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What recent bull sale made headlines and why?
Autoliitto auttaa. ZM's Bree and Clint podcast. It's our radio show, but wrapped up in a neat little package just for you. It's ZM's Bree and Clint podcast. God, I mean, it's been a while, but we've got big bull news on the Bree and Clint show. No way. Yeah, big bull news. Breaking bull news, is it?
Breaking, breaking bull news. That is a randy bull.
How much did the record-breaking bull sell for?
To Mighty Angus in Marlborough, they raise bulls and they sell bulls. They have been in the bull breeding game for half a century at To Mighty Angus. And they have just set their first national record for how much they've sold one of their bulls for. Oh, congrats to them. I had no idea you could pay this amount of money for a bull, but they've just sold a bull for $168,000. What? Yeah, it's a black Angus bull.
That bull's semen must be like liquid gold.
Yeah, he's a whopper too. He's an 850kg sire.
What factors contribute to the high price of bull semen?
Holy hell. He's a breeder and he's off to live the good life in Gisborne. You literally just, well, I assume you just buy these bulls to get your other cows pregnant with high quality. No, that's exactly why. Bull stuff. Yep. Get a good bloodline going, Clint. That's what it's all about. Well, I agree. But, you know, we do have a resident bull expert on the show.
How does Big Steve justify spending on high-quality bulls?
No bull. Please welcome to the show our bull breeding man, Bree's dad, Big Steve. Hi, Steve. G'day, Dad.
G'day, guys. How are you? This is your favourite topic, Dad. Bull semen. I love bull semen.
Yeah.
What is the market price for high-quality bull semen?
What do you reckon about $168,000 for a bull, Steve? Is that good buying?
Pretty fair. Well, obviously the breeding's there and the demand's there. So, yeah, I've seen those prices before and I've seen higher.
Dad, you're not bloody spending my inheritance on bulls that expensive, are you?
Rihanna, when they're good quality bulls, I mean bulls, you've got to pay the money, mate.
But you don't buy the bulls, do you? The shipping's too high. You just buy the semen.
How do imported embryos differ from traditional bull semen purchases?
Dad buys both. Oh, you buy both?
I like both.
How many bulls have you got running on the farm at the moment, Dad? Three?
No, five.
Five? What does a vial of high quality bull semen sell for on the open market, Big Steve?
Well, something about that quality there, you could probably be looking at probably $4,000 a straw.
Eh?
What unique storage methods are used for bull semen?
Oh, my God. $4,000? We can't pay people to get summer cleanse.
Good.
Things that are in high demand.
I can't give it away.
Up to $4,000.
How much, Dad, because you bought, I know for a fact you did import some bull semen from America, some speckled park. How much did you pay for that vial?
Well, what we actually did, we bypassed that because it was too expensive. What we did was we actually got important embryos. Oh, okay, already fertilised.
Gotcha, gotcha.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. Cut out the middleman. We went down, yeah, because... Yeah, we went down that road there. We wanted to get there quicker.
Sorry if this is TMI for anybody at the moment, or maybe you're just about to have dinner or something like that, but if you did just get the straight semen, Steve, are you keeping that in the freezer inside next to the fish fillets?
You've got to have a liquid nitrogen tank.
Right.
Yeah, it's not a backyard thing.
It's in the freezer next to the cookies and cream. It's a laundry freezer. The freestanding.
Exactly right. He's where the good ice cream's kept.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good ice cream, all right.
Fascinating insight. Thank you. We appreciate it. That's our bull expert, Bree's dad, Big Steve.
Thanks, Dad.
No problem. Anytime. See you, guys. I feel like we should get one of those bulls. Yeah, I know. Just milk it. Literally milk it. Play ZM's Bree and Clint on Insta, Facebook, TikTok, and live weekdays from 3 on ZM.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What recent bull sale made headlines and why?
0:00–0:53
2
How much did the record-breaking bull sell for?
0:53–1:31
3
What factors contribute to the high price of bull semen?
1:31–1:51
4
How does Big Steve justify spending on high-quality bulls?
1:51–2:06
5
What is the market price for high-quality bull semen?
2:06–2:40
6
How do imported embryos differ from traditional bull semen purchases?
2:40–3:05
7
What unique storage methods are used for bull semen?
3:05–4:42
Speakers
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