Inaugural Mertex ram sale a hit with prices to $3600

Gregor Heard
October 3 2019 - 6:00am
Agents, vendors and buyers with the top price ram at the Mertex ram sale at Antwerp, Victoria, last week. From left Brock Quick, Driscoll McIllree and Dickinson, Mat McDonald Landmark Kaniva, Basil Jorgensen, Mertex, Stan Ellis, West Wail, TIm Jorgensen, Jason Ellis and Will Schilling DMD.
Agents, vendors and buyers with the top price ram at the Mertex ram sale at Antwerp, Victoria, last week. From left Brock Quick, Driscoll McIllree and Dickinson, Mat McDonald Landmark Kaniva, Basil Jorgensen, Mertex, Stan Ellis, West Wail, TIm Jorgensen, Jason Ellis and Will Schilling DMD.

THE JORGENSEN family, principals of the northern Wimmera White Suffolk and Texel stud Mertex held their first on-farm ram sale last week and following strong results they are more than happyto make it an annual event.

Gregor Heard

Gregor Heard

National Grains Industry Reporter

Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his 15 years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. Still involved with the family farm he is passionate about rural Australia and its people and hopes to use his role to act as an advocate for those involved in the grain sector.

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