PRICES climbed at the annual Senior Park on-property sale near Bordertown on Wednesday, with shorn wether lambs selling particularly well.
The auction was held as part of a circuit sale following on from the Bordertown off-shears.
A line of 500 September-shorn young ewes made the top price of $260, which was $16 up on last year’s top.
Eagle Park Pastoral managers Gaven and Alison Thorne, Bangham, bought the top price line on behalf of the property owner Graham Ahrens, Lyndoch.
Shane Longbottom, Bordertown, bought 100 young ewes at $224 and 163 at $204.
The top price 5.5-year-old ewes were a line of 405 which made $152.
Other 5.5yo ewe lines were 105 at $148 and 201 at $128.
JBS paid the top money for shorn wether lambs, for a line of 198 at $149.
Other wether lines were 472 at $143, 200 at $129, 378 at $113 and 170 at $97.
Senior Park principal Nathan Daniel was pleased with the sale results.
“I think it went really well, a bit better than expected,” he said.
Spence Dix & Co agent Kym Lovelock said the yarding looked magnificent, on the back of good seasonal conditions.
