.

Yulgilbar Pastoral took home two Franklin bulls, out of six purchased throughout the sale, paying to $19,000 for Franklin Raindance R13 who was out of the same cow that produced the stud's top-priced bull in 2021.

Two more Franklin bulls headed west to Delungra, to Winston Pastoral which paid to $16,000 for Franklin South Dakota, from an Eaglehawk Blackbird.