By Linda Mantova

Quality females are being sought for the third annual Clermont Commercial Brahman Female Show and Sale on Friday, May 15, at the Clermont Saleyards.

ABBA commercial committee chairman and junior vice president, Stewart Borg, said he was hopeful of getting numbers upwards of 550 head for this year’s sale.

“It’s still quite early to know, but 700 would be even better,” Mr Borg said.

“Good quality breeder females are in short supply so it’s hard to put together a number of females of that quality.

“That’s also why buyers are prepared to pay a bit of a premium for the heifers.

“This is not a normal sale – it’s a show breeder sale so what we want is quality, and it’s important that producers put their best quality forward.

“It means that people can show up and buy with confidence that they are going to have replacement females for many years to come.”

Mr Borg said Clermont had just experienced a “pretty horrific flooding event in the township”.

“However outside of the town there has been some general beneficial rain across the whole area,” he said.

“Once you get past the initial event itself, it actually sets up the wider area for a very good season, going forward.”

Mr Borg said while the majority of the cattle were local, he expected some coastal cattle, as well as attracting some from up at Belyando, across to Mackay.

“They are coming from a 300 kilometre radius basically,” he said.

Volume buyer, Steve Lund, will be back in force at the 2026 sale.

Mr Lund said the ABBA sponsored sale was a great idea.

Buying cattle since the sale’s inception back in 2024, Mr Lund runs Talki Station, along with his wife, Mary, Cody Glendinning, and Jess McCall.

The property is located about 120 kms north of Clermont, and the family’s main goal is to turn off fat bullocks and heifers for the EU market.

“We have been using Brahman genetics from day dot and as much as we love the Brahman we also like to cross breed,” Mr Lund said.

“At the moment we are using Speckle Park as a cross with good results especially over maiden heifers with smaller calves creating less problems at calving. Our best cross is F1 but sometimes this leaves us short of good quality Brahman females to join,” he said.

Mr Lund believes the Clermont Commercial Show and Sale brings together vendors of quality females and purchasers looking for the same to one location.

“I can see this event going from strength to strength and would also like to be a vendor down the track when we have an excess of quality females,” he said.

“Sometimes tracking down good quality replacement females is a real chore and that’s where this sale shines as you can go along with confidence and buy to your hearts content and I have no doubt that some of these females will end up in our bull breeding herd breeding replacement bulls.


“It is also a great day out and gives you an opportunity to see what other producers are doing with their Brahman genetics.”

Last year’s show and sale saw Michael Borg of Clermont take home the prize money for Champion Pen, with his grey Brahman weaner heifers which made $860, weighing in at 261 kilograms.

Riverside Pastoral Company won Reserve Champion pen which topped at $2110 to average $1850.

The show will again be split into five classes: Cows and Calves, PTIC Cows under ten years, PTIC Heifers under three years, Yearling Heifers over 300kg and Weaner Heifers under 300kg.

The prize money is set at $500 per class, $1000 for Champion, and $500 for Reserve Champion.