Anna Villa White Suffolk charity ram supports dual organisations

Of the 111 rams offered, 80 sold to a top of $2600 for Lot 3 and a $950 average, back on last years average by $93.

The top price ram was a May-2022 drop and had Australian Sheep Breeding Values of 0.28 for birth weight, 11.22 weaning weight, 0.21 fat score, 1.85 eye muscle depth, and a 150.29 total carcase production.

Top price buyer River Park Farming's Samuel Young, Butler Bridge, said the ram had a "nice long deep body" and good figures.

"He is going over White Suffolks to breed other rams as we run a lot of ewes so we breed our own rams," he said.

"They breed true to what you buy, as in what you buy, is what they breed."

River Park Farming also bought Lot 1 for $2400 and Lot 21 for $2000.

Anna Villa stud principal Anthony Ferguson said they were very happy with the sale despite Jamestown market the day before being "very flat".

"Agents weren't overly confident, but I think we came out of it pretty well," he said.

"Lot 3 was a very big heavy ram lamb and has always been in the top four all the way through.

"We were really wrapped with the way the rams came up.

"But we still have 40 rams available with good figures available through private selection."

Lots 1 and 3 were also used in Anna Villas program to back up their AI on ewe lambs and produced ram lambs.

TJ&BB Clements, Narridy, purchased 15 rams including charity ram lot 19 supporting the Royal Flying Doctors Service and Heart Kids split to both.

Mr Ferguson said the charity donation to Heart Kids stemmed from his granddaughter requiring assistance with heart complications.

Meanwhile GP McDonald and Son, Bute, bought 10 rams and Peter Stockman, Burra, purchased nine, while new buyer Kuruman Pastoral, Balaklava, bought five.

Nutrien Hill Livestock agent Daniel Hill said the sale went well despite missing two large pastoral orders.

"They bought about 40 rams between them last year and they weren't present this year," he said.

"There was a handful of new buyers and repeat buyers there as well.

"The rams were looking very good and are in good condition."

Elders livestock agent Damien Webb said the quality rams had improved again from last year.

"(They had) some really good post weaning weights up over 20 and eye muscles up to positive three and a half, which would be some of the better figures around the place," he said.

"They've certainly spent some money on ... looking to outsource genetics and help improve the performance and figures of the rams."

Elders and Nutrien conducted the sale with Damien Webb and Andrew Wilson sharing the auctioneering duties.