There will be 50 high quality rams on offer, all of which have been performance-recorded for LAMBPLAN, undergone structural assessment, been vaccinated for OJD (MN3V status) and accredited brucellosis-free.

Students from the year 10 animal management course will be conducting the auction, which is run in the silent helmsman format.

The stud has been in operation since 2003 as an educational resource for the students of the school.

In the past seven years, they have focused on incorporating industry-best practice technology into the stud production system.

They have implemented artificial insemination and embryo transfer into the breeding program, increasing selection pressure on traits important to commercial producers and consumers through data recording for ASBVs and genomic testing of ewes and rams, as well as improving data collection through electronic tagging and use of software packages, readers and scanners.

The year 10 students are involved in the use of these technologies, as well as supervision and tagging of ewes at lambing, selection of sires, day-to-day management of the stud and preparation of the rams for sale.

The stud is also part of the Superwhites Young Sire Improvement program, a group of elite White Suffolk breeders that focus on producing sires with the best genetics for prime lamb production.

One sire was selected in the 2017 sire team for distribution of frozen semen to eight Australian studs.

Rams in the 2019 sale are sired by some of the best-performing rams in Australia to AI, as well as a selection of high-performing Yanco-bred ram lambs.

They are well grown, with a range of maturity patterns, types and ASBVs to suit a wide range of commercial production systems.