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Limehills

headlines strong

selling season

Limehills Stardom 190156 sold to Tawanui Herefords for the season’s top price of $41,000.
2021 was another strong selling season for
registered Hereford bulls. The lockdowns and
travel restrictions of 2020 were a catalyst for
many studs to combine on-farm selling with
online bidding, and most sales in both the
autumn and spring of 2021 used this ‘hybrid’
selling to great effect.

Words: Andrew Russo. Photos: Supplied.

AUTUMN SALES

Limehills Herefords, Roxburgh, had the honour of the top
price for a bull sold at an on-farm auction alongside the top
price at the NZ Herefords national sale, held as an online Limehills Stardom 190168 was the top price bull at the national
sale in 2021. Top price for the year was $41,000 for Limehills sale.
Stardom 190156, a son of the high-profile sire Limehills
Streaker 150368, sold to Tawanui Herefords, Taranaki, to and commercial buyers with 17 sons selling at the sale
join an impressive lineup of sires purchased in the past few to average nearly $15,000. The overall average ended at
years. Stardom 190156 combines EBVs for moderate birth $9950 on the 60 bulls sold through the sale ring. The top
weight, high growth and very high IMF figures with a strong price bull at NZ Herefords National Seed Stock Sale was
maternal dam line featuring Otapawa Spark. also a Limehills Streaker son, Limehills Stardom 190168,
The second top price of the year was also achieved at the which sold for $25,000 to Charwell Stud, Bay of Plenty and
Limehills on-farm auction with Limehills Stardom 190158, BeefGen, Gisborne.
another Streaker son, selling to Mahuta Herefords, South Coming in with the third top price for 2021 was Okawa
Auckland for $36,000. Beaumont Station purchased another Ignition 190102 for Nick and Penny France and family at Mt
standout Streaker son, Limehills Stardom 190083, for Somers, Canterbury. Ignition 190102 is a son of one of 2018’s
$30,000. The Streaker progeny proved popular with stud top priced bulls, Limehills Starter 160062, and was knocked

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