Edale Merinos sale, Moora | Farm Weekly - video Dailymotion

Edale co-stud manager James Gardiner talks about their annual on-property field day in Moora.

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00:00The Helmsman allows you to really have an auction that's a bit quieter than an open outcry auction.

00:06So everyone can put their bid on each pen and go up on a whiteboard and then there'll be a timer

00:12and if there's no more bids for that particular pen then that person is a successful bidder for

00:17that pen. If you had 200 rams and you had a thousand buyers it's almost impossible but

00:22because it is a quieter day-to-day it's actually the best way to go about it. For us our philosophy

00:26really is having a fine marker on with a heavy fleece cut. So the average here is 15.4-15.5

00:35but as an average of fleece weight it's well into the fives or sixes if it was on a U equivalent.