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Wednesday October 26, 2011
Rams sell to $4400 at second Merino white wool sale At the second annual Merino white wool ram sale in Cooma last Tuesday, Snowy Plain sold 27 from 30 rams offered to a top price of $4200 and averaged $2025. Top priced ram sold to Mr Wayne Fischer of Murrumbateman. Main Range also purchased a ram at $3400. Volume buyers included the Thompson family of Jindabyne and Wandella Pastoral Co from Bredalbane. Main Range sold eight from 10 offered to a top price of the sale at $4400 to the Whiting family of ‘Dry Farm’ Cooma. The eight sold averaged $1575. Volume buyers included R Gilbert ‘Bolairo View’ and Fraser Bros ‘Thornleigh’ Adaminaby. Boudjah offered 66 rams from which 65 sold at the sale to a top price of $3000 (three times) and averaged $1560. The $3000 rams were sold to Mr Bill and Moya
Shanley of ‘Homeleigh’ Bunyan, Noel and Marie Watson from Bega and Mr Peter Kennedy of Crookwell. Volume buyers included Coonerang Estate Rock Flat with 11, Emma and Justin Jefferson of Baroonga, Nimmitabel purchasing eight, Ederveen Nimmitabel, seven, B and M Rudd, Mt Pleasant Dalgety, with five rams and Peter Schinkel Kybyolite, South Australia five rams. Buyers were from the Monaro, Bega Valley, Crookwell and Yass areas, Victoria and South Australia. One hundred rams sold at the sale grossed $168,675 and averaged $1,686.75. Agents for the sale were Schute Bell with auctioneers Landmark’s Andrew Wishart and Elders’ Paul Dooley.
Left: Snowy Plains sold this ram to Mr and Mrs Fischer of Murrumbateman. Above: The Main Range top price ram with Michael Hedger of Snowy Plains, Michael Green of Boudjah and Steve Tozer of Main Range studs. Right: Steve Tozer and David Whiting, who bought the top-priced ram of the sale. Below: Volume Boudjah buyers Brendan Rudd and Bill Shanley.
MN3-v Flock No. 4156 Poll Flock No. 1437
11th Annual Ram Sale Monday 7th November
12 noon - Inspections 10 am at AWH WOOL STORE Polo Flat, Cooma, NSW May, June & September, October 2010 Drop
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