Repeat buyers of nearly two decades battled it out to secure the top-priced ram at the Evans family's Tara Park Merino ram sale at Boorowa on Monday, September 22.

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At auction, 86 of 90 rams sold to a top of $13,000 and averaged $2385, with all passed-in lots sold shortly afterwards.

The top-priced ram, Tara Park 5, sold south across the border to the Simpson family, Winjallok, Vic. Competitive bidding drove the price up to $13,000, and he was the only ram purchased by the Simpsons.

By Tara Park 740-47, the 103-kilogram ram had a fibre diameter of 17.2 micron, a standard deviation of 2.9 micr

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