Almost total clearance at Orere

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

Orere Angus at Pehiri kicked off the Gisborne component of East Coast Angus Bull Week yesterday morning with an almost total clearance and a top price of $65,000.

Ben and Kylie Johnson sold 19 out of the 20 rising two-year-old bulls they put up by auction in their first on-farm sale.

Orere’s Lot 1 was purchased by Ratanui Angus, the Story family, from Tuai.

The average across the sale was $11,989.

“It was a fantastic sale,” said PGG Wrightson genetics representative Emma Pollitt.

“I think the Orere team can be really proud of themselves and of the result they achieved in their first on-farm sale.

“They pulled it off wonderfully after the weather setbacks caused by the cyclones,” she said.

“It was a lovely line-up of cattle, bid on by a great bench of local buyers.

“All round it was a well supported sale.”

A top of price of $65,000 was paid for Lot 1 yesterday morning at the Orere Angus sale, and for a couple of hours it was the top priced Angus bull sold in the district so far this ‘Bull Week’.