A yarding of 7500 predominantly local breeder sheep was offered and sold to a good field of buyers mainly within a 100 kilometers radius of the West Wimmera saleyards.

WesTech Ag principal, Stewart Kyle noted that young ewes sold firm to a top of $202 with the majority of the young ewe pens making $196 to $200.

Mature age ewes were sold $5-$6 a head cheaper, with classed breeding ewes holding fully firm rates while breeding ewes with lambs at foot were sold $4 - $5 dearer.

DMD Nhill principal, Andrew McIllree said best lines of quality ewes sold well as was expected while the plainer conditioned ewes, as has been the case for much of the spring, were tougher to clear but all were sold.

“As far as our wether lambs were concerned, we thought we had a cracking sale” Mr McIllree said. 

“Two of our vendor lots – both shorn- were sold to $116 a head and all were bought for the stubbles”. 

Quotes from the 1.5 year-old young ewe section included: 

CA & JM Smith – 30 Merino ewes, September shorn, Gunallo-blood sold at $202 

SH, AF, AM & RA Clark – 135 Merino ewes, July shorn, Hilton Heath-blood sold at $200

GR, RL & BR Launer – 158 Merino ewes September shorn, Baton Hill-blood, $198

Sherwood – 168 Merino ewes, September shorn, East Bungaree-blood, $198

AS & MK Cook – 130 Merino ewes, September shorn, Hilton Heath-blood, $196

Classed Breeding Ewes

D & C Clark – 226 Merino ewes, 3.5 years, August shorn, Flairdale-blood, $178

Nariel – 180 Merino ewes, 4.4 years, Narial-blood, $162

W & L Hawker – 212 Merino ewes, 4.5 years, Hamilton Run-blood, $158

Marra Farms – 213 Merino ewes, 5.5 years, September shorn, Gunallo-blood, $148

Wether Lambs

CA & JM Smith – 358 Merino wethers, September shorn, Gunallo-blood, $116

SH, AF, AM & RA Clark - 316 Merino wethers, Hilton Heath-blood, $116

AS & MK Cook – 275 Merino wethers, September shorn, Hilton Heath-blood, $109

Other Sales of Note were:

180 Merino Ewes, 3, 4 and 5 years, March Shn with 105% White Suffolk lambs at foot, $235 and 206 unshorn Merino/Dohne-cross ewe lambs, $109

Buyers came from local areas Horsham, Warracknabeal, Bordertown with Southern Australia Livestock (SAL) Bordertown, SA being a prominent buyer in the mature ewes along with interests from Rainbow in the northern Mallee of Victoria.

EID scanning took place for the first time at Nhill and ran very smoothly with the help of Marcus Pollock from Agrinous, Mr Kyle said.

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