6 | hands when needed, and continuing her connection with the farm she shared for so many years with Martin. Carrying the tradition of hosting Glenbrae’s annual on-farm bull sale just before Queen’s Birthday, this year’s auction has been set for Thursday the 1st of June. “We usually catalogue about thirty R2 bulls, which we try to get to about 750kgs. Last year we sold 21 R2 bulls, averaging about $6000. A few of the bulls are sold to local commercial farmers around the district, but quite a few are sold up Gisborne way, and the Wairarapa — all over the North Island really. “This year we are aiming to offer the rst sons available from Beechwood Ivanhoe, a bull we bought from Christchurch a few years ago. He is a lower birthweight bull and there should be about ten of his progeny included in the sale.” The auction will start at 2.00pm with viewing available prior to that. “We try to produce sound bulls with good constitution, and bulls that suits the beef market. Grunty bulls with a bit of scope about them. To get a full clearance of all bulls offered would be nice but we have lost a few clients to pine trees. We had couple of clients who gave up farming and just sold their whole farms. It’s concerning because most of the country going into pine trees is all good hillside cattle country.” • from page 5 “This year we are aiming to offer the rst sons available from Beechwood Ivanhoe, a bull we bought from Christchurch a few years ago. He is a lower birthweight bull and there should be about ten of his progeny included in the sale.” RURAL PEOPLE » Andrew and Emma Martin and Mary Taylor
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