Demand drives up British Breed values

By Jodie Rintoul
Updated November 18 2020 - 4:19pm, first published 1:00pm
The $29,250 top-priced British and Australasian breed ram for 2019 was this White Suffolk ram sold by the Ida Vale stud, Kojonup, at the WA Elite White Suffolk, Suffolk and Poll Dorset sale at Williams in August. With the ram were Elders, Kojonup representative Peter Wharton (left), Ida Vale principals Andrew Greenup and Tamesha Gardner and children Lexi and Sophie Greenup and Di Gardner and Nutrien Livestock Breeding representative Roy Addis, who purchased the ram on behalf of an Eastern State's syndicate of the Booloola, Charinga and Induro White Suffolk studs.
The $29,250 top-priced British and Australasian breed ram for 2019 was this White Suffolk ram sold by the Ida Vale stud, Kojonup, at the WA Elite White Suffolk, Suffolk and Poll Dorset sale at Williams in August. With the ram were Elders, Kojonup representative Peter Wharton (left), Ida Vale principals Andrew Greenup and Tamesha Gardner and children Lexi and Sophie Greenup and Di Gardner and Nutrien Livestock Breeding representative Roy Addis, who purchased the ram on behalf of an Eastern State's syndicate of the Booloola, Charinga and Induro White Suffolk studs.

IT'S been a good couple of years for sheep producers when it comes to lamb prices and British and Australasian ram sales this year were the beneficiaries as buyers pushed hard to keep their programs ticking along.

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