TASMANIA turned it on for Murray Grey buyers on Monday, as the Wallace family recorded a total clearance of 29 bulls to a top of $8000.
"We are thrilled to bits," Woodbourn Murray Grey principal Charles Wallace said.
The sale, held on farm at Cressy, averaged $4595, which was $400 better than last year.
The top bull went to a New Zealand buyer, who will take semen back to NZ, while the bull will remain at Graeme Connelly's Central Coast Murray Grey Stud at Ulverstone. Bulls sold into all states. Nine mature cows sold to a top of $4500 and an average of $3185, while 15 heifers sold to $3000 and averaged $1883.
Wool congress
THE 79th Congress of the International Wool Textile Organisation has just concluded in Paris, where Gunther Beier was re-elected for another term as IWTO president. The IWTO elected Peter Ackroyd from the UK as its vice president, replacing Osman Kilic from Turkey, whose term ended at the Congress.
Study award
JILL Groat, a Charles Sturt University vet student, has won Australian Pork Ltd's Doug Ross Travel and Study Award.
The award recognises the contribution Mr Ross, who was a vet, made to the Australian pig industry. This award provides Ms Groat with an all-expenses paid to Vancouver, Canada, to attend this year's International Pig Veterinary Society Congress in July.
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