*40 of 43 rams sold to $4250, av $2387.
Kamarooka Park Merinos, Elmore, attracted six new buyers to its annual sale, which stud principal Erroll Hay said saw a pleasing increase in the top price and average.
Mr Hay said the demand for polls had lifted, for his paddock-reared, grass-fed offering.
He put this year's success down to two main factors:
"Good quality wools on good frames," Mr Hay said.
"The meat prices are going so well and we chase quality wools that will handle all different environments.
"Cast for age ewes are making $200 a head and Merino wether lambs are making close to $200."
Mr Hay said he tried to breed rams for a variety of conditions and operations, which was evident in buyers coming from a wide spread of regions.
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Mr Hay said rams went to NSW, the Mallee, to Skipton, the Strathbogies and Winchelsea.
The top priced ram, lot number nine, went to a repeat buyer, Chris Powell, Manangatang.
Sired by Pastora 001, the April-May, 2019 drop ram had a 19.2 micron fleece, a standard deviation of 3.3, co-efficient of variation of 17.2 and a comfort factor of 99.7.
Mr Hay said the 115kg ram had a 7.5mm fat and an eye muscle depth of 40 millimetres.
The $4000 second top priced ram, also sired by a Pastora ram, had a 19.4 micron and weighing 108 kgs sold to repeat buyers Bill and Nick Punton, Shelbourne.
The Puntons outlaid $2750, twice, and another $2500 for another Pastoria sired rams.
Repeat buyer Phil Siems, Strathbogie, paid $3750 for a 17.5 micron ram that weighed 108kgs and tested 10mm for fat and an EMD of 43mm.
New buyers Rob and Michele Brown, Murchison, buying with assistance of Ron Creek Australian Wool Network, bought six rams, paying to a top of $3000 twice.
KPP Junior was the sire of six rams bought by Rob McKay, Drummartin who paid to a top of $1750 twice.
Murrabit, NSW, woolgrower Glen McDonald took home four rams, paying to a top of $2750 twice.
Others buyers were, Ken O'Connell, Newstead who was assisted by Genieve Butler, Karree Wool, to buy four rams to a top of $2750.
Brad Peters paid $3500 for a 114 kg ram and Alistair and Carmel Longmire, Werona, paid $3500 and $3250 for Pastora sired rams.
Ken Dickinson, shearing contractor, Heathcote, bought four rams, through McKean McGregor, Greg Stewart, Skipton, bought lot number one, at 21.6 microns, weighing 111kg, with a fat measurement of 8mm and 45mm EMD
McKean McGregor's Alex Collins said the strong interest in Kamarooka rams was down to the Hay's breeding of quality sheep, which were doing the job as multi-faceted, commercial Merinos.
"Sheep are doing the job for prime lamb production, on the females, and he has got the balance right, between wool, meat yield and carcase quality," Mr Collins said.
A new NSW buyer joined Mr Hay's "band of regular buyers," Mr Collins said.
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