A northern Victorian dairy is poised to host one of the most exciting Jersey cattle sales to hit the market this year. Brookbora Jerseys - owned by the Bacon family - which milks 300-head on 283 irrigated hectares at Tennyson, Vic, is consistently in the top 1 per cent herd for Balanced Performance Index (BPI) for Australian Jerseys. It has held Jersey Australia's Platinum Production award for the past three decades - averaging (in 2022) 668 kilograms milk solids in 305 days (with an average bodyweight of 430kg).
It has also won the Premier Breeder and Premier Exhibitor Jersey banners at International Dairy Week (IDW) for the past five successive years, It also has several internationally recognised sires represented by global artificial breeding companies, including Brookbora Valentino Askn, Brookbora Bushfield, Brookbora Borung, in addition to co-breeding Pannoo Abe Vanahlem. On May 28, the family will open its gates to the highly anticipated Brookbora 60 Anniversary Edition Invitational sale. The Bacon family will auction 45 of its best females, together with 15 of Brookbora's select sires (the bulls will be sold online on the day).
Together it represents 60 Brookbora animals for 60 years of Jersey breeding. Brookbora has also gathered 30 additional lots from its high-profile contemporaries to round out its offering, and to make the sale a Jersey celebration. The sale comes a year after the Bacon family's devastating loss of Robert (Bert) to cancer.
Robert's widow, Sandra,.