LAMEROO
Yarding: 10,000
Young ewes to $270
Wethers to $140
IT was a great day out for Bruce and Robert Pocock, Lampata Poll Merinos, Lameroo, at their local off-shears on Friday, topping the young ewe section at $270.
The Pococks sold their $270 sale-toppers, a line of 200 ewes, to father and son Tim and Simon Formby, Rushmore Run, Strathalbyn.
Rushmore Run regularly buys top-end sheep at the Lameroo off-shears sale, and has bought the Pocock ewes three years out of the past four.
Investing in the quality bloodlines out of Lameroo has helped the Formbys achieve solid results at their major sale for the year – the Naracoorte first-cross auction.
Making the second-highest price for young ewes was JD,BM&DJ Steer, Lameroo, with 165 Lines Gum Hill-blds that sold for $262 to Elders Warracknabeal, Vic.
It was also a stellar day for David, Dianne and Brent Farr, Pyap West, receiving the blue ribbon for best presented pen for the fourth time. The pen of 152 Ridgway Advance-bloods sold for $260 to Thomas DeGaris & Clarkson.
Last year’s top price vendors Glen and Tracy Farr, Loxton, kicked off this year’s auction with 153 Ridgway Advance-blds that made $258, selling to TDC.
Making the same price of $258 were 179 Lines Gum Hill-blds from PW&AC Needs, Lameroo.
Elders Mildura, Vic, bought 128 young Kamora-Netley Park-bld ewes from GU Pfitzner, Wanbi, at $236 and 60 Lines Gum Hill-blds from Barjoe, Karoonda, at $234.
LR Gregurke & Partners, Parrakie, had 173 Dalveen-bld young ewes make $255.
Ewe lambs made to $158 for 248 woolly Ridgway-blds from McNeil Bros, Kulkami, which sold another 45 at $118. A pen of 227 three-to-four-year-old Glenlea Park-bld ewes from PJ Gilbertson, Parilla, made $152 to Spence Dix & Co Bordertown.
Topping the 5.5yo ewe section was Galbraith Farms, Marama, with 272 Lines Gum Hill-blds sold to Elders Ouyen, Vic, for $178, along with a further 42 at $150.
Making the highest price for 4.5yo ewes was JD,BM&DJ Steer, with 90 at $180, sold to Elders Ouyen.
There was only one pen of 6.5yo ewes yarded, from K&L Pfeiffer, Parrakie, selling for $110 to Southern Australian Livestock Bordertown.
In the wether section, Simon and Susie Pocock, Pocock Pastoral, Lameroo, sold the top price pen at $140.
The 200 Lines Gum Hill-blds went to Greg Brown, Underbool, Vic.
Pocock Pastoral also sold 358 wethers at $133 and 290 at $129 to Elders Naracoorte and 314 at $130, 205 at $124 and 205 at $120 to Landmark Bordertown.
Elders Lameroo branch manager Pat Larsson said the yarding was the usual quality expected at the off-shears sale.
“I thought young ewes made slightly above expectations, and the older breeding ewes met expectations,” he said. “It might have been a smaller yarding (at 10,000) than in the past, but the quality was there.”
Outgoing Landmark Lameroo livestock agent Michael Lawrence, now Landmark Tintinara, said it was a good, strong sale.
“Most of the stock will stay in the SA or Vic Mallee, or go to the South East,” he said.