00:00$650, here we go! $650 betting done!
00:06Alright, I'm here with Lachie James from Koolalong Pastoral Co-Mandala West.
00:10They've established a new national record for First Cross use today at $650.
00:16Yeah, first of all, Lachie, what did you think of that result and the prices across your entire run?
00:21Ah, pretty amazing really, to get to that for a new national record.
00:25And that buyers have got that much confidence in our stock, they go on and perform.
00:30Yeah, it's very humbling, amazing average.
00:33The Elders line-up, predominantly Mendel of H2, is pretty outstanding when you look down there.
00:39So, I think the prices, the quality stock that's here, but it did also send a bit of good buyers
00:47towards the bottom end.
00:48We don't want to be seen to be getting too big, otherwise we can't push people out of that first
00:54cross market.
00:55And your regular vendors here, you've got a number of blue ribbons.
00:58What goes into getting these sheep up to spec each and every year?
01:01Yeah, a lot of sleepless nights, particularly shearing is a big thing.
01:07Toby Honrick from Honrick Shearing, she's the, those are an outstanding job, they know what we're looking for and how
01:13we like it.
01:15We run them, we do have them drafted up on the property, then we do run them back together in
01:20one big mob for a short time to get the same colour tip on them.
01:24There's got variations in our country.
01:26It all goes down to that, trucking in the end of the two decades.
01:30Every little 1% of the day, we can get them this way.
01:34But there is a lot of anxiety, and yeah, that's what we're doing.
01:39How did proceedings go today, Tom?
01:41Well, I think everyone came anticipating that the sale would be very, very strong.
01:46I think it stayed in line with market expectations.
01:50We did set a national record today of $650 for the Coulaline Blue Ribbon Sheep.
01:56They have held the national record for going on, I've been here 20 years and they've been holding it every
02:01year.
02:01Might be the odd year.
02:03I think that they may have not won it, but they've got plenty of those in the cupboard at home.
02:08So yeah, we had a bit of a reduced yarding this year of sort of 10,000.
02:13And yeah, a great day and great sheep.
02:16And what were prices like on those heavier sheep to start off with?
02:20The lead run of the sheep were $550 to $650, and they're definitely sheep.
02:27There are probably not too many sheep here today that you couldn't put a ram with tomorrow.
02:30So being a one and a half year old sale, but they were the elite end of the draft.
02:34That middle runner sheep, they were still very, very, very mateable.
02:37They made $450 to $550, and that would probably constitute about 80% of the sale today.
02:42And then there was a tail at the end that it was sort of maybe you wanted to throw the
02:47rams out on Christmas Day.
02:48They were $330 to $450.
02:51The lambs probably suffered a little bit through the winter with the cold,
02:53but the robust one year old sheep certainly powered through the winter and have come out of the wool just
02:58absolutely magnificent this year.
03:02And where did the buying crowd come from today?
03:04Well, we've got a local contingent here in the mid-southeast, and Keith in the upper southeast certainly bought a
03:10few sheep today.
03:12The western districts are a real powerhouse in the first cross job these days.
03:16And they were there in spades as well, and a little bit of Adelaide Hills.
03:21The Roseworthy team from Elders came down and bought some beautiful sheep, they always do.
03:26And they'd be happy with what they bought, that's for sure.
03:28And they came back with what they had to do.
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