26 September 2023
An excellent Simbra bull was sold for the highest price of R200 000 at Richter Simbras’ 18th auction. Martin Coetzee from Hoopstad is the new owner of the impressive polled bull bred by Chris Richter on the Leeukop farm outside Bloemfontein.
All 23 bulls were sold on SwiftVee’s online auction platform at an average price of R90 000.
Jacques Taylor of Simmolop Farm, Piet Plessis, paid the second-highest price of R180 000 for another polled bull, JHR 20-212. He is a son of Prairie, which was sold for a South African record price of R370 000 in 2020.
Five of the 23 bulls achieved prices exceeding R100 000 each. Vleissentraal Bloemfontein hosted the auction and Ian Grobbelaar was the auctioneer.
