BASED at Woolumbool, north of Lucindale in SA’s south east, Phil Clothier has been breeding Poll Dorsets since 1975 and White Suffolks since 1987, saying he had always aimed to breed rams which performed in the paddock, not just in a showring.
A HIGH-INDEXING Poll Dorset ram ignited a bidding war at Woolumbool stud’s on-property auction on Wednesday last week, helping the Clothier family achieve a sale record top price of $13,500.
IN A fantastic vote of confidence in the Clothier family’s Woolumbool studs, buyers pushed their 31st annual on-property auction average to $1901, up $345 on last year.
REPEAT commercial clients, many sitting in their usual seats, along with a few new buyers produced a wonderful result at Woolumbool’s 29th annual on-property Poll Dorset and White Suffolk ram sale near Lucindale, on Wednesday last week.
COMPARED to last year, Woolumbool sold an extra 28 rams and lifted its average by 29 per cent to $1289 at its annual sale on Wednesday.
Four elite Poll Dorset rams were first up and sold to a top of $2000 to Toland Pastoral’s Feltrum Poll Dorset stud at Violet Town, Vic.
THE stands were nearly back to having the ‘fully occupied’ sign at the 26th annual Woolumbool Poll Dorset and White Suffolk sale on October 2.
