General News
2 October, 2022
Champion pen tops prices
RAMS that won this year’s Loddon Valley Merino Field Day pen of three fetched the top prices at last week’s Kamarooka Park Stud sale. Two rams sold for the equal top price of $5500 to Sam and Veena Burbury, of Inglewood Merinos, Tasmania, and...
RAMS that won this year’s Loddon Valley Merino Field Day pen of three fetched the top prices at last week’s Kamarooka Park Stud sale.
Two rams sold for the equal top price of $5500 to Sam and Veena Burbury, of Inglewood Merinos, Tasmania, and Phil Toland, of Violet Town.
The Burburys bought a total of four rams
An undisclosed South Australian bought the third pen star for $5000.
Kamarooka Park’s Erroll Hay said the three were all by a ram he purchased four years ago and the on-property auction attracted interest from buyers and other breeders “who came to look at the progeny”.
Erroll said buyers this year were selective with the first 40 rams selling well before “running out of buyers” across the final 20 lots of this year’s increased offering.
Among buyers, including seven new clients for Kamarooka Park, were Pyramid Hill’s Jeff Hampson who bought four rams and Brad Peters, buyer of last year’s top price ram, picking up three more for his holding.
Buyers came from across Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and New South Wales.
Erroll said private sales had continued since the auction.
He said buyers looked at the wool cut of Kamarooka Park rams and their ability to quickly adapt to a new paddock.
“We’re one of the few studs with rams running in a natural environment. They just run in a grass paddock and people look to buy our rams because of that,” he said.
The sale average was $2048, about $300 back on the 2021 figure “but on the plus side we had seven new buyers,” Erroll said.