Agriculture
19 September, 2023
Classic return above average for local stud
WILLERA Merinos has topped the sale average at last week’s Classings Classic auction in Murray Bridge. The Serpentine stud’s top ram sold for $16,000 to Calcookara Stud on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula. The stud’s other lots each sold for...
WILLERA Merinos has topped the sale average at last week’s Classings Classic auction in Murray Bridge.
The Serpentine stud’s top ram sold for $16,000 to Calcookara Stud on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula.
The stud’s other lots each sold for $6000 - to Forest Springs, Joel Joel, near Stawell, and Karawatha Park, Kimba. South Australia.
Stud manager Simon Coutts said Calcookara had bought Willera rams at last year’s classic and he was pleased that this year’s lots all went to studs.
“Our aim at the classic is to sell to studs as this means our genetics become part of their breeding profgrams,” he said.
Simon said the top-priced double poll ram had bright, white, long stapled wool with balanced and perfect structure.
The classic sale average was $6167 with Willera’s average $9333. Top price at the classic was Ridgway Advance poll was $35,000 and sold to White River, also on the Eyre Peninsula.