Volume buyers take home fair share of Boorana's offering at Glenthompson

Boorana Merino stud's 12th annual sale resulted in a nearly 70 per cent clearance, with volume buyers taking home their fare share of the offering.

The Glenthompson stud sold 45 of 59 rams offered to a top price of $4000 and an average of $2022.

The top-priced ram, Lot 12, went to an undisclosed buyer.

Boorana stud principal Will Lynch said he was "really happy" with the result.

Mr Lynch said it had been a good season this year compared to 2025.

"The top-priced ram had a lovely, white wool and good shape and barrel," he said.

Lot 12 was sired by GP 2225041 and had a yearling weight of 6.60 kilograms, a yearling clean fleece weight of 27.99kg and an adult clean fleece weight of 21.98kg.

The Poll Merino had a 16.1-micron fleece, a coefficient of variation of 21.1, standard deviation of 3.4 and comfort factor of 99.2pc.

His wool production index was 183.67, his fine wool selection index measured 183.40 and his sustainable Merino Australian Sheep Breeding Value was 152.89.

One of the major volume buyers was Cressy House Estate, Longford, Tas, which purchased 11 rams.

Other volume buyers were the KD & G Fagg Family Trust, Rippleside, and Peter and Val Tischler, Edenhope, who each bought eight rams.

Another buyer picked up four sires, while there were three sales of three rams.

Mr Tischler, who has bought from the stud before, said they were "good doing", fertile and easily manageable rams.

"They are plain and open and not flytraps," he said.

"We sell all the wether lambs in the meat job and we are getting better hindquarters and more meat onto them."

He said they were breeding first cross-ewes, as well as straight Merinos.

"We join about 1200-1400 Merinos to Merinos each year and another 500 to Border Leicesters," he said.

"We are getting better wool, there is no colour in the wool, and they cut pretty well.

"The wether lambs in particular are good, meaty sheep."

AWN state manager Kelvin Shelley said there were new buyers at the auction that bought two or three rams each.

"The last couple of seasons have been pretty difficult, there's been a lot of the ewe base sold off and that's the issue we've seen," Mr Shelley said.

"The genetics were very good and I would say, year on year, these are the best rams that have been displayed at Boorana.

"But there were less buyers."

He said AWN had a number of Tasmanian clients who were increasingly seeking Victorian rams.

"They are standing up well down there in the wet country, their feet structurally are holding up really well and they are cutting well," he said.