Top price paid for Kerrah bull

Overland Simmentals owners Simon and Louise McRae, of Waimate, inspect bulls at Leafland Simmental stud in North Taieri last week.

A day earlier, the couple paid the top price at Kerrah Simmentals bull sale at Tangiwai Station in Wairoa.

Mr McRae bought the "beautiful and deep-boned" rising 2-year-old bull Kerrah M482 on online auction platform Bidr.

The thick-barreled bull was the first they had bought from Kerrah and was the most they had paid for a sire.

Bidr shows the bull sold for $24,000.

PGG Wrightson Manawatū-Whanganui sheep and beef agent Phil Transon said all of the 81 bulls on offer at Kerrah sold for an average price of $12,100.

Five of the bulls were sold to studs, Mr Transon said.