Merino ewes were sold to a top of $172 a head during the Butt Livestock and Property annual breeders sale on Tuesday.
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A total of 10,016 Merino sheep were offered, mostly consisting of not-station-mated Merino ewes.
NSM ewes sold for $56 to $172, wethers made $124 and wether lambs sold for $74 to $86.
Garabray Pty Ltd, Greenethorpe, sold 270 2022-drop June-shorn NSM Merino ewes with Bogo blood for $172.
Burrinjuck Pastoral, Bookham, sold 440 2019-, 2020- and 2021-drop January-shorn NSM Merino ewes with Bogo blood for $164.
The same vendor sold another 400 2022-drop January-shorn NSM Merino ewes with Bogo blood for $157.
A pen of 305 two-and-a-half- to five-and-a-half-year-old NSM Merino ewes with Grassy Creek blood, June shorn, from LT Whittaker and PJ Whittaker, Gunning, made $162.
MFA Elsegood, Bookham, sold 620 2021-drop Merino wethers with Bogo blood, April shorn, for $124.
In the wether lambs Burrinjuck Pastoral, Bookham, sold 250 2023-drop Merino wether lambs with Bogo blood, unshorn, for $86.
A pen of 94 2023-drop woolgrower Merino wether lambs with Billa Burra Burra blood, unshorn, from KW McGrath, Yass, made $78.
D and H Painting, Bookham, sold 550 2023-drop Merino wether lambs with Bogo blood, unshorn, for $74.
The sale was conducted on AuctionsPlus.
Alexandra Bernard
Journalist based in Wagga Wagga covering all things agriculture in southern NSW.
Journalist based in Wagga Wagga covering all things agriculture in southern NSW.
