Sheep numbers increased by nearly 6,000 head to total 9,715 listed. Buyer confidence improved, resulting in an 87 per cent clearance. NSW buyers were active, purchasing just shy of 2,000 head of the Queensland offering, while Qld buyers also looked to NSW, purchasing 540 head from Central West NSW. NSM...
Following the launch of the Aussie Farms online interactive map earlier this year, as well as recent occurrences and ongoing threats of animal activist intrusions, Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA), in partnership with the red meat industry and National Farmers Federation (NFF), continues to provide information and support to red...
A White Dorper by the name of Piet has taken top honours in the National Dorper and White Dorper Show, held this year in conjunction with the Toowoomba Royal Show. Burrawang Dorper and White Dorper Stud’s star ram Piet was crowned supreme champion exhibit of the show, after first taking out...
BURRAWANG genetics buyers of longstanding competed strongly for the complete catalogue offering of the 13th on farm sale at Ootha on Monday, March 18. For the sixth consecutive year the sale effected a complete auction clearance when 90 Dorper and White Dorper rams sold to a top of $4000 and...
When Burrawang Dorper and White Dorper Stud was looking for a way to maximise results while cutting both expenses and labour costs during the drought, they took a good hard look at their feedlot operation. “The drought has us all having to feed sheep at one time or another. In the past we have done...
FOR the sixth sale in a row all Burrawang Dorper and White Dorper rams sold for a total auction clearance for the 13th on-farm sale at Ootha on Monday, March 18. Returning buyers from NSW, Victoria, and South Australia placed a solid bottom to prices resulting in all 90 rams offered selling to...
TAMWORTH based Dorper and White Dorper stud, Nomuula, has taken out the top awards again this year at the 2019 Eastern Region Show and Sale held at Dubbo. Nomuula stud principal Cherilyn Lowe claimed the most successful exhibitor awards for both the Dorpers and White Dorpers. “We worked very hard to get the...
THE Eastern Region Dorper and White Dorper sale was held at Dubbo showgrounds last week to a full gallery of bidders. Twenty vendors offered 99 rams to clear 32 at auction. The sale averaged $1246 with a top price of $4500 going to a Tuckeroo stud ram. Tuckeroo Stud 170133, a September drop, type...
Buyers on the ground and plenty of online bidders supported the annual sale at Etiwanda White Doper stud’s Cobar property last Friday. Even the Mars-like landscape that was the 20,200 hectare Mosley family property did not detract buyers and supporters from witnessing the stud’s highest ever on-property price of $6000. A 20-year...
The Amarula Dorpers 16th annual production sale reached $14,000 on-property at Glenavon, Gravesend, on Friday, just shy of the stud’s $15,000 record. Justin and Lorroi Kirkby and family sold 81 of 112 Dorper rams offered at auction achieving a $14,000 top and $1699 average. All 27 White Dorper rams offered were sold, to a top of $4000...
