Casino All Breeds 2025

THE 27TH ANNUAL

26TH OF JULY 2025 - 10AM AT THE NRLX LIVESTOCK EXCHANGE - FEATURE -

Bentley Downs will catalogue four Charolais sires aged from 2 years, at the All -Breeds Bull and Female Sale, Casino NRLX Complex, July 26th 2025.

These 4 bulls are by

Minnie Vale Porter from the Minnie Vale Stud at Narrabri.

Bentley Downs has been operated by the Trustum Family since 1974. This year making it 51 years of breeding Charolais.

Since this time, Bentley Downs has selected heavily for amongst other things, Fertility, Milking ability and Muscling.

The bulls being offered at the All - Breeds Bull and Female Sale have

been reared on a natural pasture and are being top off by a mixture of grain and pasture. 2025 has been extremely hard to prepare bulls on account of the climate, but we are endeavouring to have bulls at the sale.

Bentley Downs has achieved outstanding success in both the showring and led steer competitions over the years with their Charolais and Charolais cross steers.

Inspections are invited prior to the auction. For further information contact Allan or Helen Trustum at Bentley or phone 66635 283 or 0407 431 725

This year’s sale bulls would have to be the toughest and fttest bulls ever offered! The Northern Rivers region experienced a wet and cyclonic food year in 2025, and have been prepared for sale in certainly what can only be described as very trying times indeed for all producers. Many

farms were fooded and badly waterlogged well into winter. The bulls you see on sale are true doer’s and being able to be offered for sale is a credit to the vendors and testament to the resilience of their cattle.

The current warm start to the winter season has kept conditions whilst very wet, favourable temperature wise across the region and the Bull Sale vendors are commenting that their bulls are continuing to do very well, this will certainly be refected in the quality and

presentation of the offering at the Casino All Breeds Bull and Female Sale on Saturday July 26, committee president Bruce Lyle said.

This sale is the perfect opportunity to top up your genetics. These are the bulls whose progeny will be marketed well into the future and return more proft for the producer.” Bulls are a long-term investment and it’s critical not to drop the ball on sourcing good quality local genetics”

A wise weaner producer from my early breeding days told me many times that “you can’t control the weather or many other factors that affect proft –but the one thing you can control is the quality of the bulls you buy” Bruce said.

“Even on our rising commercial cattle market, the high-quality wellbred cattle are the ones continually attracting the premium prices that can only come from sourcing top quality, locally bred bulls that are adapted to the area.” There will certainly be excellent

opportunities to buy well at this year’s sale, and with all analysts commenting on a very much rising cattle market, now is the time to review your bulls.

This year will see a terrifc draft of 164 stud and herd bulls on offer, and 19 stud females, principally supplied by local breeders. Covering many breeds, it really is a “1 stop shop” offering a great opportunity to secure quality bulls across many breeds at the one venue.

All vendors are registered stud cattle breeders, and the bulls have a full parentage pedigree tree. “The quality and doing ability of the cattle on offer is the primary reason the sale has always been repeatedly supported by the most astute breeders from up & down the coast, the Tablelands and into Queensland” Bruce said.

The importance of Coastal producers to purchase locally coastal bred bulls has never been more important,

as the deaths from “Theileria” on introduced cattle to the coastal area continues to increase. Bruce recommended everyone to do their own homework on this disease, discuss with your vet or the North Coast Local Lands service staff and arm yourself with the info on this deadly disease, to protect your new bulls.

The 2025 order of sale will be the British breed bulls, Bos Indicus Breed bulls followed by the European Breed Bulls. The 19 Stud Females will be offered at the completion of the Bull offering.

Online catalogue with Bull pictures and information can be found online at the sale website – www.casinoallbreeds. com.au

Printed catalogues are available from all the Casino livestock agents, noting it’s NOW a 10am start, so be early, he warned.

All Breeds Bull Sale proceeds top up our local charities!

As a “Not for Proft”

event, each year the Casino All Breeds Sale vendors donate to three worthy local charities. This year will again see $1,000.00 donated to three essential services, the Westpac Helicopter Rescue Service, Windara Tea Rooms and the Casino VRA (Rescue Squad). Sale Committee President Bruce Lyle said its always the frst motion passed at the Annual meeting, to donate to such worthy local charities. All the vendors and selling agents support the recipients and we are all pleased to be able to offer the support. It must not go unsaid that it would not be possible without the ongoing support from the NRLX Richmond Valley Council. For this key event in their calendar the NRLX donates the staff time to hold the Saturday sale. The NRLX Staff are dedicated to presenting the facilities in top condition for the event and are congratulated in ensuring a successful event.

Franklin Angus Presents Strong Lineup for 2025 Sales

Franklin Angus is proud to offer a powerful selection of Angus cattle at two upcoming events on the northern NSW sale calendar.

The stud will present 5 Angus bulls at the Casino All Breeds Sale on Friday 26th July, followed by 15 bulls and 6 registered stud females at the Grafton Angus & Brangus Bull & Female Sale on Friday, 2nd August.

Franklin Angus bulls are stacked with performance, explosive early growth and structural soundness — the result of carefully selected AI sires backed by a proven, productive female herd.

At Franklin Angus, we are committed to breeding functional cattle with a focus on:

• Carcase quality

• Natural muscling

• Square, deep-bodied build

• Strong toplines and quiet temperament

• Fertility & Feed effciency

• Longevity

• Moderate frames with real doing ability

Operating in a high rainfall environment, our cattle are truly tested. Only those with structurally sound feet and solid body condition

thrive in our program.

We AI all females and run a tight 8-week joining period, ensuring only the most fertile and effcient breeders remain. Cows must go back in calf quickly, milk well, and rear a heavy calf every year — no exceptions.

To fast-track genetic progress, Franklin Angus fushes embryos from their most elite cows and

Black Thor Angus

Black Thor Angus is o ering two quality bulls at this years Casino All Breeds Sale. We are located in the beautiful Scenic Rim in Southeast Queensland.

We are a small Angus stud always o ering quality bulls and females for sale. On farm inspections always welcome.

Phone: 0421 354

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transfers them into the commercial herd. This approach has delivered bulls carrying worldclass genetics while building a consistent, high-performing female herd.

The operation uses rotational grazing and runs cattle that have the rumen function, capacity, and resilience to maintain fertility and condition in marginal

country. Franklin Angus bulls are known for their Fertility, natural muscle, strong toplines, docility and packed in a moderate frame.

The 2025 draft represents years of strict selection, these bulls are pasture-raised, coastal-born, and bred to perform across diverse environments.

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Clay Gully and Biarra Valley Simmentals are set to make a strong impression at this year’s Casino All Breeds Sale with a standout draft of 13 PTIC Traditional Simmental heifers. These two respected studs have built their reputations on consistency, structure, and performance—and this offering is no exception.

Each heifer represents generations of selective breeding, with a focus on fertility, temperament, and carcase quality. Whether you’re expanding a commercial herd or looking to inject

proven genetics into a stud operation, this draft delivers on quality and consistency.

The heifers on offer are soft, easy doing, structurally correct with excellent temperaments. The heifers on offer will be PTIC to retained sire Clay Gully Trillion (P).

“40 years doing what we loveBreeding Quality Angus Cattle”

Lyle Angus Cattle is a family owned operation located in the tough forest country South East of Casino, NSW. After years of the family being totally committed to Hereford & cross bred cattle, Bruce set out in 1982 to develop and establish the Angus herd at “Jambrita” Alphadale until relocating to “Paisley Park” Casino in 1988, where we still call home today. The Lyle family has been breeding registered Angus cattle for over 40 years. The country we raise our cattle in is a tough short season environment and our cows are truly hard workers, being asked to rear calves in low fertility forest country is a big ask and we are constantly amazed by the Angus hardiness to breed and produce under these conditions, traditionally

reserved for Brahman cross breeder herds. We have been asked many times why we run our cattle on such tough country and the answer is simple, we love living and raising our family here ! The added bonus is our cattle leave here and can go anywhere and perform superbly, being bred and raised in the tough adds remarkable doing ability that our customers recognise, with many repeat customers placing our bulls out with British, Euro, Brahman & F1 cows in the toughest of situations successfully year after year. Born and pasture raised on our farm, grazing Ryegrass & Oats to prepare for sale. Our goals are very simple, focus on the cow. You can have all the numbers in the world, but if you don’t have a cow,

that will go in calf, calve unassisted, thrive on grass, wean a calf ½ her body weight, you don’t have much to work with. We aim to breed strong, heavily muscled, easy feshing bulls, that sire calves that will breed our customers steer calves with extra Kilo’s and valuable replacement females, year after year. Selected use of high accuracy proven A.I. genetics has been implemented to

complement our cow families, along with purchasing elite Stud sires from time to time that meet our high expectations. We also use select walking sires that are home bred, we fnd this the ultimate test in sampling the product we sell and are extremely pleased with how our cattle stack up. We have 20 herd improving Angus bulls on offer at the Casino All Breeds Bull Sale. Held

on Saturday 26th of July and having withstood the test of time, this event has imbedded itself as the region’s major bull sale and is well recognised by all large and smaller scale graziers as a must attend event for quality bulls. To Support our increasing Southern clients, we are offering 8 fantastic bulls at the Grafton Angus Sale on the 2nd August 2025. They are carbon copy brothers to the Casino draft and all have been

reared under the same conditions. Additionally, outside buyers who source our bulls year after year from this sale are very happy with the performance of our Bulls, year in & year out ! Heidi and I are very proud of this year’s bulls on offer, they have done very well following a most diffcult food early this year and have been grazing Oats and Ryegrass that has been very much on the wet side. All in all, they have done well, are very ft and ready to head out to work. Further pics and Info from our website www.lylefamily angus. com.au

If you would like to visit and see the bulls in the paddock, no problem, just give us a call !

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