\u201cThis sort of event is always very popular in any district, but this is a really different sort of experience coming to the city,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it\u2019s the first annual, so I\u2019ve got my souvenir bull catalogue to put in with all the others.\u201d<\/p>\n
Each of the 20 specially bred Simmental bulls is worth thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n
Even with four stomachs, such a beefy price tag is hard to digest.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, actually … We were just looking at the scones and sausage rolls, because we think the bulls are going to be out of our budget,\u201d Cynthia admitted.<\/p>\n
But some brave bidders were ready to take the bull by the horns.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve looked through the catalogue and spotted some favourites,\u201d Rebecca said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll have to see once the bidding starts, I hope I don\u2019t get carried away, stupidly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Repeat customer Ray was keeping his cards close to his chest.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do have a budget … But that\u2019s my business,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n
That attention was good news for farm manager Peter Maxwell.<\/p>\n
It was his first time hosting an auction, and with beef prices at an all time high \u2013 the steaks are even higher.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe beef market\u2019s really strong, so it might be a good year to have a first go at an auction like this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Auctioneer Cam Heggie and farm manager Peter Maxwell.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are breeders, these will go onto some possibly purebred herds or to some crossbred herds, that\u2019s the big thing about Simmental cattle, they cross well with a lot of other breeds.\u201d<\/p>\n
For auctioneer Cam Heggie, this wasn\u2019t his first rodeo.<\/p>\n
He had sold cattle from Cornwall Park for several years, but said it was a novelty to host an auction on the farm itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been fortunate enough to deal with Cornwall Park for a number of years, but there\u2019s a lot of people who don\u2019t even know there\u2019s a Simmental stud in the middle of downtown Auckland.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo to run an auction here, it\u2019s actually pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the bulls, raised in a fast moo-ving urban environment, were among the calmest he had met.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnbelievable temperament, on not only the bulls but the cattle here at Cornwall Park in general,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could probably say, without fear of contradiction, these would be the quietest cattle I deal with day to day. Look at them in the paddock there, they just wander up to you, just incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n
At a rapid-fire auction, the bulls sold for an average of $5615, the highest for a whopping $8000.<\/p>\n
Maxwell was pleased with the results.<\/p>\n
A cattle auction at Epsom\u2019s inner city Cornwall Park.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t sold a bull for that sort of money before, so that\u2019s pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a pretty amazing sale, to be all over in 30 minutes with a high average like that. A lot of work went into that so I\u2019m pretty pleased about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Proceeds from the bull sale will be reinvested into the park and farm operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis sort of event is always very popular in any district, but this is a really different sort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3952,1978,22947,11405,12967,37774,1888,42,289646,15902,702,43,61,40,38,41,39,37775],"class_list":["post-588567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-aucklands","tag-auction","tag-bull","tag-cattle","tag-farmers","tag-felix","tag-first","tag-headlines","tag-hoof","tag-innercity","tag-it","tag-news","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-walton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}