BUYERS who attended the annual Hanookra Border Leicester ram sale at Naracoorte on October 8 were well rewarded for their decision.
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Principals Rod and Tracey Willmott penned 62 high-quality young Border Leicester rams, exceptionally even, well grown and showing excellent structure, constitution and wools, and catalogued with full performance information.
There were 15 bidders registered, with Elders Naracoorte's Tom Dennis auctioneering. He had little trouble extracting bids early on, but as the sale progressed and orders filled, it turned very much in the buyers' favour. With only six of the buyers wanting more than two rams, prices fell from the top of $1500 for the first two lots down to $600 about halfway through.
The first half of the sale was very solid, averaging $970. From there only one ram made four figures, and the 17 sold averaged $691, which was not a reflection of their quality.
Overall, 44 rams averaged $862.50.
Brendon Ross, manager for one of the Childerley Park properties and buying through Elders Naracoorte, paid the sale's top price on the first of two lots at $1500 each.
He was also the volume buyer, taking eight at a $1094 average.
* Full report in Stock Journal, October 17 issue, 2013.
