Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Follow-Up On The Brazilian Supercows: The Most Expensive Cow Ever Sold At Auction

Following on May 19's ""Brazilian supercows are taking over the world"".

From Guiness World Records:

Most expensive cow sold at auction 

On 22 November 2024, a cow named Carina (FIV do Kado) sold for R$24.06 million ($4.1 million; £3.2 million) at the Cataratas Collection Auction in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil.

By the time of the auction, the three-year-old Nelore cow had won three livestock titles, in 2023 and 2024. The purchase price takes into account Carina’s ability to generate descendants of a high genetic standard. She was raised by José Ricardo Benato on the Pé da Serra Farm in Piracicaba and was purchased by a conglomerate of four cattle breeders.

This surpassed the previous record set by another Nelore cow - Mara (aka Viatina-19 FIV Mara Imóveis) - which fetched R$21 million ($4.38 million; £3.33 million) in Arandu, São Paulo, Brazil, on 1 July 2023....

....MORE, including other "most expensives."