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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 2024 THEWEEKLYTIMES.COM.AU
BULL BUYING GUIDE
AUTUMN
Limousins become a passionate
JENNY KELLY
A s a stock agent with a ca- reer spanning more than 40 years Tony Hooppell has seen a lot of different cattle sold. He doesn’t breed bash, rath- er acknowledges the best of every breed has its merits. “It is a joy to look at well- bred cattle and I’m a true be- liever in every breed has its share of excellent animals,” Tony said. It was a version of the match your farming enterprise to your area, market and pas- sion that led the Hooppell fam- ily to Limousins and Simmentals. Based at Rochester, Tony and sons Xavier and Ethan op- erate the Carlsruhe Limousin stud which today numbers about 50 registered Limousin females alongside a smaller niche herd of Simmentals. As part of the FP Nevins and Co stock agency group, Tony regularly sold cattle at the Bendigo saleyards (now closed) and Echuca where price rewards for highly mus- cled and yielding European vealers were consistently achieved. These calves often came out of mixed breed herds in the re-
gion, including F1 dairy-cross cows, where the muscle power of European bulls added car-
cass shape and made the heif- ers as valuable as the steers for domestic meat buyers.
“It was years in the job and seeing those really strong trade buying orders from the likes of
Hardwicks at Kyneton, the Cobram abattoir, Swan Hill abattoir and Kardinia for
calves with the right shape,” Tony said. “And what really stood out
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