THE 2025 Alpine Angus Autumn Sale is to be held at the Alpine Sales Complex at Rosewhite on Wednesday, March 12 at 1pm offering 100 HBR and APR Angus Bulls.
The sale bulls will yarded for inspection by 10am on sale day.
Alpine Angus have been operating for over 27 years and sell around 200 bulls annually.
“Our focus has always been on delivering sound, quality bulls that last with excellent structure and strong growth and carcass traits," Alpine Angus manager, Chris Oswin said.
"We do this by continually striving to maintain and develop our highly maternal cow herd.
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"Cows that last and grow produce bulls that do the same.”
Alpine Angus run around 700 cows mainly in the Alpine valleys around Myrtleford as well as on agistment on the Hay plains at Narringa, south of Hay.
Alpine females are joined to sound, quiet sires with strong constitution and high performance.
Balance is the key to the Alpine breeding program, maintaining body, doing ability and structure while increasing performance potential with an emphasis on the basic fundamental traits of Angus to create cattle that last and have the ability to pass their genetics on.
Alpine continually stack generations with essential traits to produce reliable and consistent results.
The Alpine cow pedigrees are littered with foot improvers and sires that have stood the test of time.
Alpine’s main bull breeding focus has always been towards weaner producers and ensuring our cattle pack plenty of punch.
"We are fortunate our genetics have been showcased so well by so many farming families throughout the North East and beyond," Alpine principal Jim Delany said.
"We are humbled by their success across so many calf sales and the demand that has been created for Alpine bred calves."
Weight gain has been and always will be a key driver in Alpine’s breeding decisions.
Targeting high growth sires ensures Alpine genetics remain relevant throughout the production chain and contributes to the popularity of Alpine genetics commercially.
"There are plenty of sires we would love to use on phenotype alone, but without growth we are doing ourselves and others a disservice," Mr Oswin said.
"More recently we have been able to significantly lift the carcass traits in our cattle without sacrificing the basics and this has helped increase the merit of our cattle further forward."
In recent years Alpine Angus genetics have also been sought by studs throughout Australia with a number of high quality bulls being used as herd sires.
Currently Alpine Angus is represented by industry AI sires Alpine Real Deal R163, Alpine Ronaldo R232 and Alpine 38 Special S021.
Real Deal’s first sons sold to $100,000 in 2024.
Alpine Angus offers a great opportunity for commercial producers to access quality, well related genetics at affordable prices supported by a committed after sales program.
The 2025 sale team is made up of large lines of quality bulls from leading industry and Alpine sires.
Sires include Baldridge Goalkeeper, Baldridge Versatile and Alpine Real Deal: all big growth, high carcass attribute sires with moderate birth who produce well fleshed, quiet sons that have proven highly popular over the last 18 months with all three producing sons that have sold for $100,000.
The record breaking and record producing Millah Murrah Paratrooper is also well represented throughout the sale.
Carcass quality is further enhanced by a high quality run of Rennylea N542 descendants as well as Alpine’s first sons by Te Mania Rainmaker R209 a docile, high marbling sire with good frame.
"N542 is renown as an easy calving, high IMF sire and an outstanding sire of sires, producing numerous herd bulls including Real Deal and Ronaldo, from limited use by a few Angus studs,” Mr Oswin said.
Sons of N542 and Real Deal are well represented in Alpine 2025 line up, as well as Alpine Rock Solid R289, a high selling N542 son from an outstanding flush that also produced Ronaldo and Alpine Next Gen R272 who is currently a stud sire for Dulverton Angus and Five Star Angus.
Taimate Roy a New Zealand sire whose ultra sound sons sold very well last spring also features along with a couple of Alpine sires with outstanding foot data.
"Docility is at the forefront in this years lineup with Goalkeeper, Versatile and Roy as well as our own Alpine Knockout Q211 all sitting in the top percentiles of the breed for this trait," Mr Oswin said.
Finally, there will also be an outstanding run of ET bull calves including 7 Millah Murrah Paratrooper brothers out of Real Deal’s dam and the first sons of Sitz Manor 3195, a USA cow Alpine Angus purchased at the Sitz female sale in 2022 who currently has a couple of sons marketed by AI companies in America.
To view the sale bulls prior to sale day: the sale preview will be held at the Alpine Sales Complex, Rosewhite on Sunday, March 2 from 11am to 3pm; or alternatively by appointment with Alpine Angus manager, Chris Oswin: 0427 562 254.
