GREG and Jo Bear have seen good prices paid for their February wool clip that went under the hammer last week.
The Loddon Vale farmers were among the standouts at the Elders offering - their 157 bales with an average 20 microns picking up the northern region clip of the sale.
Fleeces came from the Bears’ shearing sheds at Loddon Vale, north of Kerang and Moulamein.
Greg said the fleeces had come from 6000 Merino ewes and 1000 wethers. “We did them all in a week,” he said.
The flock is based on Riverina bloodlines from Alma and East Loddon studs.
The Bears’ self-replacing flock has genetics from Kevin Crook’s Tamaleuca Stud at Ouyen.
“We used to shear in February and August but now do the Merino lots in February and the crossbred lambs in October,” Greg said.
And the excitement of achieving prices above the sale average was experienced first hand at the Ravenhall facility.
“It had been some years since we went down to a sale, usually watching from home but decided to go down this time,” he said. “There has been a rising market of late and our yield tests came back really good and that helped us get prices a bit above the market.”