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Traditional Auction
Regular sales with extensive competition
Types of auctions
- Special sheep and cattle sales.
- Local prime sales.
- Store sales.
- Stud sales: single vendor, on-property or multi-vendor.
How you benefit
- Access to regular sales with extensive competition.
- Elders has the industry’s leading auctioneers and sales teams, trained specifically to maximise prices for you.
- Quick and secure payment of sale proceeds.
- Full market reporting via the Elders website.
Over-the-hooks
Elders association with key processors presents a variety of over-the-hooks (OTH) options for producers allowing for the co-ordination of selection and delivery of livestock designed to maximise your returns.
How you benefit
- Your local Elders representative will discuss current market levels with you and help you decide which OTH option is best for you.
- You receive valuable feedback and information wherever possible.
Private Treaty Sales
On-property sale
Types of private treaty sales
- Producer to producer.
- Over-the-hooks sales.
- Stud sales.
- Direct to feedlot.
- Forward contracts.
How you benefit
- Elders utilises its national network to identify prospective purchasers of livestock.
- Elders facilitates the transaction, providing market access to other producers, backgrounders, feedlots and processors.
- On-property, farm gate price.
- Reduced risk.
Feedlots
| Charlton Feedlot | Killara Feedlot |
Elders operates feedlots in NSW and Victoria, with 85 - 90% of the cattle passing through them marketed on back-to-back contracts.
How you benefit
- You can take advantage of Elders feedlot ownership with two strategically located feedlots: Charlton Feedlot (VIC) and Killara Feedlot (Northern NSW).
- You can identify a market that best suits your livestock with a wide range of specifications.
- You are able to select from a range of payment options.
- You receive valuable performance feedback, allowing you to better cater for your market.
Elders feedlots
- Charlton Feedlot (Victoria) is a 20,000 head feeding facility which targets the domestic supermarket trade, heavy trade and high quality short-fed and mid- fed export markets. Charlton is 100% owned by Elders Rural Services Australia.
- Killara Feedlot (NSW) is also a 20,000 head facility feeding cattle targeting the domestic markets and short/medium-fed export markets. Killara is a joint venture between Elders Rural Services Australia and Taiwan Sugar Corporation.
Feedlotting specifications
| Market |
Time on Feed |
Breed | Induction weight | Sex |
Frame |
| Domestic |
60 - 70 days | British and British X | 300 - 430 kg | Mixed | Medium |
| Export | 100 days | British and British X Euro | 380 - 480 kg | Steers | Large |
| Export | 120 - 150 days | British | 400 - 500 kg | Steers | Large |
For further details and prices contact: Stephen Rennie at Charlton Feedlot on 0418 266 691 or Jim Guilfoyle at Killara Feedlot on 0429 447 016.
AuctionsPlus
Is an electronic selling system for livestock that offers national competition, allowing buyers to log into and participate in the live sale, anywhere in Australia. Elders is a major supporter of AuctionsPlus and has qualified assessors in every region of Australia.
How you benefit
- Your livestock are exposed to a national gallery of buyers, maximising competition.
- You can participate in regular sales: 5 regular sheep sales, 3 regular cattle sales (including Eastern states, Tasmanian and WA sales), as well as numerous "special sales" each week.
- When stock are listed, you set a reserve price in consultation with Elders assessors.
- When stock are sold, the price is ‘on property’, with the purchaser paying freight.
- You are not penalised if grid specifications are not met, as the price is a flat one, particularly relevant for the sale of slaughter stock on a c/kg carcase weight basis.
- You receive accurate feedback information from the live assessment as well as kill sheet information for slaughter stock.
Go to the AuctionsPlus website.
Contact: Tim Bayliss - National Co-ordinator AuctionsPlus
Phone: 02 6036 2444
Fax: 02 6036 2468
Mobile: 0419 788 366
Email: tim.bayliss@elders.com.au
Forward Contracts
Forward contracts help you lock in a price for livestock to be delivered at a particular time to a set specification. They help balance the 'boom or bust' syndrome and enable you to better manage your cash flow.
Elders forward contracts are now available for feeder cattle and limited over the hooks grades, for all NSW, VIC & SA producers. For further details please contact george.last@elders.com.au
How you benefit
- You can manage your price risk by locking in a set price for your sheep, pigs, lambs or cattle.
- You can manage your cash flow and plan your budget with the certainty of cash flow.
- You can meet your customers’ expectations with a product that will arrive on time, to specification and at a known price.
- You can implement a genetics program which helps deliver stock to the specifications you know your customers require.
Live Export
Elders are one of the largest suppliers to the live export market, managing the supply of cattle for markets in Indonesia North Africa, the Middle East, Mexico and other Asian markets.
How you benefit
- You can access the live export market, in any state, through Elders huge network of branches.
- You have the very best access to international markets with Elders close alliances with a number of exporters.
- There are live export markets for bulls, cows, heifers and steers of all breeds and all weight ranges, as well as for sheep and lambs.
- The live export market is flexible in the livestock specifications it can handle.
- Adds value to sale price by underpinning the market.
Visit our Live Export page to find out more.
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AngusPlus
AngusPlus is an initiative between the Australian Angus Society and Elders to run an on-line simultaneous sale for Angus commercial and seedstock producers. The sale takes place the first Monday of every month at 11am on the Auctions plus website - numbers permitting.
To be a part of this growing on-line based auction, you just simply have to meet the following requirements:
Sale Protocol
- Minimum Commercial Member of Angus Australia (cost $77 inc. GST).
- Female Sale Cattle – Joining sires and calves at foot may be by Registered and Performance recorded bulls of other breeds eg. Eligible Angus females may have calves at foot and/or be joined to Angus or any other breed. Cattle can be multi sire mated.
- Unjoined females and steers must be sired by Registered and Performance Recorded Angus sires and from an Angus female or dam of any other breed (ie Black Baldy cattle, etc are eligible)
- Sale cattle shall be assessed by an Elders accredited assessor to produce an AuctionsPlus livestock description catalogue.
- All livestock for sale are to be described in the Elders Xtra livestock catalogue on a per Lot basis.
- All females for sale aged 15 months or greater shall be pregnancy tested by a registered veterinarian prior to assessment, regardless of their said pregnancy status.
- All females sold as joined (regardless of age) shall be pregnancy tested by a registered veterinarian, prior to assessment by an accredited Elders AuctionsPlus assessor.
- Pregnancy Tested In Calf (PTIC) females shall have the joining period nominated.
- Cattle nominated as eligible for CAAB shall carry the Angus Assured ear tag.
Click here to register your cattle.
Sale Contacts
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Elders Limited
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Victoria/Riverina :
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Peter Rollason
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0419 600 323
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03 5222 3018
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New South Wales : |
Tony Ryan
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0409 649 300
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Queensland :
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Bruce Sheppard
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0428 851 133
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07 4982 4120
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South Australia : |
Tom Dennis
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0427 975 207
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08 8762 3766
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Northern Territory : |
Herbie Neville
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0409 696 354
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08 8953 4003
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Western Australia : |
Max Cunnington
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0427 939 139
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08 9273 5860
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Tasmania :
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Ben Grubb
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0419 515783
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03 6336 1501
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| Angus Australia Contacts: |
Geoff Phillips
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0411 413 599
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| AuctionsPlus: |
Tim Bayliss
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0419 788 366
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02 6036 2468
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Participation Costs
A per cost Angus Australia marketing fee of $1 for steers and $3 for females in single vendor offerings of 50 or over and $5 for under 50 females which shall be charged only if the lot is sold.
AuctionsPlus listing fee - refer to the AuctionPlus website.
Charges are per head and GST exclusive.
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