Nareeb Nareeb
43 of 50 Merino rams sold to $10,000, av $1680
Total clearance of 58 Poll Merinos sold to $2900, av $1768
LAST Friday, Glenthompson stud Nareeb Nareeb sold more Merinos and Poll Merinos rams than last year and at higher top and average prices.
The sale topped at $10,000 for a two year-old stud ram, with which Nareeb has already bred and will collect semen for further use.
The sale-topper was by One Oak 115 – purchased at Sheepvention, Hamilton, for the 2012 top-price of $19,500 – and was sold to return buyers the Nicholas family, Brooklands Merino stud, Oatlands, Tasmania.
Stud manager Richard Beggs said Brooklands had purchased Nareeb bloodlines for years and the Nicholas family bought a really good sire every few years.
“They picked out the ram the moment they saw him,” Mr Beggs said.
He added it had a big, sirey head with a great make and shape. Its fleece measured 20.3 micron and Mr Beggs said I would have weighed 120 kilograms.
He said One Oak 115, which went back to Roseville Park 14, and was having a huge impact on the stud.
It also sired the ewe that won supreme exhibit of the Campbell Town Show and was part of the Victorian champion Merino pair; and the ram whose progeny looked fantastic in the Elders Balmoral Sire Evaluation Trials.
Overall 43 of 50 Merinos sold for a $1680 average, which was $263 up on last year’s average of the 40 rams offered.
Another sale highlight was the total clearance of 58 Poll Merino rams. This was 22 more rams sold than last year’s result and an increase in the average of $557.
Fellow repeat buyer Grosvenor Partnership, Condah, bought the top-priced ram of this section for $2900.
Mr Beggs described the 19.3M, 14 month-old ram as a leading spring-drop Poll ram of the sale, adding many rams made similar price.
“It was a battle for (clients to secure) rams.”
The top-priced ram was by a Barton and out of a Barton ewe, which were purchased at the Barton dispersal in 2015.
Mr Beggs said the Barton Poll stud had been founded on Nareeb Nareeb Poll genetics and the two studs had been classed along similar lines by well known sheep classer Sandy MacKirdy until the stud purchase.
He said as a result, the sheep had fit in very well at Nareeb.
Two of the four Tasmanian producers who purchased rams had previously bought from Barton.
Grosvenor Partnership bought six more rams for an overall average price of $2057.
Other volume buyers included Western District Pastoral Co., with 13 Poll rams av $1646; WISS Melbourne with 15 av $1220; and Pashanger Estate, Longford, with 10 Poll Merino av $1760.
Mr Beggs said some buyers, including Western District Pastoral Co., who had previously bought Dohnes instead favoured Poll Merinos this year.
Mr Beggs said it was still important to provide the mix of rams their clients needed.
He thinks this swing could be because the strong wool market made the Poll Merinos’ wool cut more appealing than some of the Dohnes’ traits.
The sale was conducted by Elders and Ross Milne was auctioneer.