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...
Western NSW and Queensland buyers were the bidders to beat at the 19th annual Annalara White and Ultra White Dorper sale, held on property, near Dubbo, on Wednesday, February 19. Annalara sold 82 of 83 White Dorper rams to a top price of $5000, four times, to average $2695. Of...
A Dorper ram sale at Gravesend has set an early 2025 benchmark for the breed, with a total clearance and buyers from a large area of western NSW and Queensland. Justin and Lorroi Kirkby’s Amarula stud offered 149 rams, with a White Dorper topping at $13,000, a Dorper ram making...
Finding out his sheep were arsonists probably wasn’t on Peter Cheal’s 2024 bingo card, but despite their occasional pyromaniac ways, he is still happy with the symbiosis between solar farms and grazing. Mr Cheal, Nogoa Dorpers, Emerald, runs 600 Dorper ewes across several properties in central Queensland, including on solar...
New gross margin calculations have shown that prime lamb production and replacement purchases emerged as the top-performing sheep enterprises of 2024, demonstrating resilience in a dynamic industry. According to recent analysis from the NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW DPIRD), economic returns for 20-micron ewe and 1st...
Prime lamb production topped the charts in 2024 for top performing sheep enterprises in NSW, with better prices at the end of the calendar year contributing to success, reported NSW DPI Regional Development. Sheep gross margin calculations covered three main cost categories: replacements, wool harvesting, and fodder. While lambs from...
