Fifty-eight rams topped at $3500 and averaged $1660 at the Glanna Merino ram sale of the Rayner families, Gulgong, last Saturday with three rams selling at $3400.
Stud co-principal, Ron Rayner, said the rams presented well, considering some 525 millimetres of rain which fell in the past six months.
Nine rams including two horned and seven polls sold to four Victorian clients.
Buyers for the past nine years, Hayden and Alicia Eley, “Mirrambeena”, The Gums, Queensland, returned to secure four rams averaging $2175 including the $3500 sale-topper, a son the the 2015 sale top-priced ram.
Mr Rayner said this ram was growing very good wool of a 66 count in the old wool classing style.
The Bateman family’s 2000 ewe 19 micron flock at "Tantallon", Kangaroobie, near Orange, which also runs Gilmandyke Angus stud, bought nine rams topping at $3000 for the top-priced Poll Merino ram by Wilandra Desmond, and a horned ram at $3400, averaging $2144.
Their drat’s top ram was a true “64s” in the old count according to Mr Rayner who said of the ram which had very good open wool and was a quality ram.
Long-time Glanna blood clients, the Campbell family of Slapdash Creek Partnership, Gulgong, who regularly sell flock ewes among the top money circles at the annual Dunedoo Merino breeders sale, returned to secure 10 rams while paying to $3400 and $3200 for another and an average of $1680.
Greg and Margaret O’Reilly, “Wyoming”, Gulgong, also returned to select seven rams this year while paying to $3000 and an average of $1600.
Four rams topping at $3400 including three sons of the an Armidale sale ram bought earlier this year were purchased by Peter and Helen Lawson, “Billeroy”, Hargraves.
The sale was conducted by Landmark, Mudgee, with Baden Chaffey, Landmark Bathurst, the auctioneer.
