Canternatting sale | Farm Weekly - video Dailymotion

Canternatting stud principal Nathan Lawrence says there's still plenty of confidence in the sheep industry.

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00:00Yeah we had a few extra buyers turn up today which is good. Our 50 year sale really, so since Dad

00:06started. Been a really good turnout and our eighth on-farm sale and we've started to build up a bit

00:12more clientele now and things are looking, yeah, really good. Majority of what's sold in this state

00:18will be pole dorsets, white suffix or suffix and yeah, so that's why we're stuck with the pole

00:23dorsets. They're a traditional breed and they can handle the wheatbelt conditions quite well.

00:29Nowadays they're a bit taller and a bit longer than they were sort of 30-40 years ago, so yeah

00:35they can handle these conditions a lot better than some other breeds. Generally the talk is people

00:40are cutting numbers back, you know, that's the talk regardless of the price going up. I think

00:45it's just, yeah, some people have just had enough a bit and trying to cut numbers back and manage,

00:51just keep it manageable, if you know what I mean, instead of, because one year you can run

00:56a thousand, next year you can run 500, so there's no right or wrong number but

01:01trying to, yeah, just balance, but I think there's still plenty of confidence in the

01:05sheep industry, that's for sure.