PETER and Kaye Moore advise that their Blink Bonnie Stud Merino auction cleared 51 hogget rams to a top of $5200 twice for an average of around $1600.
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The top-priced ram was 106kg and 17.2 micron went to the Azevedo family at "Huntleigh", Dunkeld and they bought three rams at the sale.
Mount David Agriculture's manager Lance Bonham bought seven rams including the Cancer Council ram at $3000 to average $1857.
Lance's children Taylor and Lachlan made sure that he selected the right rams for "Briar Park".
The McPhee family of "Avondale" averaged $1325 for their four rams.
The 700 store sheep sold to a top of $284 and a total clearance.
Great season rolls on
OUR great season continues and we see an ocean of barley grass in full seed as well as prolific seeding on corkscrew grass in areas a bit to our west and north.
Every sheep producer knows of the damage that ripe grass seeds can to to eyes, skin and wool of all classes of sheep and particularly lambs.
Every effort will be made to get the wool off young sheep before the grass seeds ripen as our season warms up.
National lamb record
RECORD prices for sheep, lambs, all classes of cattle, and now canola at close to $1000 per tonne have put a spring in the step of many farming families.
Last week's regular sheep and lamb market produced a national lamb price record of $399.20 each for a pen of 11-month-old white Suffolk lambs, estimated 450/kg carcass weight.
The co-owner of the lambs was quoted "when I was younger I disliked sheep as much as any young bloke".
Two great seasons on a row and another 1400 lambs for sale have probably changed his mind.
The numbers game
BIG numbers are being quoted in real estate discussions in both town and country.
Friends asked me to give a second opinion o a property in the Central Tablelands recently and the total set up costs are large.
The property runs 200 cows and followers, good basalt soil, permanent bubbling water, old house and sheds and only boundaries are stockproof.
You're looking at probably probably $5 million, to buy; $1,2 million for livestock, $1 million for replacement fencing and $500,000 for variegated thistle control.
Then the new owners will own a showpiee property, 20 minutes to a thriving city and good enough to carry 400 breeding cows.
Young farmers will need big hearts and caring bank managers.
Climate change chaos
NEW Premier Dominic Perrottet and Deputy Premier Paul Toole have certainly hit the ground running as they open up our state from a long lockdown.
The winds of change on climate policy have seen the Environment Minister Matt Kean being elevated to Treasurer and fronting the television new clips on most nights.
The politics of climate change may cause both state and federal coalition governments to agree to a carbon zero by 2050 policy as the young generation of voters will be inclined to think of their futures.
The very thought of moving to the cross benches can change the mind of the purest of climate change deniers.
Wool market report
WEEK 15 of Australian wool sales saw the market battle to hold ground against the previous week.
The EMI dropped 16ac/kg or minus 1.19 per cent in ac terms and was basically unchanged in USD terms.
Traders found it difficult to maintain their buying intensity as any bids that were coming from China were too low and they were being outstripped by large Chinese topmakers and other buyers buying on an indent basis for other mills around the world.
What is positive, however, is there is demand, just at lower levels than present. Let's hope that this transpires into new business.
There was an offering of 40,051 bales Australia wide with a 13.9 per cent passed in rate.
Week 16 sees an estimated offering of 38,025 bales to be sold in all three auction centres.
Richard Butcher, Nutrien Wool
Dates for your diary
Sunday, October 24: Fosterfield Finewools.,40 rams at Backswamp Road, Dunkeld.
Thursday, November 4: Mt Bathurst Poll Dorsets, 80 rams at Black Springs. Proceeds of Lot 20 to Cancer Council.
You have to laugh
MOTHER Superior was in her last hours and the caring nuns brought her a glass of tepid milk, but Mother muttered "no thanks".
A wise sister half-emptied the glass and added a double shot of Wild Turkey.
When the glass was raised to Mother's lips she drained the glass, smiled weakly and whispered: "When I'm gone, dears, don't you ever sell that cow."
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A NEW CEO was making his mark.
In the busy workshop one young man leaned on the wall while 12 others were busy.
"How much are you paid each week?" the CEO asked and was told $400.
Our man went to the till, got $1600 and said: "There's four weeks' pay, we can do without you, son."
As the young man rode away the CEO was told: "Yes boss, he's the pizza delivery boy from Dominos."