Alma-blood Merinos met strong demand,
with bidding quickly securing the ewes and wethers yarded at Hay, September 2006.
Interest in Alma Merinos, Kilfera, 2005
From Alma:
- 200 Alma 2005-drop ewes, Alma bred and blood, August shorn, sold $74 to Echuca
- 300 Alma 2001-drop ewes, Alma bred and blood, August shorn, sold $48.5 to Yarrawonga
From Yamba Station, Booligal:
- 600 Yamba 2005-drop ewes, Yamba bred, Alma blood, August shorn, sold $81 to Hay
- 990 Yamba 2001-drop ewes, Yamba bred, Alma blood, August shorn, sold $56.5 to Deniliquin
- 510 Yamba 2000-drop ewes, Yamba bred, Alma blood, August shorn, sold $40 to Yarrawonga
- 500 Yamba 2006-drop wethers, unshorn, sold $35 to Loxton Feedlot
As in past years, buyers were keen to secure Alma genetics for their own program.
Even in a very dry season Alma genetics gave good sale prices for their owners.
See the
results from the 2004 and
2005 Hay September sale.