Parakeelya Poll Merino sale | Farm Weekly - video Dailymotion

Parakeelya Poll Merino stud principal Matt Dunne says they are down on last year’s sale by around 20-25 rams.

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00:00Pretty disappointing sale today, I think mainly just because of a lack of clients, a lack of volume buyers was probably our main problem.

00:09We've lost probably 20 to 25 rams on last year's sale just due to people going out of sheep.

00:17So when you only put 60 rams up a year, that's a pretty big hole you've got to fill.

00:22And yeah, I think we just struggled to find the people to fill it this year.

00:25I know there's always going to be a market for a Merino ewe to put a crossbred ram over and get a crossbred lamb out of.

00:34And I just feel like the ewe price is going to go up and I just wish that more people in the industry would share that sort of positivity.

00:41I know it's hard to do that with the way that we've been treated in the last 12, 18 months by our government.

00:47With their over-governing of the industry, we've got to back ourselves in now and hope for a better future.

00:54Our breeding objectives are a fertile, plain bodied and fertile sheep that cuts a lot of wool.

01:00Cutting a high quality wool without having the thick skin and the baggage that can come along with it at times.