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Sunlight bathes the bustling sheep sale yards of the Riverina, casting long shadows across metal pens filled with woolly merinos. An experienced livestock agent in a light blue workshirt and cap carefully assesses the morning's auction, standing beside rows of carefully penned sheep. Other agents move purposefully through the yard, dressed in green and casual work attire, their movements deliberate and practiced against the backdrop of corrugated steel shelters and open paddock landscape. The precision of agricultural commerce plays out in this quintessential Australian rural scene, where generations of farming knowledge converge in the quiet choreography of livestock trading. Overhead shade sails provide relief from the building heat, while the metallic infrastructure of the sale yards speaks to the structured, professional nature of rural stock markets. Every gesture and glance carries the quiet intensity of a critical economic transaction that will determine the fate of these woolly producers.