A South African breed won the Supreme Sheep award at the Toowoomba Royal Show at a time when more producers in southern Queensland are turning to sheep, while an established Suffolk breeder picked up other awards and tributes. Eisentrager Dorper and White Dorper stud principal Wendy Eisentrager, Warwick, won her...
Buyers who sought fertile and high-performing rams with good survivability set a competitive pace at the Burrawang Dorper and White Dorper on-property sale, held near Ootha, on Sunday. At auction, 116 of 117 rams sold to average $3769 with White Dorper Jack In The Box hitting $32,000. The sought-after three-year-old...
Rain was the topic of the day at the annual Charleville Dorper and White Dorper sale on Tuesday, March 25, with rainfall coming as both a blessing and a curse to vendors and buyers alike. With Charleville having received 110 millimetres since Saturday, it was a wet trip in for...
MEDIA RELEASE 20th March 2025 ______________________________________________________________________________ StockLive, Australia’s leading platform for live simulcast livestock auctions and events, is excited to announce a strategic partnership with the Dorper Sheep Society of Australia (DSSA) for 2025. This collaboration aims to enhance the reach, engagement and accessibility of key Dorper sheep sales and...
DORPER’S reputation for low-cost, high-return production is attracting corporate investment into the lamb industry, with leading diversified agricultural fund manager, AAM, wasting no time in positioning itself within the sector. The Australian-owned strategic investment portfolio has further cemented its foothold in the Dorper industry after securing Burrawang West Station, a...
It was the Dorpers that created demand among the offering at the Dubbo Invitational Dorper and White Dorper sale on Friday, held at the Dubbo Showground. Bidding reached to a top of $1700, paid for Dorper ram Youlden Valley 240082, sold via AuctionsPlus. The one-year-old, type 3 ram weighed 92...
There was good support both in person and online at Deepdale Dorpers’ on-property ram sale at Merrinee, Victoria, on March 3, with the tight season having little impact on the clearance. All 94 Dorper and White Dorper rams sold, with the sale reaching a $7600 top to average $3283. Dorpers...
Any stud principal’s first and foremost goal at a ram or bull sale is to sell all their lots, and that’s exactly what Nick and Mel Pagett of Winrae Dorpers, Warialda, achieved on Friday. Every Dorper or White Dorper ram offered within the sale had a one-way ticket to their...
An older White Dorper ram has continued to impress, picking up the supreme title in the breeding judging at the Royal Canberra Show. The May 2021-drop, 115 kilogram ram from the four-tooth class was shown by Harewood stud, Canowindra. Judge Thomas Youlden, Youlden Valley, Tomingley, said the ram had good...
At the conclusion of the sale, which lasted four hours and 34 minutes, 104 of the 128-head sale team had been sold. Broken down into their respective breeds, all eight of the Dorper rams offered sold to a high of $4000 (seven times), averaging $3775, while 49 of 67 Dorper...
