The hot spring day in the South West Slopes saw a large crowd of new and old faces attend the Tara Park Merino stud on farm sale on Monday.
The sale was conducted by Landmark and Elders, the on-property sale pavilion was packed with hopeful buyers from all over the country.
The top price reaching $21,000 for a late replacement ram and an average of $2835, a 100 per cent clearance was also achieved for the day.
Tag 280, the top price ram it carried an 18.4-micron fleece, a 2.5-micron standard deviation (SD), a 13.6 per cent coefficient of variation (CV) and a 99.9 per cent comfort factor (CF).
The ram went to Greg Simpson, Winjallok, Victoria.
“He is a beautiful young ram, a long body, bright white wool and is perfect for what we want to do with him back home,” Mr Simpson said.
Tara Park Merino stud, stud principal Guy Evans said he was pleased with were the top selling ram was off to.
“I wanted to keep him, he was a last minute put in, after the interest we have had in him after Canberra show I thought I would put him up on offer,” Mr Evans said.
Landmark, auctioneer Rick Power said the sale offered an outstanding run of rams and it is a dedication to Tara Park’s breeding breeding objectives.
“An outstanding sale, the line up of sheep saw incredible comments from clients,”
“There was some new faces here, with four states represented, it’s a credit to Tara Park for sticking to a type,” Mr Power said.
The second highest price ram made $13,000, a 17.8 micron ram and went to Roberts Wool, Western Junction, Tasmania.
Roberts Wool also bought another ram for $3500.
100 out of 100 rams were sold with many buyers being repeat buyers of Tara Park, along with a number of new faces after this years top rams to add to their flocks.
Other major buyers included Sunnydale Partnership from Forbes,the Wardlaw family from Avoca Victoria and Lagoon Partnership from Hamilton Victoria, as well as other several buyers from across the country.