Agriculture
23 July, 2023
Rams in demand at national auction
SUNDAY’S Australian Sheep and Wool Show ram sale saw Loddon studs sell all except two of their listed lots. Terrick West achieved the sale’s equal third top price of $15,000 for a 13-month-old 18.4 micron animal described as a “long stapled...
SUNDAY’S Australian Sheep and Wool Show ram sale saw Loddon studs sell all except two of their listed lots.
Terrick West achieved the sale’s equal third top price of $15,000 for a 13-month-old 18.4 micron animal described as a “long stapled ram nice nourished tip good shaped ram stands well”. Another Terrick West ram sold for $12,000 and the stud had an average of $7500 for its five lots.
The Kirk’s Longdale Stud sold four of five rams listed in the catalogue for an average of $2645, Mark Perryman’s Panorama Stud, Mysia. sold four of five rams for an average of $2750..
Top price at the auction was $24,000 paid by Thalaba Pastoral Company, NSW, for a 20.4 micron offered by West Australian stud Rangeveiw Poll Merinos.
The sale had an 83 per cent clearance for an average of $5390.