The 7th Annual Grogansworth Ram Sale

is on Monday 20th October at 3.00 pm.

The Henderson family look forward to

welcoming you. Inspections will be from

11.00 am and a barbeque lunch will be

available. If you require some assistance

with your selections, Ian Marwedel and

Michael Elmes will be on hand, as well as

Kim and George.

After a challenging year, which most have

also experienced, with no spring and a

long hot summer, we benefited from the

best autumn break in the district for about

90 years. Little did we know when the

photograph was taken on 28 February of

feeding the wether weaners, within a week

the break would begin. We hope you have

all had the recent August rain, which might

be a prelude to an excellent spring.

Many woolgrowers are looking to increase

quality and quantity of wool production

per head, combined with extra frame and

fertility. Kim, his late father, Cuthbert, and

George have never wavered from this path.

We run Merino sheep for their profitability,

both stud and flock, as specialist Merino

wool and meat producers.

7TH ANNUAL GROGANSWORTH RAM SALE

Kim Henderson0429 839 889

George Henderson0427 434 343

Classer: Ian Marwedel0429 151 419

Stud Rep: Michael Elmes0429 847 552

Contact via emailgrogansworth@bigpond.com

PHONE: 02 6227 6085 GROGANSWORTH, 888 LACHLAN VALLEY WAY, BOWNING, 2582

Newsletter2014

TUESDAY 7 OCTOBER

Come and have a sale preview from 1.30 pmon Tuesday 7 October, where you’ll be able to

inspect the sale rams individually penned in sale lot order.

OPENDAY

2014 Ram SaleMonday 20 October 2014

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MICRON CF VM YIELD LENGTH STRENGTH MOB DESCRIPTIONAUSFINE AAAAA 18.5 99.6% 0.4 75.5 107 38 Mixed age ewes – stud & flock

AUSFINE AAAA 19.4 98.9% 0.3 76.2 105 40 2 year old flock ewes

AUSFINE AAAA 19.5 99.2% 0.3 78.0 106 40 Mixed age stud ewes

AUSFINE AAAA 20.1 99.1% 0.4 75.7 107 41 3,4,5 year old flock ewes

Grogansworth Merino Stud will offer 70 August/September 2013 drop Merino rams in almost 6 months wool.

The rams are paddock reared and will be offered with current fleece tests, body weights and growth rates. There is consistent quality of wool and conformation right through the draft.

Since 1997 Grogansworth has sourced 95% of its genetics from the One Oak No. 2 Stud.

This year’s sale will include AI progeny by One Oak No.2 BL-104, which sold for $26,000 last September.

The average wool cut of the ewes (mixed ages) in this year’s AI program was 8.5 kg per head. The heaviest was 10.5 kg. General Stud Ewes (mixed ages) average wool cut was 8.2 kg

The 3, 4and 5 year old flock ewes cut an average of 7.81 kg per head.

The general shearing this year took place in June/July and below are some fleece test results:

“Tomahawk”, purchased from One Oak No. 2 by Grogansworth in 2012 for $15,000, will also have sons in the sale.

The 2014 Sale will be conducted by Schute Bell Badgery Lumby.

Mark Taylor, Manager of the Goulburn Branch, can be contacted on:

Office (02) 4822 4200Mobile 0428 211 151Email mark.taylor@schutebell.com

There will be a commission rebate to outside agents introducing clients.Paul Dooley will again be the auctioneer.

SALE 2014

GENERAL SHEARING 2014

STUD EWES

FLOCK EWES

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1268 wethers, 2 & 3 years, were sold off the board to a top priceof $118, to average $111.28.

At shearing they cut an average of 8.2 kg of wool that sold for an average of 800c greasy, to return $65.60 per head, giving a total return per head of $176.88.

The second shearing was held in mid-August, and at the time of going to press the Grogansworth team of 15 Flock Wethers had been placed 2nd of the 29 teams in the Trial by about $1.60 per head.

The Grogansworth team averaged a greasy wool cut of 8.6 kg, with a yield of 74.2% giving a clean fleece weight of 6.3 kg 19.8 micron wool, to average $68.89 per head in value. The body weight of these wethers was 69.3 kg. These figures are in keeping with the aim of Grogansworth to produce plenty of very good wool on a big carcase that will bring an excellent return…truly commercial Merinos.

WETHER SALES – JULY/AUGUST 2014 AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL FIELD DAY WETHER TRIAL AT ORANGE

Kim Henderson0429 839 889

George Henderson0427 434 343

Classer: Ian Marwedel0429 151 419

Stud Rep: Michael Elmes0429 847 552

Contact via emailgrogansworth@bigpond.com

PHONE: 02 6227 6085 GROGANSWORTH, 888 LACHLAN VALLEY WAY, BOWNING, 2582

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We congratulate clients Caroline Spittle and her daughter, Rosemary Mitchell, of Kingslea Partnership, whose young ewes won this competition in February. It is run by the Bookham Agricultural Bureau in the Bookham/Yass district. The 2014 judges were Wally Merriman from Boorowa and Alan McGufficke from Cooma.

Since first entering the competition in 2008, Kingslea Partnership have won the competition twice and have always been in the top three, a great model of consistency.

Ian Bush of “Old Bogolara”, Bookham, was delighted with the wool cut of the paddock prepared grade rams he purchased in 2013. They averaged 19.5 microns, and when shorn at 18 months of age, with 10 months wool growth, they cut an average 12.5 kg per head.

This event is to be held on Thursday 4 September from 10 am. We will be displaying a selection of housed and paddock reared rams, fleeces and greasy wool samples from wool sales of this year’s shearing. It is always interesting to see your wool the way the buyers see it.

We have been members of Ausfine for a number of years, and Ausfine manager, Scott Carmody, says that as the leading fine wool clip in the organisation he and the other wool buyers in Sydney can count on how reliable the quality and preparation of the Grogansworth clip always are.

We expect to have 400 - 450 August/September 2013 drop surplus flock ewes for sale in November/December.

Enquiries welcome.

BOOKHAM EWE COMPETITION 2014 GRADE RAMS

SOUTH WEST SLOPES STUDMERINO FIELD DAY

AUSFINE

EWES FOR SALE

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