SALE SUMMARY
2016 2015
Offered 50 68
Sold 38 47
Top $1600 $1500
Av $914 $780
THE AVERAGE and top price was up at Robert and Pat MacDonald’s seventh annual Paramount White Suffolk on-property sale at Kersbrook on Tuesday last week.
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The sale was held in trying conditions, coming on the tail end of the huge storm front that caused SA’s power outage, so buyers had some issues getting to the sale with plenty of road closures in the region.
But, the MacDonald family soldiered on to achieve a solid result.
They sold 38 White Suffolks from 50 offered, averaging $914 – $134 up on the 2015 auction.
Return client Richard Kroehn, Sunnyvale Props, Eden Valley, bought the top price ram at $1600. This highest price was $100 up on last year’s $1500.
The ram weighed 126 kilograms and measured 187.7 on the Carcase Plus Index.
Mr Kroehn is a loyal client at Paramount, having bought at the on-property auction since it started. He also bought another ram at $1400. EW Bormann, Sanderston, bought two rams for $1500 and $1200, while Falkenberg Family Trust, Cambrai, bought four rams to $900.
JA Mundy, Forreston, took home three rams to $1200, and KM&MA Arnold, Harrogate, bought three to $1000.
DM&C Schultz, Cambrai, purchased two rams at $1200 each, while DM Schirmer, Cambrai, bought five rams to $900.
M Guthrie, Gumeracha, bought two White Suffolks to a top price of $800.
The MacDonalds said were very pleased with the way the sale was conducted, considering the wet, cold day. “We were pleased with prices being up on previous year’s sales,” Mr McDonald said.
The sale was conducted by Landmark Fawcett Livestock Mount Pleasant and principal Colin Fawcett said the rams presented very well. The sale’s auctioneer was Landmark’s Leo Redden.