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The 2025 Annual Bull SaleApril 25, 2025The 2025 Annual Bull Sale is fast approaching! The date is Friday, the 16th of May and is located here at Rosedale in Blayney, NSW.
In the sale, you can be sure to find a range of bulls.
Highlights include:
First sons of Palgrove Spectacular (the record-breaking top-priced Australian yearling bull)
New sire lines including Ascot Reputable and Barambah Dale Radius
Proven walking sires Rosedale Premier and Rosedale Maverick
First sons by American AI sire – LT Countdown
This is our 36th Annual Bull sale and we are pleased to announce the draft of bulls in this year’s sale, which is all possible with the strong breeding herd we have built up from the past 50 years. We are proud to see females from our previous sire lines becoming great mothers and stamping their quality into their progeny.
The past five years have been quite unexpected for the beef industry, however, the past 12 months have been more consistent, which provides a sense of stability for buyers and producers. When production is efficient, we can focus on producing quality meat and achieving maximum production. Getting your produce to market weight as quick as possible is beneficial as:
The quicker an animal can get to market weights the lower the carbon footprint of that animal
The younger a beast is processed the better the tenderness, so this relates to higher meat quality
The quicker an animal is turned off means it frees up resources in terms of both land and labour and this translates into greater profitability for an enterprise.
By purchasing a Rosedale bull, you are purchasing a bull that aims to have all of these qualities above, as we are dedicated to developing Charolais infused genetics to suit the modern day Australian cattlemen and cattlewomen. This years Charolais bulls are once again dominated by homozygous polled bulls and we are proud that all bulls offered are polled. We are focusing on a type that will produce sufficient weight gains but wont let you down on carcase quality.
For more information, the catalogue for the sale is out now and can be viewed here https://rosedalecharolais.com.au/2025-annual-sale/ on our website.
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What to look for when purchasing a Charolais bull?April 25, 2025At Rosedale Charolais, we have spent three generations selecting for critical traits in our polled Charolais and composite bulls. There are three main essential traits to look out for when purchasing a Charolais that we believe to be the most important. These characteristics include the foot structure, temperament and body type.
Foot Structure
The foot structure of a Charolais bull is important to look out for, for many reasons. Poor feet can lead to mobility issues. This can reduce the breeding capacity of the bull, therefore reducing its productive life. A bull that can’t walk won’t work.
Temperament
The bulls’ temperament is essential to consider as aggressive bulls create dangerous conditions. This can be harmful to you or other animals on your farm. Bulls with an aggressive temperament also produce difficult calves that can be hard to manage.
Body type
The right body type of a bull is a factor to look at when purchasing a bull as a balanced structure will enhance your herd’s productivity and profitability. Ensuring they are of the right weight and size suited to what you’re after are key features to note.
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The 2017 Farmer of the Year AwardsMarch 6, 2018FORGET about paddock to plate: the Millner family have the beef industry wrapped up from source to main course.
The family, from central NSW, juggles running one of Australia’s biggest polled Charolais studs with a growing commercial enterprise and, more recently, a paddock-to-plate brand that is feeding the growing Asian appetite for quality beef.
The centrepiece of the operation, run across 6500 hectares in three districts at Blayney, Dubbo and Coonamble, is the Rosedale Charolais stud, founded in 1970 and the oldest registered Charolais herd in NSW selling more than 150 bulls a year.
The Rosedale herd comprises 400 registered Charolais females and 1200 predominantly Angus and Shorthorn commercial cows.
The stud cows are run at Blayney with the commercial herd split between Dubbo and Coonamble. It’s a strategic move aimed at drought-proofing the operation, according to brothers James and Robert Millner, who are in charge of the stud and commercial operations respectively.
The Rosedale herd is at the cutting edge of the industry with the use of science and technology paramount to the business. Breed pioneers when it comes to the uptake of Breedplan performance recording, the Millners have also used hybrid vigour as a way of lifting growth rates, and profits, both within their own herd and those of their clients.
In the commercial herd, the best 50 per cent of the steers and heifers are fattened on oat crops and lucerne silage, and sold to the Coles grass-fed program, with the remainder sent to a northern NSW feedlot where they are finished for the Millners’ Rosedale Ruby beef brand.
Rosedale Ruby started as “an exciting side venture” five years ago and has exceeded all expectations.
Throughput has grown from 50 cattle a month in 2012 to 600 now. China and Hong Kong are the biggest export markets for Rosedale Ruby, with Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Switzerland and the Middle East also prominent.
It is this worldly outlook, backed up by superior genetics, marketing and product, that makes Rosedale Charolais worthy winners of The Weekly Times Coles 2017 Beef Farmer of the Year. [...]
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New sire at RosedaleFebruary 18, 2018On the wrong side of the record but nonetheless we are very happy with our new sire. Congrats to Mt William Charolais for putting together a strong lineup of bulls and well done on a great result. [...]
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2017 Coles Beef Farmer of the Year AwardFebruary 7, 2018A Huge honour to be awarded the 2017 Coles Beef Farmer of the Year award. Great recognition for years of dedication to a terrific Industry [...]
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Riverine Classic Beef ChampionsFebruary 6, 2018Delighted to win Riverine Classic Beef ? Champions at the 2017 NSW Feedlot Trial.
These steers were Charolais/Angus and in a field of over 90 entries. The steers also performed strongly in the weight gain and profitability section of the trial. [...]
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2017 Rosedale Sale ResultsMay 20, 2017Rosedale’s 2017 Bull sale was a successful one with buyers from 4 states competing for the Rosedale’s well known moderate framed, soft and easy doing Bulls. Buyers came from New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia.
58 Charolais polled bulls were lined up for sale with 40 of these being homozygous polled, the biggest offering ever in Australia. The top priced bull went to Palgrove Charolais who purchased a homozygous polled yearling bull by Rosedale H168, Rosedale Manson for $16,000.
Two bulls both made $15,000 and one of these went to Lawlor Pastoral in Queensland and the other to Calmview Charolais from the Northern Rivers.
The Charolais Bulls averaged a Rosedale High of $7660 with over half the offering selling between $4,000 and $6,000. Clerkness Pastoral took home 6 charolais bulls and lead the volume buying on the day for the purebreds.
The Rosedale Composite Bulls also sold to strong demand with a top price of $12,000 to Mark and Trudy Altus. Average price was $6,400. Branga Plains at Walcha secured 6 composite bulls to lead the volume buying.
Nine PTIC heifers sold to $3,500 and averaged $3,200. [...]
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2017 Rosedale Sale ResultsApril 6, 2017Last Friday was Rosedale’s Annual Southern Sale held at Yea with guest Victorian vendors Tambo River Charolais and Riverstone Charolais. A good crowd was on hand to see a 96% clearance with 25/26 bulls being sold to an average price of $5020.
The top Price bull was lot 1 Rosedale Legal selling for $8,500 to return buyer Garrison Cattle Company who put together a strong draft of bulls on the day. Legal was a polled son of Rosedale First Class with excellent all-round carcase scans and an IMF Score of 5.2%.
Other Sale highlights included Rosedale Layback another First Class son who sold to the Field’s of Tasmania for $8,000 and also boasted an IMF score of 5.2%. The Field’s also purchased Tambo River Legend, a Sparrows Eldorado son for $6,500.
All bulls sold to commercial clients from a variety of areas which was pleasing to see. [...]
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Rosedale wins 2015 Sydney Royal Beef ChallengeApril 3, 2001Rosedale Charolais where crowned Champions at the 2015 Sydney Royal Beef Challenge. A Team of Charolais/Angus Heifers won the Champion Domestic Pen, a great result with over 240 head of cattle in the Domestic Catergory supplied by leading producers from New South Wales and Queensland.
The Champion team of heifers also won the Live Assessment part of the competition and receieved maximum Carcase points as well as averaging 1.9kg/Day over 70 Days HGP Free. The combination of High weight gain performance and the Ability to meet carcase quality criteria is what we strive to achieve with our Charolais Genetics and it is great to see these results coming through in our commercial program. These are the key traits to improving the profitability of any breeding herd or feeding program.
Rosedale Charolais Genetics also Featured heavily in the Yeild section of the trial with Rosedale coming first and second in the Domestic section of the Trial with a pen of Charolais x Shorthorn and Charolais x Angus Steers. A rosedale team also won the yeild section of the Export section of the trial with a team of Charolais x Angus steers that yeilded 58% after 100 Days on Grain.
When selling cattle direct to processors yeild can play a significant role in profitability to the producer as well as the meat works. We have recently seen the introduction of Yeild based payments by Teys Australia which highlights the significance of this trait. Rosedale clients are well situtated to take advantage of such moves by the cattle industry. Our track record of data collection and proven genetic performance in the commercial world is second to none and we will always continue to put our product to the test [...]
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