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00:002.44 I have, at 6, 2.46, 8, 2.48 it is, online, 2.50 now, 2.50, online I have, 2.50 the day,
00:14at 2.50 I part and sell online, at 2.50, 2.50 auctions plus.
00:22I think today went exceptionally well.
00:24There's always a little bit of nervousness going into it, but I think everyone's seen
00:28the quality of the sheep, and I think we've had a pretty good day.
00:30Yeah, this area here has been dry.
00:32They've done well to get them to where they are.
00:34It's been a challenge, but they're all good breeders, and they're all good feeders,
00:37so they know what they're doing.
00:39It's not the first time it's been dry in the Mallee, so they've done an exceptional job
00:43to get them to where they are.
00:45And were you expecting it to be this strong coming in?
00:47Oh, in the back of your mind, I thought it would be, and it should be, but there's always,
00:52you always got a little bit of doubt in your mind, sort of leading out of last year, but
00:56I think there's a bit of confidence back in the job.
00:58Today's sale was really good, to be honest, given the season we're working through at the moment.
01:05We had a line-up of sheep here that come regularly, year-in, year-out,
01:10and our local vendors throughout the Riverland and Mallee have supplied,
01:15and the front row of sheep sold to excellent competition.
01:18Look, a broad range of buyers.
01:20We're really fortunate that the whole country's not in drought,
01:24like we are here in South Australia as a whole.
01:27There has been some good support come up today from the southeast,
01:31which we're really, really pleased about.
01:33It was something that not that long ago we were concerned about.
01:37And tremendous support also from our colleagues in interstate,
01:43both into Victoria and up into the New South Wales region.
01:48We always hope for our vendors that the amount of work they put into these sheep,
01:53particularly the regulars that come in year-in, year-out,
01:56and present their sheep for this blue-ribbon sale,
01:59we really think that it probably exceeded expectations at our touch.
02:06You know, there was a little bit of nervousness around, as there is every year,
02:10but we were hoping that some of these top-line sheep would make the money they make today.
02:15You know, the front row, they're all pretty well 200-plus.