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Record Top Price For Trigger Vale
By any measure Trigger Polls and White Suffolk studs, Lockhart 34th on property auction sale was a record breaker. A huge crowd was on hand at the recently completed selling complex to witness a 100% clearance of both breeds with the Polls averaging $2020 and the White Suffolk’s $1060. A new Trigger Vale Poll record was achieved when Lot 1 realized $7000 with several interested bidders trying to secure the 100kg twin before being knocked down to John Tonissen, Artunga Merino’s Branxholme, Victoria. John who made the trip with his brother and sheep classer Mat commented that the ram showed great Maternal characteristic’s. To get such a long stapled, deep crimping wool on such a plain bodied meaty polled sheep is rare and we are excited about the direction this ram will take us.
J & McDonnell & Sons purchased the seconded highest price poll ram for $4400 for stud duties at their “Avalon” Bond stud while Bill Luff, Coolac secured a 109kg 21.1 micron triplet for $4000.
Volume buyers included PA & LM Forbes, Lockhart who put together a very impressive draft of 12 rams for an average of $2250 and Wirrani Past Co, Narrandera with 16 rams averaging $1170 who are both long term Trigger Vale clients.
The top price of $2500 for a White Suffolk stud ram was purchased by GP Rogers, Woodwood Victoria who purchased a total of 4 stud rams to use in their ram breeding enterprise.
The top price commercial White Suffolk of $2000 was paid by Peter and Joy Thomson, West Wyalong who put together a superb draft of 4 rams to average $1600 for their 1st cross prime lamb enterprise. Other volume buyers included the Gooden and Smoker partnership from Lockhart who certainly filled up their ute and trailer with 19 rams averaging $910. Long term White Suffolk client Robert Bull Narrandera and new client Hamish White Downside also compiled impressive drafts.
Trigger Vale principle Andrew and Mandi Bouffler were extremely pleased with the result and observed it reflected the ongoing capital and labor invested into their studs. Large drafts of industry leading performance tested genetics don’t come together by chance Andrew said. We have invested heavily in outside genetics, AI programs, pedigreeing progeny and measuring all traits that drive commercial productivity and the rams penned today represented that investment. The Trigger Vale polls were particularly strong today which reflects the shift occurring in the Australian sheep industry. “With clients travelling from the Western Districts to West Wyalong and Gundagai to Swan Hill to secure our maternally focused polled dual purpose genetics you can see that many sheep breeders are placing more emphasis on fertility, easy care and meat characteristic’s while maintaining a quality wool clip” he said.
Trigger Vale Poll and White Suffolk rams are now available at reasonable rates for private selection.
Client Lamb Sales 2011
Congratulations to all of our clients for their recent lamb sale results. Here are a few that have let us know their prices
· The Schirmer Family, Lockhart, offered up 200 10 month old Poll wether lambs, at the Wagga Sale Yards receiving $183 per head.
· Long time Trigger Vale Clients, the Gulliver Family, Corowa, sold 210 Trigger Vale Blood wether lambs over the hooks for $198 per head with an average carcase weight of 27.2 kg with a $26 skin.
· Mark & Kevin Bowyer received $206 for Trigger Vale White Suffolk sired mixed sexed lambs.
· Graham Hicks recently received $236 which was a new record price at the Corowa lamb Market. They were TV White Suffolk sired first cross lambs out of TV Blood Poll ewes.
· Barry & Rusty Smith, Lockhart, has had numerous high lamb prices in the last 2 months beginning with TV Polls X WS blood lambs making $209, and last week pure Polls wethers topping at $189.
· Thursday 10th March, Bryce Miller, Ladysmith, received $198 for 100% Trigger Vale Poll wether lambs. When Andrew rang to congratulate Bryce on this great result, all he could talk about was the $165 he also received at the same sale for his CFA
ewes.
If you have some great news about your sheep give us a call we will put it on the website (02) 6920-7656.
Tim Manifold "Kinleith" White Suffolks, Keynton Vic with Andrew and Mandi Bouffler and the Top Price WS Ram at Trigger Vales 2010 On-Property Sale
Trigger Vale hits high of
$4500
It was smiles all round, both before and after the Trigger Vale sale at Lockhart last week, with buyers in high spirits with high ewe and lamb prices and good lambing percentages.
This was quickly converted to strong prices as Andrew and Mandi Bouffler's sale of Trigger Vale Polls and White Suffolks topped at $4500 to clear 84 of 85 Polls for a $1711 average up $500 on last year, and all 55 White Suffolks for a $1107 average, up $400 on last year.
The sale topper and top Poll went to Stuart Cumming, Fernleigh Polls Stud, Glenthompson, Victoria, while the top-priced White Suffolk at $4200 went to Tim and Veronica Manifold, Kinleith White Suffolk Stud, Kyneton, Victoria and these were both new clients to the stud, Mr Bouffler said.
However, putting a floor in the sale was the big number of volume buyers, including Peter Forbes, Lockhart, who topped at $3200 for 11 Poll rams for his self-replacing pure flock,which also includes a few crossbreds; long-term buyers, the Moncrieff family, West Wyalong, with seven Poll rams at $3200; and the Goldsworthy family, Junee, topping at $3000, twice.
In the White Suffolks, the Booth family, Ganmain, topped at $1100 for four rams and the McDonnells from Lockhart topped at $3800 for five. This included a Poll ram at the $3800 top which will be used to breed their own rams, while the other four were White Suffolks, each at $1000. PJ and JE Thompson, Griffith, also bought four White Suffolks.
Operating in both the Poll and White Suffolk camps were Graham Hicks, Lowesdale near Corowa, who bought three of each to top at $2500 for a Poll; Lockhart Locals Philip and Matt Bouffler, who bought three Polls for a top of $1100, as well as five White Suffolks; and David Wallace, Mitamo near Elmore, who bought two Polls and four White Suffolks, topping at $ 2800 for a Poll ram and averaged $1500 on the White Suffolks.
Vendor , Andrew Bouffler , said the relevance of the Polls had increased in the current climate, thanks to their combination of plain skin, carcase characteristics and weight traits which were targeted by buyers. He said there was a strong emphasis on muscle and number of lambs weaned, too, and was a big shift from 10 years ago when greasy fleece was instead a big price determinant. “You could see with the breeding values a push for muscle and growth” he said. In the White Suffolks, the main push behind the price was the competition for the rams with extreme growth rate and moderate birthrate. “The rams with this combination just go” he said.
Mr Bouffler said he was pleased with the result and to see such a good return of optimism in both the season and the market. He said those who had held onto their core breeding stock were finally being paid and “its just really satisfying”.
The Selling Agents were Elders Wagga Wagga and H Francis and Co, Wagga Wagga, with James Tierney and Evan Traviss as auctioneers.
Lamb Survival
Information Workshop
On Friday 27th August Trigger Vale held a Lamb Survival Information Workshop at the Lockhart Showgrounds. A crowd of 120 sheep producers rolled up, to hear a wonderful line up of guest speakers with up to date information we all need to know. The topic of the day was “Keeping your lambs alive” Mark Ferguson, Dept Ag & Food,WA & Sheep CRC, spoke on The Role Genetics Plays in the Survival of the Lambs, Nick Linden, DPI, Rutherglen discussed The Role of Nutrition Pre & Post Lambing, Rob Inglis, ELMS Nutrition, spoke on The Role of Strategic Feeding, Andrew Bouffler, TV Polls & White Suffolks, 2007 Nuffield Scholar, spoke on The Role of Your Seed Stock Supplier, Hamish Chandler, Sheep Genetics gave us all an update on Sheep Genetics & the Sheep CRC. To finish the day David Alexander, Farmer & Grazier, Berrigan, gave us The Commercial Story, how he is making sheep work in his business. The speakers were followed by a light luncheon of lamb burgers and lamb sausages of course. Mandi and I would like to thank all the guest speakers for a very interesting and extremely informative morning. I think everybody went away with many ideas to put into practice, and also a big thank you to all who came to listen. If anyone would like any information on the topics discussed at the Trigger Vale Sheep Day, please contact Andrew and he can forward you the powerpoint presentations you are interested in.
A Sample of the crowd at the Lamb Survival workshop with guest speaker Dave Alexander.
Trigger Vale Lambs in the Market Place
CONGRATULATIONS in 2010
- David and Carolyn Lane, Berrigan, received an average of $178 for a draft of 500 lambs sent 2 weeks ago over the Hooks. Dave uses the complete Trigger Vale Polls & WS package. Who says there is NO MONEY in sheep.
- Bryce Miller of Ladysmith, has had a fantastic 2010 year at Wagga Sale Yards with 440 lambs averaging $133 plus $16 wool to make each lamb $150.
- 12th August,2010 Russell and Barry Smith, Lockhart, sold 77 suckers (Trigger Vale white suffolk / Trigger Vale Polls) at 4 1/2 months for $136.
- Peter & Joy Thompson, West Wyalong, purchased white suffolk rams from Trigger Vale and joined them to 700 ewes with a preg test result of only 34 dry ewes.
Trigger Vale Displays Rams at Bendigo Sheep Show and Hamilton Sheepvention.
Trigger Vale Polls are exactly the type of sheep that the industry is crying out for so we decided to display our rams for the wider sheep community to view and consider for their sheep production system. For the first time visitor at both Bendigo and Hamilton we were happy with the interest, particularly with the variety of inquiry which came from merino breeders, first-cross breeders and comeback breeders, all interested in Trigger Vale Polls for different reasons.
2009 Sale Results
Trigger Vale fires up for a $2050 top
Bond and White Suffolk rams sold to a top of $2050 at the Bouffler familys Trigger Vale sale at Lockhart last week.
Brothers, Andrew and Philip Bouffler, sold 104 rams from 140 offered for an average of $1005. In the breakdown, the White Suffolk rams sold to a top of $1550 and averaged $900 and the Bond Merinos topped at $2050 and returned a $1178 average.
Wagga Wagga auctioneers,James Tierney, Elders and Tim Francis and Evan Travis, both of H. Francis & Co., were on the rostrum. Buyers came from all over with astrong contingent from as far as Gundagai, Geelong, Booligal, West Wyalong and areas in between.
Stud principle, Andrew Bouffler, was pleased with the sale and said the average was abouton par with last year. "The sale was strong without being spectacular" he said."We had 90 per cent clearance for our Bond Merinos and although the White Suffolk clearance was down on last year's sale, average prices were up." He said the sale result reflected a swing back towards Bond Merinos with many buyers planning replacement programs.
Anthony Hicks, "Buccluch Villa", Lowesdale, paid $2050 for the top priced Bond Merino ram of the catalogue. He also bought a second Bond sire for $1800.
Meanwhile Steven Taylor, Giles Creek White Suffolk Stud, secured the top priced White Suffolk ram for $1500.
Volume purchasers included Terry Goldsworthy, "Courallie" Junee, who bought 10 rams which included a mix of Bonds and White Suffolks to a top of $1900 and Peter Forbes "Woodend" Lockhart.
NIKKI REYNOLDS THE LAND
Australian Sheep and Wool Show
Eyes have it: judges Andrew Calvert and Andrew Bouffler, with steward Phil Toland, discuss the finer points of the champion all-purpose Merino class. Picture: Greg Scullin Andrew had the opportunity to judge the All-purpose Merino class at the Australian Sheep Show in Bendigo in July.
Trigger Vale 250 Progeny A 1/2 share in a Trigger Vale 250 Son was recently sold for $10,000 to Depta Grove Stud.
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| Russell Smith, Jason Gooden and Kevin Bowyer with Agent Jeff Francis with their drafts of sale topping lambs all sired by Trigger Vale White Suffolks. Feb 08 |
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News at Trigger Vale?
Andrew Bouffler is selected to attend The Worshipful Company of Farmers - Challenge of Rural Leadership Course, Devon England.
Andrew was choosen to represent Australian farmers in Devon, England from the 8th-21st of November, 2009 as a participant of the Duchy College Rural leadership Course. The course is held over an intensive two weeks covering such topics as Strategic management, Business strategy, Leadership skills and dealing with the media to name a few. Other participants are from the UK, Czech Republic and South Africa. Thankyou for the sponsorship from Nuffield, Jetset and Fairport Farm Software.
Andrew Bouffler Nuffield Scholar Report
"How to Fully Utilise and Rapidly Improve the Australian Maternal Ewe Flock (including Merinos) to Ensure Continuity of Supply into our Valuable Meat and Wool Markets" Learn More
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