SALE SUMMARY
2018 2017
Offered 107 126
Sold 107 98
Top $1000 $1500
Av $639 $697
RAPID fire bidding and a large pastoral order ensured Nonning White Dorper stud’s ninth annual ram sale on Friday was all over in under three quarters of an hour.
But the repeat buyers at the McTaggart family’s Kilmory property at Woolumbool near Naracoorte, largely had it their way with 81 of 107 rams knocked down for a single $600 bid.
The sale achieved a total clearance of the 15 and 20 month old rams for a $639 average.
Bruce and Julie Nutt, Pandurra Props, dominated the auction taking home 86 rams for their Port Augusta stations to a $800 high paid for Lot 2.
The $1000 sale topper stayed locally – one of five bought by F Westphal Nominees for its Old Fairview property for a $780 average.
The Lot 1 ram was the heaviest in the catalogue at 105 kilograms and sired by Amarula 140551 – a ram which Nonning bought for $7000.
It also had a great growth figures including a post weaning weight of 10.88.
“It is a solid ram and built with a great carcase,” Old Fairview manager Marc Dupree said.
Elders Naracoorte branch manager and auctioneer Tom Dennis said the line-up was a credit to the McTaggarts with wonderful carcase traits and the rams presented unshorn again.
‘It was a solid result but the price was adversely affected by the fact 60 per cent of their client base was in drought, especially those in NSW
He said the repeat buyers, including several neighbours to the McTaggarts station Nonning, vindicated the stud’s ram breeding program.
“They are shorter legged, carcase orientated sheep which provide an ideal supermarket weight lamb and this should stand the breed in good stead for years to come as Australia rebuilds its flock,” he said.
Stud principal Angus McTaggart said the breed was ideally suited to “outback country” and were very fertile sheep with good survival rates in dry conditions.
“We are still getting good lambing percentages this year,” he said.
