Conditions test 2020 ram sales

By Jodie Rintoul
Updated November 17 2020 - 9:03pm, first published 3:00pm
The $33,000 top-priced ram for the season across all breeds was sold by the Gooding and Robinson families, East Mundalla stud, Tarin Rock at the WA Sheep Expo & Ram Sale at Katanning in August, when this March shorn Poll Merino ram sold to the Belka Valley stud, Bruce Rock, with semen shares going to the Eastville Park stud, Wickepin and Greenfields stud, Hallett, South Australia. With the ram were Elders stud stock representative Nathan King (left), buyers Grantly Mullan, Eastville Park and Robyn and Phil Jones, Belka Valley stud, East Mundalla stud co-principal Daniel Gooding and Nutrien Livestock Breeding representative Mitchell Crosby.
The $33,000 top-priced ram for the season across all breeds was sold by the Gooding and Robinson families, East Mundalla stud, Tarin Rock at the WA Sheep Expo & Ram Sale at Katanning in August, when this March shorn Poll Merino ram sold to the Belka Valley stud, Bruce Rock, with semen shares going to the Eastville Park stud, Wickepin and Greenfields stud, Hallett, South Australia. With the ram were Elders stud stock representative Nathan King (left), buyers Grantly Mullan, Eastville Park and Robyn and Phil Jones, Belka Valley stud, East Mundalla stud co-principal Daniel Gooding and Nutrien Livestock Breeding representative Mitchell Crosby.

A DRY season affecting water and feed supplies across a large percentage of the State, huge numbers of breeding ewes leaving Western Australia and a global pandemic which played havoc with markets, in particular the wool market in the past eight months, no doubt had an impact on this year's ram selling season.

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