Yanco White Suffolks will be holding its fourth on-farm ram sale at Yanco Agricultural High School on Thursday, September 19.

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.

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.

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.